Wang Hao still remembered that the woman was barely clothed at the time, her face full of terror.
She told everyone she met that she had seen ghosts.
Lots and lots of terrifying ghosts.
Someone asked her, "What did those ghosts look like?"
She screamed:
"They're all ghosts, ghosts with no clothes on.
"Ahhhh!!!!
"Ghosts!"
The woman died not long after. It was said that she was scared to death.
It happened many years ago.
Wang Hao couldn't remember it very clearly anymore.
Lin Wanyi, of course, knew even less about it.
By the time she arrived, the woman had already been dead for several years.
Since then, even fewer people dared to go up the mountain.
Now, if it weren't for so many people being together, Wang Hao absolutely would not have dared to come up here.
Lin Jiajun checked his phone; it was almost twelve o'clock.
The further they walked, the taller the trees and the deeper the grass became.
Owls stared at them, and the surroundings were filled with an eerie terror.
Wang Yuan also followed the bodyguards closely.
He regretted it.
He shouldn't have come in.
He really shouldn't have come in.
It was too terrifying.
Liu Renzhi asked through the walkie-talkie:
"Any clues?"
"No."
"No."
"No."
He felt anxious, but Police Officer Chen Tianxiang, who had come with him, said out of nowhere:
"Perhaps the people we have been looking for are right here."
Liu Renzhi didn't understand, but Chen Tianxiang said:
"Hopefully they are. Mr. Liu, stay safe.
"This place might be beyond your imagination."
The usually silent mountains were now flickering with lights.
In a place unknown to them, Lin Wanyi had a splitting headache.
She struggled to open her eyes and saw a blurry Aunt Zhao in front of her.
She remembered everything from the day; she remembered wanting to jump out of the car after seeing Aunt Zhao.
But the driver had locked the doors, and Aunt Zhao had handed her a knife.
She had fainted before she even had time to call for help.
Now, she looked around.
In the dark room, she could only faintly see Aunt Zhao by the moonlight.
The surroundings were terrifyingly quiet.
She called out softly:
"Aunt Zhao, is that you?"
Aunt Zhao, who had been motionless, suddenly opened her eyes.
Her fierce gaze in the darkness was like that of a wolf.
Lin Wanyi was greatly startled. She remembered Aunt Zhao wasn't like this.
Before, at the Chen family's home, she had seemed like just an ordinary, kind old woman.
How had she become like this now?
She tried to call out again, but the next second, a light pierced her eyes.
Aunt Zhao was standing right in front of her.
It really was her.
Lin Wanyi immediately begged her:
"Auntie, where is this? What did you bring me here for?
"Please let me go, okay? My brother must be worried sick not being able to find me."
Aunt Zhao didn't say a word.
Lin Wanyi patted herself all over, but she couldn't find her phone anywhere.
She asked, "Where is my phone? Auntie, did you take my phone?
"Can you give it back to me, please? I need to call my brother.
"Auntie..."
Slap!
Without letting her continue, Aunt Zhao suddenly slapped her across the face.
Then a second one, and a third.
Aunt Zhao slapped Lin Wanyi mercilessly until her cheeks were red and swollen.
Lin Wanyi pleaded with her, "Auntie, Auntie, let's talk this out properly, Auntie."
"Talk this out properly?"
Aunt Zhao finally spoke.
"How are we supposed to talk this out properly, Lin Wanyi? On New Year's Eve, when Wang Hao kicked you out, my heart ached for you, didn't it?
"I pitied you, an out-of-town girl being bullied, and I even let you come inside to warm up, didn't I?
"You still remember, right, Lin Wanyi? You remember all of this.
"On New Year's Eve, in the heavy snow, I was the only one in the whole village who took pity on you.
"But what was the result? Lin Wanyi.
"The result was that you took away my daughter-in-law and called the police to arrest my husband and son.
"Even my house was burned to the ground by you people.
"Lin Wanyi, do you think you did right by me? Why did you do that?"
Lin Wanyi looked at her ferocious face.
She knew Aunt Zhao was grieving, but she wasn't the cause of all this.
She tried to reason with Aunt Zhao:
"Auntie, I didn't target you on purpose, and I have no grudge against you.
"I really just wanted to save poor Liu Siyue.
"We are both women. You could sympathize with me, so why couldn't you sympathize with Liu Siyue?
"Auntie, I know you are not a bad person, and the matter is already in the past.
"The main culprit is Chen Guanshan, and he has already been arrested.
"Auntie, start your life over and live well."
Aunt Zhao raised her hand toward Lin Wanyi again:
"How am I supposed to live well? How should I live well?
"My husband is gone, my son is gone. How is an old woman like me supposed to live well?
"So I've thought about it, Lin Wanyi. Since you've come back, you can stay here and keep me company.
"You don't know how lonely it is deep in these mountains.
"There isn't a single person in this entire place I can talk to.
"As compensation to me, you will stay here and keep me company for the rest of your life.
"Who told you to cause me to lose my husband and son?"
Lin Wanyi was covered in a cold sweat. She didn't know where this was.
But when Aunt Zhao mentioned deep mountains, she immediately thought of the big mountain behind the Wang family's house.
The big mountain she had never set foot in.
Wang Hao had once warned Wang Keke.
He had said that she must never come in here under any circumstances.
She was extremely panicked and cried as she begged Aunt Zhao:
"Let me go, Auntie, let me go.
"I beg you, I really never meant to target you.
"Besides, Chen Guanshan and the others were in the wrong. They deserved to be arrested.
"Auntie, you are a woman too, you can understand. Please..."
"Ahhhh!!!!"
Before she could even finish her sentence, a woman's tragic scream interrupted her.
Lin Wanyi shrank into the corner in terror:
"Where is this? Where exactly are we?
"Auntie, what was that sound just now?
"Why would there be the sound of someone screaming tragically here?"
Aunt Wang pointed at the lights not far away:
"Lin Wanyi, the women over there are much more miserable than you, and much more miserable than Liu Siyue.
"Did you think that just because you rescued one Liu Siyue, there wouldn't be other Liu Siyues?
"I'm telling you, you are wrong, dead wrong.
"There are dozens of women like that here."
"Dozens?"
Lin Wanyi was stunned with fear. She didn't understand what Aunt Zhao meant.
But she knew it was very dangerous here, and she knew she had to run.
She absolutely had to run.
Aunt Zhao didn't try to stop her at all, but instead mocked her:
"Lin Wanyi, don't waste your energy. Deep in these mountains, even if Wang Hao came, he wouldn't be able to get out.
"Let alone you? From the moment you set one foot in here, you will never get out for the rest of your life."
"No!"
Lin Wanyi didn't believe it.
No matter how big the mountain was, as long as one wanted to leave, how could it be impossible to find a way out?
She lifted her feet and was about to run.
But a few minutes later, she looked at the pitch-black forest and didn't dare to move.
Not a single trace of moonlight filtered through, and there were only the sounds of unknown animals.
What was even more terrifying was the continuous tragic screaming of women behind her.
And there was a person who made her tremble with fear.
Liu Da-bing!
