Volume 1: The Lonely Ghost Chapter 21: The Calling
The sun dispels the darkness, and the rising of the sun represents the arrival of the day, and the passing of the night, returning the light to the world, but unfortunately, perhaps for other places, but for the uninhabited town of Krosso, which has been abandoned for an unknown number of years, there is not much difference between day and night.
This is true for the town, and it is no different for Martha.
Dadada!
"Help! Help me! Who can save me? Who can save me! ”
In the town, in a barren block full of fallen leaves, at this time, there was a haggard and frightened woman running and shouting, perhaps overtired, the woman did not run fast and stumbled, as if her physical strength had long been exhausted, but she had to run under some kind of danger, which made people secretly smack her tongue and make people inexplicable.
The reason why it is inexplicably described is that the woman is running forcibly, running for her life in a hurry when she is obviously extremely tired, and the woman still looks back from time to time during the running, and every time she looks back, there will always be fear in her eyes, and the fear is very obvious.
That's because, in her field of vision, behind her, there is a dead person, a strange man with a bandage on his head and covered in blood, and a murderer who is holding a firewood knife and chasing after him desperately!
Yes, at this very moment, the blood-stained murderer was chasing her, hunting down the poor woman named Martha.
The story is very simple, since Martha accidentally saw a huge woman yesterday evening, she has been in a state of running away from the frenzy, which is a purposeless run, coupled with excessive fear and a blank brain, she turned a deaf ear to her husband Smith and two Oriental students who were chasing after her, just ran, and kept away from everything as much as possible under the impetus of fear.
However, the running does not end forever, nor does one's physical strength stretch indefinitely, and as the sky gradually darkens, and the night breeze blows, Martha, who runs to a strange neighborhood, is slightly more awake, and it is only then that she realizes that she has been unconsciously separated from her husband and everyone else.
At that time, Martha was panicked to the extreme, looking around, in the night she didn't know where she was and couldn't see her surroundings clearly, she could only know that she was still in the town, the result was predictable, she didn't dare to be alone at all at first searching, began to shout, began to walk through the streets like a lost little girl, searching, and kept calling the names of her husband Smith and others, but unfortunately to no avail, shouted for a long time, not only did not reply, and finally forced herself into a desperate situation.
Just as she was dazed and passed by a street corner, in the night, a person ran in front of her, and that person was not a bystander, but a burly body holding a firewood knife, and it was also the murderous madman who had chased everyone in the forest earlier and forced everyone into the town!
The murderous madman ran straight ahead, rushing towards himself!
The result was completely predictable.
The sudden scene was seen by Martha, by the poor woman who was already frightened and trembling, and she was so tired that she couldn't run, seeing the other party rushing to the front in the blink of an eye, and seeing that the other party didn't say a word and raised a firewood knife to cut down on her head, Martha, who thought she was going to die, fainted, and fainted on the spot.
However, what is incomprehensible and even miraculous is that Martha is not dead, and when Martha reopens her eyes the next morning, the woman finds that she is still alive, still alive and unharmed!?
No wounds, no blood, the heart is still beating, she, still alive?
Why? Why, I was obviously ...... last night
There is no doubt that Martha, who has woken up, is in a state of confusion, but God still did not give her time to figure everything out, because, as soon as she woke up, before the woman could get out of the doubt, behind her, a series of sonorous and powerful dull footsteps had pierced the silence.
Turning around suddenly, I saw an 'acquaintance' walking not far behind him, a terrible person who couldn't be acquainted.
The murderous maniac, the murderer who has never spoken, appeared in front of him at one time!
"No, no, help...... Help, help, help! Ahhh ”
Sure enough, although I was surprised why I didn't die, although I didn't understand why the murderer didn't kill me last night, but when I found the murderous madman who represented danger and demanded my life, the sudden fear of death still prompted Martha to react instinctively at the first time, and she couldn't think about it, so she immediately got up and ran away, howling and running into the distance, so, just like that, a new round of pursuit began, until now, until the sun is high in the sky.
During the pursuit, Martha was so panicked that she overlooked a few details, a detail that could easily be spotted by any onlooker.
In the state of chasing and fleeing, because she has not eaten for a long time, and she has been tired for a long time, Martha is actually not running fast, and during the run, the woman stumbles, her body is floating, and she looks weak, unless the chaser is a turtle, she can catch the woman with a slight acceleration.
However, the reality is not so, directly ahead, Martha's speed is slow, but the murderous madman who followed behind is also slow, on the whole, its speed is the same as Martha's, and it follows the woman closely at a speed that is neither fast nor slow from beginning to end, it is impossible to catch up with Martha at this speed, but Martha is also unable to drag each other, for a while, the two actually launched a long-term pursuit in the town like running a marathon.
The picture returns to reality.
Dadada!
"Help! Smith, where are you? Help me, who can save me! Woooooooooooooooo ”
Turning her head to look back, seeing that the murderer was still following behind her, Martha cried loudly, howling and crying as she ran, the woman collapsed, completely collapsed, collapsed to the extreme under the continuous pursuit and oppression of the other party, she didn't understand, she really didn't understand what all this was about, the only thing she knew was ......
Behind him, the murderer who can give people a strong sense of fear no matter how you look at it is still chasing and killing him.
At least in Martha's personal eyes, she is being chased by a scary-looking guy, but if you switch to a third perspective at this time, you will find that Martha is actually the only one on the entire street!
The woman was the only one running the whole time.
Yes, Martha is the only one running around the streets crying alone, and behind her, there is no one, nothing but the empty streets, where are there any murderous madmen!?
And at this moment, the woman named Martha fled in a panic without anyone chasing her, crying and fleeing for her life, and every time she looked back, she would always see a bloody murderer following behind her.
Poof!
Until the tears run out, until the woman's already small physical strength is completely exhausted, until she turns into a strange street, her legs are weak and she collapses, and she completely loses the ability to run.
The moment she fell to the ground, there was only one thought left in the woman's mind, one thought.
It's over, it's dead.
The woman chooses to close her eyes and wait for death, and begins to wait for the final moment to come.
Time passes minute by minute.
Correct......
What is incomprehensible is that after waiting for a long time, the imaginary firewood knife chopping did not appear, and he was still alive, and around, except for the occasional cool breeze, even the footsteps that had been following behind him for a long time disappeared.
With this puzzle in mind, Martha opened her eyes and looked back, and the murderer was gone.
Looking around, except for the dilapidated houses, he was the only one left.
Overhead, the sun shines brightly.
(This...... )
It is conceivable that when she saw a similar scene like last night happening with her own eyes, Martha was stunned and stunned in place, the woman fell into a state of confusion, and even couldn't tell the truth from the false, and the three words were repeated one after another in the depths of her brain.
(Why, why, why?) )
Why do homicidal maniacs disappear? Why do you choose to lose your track every time you can't escape? Why? The woman didn't know, didn't understand, and was in a trance and stunned by a series of strange encounters that began last night.
However, just as the woman who was lying on the ground fell into a trance, she fell into a stupor......
"Martha! Is Martha you? ”
Suddenly, next to my ears, there was a string of familiar men's calls.