Chapter 5: Monsters
The night is getting darker and darker.
Walking through the unusually silent, almost heartbeat-sounding street, he never saw a single pedestrian other than himself.
The feeling of uneasiness was rapidly surging into Jiang Xiaofeng's heart, and everything around him was full of indescribable weirdness.
His instincts were telling him that this was not the place he could stay.
He had to get out of here as quickly as possible, out of this uninhabited area that made him deeply uneasy.
Jiang Xiaofeng quickened his pace, but he didn't know why, he always felt that the air around him was filled with an invisible resistance, which made his actions take a little more strength than usual.
It didn't take long for his pace to slow down, and then he stopped his pace directly, and he couldn't run anymore.
Jiang Xiaofeng bent over, his hands on his knees, and gasped for air.
Inadvertently, he saw a shadow on the ground, it was his figure, which was being pulled by the street lamp behind him.
Well?
Jiang Xiaofeng blinked, he suddenly noticed his shadow, as if something was wrong.
Probably...... Did you read it wrong?
After all, he hasn't moved by himself, and the street lamp doesn't grow legs, so how can this shadow move on its own?
He thinks so, but the truth doesn't change because of what he thinks.
He stared at the ground, watching the dark shadow on the ground in front of him swelling from the bottom up.
Jiang Xiaofeng's breathing became heavy, and he suddenly thought of a possibility, that is, something appeared behind him silently.
And as the distance closes, and gradually, it covers his figure.
He looked back nervously and saw the dark green eyes that made his heart palpitate, and a large pitch-black figure.
Jiang Xiaofeng's body stiffened in place, and in his mind, there was a brief blank.
This...... What exactly is it?
It's a monster, right?
His pupils changed dramatically, and he quickly recognized the monster's image, which in appearance was somewhat vaguely similar to the rats he usually saw.
It's just that a normal rat is at most a few tens of centimeters long, and the "mouse" in front of him—let's assume it's a mouse—has a body size larger than an adult tiger, almost the size of a bus.
He was already afraid of rats, not to mention, the gigantic "rats", and behind the "rats", there was some kind of strange dark green flame burning.
It's a monster!
Jiang Xiaofeng panicked, not daring to look into the monster's eyes, as if doing so, he would reduce his presence in front of the monster.
He knew in his heart that there was no point in doing so, and it didn't even alleviate the fear in his heart.
He was really feeling the heavy shadow pressing on him, making his body tremble uncontrollably, and as for his heart, it seemed as if it was about to jump out of his body.
Vaguely, he felt the fishy smell exhaled by the monster, and then he suddenly realized that the monster's sharp teeth were less than half a meter away from his head.
The monster's nose moved, as if to sniff his smell, whether it belonged to the smell of food.
At this moment, he couldn't help but give birth to the thought of "is he going to die".
No!
He doesn't want to die yet!
Jiang Xiaofeng roared in his heart, even if he lived an ordinary life in this world, there were still a lot of things he wanted to do, for himself, not just for himself.
He had suppressed his fear for a while, regained control of his body, and perhaps an outburst in desperation, he felt a resurgence of power within him.
With this power, he turned his back to the monster and ran as hard as he could in the direction away from the monster.
Run!
Run hard!
He didn't know if the monster had caught up, he didn't dare to look back, he was afraid to see the monster still behind him, so he ran as hard as he could, until his body seemed to be about to fall apart - almost to the limit.
"Whoa!"
Jiang Xiaofeng didn't know what he stepped on, he couldn't stabilize his body, and the whole person let him fall out.
His arm brushed the ground, and suddenly, he felt a hot pain.
It took him a while to get used to the pain and struggled to his feet.
Then, he looked around nervously, trying to find the figure of the monster just now.
"It didn't chase it!"
Jiang Xiaofeng was ecstatic in his heart, and thought of escaping from this strange area now.
But how?
He retracted his smile and wondered.
Just now he was just running away, not paying attention to where he had run to.
He wasn't familiar with everything here, whether it was the roads or the buildings, it was all unfamiliar.
That's right.
Digital Map!
He took out his phone, opened it, and saw that it was less than 10 percent charged—glad it was still 10 percent.
Well?
Don't have an internet connection?
It doesn't matter, he has gone offline in advance the map of Baiyun City, and although his mobile phone is cheap and known as a brick, it is still loaded with the third-generation Tianyi positioning system.
It is said that as long as you stand on the surface of the Yuanxing, even in some caves, you can receive satellite signals from the Tianyi positioning system.
And then...... Jiang Xiaofeng almost threw his phone out.
No signal at all!
So, where the hell is this?
Everything here is unfamiliar, strange as if it were a little fake, and it seems to be shrouded in gray fog.
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying he felt, fearing all the unknown and beyond his imagination.
Maybe it's a nightmare?
For the first time, he looked forward to the nightmare so much, and nervously and forcefully pinched his thigh, trying to convince himself, only to feel a real pain.
He...... Aren't you dreaming......
Yes!
Jiang Xiaofeng finally collapsed, and then sat on the ground weakly, his mind full of blank.
When he came back to his senses, he saw the monster he had seen not long ago.
He forgot his fear for a moment, and looked at the monster that appeared not far in front of him, its dark green eyes.
He vaguely felt that the way the monster looked at him seemed to have some teasing flavor.
So, the reason why he was able to run so far was just a malicious joke given to him by the monster?
At this moment, the monster suddenly turned around and burned the dark green flame behind it even more vigorously.