The starving ghost was moving very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was far away from her. Judging from its direction, it was clearly heading towards Teacher Zi Gui and his team.

Lu Yu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. In terms of strength, Jiang-xiansheng, Teacher Gongsun and their team were the strongest. Even they had met with misfortune. Once the starving ghost approached Teacher Zi Gui's team, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Almost as a subconscious reaction, Lu Yu took out her phone, preparing to inform Teacher Zi Gui.

She quickly edited the message and sent it as fast as she could, "Hurry, hurry!" She held her phone, praying incessantly, but to her despair, after a few spins, it showed that the message failed to send.

"What's going on?" This was the first time Lu Yu had encountered such a situation. "There were no problems the last few times. Could it be..."

Just as Lu Yu took the time to look outside, what made her breathless was that the sparse blizzard outside had suddenly intensified again, and that terrifying figure hidden in the snow tornado had stopped.

Almost instantly, a bold and shocking guess surged into Lu Yu's heart. The other party… the starving ghost, seemed to have discovered her!

Before she could think about it, the snow tornado turned its direction and moved towards her vicinity.

Clutching her phone, Lu Yu, with her injured leg, was terrified, her face pale. The pressure of facing the starving ghost directly was unimaginable for ordinary people, especially since this time, she was alone.

Before these missions, she was just an ordinary student, but now, she had to deal with such a tricky and terrifying situation.

And one wrong step could lead to death.

Fortunately, the starving ghost only sensed her approximate location and did not head straight for the cave where she was hiding.

The sharp snowflakes cut through everything like blades. Lu Yu shrank into the cave, hugging herself tightly, trembling with fear. After a few minutes, the starving ghost gave up, but this time, it did something that surprised Lu Yu.

A team of people appeared in the snow tornado.

From the back, there was Teacher Gongsun, Bai Xi, and Jiang-xiansheng, as well as Mr. Huai. However, Jiang-xiansheng and Bai Xi were supporting Teacher Gongsun, and the group was staggering. Teacher Gongsun, in the middle of the team, seemed to be seriously injured.

The team looked so real, at least Lu Yu couldn't see any flaws.

At the same time as this team appeared, the huge figure of the starving ghost disappeared.

Without a doubt, this team was disguised by the starving ghost. Heaven knows how it could conjure up so many people. Perhaps… this was just an illusion it had created!

But the starving ghost's purpose alarmed Lu Yu. If Teacher Gongsun and the others encountered this team, she wasn't sure if they could see through it.

The only possibility now was to inform Teacher Zi Gui and the others about what she had seen in advance.

Although the cost of doing so was that she might be caught by the starving ghost.

But there was no time to think about it. She immediately edited the message and continued to click send.

If it didn't work once, she would try again. Finally, after several attempts, the message was sent.

Before she could celebrate, she quickly received a reply from Teacher Zi Gui. In the reply, Teacher Zi Gui told her that she understood the information she had conveyed and that Lu Yu needed to take care of herself.

Then, she confirmed with Lu Yu a few details about the appearance of the starving ghost, so that even if they really encountered it, they would be prepared. Lu Yu responded one by one.

"Lu Yu, you are in danger now. Don't hide in the same place, you need to move immediately," Zi Gui quickly replied, clearly worried about Lu Yu's safety.

"But my leg is injured, I can't go too far," Lu Yu replied.

"Then can you be sure that it's safe enough to hide in the same place?" Teacher Zi Gui continued to ask.

Lu Yu glanced at the outside of the cave and replied with lingering fear, "The starving ghost should have left. It didn't find me. I'm hiding in the cave, and it's hard to find from the outside."

"I see," Teacher Zi Gui replied with three words.

Staring at Teacher Zi Gui's last message, Lu Yu suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart. Something seemed… strange. Teacher Zi Gui had never spoken to her like this before.

Moreover, no new messages had been sent from Teacher Zi Gui in the minute that followed, which made Lu Yu feel even more strange, with a sense of abandonment. She clenched her phone, wanting to peek outside.

But then, another message came, and what Lu Yu couldn't understand was that this time it was a photo, and the signal was not very good, so the photo was loading very slowly, spinning all the time.

Lu Yu stared at the loading photo, her eyes becoming tense. When the photo loaded, Lu Yu's hand trembled, and the phone fell directly to the ground.

The photo was of the entrance to the cave where she was hiding.

"Found you."

A new message appeared on the phone.

"Found you."

"Found you."

"Found you."

…

Countless messages bombarded her like crazy. The phone on the ground kept vibrating. Lu Yu covered her ears. These four words seemed to have a life of their own, desperately trying to burrow into her ears.

Madness, cold-bloodedness, mockery, full of malice… Just the sound alone seemed to tear her apart. At the same time, a huge and ugly head was exposed at the entrance of the cave, its empty eyes staring fixedly at the inside of the cave.

"Found you."

"Ah... ah ah ah..." Lu Yu was just a college student. How could she have experienced this? The pretense of strength completely collapsed under extreme fear. She became that ordinary college girl again.

Dragging her injured leg, she limped back to the tent and immediately closed the tent door, wrapping herself in a sleeping bag, trembling uncontrollably.

"Zhi--"

"Zhi la--"

An unimaginable terrifying scene appeared behind her. A huge palm was rubbing against the tent she was in, and sharp fingertips could tear the tent at any time and drag her away.

Lu Yu screamed, constantly using everything, everything she could grab, to pile up at the tent entrance, as if this would prevent the starving ghost from rushing in and grabbing her.

All of this was doomed to be futile. The tent was torn open, and a huge palm grabbed her leg and pulled her out. In the last moment, she saw the bag piled under various sundries.

It was left by Mr. Wang before he left, saying that it might be useful in case of an emergency.

Lu Yu didn't know if this scene counted as an emergency, she only knew that if she was caught by the starving ghost, she would die.

At the last moment of being caught by the starving ghost, Lu Yu reached out and grabbed the bag, as if grabbing a last straw, and then tore it open. Inside was a crumpled piece of yellow cloth with a strange stench.