Chapter Eighty-Nine: The End of the Curse
"This man died in the morning, and it took a lot of effort to untie it, so please throw it away."
This corpse, if it weren't for the fact that it still had a human head, it would be hard to imagine that it was a human. Its entire body was elongated like a snake, its hands and feet were twisted into the shape of noodles and rolled up, and even its body was constantly twisted in the shape of a whirlpool.
"This ...... It's ......"
Dong Xie and the three of them were all shocked, and then couldn't help but look at the gap between the window and the door, and from the gap, everyone finally saw the appearance of these people clearly...... The huge wooden house was already completely crowded with people, all of whom were twisted and entangled like snakes, and if they didn't all have human heads, they wouldn't have been able to imagine that the creatures in this room were actually human!
"The people in these longhouses have also been cursed by the whirlpool." Dong Xie said with a solemn face: "Fortunately, we haven't lived there all the time, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable." ”
Wang Qiu also swallowed his saliva, nodded with difficulty, and said: "Yes, these people are huddled together, and in the end, they have become the appearance of this person who is not a ghost or a ghost, if it were me, I would rather die." ”
Director Ma sighed and said, "There's no way, let's continue to walk inside, maybe there will be some clues inside." ”
Then the three of them continued to walk into the town, and as for the bodies that were thrown out, no one cared, and they were not some kind of virgin, who would kindly collect the bodies of these people cursed by the whirlpool.
Along the way, everyone could hear some human whispers from the longhouses on either side, but the voices were so low that they couldn't hear what they were saying. Dong Xie can probably guess this...... These people, all because they were afraid of the tornado in that town, developed this habit, and they didn't dare to speak loudly even in the house.
Wang Qiu sighed: "We only stayed in the mountains for a day or two, and this place has become like this, and I really don't know what happened here." ”
Dong Xie looked left and right, and said: "If I guess correctly, I'm afraid our time has also been distorted, I'm afraid that several years have passed in this Wudao town, otherwise, you can ask what year it is." ”
"Oh?" When Wang Qiu heard this, he immediately leaned in front of a window and asked the people inside, "Hey, may I ask, do you know what year it is?" ”
The people in the room were still in a state of twisting and entanglement, but their thoughts were still retained, and when they heard Wang Qiu's question, a man near the window said unhurriedly: "Huh? Isn't it 2016? ”
"2016?!" Wang Qiu's face changed, it was last year...... No, they came to Goto Town back four years ago, in 2013, in other words, they spent three years in the mountains for a day or two?
However, a woman's head next to the man's head said: "What nonsense are you talking about, you came in 2016, I came in 2017, no one has been here for a shorter time than me, and it's 2017." ”
"Huh? Is it 2017 now? Another middle-aged man's head was surprised: "It's been so long?" When is this day going to be the end? ”
"Humph!" The man's head looked coldly at the woman's head, and said, "I can't stop it, I just don't listen, someone will sneak in at night, and we will all be entangled together." ”
Not to be outdone, the woman said, "You are also qualified to say me?" Aren't you the same? ”
Wang Qiu's scalp was numb and he left the window, unwilling to listen to the chatter and complaints of these people.
"It seems that the power of this vortex can really affect time and space, and we are already in 2017."
What Wang Qiu said to those people in the room just now, Dong Xie and Director Ma naturally heard it clearly, but the more this is the case, the more they can feel the horror of this vortex curse, and this town is really incomprehensible.
"Let's keep walking." Director Ma shook his head and said, "Xiushu, they don't know where they went......"
Dong Xie also nodded and said, "Let's inquire about Xiushu's parents again...... I wish they hadn't gone into the hut. ”
Everyone continued to go deeper into it, and now the town of Wudao has become like a huge labyrinth, with layers of wooden longhouses isolating the paths, and some places are blocked by rubble, steel bars and other things, and it is impossible to climb over the past. This further deepened the complexity of the terrain in Goto Town, and there were still places that had not yet been covered, and countless twisted people could be seen still holding wooden planks and hammers and so on to build houses together, and it looked like countless tentacle monsters, stretching out their tentacles to repair their bodies.
During this period, Dong Xie and the others also inquired about the whereabouts of Saito Hideki's parents along the way, but without exception, all the people in the house said that they didn't know, didn't know, and hadn't seen ...... This also made them feel more and more in their hearts that Hideki Saito's parents should really be dead.
In addition, there were some decomposing human corpses thrown not far from the door of the wooden house, and these people were naturally rolled into the shape of a whirlpool like the people in the house, looking extremely terrifying. These people should all be the bodies of people who died in the longhouse, and they were thrown out, and those people in the longhouse also asked Dong Xie to throw these corpses farther away, because these corpses are too ugly. However, even so, they were unwilling to step out of this door, even if they died, they would die in this wooden house.
"There are no tornadoes in this town now, alas......" Wang Qiu tried to wave his hand, but there was no tornado.
Director Ma said: "It should be the influence of these longhouses...... Originally, these longhouses were immune to tornadoes for some reason, but now these longhouses are connected together, and it is estimated that the entire town of Goto is covered, so it is like this. ”
Dong Xie sighed and said, "I'm afraid, this Wudao Town has completely turned into a whirlpool. ”
"Huh? What do you mean? Wang Qiu asked.
Dong Xie pointed to the houses on both sides and said, "The appearance of these houses, as well as these arcs...... Haven't you ever imagined what it would be like if the whole town were like this? ”
Director Ma and Wang Qiu immediately thought about it, if this town was really connected by these longhouses and formed a circle...... No, not in a circle, but in ...... Swirl!
Wang Qiu and Director Ma immediately realized that the Wudao Town they were in now might have turned into a huge whirlpool-shaped building!
Seeing the ugly faces of the two, Dong Xie also said with a strong spirit: "Don't be so nervous, at least for now, there is no problem, right?" As long as we don't die and enter this wooden house, isn't it okay? ”
Director Ma frowned and said, "I always have an ominous premonition, there are still some places where these wooden houses have not been completely built, if these wooden houses are all built and connected together, that is to say...... This swirl-shaped super building really takes shape...... What will happen? ”
As soon as Director Ma said this, Dong Xie and Wang Qiu's faces suddenly changed...... With Director Ma's auspicious power, I'm afraid it's a good spirit but not a bad spirit.
Wang Qiu suddenly kept silently reciting in his heart: "Xiangrui Imperial Exemption, the house is safe, Xiangrui Imperial Exemption, the family house is safe......"
However, it is not known whether this will be useful or not......
At this time, a black smoke floated out of nowhere, and after this black smoke floated into the sky, it quickly circled up, forming a huge black vortex, which looked really terrifying.
Dong Xie and the three of them could see it clearly in the town, and the whirlpool formed by the black smoke covered the entire Wudao Town, making people suddenly think that it was dark......
"This smoke ......" Dong Xie and they all had solemn faces, after listening to the experience of Saito Hideki and Goto Makoto, they were all deeply impressed by this smoke, but all the people who were cremated in Goto Town would form this swirl-shaped black smoke, and eventually be sucked into the dragonfly pond in the center of Goto Town.
Sure enough, after a while, the black smoke turned into a spiral shape and fell towards the center of Goto Town, almost like a whirlpool in the sea.
"It looks like someone is cremating the body...... Who is it? Dong Xie said with a frown.
At this moment, a man with a scruffy beard and shabby clothes approached from a distance with several elongated human corpses dragging on his body.
"Are there corpses here too? Let's take it away and burn it......" The man saw a whirlpool-shaped corpse at his feet, so he lifted the corpse's feet and hung them on his shoulders, and dragged them to walk.
The man kept his attention on his feet, but he didn't notice Dong Xie and them, and Dong Xie and the others hurriedly ran over after seeing the man...... This is the first normal human they've encountered since they returned to Goto Town!
"Hello! Excuse me......"
Wang Qiu shouted loudly, and after the man heard Wang Qiu's voice, he immediately raised his head in astonishment, and the moment he raised his head, everyone was stunned.
Dong Xie's eyes widened, he looked at the man's face in surprise, pointed to his face and said, "You...... You...... You are...... Hideki? ”
The man in front of him, although he looks very haggard, his face still looks very handsome, and the glasses he wears on his face are also very familiar to Dong Xie, this face is ...... No matter how you look at it, it looks like Hideki Saito's face!
And after this man saw Dong Xie and them, he was also stunned for a moment, and said, "Mr. Dong, Wang Qiu, Director Ma!" You guys...... Are you finally back?! ”
Sure enough, this man who looks like a homeless man is really Hideki Saito!
Wang Qiu said: "Xiushu...... You...... How did you become like this? What about the real piano? Did you make it? Sent Masao out? ”
Hideki Saito smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that ...... That's right. ”
Saito Hideki dropped the body, sighed, and said, "Makoto is very good, Makoto is over there in the crematorium now, you should have seen the black smoke just now, it was Makoto burning the corpse." Makoto and I went around the mountain for five or six days, but unfortunately, we couldn't find our way out, and finally ...... Masao, he still became a snail man. ”
Dong Xie and the three of them were silent, and after a while, Director Ma sighed and said, "Alas, let's mourn." ”
Hideki Saito continued: "Later, we had no choice but to let Masao live in the mountains, so that at least we wouldn't be treated as a monster. Then we went down the hill to find that two years had passed in the town...... And, during this time, they have been building wooden houses, and before they know it, they have become what they are now......"
Wang Qiu frowned and said: "We only stayed on the mountain for a day or two, and as a result, four years have passed, and you have stayed on the mountain for a longer time, why is it that the time that has passed is even shorter?" ”
"I don't know ......" Dong Xie shook his head, and then said: "By the way, it's almost night now, and it will be very dangerous here, so you come with me." ”
"Dangerous?" Everyone was stunned, what is the danger? Now there are no tornadoes in the town, are they?
Dong Xie pointed to the corpses on the ground and said, "The danger is that these corpses ......"
"Huh?!"
Hideki Saito said with a serious face: "If these corpses are left alone, at night, they will get up and move, just like the zombies in Resident Evil, and will actively attack humans." Only by hiding in a longhouse, or leaving the town range, will you not be attacked by them. ”
"I see," Dong Xie nodded, and said, "I'......ll just say, why don't you have to worry about tornadoes in the town now, why are these people still huddled in the house." No wonder they didn't dare to come out. ”
Director Ma said: "Xiushu, you have been here for so long, have you found any clues about this bloody word mission?" ”
Hideki Saito took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "A little bit...... I only know a little bit. ”
"Really?!" Everyone was shocked, but they didn't expect Hideki Saito to find a clue?!
Hideki Saito said with a solemn face, "You've all seen these longhouses too, right?" ”
"Hmm." Everyone nodded.
Hideki Saito took a deep breath and said, "These longhouses are built in the shape of a whirlpool, which is what Goto Town should have been...... The previous longhouses are just a few remnants of other houses that have collapsed and broken down over the centuries. In the past two years, I have worked hard to find a lot of clues, and I can confirm one thing...... That is, when the town is completely reduced to a whirlpool, the curse will also come to an end. I don't know what will happen, but it's our last chance, and all the clues point to the dragonfly pond in the center of town...... Why do anyone who is cremated end up being sucked into a dragonfly pool? Even a typhoon will be sucked in...... What exactly is hidden in the dragonfly pool? I suspect that the Dragonfly Pool must be the source of the Vortex Curse, and it will also be...... Our Last Hope! ”
(End of chapter)