Chapter 24: Up the Mountain
The crackling light of the fire shone on Qing Shui's face, and he was sitting by the fireplace, boredly adding a handful of firewood to the stove.
There were more than a dozen people lying in the hall, and everyone arranged a rotation order, each district sent one person, and four people kept vigil together, alternating waves every two hours, so that everyone could sleep soundly.
Qing Shui is still haunted by what happened before, and he is not very willing to cooperate with the first district, not to mention Shan Hongwei, what really makes him jealous is the serial killer named Lin Jie.
The last time he was at the inn, he had already heard about the horror of that person from Chen Zhi's mouth. Who knows if such a pervert with an antisocial personality will do something crazy during the mission. Although more than 20 days have passed, and the other party is calm on the surface and has not done anything, Qing Shui always feels uneasy.
What worries him the most is that within a month, the food that the Dream Breakers carried at the beginning has been depleted, and there is not even a single dead fish or shrimp in the lake.
As long as they avoid dark places, they will not be attacked. Everyone struggled to support themselves by finding food in houses all over the town, but the bad thing was that there were still no clues about the life of the mission and the "old seals" mentioned by Li Chenyin and others.
These days, the guy named He Hongfei has been scolded by Dai Shikai and Liu Ke, and the daily routine of the two of them is eating, sleeping, searching for supplies, and "whipping the corpse" He Hongfei.
Qing Shui rubbed his temples with a little headache, just as Li Chenyin said, after getting along with the Cthulhu mythos creatures for a long time, ordinary people will also be affected to a certain extent, and their spirits will be slowly eroded. He didn't dare to think that if he continued to stay in this town, he was afraid that everyone would have a certain degree of abnormality.
"You can go and rest."
As Qing Shui pondered, a male voice broke his silence. Lu Qing got up from the ground and began to prepare to hand over the shift with him. Chen Zhi and Li Zeyan said goodnight, and on the other side, Betsy and Shan Hongwei also handed over to their teammates on time.
Qing Shui was not in a hurry to rest, he said hello to Lu Qing, and then sighed: "It's not a way to go on like this." ”
Recently, it is obvious that the irritability in the hearts of everyone can be felt, and in the long run, the consumption of materials and the slim way of life will inevitably lead to more intense contradictions and struggles. In a desperate situation, the hard-to-see side of human nature will also be exposed.
"We can't afford to spend any more time here." Lu Qing sat beside him and said to himself.
Qing Shui was a little stunned, he wanted to ask, but Lu Qing just said to him: "You rest first, if there is anything to talk about tomorrow." The firelight shone on his face, Lu Qing's eyes drooped, and his long eyelashes formed a shadow under his eyelids.
Qing Shui knew in his heart, he naturally understood what Lu Qing was thinking. "Okay." He rubbed his temples and lay back on the floor.
On the other side, Shan Hongwei leaned against the wall, ripped the clothes on Li Chenyin's body, and looked at her sleeping side face, Shan Hongwei's heart was quite sour. This. In the past few months, Li Chenyin's physical condition has become worse and worse, the lack of food and nutrition has been a serious challenge to her when she is pregnant, and this town full of evil spirit has caused a certain damage to her body.
The fetus in the womb is not so important to him, as long as Li Chenyin is well, Shan Hongwei is willing to give everything in exchange.
The long night passed like this, and the next day, when everyone had woken up and washed up briefly, Lu Qing finally put forward his idea:
"I decided to leave the town and go to the back mountains to look for clues. It didn't help to spend it here, and the space was also mentioned, and the mission site covered the entire island. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was met with opposition. Among them, the loudest is Liu Dequan in the second district.
"Up the mountain? Wouldn't that be dead?! He slapped the table and raised his voice: "The back of that mountain has been shrouded in a fog for a long time, and I can't see anything clearly. Also, there may be other monsters hiding in the mountains, and there may be no water or food there. Not to mention whether you can find your way back, what if you encounter a monster? What about eating and drinking? If you want to die, go by yourself, don't pull us! ”
"I agree with Liu Lao's idea." This time, it was Meng Yu, the very sullen man in the fourth district, who spoke. He pulled an old piece of brown paper out of his pocket and placed it on the table.
It's not any ordinary piece of paper, it's his curse prop.
There was a dark and blurry figure drawn on the paper, which was supposed to be a back, what seemed to be a woman with an umbrella. Although the painting is only a back, it makes people feel that the woman will turn around at any time, and the whole painting reveals an indescribable evil aura, which makes people feel uncomfortable when they look at it.
"The woman's head in the painting has been turned 90 degrees from looking straight ahead." Meng Yu said: "It wasn't like this before I entered the mission, but since that exploration near the mountain, I found something strange when I came back. If you go again, you can't guarantee that the ghost in this painting won't look back. ”
"What will happen to her when she turns around?" The little white rabbit Zhou Qiong couldn't help but ask.
"The seal of the prop will be lifted, and this ghost will come out of the painting and kill me!" After Meng Yu finished speaking, the other people's heartbeats all missed a beat. And after they checked the props, their faces became even more ugly.
Approaching that mountain will actually loosen the seal in the curse item!
If you really go up the mountain, wouldn't the props be resurrected?
"Damn, what the hell is hiding in that mountain?!" Liu Ke's face turned pale.
"Look, I said, going up the mountain is equivalent to going to death, I won't go anyway!" Liu Dequan said.
Lu Qing didn't take his words to heart, but turned his gaze to several other people: "What do you think? ”
"Anyway, this is my last mission, and the curse item won't be useful here." Qing Shui opened his mouth: "Now these props are not as effective as a sharp dagger and a pistol." He took all his props out of his bag and placed them on the table.
Liu Dequan saw those "treasures", and his triangular eyes were full of greed. These high-level props are what they have ever dreamed of, and now they are as worthless as broken copper and iron in the eyes of others, Qing Shui is right, he can leave as long as he completes the task, but for himself, these props are talismans in future missions!
So, he rolled his eyes, and his face was full of flattery: "I'm just a bad old man, and I'm not in good health, and going up with you will only hold me back." Why don't you leave it with me and the others, and I'll keep these props for you, what do you think? ”
For his set of rhetoric, many people showed disdain on their faces, although they didn't look down on Liu Dequan's style, but I have to say that if someone in the team wants to go up the mountain, they will definitely leave props. If they die on the mountain and never come back, then these props will also become their own bag......
"Now let's discuss it, if you want to go up the mountain, you can go with me, and it's no problem if you want to stay. Decide for yourselves. Lu Qing said.