There was endless darkness all around. Only the emergency light in Gu Nian's hand was emitting a light orange light, like a solitary lamp lighting up in the dark night...
Gu Nian held Lin Chen's hand tightly, feeling worried in her heart.
She was afraid that she and Lin Chen would wander in this endless darkness forever, never seeing the light again, never returning to their camp, never seeing the other three companions again...
At this moment, the light of the campfire suddenly appeared in front of their eyes!
Such brilliance made Gu Nian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She and Lin Chen looked at each other, sped up and walked towards the camp.
When they finally returned to the camp, they couldn't help but be stunned.
Everything in the entire camp was the same as when they left. Even the meals they didn't have time to finish were still placed in the same place.
There is only one difference.
Leng Shan and Li Shan, who were originally staying at the camp, disappeared. The person who appeared at the camp was... Zheng Hope!
Zheng Hope was squatting in the camp, warming the campfire, muttering to himself, and scraping the accumulated dust on the ground with his feet.
"Zheng Xixi? You...how did you appear here? Where are Leng Shan and Li Shan?" Gu Nian asked with a frown.
Out of a vigilant attitude, she did not get too close to Zheng Hope. Instead, she stood a few meters away with Lin Chen, keeping a certain distance from Zheng Hope.
"Just now I followed the black shadow and ran to the backyard of this mansion. At this time, the wind suddenly picked up. The wind blew out the torch in my hand. I was startled and the torch fell to the ground...
"
Zheng Hope said: "Without the light source, I didn't dare to go any further. Who knows if there would be any danger in this place. So I returned to the camp. Unexpectedly, there was no one in the camp. You and Li Shan
, Leng Shan and the others are gone!"
Having said this, he raised his head, looked at Gu Nian and Lin Chen, and asked them, "Where were you just now?"
"We went to find you." Gu Nian said, "So, when you returned to the camp, didn't you see Li Shan and Leng Shan?"
"Yeah. I'm still surprised. You didn't leave anyone to guard the camp. I don't know where everyone has gone." Zheng Hope replied.
Gu Nian nodded to Zheng Hope and said to Lin Chen: "There seems to be something wrong. If Zheng Hope really walked back from the backyard, why didn't we meet him when we went to the backyard to find him?
Where is he?"
"Although Jiyuan is the largest house in Huaishu Village, it is far inferior to those deep houses and courtyards that have a view every ten steps and a unique view every hundred steps. The distance from the front yard to the backyard is not far. But we did not encounter it.
Could it be that...he just missed us when we entered the ancestral hall?"
Strictly speaking, this possibility is not impossible, but the probability is not high.
Because when they went to look for Zheng Hope, if he could see the light emitting from the emergency lights in their hands in the darkness, he would have come to join them instead of returning to the camp alone in the dark.
However, when I think about what they have experienced, the darkness that seems to be able to swallow everything...