The next morning, I was woken up by a loud noise. When I slept in a daze, I heard strange shouts in my ears.

"What's wrong?"

I asked, yawning and looking at the sky outside, the clouds were reddish as if it hadn't been sunrise for a long time.

"Dead man."

Lingqian's voice suddenly came from the door, and I was shocked, as if I didn't hear her words clearly, and asked, "Someone died?" Who died? ”

Lingqian didn't answer and turned around and walked out, I looked out, and there were many people around the open space outside the door. In the crowd, there appeared to be a woman kneeling on the ground crying, the village elder Han and the people around him were comforting, and a corpse was lying on the ground covered with a white cloth.

I hurriedly got up from the ground, and at the same time kicked the fat man who was still sleeping next to me, and rushed out of the house in three steps and two steps.

When the old man saw us, he hurriedly said, "The dead are the younger brother of a hunter who disappeared before, and it seems that he drank too much last night, and he carried a shotgun into the mountains to find his brother with the strength of wine." I didn't think about it, I didn't come back overnight, and I was found by a few people who went up the mountain to cut down trees at dawn today, and I was out of gas before I carried it back. ”

I nodded, crouching down next to the corpse, Lingqian gently lifted the white cloth, revealing a face that had been unrecognizable, the entire nose had been shaved off, the left half of the face was completely shattered, and the bones that pierced the skin could be seen above the eyes. The blood that came out had coagulated, and the plasma had formed a blood clot along with the plasma. To be honest, it was very disgusting, I almost threw up when I saw it, and the people around me also avoided it, only the village elder and the deceased's wife were still around.

I pursed my mouth and didn't speak, but Lingqian was calm, and even stretched out his hand to open the deceased's eyes, the left eyeball was gone, but there were obvious scars around the eye socket, as if the eyeballs had been gouged out by life. Examination of the body continued, and there were no visible injuries on his body other than a few minor abrasions, which meant that he died entirely from a severe blow to the head.

"There were no injuries on the body, and the scars must have been inflicted when he fell down the mountain. It was clear that the head had been hit with tremendous force, but it wasn't the tiger'......"

Lingqian's words are not unfounded, and I have noticed that although the deceased looked miserable, there were no obvious bite marks on his head, and there were no tooth marks even on the part where the bones were pierced. And if it is attacked by a tiger, the beast will not only attack the head, but will not move the body. Moreover, the deceased was drunk, and according to Lingqian, the tiger did not eat drunk people.

"Where's the shotgun?"

Something suddenly occurred to me and I shouted. The village elder hurriedly asked someone to bring the shotgun, and when I looked at it like this, I was immediately startled!

Generally, hunting rifles are still used in hunting in this old forest, but they are not very powerful, they are generally made of iron, the barrel is very thick, and the body of the gun can be used as a weapon when fighting at close range. Of course, this is also hidden by the village, and the upper authorities don't care much if they know about it, after all, they have to give the villagers a bite to eat.

However, the whole body of the shotgun I see now has been beaten into a "C" shape by the tremendous force, and I reached out and took the shotgun, held it in my hand and tried it, even if I used all my strength, I couldn't break it back.

"What is so powerful? Ghosts and tigers shouldn't be able to do it. ”

I muttered in a low voice, Lingqian's brows furrowed even tighter, and she stood up and said, "You settle the dead first, remember not to put it in a place where you can see the moonlight, and pay attention to avoid water and black soil." ”

After a few confessions, the village chief asked the body to be carried away. Lingqian pulled me aside, just as the fat man came out of the house, and the three of them gathered together.

"I thought, maybe what I said yesterday has come true."

Lingqian's words made my heart jump suddenly, but the fat man muttered, "What are you saying?" ”

"There may be more than just tigers and ghosts around here. Something more powerful could be staring at the village. ”

However, it was impossible to draw conclusions in the end just by discussing, and in the morning the old man arranged for five or six hunters to lead the way, and also led three dogs, and went into the mountains with us to observe on the spot.

The roads in the mountains were not easy to walk, the hunters were very fast, and the fat man and I were often left behind. When you really walk into the forest, you will find that this place is not the same as the dense forest in my impression, the distance between the trees is relatively large, the ground is flat, and all kinds of birds that I can't name often fly overhead.

"It's just ahead."

The hunter in the lead waved at us, and the three of them hurried over. This is the place where the body was found in the morning, and we watched separately, while the hunters led the dogs to keep watch.

I walked towards the forest on the right with my bag on my back, and I could see some blood stains on the ground from time to time, and when I looked up, it was not difficult to see that this was the route of the deceased's escape.

Pursing his lips, some imaginary images came to his mind, and before dawn, the drunken Orion entered the forest with a shotgun. In a daze, he walked farther and farther away, and suddenly he was attacked in the dark, and he must have been shot, but it was useless. The other party hit him in the head, maybe the claws gouged out his eyeballs, and the blood flowed all over the ground, he covered his eyes and turned around and ran. I ran all the way to the rocks not far behind me, and I couldn't run anymore and fell to the ground, and was hit through the head by the guy who caught up!

I followed the trail of blood, deeper and deeper into the woods, and even unconsciously distanced myself from the people behind me. By the time I could react, a white mist had risen in the surrounding woods, and the fog was getting thicker and thicker, and soon obscured the surrounding trees and my way back.

At the same time, as the fog drifted up, the surroundings began to get colder, and I could even open my mouth to drink the white gas.

Something didn't seem right, and I immediately became vigilant, pulling out my bone dagger and looking around. In the mist, something seemed to be wandering, but it was silent, and I couldn't see clearly. But it felt so strong, so strong that it seemed like it was behind me.

"Fatty, can you hear me?"

I shouted, the sound echoing between the trees, but after a few seconds, I didn't hear the fat man's answer.

At most, I walked out a few dozen meters, when did the fog float up? Why can't fat people hear me?

At this moment, there was a sudden sound behind me!

"Click!"

I turned my head sharply and looked fixedly, and just ten meters away from me, a tall black shadow slowly emerged under the thick fog. This black shadow is at least two meters tall, and compared to my height of about 1.77 meters, it is simply a giant.

The black shadow did not come close to me, but it exuded a powerful aura. I gripped the bone dagger and tried desperately to adjust my breathing. I have already experienced several dangers in Xuanming Temple, and my courage is much greater than in the past, and I am naturally calmer than before with more experience.

The shadow took a few steps to the left, but there were no footsteps, no beast-like roar. I looked very carefully, it could never be an illusion of fog formation!

It took a few more steps to the right, then stopped again, and I didn't dare to alarm it, but tried to go backwards. If that huge black shadow is some kind of monster, I can only fight it alone! For now, the only way to do this is to get out of the fog and join the fat man as soon as possible.

But just as I took a step back, the black shadow moved, and in the mist, it slowly stretched out a hand, and at this time I had lowered my breathing to the limit. I widened my eyes and saw that the hand that stretched out the mist was not a human hand, and it was not even the same claw I had seen in the past, it was a pair of stone arms! A huge palm made of dark and angular stones!

It grabbed the trunk of a tree next to me, which was about half my body thick, only to hear the sound of "bang bang ......", and the trunk was slowly broken by the stone arm, such a big tree would have taken me a lot to cut with an axe, but the monster in front of me did it as easily as breaking chopsticks!

The broken tree was lifted up by its strange force, I already felt that the situation was wrong, and I turned and ran suddenly, this time there was a dull and terrible roar behind me, the wind was blowing from behind, the hair on my back was blowing, there was a great danger approaching, at this moment I was desperate! Adventurously stopped, and threw himself forward. The moment I lay on the ground, a huge tree trunk flew over my head!

In a moment, even if I was only a second slower, I might have been hit by this big tree! The end can be imagined!