Volume 1: The Wraith of the Lonely Town Chapter 9: Darkness
Hula, hula!
The sun was gradually setting in the west, the cool breeze that had been faint earlier began to increase gradually, the trees were rustling, and occasionally a crow or two swept across the sky, bringing a further sense of desolation and depression to the already dead and lonely town.
In the small town of Crosso, north of the town, in a dark alley, two young people are currently discussing something face-to-face.
Looking around, I saw that one of the young men with a medium size and a delicate face had a cold expression and a solemn gaze, while opposite, another obese young man looked frightened, he looked frightened, sweating profusely, and his eyes were staring at the boss.
"You, what you said is true? We're not in the real world anymore? In a quest world? Also, here's ...... There are stalks!? ”
Listening to his friend's words full of trills, and staring at the other party's face that twitched from time to time due to too much fear, He Fei calmed down, He Fei said: "It's just my personal guess that this is still the real world, but this supernatural mission is real, and the crab you said should also be real." ”
After that, he looked down at the mobile phone in his hand, glanced at the completely zero signal grid in the screen, and looked up again, He Fei continued: "Hailong, you also said it just now, you also heard the 'cold voice' and the various mission information left by the voice, whether you believe it or not, you must understand that we don't want to go back at present, unless we can complete the task, otherwise wait for our ending...... Maybe it won't be good. ”
Yes, about 10 minutes ago, while the three of Smith were discussing things, Chen Hailong and He Fei left the house together and came to the outside world, at first Chen Hailong didn't dare to go out, but under the pressure of He Fei's extremely stern eyes, he still followed the other party out of the house to the street and entered an alley, and then, He Fei unreservedly told all the experiences since he woke up and his personal guesses.
But it was precisely He Fei's narration that was equivalent to pushing Chen Hailong, who had been terrified for a long time, into the bottomless abyss.
Fear, quietly hit his heart, in addition to breaking the world view of life maintained by the obese young man for 21 years, it also made him completely fall into an unprecedented despair and panic, Chen Hailong is not a fool, if someone tells him these things in ordinary times, he will definitely disdain and even mock the other party, but now it is different, completely different, first sucked into the subway station by a strange hurricane, and then inexplicably appeared in a strange town, and finally a task information that he can't forget comes to his mind, all this is not normal, It already made him uneasy, coupled with He Fei's shocking remarks just now, finally, Chen Hailong was afraid, although he still didn't want to believe that these were true, but his subconscious told him that he kept warning himself that it was better to believe He Fei's words, otherwise, it would ...... His end may really be miserable!
Here's why......
Crabs!
There's a crab here!
There is a terrifying spirit that originally existed only in folklore, but now it is real!
As for He Fei, he had also tested his mobile phone a few minutes ago, and the result was unexpected, like Chen Hailong and Smith's group, there was no signal at all, and there was no way to contact the outside world.
"So, what do we do now? Do you want to run away with those 3 Europeans? ”
Xu is more and more worried about his own situation, and after choosing to trust his friend, Chen Hailong, who came back to his senses, immediately asked the question he is most concerned about at present, that is, do you want to leave the town? After all, since he appeared inexplicably in this uninhabited town, an indescribable sense of fear has been enveloping him all the time, just like a pair of eyes are always peeking at you in the dark, making you shudder and fidget, if he can, of course he wants to leave the town, leave this place where he can't sleep.
Hearing his friend's inquiry, He Fei shook his head and gave a very simple answer: "We can't leave, the mission information has clearly warned the executor not to leave the town, violators will be wiped out, let's not talk about what the erasure represents, even if we want to escape, we must stay in the town for two days." ”
Hearing his friend's statement like this, Chen Hailong, who had already regarded He Fei as the backbone of his heart due to fear and panic, did not argue, looked back at the outside of the alley, and then asked as if he had figured out something: "By the way, since the two of us have become the executors, are the three guys in the room ......?"
Although Chen Hailong did not finish speaking, the meaning he wanted to express was very obvious, and as soon as the words fell, He Fei retorted on the spot: "No, it is impossible, you also know that I asked a few people in the room earlier, and although the answer given by the other party was weird, it was strictly logical, I guess that the three Smiths should be the native humans of this world, and they would enter this place inadvertently because of their bad luck, which is essentially different from the two of us appearing directly out of thin air." ”
After saying his personal understanding, he paused, looked back at the outside of the alley like Chen Hailong, hesitated for a moment, He Fei continued with a slight sigh: "Those people are different from us, you and I are bound here by the rules of the mission, to be honest, I really hope they can leave as soon as possible, after all, ...... It's dangerous here. ”
Obviously, due to his good nature, and he has roughly guessed that Smith and the others are pure unlucky innocents, deep down He Fei hopes that the three of them can leave the town as soon as possible, perhaps this is the real reason why he didn't stop them when they discussed the escape plan just now.
He Fei sighed, but for Chen Hailong, who had already taken care of himself, he would not care as much as the friend in front of him, seeing that the other party shook his head and denied it, patted his head, recalled the earlier escape experience, Chen Hailong followed up and raised a new question: "By the way, that murderous madman, there is very likely that there is a murderous madman in the town!" ”
At the end of the words, I thought that He Fei would answer immediately as before, who would have thought that this time, especially when the word murderous madman came into his ears, He Fei chose to be silent, so he didn't say a word under the gaze of the obese young man, and his brows were tightly wrinkled into a Sichuan character.
No one knows why He Fei showed such a demeanor, not only Chen Hailong didn't understand, but anyone present would not understand, but in fact, when it comes to murderous madmaniacs, the first thing He Fei thinks of is not only not how terrible or terrifying the murderous madman is, but suspicion!
I doubt the identity of the murderous madman, and even doubt whether the guy who is extremely scary in the eyes of Chen Hailong and others really exists!
Because, you can't see it!
(Why can't I see that?) But the Smith 3 who were chased into the town and Chen Hailong, who had gone to the entrance of the village, could see it? And when everyone is chased into the interior of the town, the murderer and maniac quickly disappear? Something is wrong, something is very wrong...... )
(Huh?) Wait, everyone is chased into the interior of the town and the murderous maniac disappears? It's hard, it's hard...... )
Groov!
At the same time, when He Fei and Chen Hailong were talking, in the living room of the house, the discussion between Smith and Frank had basically come to an end.
The result of the discussion was that there was no need to deliberately choose the time, but to act as soon as it was dark, and to quietly leave the town under the cover of night.
Anyway, this place is the size of a medium-sized town, and it doesn't matter if you don't know the road, and you will always get out of the town if you walk along the street.
"Well, it's 17 o'clock in the afternoon, and it's almost an hour before dark, but I still remember the way I came, sir, and we'll just go back the way we came."
"Frank, you bastard has really hurt us this time, if you hadn't suggested taking the path, how could we have come to this place? I advise you to apologize honestly, otherwise I don't guarantee that you will not receive a lawyer's letter when you go back! Hey? What about the two international students? Why is it gone? ”
"How do I know? Maybe go out and pee. ”
"No, we have to go out and have a look, I suspect those two boys ran away ahead of time."
Ignoring the conversation between her husband and the guide, Smith's side, Martha remained silent and sat still as before, her body still trembling faintly.
Yes, she was scared, and even now she couldn't shake the unspeakable sense of weird fear, and strangely enough, the source of Martha's fear was not murderous madness or the small-town atmosphere, but ......
Peep!
Yes, similar to He Fei not long ago when he felt someone outside the window and suddenly turned around, Martha also had this feeling, but her feeling was stronger than He Fei's! If He Fei was just intuitively aware of it, then Martha completely belonged to a deeper subconscious feeling, and since she entered the town, she always felt that a pair of eyes were always peeking at her!
This made her shudder and even panic until now!
But for some reason, at this moment, just now, just in the last second, that sense of peeping instantly became stronger!
With this fear, Gradually, Martha, who was trembling more and more intensely, seemed to have discovered something, and so, just as Smith and Frank were trying to go out to look for it, Martha moved, and she slowly looked up, looking overhead, at the roof, which was not clear because the sun was gradually setting in the west......
Then......
...... that appears in view
It's a human face.
A woman's face as white as paper, a face with only a head and no body, and a huge woman's face as tall as a person!
This strange woman's face is currently floating out of thin air on the dark beam, silently looking down at herself directly above her head, looking down on everyone, looking down on everything in the room, no one knows how long the woman's face has existed, the only thing she knows is that above her head, on the top of the beam, there is a woman's face peeping at everyone.
Xu was aware that someone had discovered him, and when Martha saw the human face clearly, directly above, the miserable white woman's face actually smiled, and she grinned at Martha with a strange smile.
Martha was stunned.
But soon, followed by a sudden change of color in the face and a piercing scream bursting from the mouth:
"Ah!!h
This abrupt scream can be said to have scared Smith and Frank who were about to go out on the spot to half death, because the scream was too sudden, Frank, who had already stepped out of the threshold with half a foot, was unstable and fell to the ground, Smith was not much stronger, in addition to being frightened and trembling wildly, the heart that was suddenly lifted almost popped out of his throat, fortunately he did not have a heart attack, otherwise this scream alone would be enough to make him sick and die.
Of course, fear is fear, in fact, both Smith and Frank were already instinctively prompted to turn around and look behind them, to the room, to the screaming owner, Martha.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he saw Martha running forward like a madman, rushing out of the gate with an astonishing speed that was unattainable before, running out of the house before everyone could react, and then screaming and running towards the street on the right.
Dadada!
"Martha, what's wrong with you? Stop it! Stop! Damn it! ”
As expected, although he was stunned by his wife's screaming and didn't understand why the other party suddenly ran away, as a husband, seeing that the shouting was fruitless, and seeing the other party running farther and farther, he scolded, and Smith, who cared about his wife, still strode after him for the first time.
Similarly, when Martha screamed, the outside world, why didn't He Fei and Chen Hailong, who had just finished discussing some issues, hear it? At first, they were startled in their hearts, and they glanced at each other, and in the next second, He Fei, whose complexion changed suddenly, had already strode out of the alley before Chen Hailong could react.
Coincidentally, as soon as I returned to the street, I saw an incomprehensible scene of pursuit unfolding on the other side of the street, in the foreground, Martha screaming and running like a madman who had suddenly become ill, and in the back, her husband Smith was close behind.
Seeing this scene, He Fei was slightly stunned, but soon he chased after him without saying a word as if he had made some kind of decision, and sure enough, seeing his friend trailing away, how dare Chen Hailong, who ran out a little late, be alone? Immediately, he followed without accident.
Soon, with a rush of running, in a short time, the four of them had disappeared at the end of the street.
The only one left was Frank, the guide who was still slumped on the ground.
"Wait, wait, wait for me...... Wait for me......"
At this moment, in front of the house, Frank, who was frightened, watched the others run straight away, and watched Martha, Smith and the two Oriental students running farther and farther away, until they collectively disappeared into the street corner, seeing this, the man trembled all over, broke out in a cold sweat, and muttered to himself from time to time in a voice that only he could hear, yes, it was not that he didn't want to run, he didn't want to follow, but he was so frightened that he couldn't move, or because he was too timid, he still hasn't broken free from the initial fear.
His legs were still shaking, and he was still as weak as when he first collapsed, after all, the change just now was too sudden, and Martha's screaming was so terrible that the short man in the suit was so frightened that he sat on the ground for a long time and could not recover.
Although I can't understand why the woman named Martha was suddenly frightened, and I can't understand why the other party ran away, but what really scared Frank at the moment was not these, but that everyone else had run away and chased Martha, and he was forced to stay where he was because of the weakness of his legs.
Leave alone where you are.
It wasn't until the others ran farther and farther away, until the four of them ran out of sight, and after about two minutes, Frank, who had barely recovered, was able to get up, but unfortunately it seemed to be too late to recover now, and just got together, Frank wanted to keep up as soon as possible, but after scanning the surrounding environment that was getting darker and darker due to the sun going down, and thinking that there was still a murderous madman hidden in the town, for some reason, the man in the suit was afraid, and he found that he couldn't take a step, not only couldn't take a step, but he didn't even have the courage to leave the door.
It's as if you're going to be discovered by a murderer once you get out.
"Whew, whew, whew!"
Gradually, Frank was struck down by the fear in his heart, except for the increasingly rapid breathing, suddenly came back to his senses, the man moved, not only did he not step out of the threshold, but retreated to the living room of the house under the impetus of fear, hurriedly closed the door, plugged in the door bolt, and then ran inside in a panic, hid in the next bedroom, and then closed the door again and inserted the deadbolt.
The time unconsciously entered the evening, and the more westerly sun also emitted the last cloud of sunset under the oppression of darkness, the sky began to darken, and together with the surrounding environment, it was quietly extending towards the night, of course, for the time being, the night has not yet completely come, and the faint sunlight can still shine into the living room through the window, if you are currently on the street or in the living room, you can still see clearly and feel the light.
However, at this moment, Frank, who was hiding in the bedroom, was basically in the dark, after all, the bedroom had no windows, and the door had been closed by him, so the already faint light was completely isolated.
The bedroom was small, and in the darkness, except for a wooden bed in the corner that had been dusty for too long, there were only a few rows of shelves on either side, and the containers were scattered with a few ceramic jars, and it seemed that the owner of the house must have been a former ceramic merchant.
Having said that, but for Frank personally, hiding in this dark and cramped bedroom can make him feel at ease, after all, he is only afraid of murderers, and now he can be said to have hidden it completely, and it is getting dark, he does not believe that he will be in any danger, after calming down his tension a little, the man casually found a low wooden stool and sat down.
For a while, Frank, who was in the dark bedroom, was quite at ease, he was waiting, waiting for the others to catch up with Martha and come back to join him, after all, Martha is just a woman, how can a group of big men not be able to catch up? What's more, he and Smith had already discussed escaping at night, and it wouldn't be long before the others would come back to him.
Thinking of this, in addition to being stable in his heart, he suddenly felt bored, reached into his pocket, took out a cigarette case, lit one, and began to spit out clouds.
But......
Just as Frank was still smoking......
When, when, when.
All around, there was a series of noises in the darkness, a faint tapping sound similar to the collision of pottery......