Chapter 109: "Them"
It's just that Li Zu at this time seems to be more intoxicated with his former "detective" identity.
The moonlight is like an amplifier, and the faint glow magnifies everything on the ground that is unreasonable.
"Barefoot, with long toenails, there must be a lot of dark dirt in them!"
Li Zu squatted in front of the footprints on the side of the road, rubbing his chin with his fingers and frowning.
Along the way, similar footprints have continued unabated.
"Very thin, weighing no more than 30 kilograms."
"Walking, monkey?"
"No, monkeys don't have such big feet, they are more like people"
"This is not a person," she suddenly interrupted Li Zu's self-talk.
The woman didn't care at first, but after seeing the footprints in a row, she seemed to think of something: "There should be their nest nearby." ”
"They?" Li Zu is better at capturing sensitive words.
He rubbed his hands in anticipation.
There must be more than one kind of monster in the world, and he will soon see the second kind?
That must have helped him a lot in understanding the unspeakable!
"Be careful not to alarm them! It's close to town, and if they run past, those people are dangerous. The woman still did not say what "they" were, but she was sure from a few words that "they" were numerous, fast, and a great threat to humanity.
"That's right! Be sure to find them quickly! ”
Li Zu nodded vigorously, and the excited expression on his face was overflowing.
Whether those people are dangerous or not is not in his care, he just wants to find "them" quickly!
He was more and more curious about the unknown, knowing the danger.
Perhaps, as the woman said, the pursuit of unknown knowledge, beyond the scope of the human brain, will eventually lead to madness.
Li Zu was always full of curiosity.
He chose to take it step by step...... Step into the madness!
……
The moon vigorously reflects the sun's rays, and strives to serve as a beacon for wayfinding.
The quiet country roads, except for the rubber tire prints you see, the rest are all "them" footprints.
The two followed the footprints, step by step, approaching the location of "them".
Since a minute ago, the footprints have become very messy in a few places, and the number has increased significantly, from two or three footprints to twenty or thirty footprints!
The crooked weeds lead them like signposts.
The cane swept away the weeds that stood in the way, and the crooked holly, followed the footprints through the "road" that only monkeys could pass, and finally stopped in front of a well.
Stone wells are rammed more than half a meter high to prevent anyone from falling or the carcasses of wild animals contaminating the water source.
It's just that the well is in disrepair, and the surrounding area is overgrown with wild grass, and it seems that no one has come to fetch water for a long time.
Wild beasts probably won't visit this place either.
The moonlight was blocked by the branches of the high-crowned trees, and when I leaned down into the well, the darkness was suffocating.
The breathing is also a lot sticky.
The human brain has unconsciously begun to conceive, and when staring into the darkness, there is nothing in front of it, but the brain will imagine the incomprehensible, terrible scene.
The world's most terrible fear comes from the unknown......
"They're down there," the woman's words sounded affirmative, as if it wasn't the first time she had seen them, or that she had gotten the message from a "tome" again.
Exploring the unknown and gaining more knowledge is human curiosity and human instinct.
"They never come alone, so we have to be careful."
But compared to her cautious instincts, there is also a freak here who completely "indulges herself".
Li Zu has already turned over and jumped!
"Oh roar~" screamed, tearing through the quiet night.
"You ......" the woman had to choose to jump into the well.
She couldn't see Li Zu going to die.
Four-meter-deep wells,
It's more like a cave that is deliberately disguised as a well.
But to the woman's surprise, her feet did not come into contact with well water, nor dry and hard soil, but with a soft trampoline.
With a flick, he defused the force of the fall, and pushed her aside by holding her back.
She was bounced up, and when her feet hit the ground, she staggered two steps forward before she steadied.
The woman turned her head to look, only to find that the land on the ground had been transformed into a blue trampoline of strange materials.
As soon as she landed, the trampoline turned back into dirt, and it was clear whose ability it was from.
On the Charon, she had witnessed Li Zu turn the corpse of a deep diver into a metal sculpture.
Letting go of the surprise in her heart, she began to observe the underground world at this time.
The bottom of the well, which has long been dry, is very hard, and it is estimated that it has been dry for decades, or there has never been water here.
What's even more amazing is that the moonlight can shine in precisely to illuminate the surroundings.
Every corner of the bottom of the well can be seen with a slight turn of the head.
"Here!"
Li Zu's eyes caught the footprints, and he squatted in front of a wooden plank on the ground according to the footprints.
The planks are like sewer manhole covers, solid, but not very heavy.
Well hidden.
Pulling the wooden plank apart, the yin wind in the center of the earth blew up, blowing up the dust, blowing Li Zu and the woman behind him crookedly.
The strange mood with the "breath of death" disrupted people's heartbeats.
In the underground black hole, there seems to be something indescribably terrifying.
Knock knock, the heart uncontrollably accelerates.
The woman standing on the side also clearly noticed that Li Zu was grinning and laughing silently.
"It seems that the underground is unobstructed, and there is a huge air inlet," Li Zu said.
When the wind stopped, they were finally able to look under the planks.
Underground, no moonlight, pitch black.
It wasn't until the moonlight above his head spilled into the cave that his gaze could vaguely catch the world.
Below is a black tower, ten stories high, or twenty stories high, after all...... Further down was pitch black, and it was impossible to see clearly.
Maybe it's a magic tower that connects to the abyss, or maybe it's just an old building sealed in the ground.
"Woo woo woo wow wow wow wow"
After the sound of rats burrowing through the wall, there was an eerie sound similar to the cry of a child.
"It! Here it comes! The woman threw her left hand behind her back, and the short axe, wrapped tightly in linen and bandage, grasped it in her hand, and she could see that she was nervous.
Li Zu put down the plank, grabbed the cane with his backhand, and waited with a smile.
1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds...... Squeak~ The plank was pushed away from below, and then a thirteen-year-old humanoid monster with a skinny body crawled out.
The white skin of a dead man, wrinkled. The palms and soles of the feet are unusually large, and the nails are pitch black.
Like the mouth of a hyena.
An abominable, ferocious monster.
"Ho ho wow wow~" It made a strange noise, its knee-length arms drooped, and its two legs moved forward.
It turned its head slightly, its nose twitching, as if it had smelled a human being.
Poof!
A sharp cane pierced "it" head and pulled it out, splattering out a thick black liquid.
"It" fell to the ground, its body pumping twice, and it was out of breath.
"It's a little weak," Li Zu shook off the monster blood stuck to his cane in disgust.
The cane gently flicked "its" of the corpse.
"It's ......"
The "ghoul" woman is like an encyclopedia.