Chapter 5: Monsters
"What's that?" Wang Qiang exclaimed, and then hurried to wake up the other people who were asleep.
Lu Tianming woke up quickly, he grabbed the glasses next to him and put them on, looked at the three of them, and asked, "What happened?" ”
An Junhang also woke up, stretched his waist and yawned, opened his eyes and said suspiciously, "What's wrong?" How noisy is it? ”
There was no need for Mu Lan and a few people to give them an answer, there was a clanging sound at the staircase in the northeast direction, and then two green lights appeared from the darkness.
Mu Lan noticed that it was a humanoid thing, wearing a tattered layer of cloth, and was slowly pacing in the direction of everyone, not fast, unable to see more specific details, because the thing's entire body was wrapped in black mist, and he could only see two faint green lights staring at him like a pair of eyes.
"I'll go! What the hell! Wang Qiang couldn't help but scream.
"Ghosts? Corpse? Undead? An Junhang was also stunned, trying to summarize the thing in front of him into the myths and ghost stories he knew, and several words popped up in a row.
"Leave it alone!" Lu Tianming shouted: "Think of a way!" ”
"What else can be done! Run! Xiao De was frightened, and ran in the direction of the gate without looking back.
A few other timid ones immediately scattered as birds and beasts, and they all ran out with Xiaode.
Wang Qiang saw that the monster was getting closer and closer to him, his legs began to weaken, if he dealt with an ordinary person, or even more people, he would not be afraid, but this thing was beyond his cognition, he had never had experience in dealing with monsters, and he was forced to retreat again and again for a while, looking back at the few people who had escaped, thinking if he would also slip away quickly.
Lu Tianming saw the monster gradually approaching him, and his usual composure disappeared, the dull sound made by the monster every step on the floor seemed to hit his heart, cold sweat flowed, he slowly retreated in the direction of the main entrance, but at the same time, he did not forget to face the monster to observe its further movements.
Now among the eight people, only Wang Qiang, Lu Tianming, and A Fenghe did not run away, and the three of them also kept moving towards the gate, because the speed of that thing was not fast, so a rough safety distance of about 20 meters was formed, at least the "safe distance" that several people thought in their hearts.
Lu Tianming reminded everyone to disperse, don't get together, and the other two people immediately dispersed, if you look down from above, it looks like three people surrounded this monster, but in fact, it was a monster that forced the three of them to keep retreating.
Mu Lan was not as close as the three of them to the monster, but she was not too far away, as if she had bought a VIP seat and watched from the sidelines, the appearance of the thing could already be seen clearly under the light source, it was actually a thing that looked like a human and a ghost, the body was full of rotten and blackened flesh, some ribs in the abdomen were exposed, the facial features were rotten and could not be seen clearly, the eye sockets were sunken, there were two green flames, there were no muscles on the left leg, the leg bones were exposed, and he walked with a limp.
An Junhang ran back again, shouting that the door couldn't be opened, and asked the people here to come over to help, when Mu Lan arrived, Xiaode and Xu Min Zhao Mengqi were pushing the door hard, she also joined in to help, pushed a few times, and found that the wooden door did not move at all, as if it was locked.
"What to do? I can't push it away! Xu Min panicked, seeing that the monster was getting closer and closer, and he was crying when he spoke urgently.
"Like locked up outside?" Mu Lan looked out against the crack in the door, and couldn't see anything clearly, this gate can only be locked from the inside, and it was a huge wooden mechanism that was blocked, and it was obviously not locked at this time.
"Go through the window!" Xiaode pointed to the huge stained glass window, "Let's go over there!" ”
Mu Lan looked in the direction of the window, it was indeed feasible to smash the glass and jump out, but the two huge windows in the east and west were very far away, and if they wanted to go over, they would have to bypass the monster, and the monster was closer to them.
"Why are you back again?" Wang Qiang saw a few people going and returning, and asked.
"The door won't open! We're going to have to jump out of the window! Mu Lan replied.
"Look! The monster is getting faster! An Junhang shouted: "Hurry up, let's run!" ”
The monster seemed to become excited when it saw more people, the flames in its eyes turned from green to red, and its speed accelerated a lot, rushing towards Ah Feng, who was closest to him.
Seeing this, Ah Feng ran, the monster's speed was faster than he thought, and the sharp claws pounced, Ah Feng immediately stopped sharply, rolled to his side, and dodged the attack.
After discovering that this monster was attacking Ah Feng, Wang Qiang and Lu Tianming ran away, Mu Lan did not forget to look back at Ah Feng while running, only to see that Ah Feng was very good at his skills, his reaction was flexible, and he dodged the monster's two attacks by rolling left and right.
The windowsill is more than one person high, Zhao Mengqi can't climb up, An Junhang lifted her and let Zhao Mengqi clumsily climb up the windowsill, Xu Min is a lot more sharp, and I don't know if it's adrenaline at a critical moment, she jumped up and grabbed the edge of the windowsill, kicked the wall a few times with her feet and went up, Xiaode picked up a hard metal candlestick, smashed it directly on the glass, and cracked a big hole in the glass with a bang.
When Mu Lan ran to the windowsill, the three of them were hitting the window glass in order to knock out the crack that people could pass through, and at this time, Lu Tianming behind him also ran over, and it was actually Ah Feng in the back, Mu Lan wondered how he got rid of the monster, and when he looked back, the object of the monster's chase became Wang Qiang, and at this time, one person and one ghost were running this way.
I didn't have time to think about anything else, the three of them immediately climbed the windowsill, Ah Feng completed the action of climbing the wall and jumping out of the window in three or two clicks, Mu Lan grabbed the platform with both hands, probed up with one foot, and sent her body up against the wall, her usual workouts are running or tennis or the like, this kind of action has hardly been done, and when she was about to arch up slowly, Lu Tianming next to her squeezed her down.
Looking at Lu Tianming's apologetic eyes, and didn't have time to wonder if he did it on purpose, Mu Lan could only continue to repeat the action just now, time was pressing, at this time, Wang Qiang and the monster chasing after him were only less than seven or eight meters away from him, Wang Qiang's sweaty panicked face and the rotten head wrapped in black mist behind him were so clear that she even smelled a disgusting smell.
Mu Lan's mind was blank, she just relied on her survival instinct to climb up, and climbed up to the windowsill more smoothly than just now, and when she jumped out, her right leg was suddenly dragged, and the strength was surprisingly great, almost pulling her off the windowsill, Mu Lan was so frightened that she didn't dare to look back, kicked her left foot down, and jumped out of the castle with the help of reaction.
"Ahh Wang Qiang's screams came from the castle, accompanied by a strange howl.
Mu Lan didn't turn back and ran to the open place away from the ancient castle, at this time the sky outside had become brighter, and the fish belly white appeared in the distance of dawn, and the rain had stopped all night, and the air was moist.
Several people returned to the place where they first appeared, in the dilapidated garden, because they were afraid of the restrictions of the mission rules, they didn't dare to go further, Mu Lan was out of breath, and looked back from time to time, for fear that the thing would chase it out.
The other people were not much better, Xu Min and Zhao Mengqi were all paralyzed on the ground, gasping for breath, and the other men were obviously much better, but their complexions were very poor.
"What if the monster chases out of the castle!" An Junhang cried with a sad face, he looked at the empty garden, "There is no place to hide now!" ”
"I don't know!" Lu Tianming shook his head, he counted the number of people, "We have two people less!" ”
"Wang Qiang is still inside!" Mu Lan said, in order to prevent her from being angry, she spoke as slowly as possible, "I was the last one to jump out, and Wang Qiang was still in the castle!" ”
At this moment, a pair of hands full of blood grabbed the edge of the platform, did not grasp it steadily, and immediately fell down, and after a while, the hands grabbed the edge of the platform again, Wang Qiang gasped weakly, and tried to climb up.
"Help!"
"Help! I'm not dead."
"It's Wang Qiang's voice!" Several people looked at the window and saw that Wang Qiang was still there doing actions to climb over the wall.
Because of the fear of monsters, several people had no intention of going back to save people, An Junhang lowered his head and looked guilty and uneasy, Lu Tianming frowned, and Ah Feng's face was still indifferent, not knowing what he was thinking.
"The monster is gone! Pull me out! Really, the monster is gone! Wang Qiang saw that no one rescued him for a long time, and he also knew their concerns, so he immediately shouted a few more words.
Mu Lan saw that Wang Qiang's body was weakly propped up, constantly trying to climb up, and there was nothing to stop him, and the monster seemed to have really disappeared.
After another half an hour, after confirming that the monster had really disappeared, Lu Tianming tentatively walked back, pulled Wang Qiang back, and helped Wang Qiang climb out of the window with difficulty.
"Is the monster really gone?" Mu Lan was puzzled, at this time Wang Qiang had escaped, lying on the ground covered in blood, he stared at the sky with wide eyes, panting, there were many wounds on his body, large and small, the most terrifying one was in the legs, from the ankle to the knee as if it had been cut by a knife, the skin and flesh turned out, and the blood could not stop flowing out.
"It has very sharp claws...... Caught me a lot when he pounced...... to tear me to pieces...... Then, it suddenly turned into a black powder, and it disappeared...... "Wang Qiang's breath was weak, his face was as white as paper, and Mu Lan knew that this was a state of excessive blood loss.
"Suddenly gone?" Lu Tianming pushed his glasses and said in disbelief: "Why? ”
Mu Lan looked at the sky in the distance, the world in the early morning was completely different from when she came here last night, it was still cloudy, but the gradually brightening sky made the strange color of the ancient castle weaken a lot, she said slowly: "It's dawn." ”
"It's finally dawn!" An Junhang also sighed, "The night here is really not a place for people!" Then he thought of something, and said, "Maybe it has something to do with dawn?" That monster can only be found at night......"
"Well, it's possible." Lu Tianming nodded, Mu Lan looked at him, Lu Tianming was a little afraid to look directly at her gaze, so he immediately avoided it and squatted down to help Wang Qiang deal with his wounds.
Several people tore off their clothes, pulled out a few strips of cloth and bandaged Wang Qiang, and did a simple hemostasis, which is obviously not enough, in addition to the risk of infection, it is not excluded that the internal organs will be injured, so it is necessary to go to a modern hospital for a comprehensive examination.
Mu Lan looked at Wang Qiang, who was humming and chirping and gradually falling into a coma, she remembered that someone grabbed her leg just now before jumping out of the window, she thought it was a monster at the time, and kicked it back directly, now thinking back to the touch of those hands, it should be Wang Qiang, he wants to pull himself into the water? Or do you want to climb up in a panic? It should be the former possibility, Wang Qiang's physical fitness can't climb up, he can only drag himself down to attract the attention of the monster.
There is another question, at the beginning, the monster chased Ah Feng, but then why did he chase Wang Qiang closely? Judging from the monster's performance, it always chases the person closest to him, did Ah Feng also use Wang Qiang to attract the attention of the monster and get out of trouble?
Mu Lan observed Ah Feng, and saw that he still looked light, as if a series of thrilling things had not happened just now, sensing that someone was looking at him, Ah Feng turned his head and glanced at Mu Lan, Mu Lan immediately staggered his gaze, feeling that in addition to his extraordinary skills, this person's senses were also very sensitive.