Chapter 027 Chapter 27

"I'm so tired." Li Wen, who had just climbed up to the observation deck, sat down on a stone pier next to him. "I don't want to walk any more."

"We're already here." Qingtong said, "Shall we meet up with other classmates first?"

Qin Yi nodded, took out his cell phone, and then frowned and said, "No signal."

Li Wen drooped his head lazily: "Because it's on the mountain."

"This is the observation deck." Qin Yi emphasized.

Although it is in the mountains, the terrain here is open, not to mention it is a scenic spot, so there must be signal towers nearby. Walking on the mountain trails may result in poor signal, but not here.

That shouldn't be the case.

Qin Yi fiddled with his phone for a while, but there was still no signal, so he asked Li Wen: "Look at yours."

He thought it was a problem with his phone.

Li Wen took out his cell phone and glanced at it: "Lao Qin, I don't have any signal either."

Qin Yi looked at Qingtong.

Qingtong took out his cell phone and shook his head.

Not only him, everyone had no signal.

After all, we are all already in a virtual world, and it would be strange if we could connect to the outside world.

Qin Yi heard a girl nearby complaining that the internet was down and she couldn't send the photos she took. Qin Yi was helpless and could only sigh and put away his phone: "You guys wait here for me, I'll go call the classmates over one by one."

Li Wen and Qing Tong nodded and watched Qin Yi blend into the crowd and leave.

"What are we having for lunch?" Li Wen asked, panting heavily, after opening the bottle of water and taking a sip.

Qingtong looked at him sideways: "Anything is fine, I'm not picky."

Two minutes later, a classmate was called by Qin Yi to gather, and others also came one after another. More than 20 students gathered together, and Qin Yi began to call the roll.

"Guan Haoguang."

"exist."

"Pang You."

"Yes~"

"Qian Zhi."

"oh."

…

Ten minutes had passed after everyone's name was called. Qin Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Everyone is here. Let's continue to move in groups. We should be able to reach the top of the mountain by 2 pm, and then we will gather again."

"Okay~" Everyone responded happily and were about to disperse.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew, accompanied by a strange whistling sound, which overturned the light objects on the stalls. Some plastic chairs placed at the door for customers to rest rolled far away. Those who were light in weight were blown away and were held back by their companions.

"What's going on?"

“What a strong wind!”

“Are there strong winds like this in the mountains?”

"The weather forecast didn't say it would be windy today."

Qingtong raised his head. The originally clear sky suddenly had a few dark clouds floating in from nowhere, blocking the sun and turning gloomy: "Squad leader, will it rain today?"

"How is that possible? It's been sunny these past few days." Qin Yi immediately retorted. He planned this trip, and hiking is a kind of tourism that requires careful attention to the weather. He chose today after checking the forecast from the meteorological observatory.

Then Qin Yi looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, his expression becoming confused: "Where... did these dark clouds come from?"

He even took a look at the meteorological observatory this morning, and it was really cloudless. Even if the weather forecast was inaccurate, there couldn't be something wrong with the satellite cloud images taken by the meteorological observatory.

A cell phone with no signal, dark clouds coming from nowhere, and a sudden strong wind.

Coupled with the recent weird live broadcasts...

Qin Yi had some bad thoughts in his mind, and he said, "You are right, we shouldn't climb the mountain."

He should cancel his trip today.

The strong wind only blew for a while and has passed. After hearing Qin Yi's words, Li Wen stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, it's just the bad weather. There are so many shops here, it's not like there's no place to hide from the rain."

The others nodded in agreement. They had all checked the weather before setting off. How could they blame the squad leader for the sudden rain? Even the meteorological station didn't expect it.

"The store over there seems to sell umbrellas." Qingtong said.

Qin Yi immediately said, "I'll go buy a few as spares, and the cost will be deducted from the class fee."

A group of people responded and then stood there chatting and laughing nonchalantly. They did not take the sudden gloomy sky seriously. Even if it really rained, these college students who were able to go out and play would happily hide from the rain and continue chatting.

But not everyone was as open-minded as they were, and soon a quarrel broke out. One complained that the other did not check the weather forecast, and the other complained that the other chose to climb the mountain.

Tang Xiaoxiao looked over and said, "They are a pair of young lovers."

"It's so noisy and annoying." Bai Lin found a place to sit down and was looking in the mirror to see if her makeup had fallen off. When she heard the swearing over there, she sneered unhappily.

When she turned her gaze back to the mirror, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a highly decayed face. She was so scared that she screamed and threw the small round mirror away.

The classmates who were chatting and laughing around her turned to look at her.

"What's wrong?" Tang Xiaoxiao asked.

Bai Lin pointed at the broken mirror on the ground with trembling fingers. Tang Xiaoxiao walked up to it and picked it up without knowing why. "It's already broken. Throw it away."

"I, I saw a scary face on it!!" Bai Lin screamed.

When Qian Zhi heard this, he squatted down and asked her with a smile: "Did you see your own face?"

Bai Lin's face turned from pale to red. She knew Qian Zhi was joking with her, but she couldn't relax at all at this moment: "It's true, that face... is rotten, rotten! My eyes are very good, I am not mistaken, absolutely!!"

Hearing her firm tone, others also became puzzled. Tang Xiaoxiao was usually brave, but she was afraid of ghosts. After hearing what she said, she didn't dare to look at the hand holding the mirror.

The student with ponytail frowned, walked forward, took the mirror and looked inside. The mirror only reflected her own face. Because the mirror was broken, her face in the mirror also felt torn.

She turned to Bai Lin and said, "There's nothing."

But Tang Xiaoxiao didn't turn around. She glanced at the broken mirror with fear and curiosity. This glance made her pale with shock. The ponytail girl in the mirror didn't turn around, but stared at her with vicious eyes.

Tang Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she took two steps back and held her breath.

"I bought some umbrellas." Qin Yi came back at this time, holding several umbrellas in his hands, and distributed them to each team, one for each group.

"Keep them as a backup," Qin Yi said as he distributed umbrellas. "It's good that it doesn't rain. If it really rains, or even rains heavily, you can go buy umbrellas by yourselves. Remember to pay for it from the class fund later."

After dividing the umbrellas, I saw Bai Lin and Tang Xiaoxiao looked pale, so I asked, "What's wrong?"

Qian Zhi said with a smile: "Bai Lin was dazzled and insisted that she saw a weird face in the mirror."

Bai Lin retorted: "I'm not dazzled!"

Tang Xiaoxiao trembled, she exhaled suddenly, ran behind Bai Lin, and stood in the middle of the classmates, as if this would give her courage. Tang Xiaoxiao pointed at the mirror in the ponytail girl's hand and said, "Throw it away! Quick!!"

The girl with the ponytail didn't understand what was going on, but seeing that Tang Xiaoxiao insisted, she thought it was just a broken mirror anyway, so she walked to the trash can and threw it away.

"What's wrong?" others asked.

Tang Xiaoxiao lowered her voice and said, "She didn't turn her head in the mirror just now, and she was staring at me."

Tang Xiaoxiao was afraid of ghosts, so she never joked about these topics. As soon as she said this, her classmates fell silent.

"Class monitor..." a girl said, "How about we go back the same way?"

Qin Yi shook his head: "I actually considered going down the mountain, but it's too dangerous now. The mountain road is rugged, and if you walk too fast, you might fall down, which is no joke. It's also not convenient to climb the mountain if it rains. Let's wait here."

"At least, wait until the dark clouds pass."

The other students stopped talking because they knew Qin Yi was right.

Qing Tong looked at the people on the observation deck and said, "Squad leader, there seem to be more people here."

"If more people go up the mountain, there will definitely be more people," Pang You said.

Qingtong shook his head: "No, it seems that the extra people are those who returned by the original route down the mountain."

After hearing this, they stared at Qingtong with wide eyes in astonishment, and Qin Yi looked at the crowd of tourists anxiously.

Indeed, there are a lot more people.

The scenic spot of Qiumu Mountain is on the east side. There is an observation deck halfway up the mountain. The top of the mountain is just past the observation deck. The way down the mountain is on the west side. After passing the top of the mountain, there is a slow mountain road on the other side. The scenery is very different from that on the east side.

Everyone buys a ticket to climb the mountain, and unless they cannot reach the top, they all go down the mountain from the west so they won't bump into people going up the mountain. No one wants to see the same scenery again and walk up the steeper stairs.

Qin Yi went to inquire, and soon he came back with a gloomy face and told everyone some bad news: "After leaving the observation deck and going up the mountain for a short distance, I couldn't go any further. It was like a ghost wall. I would be teleported back after taking a few steps."

After hearing these words, everyone became panic-stricken.

Tang Xiaoxiao was so frightened that tears came out: "Are we already on the live broadcast?"

"Not necessarily. But I definitely encountered something strange."

"What should I do?"

"It's okay. There are so many people here, it's impossible for them all to get hurt." A male classmate consoled her, "Didn't the night market where we first livestreamed also be okay?"

Tang Xiaoxiao was furious: "I don't want to wake up in a grave!"

"It's good to be able to wake up. At least I didn't suffer any torture."

Seeing the classmates talking at once, Qingtong asked Qin Yi: "What should we do?"

Qin Yi couldn't think of a solution either. After a long silence, he said, "How about... we go to the temple on the mountain and stay there for a while?"

It's a temple after all, it should be able to deal with weird things.

If science can't solve the problem, why not try metaphysics?

Qingtong opened his mouth slightly in surprise. He actually took the initiative to suggest going to that temple with hundreds of years of history. This is really...

"Good idea." Qingtong spoke first and nodded.

The other students nodded in agreement, and everyone walked towards the temple above.

Qingtong walked at the back of her classmates as usual, feeling very relaxed.

Thank you so much, squad leader, for not having to give me any guidance.