Chapter 55. Ghost King Refining Plan
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
Unexpectedly, he agreed? Xiao Lang’s heart, which had risen to his throat, was put back.
He touched his nose and said in a joking tone: “Du Yan, you don’t know, when I invited you to come with us just now, I was more nervous for fear that you would refuse than confessing to someone.”
Du Yan thought Xiao Lang was just saying this to reassure himself, so he replied: “I am going to Shunping to collect folk art. If you are a local who is familiar with the area, I would be grateful to you, so how could I refuse?”
Liang Fei, who was standing by, completely missed the point. He squinted his eyes and teased Xiao Lang: “Oh, our school-famous male god Xiao Lang actually had a dark history of being rejected when he confessed his love.”
Before Xiao Lang opened his mouth, Tian Luo on the side waved his hands repeatedly: “Senior was just joking. When he was in high school, he was always the one being chased after. He kept his distance from the girls in school, and I have never heard of any rumors about him confessing.”
Wei Zizhe said with emotion: “I really don’t know what kind of girl can make you, Xiao Lang, fall in love with her. Your standards are too high.”
His girlfriend Zhou Tian took over the conversation: “That’s right, my roommate, campus beauty was so proactive, but you didn’t even want to go out and have a meal with her.”
When young people of this age talk about girls and love, the atmosphere is always particularly heated and hard to control.
Just when everyone was joking about asking Xiao Lang to tell them his criteria for choosing a partner, Xiao Lang’s gaze was a little uncomfortable and drifting towards Du Yan who was sitting by the window.
An idea suddenly occurred to him: if that person was a girl, it would seem to completely meet his criteria for a partner.
Unfortunately, Du Yan is a boy.
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The train rumbled along, and in the blink of an eye it was the next morning, and in less than two hours, they would arrive in Shunping City.
Early in the morning, after washing up, everyone sat down in the lower berth to chat while waiting for the train to reach.
After spending nearly a day together, Du Yan and Xiao Lang’s group have become quite familiar with each other, and he would occasionally chime in when they were chatting.
When they were chatting happily, the carriage suddenly fell into darkness.
Zhou Tian was a little timid to begin with. When the carriage got dark, she screamed and grabbed the hand of Wei Zizhe beside her.
Xiao Lang’s voice rang out at the right time: “It’s okay, we’ve entered the tunnel.”
It turned out that the train entered the tunnel, but for some reason, the lights in the carriage did not light up in time. After about ten seconds, the lights in the carriage lit up one after another.
Xiao Lang has taken this train countless times and is very familiar with the conditions along the way. He explained: “The terrain of Shunping is quite special. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, so there are many tunnels.”
“Is it like a small basin?” Du Yan asked.
Xiao Lang nodded: “That’s about right, so the tunnels behind are one after another. This light will stay on and won’t be turned off.”
As expected, the rest of the journey was filled with tunnels, and almost half of the train ride was spent in tunnels.
This amazed Xiao Lang’s roommates, who grew up in the plains.
Xiao Lang smiled and said: “These tunnels are relatively short. When we are close to the destination, there is an extra-long tunnel. The train will have to run in the tunnel for at least 20 minutes.”
Tian Luo said: “Senior, have you heard that the tunnel collapsed during the heavy rain some time ago?”
Xiao Lang nodded: “I heard from my father, but there were no trains passing by at that time, and there were no major casualties. It seems that the road was reopened to traffic not long ago.”
Zhou Tian became a little worried again, her voice trembling: “The tunnel collapsed not long ago, isn’t it a little unsafe?”
Wei Zizhe laughed at her, and after being hit by a hammer fist, he said seriously: “You think too much. It was precisely because of the recent landslide that this tunnel is particularly safe. If the relevant departments are afraid of a second accident, the materials used for reinforcement would be the best, so you don’t have to worry blindly.”
Du Yan lowered his eyes slightly after hearing this and looked at the unknown darkness outside the window. The super long tunnel they were talking about was the origin of all the tragedies.
Shunping is an ancient city with a very long history. It has existed as early as the pre-Qin period, and because of its geographical location, it was once a battleground for military strategists.
That tunnel goes directly through Wanren Ridge.
Wanren* Ridge was actually a mass grave in ancient times. At that time, a war broke out in Shunping, and almost all the people in the city were slaughtered, with corpses scattered all over the ground and blood flowing like a river.
The piles of corpses were thrown onto this mountain, and its actual name should be Wanshi* Ridge. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the name was changed to Wanren Ridge because it was too unlucky.
(*Wanren=Ten thousand people; and Wanshi= Ten thousand corpse)
The landslide some time ago just happened to destroy the arrey set up by the celestial master to suppress the resentment that has been lingering in Wanren Ridge for years. In addition, Xiao Lang’s fate is special, and when he passed by this place by train, it triggered the resonance of resentment. In the end, he and his companions were trapped in another Shunping City.
Du Yan’s decision to kill Xiao Lang is not just to be a villain.
The fate of these people is to be trapped in another Shunping City, and the wronged souls of the entire Shunping City will not let Xiao Lang go. The most perfect ending that Du Yan can plan is to let Xiao Lang die in his hands and his friends to escape.
Du Yan looked up at his backpack on the luggage rack, and there was nothing like that inside.
Just as Xiao Lang guessed, what was placed there were not only art supplies but also various kinds of talisman paper and cinnabar.
That’s right, Du Yan is not an art lover but a disciple of a certain hidden Celestial Master’s sect. He came out of seclusion this time to gain experience.
However, his sect is not an orthodox Celestial Master sect, but a somewhat evil sect of exorcists.
Du Yan’s plan is very simple, which is to use Shunping’s special terrain and Xiao Lang’s special destiny to refine him into a Ghost King. Then he, the villain, can wait to receive backlash by the Ghost King.
The fully formed ghost king has reason and memory and can command all the ghosts. When the time comes, Xiao Lang only needs to wave his hand to destroy the other Shunping City that trapped him, and the nightmare will end.
The train finally reached the longest tunnel. Xiao Lang’s friends were already used to these endless tunnels, and they didn’t think there was anything wrong with this unusually long tunnel.
Du Yan, who had been looking out the window, discovered that the train now stayed in the tunnel for much longer than the normal 20 minutes.
He glanced at the college students who were still chatting, and it seemed that no one noticed anything unusual.
Xiao Lang noticed Du Yan’s gaze, so he stood up and handed a bottle of drink to Du Yan.
He asked: “I see you’re quite bored sitting here alone, do you want to go over and play games with them?”
Du Yan shook his head: “It’s okay, I like to be alone.”
Xiao Lang hit a wall, but he had no intention of backing down.
He also looked out the dark window and made small talk: “Do you think this tunnel seems a little too long?”
Du Yan did not intend to cause panic at this time: “It is a bit long. But didn’t you say that there are mountains here, so it is normal for the tunnel to be longer.”
Xiao Lang sat down opposite Du Yan. He smiled and asked: “Du Yan, are you afraid of ghosts?”
Du Yan was slightly stunned and replied: “I’m not afraid. Why are you asking this?”
Xiao Lang said: “It just reminded me of some stories about this tunnel. It is said that many accidents occurred during the construction of this tunnel. In the end, a celestial master was invited to cast a spell to successfully open the tunnel.”
Tian Luo, who was standing nearby, heard their conversation and said excitedly: “That’s right, one of my Shushu happened to be in this construction team at the time, and what he said was terrifying.”
In this special situation, everyone’s interest was aroused. Even the timid Zhou Tian hugged Wei Zizhe’s arm tightly while showing an eager expression.
Encouraged by everyone, Tian Luo began to tell all kinds of supernatural rumors he had heard from his Shushu.
During the construction, they suddenly found a shadow swaying above the tunnel, or someone was clearly digging a hole to put a detonator there, but was suddenly tapped on the shoulder.
Du Yan wasn’t very interested, so he stood up and moved around while facing the window.
Xiao Lang looked at his thin back, and for some reason, he also stood up.
Xiao Lang had just walked behind Du Yan when the train suddenly shook violently. Du Yan took a step back without checking and bumped into Xiao Lang’s chest.
Xiao Lang subconsciously reached out to help, but his hand happened to fall on Du Yan’s waist. He only felt that his waist was lean and strong, and it seemed that Du Yan was not as thin as he looked.
After Du Yan stood firm, he turned around and said to Xiao Lang: “Thank you.”
The train stopped suddenly.
“Dear passengers, this is a temporary stop…”
The broadcast on the train sounded just right, reassuring some of the anxious passengers.
Temporary stop? Du Yan turned his head, and his eyes fell on the carriage window.
Outside the window that was empty just now, there were rotten human faces, pale hands, and deformed faces, densely filling every inch of the window.
Even though their faces were mutilated and their expressions were distorted, Du Yan could still see greed and desire in those eyes.
Du Yan followed their line of sight and looked over, and happened to see Xiao Lang.
All those covetous and greedy eyes were focused on Xiao Lang.
Xiao Lang was originally looking at Du Yan, and now his eyes collided with Du Yan’s. He just felt that Du Yan looked at him with a strange look, with a smile that couldn’t be explained.
He looked down at his clothes and saw nothing wrong with them. Xiao Lang walked over and asked curiously: “What are you looking at?”
He looked over from where Du Yan was standing, and it was just pitch black outside, and he couldn’t see anything.
“I just think that darkness is quite interesting.” Du Yan said in an ambiguous tone.
“Interesting?”
Du Yan nodded: “When your vision is blocked and your eyes lose their function, your imagination can set sail. You can imagine that in this darkness, there is a completely different world, and there are completely different residents living in it.”
Du Yan bent his fingers and tapped the glass lightly. The faces pressed against the glass seemed to be hit hard by something and turned into ashes in an instant.
“Really, it’s a bit eye-catching.”
Xiao Lang looked bewildered and finally could only say helplessly: “There really is a natural gap between me, an engineering student, and you art students.”
Du Yan looked at him and smiled: “Really?”
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