I called out urgently. Zhuang Huai was an excellent driver, and even in a place like this, he still obeyed traffic laws, slowly bringing the car to a stop.
Chen Zi'an had just shouted from the back when I was already opening the door and getting out.
Lu Qiaolan anxiously followed me out, clutching her teddy bear as she asked what I'd found.
Zhuang Huai and Chen Zi'an got out too.
I was staring at the boundary marker.
From here, all you could see was tall grass.
I jogged over to the marker, but didn't stop. I ran a few steps past it, stopped, then turned around and slowly walked back across it.
"What is it? What is it?" Chen Zi'an was so excited his eyes shone, but he hardly dared to breathe.
I turned to look at the patch of grass.
"What did you find?" Zhuang Huai repeated the question Lü Qiaolan had asked earlier.
To be honest, I couldn't say.
But something about what Zhuang Huai had said was bothering me. I kept feeling that something wasn't quite right.
It was a strange feeling.
It wasn't a bad premonition, and I didn't sense any ghostly energy. Even the inconsistencies Zhuang Huai had pointed out were only inconsistencies, at most. We could just make a note of them; stopping the car and going through all this wouldn't get us anywhere.
"Could you do what you just did again, walk over here, and then say those things one more time?" I asked Zhuang Huai.
Zhuang Huai didn't understand why, but he didn't object. He went back to the boundary marker and examined it carefully. Then he got up and walked toward us, repeating his observations about what seemed suspicious about the marker, without missing a single word.
Driven by curiosity,