Chapter 2 The Strangeness of Mount Laurin
Half an hour after the message was sent, there was still no reply from the other side. As the sun was rising, Lin Jin had no choice but to carry the box and walk to the bus stop a few hundred meters away.
Passing by a forest on the way, she turned and walked in. When she came out again, the empty box in her hand had disappeared.
Lin Jin is a freshman in the Computer Science Department at Jiangnan University this year. Her school is in Anshi City. Although it is not far from Laolin Mountain, it still takes some time to go back.
After taking the bus for two hours and then taking two subways, I finally got back to school at noon.
When I got back to the dormitory, I opened the door and smelled the fragrance of washing powder. The clothes I washed before leaving in the morning were still dripping on the balcony, and the water dripped down the corners of the clothes and onto a potted green plant.
A pool of water had gathered under the potted plant, and the leaves of the lush green plant were drooping due to the soaking.
Lin Jin hurriedly moved the potted plants away, and seeing that the green ivy inside was fine, she took off her wet shirt, wrung out the water and hung it above the sink.
Their dormitory is a typical four-person dormitory with a bed, a desk, a private bathroom and a balcony.
It is National Day now, and most of my roommates packed up and went home last night, so there is no one in the dormitory except Lin Jin.
She found a mop and wiped the water stains on the floor, locked the door and balcony, and pulled open a corner of her roommate's bed curtain to make sure that no one was there before turning on the faucet.
“Crash~”
The water flowed into the pool. Lin Jin took a piece of steel wool and scrubbed the sausage grill that was covered with oil stains.
The oil on the sausage grill had already solidified, and it took a lot of effort to clean the oil stains.
After cleaning the machine, he took out the starch sausages he had purchased earlier from the cabinet, counted the remaining quantity, and put them all into the space.
The opening was not smooth today, so I have to set up a stall in the square again in the evening.
Ever since she could remember, Lin Jin knew that she had a portable space. At first, when she was young, she didn't know what it was. She only knew that there was a place on her body where she could hide things, and it could accommodate any large object.
From hundreds of kilograms of mud and sand to dead chickens and ducks, the space on his body seemed like a bottomless pit with no satisfaction.
Even though she was still young at the time, she was able to keenly sense that something was wrong with her body, but she didn't dare tell anyone else, thinking that she was an orphan because she was a monster.
As she grew up, it became popular among her classmates to read novels. Even though Lin Jin had never read any of them, she learned some information from their conversations.
It turns out that she is not a monster, but a human with a golden finger.
This golden finger is called portable space, and only the protagonist in the novel has it.
The protagonist?
Even though Lin Jin thought it was ridiculous at the time, she had fantasized about it more than once in her dreams at midnight, imagining herself as the savior, enjoying great glory and receiving the admiration of everyone in the world.
But as soon as this idea formed in my mind, it was ruthlessly dispelled by a pair of hands.
Between becoming the protagonist and studying, Lin Jin chose the latter without a second thought.
Every protagonist is great and extraordinary, but she is as weak as an ant and cannot force herself to stop any learning.
Therefore, for eighteen years, no one knew the secret of the space, only Lin Jin occasionally used it to load tools.
“Ding~”
Suddenly, a notification came on her cell phone. Lin Jin clicked on it and saw that it was a roommate who had already gone home sending a group message in the dormitory.
【Wangwang Senbei: I am so angry, who said that Laolinshan is so popular, and tricked people into coming in and killing them like dogs. 】
[Caribbean Kelp: What? You went to Mount Laurin? ]
【Wangwang Senbei: Not only will I go there, I will also be pissed to death. 】
【Wangwang Senbei: Originally, our family planned to go to Laurin Mountain this morning, but we learned that it was closed just before we set off. When we were planning to go somewhere else, we suddenly saw that we could go to Laurin Mountain, so my dad drove us to see the human-shaped stone.】
【Picture jpg.】
【Wangwang Senbei: Do you think this is reasonable? What a broken stone. Apart from the facial features, it has nothing to do with the one in the video. Can these ghost-like internet celebrities compensate me for my mental damages?】
In the picture sent, the whole stone neither looks lifelike nor eye-catching.
Lin Jin stared at the photo and frowned slightly.
I can't tell what's strange, but it feels different from the stone I saw this morning.
Her eyes flickered slightly, and she suddenly remembered the two climbers who did not listen to the advice.
Before the stone became popular, Laolin Mountain had always been a deserted mountain scenic spot, let alone anyone traveling a long way to climb the mountain.
Now that Mount Laurin has become popular, more and more rock climbing enthusiasts are going there. Is this a coincidence?
“Ding Dong!”
“Ding Dong!”
In the dormitory group, after Wangwang Senbei spoke, the silent group seemed to come alive, with messages popping up one after another, and dozens of messages were sent in a short while.
In addition to the two roommates discussed previously, another account named '奶思兔米鱿' also joined the discussion.
Everyone is discussing the weirdness of Mount Laolin, analyzing whether it is a scam by an internet celebrity or a gimmick deliberately created by the scenic spot in collaboration with others.
If this internet celebrity is cheating people, then he is really shameless. He deceives people and then treats them like dogs.
If the scenic spot doesn't behave like a human being, it seems a bit unreasonable for it not to become an internet troll.
Lin Jin looked through the chat history, hesitated for a moment, and then left a message in the group.
[Lin Jin: I went there this morning and saw some climbers climbing the mountain. The staff said that they blocked Mount Laolin for safety reasons.]
【Wangwang Senbei: !!!】
【Wangwang Senbei: @林妗, are you also in Laolin Mountain? Have you gone back? 】
[Caribbean Seaweed: It’s rare to see you talking in the group. If I had known that you were all going to Laurin Mountain, our dormitory should have organized a group to go there.]
【奶思兔米鼠: @林妗Then are the stones you saw at the scene also like this? 】
【Lin Jin: Reply to Wangwang Senbei: Thank you for your kindness, but I left in the morning. 】
【Lin Jin: Reply to Caribbean Seaweed: I’m sorry, I didn’t talk much before because I don’t often check my phone. 】
【Lin Jin: Reply to Naisi Tumiyu: Yes, the stone was like this at the scene, it was very different from the video, anyway, it was weird. 】
【Wangwang Senbei: You're gone? And you said I could take you back on the way.】
【Wangwang Senbei: I made a wasted trip today (breathing fire), I want to complain to that internet celebrity, it’s a complete waste of my energy and manpower. 】
【奶思兔米鼠: Fortunately, I made the wise choice not to go. I am playing at the beach. Wait for me to bring you some local specialties..】
【Caribbean Kelp: The boss is generous. 】
【Wangwang Senbei: +1.】
【Lin Jin: Thank you.】
The group slowly fell silent. Lin Jin leaned back in her chair, turned her head and stared out the window at the darkening sky in a daze.
It has been a month since school started, and she gets along relatively well with her roommate, but she has to work part-time jobs everywhere and rarely chats or attends classes with her roommate.
She was prepared for the audience to feel awkward, but no one seemed to mind at all.
Lin Jin looked at the dormitory group marked as Zao Ba Gai (4) on her phone, and a sense of strangeness suddenly crossed her mind.
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