Duan Pengfei listened to Liu Kailin's words, feeling conflicted and hesitant. Although he wanted to help the student retrieve his camera, he had just escaped death and was now facing such an eerie situation. He really didn't dare to risk it again.

Duan Pengfei kept repeating, "Ah, this...this..." intending to refuse.

Li Zhonghua, Liu Kailin's friend, was disappointed by the reactions of Fatty and Duan Pengfei. He felt these two were just cowards. He said to his good friend Liu Kailin, "Let's go, I'll go with you to get the camera back."

Liu Kailin originally wanted to pass this risky task to someone else. Hearing that Li Zhonghua actually wanted to pull him along, he started to back down. "Ah...or maybe, let's wait until dawn, anyway, the camera won't grow legs and run away..."

Li Zhonghua, hearing that Liu Kailin was dropping the ball at a crucial moment, was frustrated and said in a fit of pique, "Hmph, I'll go get it myself!"

Professor Chen quickly stopped Li Zhonghua, "We can't be sure what's going on outside the Xiazai Ancient City. Don't go out."

Li Zhonghua was a typical macho character, liked to take on everything, play the hero, and was sometimes a bit extreme. Once he decided to do something, no one could stop him. This kind of personality was quite helpful in academics, but in life, it made people feel he was too sharp and easily offended others.

Finding the camera or not was no longer the issue for Li Zhonghua. His image and face were the most important things. In front of Ms. Liu Xiaojuan and Rou Yi, he couldn't show cowardice even more. He patted his chest and said, "I am a staunch atheist. I don't take this little wind seriously at all. I'll be back soon with the camera. Just wait for my triumphant return."

Ignoring the advice, Li Zhonghua found a flashlight and strode out of the ancient city. Professor Chen, seeing that he couldn't stop him, shook his head in anger and couldn't do anything about Li Zhonghua.

Fatty whispered to Rou Yi, "This kind of hothead doesn't even know he's being used as a pawn. This kind of person is definitely cannon fodder in a war."

Li Zhonghua had been gone for more than ten minutes, and everyone waited and waited, but he didn't return.

When Fatty and the others retreated from outside the ancient city, it only took them three to five minutes. This round trip should only take ten minutes at most.

After waiting for another five minutes or so, the group began to get restless. Liu Kailin was even more uneasy. He worried that if something happened to Li Zhonghua, he would be responsible.

The阴 wind (yin wind) on the desert outside the stone wall was still howling miserably, and the sound was getting louder and louder, as if thousands of wailing little ghosts were crawling into the city, the sound was getting more and more miserable and terrifying.

Fatty thought to himself that they couldn't wait any longer. He had to go out and see what was going on. So he took out his gun, opened the safety, and prepared to look for Li Zhonghua.

Just as Fatty got up, the light from the flashlight in his hand shone on a human-shaped object in the darkness. This human-shaped object was approaching Fatty and the others. Professor Chen, Duan Pengfei and the others also saw the human-shaped object through the light from the flashlight in Fatty's hand.

The slowly moving human-shaped object and the miserable howls coming from behind it made several people's hair stand on end, and they huddled together tightly, not daring to breathe.

Fatty and the others did not dare to act rashly, and stood in place to observe the movement of the human-shaped object.

When the human-shaped object walked closer, everyone could see clearly that this human-shaped object was actually Li Zhonghua, slowly pacing in the darkness, without even turning on the flashlight. Was he trying to scare people?

Fatty roared at Li Zhonghua, "Damn it, if Fatty here had a shaky hand, I would have shot you! Isn't scaring people in this environment just asking for death!"

Li Zhonghua did not respond to Fatty's anger. His face was pale, and he was only holding the camera in his hands. He didn't know where the flashlight had fallen.

A strange smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhonghua's mouth—

"I...found...the...ca..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Zhonghua's head fell off his neck. The cut was neat, and blood spurted out of his neck instantly.

The head fell to the ground with a muffled sound, rolled forward once, and Li Zhonghua's lifeless eyes stared straight at Fatty and the others, the smile on the corner of his mouth still not disappearing.

If Li Zhonghua's slow approach was just acting like a ghost, now that he was in two pieces, it couldn't possibly be fake.

Everyone was stunned for a second, and then suddenly there was chaos. Some were crying, some were shouting. Li Zhonghua's experience both negated the "Devil's City" theory and the "Singing Sands" theory. This weird situation could no longer be explained by science. The team instantly fell into chaos.

The miserable howls outside the city seemed to be ghosts demanding their lives.

Seeing their classmate, who had suffered together with them through years of hard study, die in front of their eyes, several students were deeply stimulated by everything in front of them. They subconsciously hugged each other tightly, huddled together, not daring to move at all.

Professor Chen almost fainted at the sight of the scene in front of him, unable to stand steadily. Duan Pengfei quickly came over to help the old man.

Perhaps because of guilt, coupled with being stimulated by everything that had happened in front of him, Liu Kailin, who had been clamoring to find the camera and indirectly caused the death of his companion, suddenly shouted "Ah" and ran into the darkness behind him in great fear.

Fatty shouted at Liu Kailin, who was gradually disappearing into the darkness, "Don't run around, stay together!"

But Liu Kailin ignored Fatty at all. The sound of "Ah" became farther and farther away, indicating that Liu Kailin had already run far away.

Fatty cursed, "Damn it, this kid is just making trouble."

"Let's go, follow him!"

Fatty was worried that someone else would have an accident, so he took the others to search in the direction where Liu Kailin had fled. The others were so stimulated by what had just happened that their brains were blank, and they obeyed Fatty's orders.

This ancient city was too big, and the broken walls divided the road. Many huge rocks blocked the path of Fatty and others. Liu Kailin jumped over it easily, but Professor Chen needed someone to help him cross the stones. After this trouble, the distance was gradually widened.

Liu Kailin's cry echoed in the ancient city, the sound getting smaller and smaller. Fatty could basically still judge the approximate direction.

A group of people circled around in the ruins of the ancient city, following the sound, but never caught up with Liu Kailin's footsteps. The dark environment made everyone lose their way.

Duan Pengfei wanted to determine the direction they were heading, so he took out a compass. He used the weak light of the flashlight to check the direction indicated by the compass needle.

"This..." Duan Pengfei was stunned. He saw that the compass needle was interfered with by something, spinning rapidly, and could not indicate the direction at all.

Fatty and Rou Yi saw the anomaly of the compass, and took a deep breath. They probably knew what they had encountered.

At this moment, a place in the darkness came the sound of "Ah...Help...Help...Help..."

Liu Kailin seemed to be in danger.