Chapter 1 Abandoned Camp (1)
At the stroke of midnight, on the pitch-black highway, only two sets of car lights were still on — ours. I turned my head to look around, feeling somewhat uneasy. "Hey, did we take the wrong road?"
"Nope, the map is drawn like this, it's correct." Jianzi turned on the light on the car roof, reached beside the driver's seat for a map, and pointed to a red circle on it. "Look, if we're going to the camp, there's only this one road we can take, and it doesn't have any other intersections, so there's no way to get lost."
"No way," Xiao Hei, sitting in the back seat, crossed his arms with a look of worry on his face.
"What's wrong?" I asked Xiao Hei from the passenger seat, but as soon as the words came out, I regretted it. Because Xiao Hei always spoke nonsense, and I couldn't help but worry that he would say something unlucky.
"Better not say anything," Jianzi, who was responsible for driving today, had the same thought. He quickly interrupted Xiao Hei before he could speak foolishly.
"Hey, it's your own fault if you don't listen, don't blame me if something happens." Xiao Hei was still Xiao Hei — no one could stop him from speaking nonsense.
Jianzi had a short temper and immediately scolded Xiao Hei: "Damn it! What do you mean 'if something happens'? Don't talk nonsense in the middle of the night."
"It's precisely because it's the middle of the night that I'm kindly warning you," Xiao Hei rambled on, unable to control his mouth.
Jianzi wanted to scold Xiao Hei again, but I quickly patted his arm, telling him not to bother arguing with Xiao Hei. Otherwise, Xiao Hei would only get more excited and say everything that was taboo.
Jianzi took a deep breath and suppressed his displeasure. Unfortunately, while Jianzi calmed down, Ah Ming in the back seat looked dazed. With a bad expression, Ah Ming said, "Hey, just listen to what Xiao Hei has to say, I'm a bit worried."
"Ah Ming!" Jianzi and I shouted at him at the same time.
Ah Ming was stunned and didn't realize he had done anything wrong.
"Oh, heavens." I gave up and hung my head, and sure enough, Xiao Hei started chatting away following Ah Ming's question.
"Do you all know what is the most eerie time of day? It's the hour of Zi! The hour of Zi is midnight, exactly twelve o'clock. Look at the time now, it's just past twelve."I suspected that we hadn't taken a wrong path, but had actually entered the boundary between yin and yang, commonly known as... He left it hanging, his eyes rolling around as if looking at something.\ Ah Ming was particularly timid and easily swayed by others. He immediately asked, "Commonly known as what?"\ "Ghost hitting the wall." Xiao Hei lowered his voice and said in a chilling tone.\ "Ah, don't scare me." Ah Ming shrank back and asked Xiao Hei again, "So what should we do now?"\ I glanced at Ah Ming, thinking that asking Xiao Hei for a method was like asking a ghost for a prescription. Xiao Hei was a person who only talked nonsense; when had he ever done anything serious successfully? Otherwise, he wouldn't have been punished with ninety-eight hours of extra duties, going several weeks without a day off. While others went out to eat McDonald's and burgers on their vacations, he alone had to stay in the camp cleaning toilets and unclogging drains.\ Xiao Hei seized the opportunity, ma
