The boy said in a gloomy voice, “The first night I came, I heard a very strange sound.”
Bai Wu was led by his emotions, and his voice couldn’t help but lower: “What kind of sound was it?”
“It’s the kind of… I can’t explain it, anyway, it was a very strange sound, like a flute, but even lower. It also contained some other sounds.”
“Did you check that sound?”
The boy hesitated for the first time: “I… I certainly checked it, but the sound only lasted for a while and disappeared quickly. I thought I must go over the next time I hear that sound, but after that, I never heard it again.”
Bai Wu was always particularly sensitive in this regard: “You wouldn’t, be afraid, so you didn’t go over to see, right.”
The boy quickly retorted: “How is that possible! How could I be afraid! It’s just because I run too slowly! So I didn’t catch up with that sound!”
Bai Wu looked at him meaningfully: “Oh, I see.”
This kind of gaze was even more uncomfortable than directly exposing him, and the girl finally exploded: “No, no, no! You were not afraid! Because you were not here the first time! So you were afraid! But I’m not afraid now, I’ve been here for a few days, I can’t possibly be afraid!”
Bai Wu nodded repeatedly: “Believe me, believe me.”
His perfunctory attitude made the boy even more angry, but before the boy could explode, he heard Cheng Miao suddenly say: “Don’t talk for now. You guys, did you hear any sound?”
The girl closed her mouth when she heard this, and carefully listened to the movement outside the forest.
Sure enough, as he said, a mysterious sound came from the depths of the mountain forest, like an ancient flute sound, or like the whistling of wind through a cave. This sound was ethereal and eerie, making it impossible to judge its source and meaning.
The girl suddenly widened her eyes: “Yes! It’s this sound!”
Bai Wu immediately rushed in the direction of the sound.
The surrounding trees became sparser and sparser, and the night wind rustled the leaves, making the already small sound even more difficult to capture.
Bai Wu accelerated, but the sound stopped abruptly.
But Bai Wu didn’t stop, rushing towards the direction where he last heard the sound, but suddenly a halo of light appeared in front of him.
He rushed over and saw three boys and two girls, all only fifteen or sixteen years old.
They also held the same flashlights as him, staring at his direction nervously and suspiciously.
Bai Wu checked their identities as soon as possible, all of them were just ordinary people.
The two sides observed each other for nearly ten seconds. Finally, a girl with glasses on their side asked timidly: “Are you, a savage?”
Bai Wu had been running wildly for nearly five minutes. The branches had scratched his clothes, and his head was covered with many leaves. He looked very embarrassed and indeed a bit like a savage.
Bai Wu ignored his words and asked instead: “Have you been here all the time?”
It was still the boy with glasses: “No… no, we just arrived.”
“Did you also go after that sound?”
“Yes, but when we were almost here, the sound suddenly disappeared. We are also checking to see if we can find anything.”
“What did you find?”
The boy with glasses was about to answer when a tall boy next to him interrupted him: “Hey! I said! Why do we have to keep answering your questions? Who are you! Why are you here! And questioning us with such an arrogant tone!”
The others obviously thought so too. They were still hostile to this person who suddenly rushed out.
Bai Wu thought that it was indeed not good to ask so directly, so he explained according to what Cheng Miao had said before: “My friend’s younger brother has been strange since he came here two weeks ago. He asked me to come here today to investigate this matter together.”
The few people tightened their breath when they heard this, and the girl with glasses said: “So that’s the case. It seems that your purposes are the same. You are all here to investigate this matter.”
Bai Wu raised his eyebrows when he heard this: “Are your family members also victims?”
As a result, the girl with glasses said: “You are, your brother locked himself in his room for a whole week after coming back before slowly recovering. So I thought about investigating, these are your classmates. May I ask, what is your friend’s brother’s name?”
Cheng Miao just made up a reason, but it happened to hit the mark. Of course, Bai Wu didn’t know the name, so he could only perfunctorily say: “Ah, my friend’s brother, I don’t know his name, I only know his last name is Li.”
A common surname, one must be right.
“Li Xiang?”
Bai Wu quickly said: “Yes, yes, that’s the name. What a coincidence, how long have you been here? What have you investigated?”
The tall girl immediately said: “Why do I keep asking you about what you investigated?”
“I just said that I want to investigate the reason why my friend’s brother is mentally abnormal.”
“This is just my side of the story, how do you know if what I said is true or not.”
Bai Wu didn’t expect a little kid to be so troublesome: “If not because of this, what do you think is the reason?”
The tall one choked, but quickly said: “How do you know, you know my purpose is what. What if I am not good for you.”
Bai Wu was speechless.
Fortunately, the girl with glasses was more willing to talk than him. He held the tall girl back: “Zhou Xun, I think this gentleman should be a good person. He even knows Li Xiang.”
It seemed that this little boy was very prestigious among this group of people. After the person named Zhou Xun heard his words, he really didn’t say anything.
The girl with glasses said: “Actually, we haven’t been here for long, and haven’t found anything.”
Bai Wu was discouraged, it was a waste of a trip.
He turned around and looked at the way he had come. Cheng Miao and the others had not chased after him yet, he didn’t know if they were lost.
He took out his cell phone and wanted to call him, but the call couldn’t be made at all.
“There is no signal here.” The girl with glasses said.
Bai Wu Tsk, shaking the flashlight in the sky, hoping that there would be a response from the other side, but in reality, there was none.
The girl with glasses reminded: “I can make a little noise. If my companions are not far from me, they should be able to hear it.”
Bai Wu felt that it made sense when he heard this, turned the volume of the phone to the highest, and selected a song, but when it was about to play, his finger stopped.
Looking at the girl with glasses and asked: “What’s wrong?”
“There is no signal in the mountains, so I want to call my companions, so I need to use a loud sound.”
The girl with glasses nodded suspiciously: “Yes.”
“Do you know how many people went up the mountain tonight?”
“How would I know this, I only know that no one was there before and after you.”
“In other words, you are the only group that entered the mountain?”
“I’m not sure, what’s wrong?”
“Do you think the sound just now, could it be to gather all the people on the mountain together?”