The forest is not as dark as imagined.

Sunlight comes through the layers of leaves, scattering sunlight spots on the ground, providing light for the dark forest.

The sound of birds and insects occasionally sounds from the forest.

Zhou Fan's feet were stepping on the quiet grassland, and he and the nine children moved forward slowly.

There are many vegetation in the hidden forest, but generally black pine is the main one.

The black pins of black needles looked like open ghost claws, and combined with the twisted tree body and strange-shaped branches, they looked like evil ghosts standing still.

"Where are we going?" Zhou Fan looked away and did not dare to look at the strange-shaped black pine trees. He asked Bai Si beside him.

Bai Si looked at Zhou Fan with a little dull eyes, with strange emotions in his eyes.

"Go to play hide and seek." Bai Si said concisely.

Zhou Fan wanted to ask again, but Bai Si turned his head and ignored him.

Zhou Fan looked at Qiao Yu next to him again, and Qiao Yu didn't mean to answer him.

The nine children all looked ahead and walked forward.

Zhou Fan was stunned. In his memory, he often played with these children. Why do everyone feel like they have changed today?

They were so cold that they seemed to have a desperate feeling spreading among them.

But Zhou Fan couldn't remember what happened no matter how he thought too much, the sides of his forehead would have a faint pain.

Zhou Fan couldn't think about it carefully, so he looked back and saw the wind shaking the branches in the forest, and the leaves made a slight rustling sound.

The path in the forest turned darkly, and the way I came was completely unseen.

Zhou Fan did not dare to fall behind at will, so he could only move forward with them.

After walking for a long time, they stopped.

In front of them was almost an open space surrounded by black pine trees.

It is said that it is almost because there is a dead tree in the open space where no grass grows.

The dead tree is as high as three or four feet tall, and the charred main trunk cannot be held together. It is covered with blood-colored mottled wooden branches. The sharp wooden branches point diagonally upwards, and the branches are dense and crisscrossed, just like countless pairs of interlaced bone claws gathered together.

Zhou Fan's pupils contracted, and the dead wood gave him an indescribable sense of oppression. Something in his memory seemed to wake up.

"Come on, we decide who loses and who is a ghost." After a period of unspeakable silence, Qiao Yu spoke first.

The ghost wants to find the hidden people. After half an incense stick, if everyone is not found, the ghost will fail. Only then will Zhou Fan recall the rules of the game of hide and seek.

In pairs of rock-scissors, the loser will be with the bye person, and soon the ghost will be selected. The ghost is Zhao Xiaojian.

Zhao Xiaojian was chosen to be a ghost, and he had no happiness or loss on his face.

He walked towards the dead tree, lay on the charred trunk and said, "I'll count a hundred times, you can hide quickly. If I find it, I will die, one...two..."

Will he be dead? Zhou Fan wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh. There was a voice deep in his heart telling himself that being found would be dead.

The other eight children had already scattered over the black pine and ran away instantly.

Zhou Fan felt fear in his heart, and he also pulled his feet and ran wildly, he wanted to run far away.

After passing through the dense weeds, I occasionally stepped on gravel that was shattered, but Zhou Fan couldn't care about so many. The forest was so big that I kept running and Zhao Xiaojian couldn't catch up with him, so he shouldn't be found.

But he was still a child and soon he couldn't lift his feet.

Zhou Fan was exhausted and gasped, his body was covered in sweat. He didn't know why he was so scared even though it was just a game, and the person who was a ghost was still a familiar playmate.

Zhou Fan didn't think much about it. He climbed up a huge rock with a half exposed rock wall and hid behind it.

After hiding, Zhou Fan discovered that the forest had become quiet at some point. There was no sound of birds and insects, and even the wind stopped. The forest was terrifyingly quiet.

Zhou Fan took a few deep breaths and calmed down his breathing as much as possible so that Zhao Xiaojian would not discover it.

After waiting in a terrible quiet environment, Zhou Fan felt cold all over his body, as if ice water was washing his body. His heart was shrouded in trembling fear at all times. He couldn't help but look up from the huge rock.

The huge rock is high enough, which makes Zhou Fan's vision still wide.

He saw a man running not far away, it was Liu Xin.

Zhou Fan showed joy on his face. He was about to call Liu Xin, but Zhao Xiaojian's voice came from not far away: "I know you are hiding here, I'm about to find you..."

Zhou Fan quickly closed his mouth, and Liu Xin was like a leopard and flexibly lying into the grass.

Zhao Xiaojian soon appeared in Zhou Fan's vision, and Zhao Xiaojian's condition made Zhou Fan's pupils shrink.

Zhao Xiaojian's eyes were closed, and he floated over without touching his feet.

Zhou Fan subconsciously held his breath. He had never seen Zhao Xiaojian in this state in his memory. What happened to Zhao Xiaojian?

Zhao Xiaojian's face twitched and twisted rapidly. He sniffed with his nose, turned around in place, and said, "Is it Liu Xin? Where are you hiding? Come out quickly."

Liu Xin in the grass trembled all over, which made her make a faint sound.

Zhao Xiaojian's ears drooped, and he smiled and quickly floated towards the grass where Liu Xin was.

Liu Xin was lying in the grass, she didn't know that Zhao Xiaojian had found her.

All of this was seen by Zhou Fan at the high place. Zhou Fan was so nervous that his throat was trembling. He opened his mouth to remind Liu Xin, but for some reason, he felt that he shouldn't speak.

Zhao Xiaojian had already reached the grass, and he smiled and said, "I found you."

Liu Xin listened to the voice that was close to Chi Chi, and her eyes were filled with horror.

Zhao Xiaojian opened his closed eyes, and his eyeballs were like two blooming wild flowers.

Liu Xin was completely stunned. She lost consciousness and just stared at Zhao Xiaojian's weird eyes.

Zhao Xiaojian's mottled shadow, which was reflected by the sun, suddenly stood upright. It spread its bloody black mouth, bit off Liu Xin's head in one bite, and chewed it on a big mouth.

The sound of chewing bones was obviously far away from Zhou Fan, but it seemed to be heard in Zhou Fan's ears.

Zhou Fan covered his mouth with his hands, and his eyes showed a strong sense of fear. He pressed his arms tightly against the boulder and did not dare to look at it again.

Black Shadow swallowed his head, bit Liu Xin's upper body, chewed it a few more times, swallowed it like a whole thing before eating the rest.

After eating, the black shadow returned to the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that the red blood that had just been sputtered in the grass leaves showed that Liu Xin was swallowed up was real, and it would have made people think it was an illusion.

When the black shadow devoured Liu Xin, Zhao Xiaojian stood still. The shadow returned to its original state, and he slowly closed his eyes.
Chapter completed!