XXV. Hidden creatures

A glimmer of light flickered in the dark, and it had already been a long way to go, so if it went on like this, the power of the flashlight must not be enough, but why go back? I'm not reconciled. I've already come here, and if I go back, it's completely impossible to go out, what should I do? At this time, the old man and Wang Lei began to pack up the plant branches in the river in case of emergency.

The fat man is different, he brought a big bag with him when he came, and no one knows what it is, but it seems that he has a stronger exploration than me**.

The old man said to me on the road before that this place must come to an end no matter what, because the clues of my mask are likely to be all in this place by mistake, and he has seen the texture and style of the mask but it is exactly the same as mine, just the length of a nose, so in his opinion, my mask is not as simple as a mask, it is very likely that it is also a status symbol, so we must go for this.

But before he could finish speaking, we had already seen the fork in the river.

The old man said that he would mind letting us disperse, there are many forks in the river, but we are out of the battery of the flashlight, but I don't know how many roads are behind, so the old man said that he can't delay the time, the time has passed a day, we are still walking here, tiredness wells up in my heart, but I know that falling asleep in this kind of place is equivalent to death, I don't want to die in this kind of place.

"Walkie-talkie." The fat man suddenly took out a few walkie-talkies from his bag, "I'm in a group with the old man, Wang Lei, you and Xu Ming are in a group, and the masked man is taking a flashlight and walkie-talkie by yourself." ”

"What a joke." I immediately objected, "No, you're going to send me to death." ”

"It's this kind of mentality that you probably won't encounter any danger, if you are with any of us, you will act carelessly, so it is safer for you to be alone."

"What is this?" I'm in a hurry, what does the fat guy mean, if I want to be alone, maybe I can come back is a question.

"Half an hour, half an hour, after which they all walk back, and the walkie-talkie must be turned on." The old man picked up what was on the ground and chose a river channel to go on. "By the way, I'll give you the pistol too." The old man threw away his pistol, and I became a man in desperation.

"Hey, what the hell is the fat man thinking?" I felt so aggrieved that half an hour had passed, and that there had been no reliable discoveries in the meantime, and that my current actions were completely useless, and that I was hungry and cold, and that I was slowly pausing against the edge of the river and began to pack my backpack.

Just when I suddenly noticed that there were obvious traces of sliding on both sides of the river, like a mark of something's claws.

A PSS 7.62mm whispering pistol, a short knife for self-defense, a canned beef, a small bottle of gasoline, 3 bottles of milk, a few fire folds, 3 glow sticks, 3 batteries No. 2 battery, a shovel, a marker, and a walkie-talkie that is basically useless. "Hey, fat man, are you there?" I asked boringly.

"I'm here." A voice came over the intercom, "I've started to turn around here, there's a small water entrance in front of us, we can't get into it at all." ”

"I've turned back on my side." The old man's voice also rang out over the intercom.

"Hey, aren't you together?" I wondered.

"There are too many forks in the river." The old man suddenly made a voice at this time: "Huh? The river on my side seems to be climbable, so shall I go up and see the road? ”

After a little communication, I now found that our journey was almost completely separated, and at this time, only Xu Ming and I were constantly moving forward, and the old man and Wang Lei had already climbed onto the bank of the river, and I don't know what they could find from above.

"Whoa." Suddenly, the light of the flashlight flashed, and the flashlight was finally about to run out, so I squatted down and started a small flashlight in the dark and slowly changed the battery. With a sigh, I turned my gaze back to the scratches on the side of the river, which looked like creatures with sharp claws, "What is this?" "I know in my heart, after all, I don't know what creatures can exist in this kind of underground space, but no matter what, as long as there are creatures with such claws, which one is not a meat eater? It also lifted my heart.

We've all heard that before, and we've smelled it, and the old man said that if the smell can float through the river, then the location of the river is probably the location of the exit.

Then I replaced a few more batteries, carefully cut out the packaging of the batteries with a knife, wrapped them in a few pieces of cloth, and then tied a thin thread to them, like a yo-yo hanging from them. With a bottle in one hand and a battery in the other, and the flashlight between my teeth, I continued to walk forward.

I remember that it was a simple way to make a bomb, and I tried it anyway, and I had a pistol for ignition. The wind in the river seems to be much less than the corner of the bend here, and the scattered stones in the dry river are polished like an egg, and when I get here, I see that the mud on both sides of the river is getting higher and higher, and it can be a problem to climb up, but where will the end of this space be? Or is there no way out at all? This question has been haunting me all the time.

But at that moment I suddenly smelled a bloody smell, like the smell of a chicken killing factory, that disgusting feeling. Walking cautiously against the wall, I saw a creature that looked like a starfish, it was indescribably like a combination, with a body about a meter in diameter and five starfish-like horns around it, each with a mouth with fangs in its mouth, and four legs, covered in black hair.

What is this? What kind of monster is this?

I saw it hold down a black shadow on the ground with its four legs and stomp hard, and then it kept spitting out white silk threads from its mouth and slowly restrained the black shadow underground, and then something strange happened, the black shadow that was still struggling slowly did not move, but the wailing sound continued to sound.

"Is it a person?" I leaned over and asked, "Why is it a person?" I held my breath and didn't speak, and the intercom turned down the sound, and I watched the scene in the darkness carefully, but luckily my flashlight didn't seem to affect the creature's normal "meal", it just made me nauseous.

I slowly stuck my head out of the bend in the river and cautiously scanned the area with my phone. Suddenly my stomach churned, and I almost threw up.

The light slowly shone on the living man's body, and I saw that all his limbs were wrapped in the threads that came out of the monster's mouth, but he could still move, and that part was his head, his eyes were very wide, and only the conscious head began to shake wildly, but no words burst out.

But at this time, I finally saw the face of the "person", in fact, I am not completely sure that he is a person, but that face, no, that mask is something I will never forget, that is the mask in the video, exactly the same as mine, and I can no longer help but be surprised that the whole body is standing in the river, watching the creature eat the "person" wearing the mask alive.

At the same time, the monster's five starfish-like horns began to burrow through various parts of the "man's" body like drills. The "man" on the ground raised his mask as if he had been injected with an anesthetic, and watched his body be drilled in by five strange horns, and then the flesh and blood flew sideways, and his internal organs were constantly squeezed out of the holes drilled by the horns due to the strong squeezing of the monster's hooves, like a sausage for the New Year.

"Huhu, what is this? Starfish? Joke? Have you ever seen a starfish with hooves? I cursed myself and poured gasoline on the "yo-yo" I had made earlier. "But anyway, since that monster doesn't care about me, I'm going to save that "person", masks, masks, and masks, and there are really more and more? What exactly is this place, and why are there still people? No, it's not a person, the sound he makes is not something that a person can make at all, a simple roar without any words, I gathered the light of the flashlight and slowly swept towards the lower body of the "person" on the ground.

Not a "human", but an ape-like creature, with brown hair all over his body, sparse except that by this time the blood of his whole body had been dyed bright red. "Sure enough, as the old man reasoned, this masked guy is really not alone." But at this time, I was also stunned, to save or not to save? To run or not to run?

To be honest, I personally don't think this creature is of much use to me, but thinking of what the old man said to me, I can't help but put my attention on it again, first of all, who put these masks on them, and a timeline of the existence of these things is also vague, if I want to find the source of my masks, it is useless to simply find these creatures, but to find the people behind them, and one thing I also found, is why are these things here? And they seemed to have been brought in by the creature from far away, and I knew by looking at the traces of blood.

So the point is, where is this creature? Where is that place? I should be able to get it back by following that trail of blood. And then another thing, I thought to me that like pets raised by ordinary people, they may put a mark on their pet at the same time as they dress up their pet, such as a collar or something, so will this creature have the same imprint on its body as an ancient slave?

Listening to such a heart-rending roar, my heart twitched, and I opened my mouth to scold without thinking about it, "Fuck you, three batteries are enough for you to eat." With that, I put the flashlight in my mouth and shook the battery cable together, then pulled out the gun and fired a burst of fire.

The sound of "boom" was heard very loudly in the river, and I symbolically touched the ear of my mask, "Is there such a loud sound?" "I laughed at myself as I turned the bend of the river, and suddenly a face was pressed against my face.

The facial features of that face looked like an orangutan, but upon closer inspection, it was clearly on the face-like object of a starfish, and the eyes on that face were now narrowed into a small slit, and the mouth was wide open, but there was not a single tooth inside, but it was full of countless white coils like cocoons.

"Grass." I cursed a short body and tried to get through, but unfortunately a white line from the monster's mouth had already spit out and landed on my back.

At this moment, my reaction was already flawless, after all, this thing is not a demon or a monster, and it is not much terrible for me, but who knows that I still hit it, I immediately regretted it in my heart, and I felt a pain in my back, as if it was passed by an electric current, which made my whole person jump, and gradually my back was not felt at all. "I want to cry without tears in my heart, what can I do.

And before I could do anything, I immediately felt a sore pain in my back, not electrified, but a numbness, like you punched the wall in anger and got nothing but the initial pain and shallow insensibility.

The monster struck a blow, and I fell numb to the ground, and the monster hurriedly stepped on it with its hooves.

Gritting my teeth, I rolled away sideways, but immediately a slender starfish horn stretched out, I saw that I couldn't dodge, so I had to make a shift with my left hand, and the elbow of "Gang" was knocked open with a tear, and the clothes were directly pulled open by the sleeves, and the meat at the arm suddenly splashed, like a meat grinder.

"Hungry." I was so frightened by the monster that the pistol in my right hand flew away, but the slender starfish tentacle wrapped its sides around my hand and suddenly the toothy head stabbed into his arm.

"Ahh The crazy tentacles kept splashing with the minced flesh on my arm, my whole eyes were red, like a lion trapped in a trap, this kind of person I just felt as if my body was about to float up, I didn't feel anything, slowly something seemed to splash into my mouth, I licked a mouthful of my own blood, opened my eyes, there was blood in front of me and I couldn't see anything, the huge pain made me almost stiff by the nerves pulled up from the ground directly, there was no trace of saliva in my mouth, The whole person was in a daze, and his right hand forcibly pulled out the knife from his pocket, and when the knife fell, the tentacle was completely broken into 2 sections.

Completely ignoring the pain, I ripped off the tentacle and immediately stood up sideways, blood splashed out of my body and landed in my mouth, I swallowed my blood little by little, "Damn, I'm not going to die here." I struggled to hold myself on, and the monster screamed and ran away a few meters away.

"." I looked at the thing, and slowly stepped back, and the thing just looked at me slowly and screamed, like a wounded monkey, with a fierce glint in its eyes. From a distance, it seems that this thing has been broken by the explosion just now, and there is only one left after my knife.

Stepping back from that corner, I trotted a few steps and rolled sideways next to the corpse on the ground, that place had been blown black in a large piece, the internal organs and flesh of the corpse stained the place pale red again, and the killing methods of that ghost thing were also extremely disgusting, I saw that the body of the creature had been hollowed out, and there was only a fur left outside, alone on the ground, disgusting, but I can't estimate it now that I grabbed the fur of the dead creature and tied it on my arm, I don't feel sick anymore, I don't have that time anymore.

A gust of wind suddenly came, and I subconsciously grabbed the knife in my hand, turned around, and the monster suddenly stopped. Still staring at me like that.

"You're scared of this?" I flashed the knife in my hand and said hatefully.

The monster took a few steps back, but still had no tendency to run away.

"You want to kill me?" I smiled and said, "I can see that you are a conscious higher being, I don't know if you can understand our words." ”

I didn't do much to move the monster suddenly spit out a white silk in its mouth, and at the same time flew towards here, I was shocked and had to admire the speed of the monster is indeed very fast, and the vitality is also extremely tenacious, otherwise it will not survive in this kind of place, so it can't be dragged any longer, looked at his arm, and thought that if there were a few more scars like this on his body, it was estimated that he would really hit the street.

I glanced at that thing.,Rushing over.,Can't run away.,If you want to run, here's the place is equivalent to leaving your back to this thing for sniping.,Now I don't know how much the longest distance of this thing's white silk thread can be.,Can't die for no reason.,Mother, it's better to let go.,I immediately hit it without hesitation.,There are a lot of white silk threads and it's very messy, almost closing the space for me to dodge.,I'm looking at the thing and it's also retreating., I can't hide while thinking about it, it's a big deal.

"Whoosh" I hit the monster's white silk thread hard, almost paralyzing my nerves for a while, my body barely felt it, but fortunately I hit it with the side, as long as the right hand can be forced, the thing hit me with the front feet and the only tentacles after the blow.

I gritted my teeth and only thought about killing him.

Faster, faster, my knife kept slashing at his chest and abdomen, but I don't know if it was because I didn't have the strength or if his flesh was too thick.

Hurry, hurry. I was almost insane at this point, and all the bets were on this knife, and his front hooves had touched my shoulder.

"Fight." I roared with the last of my strength, and the sound rippled through the space.

Poof, the blood bloomed in mid-air, and strange flowers bloomed.

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