Chapter 86 Liang Long

"Liang Long, she..." Fatty stared at the sports watch in Chen Ran's hand, his face twitching a few times, "Was she caught by something here, so she lost her watch here?"

"Could it be... could it be the same thing that caught the biker girl?" Fatty looked around warily, his voice trembling, "Last time the biker girl was caught at the lighthouse, and now Liang Long is here..."

"There seem to be a lot of strange things around here," Chen Ran narrowed his eyes, casually throwing away the watch that was likely Liang Long's belongings, and then walked to the side, slowly squatting down.

Chen Ran's location was already half-hidden in the darkness. Fatty didn't seem eager to go over there. Since entering the nightmare, his fear of the dark had reached its peak.

But he wasn't the one who could make decisions in the team; the doctor was.

If the doctor told Fatty to go back to Black Stone Town by himself, then he would..., well... he would think about it very carefully.

"Let's go," Jiang Cheng glanced around and said to Fatty, "Let's go back first."

Fatty looked at Jiang Cheng, then at Chen Ran, who was squatting in the dark with only half of his back visible, as if asking what to do with him.

"Brother Chen Ran, you can take your time," Jiang Cheng craned his neck and said politely, "We'll go back first."

Hearing this, Chen Ran got up very nimbly and then strode over.

Fatty was extremely wary of this guy who said one thing but did another.

His skin seemed to be comparable to the doctor's, and that pretentious manner... was also similar in some ways.

"Brother Hao, what are you saying?" Chen Ran was almost touching Jiang Cheng's face, and the latter could even feel his breath, "I'm not comfortable letting you two go back alone. Let's... go together."

Jiang Cheng looked into his eyes, then suddenly pulled Fatty over, putting him behind him. The doctor's move was so sudden that Fatty almost fell.

"Okay," Jiang Cheng replied in his unique tone, "But you can't get too close to this fatty," he paused, then continued to blather, "This fatty is mine."

Chen Ran sized up Jiang Cheng and Fatty, then grinned, "Understood."

The three of them each held a torch. Chen Ran was asked to walk in the front. Jiang Cheng's reason was that he felt the former was very similar to the physical education committee member who was hit by a car and killed when he was in elementary school.

He used to follow behind the physical education committee member during inter-class exercises, feeling particularly safe.

Fatty was still walking at the back. The more he walked, the more uneasy he felt, because he remembered that once he had insomnia and was caught by the doctor when he came out to use the bathroom at night. So the doctor enthusiastically told him a few bedtime stories.

Stories about ghost walls in graveyards, debate competitions in the morgue at dawn... the most terrifying was the last one—the endless staircase at midnight.

It told the story of a white-collar worker working overtime alone in the company until the early hours of the morning, only to encounter a power outage in the company. She took the stairs to go downstairs, but no matter how she walked, she found herself still on the 18th floor.

Later, she even jumped down several steps at a time.

But the result was that a ghost with its lower body severed by the elevator was lying on the woman's back.

The ghost lay on the woman's back and covered her eyes with its hands.

In fact, the woman was constantly moving, but not in the stairwell, but in the dark corridor, heading towards an abandoned elevator shaft... hopping forward...

The elevator... was where the ghost died.

After listening to the doctor's story, Fatty was so scared that he couldn't sleep all night, always feeling something pressing on him. Jiang Cheng, on the other hand, went to sleep contentedly and even started snoring happily.

The direct consequence of this incident was that Fatty dared not take the elevator or walk alone in the stairwell.

Especially at night.

Now... right now! The doctor's stories were constantly popping out of his head. He always felt something following him from behind.

He had to turn around and look after a few steps.

"Doctor," Fatty said nervously, "You... you walk slower, I'm afraid I can't keep up."

Jiang Cheng did walk a little slower, then lowered his voice and whispered to Fatty, "Fatty, I'm afraid that if I walk too slowly, the thing behind you will catch up."

Fatty immediately shut himself off.

Fortunately, they didn't encounter anything strange until they reached the second stone door. Chen Ran narrowed his eyes and was the first to enter the lighthouse.

The flames inside were very strong, and the overflowing warmth warmed Fatty's heart.

Everything was normal inside the lighthouse. Su An was lying in the corner sleeping. Su Xiaoxiao was guarding behind the stone door alone. Whether Su Xiaoxiao did it or the old woman herself, the old woman had crawled out of the basket. Sudan Novel Network

Now she was shrunk in the gap between the two baskets.

Su Xiaoxiao's alertness was very high. It could be seen from her lack of any special expression after everyone came in that she had obviously heard their footsteps long ago, and even saw them from the stone door.

But it wasn't until Fatty was stuffed in by Jiang Cheng that everyone sat down in a circle that Su Xiaoxiao's expression began to change. She glanced at the location of the stone door, then her face darkened.

Needless to say, Liang Long, who hadn't returned, was probably in grave danger.

"What's going on?"

Jiang Cheng was warming himself by the fire. Seeing that Jiang Cheng didn't respond, Fatty didn't speak either. Chen Ran slowly told Su Xiaoxiao what had happened during this time.

Especially the things he saw and heard in Black Stone Town, and... the scene of Liang Long's disappearance.

"Where's her watch?" Su Xiaoxiao suddenly asked.

Chen Ran grinned, "Lost it."

"Lost it?" Su Xiaoxiao's eyes widened slightly.

"Miss Su, please believe me," Chen Ran then glanced at Jiang Cheng with interest, "Of course, and Mr. Hao's judgment, Miss Liang is probably dead, so I don't think we need to keep this watch anymore. We don't have a chance to return it to Miss Liang." He spread out his hands.

It was normal for people to die in nightmares, so after learning that she couldn't get the details of Liang Long's disappearance or death, Su Xiaoxiao naturally shifted her attention to what they had learned in Black Stone Town.

At least they learned the outline of the curse and the origin of this huge building.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't hide what she had discovered in the forest, whether it was for Jiang Cheng and Fatty or Chen Ran. Her only purpose was to end the mission as soon as possible.

Although since returning to this stone room, her younger brother Su An's condition had stabilized, no one knew how long he could last.

Fatty couldn't help but interject when he saw the lively exchange between the three of them, "So what the people in Black Stone Town said is true, we just need to protect the flames in the lighthouse and we can safely get through this mission."

Su Xiaoxiao, who was talking, suddenly stopped.

Then she looked at Fatty beside her with a strange look.

Fatty became nervous from her gaze.

"How old is the blond man?" Jiang Cheng asked calmly.

"About... about 35," Fatty said.

"But according to his story," Jiang Cheng put away his hands that were warming by the fire, looked up at Fatty and said, "He was the town chief decades ago."