Chapter 43: The Swamp
Hole.
After passing through the long passage, Cornelia, Limu, and Elsa entered a swamp.
It was still Cornelia leading the way, the swamp was very eerie and quiet, the swamp in the cave was already very strange, and the dark vines on the surrounding walls were even more eerie, intertwined with each other, like entangled snakes.
The sewage under his feet was a dull yellow, bubbling with cloudy bubbles, rotten grass and rotten leaves, and a lot of strange hard objects, like bones.
But...... At the moment most of them have turned to mud and emit a disgusting stench.
Gradually, the three of them went deeper into the swamp.
The more Elsa walked, the more strange she felt, there was not a single living creature in this cave......
Not to mention rats, not even a single mosquito has been seen.
This strange underground swamp seemed to swallow all life, and the silence was terrifying.
Cornelia suddenly stopped, she looked down at the map, carefully discerning the direction, underground, she had long been unable to distinguish between east and south, north, west, and north, and relied on this map to guide her forward.
"Questions?" Limu, who had barely spoken a word along the way, suddenly asked.
"There's no road ahead." Cornelia said.
"Show me." Limu stared at her and held out his hand.
"Let's see, there's a rock there, just enough to take a break." Elsa held out her hand.
There was indeed a huge stone in that swamp, grayish-white, very flat, not to mention three people, five people could sit down.
Nor did Cornelia and Lim dispute the idea of taking a break, as navigating the swamp was physically demanding.
Although the physical strength of the three of them is quite outstanding, if they encounter a monster for a while, they will naturally have a better chance of winning if they have more physical strength.
That's it! The swamp suddenly surged violently!
"Save ...... Help ......"
"Help Me ......"
A pale hand reached out from behind the big rock.
"Who?" Limu asked, staring at him.
"I'm Harry...... Soldiers of the 7th detachment of the Ministry of Defense......"
"We ...... Still alive......"
We?
The soldier who identified himself as Harry revealed a message, and the three exchanged glances.
"Save." Cornelia was succinct and walked over.
Limuye Elsa followed, and the three of them came to the gray and white stone, looked behind them, and immediately saw the soldier who had just called for help.
"Pop ......"
Elsa's self-defense dagger fell into the swamp.
Her pupils trembled wildly, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
Behind the white stones, densely packed with people!
All they had left was a face floating on the yellow and black rancid mud, as if it had grown out of the mud.
The body was completely invisible, and had been swallowed up in the swamp.
The only one whose head and mouth could still move and reach out was the one next to the stone.
The other soldiers were all gone, their pupils completely devoid of their brilliance, no different from corpses, and they couldn't tell whether they were dead or alive.
"Give it to me."
Surprisingly, the first person to come back to God to save people was Limu.
Elsa seems to have reacquainted with him, is this still the same selfish person?
The soldier who was still alive was also very excited, his body was so tightly absorbed by the swamp that it was impossible to get out of it alone, at this moment, as soon as he grasped Limu's hand, he suddenly felt a force.
His body was slowly moving upwards.
Soon, he was stoned by Limu.
"Stretch out your hands!"
Lim knelt on the edge of the stone and stretched out his hand and shouted.
However, the soldiers who appeared on the swamp with only one face left did not react in the slightest.
"I'm sorry......" Harry suddenly apologized, "I lied...... Everyone is dead...... I'm afraid that if I'm the only one alive, you won't risk coming to save me......"
He sat down on the stone with a look of unease.
Cornelia looked at Harry, a young man, no more than twenty years old.
His clothes were completely soaked with yellow liquid, and he was covered in rancid mud.
Should he apologize?
Cornelia didn't think so.
Harry lowered his head, waiting for everyone's rebuke and abuse.
However, he didn't hear the imaginary things.
"Rest well."
Lim whispered, and he stood up, looking at the dense corpses in the other direction of the swamp.
Every face floating on the swamp is a young soul who has just passed away.
Harry looked up at him, as if something was choking in his throat.
He thought it was a choked up, but soon, Harry was coughing.
"Ahem...... cough cough cough cough ......"
Harry's cough was thin and high-pitched, and it immediately caught the attention of the three men.
Harry's face turned red, and he knelt on the stone, his head bowed and bent over, coughing dizzily.
Cornelia was the first to frown.
Immediately afterward, Limu's face changed.
"Vomit ......"
With a vomit, colorful things spurted out of Harry's mouth, bright red blood, tangled intestines, beating heart......
Harry grabbed his throat in pain and fell limply.
The red heart rolled down into the swamp, still beating slightly.
Elsa's eyes widened, and by the time she realized something terrible was happening, Harry was dead.
"Vomit ......"
Elsa also retched, she was not afraid of the dead, and she had seen many more disgusting scenes than this.
But...... It was the first time she had seen a living person die in front of her.
The strong and strange atmosphere completely surrounded her, Elsa's face turned from white to red, and her whole body trembled.
"Get out of here, now!"
Limu said with an extremely ugly face.
Things have changed...... The object of his cooperation seems to have aroused his heart.
"Let's go!" Lim yelled again.
He wasn't worried about the lives of these two women, but their combat power was necessary.
Elsa subconsciously followed his voice, but Cornelia stood still, her eyes fixed on her feet.
"Miss Cornelia, get out of here, there's a weird ......," Elsa shouted, turning her head.
She had already retreated in the direction she had come from, and only Cornelia was still standing on the stone.
"I can't go." Cornelia said suddenly.
Her eyes looked in the other direction, and there was ...... Elsa's feet.
"Whew-"
A silver-white knife flashed, and in Elsa's horrified gaze, Cornelia's knife actually came out of her hand and flew straight towards her!
Why did she attack me?
As soon as this thought came to her, Elsa realized that she had misunderstood, although the knife was aimed at herself, but the target was her feet!
"Poofโ"
The long knife was inserted diagonally between the swamps.
A large puddle of red blood spilled from his feet.
Elsa's eyes widened, there was a living creature under the swamp!