Mass Grave, Our Twenty-Six Graves

No road?

Ye Jinghong and I exchanged a glance, then I ran out the door. The moment I stepped outside, I sensed something was wrong. We were on the fourth floor, yet outside was a graveyard.

My heart jolted, and I hurriedly turned back, but there really was no way behind us anymore.

Ye Jinghong appeared beside me. She must have rushed out after me, but both our eyes were filled with shock.

I had never seen this graveyard before, nor did I know why it had suddenly appeared here.

It seemed the scene had changed, which meant it was impossible for us to return to the previous one. What came next would probably be another bizarre experience.

This was not the kind of public cemetery we usually saw. It was more like an old-fashioned Mass Grave. The difference was that although the mounds were scattered haphazardly, every one of them had a gravestone.

Ye Jinghong softly asked, "Have you been here before?"

I shook my head and looked at her. She shook her head too. "It's my first time seeing it as well. But judging by the situation, this place should have something to do with you."

I gave a bitter smile. How could a graveyard have anything to do with me?

Still, I felt calling it a cemetery was not quite accurate. A burial ground was more fitting.

A waning moon hung in the sky, yet it was strangely bright, as though it had dusted the earth with a layer of white frost.

"Jiang Xiaobai!" Ye Jinghong was staring at a gravestone, and there was something odd in her voice.

I walked over. It was a weathered gravestone covered in moss.

But the words on it gave me a fright as well.

The gravestone read: Tomb of Ye