bookcurios Chapter 126 Breaking up
Chapter 126 Breaking up
Chapter 126 Tearing Off the Face
"Xiao Ruoyun! What private mountain? Do you think we're fools? We're only being lenient by not calling you out on it!"
"That's right! What are we going to do now? We're all going to become this tiger's lunch!"
"Mom, I don't want to die!"
In a critical moment, a group of classmates turned against each other. With their lives hanging in the balance, who cared about flattery anymore?
"I... I just wanted to play dumb, how was I supposed to know there were tigers in these mountains!"
Xiao Ruoyun couldn't keep up the act any longer and shouted at Ou Wenxuan, "Ou Wenxuan! What are we going to do? It's all because you said your family owns a mountain."
Ou Wenxuan looked speechless: "You believe me just because I say so? Are you a three-year-old?"
Lin Fan stood not far away and smiled, marveling at how true friendship is revealed in times of trouble.
Su Ruowei sat on the rock, hugging her knees tightly, without saying a word, but her body was trembling.
Lin Fan naturally wouldn't stand idly by and walked straight towards the tiger.
"Lin Fan?" Xiao Ruoyun was the first to spot Lin Fan.
Xiao Ruoyun shouted at the tiger again, "Big brother, eat him! Once you're full, hurry up and leave!"
When Su Ruowei heard Xiao Ruoyun call Lin Fan's name, she quickly looked up and saw Lin Fan walking towards the tiger.
"Lin Fan? What are you doing? That's a tiger!" Su Ruowei shouted hoarsely.
A group of classmates trembled with fear: "We'll remember you! We'll definitely burn paper money for you every year at this time!"
"Shh!" Lin Fan turned around, signaling everyone to be quiet.
Su Ruowei's heart was in her throat as she watched Lin Fan approach the tiger step by step.
As Lin Fan approached the tiger, the tiger slowly closed in on him, crouching low and sniffing around.
A man and a beast, their eyes locked.
Lin Fan continued walking, but the tiger slowed down.
"Ouch——"
With a low growl, the tiger turned and ran away.
After the tiger left, Lin Fan's sharp, murderous eyes softened.
"It's alright, Ruowei."
The group of classmates looked at Lin Fan with disbelief, their fears still palpable, now compounded by a new layer of doubt.
Why did the tiger just run away?
Lin Fan came to Su Ruowei's side and was about to say something to comfort her when he felt a shock coming from his upper body.
Su Ruowei suddenly stood up and hugged Lin Fan tightly, her soft flesh pressed against Lin Fan's chest.
Lin Fan's cheeks flushed inappropriately, and he awkwardly raised his hand to hug Su Ruowei.
"Fool, what do you think you're doing? Do you really want to feed the tigers?!"
Su Ruowei's voice was hoarse, and her body was still trembling uncontrollably, filled with lingering fear.
“This tiger is our pet, of course it won’t eat people,” Ou Wenxuan suddenly said, forcing himself to speak.
He thought he would be praised again, but instead he was met with disdainful looks from everyone.
"You've got to be kidding me, do you think we're fools?"
"Forget it, we don't expect you to curry favor with the Shancheng Group anyway!"
"Let's go down the mountain! We want to go down the mountain!"
Xiao Ruoyun felt embarrassed and wanted to say a few words in defense of Ou Wenxuan, but then she remembered what had just happened and remained silent.
"Alright, alright! Let's go down the mountain." Ou Wenxuan complained to Xiao Ruoyun again, "What kind of classmates do you have!"
Xiao Ruoyun's face fell, and since she couldn't say anything, she simply remained silent.
On the way down the mountain, Xiao Ruoyun was no longer the talkative person she was on the way up, and everyone finally got some peace and quiet.
Fiery clouds rose in the sky, and as the sun began to set, the group remained on the mountain.
"Don't you know the way?"
A male student asked Ou Wenxuan a question, his tone no longer flattering but instead quite assertive.
"Bullshit! How could I have led you up here if I didn't know the way!" Ou Wenxuan stretched his shoulders. "Just follow behind and stop talking nonsense!"
After walking for a long time, the surrounding environment remained unchanged, and there was no sign of a main road.
“The altitude is 1000 meters now, but this mountain is only 1200 meters high,” a female student said while reading from her phone.
"Shut up, you bumpkin! The altitude of Shancheng City is already 800 meters!"
Ou Wenxuan looked impatient. Although he kept criticizing everyone, it was his first time on this mountain.
“Dangyang Mountain, located in the national mountain city of China, has an altitude of 2733 meters?” Wang Xue read from the encyclopedia: “One of the three great ghost mountains of China!”
"hooohoo——"
Suddenly, an owl's call came from afar, adding a touch of terror to the already tense atmosphere.
"Wang Xue! Stop reading! You're going to scare us to death!" Xiao Ruoyun shouted.
"Shut up! Let her read it. Ou Wenxuan is a big liar. That 1200-meter thing is all a lie!"
"That's right, they tricked us into coming to the mountain, and we don't even know what this mountain is all about!"
"Wang Xue, don't listen to her, keep reading!"
Several classmates loudly criticized Xiao Ruoyun, showing no mercy whatsoever.
"You!" Xiao Ruoyun gritted her teeth and flung her hand away abruptly: "Fine, you read it!"
“Then I’ll read it!” Wang Xue swallowed and continued reading from the encyclopedia: “Legend has it that monsters appear at night in Dangyang Mountain.”
"Legend has it that 80 years ago, some villagers from the foot of the mountain went up the mountain at night without permission, and they fell seriously ill after returning home."
"What followed was a series of strange events in the village. Many villagers inexplicably lost their minds and went insane."
"The entire village moved away after that, and the villagers believed that everything was related to Dangyang Mountain."
"It's a lie, it's a lie!" Xiao Ruoyun's facial muscles tensed, and the corners of her mouth twitched from time to time. She said it was a lie, but Xiao Ruoyun immediately took out her phone to call for help. When she found that there was no signal, her heart sank.
"Lin Fan, what should we do?" Su Ruowei stood behind Lin Fan, clutching his clothes, also terrified.
"Monster? Have you been reading too many novels?" Lin Fan laughed dismissively.
Then he looked up at the night sky, thinking that if there were any monsters, they must have come from the Netherworld to the mortal realm.
Most of these strange beasts are devoid of human nature and exude spiritual energy; they should have been killed by the blood lightning long ago.
"what--"
A female student pointed ahead and screamed in terror.
Not far ahead, a cloud of white mist rose, swirling and billowing.
Everyone looked in that direction and were startled.
"what is that!"
"Has the monster appeared?!"
Lin Fan looked closely and shook his head helplessly; it was just cooking smoke.
Smoke from a cooking fire? That means someone's there!
"I'll go take a look. You guys wait here for a bit." Lin Fan said, and then stepped forward to check the situation.
"Lin Fan, no, don't go." Su Ruowei tried to stop Lin Fan from going forward, but saw Lin Fan turn around and smile:
"Don't worry, I'll be back in a bit."
"Let Lin Fan go, he can even chase away a tiger!"
"That's right, now we can only rely on Lin Fan."
After they finished speaking, they glanced at Owen Xuan with disdain: "Unlike someone else, who only has a mouth."
Ou Wenxuan's face turned red with anger. He wanted to argue, but he swallowed his words. It wouldn't be worth risking his life if these people asked him to go again.
Su Ruowei nodded in agreement, and Lin Fan stepped forward to check.
Lin Fan hadn't gone far when he spotted a wooden house on the hillside. Smoke was rising from the chimney, indicating that someone was cooking.
Upon learning of the situation, Lin Fan turned back to inform everyone of the news.