Zhang Chunliang couldn't bear to watch Ning Liang's reckless words and actions. Before he could start to complain, a scream suddenly came from the woods behind him.

Zhang Chunliang was startled suddenly. He and Ning Liang looked at each other, and their expressions were quite solemn.

Long before they were ready to burn the bodies, Zhang Yuan went to the woods alone and silently.

Zhang Chunliang knew that the python was quite smart and it was almost impossible for it to reveal its whereabouts in front of him, so he was not worried. He was just a little worried about how to explain the python's disappearance.

The sudden shout made his heart leap, and the two of them quickly ran towards the source of the sound.

In the empty woods, Zhang Yuan stood alone at the place where the bodies were dumped. He ignored the two people who came over breathlessly and was immersed in his own world.

"Cousin...what happened?" Zhang Chunliang's voice trembled slightly.

Zhang Yuan stood there in a daze, holding up a piece of plastic film that someone had accidentally left behind.

Oh no... Zhang Chunliang felt a headache for a moment and couldn't help but want to hold his forehead. He forgot that He Anxin had been resurrected and pretended to be dead.

He had suddenly fallen ill yesterday and his mind was not clear. Before he could figure out how to explain it all, the two of them suddenly appeared.

"Brother... this..." He stammered, and even tried to put the blame on the python, or say that it was just hungry and ate the man...

"I saw it..." Zhang Yuan's chest rose and fell violently, and his breathing was rapid. "She was standing behind the tree, looking at me..."

He Anxin showed up? Zhang Chunliang's heart sank. She did it on purpose. What on earth was she trying to do?

He looked up at Zhang Yuan and found that he was in tears.

"I knew it..." He spoke vaguely, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, crying and laughing like a lunatic.

Zhang Chunliang felt it was a little strange. When seeing someone who had come back to life, shouldn't the first reaction be fear? Why was he like him, seeming ecstatic?

"Brother, what did you see...?" Zhang Chunliang asked tentatively.

"An Yi, An Yi...she's alive..."

Ning Liang folded his arms and glanced coldly in the woods, and found some traces under a tree not far away.

He walked over and touched the mud on the grass with his hands, and could see that there were indeed traces of being crushed by heavy objects.

But Zhang Chunliang had already stood there in a daze, feeling cold all over.

He opened his mouth and wanted to ask - why was it He Anyi, that girl... her name should be He Anxin.

Seeing Zhang Yuan's excitement which didn't seem fake, his heart sank.

All the information he knew was heard from He Anxin alone, so it was not impossible that he was deceived.

He was so stupid, why didn't he try to doubt what she said? Now that I think about it - the information she told him... is it really possible for a high school girl who has not yet reached adulthood to know it?

In the dimly lit woods, Zhang Chunliang felt as if he was wrapped in layers of fog, and everything he heard and saw seemed so absurd and ridiculous.

He touched his forehead unconsciously, and even wondered if he was still running a fever and had hallucinations.

Zhang Chengliang tried to review the whole process of the girl's resurrection yesterday. She was very excited after waking up, and seemed hysterical. But she remained calm and kept the right to talk firmly in her own hands.

It's so scary. Just more than ten minutes ago, the girl was still calmly warning herself to be careful of the two people in front of her.

But she was the one who was hard to figure out - why did she lie to herself? What was she trying to achieve?

"That's enough, Zhang Yuan. Don't go crazy." Ning Liang frowned, looking a little alert. "You don't really believe that burying a body in Mangshan and sincerely worshipping the Mangxian can bring people back to life, right?"

Zhang Yuan was poured with a basin of cold water, his face suddenly sank, and his tone became irritable: "An Yi has indeed disappeared! And I just saw her with my own eyes, she was hiding behind your tree, watching me..."

Ning Liang looked at him with some pity in his eyes: "Her body has been left here for a long time. It is very likely that it has attracted some predatory animals."

He walked forward and patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder: "I know a kind of snake that likes to hang up long-dead bodies and place them in places where humans pass by to attract fresh prey."

Seeing that he obviously didn't believe him, Zhang Yuan took a few deep breaths. He wanted to explain, but suddenly laughed as if he had thought of something.

"It's okay, it's okay. An Yi will follow us... If she is really alive, she will definitely go find them... An Yi? An Yi, did you hear that?"

He shouted like a madman: "Go east along the road we came from - about 200 kilometers..."

Ning Liang's expression suddenly changed, and he covered his mouth: "That's enough, you are really crazy. How dare you shout like that in the deep mountains and old forests? How many bullets do you have in your gun?"

He was unwilling to delay any longer and simply dragged the struggling Zhang Yuan towards the car.

Zhang Chunliang followed behind him and always felt that someone was watching him from behind.

He turned his head warily, and among the shadows of the trees, he caught a glimpse of the stream not far away - He Anyi stood motionless in the water, expressionless, silently watching them leave.

Zhang Yuan was right, she would definitely go find them.

In the campsite, the cremation fire left only a pile of charred debris, with thick smoke rising slowly upwards.

Ning Liang sat in the driver's seat and started the car while cursing. There were a lot of heavy objects in the car and the tires were squeezed, making heavy squeaks under the heavy load.

Zhang Yuan collapsed in the passenger seat, his face covered with tears and he was panting, looking not in good condition.

There were too many things in the car, so Zhang Chunliang had to run to the back seat again to make room for the rest of the things.

He kept looking out the car window, somewhat absent-mindedly. The snake probably didn't know he had left, and he didn't know if it would get angry when it came back from hunting and saw the mess on the ground.

He felt a little amused and a little reluctant, but he knew in his heart that leaving it where it was and letting it return to where it grew was the best option.

The scenery outside the window began to change constantly. The atmosphere in the car was very solemn. The three people each had their own thoughts and had no interest in chatting.

Halfway through the journey, the car gradually drove out of the mountains and headed towards a road.

For some reason, they drove on this road for a long time but didn't see any trace of a car, and even signposts rarely appeared.

"What a crappy road! It's like a no-man's land, and there's not even a service area." Ning Liang casually held a cigarette in his mouth, breaking the silence.

"I don't know." Zhang Yuan cleared his hoarse throat and calmed down a lot. "The navigation is no longer working, and there is no signal on the road. I didn't find this road when I looked at the map at that time."

"Where's Liang'er?" Ning Liang looked at Zhang Chunliang in the rearview mirror. "I heard that you did a lot of research before coming here. Have you seen this place?"

How could Zhang Chunliang know any strategy? He could only perfunctorily answer, "I haven't seen this road before. Why are we here, Brother Ning?"

"I can't get out. I wanted to drive back yesterday to find help to rescue you. But we couldn't get out of the mountain no matter what. The navigation system had no signal. Fortunately, I brought a few extra barrels of gasoline and found this way out. Otherwise, we would have died here."

Ning Liang also had a puzzled expression: "It's like being trapped in a maze. I'm clearly following the same route back, but I can't get back no matter how hard I try."

"Maybe the magnetic field in the mountain has changed. Fortunately, we found a family in the end." Zhang Yuan continued hesitantly, "Xiaoliang, you know that those young masters and young ladies are not easy to mess with. Can you please not tell them about An Yi's resurrection?"

Zhang Chunliang hesitated for a moment and did not agree immediately.

Zhang Yuan was a little anxious: "You must not let it slip. Those people harmed An Yi. If they knew she was not dead, they might do something crazy. Xiaoliang, An Yi has a good heart. She will not retaliate against people who have not done anything bad."

"What you're saying is nonsense. Don't scare Liang'er." Ning Liang couldn't bear to listen any longer and interrupted him impatiently: "Even if that An Yi is really alive. She only has two legs and can't fly so far. By the time she really comes looking for us, we might have already run away."

Ning Liang couldn't stand Zhang Yuan's confusing and weird behavior, it was as if he was possessed by a demon.

He raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhang Chunliang in the rearview mirror. He immediately became angry again: "Look at you, you don't believe in materialism for no reason, but resort to these crooked ways. You scared Liang'er's little face so much that it turned pale!"

Zhang Yuan turned his head back and found that Zhang Chunliang's expression was indeed very ugly. He sighed and just repeated stubbornly: "Don't tell anyone."

Zhang Chunliang could no longer hear what the two of them were saying. His body was stiff and his mind was blank. He could only feel a slight itchy touch on his waist... as if something... was poking his waist.

He exhaled shudderingly and touched the hole behind him with his hand. The tip of his energetic tail felt his response and began to shake excitedly.

It’s over, Zhang Chunliang thought expressionlessly, he seemed to have really seen a ghost.

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