Chapter 9 Humanoid Monsters
I was stunned by the scene in front of me, this black figure slowly crawled towards us from the top of the tomb, and as I got closer, I gradually saw that it had a human form, dirty white hair, skin was bloodless and pale, crumpled and bloodstained like crumpled paper, and its eyes were round and open, it was actually completely black, and there were two red dots in it. The mouth was split open at an incredible width, and the fangs were bared, red with blood. Then, the monster grabbed the person in its mouth and threw it aside, and I saw it. Its hands, which cannot be called hands at all, should be claws to be exact, slender claws, with pointed nails on each finger, and every step it takes, its claws dig deep into the stone wall, and the strength of this claw is great!
What the is this! My head was buzzing, my breathing quickened, and I swallowed hard and spit.
The stress response made my legs go limp, and I couldn't take a single step, keeping my eyes fixed on the monster. The monster's expression suddenly became as fierce as a beast, and it rushed towards us with a leap.
Oh, my God! This, what is this! It's a real-life version of zombies, no, it's more terrifying than zombies. I couldn't keep my sanity anymore, fast, fast, I had to run, my brain gave instructions to my legs, but my legs still couldn't move. Suddenly, the dust and wind pushed me, yes, I could move, I turned around and ran. And the moment I ran, the gunshots exploded behind me, the screams of the monsters continued, and my heart was in turmoil. There was only one thought in my head. Run!
"Fight, run while fighting, hurry!" Brother Dong shouted in the back.
Scared, I looked back a few times as I ran. I saw the monster bouncing back and forth on the walls of the tombway, gradually approaching me. I ran harder. The bullets fired from the guns in the back were full of fire, and the flashlight was swaying due to the running. After running for a while, I vaguely saw a fork in the road. Why is there a fork in the road? Haven't you seen it when you came? I didn't have time to think about this, so I turned around and jumped into the fork in the road.
As soon as I jumped in, I suddenly heard a scream, and when I looked back, a brother was thrown to the ground by a monster. I raised my eyes just in the eyes of the monster, and it, it looked at me fiercely. I was so frightened that my legs went limp, and I spread them back on the ground. I saw that the monster jumped to the wall next to it in order to avoid the bullet.
I shouted to the brother with all my might, "Run! ”
The brother quickly got up and was about to run in my direction. Suddenly, the monster leaped and actually crouched on the shoulders of the brothers. Its claws plunged deep into my brother's body, and there was another scream, and then the monster grabbed the brother's head, and the whole body spun 360 degrees. My brother's head spun around and then looked at me again, then fell, and the next second, the monster bit him on the neck. The horror made me completely forget to scream.
Because of the closeness, I watched my brother's face, which had been twisted and distorted, and there was still a trace of tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, and then slowly lost its blood, while the monster's dark eyes were still staring at me.
I couldn't take it anymore, and the last shred of reason in my head completely collapsed, and I screamed hysterically. Grabbed with both hands, and threw whatever he grabbed at the monster. These movements are completely subconscious, I want to save people, I really want to save people. But, but why is this happening. Tears of collapse came out like my screams.
At that moment, a blinding light shone brightly. I hurriedly covered my eyes, and then there was a constant burst of gunfire, which was deafening, and I covered my ears and cowered in the corner. Squinting his eyes, he saw that the monster seemed to have been shot so hard that half of its head was about to be blown off. Suddenly, the monster looked at me again, jumped a few times and fled.
At this moment, Dustwind suddenly jumped in front of me, looked at me, and chased after the monster.
Brother Dong and the others chased after each other for a while, and after the gunfire stopped, the silence around them returned.
Feeling safe for the time being, I sat against the wall, completely paralyzed, and sat there stupid, with tears still in my eyes, trying to digest what had happened. What the hell is going on. It's a dream, I want to wake up soon. I don't want to face all this.
Until I heard Brother Dong calling me next to me. "Grass, grass?" I slowly turned my head over and saw the brothers crouching around their dead partner. My nose was a little sore, I buried my head in my knees, I couldn't save him, and I felt terrible.
At this time, Dusty Wind also returned, shaking his head at Brother Dong.
Brother Dong sighed and said, "Look at what personal belongings this brother has, and bring them to his family when he goes back," and then he looked at me again and said, "Can you stand up?" Let's go further and rest for a while. "I was still shaking, and now I couldn't say anything but nod.
I slowly stood up against the wall. The brothers are still mourning for the dead brother, arranging his clothes and arranging him neatly, perhaps this is the greatest respect for the deceased. I lowered my head, closed my eyes, and slowly walked out of the fork in the road with tears in my eyes.
When I looked up again, I found that the surrounding tomb roads had completely changed, and there were many forks in the road. But I didn't bother to pay attention to these at all, I followed Brother Dong like a walking corpse, and kept walking, and kept walking, and walked for almost two hours, and my head was still wooden, and there was only the image of the monster staring at me in my head, but biting my brother's neck with its mouth, why did it become like this!
It wasn't until I stopped to rest and they started talking that my mind slowly returned to reality.
"Brother Dong, the situation doesn't seem right, someone came before us, and it's from abroad. This is different from what the intelligence says. Also, is this really a thousand-year-old tomb? Why is there no burial chamber structure that we are familiar with? It's been almost two hours away. It feels like it's almost in the belly of the mountain. Maybe if you walk again, you will reach the bottom of the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain. Xiao Qi said to Brother Dong, throwing the combustible materials into the fire as he spoke.
"Well, I also find it strange, either the family has been deceived. Either there's an internal ghost, and those people abroad know about our plan and want to get that thing before us. Saying that, Brother Dong took a bite of the biscuit and looked at the dusty wind.
"I'm only doing my job, and the rest has nothing to do with me. But without that thing, they would have come for nothing. After saying that, Dusty Wind finished the last biscuit, lay down and began to rest.
I listened quietly, looked at them, but still didn't want to say a word. I suddenly felt that everything in front of me was too far away, that anything important, whatever the task, nothing the fuck had to do with me, all I could do was try to get out alive. yes, get out alive and get back to my real life. Go to my class well, talk about my love well, and honor my parents well.
As soon as this thought came to me, I felt that I could no longer be depressed like this, and I tried to order myself to stay awake. I close my eyes and try not to think about those horrible images, I am too passive now, they are all trained and have the ability to protect themselves. I don't, I have to keep my physical strength and try my best to reduce the drag on others, so that I can be protected. To conserve your strength, you have to consume energy, yes, my food. Maybe because of the fright, I didn't eat much for a day, but I didn't feel hungry at all. But I knew it wouldn't work, so I started rummaging through my backpack for food and water, and ate hard.
Seeing that I started to eat, Brother Dong walked over, "Xiaocao, you have finally recovered, great." He patted me on the shoulder and cheered me up.
"Brother Dong, I just want to get out alive now, I don't want to drag everyone back." After that, I continued to eat. Although I still have some difficulty swallowing after the stress reaction. But I swallowed hard anyway.
"That's right, that's right, let's Xiaocao, more and more gentlemen."
I didn't look at him, I continued to bow my head and said, "Aren't we going back now?" A brother is gone! ”
Dustwind glanced at me, then turned over to the other side and went to sleep.
Brother Dong paused and said, "It's all here, it should be soon, let's go out with Ming'er." I'll introduce you to a few girls, and you can just mention the conditions, the beautiful, the ugly, the old and the young, and the brother will satisfy you. ”
Are you kidding! I glared at him, and now I'm only interested in how to get out.
"Brother Xiaocao, come out and mix, we have already put life and death out of the way, this mission is really very important, it is related to the lives of you and Brother Dong, and there can be no sloppiness." It's the first time I've seen Xiao Qi talk to me so seriously. He went on to say:
"We are all very sad to lose our brother, but it does not help us to meet the possible dangers ahead, we must adjust our mentality quickly, otherwise our psychology would have collapsed a long time ago."
That's true, looking at these people, fighting for their lives to survive, I lowered my head and couldn't say anything.
It was very uncomfortable to wake up from a night's sleep. I couldn't sleep comfortably on the cold ground, and I had that strange dream, the black beast in the dream, which kept me awake, and the white withered hands, like the monsters I saw, were white and bloodless. I couldn't sleep because of the nightmare, so I sat up at 5 a.m. The fire was still lit. I asked my brother who was watching me to go to bed, and I looked around. There were dark graves on both sides, and the brothers should be exhausted and snoring.
I took out my phone and habitually opened Douyin, I wanted to watch something relaxing to relieve my mood, but I reacted when I saw that there was no signal, laughing at myself for being stupid. So I flipped through the photos, looked at my parents, looked at the class reunion, looked at my cat, fantasized about the hot heating in the house, my mother's concerned face, and my hands began to tremble a little. Quickly retract your thoughts, turn off your phone, and put it back in your pocket. After turning off my phone, I was lonely again.
I lowered my head and threw the fuel block into the fire. Suddenly, there seemed to be something more on my shoulder, and I looked at it with my peripheral vision, a white hand, ah! I jumped to my feet. But when I stood up, I found that there was nothing behind me. The others also crawled up because of my screams.
"Xiaocao, what's wrong?" Brother Dong asked vigilantly.
"Just now, it seems that there is a hand, a white hand, on my shoulder." I shouted in a hurry.
In an instant, everyone had their weapons in their hands. Dustwind stared up at the roof. But for a while, nothing happened.
Brother Dong took back his pistol, shook his shoulders and said, "Xiaocao, I guess you are hallucinating, you should have been frightened by yesterday's events, it's okay, everyone packed up their things and prepared to go." ”
I wanted to explain something, but I couldn't tell you what that hand felt too real.
After tidying up, we continued to walk, in the dark passage. I really can't tell if it's day or night. The speed of travel was not fast, and the little man who was exploring the road in front said from time to time, "Such a strange layout, neither according to the layout of the Yin Mansion of Feng Shui, nor the layout of the Qimen Dunjia, all the passages are irregular." It's too weird" After listening, Xiao Qi in the back asked Brother Dong, "Brother Dong, did the old man say what kind of tomb this is?" ”
"No, let's just say that it is something left by the ancestors of mankind very early. I didn't say how long it was. And he said that we had to go deep into the mountains this time to find what we were looking for. I don't look like a tomb. Is this old man fooling me, always lying to his eldest grandson, not good. Brother Dong said as he used his knife to cut off the dead roots that grew from the stone wall.
"I look at it, I should call the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, you are not always fooling us." Xiao Qi scolded Brother Dong.
"Damn, who are you talking about? See if I don't beat you old lady wrestling, looking for teeth all over the ground. Saying that, Brother Dong slapped Xiao Qi on the head. Brother Dong and a few guys began to scold each other, seeing that they were noisy, I followed behind, and the corners of my mouth also rose slightly.
Brother Dong saw that my expression eased a lot, so he said, "Xiaocao, people have been depressed and can't adapt to the environment, I know that it is a little difficult for you to accept everything suddenly, and I didn't expect it to become so complicated." But we must also look the same as before. I promise you that you will be kept safe. Cheer up so you can deal with the rest of the story, I don't want everybody to die here. ”
"Well, Brother Dong, I understand. But the only thing I don't know now is why the killers killed everyone who saw the black hole. What the hell is that black hole stone? "I think it's time to ask.