Chapter 2 Setting Ou (1/2)

Chapter 2 Setting Out

I nodded subconsciously, waiting with baited breath like everyone else, for what our homeroom teacher was about to say.

“As to where we’re going, it’s Mt. Yanmian.” Right after our homeroom teacher announced this, there was a rumble of discontent and unhappy complaints.

“Teacher! Can’t we go somewhere else?”

“Anywhere else is fine, can we just not go to Mt. Yanmian?!”

“Quiet!” Our homeroom was forced to rap on the podium twice to quiet down the room. “Don’t complain. The school is already being kind enough to let you out to play, so don’t complain about this and that. Isn’t it just the fact that Mt. Yanmian is a little small and a little too close? I heard that it’s still pretty good. You should be grateful! Okay, that’s that! Let’s start class.”

My curiosity was piqued and I turned to Su Xiaoyun who was next to me, lowering my voice, “What’s wrong with Mt. Yanmian? Why is everyone objecting so much?”

“You don’t know?” Su Xiaoyun looked at me in surprise.

I shook my head. “I’m not from around here, how would I know about it?”

“Mt. Yanmian is very close to here and is basically a small hill. There’s no fun in climbing it and it’s even less interesting to look at. There’s lots of dead grass and withered branches on top of the mountain; there’s not even one small stream. It’s super boring.” Su Xiaoyun shook her head and then suddenly turned mysterious. “Though all of those aren’t even the main point.”

“Then what’s the main point?”

“You really don’t know?”

I shook my head, puzzled.

“You’re definitely not a gossiper. This news was from two days ago and was a really hot topic online.” Su Xiaoyun said quietly, pulling out her phone from her bag to show me. “People died on Mt. Yanmian. I think it was an entire car full of corpses were left to rot in the wilderness, there was no one left alive.”

I took Su Xiaoyun’s phone and on the screen was a news website, the title of it was: Tragedy on Mt. Yanmian! A family of three on road trip enter the maw of the wolf! None return alive!

“What is this…” I mumbled. “Wolves?”

“It’s media speculation. The public seems to enjoy exaggerating everything.” Su Xiaoyun said, taking her phone back. “To be honest, that family of three actually just up and vanished from their car. They left only an empty car, their bodies are still yet to be found. Because it’s on a mountain top, being eaten by wild beasts is the most likely scenario.”

“But… like you said, that small of a hill, would there even be vicious wild beasts that eat people?” I was quite skeptical.

“Who knows? That mountain is such a wasteland that people rarely go there.” Su Xiaoyun shook her head. “But no matter what, it feels really terrifying. With the school letting us take a trip to that sort of place, they really don’t care much about their students’ safety!”

“Idiot, don’t you know that that news is fake?”

Suddenly, a lazy, haughty voice came from behind us. I turned and came face to face with none other than that overly arrogant, spoilt rich kid, Liang Kaifeng.

In my mind, I stuck my tongue out at him. I had almost forgotten that this class was held together with the foreign language class. That damned rich kid was basically haunting me, I didn’t even know when he had settled behind me.