"It was an early summer night.

Six high school students came to the back hill of the school.

The group was all boys, and their names were Li Bin, Jia Ming, Hu Sheng, Zhao Guan, and Wang Xiaowen, Wang Xiaowu.

This day was the third day after the college entrance examination. Although everything was still unknown before the results were announced, this would not affect their carnival in the next half month.

And tonight, the way they prepared for the carnival... was to use textbooks as fuel for a barbecue party.

It may seem a bit absurd, but for them at the time, it was definitely a good idea. The six had agreed on this plan the day after the exam. They chose the back hill of the school as the meeting place, and the time was set at nine o'clock in the evening.

That night, after night fell, the six people arrived at the station near the school one after another.

The Wang Xiaowen and Wang Xiaowu brothers arrived the earliest, and they brought the ingredients for the barbecue; then Zhao Guan arrived, and he brought a portable refrigerator filled with ice-cold beer; Li Bin and Jia Ming also arrived one after another, and they were responsible for bringing the barbecue equipment and tableware; Hu Sheng also arrived near nine o'clock, and he brought gasoline and matches.

Of course, in addition to the above, each of them... brought a schoolbag filled with textbooks.

After the six met, they went up the mountain along a small road.

The back hill of the school is not a steep peak, to put it bluntly, it is just a barren hillside. Generally speaking, it takes fifteen minutes to reach the top of the mountain. The forest on the mountain is not dense, and most of the trees have withered due to years of neglect, and weeds grow everywhere on the roadside.

The six boys were all vigorous teenagers, and although they were carrying heavy objects, the rate of climbing the mountain was hardly affected.

In less than twenty minutes, they arrived at the top of the back hill.

Here, you can overlook the entire school below. From the school building to the playground, everything is clear at a glance.

Before long, they set up the utensils needed for the barbecue, prepared the fuel, and lit the fire.

The group sat around the campfire, talking and laughing, and started the barbecue.

They treated the textbooks that had tormented them for countless days and nights as paper towels, using them to wipe their hands and mouths, and from time to time they tore off a few pages or the whole book and threw them into the fire.

They looked at the school building in the distance, and many complex emotions surged into their hearts. There were indeed many bad memories there, but also beautiful things...

In any case, the three years there were an indelible part of their growth experience. Perhaps the things that feel bitter today will settle into other flavors many years later.

After drinking and eating.

A few hours later, the ingredients they brought were eaten up, and the textbooks were basically burned to ashes.

But there was still enough beer, about a third left.

At this time, the night was dark, and Hu Sheng suddenly had an idea and said, 'By the way, have you ever heard of... the ghost stories about this back hill?'

Jia Ming immediately replied, 'I've heard of it, it seems to be called... the Blood-Soaked School Beauty?'

Li Bin said, 'Huh? Why did I hear it was called the Matricidal Maniac?'

Wang Xiaowen and Wang Xiaowu said, 'The version we heard is called... the Scavenger.'

Zhao Guan shrugged and said, 'Wandering Specter.'

'Huh? There are so many ghost stories about the back hill of our school?' Hu Sheng himself was taken aback. He originally wanted to take this opportunity to tell a ghost story to scare these guys, but he didn't expect that everyone had heard similar stories.

'Why don't... we each tell one?' Hu Sheng suggested.

The others agreed, so after chatting a few more words, they began to narrate one by one.

In fact, ghost stories... to put it simply, can be summarized in three or five sentences, or even one sentence. But these guys embellished them and told them as ghost stories, which really dragged on for a long time.

The 'Blood-Soaked School Beauty' that Jia Ming told was roughly about... a very beautiful girl who was ostracized and bullied by other female classmates because of her appearance. Finally, one day, she couldn't bear it anymore. She came to the back hill, cut her face with a utility knife, and bled to death. In the three months after that, all the girls who had bullied her died on this mountain one after another. When they died, their faces were severely distorted, as if a pair of invisible hands wanted to pinch their faces into another person's appearance...

Li Bin's 'Matricidal Maniac' story was about... a perverted serial killer teacher who specialized in killing students in the school. Every time he killed a student, he dismembered the body and hid it in this back hill. Until one night... he went up the mountain again to abandon the body, but never came down again. Later, the police found his body on the mountain, and found a large number of other people's body fragments around it. Those fragments covered the teacher's body like a swarm of insects, and could not be pulled off.

The Wang brothers' Scavenger ghost story was the simplest, saying... on the mountain, sometimes an old man with a blue face, hunched over and carrying a basket, would appear. If he says hello to you, don't answer, just pretend you didn't hear it, otherwise you will be thrown into the basket and taken away...

And Zhao Guan's 'Wandering Specter' was about... there was a very cowardly student who was afraid of bullying, so he didn't dare to go to school. So, every morning after leaving home, he hid in the back hill and stayed there until dark before returning home. After a period of time, his body became weaker and weaker because he couldn't eat lunch for a long time; in addition, he was dazed all day long, and his spirit became trance-like. Later, the school and parents finally discovered this, and they indiscriminately blamed all the responsibility on the student, and his family beat him severely. As a result, the next day, the student left home as usual and never came back. It is said that since that day, people often see a figure wandering on the mountain, but as long as someone approaches, he will disappear, and no one can ever find him...

The five people finished telling their stories one after another, and finally, it was Hu Sheng's turn.

As the initiator, he was confident that the ghost story he was going to tell was the most terrifying, so he came out as the finale.

At this time, the atmosphere had become quite strange. Even though these six boys were all fearless, after listening to four ghost stories in a row in this environment and atmosphere, they couldn't help but sweat in their palms and break out in a cold sweat.

Seeing that the time was approaching midnight, in this period when the spiritual atmosphere was the strongest, Hu Sheng's narration began...

'The ghost story I'm going to tell... doesn't have a fixed name, because it has too many names, and no one knows the original name.' Hu Sheng was a eloquent person, so he pretended to be mysterious from the beginning, 'The story is like this... Many years ago, there were two students, a boy and a girl, in this school. They were childhood sweethearts since they were young, and they had established a romantic relationship in the second year of high school, and even had physical relations...

But the good times didn't last long, and this matter was finally known to both parents. The next thing, of course, is a drama of beating mandarin ducks. And these mandarin ducks didn't give up. They have no money and no ability to leave their families and survive independently. The only thing they can do is to use their lives to accuse this world...

So, on a dark and windy night, they came to the mountain...'

When Hu Sheng said this, he suddenly stopped speaking.

His expression changed drastically, his face suddenly turned pale, and his eyes stared straight ahead.

Li Bin, Jia Ming, Zhao Guan, and the Wang brothers also felt something was wrong. They turned their heads nervously and looked in the direction Hu Sheng was looking...

But they saw two figures, a man and a woman, each holding a flashlight, walking slowly along the path up the mountain.

Although they were not wearing school uniforms, judging from their appearance, they were undoubtedly high school students.

Vaguely, they could still hear their conversation...

'Hey, I said... don't you think... it suddenly got colder around here...' the girl said.

'Is it?' The boy said in an indifferent tone, 'It's just your psychological effect...' He squeezed out a smile, 'It's just a bravery test, don't be so nervous.'

'But this back hill is really weird...' the girl replied, 'Haven't you heard of the ghost story of the 'Six Ghosts'?'

The two walked and talked, and when they reached this point, they just 'passed' through the bodies of Hu Sheng and the other five.

At the same time, the campfire, barbecue grill, beer, ashes, all disappeared.

'Huh? What the hell?' the boy said.

The girl said mysteriously, 'I heard... many years ago, also on a summer night, six boys came to this back hill... to have a barbecue using textbooks.'

'Haha... crazy?' the boy said with a smile.

'It is said that they were all high school seniors who had just taken the college entrance examination,' the girl replied.

'Oh... then I can understand,' the boy responded.

The girl continued, 'But I didn't expect... an accident happened during the barbecue, which caused a fire, and eventually turned into a forest fire, burning all six of them to death on the mountain... Most of the forest on this mountain was also burned down, and it has become a barren mountain ever since.'

'This can be regarded as extreme joy begets sorrow...' The boy replied while inadvertently stroking his arm, because at this time... he also faintly felt a chill.

'It's not over yet...' the girl said, 'Later, the college entrance examination results were announced, and as a result, all six of them were admitted to their ideal universities. Unfortunately... they will never see the admission letters.'

'Heh... hehe... it's kind of creepy...' The boy's smile became more and more unnatural, and the hairs on his body stood up. He was also glancing at the surrounding environment from time to time, as if he wanted to confirm whether there was anything hidden in the darkness...

'Since then...' the girl continued, 'there has been a rumor... every summer night, firelight occasionally appears on the mountain, and that is the six of them...'

Her words stopped abruptly, because... she saw a charred and festering hand resting on the shoulder of the boy next to her, and that boy seemed to be completely unaware..."

Feng Bujue's story ended here, he paused for a few seconds, stared at Imitation Soul and said, "Okay, it's over, how was it?"