Chapter Twenty-Six: Dead Monsters
Rounding the iron dam, I saw an open space the size of a football field behind the iron dam, on which were piled up seven or eight piles of sand the size of a hill, all unwashed river sand. There are potholes all over the riverbed, and there are several small sand dredging boats moored, and it seems that these hideous potholes are all wounds left by the sand dredging.
If it weren't for the blood flowing down, I would have seen this gold-panning golden mouth, but now that the matter is unknown, I must rush to the tower to meet the Taoist priest immediately, and then find a way to get out of this hellish place. So we didn't stop and hurried in the direction of the tower.
After about half an hour, the overgrown weeds and various vines and shrubs made the riverbank difficult to walk, and Yang Mengqing told me that the next section was even more difficult to pass, and that I had to cross the town, take the bridge across the Fengqing River to the west of the basin, and then take the path to the tower.
As soon as I heard that I was going to walk through the town, my mind was filled with the murderous and hideous images of the living dead, and I asked her with a wry smile if there was any other way. Yang Mengqing shook his head and said that even if the river bank could be walked, if you wanted to go to the tower on the west side of the river valley, you still had to pass through the town, and there was no way to get around.
She said yes, and there was no reason to lie to me, I knew that I couldn't avoid it, and I could only be prepared to deal with it.
I took the gun in my hand and pulled out a dozen more bullets and put them in the pocket of my jacket so that I could reload them as quickly as I could when I was done. Yang Mengqing himself carried a steel pipe, I took a look, and found that it seemed to be the one that stunned the Taoist priest, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly, with our current equipment, if we encounter a living dead, we can still deal with it, but if we come to a group, I am afraid that we can only run, and we may not be able to run, this is really a helpless thing.
Ten minutes later, Yang Mengqing and I had sneaked into the residential area and entered the scope of the town, but fortunately we had been safe all the way, neither the living dead nor strange birds. I prayed in my heart, and my heart said that's it, damn it like this, let me pass through the town safely, and Lao Tzu will burn incense and worship the Buddha every day when I go back, even if it is a year's fast!
After passing through a dozen houses, I saw the main granite street that ran through the town, and Yang Mengqing told me that the bridge was diagonally across the main road. Because of the fog, I can't see too far away, but Yang Mengqing has lived in the town for more than ten years, and he knows how to walk with his eyes closed, so it is naturally impossible to remember wrong.
We hid in the corner of the wall and observed for a few minutes, and didn't find anything wrong, so I took the lead with a gun, Yang Mengqing followed closely behind me, alerting the movement behind, and I observed the front, and the two of them quickly crossed the street, and they could already see the stone bridge not far away.
Just as I was glad that everything was going well, there was a sudden series of crisp sounds of metal hitting stones in the silent air, and it felt as if the iron pipes scattered on the bluestone street had been kicked by something, and then the sound fell silent.
The streets were dead silent again, but my heart was already in my throat, and just as I was reassuring myself that it might be the wild cats and dogs in the town that had accidentally kicked something, the sound of footsteps suddenly remembered in the silent air, and a series of footsteps, approaching us.
I sensed something was wrong and exclaimed, "Run!" ”
As soon as the words fell, I could already see a figure running towards this side in the depths of the fog, and the speed was definitely not the speed that people could have.
Yang Mengqing had already run out when I shouted, as fast as a rabbit, but I stayed where I was.
I scolded secretly, I really couldn't see that this girl was running so fast, and I hurriedly chased after her with all my strength. Helpless, this girl is running too fast, I carry a gun and a camera, and some other heavy objects, I can't catch up at all, and I was soon thrown off by her and I couldn't even see my back, I was busy yelling and waiting for me, but it was useless.
At this time, the shadow chasing behind me was already clearly visible, and it was indeed a living dead covered in thick sores. When I saw that he was about to catch up with me, I was so angry that I struck first, and raised my shotgun and aimed it at his head. The silence of the town was broken by the sound of a loud gunshot, and when I fired, the living dead rushed to a distance of less than two meters from me, and at such a close distance, the large-caliber shotgun bullet directly shot his head, bursting out countless green slime, and the living dead fell in response.
I saw that he was completely motionless, and I said that there was really no deception in the movie, and the head was really useful. In less than a second, my scalp exploded, and I only heard the sound of dense footsteps coming from the depths of the street.
I was so scared that I forgot to reload and ran wildly. But I couldn't match the speed of the monsters, and as soon as I ran to the middle of the bridge, they were already in view, and I just looked at them, and my legs went limp. As far as the eye could see, there were all the living dead, and there were no less than forty or fifty of them as far as I could see, and what was even more desperate was that just as I was about to collapse, a dense infant howl suddenly came from above my head.
Strange birds, I was terrified, and subconsciously looked up, and saw a dozen black and shiny sickle-billed strange birds hovering in the sky, appearing and disappearing in the fog, where I could barely see in my field of vision.
Dead! I muttered, almost giving up, but suddenly, I remembered Yang Mengqing's words, these living dead and strange birds seem to be afraid of water! I looked under the bridge and saw that the current was not very turbulent, so I hurriedly climbed the bridge railing, and was about to jump, but my back was grabbed. When I looked back, I saw that five or six hands full of ulcerated pus were grabbing my clothes and pulling me up the bridge.
I was in a hurry, struggling and trying to undress at the same time, but my clothes were strangled by the strap of my backpack and I couldn't take them off at all. I couldn't help but curse, I knew that this would be the case, I should have thrown away this broken camera and backpack, and now it's okay, in order to save the camera, I put my life on the line, which is really a big loss.
Just as the corpse hands were pulling me up the bridge little by little, and about to drag me back, suddenly there was a commotion among the corpses, and I saw many living dead being thrown out by something, and the living dead at the front showed a look of fear.
Soon, the thing that caused the riot appeared in my field of vision, and I was taken aback, and I thought to myself, what kind of monster is this?
It was a two-meter-tall humanoid behemoth, with arms as thick as my thighs combined, naked and russet. What makes the scalp tingle is that it looks as if a person has been stripped of his skin, exposing the muscles underneath the skin, which have been dried to reveal a distinct texture, like dry wood but full of explosive power.
One by one, the monster threw out all the living dead who had left me helpless as if they were garbage, and soon emptied the living dead who stood in his way.
I looked at the monster, and the monster looked at me, and I looked at his deep eyes, and suddenly a feeling arose that he had seen through it, and I hurriedly turned my eyes, and my heart was horrified. At the same time, the monster's eyes flashed with blood, and with a wave of his big hand, the three living dead who grabbed my clothes were cut into two pieces by him, and I suddenly felt my body loosen, and the upper body of the three living dead fell down with me.
What made me feel strange was that just as I was about to fall, the monster actually looked at me again, and I immediately felt as if my body was locked by something, but the monster immediately looked away, and the feeling of being locked was suddenly relaxed. It was a strange feeling, and I even suspected that if the monster hadn't let me go, I wouldn't have had a chance to fall down just now, and he would most likely have found a way to get me back on the bridge after falling into the air.
Thoughts of jumbled thoughts flooded my brain, but were then dispelled by the icy water. The river was not very fast, I didn't dare to stop after swimming out of the water, and swam frantically upstream, swimming straight out for nearly 100 meters, until I heard a soft cry from the river bank: "Little reporter, is that you?" Little Reporter ......"
This voice is somewhat familiar, I looked towards the shore, and found that Yang Mengqing was stretching her neck to look into the river, and I didn't care about blaming her for abandoning me and running away, and swam quickly to the shore.
As soon as I reached the riverbank, she was about to pull me in, but suddenly she saw something terrible, covered her mouth and screamed back. I already had experience and knew that there must be something behind me, so I crawled out of the water, and as soon as I got up, I noticed that something was wrong behind me, why did the backpack weigh so much?
When I turned my head, I also jumped, and I saw that the three living dead who had been cut in half by the monster were hanging from my backpack, dripping with green water, but fortunately they were already dead!
I hurriedly took off my backpack and shook off the three corpses, but as I shook the bodies of the three living dead, I found that there was some red gel-like thing that was constantly corroding the corpses at the severed body fractures, and it was almost up to the neck of the corpse.
I was dumbfounded by this scene, and I became even more curious about the monster.