Excessive ferocity due to caution

"Tang Yiwei, what nonsense are you spouting?"

Guan Kaixian couldn't help but raise her voice a few decibels. At this moment, she was already feeling uneasy and anxious, and Tang Yiwei's words deepened her negative emotions, making her feel somewhat resentful.

Tang Yiwei adjusted his glasses and said calmly:

"Our location isn't even on the map, and everyone's phone is the same, which means it's not a problem with our phones; we've definitely encountered a paranormal event."

Fang Detong asked in confusion:

"Is it a case of being trapped in a maze?"

Tang Yiwei shook his head:

"Judging from the current situation... I'm afraid it's not just a simple case of being trapped in a maze..."

He stuck his head out of the car window, looked at the dark sky, then reached out and caught some raindrops, putting them in his mouth and drinking a few mouthfuls.

Immediately, Tang Yiwei's expression turned much more serious.

Seeing that his expression was off, Fang Detong hurriedly asked:

"Old Tang, what did you find?"

Tang Yiwei was silent for a moment, then said to the club president, Jing Qingdong:

"President, do you remember the way we came?"

Jing Qingdong nodded:

"certainly."

"After we came from the gas station inside the lockdown zone, there was only one road left for us to take."

At this point, he seemed to suddenly remember something important, and abruptly slapped his forehead:

"Oh no!"

"What's wrong, President?"

The others hurriedly asked.

Jing Qingdong raised his uneasy eyes and said:

"Haven't you noticed anything strange?"

The group exchanged bewildered glances.

But Tang Yiwei, who was sitting by the car window, said:

"That gas station... has a problem."

"Even if there were gas stations in the lockdown area, they must have been abandoned for a long time. Besides us, there were a few other cars refueling there. Thinking about it now, it's terrifyingly eerie!"

Upon hearing this, everyone trembled.

Yes.

How could there possibly be a gas station in a lockdown zone?

"This is so counterintuitive... how come none of us noticed it at the time!"

Jing Qingdong's voice carried an inexplicable heaviness.

He had heard from some experienced explorers that some powerful supernatural forces could affect the minds of some people, causing them to "rationally rationalize" many absurd things for a period of time.

Just like when a person is in a dream, no matter how outrageous the things they experience, it is difficult to realize that they are in a dream.

Their car was almost out of gas, and they were still at least a hundred miles away. Just when they were having a headache over fuel, a gas station happened to appear by sheer coincidence...

No one cared whether the existence of this gas station was reasonable or not.

"So...it was all just our illusion?"

Fang Detong felt a bit cold and quickly pulled his clothes tighter around himself.

"No, this isn't a hallucination..."

Tang Yiwei stared blankly out of the car window.

"The rain that falls from the sky can really quench your thirst."

"Such a petty trick as being trapped in a maze can't change the weather within a radius of hundreds of miles..."

"President...you should drive back and check on things quickly!"

Jing Qingdong nodded and said:

"good!"

He hurriedly closed the car door, and at this moment, the crowd, sensing something was amiss, stopped clamoring to enter Twilight Manor.

Within that pitch-black manor, where one couldn't see their own hand in front of their face, it seemed as if a pair of cold and venomous eyes were watching them...

Fang Detong kept the entire live stream running, chatting with viewers constantly to alleviate his inner anxiety.

The bus was traveling in the rain when, not long after, a potato chip bag suddenly flew towards them from the front.

It fluttered and tumbled in the wind and rain, looking disheveled and panicked, as if trying to escape something.

Fang Detong glanced at it and suddenly paused.

Isn't that the trash he threw away earlier?

How did it end up in front of the car?

Not long after, Jing Qingdong shouted:

"This is troublesome!"

Upon hearing the news, everyone looked ahead.

They've actually returned to the manor's gates?!

But just now... they were definitely driving in the opposite direction from the manor...

"It's all your fault! Tang Yiwei, you jinx!"

Guan Kaixian was stunned on the spot, and then angrily cursed at Tang Yiwei.

"If we don't get out, you'll be fully responsible!"

Tang Yiwei glanced at her:

"Responsible?"

"You insisted on coming, and we already told you beforehand that this trip might really be dangerous. Whose fault is it?"

Guan Kaixian glared:

"If it weren't for your jinxing, how could we have gotten into this situation?!"

The two were about to start arguing when Jing Qingdong quickly stepped in to smooth things over:

"Now is not the time to argue. We're already in trouble; if we fight amongst ourselves, it will only put the team in greater danger!"

Wu Dading also said:

"Alright!"

"Isn't this the very thing we came here hoping to encounter paranormal events?"

"What's all the noise about?"

When Guan Kaixian saw that Wu Dading had also spoken, she snorted coldly at Tang Yiwei and turned her face away.

The group drove to the manor gate once again and parked their car in the rain.

"President... what should we do now?"

Yu Congyi, who had previously been quite disdainful, was now completely bewildered and pale.

He remembered reading a report before.

The soldiers who went to Twilight Manor to search for the missing persons found many fragmented human limbs in some corners...

At that time, he didn't pay much attention.

Since it's not something that actually happens to you, there's a sense of distance.

Moreover, at the time he thought this boring report was just a gimmick to attract traffic, nothing more than encountering some wild beasts.

But now... he panicked.

When he truly encountered something bizarre beyond his comprehension, he felt a chill emanating from his entire body...

"What do we do now?"

"How am I supposed to know what to do now?"

Jing Qingdong's expression was equally grim; the strange events they were experiencing were unlike anything they had ever encountered before...

If it's a case of being trapped in a maze, there are many ways to break free from it.

But this paranormal phenomenon... is clearly not some cheap trick like being trapped in a maze.

After smoking a cigarette, Jing Qingdong managed to calm himself down and took out a special talisman from his suitcase.

Yellow paper and red sand.

"This isn't a case of being lost in a maze, so let's not waste it."

Shen Youyu said softly.

Jing Qing sighed:

"Let's try anything, even if it's a dead end."

"Anyway, there are still a few left..."

He lit the talisman, and under the tense gaze of everyone, the talisman burned with a cold blue light.

It burned for about five minutes.

The talisman turned to ashes.

But nothing changed around them.

The crowd grew colder.

"this……"

Jing Qingdong fell silent.

Just then, a horn sounded from behind the car.

Everyone looked over—

It's a mail truck!

The people on the bus perked up as they saw the black mail van parked outside the manor. A man in a black raincoat got off the van, walked to the manor gate, put the letter into the rusty mailbox, and then pressed a bell outside the gate.

It was this action that startled Fang Detong, who was about to get out of the car to strike up a conversation, and he immediately scrambled back into the car!

There is no other reason.

When the man in the black raincoat rang the doorbell, what reached out... was a blood-red claw!

That's definitely not a human hand!

The group huddled together inside the bus, while Shen Youyu and Tang Yiwei had already activated their powers, ready to fight the unknown creature in the mail truck at any moment!

However, the other party didn't seem interested in them. They only paused briefly by the bus before boarding the mail truck and leaving...

Only after watching the mail truck disappear into the distant, windy and rainy landscape did everyone's tense hearts relax a little.

"Look... someone's coming out of the manor!"

Fang Detong exclaimed in surprise.

The crowd had just relaxed when they suddenly tensed up again!

They pressed their faces against the car window, watching inside the manor, where a dark figure was slowly approaching the entrance…

PS: First update, 2400 words.

Brother Zhao is out.

I'll try to write 7500 words today!

Rush!