Chapter 21: Integration
"No! You can't go alone! The weak Lu Yao shouted at me. You don't have experience, and if you don't get the timing right, you're in trouble. ”
"I'll take care of the time, don't worry." After saying that, I took off his coat, draped it over myself, covered him with a quilt, and set off without looking back. Lu Yao shouted at the top of his voice behind me not to go, but I pretended not to hear and trotted out of the cabin.
After last night's incident, his body was so weak that he could no longer catch up with me, so he could only lie on the bed and watch me go away. After running out of the door for some distance, I stopped and caught my breath. I touched my forehead, the fever had subsided, but my body still didn't have much strength. Looking back at the white snow, I realized that I had run out a long distance before I knew it, and I didn't remember much about the exact location where the body was dug up yesterday. I blamed myself for not marking yesterday in such a hurry that I kept turning my head in the snow and searching for a place to go.
The white flowers of the snow are the same from any angle. I looked at the exact same scene in front of me and sighed deeply. As the saying goes, it's better to hit the day than to hit the day, so I'll choose the place as well as hit the ground, and dig casually. Thinking of this, I inexplicably felt a sense of energy, squatted down and began to shave the snow in one go.
Soon, I lifted the soft layer of snow, revealing a thicker layer of ice. I was just about to get a hatchet out to split the ice, only to realize that I was so busy running out that I forgot to take it. Forget it, use your hands. I rubbed my hands together and used all my strength to dig holes in the snow and ice little by little. As the minutes tick by, the darkness can come at any moment, which is really a chilling thing for me. So while I was planning, I was worried about whether too much time would pass, but it was surprisingly efficient in this highly stressful situation. Finally, I have peeled off the layer of snow and ice, but I have not found the body that was dug up yesterday.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from my forehead, maybe what happened yesterday was really just an illusion. I just wanted to stand up and walk back, but due to squatting for a long time, I suddenly stood up and caused orthostatic hypotension, and my black feet were weak in front of me, and I stumbled and fell to the ground. This is the second time I've fallen into, and my nose is full of fine snow slag, and I start coughing incessantly, feeling like my lungs are going to be coughed out. When the bronchial tubes were finally calmed down, the place where I fell once again convinced me that yesterday's events had undoubtedly happened.
A large piece of red cloth has been lifted out of the snow, which is particularly dazzling.
"Impossible." I couldn't help but whisper, "It can't be such a coincidence." Although I thought so, my hands began to repeat the action of shaving the snow again. It wasn't long before the corpse, too familiar to be known, lay in front of me again.
I didn't know how to react other than fear. The corpse had its eyes closed, and it seemed that it had been sleeping underground for a thousand years.
"Impossible!" I yelled, and as if I had thought of something, I ran away for some distance and began to dig further.
Another corpse of Lu Yao emerged from the snow. I kept digging in different places like crazy, and before I knew it, the snow was already full of Lu Yao's corpse, and my hands were out of feeling due to the cold, and they were broken and bleeding under the constant digging, and I didn't feel any pain at all, and I kept digging.
"Ahh Suddenly, the feeling of falling under my feet made me wake up instantly, and I don't know how long time had passed, and I had already dug to the edge of the cliff. I finally stopped what I was doing, sat on the edge of the cliff, and looked back at the corpses along the way, and my mind went blank for a moment.
"How so?" I muttered, "What the hell is going on?" ”
There were at least twenty or thirty corpses in front of him, each of which was extremely similar to Lu Yao, no, they were Lu Yao. The corpses had their eyes closed, their faces were blue, and they seemed to have been dead for a long, long time. They all wore an eerie red belt around their waists, and lay cold and stiff in the snow, unwilling to be disturbed by anyone. The small patches of blood I left on the snow seemed to echo the horrific red cloth.
Just as I was thinking about what to do next, the sky suddenly started to get dark.
Oh no, the darkness is coming! I quickly got up and ran back in the direction of the cabin. I realized that my right hand had already been entangled by the vines on the edge of the cliff, and I had no firewood knife with me, so I could only let the strong force pull me down.
The wounds on the fingers on both hands were still bleeding outward, and it had taken so much effort that it was clear that I didn't have the strength to hold on any longer. The sky gradually darkened until it became a vast darkness. My heart was beating violently, and I couldn't imagine what would happen next, those monsters, and Lu Yao's corpse......
Sure enough, rustling began to sound around me. I used to hear this sound in the cabin, but now that I'm outside, it sounds clearer and more creepy, like scratching my scalp and giving me goosebumps. Immediately afterward, lightning began to appear in the sky, and by the light of the lightning I finally saw the source of the rustling sound - the sound of a corpse crawling out of the snow!
Pairs of hands trembled out of the snow, scraping off the snow on their bodies, and the whole person gradually walked out of the snow. The stiff body seemed to be moving for the first time, and a rattling sound could be heard between the joints. They moved their bodies and began to move strangely. That's when something I couldn't believe happened. The dozens of corpses I had dug up from the snow suddenly writhed one by one, and like the ghosts who had risen from the snow, they began to move their stiff corpses, and then, like the monsters I had encountered in the North Building Hospital, tore their own human skins and turned into ugly and horrible monsters. The entire snow field was densely packed with monsters coming out of the snow, and from a distance, it looked like a group of ghost soldiers crawling out of hell.
Looking at the scene in front of me, I tried to cover my mouth so that I wouldn't scream. There was not the slightest sign of loosening of the vines wrapped around my hands, and they still strangled me tightly. At this time, I can only pray that these monsters will not find me, and hope that Lu Yao can come out to save me soon.
Prayer turned out to be useless. The monsters gradually gathered in my direction, rustling my eardrums, and it sounded like death was calling to me at the moment. I tugged at the vines, thinking that if I was going to be eaten by these things, I might as well jump off the cliff and die.
Just as I was about to jump off in despair, I saw a person in the distance gradually walking towards me by the light of lightning. It's Lu Yao! It can't be wrong, it has to be him! I watched the familiar figure draw closer to me, and my heart swelled with infinite hope. That Lu Yao didn't turn into a monster, he must have come to save me, I thought excitedly.
The figure in the distance walked in my direction without hurrying, and there was no nervousness in the slightest. I wondered how he could be so calm in such an urgent situation. Fortunately, before the group of monsters finally gathered around me, Lu Yao, who was holding a firewood knife, had already arrived.
"Lu Yao! Come and save me! I shouted at him, waving my left hand.
Less than ten meters away from me, Lu Yao suddenly stopped and stood quietly in front of me.
"Lu Yao! Come on! It's too late! I shouted, but he was unmoved. With the white light of lightning, the indifferent expression on Lu Yao's face suddenly made me feel extremely strange, and the sharp firewood knife emitted bursts of sharp white light under the illumination of lightning, which looked cold and terrifying.
The monsters around him seemed to sense Lu Yao's body, and turned around and gathered towards him. I was a little frightened by the look on his face, but I still yelled at him to get out of the way. As if he hadn't heard anything, he stood stunned until the goblins surrounded him tightly, and from a distance it looked like a huge snowball of monsters.
"Wu Chao", Lu Yao's voice came out of the monster pile, and suddenly became hoarse and vicissitudes, almost not like it came from a human throat, "Why can't you obediently help me cut down those vines." ”
"Lu Yao!!" I shouted in a hoarse voice, as if I could hear the sound of monsters gnawing at Lu Yao's flesh and bones. Suddenly, a red light flashed in the center of the group of monsters, and the monsters melted into the red light one after another as if they were absorbed, and when the lightning illuminated the earth again, the red light disappeared, and a humanoid monster from face to foot, whose whole body was wrapped in a blood-like red cloth, and held a white glow with a firewood knife in his right hand, writhed towards me in a strange posture.