Chapter 36: The Scream
Looking in the direction that Zhou was unwilling to point, I was stunned to see that the seven maggots had stopped devouring things, but were trying very hard to erect their fat bodies, their heads raised high towards the ceiling, and the two rows of secondary eyes emitted a strange red light. The spiral-shaped mouthparts opened rapidly, and green juice flowed down the corners of the mouth like a stream.
I immediately woke up, isn't this green juice the color of the blood of the meat maggot? Looking at the degree of opening of the spiral mouthparts, it can already be described as tearing, and these seven meat maggots would rather hold the price of tearing the mouthparts in half for reasons that we cannot understand, but also put on this posture of stretching as far as possible towards the sky.
"This position...... Much like ....... The big head touched his head and muttered in confusion.
"It's like a shout!" With a black face, I uttered parables that the big head couldn't describe.
The big head's eyes lit up, he slapped his palms, and said excitedly: "Yes, it's a shout!" Hey, you kid, this is a good job. ”
I didn't care about talking nonsense with him, but just like Zhou was unwilling, I stretched out my numb and trembling arm to point at the meat maggot, and said in an almost desperate voice: "Hurry up...... Shoot fast, can't let them ...... They shout out! ”
It's hard to explain why I figured out what was at stake in an instant, and a big reason was Zhou's unwilling reminder. From the opening of the gate of hell, I thought of the soul-piercing scream emitted by Brother Wang's skull in the dream, and then thought of the maggots in the mouth of the human head, how similar they were to these eight meat maggots! Even though Qi Qian said that this was an ancient creature, she herself couldn't explain what the name of this creature was, and she could only judge it by its biological characteristics.
If it is said that the origin of these eight meat maggots (one of them was blown up) is the rotten maggots in Brother Wang's mouth, it is not impossible! If that's the case, wouldn't the source of the screams that night be the same as these big meat maggots?
I shuddered when I thought of the scene in the old staff dormitory that night, and I could wake up sweating profusely in my dreams. The seven brothers in front of them are the king of the maggots in the rot, once they shout, isn't it the opening of the gates of hell!
The big head has cooperated with me for many years, and the tacit understanding has already reached the point of two bodies and one heart, and without saying a word, he will immediately raise his gun and fight. At this juncture, behind the seven meat maggots, a piercing scream suddenly erupted, and the eardrums buzzed, and we couldn't help but cover our ears in pain and fall to the ground.
I struggled to open my eyes and suppress the pain of my head being torn apart by the screams, and I saw that behind the seven meat maggots, the child-headed test subject who had just disappeared was on all fours, looking up at the sky and screaming loudly. I hate it in my heart, and sure enough, this thing is doing a ghost!
Struggling, I pulled the last grenade out of my pocket. At this moment, the eardrum has slightly adapted to the impact of the scream, unlike the sudden nerve tingling in the cerebral cortex at the beginning. So I was able to reluctantly get up on my knees, with my legs as fulcrums, my upper body slightly back, and my arms thrown back sharply, which is the standard bomb throwing position. Being able to shoot grenades to the farthest distance in the most human-friendly way is a powerful skill that can cause great damage.
However, this bomb throwing posture has a weakness, because the parabola of the grenade is very high, and the time in the air is relatively long, so the speed is slower than the normal bomb throwing position. The reason why this position was chosen was not to blow up the monster in the distance, and the time in the distance was simply not enough, but to aim at one of the seven meat maggots and raise the cracked mouthparts high.
My idea is very simple, even if I blow up one, I must not let all seven meat maggots scream! With the swing of his arm, the grenade leaps high in a very standard parabola and lands precisely towards the nearest maggot mouthpiece. The posture is very graceful and beautiful, and when the grenade is still in mid-air, I slightly the corners of my mouth, revealing a confident smile.
Soon, my confident smile solidified on my stunned cheeks. In mid-air, the human-headed beast-like subject also leaped high, trying to open the small mouth of a child, and took the bomb in its mouth, while slapping it with one claw at a rapid speed, and stuffing it all into its mouth.
Boom!
In the dull sound, the monster that was supposed to be a human bloomed in the air with the last brilliance of its life. At that moment, I didn't have the resentment in my heart about it, nor the despair and frustration after the failure, but only sadness, the sadness of my heart being blown apart and torn apart.
Why is human life so fragile?
"Shhh...... Boom...... Whining......! ”
The intermittently muffled sound began to echo throughout the hospital lobby, almost identical to the screeching tones of the old staff dormitory that night. The difference is that the seven meat maggots seem to be blocked by something, and they are screaming desperately.
Under the gaze of our fearful eyes, which had begun to despair, the seven meat maggots slowly cracked from their heads, and the sound of their cries gradually became louder and clearer. In the end, I only felt a soft groan, and the seven flesh maggots collapsed to the ground, and their bodies melted into black water, and they disappeared without a trace in the world.
Only their cries before dying lingered in the space for a long time.
"Oh, babble...... Yes....... ”
The screams are not harsh, nor painful, but rather very ethereal. There were only a few words, oh, babble, yah, and the tones of one and two tones echoed in the air. It's not intense but it can arouse a fierce resonance in people's hearts, it is not loud but it can make every tone explode in the ears, it is not scary but it can make people shiver.
This is the cry, the cry made at the cost of life!
When the sound died in the air, we woke up like a dream, stood up at a loss, looked left and right, and the surrounding scenery seemed to be ...... There is a subtle change.
How to describe this change? Usually the scenery we see with our eyes is colorful, but now we see the scenery is slightly gray, like looking at an old photo. At first, I thought there was something wrong with my eyes, so I rubbed it vigorously and opened it, but the situation was still the same. The others also had puzzled looks, and it seemed that they were the same.
"Look!"
It was always Zhou who was the first to find the problem, and she pointed ahead again and shouted in surprise. Originally, there were only human limbs and severed arms in the hall, and I don't know when a lot of figures suddenly appeared. The figures were also black and white, with old men bent over and struggling to move forward, young men with light and jumping steps, and children staggering and just learning to walk, but these figures were all looming, as if they could disappear at any moment.
In the middle of the movie, we are in a trance in the old black and white movie, and we can't tell whether it is this life or a past life.
"These people...... It's not all ghosts. The big head was startled, avoiding a figure passing by.
From the movements of his hands, it could be seen that the big head tried his best not to touch these figures. Unlike him, my natural curiosity made me collide with people without thinking. The figure that looked like a graceful girl pierced through my body. Although I didn't touch the substance, the biting chill when the figure passed through made my whole body stiffen, a large amount of breath came out of my mouth, and there was a faint white frost between my eyebrows and hair.
"There's nothing to doubt about it, these are ghosts!" Qi Qian and Zhou Bu were unwilling to look at my trembling body, and they made judgments in unison.
"That'...... Now what? "Don't look at the big head, he is usually very brave, he is not afraid of the sky, he is not afraid of the eldest and his second, but he is only afraid of ghosts. This is largely due to the fact that when I was a child, I couldn't help but panic when I heard that the figure was indeed a ghost.
I pursed my lips and said in a tone that was almost frozen, "Run...... Monk....... ”
The three of them were standing across from me, and I was facing the direction of the passage, and I happened to see a monk in gray monk's clothes and shoes, standing outside the door of a room, beckoning to me.
Even if the monk becomes a ghost at this moment, I will not hesitate to choose to pass it. What's more, for the Heavenly Monk, I have an almost blind belief.
They also found out that there was a monk behind him, and the grandson of the big head didn't say a word, grabbed my arm and ran to the monk, showing me as he ran. Hao Yan, that is, the young master is righteous, if you are someone else, your mother will marry someone and it will rain in the sky, and you will take care of yourself, who will care if you die or not.
If it weren't for the fact that I was completely frozen now, and it was difficult to even speak, I would have kicked this thing into the ghost heap and let him see what true righteousness is.
Just a short distance from us to the monk, I felt the chill in my body even stronger, the kind of cold that penetrated the bone marrow, and I could even vaguely hear the sound of bones about to freeze and crack.