In the darkness, the outlines of the trees were blurred, and only the sound of the breeze through the woods could be heard.
Soon, amidst these subtle sounds, a burst of footsteps was mixed in.
Everyone looked towards the footsteps, and it was the shop owner they had seen at the foot of the Mountain.
Guan Xianzhang rushed over angrily, grabbed his collar and roared, “It was you who scared my brother!”
The boss was so frightened that he shivered and said quickly, “I was only inspired by what happened two weeks ago to start doing this. I really didn’t do what happened before.”
Seeing this, Zhou Xun quickly stepped forward and grabbed Guan Xianzhang’s arm: “Wait a minute, Guan Xianzhang, calm down, the boss also said that he was inspired by what happened two weeks ago to create these things. He really didn’t do what happened to your brother.”
Guan Xianzhang became even more angry when he heard this: “Why are you siding with him!”
Zhou Xun was speechless for a moment: “I… I just…”
“Just because he is also in cahoots with the boss,” Cheng Miao interjected, “Right?”
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Guan Xianzhang looked at Zhou Xun in shock when he heard this. Zhou Xun waved his hand in a panic: “Don’t listen to his nonsense, how could I be in cahoots with the boss.”
The boss also said quickly: “That’s right, I don’t even know him.”
Bai Wu couldn’t help but say, “Isn’t this like admitting it without being beaten?”
The boss said quickly: “I’m just telling the truth!”
Cheng Miao shrugged: “This kind of clumsy trick has many limitations if you want to deceive people. For example, when the boss uses sound to attract them, there will be two situations.
One is that everyone is scared away, and the other is that they follow the sound without fear of death. If it is the former, of course, it is best, saving him a lot of trouble, but if it is the latter, he needs to use more terrifying things to scare them.
Do you think he uses a loudspeaker or something to make that kind of sound? He wants to attract us, but he can’t let people find out what he used. How can he grasp this timing?”
Wan Ju raised his hand and guessed: “There must be an insider. Notify him in advance.”
Cheng Miao nodded approvingly: “Yes.”
Bai Wu also raised his hand: “But there is no signal here, how do they contact?”
Wan Ju immediately said: “This you know, you only need this insider to be the first to run to this place. It will neither arouse suspicion, nor can it notify the boss to put away the loudspeaker.”
Bai Wu understood: “He can make an excuse to leave the team before the sound is made, and actually walk towards here. When the others chase over, he will say that the sound has disappeared when he chased here.
So whoever gets there first is most likely the insider.”
Guan Xianzhang looked at Zhou Xun sharply when he heard this: “You made an excuse to go to the toilet not long after we set off. I thought it was strange at the time. So you came here.”
Zhou Xun said idly: “You’re making this up to go to the toilet! You’re all making this up!”
He looked at Cheng Miao sharply: “There were so many people at the time, we didn’t even know who arrived first, how can you prove it’s me!”
Cheng Miao nodded: “You indeed have no evidence, only speculation.”
Guan Xianzhang glared at Zhou Xun, then turned to look at Cheng Miao: “I hope sir will explain your speculation.”
Cheng Miao continued when he heard this: “There is a problem with the flashlight, they cannot let anyone notice, throwing away the flashlight in a panic is the best way to deal with it.”
He looked at Bai Wu: “Although the atmosphere was indeed terrifying at the time, I don’t think you are someone who is easily frightened.”
Bai Wu nodded: “Yes, it was because someone bumped into me that my flashlight and cell phone fell to the ground.”
Guan Xianzhang looked at Zhou Xun when he heard this.
Zhou Xun stared at Bai Wu and said loudly: “It was so dark at the time, how would I know it was you! Why not someone else!”
Bai Wu also said: “I really didn’t see who bumped into me.”
Cheng Miao nodded: “So I said, you have no evidence, you can only say your own speculation. Do you want to continue listening?”
Guan Xianzhang nodded repeatedly: “Please, sir, be sure to finish.”
“That is their last means of scaring us. If we are not scared yet and come back to our senses, then it’s all over. So throwing away the flashlights is not the ultimate goal, their escape is.
In this case, the insider must take the lead in escaping, and the direction he escapes must be up the Mountain. Because if you continue to stay on the Mountain, you are more likely to see through their tricks.”
Zhou Xun said immediately: “It was so chaotic at the time, who knows who ran first.”
“Yes. No one knows. Up to this point, the insider’s work is done, and everyone else goes home, which is a happy ending for everyone. But there is one person who didn’t follow their script.”
Cheng Miao looked at Guan Xianzhang: “He stayed. In this situation, the insider must of course try to persuade him to leave first, but he was not persuaded, so he had to stay with him.”
Instantly, everyone looked at Zhou Xun.
Zhou Xun said repeatedly: “I just, I just care about him. I’m talking nonsense!”
“Forget it, Xiao Xun.” The boss said at this time, “Since it has been discovered, I have no way to quibble.”
Zhou Xun also gave up when he heard this: “Okay, Uncle, I’m sorry, I didn’t do well.”
The boss shook his head: “I just wanted to increase the traffic of this Mountain. Xiao Xun was also called by me, that’s true. But what happened two weeks ago was really not done by me. I was only inspired by that incident that I started acting like a ghost here.”
Guan Xianzhang was annoyed: “You’re still quibbling!”
Cheng Miao stopped him: “What he said is true.”
Guan Xianzhang was taken aback: “What?”
“You have also seen their clumsy way of scaring people, haven’t you? With this level, how could an adult be scared to the point of collapse.”
“But they may have used more terrifying scare tools, but because they scared your brother like that, they dare not use them.”
Cheng Miao shook his head and looked at Wan Ju: “Wan Ju, you tell me.”
Wan Ju nodded: “I have been on this Mountain for four days, but the number of times I have heard that terrifying sound, including this time, is only two times in total.”
Guan Xianzhang was confused: “So what?”
“So ah, they are picking people to scare. The first time I heard this sound was when I first went there. Because I heard this sound for the first time, I was very scared and didn’t dare to go forward at all.
I carefully recalled that the people who went up the Mountain at that time were all children about the same age as me. They were also directly scared away, and no one went over at all.
I also saw this time, they are all children.
Because they know that their clumsy way of scaring people cannot scare adults, so they pick children to scare.”
Guan Xianzhang heard this, and the loose grip of his fingers tightened: “So, what scared my brother was something else?”