"Nonsense, isn’t it called hiking if you don’t take the small paths?" Lin Dong was speechless, "So many people take the main road, it’s just like a damn picnic."
"But..." Sun Zhicheng hesitated a bit.
"Ah Cheng, what are you really here for?" Lin Dong retorted, "Are you really planning to be a tour guide? How can you have intimate opportunities with so many people around?"
While they were talking, two high school sophomore girls chattered away in front and looked back in confusion.
"Is sothing wrong?"
"No problem, he just twisted his ankle slightly." Lin Dong reversed the situation for himself, "I helped him fix it, it’s no big deal."
"You even know how to set bones?" The girl talking was Zhong Shulan, her eyes couldn’t help but brighten.
"Not bad, my family is a traditional Chinese dicine family." Lin Dong randomly boasted, adding a caveat, "But I’m not interested in Chinese dicine."
"So what are you into?" Gu ngfei asked with a smile.
"Compared to Chinese dicine, I prefer traveling and photography." Lin Dong smiled calmly, "When I get to college, I’ll find soone to go to Lijiang with during the holidays."
"Lijiang! I really want to go too!" Zhong Shulan blinked, then sighed, "Unfortunately, my family doesn’t agree to let go."
"No worries, you’ll probably be an adult by next sumr, so you can go with friends." Lin Dong comforted, conveniently opening a new topic.
"Shulan will be an adult, but not next sumr, I’m a year behind." Gu ngfei said, hinting she’s younger.
"Really? When were you born?" Lin Dong asked, "I heard adulthood isn’t based on the date on the household register now...."
"Ah? The date on the household register... I don’t know."
Sun Zhicheng followed behind the three, listening to how Lin Dong had cleverly managed to get their birthdays and was already chatting about Lijiang with Zhong Shulan.
He couldn’t help but feel a bit defeated, what was wrong with him?
In the past, he could engage in these topics too. After all, Brother Dong’s love for photography was just show, while his family really had a cara.
Mr. Chen had sothing to say.
But what was he doing now, can’t even talk about niche hobbies.
Secretly liking soone has turned from a person to a ghost!
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but relax his mind, thinking just this once, be himself!
After all... we’re all in the mountains, who would know?
"It’s best to get off at the shore of Dali’s Erhai Lake for the first stop." Sun Zhicheng took a deep breath and joined in, "Watch Erhai by day, wander Dali Ancient City by night."
"Oh? Really?"
.....
"Go this way! Where are you trying to go, the end of the road?" Jiang Nian pulled Wang Yuhe back, correcting the direction, "That road is a dead end."
"Aren’t these two roads the sa?" Chen Yunyun was bewildered.
She stood beside Jiang Nian, looked at the less-traveled path, subconsciously shrank back, and leaned closer to Jiang Nian unknowingly.
"It’s a dead end?"
"Yeah, it looks the sa." Jiang Nian pointed at the small path going down to the right, explaining, "Actually, that path leads to a village."
"The few families living by the road got annoyed with hikers constantly going the wrong way, so they blocked that path and put up a ’Road Closed’ sign."
The farther they walked, the narrower the path beca.
Wang Yuhe walked in front, Chen Yunyun walked in the middle, and Jiang Nian followed behind.
"Once entering the mountain, it seems... colder?" Chen Yunyun clenched her fists, breathed into her hand, "Do you guys feel it?"
Wang Yuhe turned back, "I’m not cold at all."
"Amazing." Jiang Nian casually praised, then asked Chen Yunyun, "This part at the foot of the mountain is quite shady, need a jacket?"
Chen Yunyun turned to look at him then shook her head.
"Not necessary, you’ll catch a cold."
"Hey, I’ve got an idea." Jiang Nian suddenly had a bright idea and smiled.
Chen Yunyun’s face turned red instantly, waving her hand.
"No thanks."
"I didn’t even say anything, and you’re already refusing." Jiang Nian looked a bit regretful, "I ant I could lend you my hoodie."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yunyun’s steps faltered, nearly tripping.
"Ah!"
From behind, Jiang Nian quickly reached out and pulled her, saying.
"Be careful."
"Oh, oh, th-thank you." Chen Yunyun’s face turned even redder.
They walked on a bit further.
Wang Yuhe started to get impatient, she wanted to hike, not walk on flat ground.
So she stopped, turned around, and asked.
"How much longer until we hike?"
"Soon, in about ten minutes." Jiang Nian replied, then lowered his voice to remind the two girls, "You can look back while on the road, but don’t look in a mirror."
Upon hearing this, Wang Yuhe imdiately got scared, her mind went to bad places.
"W-why?"
Chen Yunyun was also made nervous by Jiang Nian’s words, her mind involuntarily drifting to horror scenarios. Looking in a mirror and then discovering behind...
However, Jiang Nian then said.
"The soil here is quite loose, if you look in a mirror without watching the road, what if you step into nothing? Too dangerous, so don’t do it."
Wang Yuhe: "...."
Chen Yunyun: "..."
So people are just jerks, can’t resist anything.
Pure jerk.
"Ahem, well, back to the topic." Jiang Nian said, "It’s best not to take selfies in the mountains, you might catch sothing strange."
"Another ’not watching the road while taking photos’ thing, right?" Wang Yuhe scoffed.
The three walked around a corner and saw an opening ahead.
"That’s it, go up the mountain from there." Jiang Nian pointed to a path that had been man-madely opened, "The road up is a bit tough, be careful."
"Okay, you be careful too." Chen Yunyun responded.
It was then that Jiang Nian had the chance to respond to Wang Yuhe’s earlier remark.
"Well, it’s not exactly that. I’ve heard there’s a story about so students. They went night hiking at Qingmu Ridge at dawn, planning to squat there and watch the sunrise."
"Coincidentally, it was three students."
"They thought they had plenty of ti, so to pass the ti, they didn’t take the main road. Instead, they chose the small path up the mountain, laughing and talking all the way."
"Sohow, a thick fog rolled in at dawn."
"Those three students felt sothing strange and sped up the mountain until one of them couldn’t go on and needed a break, so they stopped."
At this point, Jiang Nian paused, lowered his voice and said.
"One person took out a phone and snapped a photo to show to a friend. Coincidentally, the friend was awake and replied with a question mark."
"He said... are there so many people hiking behind you guys?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Yunyun let out a sound, and smacked Jiang Nian.
"Don’t, don’t scare us!"
Wang Yuhe’s face also turned pale, she glanced around and suddenly felt uneasy.
This ti she couldn’t keep her bravado, swallowed ekly.
"It... it’s a lie, right?"
Buzz, Wang Yuhe’s phone rang.
She picked it up and looked, a ssage popped up.
[So many people hiking behind you guys?]
"Ah!!!" Wang Yuhe scread, but looked closer and realized the sender was... Jiang Nian!
She glanced at Chen Yunyun, seeing no response. She knew the sly Jiang only scared her, making her boil with anger.
"Jiang Nian! I’m going to kill you!"
Wang Yuhe tried to rush past Chen Yunyun to take her revenge, grabbing Jiang Nian and hitting him.
"That’s for scaring ! Scaring ! Wahh!!"
Jiang Nian laughed heartily, unaffected, explaining.
"Didn’t you say hiking was boring? I thought I’d tell a little story to cheer you up."
"You still say it!!" Wang Yuhe’s eyes watered.
Chen Yunyun got quite scared too, but she didn’t get Jiang Nian’s ssage.
So she quickly realized it was another one of his stories.
"You are really..."
She felt both angry and amused, couldn’t say anything.
Could only comfort herself, thinking that there is no perfect person, perhaps that’s the price for beauty.
Suddenly, a sound ca from the hillside above.
Chen Yunyun and Wang Yuhe’s faces turned white, recalling Jiang Nian’s recent story.
The two girls scread in unison, instinctively huddling close to Jiang Nian.
"There’s... there’s..."
"Don’t grab , take Jiang Nian and go!"
Jiang Nian was embraced by the two girls, like a sloth hugging a tree.
He was quite helpless, what trade fair stuff could happen in broad daylight?
Chances are, soone was hiking, took a wrong turn, and happened to be passing through.
Sure enough, after a rustling sound.
A group of people ca out, led by two girls. Their outfits looked decent, but faces were less impressive, ordinary pretty girls.
"Huh? Are there people down here too?" Zhong Shulan asked curiously.
She heard the screams and ca over, seeing two extrely pretty girls hugging a guy whose gaze you just couldn’t look away from for at least five seconds.
This is... what’s going on?
She was a bit confused.
"What happened?" Gu ngfei also ca over, "Was it that stone that slipped and scared them just now?"
"No way?" Lin Dong was about to step forward.
"Brother Dong, is this small path still in use?" Sun Zhicheng eagerly went ahead, gently telling the two girls, "Watch your steps."
He squeezed in, took a look, and t the eyes of Chen Yunyun, Jiang Nian, and Wang Yuhe.
Suddenly, he froze.
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