第十章

The last Friday of summer vacation, Kexin celebrated her birthday early.

She didn't want to go to a restaurant, nor to have a party at home. She wanted to go camping in the woods.

Xiaoman didn't like camping very much, and Jiajia liked it even less. But it was Kexin's birthday, so they still went to the woods outside Qingshi Town together.

The three of them arrived first. What Kexin brought was not an ordinary tent, but a very large white tent. She said, anyway, the six of them would sleep inside at night.

Xiaoman and Jiajia helped her set up the tent. When it was almost dark, Cheng Yuan, Chen Zihang and Liu An also arrived. They brought food and drinks.

The sky gradually darkened. It started to rain in the woods. Everyone sat in the tent, chatting around snacks.

Liu An held a flashlight and began to tell ghost stories.

At first it was just ordinary scary stories. Later, he turned the story into six friends camping in the woods. Finally, he said Bai Anning's corpse crawled out of the woods to take revenge on everyone.

Xiaoman immediately interrupted him.

"Stop it." she said, "This is not funny."

Liu An didn't understand why she was so angry. Chen Zihang also said, "But aren't you also using Bai Anning for your school project?"

Xiaoman said that it was different. She was investigating the truth, not making fun of a dead girl.

Liu An added that he had originally planned to tell the story about Bai Anning and a secret older man.

Xiaoman suddenly looked at him.

"How do you know this?"

Liu An said that Jiajia had told him. Jiajia immediately said that Kexin had told her. Kexin was a bit drunk and said she had only told Fang Na and Jiajia, and thought it was okay.

Xiaoman was very angry.

She hadn't explicitly said that this matter couldn't be spread, because she thought her friends would understand. Now she knew she was wrong.

Her investigation was not gossip for everyone to chat about.

Liu An didn't take it seriously. He said that many people at school knew that Xiaoman was investigating the Bai Anning case.

Xiaoman felt even more annoyed.

At this moment, Chen Zihang took out a Ouija board from his bag. He wanted everyone to play the game of 'séance'. Jiajia immediately objected, thinking it was too scary.

A few boys were still trying to persuade her. Xiaoman no longer wanted to listen.

When she reached for a snack, she suddenly saw a flash of white light deep in the woods.

The light was very small, like a phone screen lighting up for a moment, then immediately going out.

Xiaoman sat up straight and looked outside.

She waited for a while. In the woods, there were only the sound of rain and dark shadows.

Then, she saw a dark shadow move.

That was not a tree.

It looked like a person.

Xiaoman said in a low voice, "Don't turn around yet. I think there's someone in the woods."

The tent became quiet.

Xiaoman stared at the darkness.

She felt that the person was watching them.