Chapter 023 ID: Forest (Shadow)
The night had not yet completely fallen, and the light of dusk came to the ground through the leaves, but it was like a pair of dark red eyes, constantly drifting and swaying in the gradually darkening copper kettle town, and the fleeing living could not tell which pair was the real monster.
The more densely wooded the place, the darker it became, if it weren't for Fang Liang and Lu Ming with flashlights, they would definitely not even be able to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest at this time.
The most disturbing thing was that Fang Liang and Lu Ming's vision was all lead-gray fog, and this fog was full of wriggling tree roots, but as long as they used a flashlight, they would find that the tree roots within the range of the fan-shaped light seemed to be hallucinations.
But if you don't turn on the flashlight to shine on the ground, you will tripped over those tree roots that don't seem to exist.
Not to mention the vines that block the view everywhere, constantly hanging from above and being dispelled into smoke by the light.
The line between the real and the unreal is blurred by the intervention of the power of the curse.
Fang Liang and Lu Ming were saddened to find that this strange hallucination came at the right time, causing them both to get lost!
The surrounding scenes gradually became familiar, and the light emitted by ordinary flashlights was no longer enough to eliminate the endless hallucinatory scenes, so Fang Liang and Lu Ming could only be forced to slow down their running.
Although the speed of time passing is unusual, the law of the curse has not yet been grasped, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal, as long as the investigator cannot see through the camouflage of the curse's power, all investigation activities will become intimidating and unable to move forward.
The scope of influence of the curse's power is quite large, and after nightfall, the ruined place of Copper Kettle Town is definitely more terrifying than the doctor's house.
Fang Liang finally knew why no one dared to go out at night, if there was not enough light source, staying outside would definitely be a dead end.
However, since the curse wanted to kill Fang Liang's group of people, it would definitely take some action, and this kind of action would definitely expose its methods.
Fang Liang didn't know if there were any other players, as long as they didn't follow the rules of the game on time, and the lack of supplies was basically a team annihilation.
"Fang Liang, can you use your curse against it? We're lost, but this thing is flying so fast! ”
Fang Liang was extremely embarrassed at this moment, but he could only run all the way with a flashlight: "I don't know how to use it now!" This broken game doesn't even have a basic training ground.,Online is to go directly into the dungeon.,Into the book is a weird high-energy plot.,So what to do! ”
"It seems that I have to use this one......" Lu Ming reached out, and two red and yellow cylindrical objects appeared in his hand.
Fang Liang glanced at Lu Ming, panting and turning to continue running: "Hey, when did you touch two lipsticks on your body?" ”
Lu Ming took a flashlight and shone it, revealing a look of confidence: "Where is it!" It's not lipstick, it's shotgun, but it's not impossible to say that shotgun is a man's lipstick, and I just found this sexy short-barreled shotgun at camp, and there are two shotguns. ”
"Sexy? If that little broken gun could kill the monster, the investigators wouldn't die! ”
Fang Liang didn't know if Lu Ming was so frightened by the monster that his brain was amused, he didn't have time to think about this now, although he had a curse, he didn't know how to use it, this was indeed a very embarrassing thing.
If the curse is used uncontrollably, and the curse is developed wildly when it is not necessary, it is undoubtedly suicidal.
But what if using a curse isn't a very troublesome thing in itself? Just focus your mind to wake it up......
Fang Liang seemed to hear the sound of his own heart pacing in a trance, his uninjured wrist suddenly began to have some pain, a faint red light began to envelop him, and he seemed to see a vague shadow beside him, running side by side with him.
"It's going to be too late, it's going to be too late, it's really too late, what to do, I need to use the power of the curse now......"
The gray shadow was wheezing violently, its physical strength seemed to have reached its limit, and the speed of its entire body was getting slower and slower, but Fang Liang soon discovered that this intermittent, anxious and desperate line definitely came out of Fang Liang's own mouth.
Immediately after, Fang Liang saw that the shadows were gradually merging towards him, and a creepy cold aura gradually merged into his body.
The next moment, a foot-wide ray of light burst out from under Fang Liang's feet, and a blood-red shadow actually ran out of him.
Fang Liang felt a strange suffocation, his whole body felt as if he had fallen into a sea of ice, and his body temperature was flowing extremely fast.
Seeing that blood-red shadow, Fang Liang's heart suddenly began to beat wildly, although he decided that his speed was getting faster and faster, he secretly realized something, as if a curse had written this knowledge into his mind.
If you let that blood-red shadow completely shake itself off and let it run to the door of the clinic alone, something terrible will definitely happen!
This damn curse, this is no longer a question of losing control or not losing control, it is not a safety valve and safety mechanism at all!
Just a moment of inner wavering, just an inconspicuous call, the power of the curse will directly begin to kick in......
"When you stare at the curse, the curse stares at you!"
Thinking like this in his heart, Fang Liang suddenly found that the blood-red strange shadow thrown out of his body, as if it wanted to tease Fang Liang, it suddenly switched to running backwards, and its movement speed was suddenly much slower than before.
[Cursed Dead Line Effect] has been activated!
"Lu Ming, don't speak, hold on to me!"
Fang Liang grabbed Lu Ming's arm without saying anything, and stepped on the red line formed by the curse power.
Lifting his feet and stepping on the ground, the surrounding scenery was passing rapidly to both sides, and he stepped more than 20 meters in one step, leaving the strange upside-down hanging straw man behind him in the blink of an eye.
The blood shadow seemed to sense Fang Liang's change, turned around and strode through a wall, disappearing from Fang Liang's field of vision.
"Close your eyes and don't look!" Fang Liang's vision was undergoing earth-shaking changes, and the town of Tonghu had melted into an abyss-like darkness in his eyes, all the buildings and scenery had disappeared, and only this red line was a foot wide, leading directly to the door of the clinic.
Two steps away, Fang Liang held his breath, as if he could also turn into a ghost-like invisible thing, and actually passed directly through the wall.
"You can't let that shadow do whatever it wants, you must catch up with it and overtake it!"
Fang Liang's spirit was unprecedentedly focused, even if the world was completely distorted in front of him, it did not interfere with him in the slightest.
"Face me!" Fang Liang's mind moved, and the shadow created by the curse turned around again, and actually waved at Fang Liang as he ran.
Fang Liang didn't dare to be careless, remembering the running knowledge that Lu Ming had explained to him, and ran away with all his might.
Approach, parallel, and then beyond!
Fang Liang couldn't stare at the shadow, once he was out of the control of his vision, he immediately felt a murderous and strange gaze appear behind him.
The clinic was in front of him, and Fang Liang found that the red line under his feet had begun to tighten
The red line, which was originally full of one foot, is now only half the width of the sole of the foot.
What happens if you don't reach the finish line in time when the red line disappears completely?
Fang Liang definitely didn't want to test his life, let alone confess here for no reason.
Fang Liang's speed increased to the limit, and in the next step, he and Lu Ming went directly through the door and corridor and appeared inside the clinic.
When I looked back, the blood-red shadow also pierced through the door at the same time, and sure enough, it would run right out of sight.
And when it met Fang Liang's gaze, it suddenly behaved extremely anthropomorphic: the shadow first slowed down rather lost, then held his knees and kept panting, and then stuck his waist and kept shaking his head, as if he was very sorry for his running level.
Fang Liang let out an uncontrollable sigh, and the blood-red shadow immediately turned around, dissipating into the darkness with his head down.
Of course, the weird scarecrow that was hanging upside down and flying could no longer find the breath and direction of Fang Liang and Lu Ming.
The red line was completely restricted, the distorted world returned to its original appearance, and Fang Liang was cold, but he was still wet with sweat.
A kind of exhaustion where the heart and lungs were about to fail, and the strength of the cells in his body was completely overdrawn, so that Fang Liang turned over and lay down, looking up to the sky and panting.
From the mouth to the nose, everything smells like divalent ferrous ions, and saliva is more difficult to swallow as if it were blood.
Lu Ming was obviously confused, he didn't even react, after being caught by Fang Liang, the whole person was so fast that he couldn't see the way clearly.
By the time Lu Ming was able to see everything clearly, the situation had become like this.
"Is this the power of the curse, damn it, you call it increasing speed and efficiency, this has broken through the limits of humanity!"
Seeing Fang Liang's tired face, which was as white as a dead corpse, Lu Ming was also startled, and hurriedly wanted to help him, but Fang Liang closed his eyes and refused.
"Don't ...... Don't touch me, ...... slowly"
Hearing the movement at the door, Li Xiaoyu, Cao Zhengfei and the doctor hurriedly walked out with candles.
Under the illumination of the candlelight, Fang Liang felt that his physical recovery was speeding up, and a strange thought of relaxation and cheerfulness followed.
At the same time, the candle flame in the hands of the three of them suddenly jumped into a palm, which startled the coward of the doctor and almost threw it away.
After waiting for a while, the candle flame in the hands of the three of them gradually returned to normal, and Fang Liang also felt that his physical strength had recovered more than half, and then he sat up.
"Whew." Fang Liang let out a long breath, just now he had no face, and now he actually had a sallow face, but he finally came back to life.
The price of the curse is quite huge, but only the curse can fight the curse, ordinary people have almost no ability to struggle in the face of the curse, whether it is encountered by the curse itself or the monster indirectly controlled, it is a dead end, but using the curse can instantly reverse the situation......
Without waiting for the three of them to ask, Fang Liang had already taken out a photo of the child from his backpack.
"Doctor, do you know this little boy?"