Chapter 2466 — Beyond Reason
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Wei Zhao looked at Han Jingyi and drew a sharp breath of cold air! He himself had felt that way earlier and had snapped awake thanks to his resolute willpower. But Han Jingyi's mind was almost frighteningly cool—even in such circumstances she had still been able to notice something was wrong.
This made Wei Zhao all the more unable to see through the background of this girl Han Jingyi. The girl was a genius, her intelligence exceptionally high, her thinking exceptionally keen, and she was, moreover, exceedingly calm.
Watching Wang Xinyan walk farther and farther off with Kang Jinglong, You Panhu, and the rest, Wei Zhao could not help but feel a chill in his heart! This did not suit Wang Xinyan's character. Wang Xinyan did not like to get too close to Kang Jinglong and You Panhu, and yet now she had not even waited for him and Han Jingyi, but had gone on ahead with them toward the dark corner of the desolate village. This truly defied all reason.
"Xinyan, wait!" Had Han Jingyi not spoken it might have been fine, but since Han Jingyi felt it too, Wei Zhao could now be basically certain that there really was something uncanny about this place, and so instinctively he called out to stop Wang Xinyan: "It's dangerous here, don't go far!"
Wei Zhao's voice brought Wang Xinyan to a halt. She turned back somewhat dazedly, her heart skipping a beat—how had she come to walk over here with Kang Jinglong and the others? She wanted to turn and go back, but then she heard Kang Jinglong speak.
"Wei Zhao, if you're scared just say you're scared. If you don't want to go, don't hold the others back!" Kang Jinglong regarded Wei Zhao with a mocking look.
Wang Xinyan had meant to turn back at Wei Zhao's call, but somehow, after hearing Kang Jinglong's words, she turned around again and walked on ahead, as though some magic lay before her that in an instant bewitched her mind once more.
"Let's go take a look—but be careful!" Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then followed after them. He did not know whether this decision of his was because of Wang Xinyan, or because of that faint thread of bewitchment in his own heart.
"Oh, all right." Han Jingyi nodded and followed Wei Zhao over as well.
Come quickly, come quickly over...
Wei Zhao kept feeling that some inexplicable, magical voice was calling to him—yet when he listened closely, there was nothing at all...
Everything, all of it, seemed so uncanny, and the dark place in the distance looked all the more grim and dreadful.
This feeling sat very ill with Wei Zhao. He kept sensing an indescribable strangeness running through it all. The haunted desolate village ought, in theory, to be a fake—a trick the resort used to draw in tourists—and yet at this very moment Wei Zhao felt that the legends here might not be entirely groundless.
The group walked on together, farther and farther. That patch of darkness which had seemed not so far away proved, when walked toward, to be strangely distant, strangely beyond reach. The little earthen mound was close enough to touch—and yet no matter how they walked, they could not reach it!
It was as though these people were walking, and the little mound was walking too. However fast these people walked, however far they went, the little mound could never be reached!
And yet, strangely, none of them noticed anything amiss. Wei Zhao's heart gave a sudden chill, and in an instant he came awake, a flicker of alarm passing through his eyes. This was the sort of thing that could not be explained by common sense—and Wei Zhao had indeed encountered it before!