Living people are scarier than the dead.
Xu Jinyu hugged her arms and shrank back, not even daring to breathe loudly.
The night wind came in gusts, like a pair of icy hands brushing over the skin, causing shivers down the spine.
Xu Jinyu kept telling herself: Grandma had said, "When people die, they are like lights going out; they don't turn into ghosts. The truly frightening ghosts are in the human heart..."
Even so, Xu Jinyu was still young and, in the end, she was scared.
Zhang Xiaoying and Liu Wuzuo had actually come back after walking away, as they couldn't possibly leave a child alone at a place like Mass Burial Mound.
But if Xu Jinyu wanted to learn from Liu Wuzuo, she would have to overcome her fear of death. Otherwise, if she was scared of even dead bodies, how would she examine corpses in the future?