Chapter 1 Going Home The train arrived two hours late. When Shen Wuqiu came out of the station, it was already getting dark. Rows of old minibuses and public buses were neatly lined up in the wide square. She knew without asking that the minibuses to town had already stopped running. She
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Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Going Home
The train arrived two hours late.
When Shen Wuqiu came out of the station, it was already getting dark. Rows of old minibuses and public buses were neatly lined up in the wide square. She knew without asking that the minibuses to town had already stopped running.
She politely declined the guesthouse owner's warm invitation to stay, and asked three taxi drivers before finally finding one who didn't immediately refuse after hearing her name of the place.
"Jingrong Village, most people don't like to go there at night..."
Shen Wuqiu understood his unspoken meaning, and she didn't mince words, "Name your price."
The driver squinted at her, then tentatively held up four fingers.
Four hundred was an outrageous price to begin with, considering the distance from the train station to her doorstep was no more than seventy kilometers. As for the current rates—she hadn't been back for five years. But she didn't care about the money, so she readily agreed.
Upon seeing this, the driver immediately changed his previous indifferent attitude and enthusiastically took the suitcase from her and put it in the trunk.
Although Jingrong Village is far from the city center, it is not a difficult, rugged mountain road. The road is a flat cement road. The main reason why taxis are unwilling to do business in this area is because the route passes through a deserted mountain forest. This is not unusual for a rural town. What is unusual is that there have always been some legends about spirits and monsters in this mountain forest. With the embellishment of later people, this road has become even more legendary.
Drivers who are less daring would avoid going even during the day, let alone at night.
However, there are always some daring ones.
The driver looked to be in his early thirties, and his tone of voice, like his lean physique, exuded a slyness.
Shen Wuqiu wasn't averse to it, but the long train ride of more than ten hours had left her feeling exhausted and she didn't have much desire to talk. However, the road home was too remote, and she didn't want to offend anyone, so she could only muster her energy and chat with people in a casual manner.
"Judging from the beautiful woman's accent, she doesn't seem to be a local. She must be from a big city, right?"
“No, I’m going home,” Shen Wuqiu replied directly in her dialect.
The driver turned around and looked at her with great curiosity, "She really is one of us."
Shen Wuqiu was amused by his funny expression. "It's just that I haven't been back often since I went to university."
"Sigh, there aren't many opportunities for development in our small county. Anyone with some ability goes out to make a living."
"It's all a personal choice, and it has nothing to do with ability."
"People who have gone to school really do talk differently." The driver spat out the betel nut in his mouth towards the window and asked, "Miss, when are you going out again after this trip home? We can add each other on WeChat, and you can just contact me for a ride next time. I'm not bragging, but in your area, besides me, there aren't many people who dare to go out at night."
The driver's spitting of betel nuts was so unkempt that Shen Wuqiu's smile vanished, and she said indifferently, "I won't go out this time I'm going home."
The driver thought he had misheard, and after a moment turned to look at her, "Going home to get married?"
Shen Wuqiu shook his head, his tone flat, "Go home and farm."
The driver clearly didn't believe him, and it took him a while to speak, "Beautiful lady, you're really joking."
Shen Wuqiu was too lazy to explain.
In fact, she did return home to farm. Her elderly father had contracted tens of thousands of acres of mountain forest land, but now his health was failing, and his son was unwilling to inherit the huge family business, so he threatened her to come back and inherit it.
As a young woman, she naturally had no interest in this family fortune. However, nearly a hundred acres of rose gardens among these tens of thousands of acres of land were the life's work of her deceased mother, and she couldn't bear to see them ruined. In addition, she was going through a rough time at work—her greasy boss was sexually harassing her and she was even trying to turn the tables on him.
Under these favorable circumstances, she decided to grant her father's wish.
The driver assumed she was just trying to fool him by not wanting to say more, and being quite perceptive, he stopped asking questions and focused on driving.
Shen Wuqiu was happy to have some peace and quiet, so she closed her eyes to rest.
Once you leave the area around the train station, the traffic on the road becomes increasingly lighter. After turning onto the country road leading to Jingrong Village, you can hardly see any other vehicles.
After driving for an unknown amount of time, a sudden, piercing scream rang out, as if tearing a hole in the tranquil night.
The driver, who was holding the steering wheel with one hand, was startled, dropped the betel nut he was about to tear, and instinctively slammed on the brakes.
Caught off guard, Shen Wuqiu's body lurched forward due to inertia. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and braced herself with her hands on the seat in front of her, preventing herself from hitting her head. "What happened?"
The driver was still a little shaken, and after a few seconds of stunned silence, he turned around and looked at her. "Did you hear that?"
As Shen Wuqiu was resting and feeling drowsy, she couldn't react for a moment. "What did you hear?"
The driver's face tightened, and he swallowed hard before saying, "It's the sound of a child shouting."
Shen Wuqiu belatedly realized that she had also heard that sharp scream. She thought it was a hallucination from when she was half asleep. She glanced out the window and saw only the ink-black night outside, so thick that it seemed as if their little light was the only thing in the world. She was willing to bet that there was no other house within a five-kilometer radius.
"Master, did you hear me wrong?"
The driver was convinced he hadn't misheard, gripping the back of his seat tightly with both hands, looking utterly terrified. "Do you know where we are now? At the foot of Cliff Mountain."
Yai Mountain is the place full of legends about spirits and monsters. It is called Yai Mountain because the mountain is towering into the clouds, but one side is a natural stone that looks like it has been shaved by an axe. The road that passes through Jingrong Village is built on this side of the stone.
The strange and wonderful legends of Yai Mountain have been passed down by people to the point of being almost mythical, but Shen Wuqiu has walked this road back and forth thousands of times and has never encountered any of the things that everyone is talking ab
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
