Ladder to Heaven 3

"It's getting brighter again."

After walking for a long time, everything was destroyed by a teleportation. It was pitch black one second, and bright as day the next.

Yin Sui pointed helplessly at the stone steps ahead: "Well, since I have nothing to do anyway, I might as well clean the mud off the soles of my shoes."

"There's no water."

Forget that cities and rural areas are on different wavelengths.

"Press your shoes on it like I did and use the edge of the steps to scrape the mud."

She understood immediately and walked to the side and started rubbing the soles of her shoes with her front and back feet as if she was doing a ghost step.

When Song Qi's voice sounded behind him, Jiang Kesong, who was immersed in the new activity, turned around subconsciously without any preparation.

All three were here—if only two of them weren't.

It is difficult to describe the expression of a normal person when they suddenly suffer a visual attack, which is a mixture of fear and confusion.

Bai Jinqin's cervical vertebrae were broken, and her entire neck was exaggeratedly bent in the middle, connected only by the skin and flesh on the outside. As her body's center of gravity shifted when she took a step, her shoulders shook, causing her head, which was pressed against her, to sway along with them.

In order to reduce the amplitude of the vibration, he raised one hand and used all his strength to straighten it.

His fingers were stained with blood as he poked the fair cheek, leaving countless bloody palm prints, layer upon layer, with fresh red covering the solidified dark brown. His free hand was placed on it from time to time to adjust the position.

Seeing them, the head smiled and said, "I thought you were gone." As he spoke, blood gushed out from the corner of his lips, staining his chin red.

Song Qi, who was standing next to them, put his hands in his pockets and smiled. It was abnormal enough that he could smile in the face of his companions' miserable situation. Lin Xiao was staring at them with painful and anxious eyes, her eyes were red, and it was obvious that she had just cried.

A cold wind whistled past them, carrying a strong smell of blood. They stood at the top of the slope, and the sunlight cast a white edge on each of them, which was inconsistent with the thriving trees behind them.

"Ugh." Jiang Kesong's throat rolled uncontrollably and he retched.

The three people walked together loosely but did not get separated due to the random distortion of their spatial positions. They "walked" several meters in almost two steps and jumped in front of them.

Yin Sui resigned himself to his fate and stepped forward to take over the conversation: "How can we leave before everyone is here? I'll come down to find you after I use the restroom."

Since the other party still considers us friends, it is more comfortable to play the role of friend than to tear each other apart and directly engage in a cat-and-mouse game.

"Great, everyone is here."

Song Qi's tone sounded like he was praising the chickens, ducks, and geese that arrived at the slaughterhouse on time.

"You have to be careful. I don't know who flew the kite, and the kite string is very sharp. I even fell down trying to avoid it just now."

“…”

Bai Jinqin mistook her silence for a sign of worry: "It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep."

"Do you need iodine? I have it." As he said this, he took out a small bottle of medicine.

"Thank you for the medicine. I didn't break my skin."

His eyes uncontrollably dropped to the shaky, bloody head, and Ginsui was speechless for the second time.

Lin Xiao seemed to have found his backbone and pretended to casually hold the arm of his friend who looked the most normal and calmest at the scene, but was shaken off.

Yinsui helplessly raised the hand that was holding Jiang Kesong's and shook it, the meaning was self-evident.

One of the two hands must always be kept for work. If she had three heads and six arms, it would be fine to give her half.

"Song Qi is crazy." Lip-synced.

And dead.

Speak of the devil, and he appears, Song Qi appears behind them.

Lin Xiao turned pale like a mouse seeing a cat, and sent out a distress signal, but Jiang Kesong was so focused on the horrific crooked neck that he didn't notice it at all. Yin Sui didn't want to be dragged into the water, so he looked away without hesitation.

Good friends… Song Qi glanced at the girls with different expressions with disdain. When it was Lin Xiao’s turn, he gave her a compassionate smile, then dragged her away and said nonchalantly, “Let the two good friends exchange their feelings. We won’t disturb them.”

The winter tour team regrouped, and the atmosphere was completely different. Only Song Qi was happier than in the afternoon. The smile never left his face from beginning to end, and the blue coat he wore was clean and tidy.

In Yinsui's opinion, she is much more dangerous than the ignorant Bai Jinqin.

We have to find an opportunity to get rid of the time bomb.

Can you bring Lin Xiao with you?

She has been targeted. The hunter may defeat her one by one, but he will not let all the prey go.

Feeling the texture of the metal, Jiang Kesong clenched his hand in surprise, and took out the second one from the silver that was stuffed in it. He buckled the bottom and twisted it clockwise, and a long needle with a cold glow popped out.

After demonstrating how to use it, she tilted her head: Do you know how to use it?

Nod vigorously.

Yin Sui's mind moved, and he moved closer to Bai Jinqin: "Is the bracelet new? It looks very nice."

"Well, I bought it online last week. I'll send you the link when I get back and have a signal." Bai Jinqin smiled embarrassedly. She didn't expect her to take the initiative to talk.

Although they were roommates, Yinsui would only go back to the dormitory to rest during lunch break and rarely took the initiative to join in conversations. After three years, he became quite distant from everyone in the class except Jiang Kesong.

Is it true that high school is too stressful? I always go to the hospital and have to balance my physical health and studies. I feel much more lively after graduation.

"Thank you."

Look, she’s smiling so brightly. It turns out that high school pressure really does harm people.

The needle retracted into its shell with a light tap, and Yin Sui's smile turned cold.

Pain is like a maggot clinging to the body of a living thing; to lose life means to be excluded from it.

I guess they're all incapable of feeling pain or recognizing their own decline. Cold weapons won't have any effect on restricting movement unless they sever limbs. Next time, try lighting a fire.

A clear band of light stretched across the horizon.

Yinsui stopped and silently pressed the lighter tucked into his sleeve.

Song Qi spoke first: "You guys go on your own."

Eh? Jiang Kesong, who had been glancing here and there, not even daring to look directly at her, couldn't help but glance over in astonishment. So, they just let us go like that?

"I won't take you with me."

It's like the tortoise and the hare race: one hare rides a car, the other is incredibly talented. Even more unbearable than their effortless victory is the tortoise's exhausting efforts to catch up, only to find the other two lying on the ground soundly asleep, unable to overtake.

She has always played the role of the tortoise and has been gnashing her teeth in hatred. It would be strange if she was willing to lead two rabbits to success.

“…”

In any case, as long as he could run, Yin Sui, who had no idea what was going on in her mind and didn't want to delve into it, wanted to turn around and leave, but he was wary of being stabbed in the back, so he just stood there waiting for Song Qi to leave first.

So this isn't a pyramid scheme, it's brainwashing through a cult. The difference between the two is that one knows the truth and drags its enemies into the water first, while the other's closest relatives suffer the most.

In the second case, going it alone is actually more fortunate.

Song Qi, carrying the confused Bai Jinqin and the weak and helpless Lin Xiao, twisted and deformed as they walked. Because the whole sky was bright, there was no place for shadows. They were like three lit candles standing abruptly on a dark green altar, gradually becoming broken and melting in the dazzling light.

Jiang Kesong was so shocked he could barely speak. He wanted to laugh but was afraid to be heard. At the same time, he felt sorry for Lin Xiao, the only normal person among them. A complex mix of emotions filled him, neither laughing nor crying.

"hiss."

Yin Sui, standing beside him, didn't have to worry about that. Standing before the truck, all his worries vanished, leaving only the urgency of being sucked under.

It was really dark before my eyes.

I was so busy watching out for the people around me that I forgot to look at the road and accidentally stopped on the main road - a sightseeing bus cosplaying as bumper cars at a comic convention.

When Jiang Kesong noticed what was happening, he realized that the hand he was holding had been loosened.

The speeding carriage just brushed past him, stirring up a gust of wind that lifted his bangs high up, blocking his view, and raising a cloud of dust.

Seeing the car coming towards him, Yin Sui ran forward two steps, but didn't have time to take the third step. He just reached a distance that was far enough away from her but not enough to avoid her. His heels landed and he slid down.

As a small passenger bus, the sightseeing bus still had enough space at the bottom for one girl to squeeze in. She waited for her chance without blinking, feeling the stinging pain from her back rubbing against the rough asphalt road.

It was like walking through a very short tunnel, with light at the entrance and light at the exit, and a mountain of graves looming gloomily above one's head.

One, two, three. Seeing that the aperture at the end was getting bigger, at this moment, after she suddenly understood, what was waiting for her was the next round of reversing and crushing.

Waiting for the mountain to move away would be courting death; moving the mountain away is the only way to survive.

The pure black top cover was lifted up, emitting a clear metallic humming sound, and a tiny flame with an orange outside and a blue inside popped out of the nozzle. The moment the light submerged half of the body, the flame core touched the ground.

Then thick smoke billowed, and the fire started from the rear of the car and spread rapidly, like burning an ordinary piece of paper - it was just burning paper. Logically, the steel and iron body of the car should have been burned to ashes, and all that was floating in the sky was paper scraps and ashes.

And at the bottom of the ashes, a familiar figure crawled up.

Cremation is a wonderful thing.

Yin Sui stood up, his face covered in dust and dirt, and tossed his curled hair back. His first reaction was to ask Jiang Kesong, who was standing there in disbelief, "Why aren't you running?"

"……sorry."

"It's okay. Remember to pay attention next time. If it were me, I would be standing on the slope and watching. Did you observe the reaction of the people in the car after they started the fire?"

"I was terrified, and then I was dragged up into the sky and disappeared. Some people and things' feet and trouser legs were on fire, and the fire spread incredibly quickly."

"I have another one for you."

Jiang Kesong's pupils trembled: Do I need to bring three flashlights and two lighters when I go out? I understand, the kind of enlightenment that comes with great enlightenment.

"If all else fails... let's just set the mountain on fire. It'll probably be clean once it burns."

"You'll go to jail." He corrected weakly.

After simply brushing off the ashes that had fallen from his hands and body, Yinsui lifted up the cotton and linen collar that was stuck to the wound at the back of his neck and separated it from the skin and flesh.

Finding a way out, her brows relaxed: "I have a fever."

"No, that's not what I meant. I'll burn it with you." Jiang Kesong swallowed the legal knowledge and added with difficulty: "If it's really a last resort."

"Just kidding, if you grill a living person right now, the aroma will spread far and wide."

Besides, it had rained, so the probability of two lighters setting the entire mountain on fire was almost zero.