Chapter 5

Strange things in East Lake

Xiao Xue, who didn't know why, took out a flashlight in a panic, turned it on and handed it to Fang Xin. This sudden change surprised Xiaoxue, and also surprised Du Zijie and Du Zijuan. The three of them borrowed the light of the flashlight and leaned over to find out.

Fang Xin, who got the flashlight, lowered his head, bent down, and carefully looked at the little red on the dirt slope. He stretched out two fingers, carrying the dirt, and rubbed them between them. Then take the tip of your nose again and smell it.

The red color in this place is not big, Fang Xin can already be 100% sure.

Seeing that Fang Xin was so serious, Du Zijie couldn't help but ask, "What's that?"

"It's blood, and it's fresh red, and it's not clotting." Fang Xin explained.

"Blood? How can there be blood here?" Du Zijuan's eyes widened curiously and asked, "You can't be mistaken, right?"

Fang Xin took two steps, along the low dirt slope, and stopped at another place after the last point, and said, "Look, there is also a place here. I can tell you unequivocally that this is blood, and human blood."

The hearts of the four people were tense, and when they heard Fang Xin say this, they all felt that the situation was much more serious than expected, and there would be so much blood. This is something that none of them would have imagined.

Along the dirt slope all the way north, they found multiple blood stains. Moreover, there is a significant tendency for these blood stains to increase. I don't know where these blood stains come from.

Fang Xin stood up and looked at Xiaomao Mountain shrouded in darkness from afar, and he asked, "Does this dirt slope extend all the way to Xiaomao Mountain?"

Du Zijie said: "No, there is no more than a little past. There is a small pond in front, and beyond that is the foot of Xiaomao Mountain. By the way, Fang Xin, did you forget? I remember one summer vacation, we still have Zijuan, didn't we swim in that small pond!"

Being reminded by Du Zijie like this seems to really evoke Fang Xin's memories. It seemed like it was in elementary school, he remembered. Now, after so many years, the happiness of childhood is now no longer found.

Du Zijuan also said excitedly on the side: "Yes, yes, you still had dinner at my house before leaving!" That time, we were just crazy."

Only Xiao Xue, a person silently followed behind Fang Xin. At this moment, she couldn't interject. What she didn't expect was that the relationship between Fang Xin and Du Zijie would be so good. Before, she didn't see it at all.

Fang Xin finally showed a faint smile. When he looked up, he saw a little starlight twinkling on Xiaomao Mountain in the distance. It doesn't look like a firefly, and it's unlikely that there will be any fireflies this season. He remembers the last time he saw fireflies, it was when he was a child. Now, I don't know how many years I haven't seen fireflies at night.

"What are those?" Fang Xin raised his question. He saw that there were at least a dozen of those little bright spots, all moving around aimlessly.

The night was too dark, what those little highlights were, Fang Xin really couldn't guess. He turned his head to look at Du Zijie, he believed that Du Zijie must know the way.

Du Zijie also looked in the direction of Fang Xin's finger, and when he saw those small moving bright spots, he said, "Oh! It's the villagers, they're looking for the two missing people."

It turned out that those small highlights were the flashlights held by the villagers. Only then did Fang Xin remember that in order to find the two missing people, almost the entire villagers of Donghu Village were dispatched.

However, in the depths of Fang Xin's heart, a feeling of uneasiness arose inexplicably. He looked at the light on Xiaomao Mountain in the distance, and recalled the bloodstains he had just discovered. I always feel that something is going to happen, and I feel very conflicted and uneasy.

After contemplating for a while, Fang Xin said, "Let's go, go over and have a look!"

Xiaoxue followed a few steps and said, "It's so late, where are we going?" As a girl, she is very reluctant to climb any mountain on a dark and windy night. Although the cemetery has been built a long time ago, she also knows that there are still many deserted graves on this Xiaomao Mountain.

"Let's go up in the mountains and have a look." Fang Xin didn't see Xiao Xue's worries, in fact, he didn't go to see Xiao Xue at all, and he didn't think about it at all. Curiosity has long taken over his entire brain.

Xiaoxue had no choice but to follow behind Fang Xin. Du Zijie's brother and sister didn't say anything, and walked forward together.

After a few steps, the small dirt slope disappeared from their view. In exchange for a flat lawn or trees of varying thickness.

In fact, the lawn is not flat, it looks flat because the lawn is covered with dense weeds. Except for a trail that leads to Xiaomao Mountain, the rest of the place is basically potholed and difficult for people to walk.

Fang Xin walked very slowly and carefully. Mainly because, he also wanted to see if there was any new blood stains. To his relief, there was no new blood on the only trail, and around the trail.

Soon, the four of them came to the small pond mentioned earlier.

The area of this small pond is not large, and it only takes a minute to walk back and forth. Fang Xin remembered that the small pond was not very deep. When I was a kid swimming here, it seemed that only the middle of the pond could not reach the bottom. Now that I think about it, the deepest part of this small pond is more than two meters, which is not deep.

Standing by the pond, Fang Xin's thoughts quickly returned to his childhood. At that time, I was really carefree, I could do whatever I wanted, and I could play whatever I wanted. Now, it seems that freedom is not his own. There will always be a lot of things tied up and bound up.

I don't know how long Lu Dao thought about it, but it wasn't until Xiaoxue called him several times that he came back to his senses. Xiaoxue said dissatisfiedly: "What do you think, so engrossed."

Fang Xin smiled reluctantly: "No...... Nothing!"

Turning his gaze to the surface of the water again, he saw that the surface of the pond was not calm. Especially in the center of the pond, there seem to be bubbles from time to time. After rising to the surface of the water, it disappeared again, leaving only ripples.

He quickly turned around and asked Du Zijie, "Are there fish in the pond?"

Seeing Fang Xin suddenly ask him, Du Zijie also looked at the water, and then said, "No, I've never heard of it, there are fish in this pond. Why do you ask that?"

"Strange, there are no fish in the pond, how can there be bubbles?"

At this time, Xiaoxue said, "What's strange about this, where there is water, there will be fish. Besides, this place is beautiful, and it is strange that there are no fish!"

After listening to Xiaoxue's words, they also felt reasonable. Don't look like it's a stagnant pond, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there will really be no fish.

Fang Xin decided to continue walking towards Xiaomao Mountain, and at this moment, Du Zijuan, who was on the other side of the pond, suddenly shouted loudly: "Brother, come and have a look."

When they heard this, they hurriedly walked around the pond and came to the other side. Du Zijie hurriedly asked, "Zijuan, what did you find?"

I saw Du Zijuan pointing to the grass by the pond and saying, "There seems to be something in there."

Fang Xin and Du Zijie immediately squatted down, and they found that the pile of grass had obvious traces of being trampled. It's about the size of a washbasin. The strangest thing is that the trampled grass seems to be still fresh and has not yet had time to wither.

Fang Xin snorted and frowned. He reached out and picked up a piece of clothing from the trampled grass. In the light of the flashlight, it was obvious that it was a women's top.

When this women's blouse was picked up by Fang Xin and carried in the air. Du Zijuan said silently: "That's ...... That's Suzuko's top!"

"What bell?" Fang Xin was puzzled.

Du Zijuan continued to say excitedly: "It's Ah Si's wife, Lingzi, the missing person."

Du Zijie also asked: "Zijuan, can you be sure of Lingzi's clothes?"

"Yes, brother." Du Zijuan took the women's coat and said, "I bought this dress with Suzuko last month, there will be no mistake. And, you see, her phone is still in her pocket!"

Sure enough, from the pocket of that blouse, Du Zijuan took out a beautiful women's mobile phone. The appearance is very beautiful and extremely cartoonish.

"How did Suzuko's clothes end up here?" Du Zijie raised his doubts.

And Du Zijuan suddenly said in shock: "On the clothes, there are blood stains on the clothes."

The crowd watched, and saw that there were blood stains on the chest and back of the blouse. More and bigger than they had seen on earth. The back, in particular, accounts for more than half of the total.

Everyone was puzzled, and at this time, only Fang Xin, he didn't go around to look at the shirt. Instead, he crouched on the ground and carefully observed the crushed tufts of weeds.

Xiaoxue found out about this scene and asked Fang Xin: "Fang Xin, what are you looking at?"

Fang Xin didn't answer directly, and only after a while did he say, "Look at these grasses, it's obvious that they are not naturally formed, but are pressed out by something, and even the soil has been sunk into a large piece. To be able to cause this, what is pressed on it, it must not be light."

All the people gathered around, Fang Xin gently picked up a few crushed weeds and said, "The grass is still fresh, that is, the time is not too long, it should have just formed this evening."

The weeds that were crushed were as Fang Xin said. It's almost pressed into the dirt, but it's still green. It's as if its life is still there, still growing tenaciously.

"This ...... What's going on?" Du Zijie and Du Zijuan both showed surprised looks. Du Zijie asked again: "Who did it?"

However, Fang Xin asked him instead, "Do you believe that there are monsters in this world?" Or is it some kind of creature you've never seen before?"

Du Zijie didn't understand, he looked at Du Zijuan blankly. The two shook their heads at the same time, and Du Zijie said, "Why are you asking that?" However, he also quickly thought that he would hear from Fang Xin's mouth things that he had never heard of, and that he couldn't even understand and figure out.

Fang Xin pointed to the traces that were trampled on by something and said, "Let's take a look at the size of these marks first, can you imagine what things stepped on?" It is many times larger than a human foot, about the size of an adult elephant's foot. And do we have elephants in this place? No, unless you take the elephants out of the zoo in town. I think that if there are really wild animals on our Xiaomao Mountain, there will be a few snakes, a few hedgehogs, and at most a few hares. ...... bigger one" Fang Xin paused for a moment before he said again: "Anyway, I haven't seen it."

Du Zijuan seemed to agree with Fang Xin's point of view, and she immediately continued: "Yes, yes, I have been playing in the mountains since I was a child, and I have never seen any animals. Only once, in the winter, my brother and I caught a hibernating hedgehog in a small cave on the mountainside. Right, brother!"

Du Zijie nodded slightly. Xiaoxue said on the side, "Fang Xin, what do you want to say?"

"Don't worry." Fang Xin said quietly, "Looking at this piece of soil again, I estimate that it has sunk at least about six centimeters. If you think about it, how much that thing must have weighed to be able to form this scale. I guess it's at least two tons or more."

Fang Xin's words frightened the other three people's faces to change drastically. Xiaoxue said, "You mean, that monster is big, heavier than an elephant?" It's unlikely, right?"

"Nothing is impossible. Xiaoxue, how much do you estimate the Jinsha Beast we encountered yesterday?" Being asked by Fang Xin like this, Xiao Xue was suddenly dumbfounded. She knew that judging from the size of the Golden Sandbeast, it was not much lighter.

However, Du Zijie's brother and sister were even more puzzled: "What Jinsha Beast?" What are you talking about?"

Fang Xin didn't answer, Fang Xin felt that it was unnecessary to explain the Golden Sands Beast to them at this time. He said: "I'm sure there are more than one such footprints, so let's look for them and see if we can find the route of its movement."

After some searching, they found many similar footprints in the grass. Its size and depth are almost identical to those they had previously discovered.

There are two main reasons why these footprints were not found in the first place: one is that it is too dark to see clearly. The second is that the grass is relatively lush, and the footprints are relatively deep, so it is not easy to be found.

After reading it, Fang Xin calmed down and said, "Judging from the footprints we observed, the weight of that thing is definitely more than two tons. Moreover, it is extremely fast and explosive. The distance between each footprint was about seven or eight meters, and in my judgment, it was a bipedal creature. It's like chickens, ducks, and geese at home. It's just that he's a little bigger."

Although everyone agreed with Fang Xin's point of view, except for Xiaoxue, the Du Zijie brothers and sisters still showed expressions of great reluctance to believe it.

I saw Du Zijie say: "I still can't understand that there will be such terrible creatures in this world. How do I feel, like a prehistoric dinosaur, through a time tunnel, to our world. It's incredible."

Fang Xin said lightly: "But this is the truth, if you don't believe it, you can't do it. Judging from the trajectory of the footprints, it should be running in the direction of Xiaomao Mountain. Probably, somewhere in Xiaomao Mountain, there is its old nest."

As soon as he said this, Fang Xin suddenly felt that something he had overlooked. But what it was, he couldn't remember for a moment.

The uneasy premonition began to surround him, and his emotions became uneasy. There seemed to be an inexplicable danger slowly rising around him.

At this time, the others didn't seem to notice Fang Xin's strange expression. Du Zijuan was still there and said, "If there really is that kind of creature, it would be too terrifying. I don't know where it came from? Is there anything we can do about it?"

Xiaoxue said, "No matter how strong that thing is, there will always be weaknesses. As long as we find its weakness, it won't be too difficult to defeat it."

"Wait!" Du Zijie suddenly shouted, "These are just our conjectures and speculations. If there is really that kind of behemoth that went to Xiaomao Mountain. The people who are now on Xiaomao Mountain haven't met any of them. Are you right, Fang Xin." Du Zijie looked at Fang Xin and found that he hadn't said a word for a long time, and felt very strange.

And Fang Xin's face suddenly changed drastically, and he looked up at the few small points of light that were still moving on Xiaomao Mountain. He thought of it, he thought of the crux of the matter.

He suddenly snapped, "Oh no, those villagers are still on the mountain. Once they do, they are definitely in danger. What are you waiting for, we hurry up the mountain and call them down. It's too late, it may be too late." As he spoke, he took the lead and took the lead in asking the direction of Xiaomao Mountain.

The remaining three didn't know why, but they quickly understood and followed.

Du Zijie followed behind Fang Xin and asked, "Do you think that thing will attack the villagers?" Unlikely!"

Fang Xin didn't look back, he said: "We have to guard against it, if it happens, it will kill people."

The four of them finally came to the foot of the mountain and just wanted to shout. I saw a chaos on the mountainside, and there was a black shadow running from east to west, from top to bottom, and the speed was amazing. Everywhere I went, the sky was full of yellow mud and dust was splashed. I can't see what it is.

Accompanied by the screams of the villagers, those points of light are also shining one by one, gradually disappearing.

The four of them were shocked, Du Zijie raised his head and said with emotion: "That...... What the hell is that?" He had never seen a creature move so fast, it was lightning fast.

At this point, it seems pointless to remind the villagers. Tragedy happens in an instant, and there is no way to stop it. Many villagers have begun to scream and rush down from the mountainside.

Fang Xin made a quick decision, he actually went up towards the known danger. He also left a sentence: "You guys are waiting down there." He said it to the three people behind him, and when he had finished speaking, he found a trail up the mountain and ran up the mountain.

It didn't take long for him to find that Du Zijie and the three of them were not waiting at the bottom of the mountain obediently as he said. They also followed one after the other, following behind Fang Xin.

Seeing Fang Xin turn around to look at them, Du Zijie smiled bitterly and said, "How can I let you go up the mountain alone to take risks, after all, they are my villagers."

Fang Xin didn't object, he acquiesced. Holding Xiaoxue's flashlight, he ran all the way to the mountainside.

Halfway through, the four finally met the first villager who escaped from the mountain. Fang Xinyi grabbed him and asked eagerly, "What happened above, what happened?"

As if greatly stimulated, the villager said incoherently, "Monster, monster, monster. It's horrible, it's horrible!" As he spoke, he broke free of Fang Xin's hand and ran towards the foot of the mountain.

Fang Xin looked up, and from the halfway up the mountain, he was already covered in a large area of smoke and dust. It was far away before, and it was not clear to see. Now that I got closer, I realized that the smoke and dust were five or six meters high. If it weren't for the night, it might be even higher.

Fang Xin and the four of them did not hesitate, as soon as they came to the mountainside, they felt that it was difficult to breathe, and they had to cover their noses and climb up. Moreover, the light of the flashlight is blocked by smoke and dust, and it can't shine too far.

"Be careful, everybody." Fang Xin instructed the other three people. In fact, the purpose of his coming up the mountain was to see what that so-called monster looked like. Why would such a terrible thing appear in the watershed? If it was as he expected, then the Golden Sands, skeletons, and corpses they had encountered before would definitely not disappear, and would reappear.

Although Xiaomao Mountain is not high, it is still difficult to go up the mountain at night.

After a few more steps, another ray of light flickered from their left front. At the same time, it is accompanied by heart-rending screams.

As soon as Fang Xin wanted to ask again, he heard a whoosh, as if something was shooting from a distance. Before I could see what it was, I saw that the villager who had just arrived in front of me was actually cut into two pieces. The screaming stopped abruptly, as if only silence remained.

It doesn't end there. Due to the effect of inertia, the body that was cut into two sections still flew forward several meters with the same speed.

Coincidentally, one of them happened to fall on Du Zijie. And the other body also flew towards Xiaoxue.

I heard Xiaoxue's ouch, followed by a scream. When Fang Xin turned around, the two of them had already fallen to the ground. Xiaoxue's face turned pale because it was the upper body of the villager that flew towards her. At this time, it was firmly attached to Xiaoxue's body.

If Xiaoxue hadn't encountered this kind of situation before, she would definitely be scared out now. At this time, Xiaoxue was shaking her hands and brushing off the half of her body.

Because things happened suddenly, Du Zijuan didn't have time to react, and the matter ended like this. At the same time, Fang Xin pulled Du Zijuan to his side as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Fang Xin also saw that the body of the villager was cut into two sections, and it turned out to be a thin tree. It was unbiased and landed less than a meter away from Fang Xin. And on the thin strips, there seems to be blood and some people's intestines remaining. The fishy smell suddenly came to my nose.

"Be careful, everyone!" Fang Xin's reminder didn't seem to have much effect at this time.

Before and after, the reminder sent to Fang Xin, not even five seconds, it happened completely in an instant. Before Du Zijie and Xiaoxue could stand up, something happened again.

On the mountain, there was a rumbling sound. Fang Xin looked up and saw a tree about half a meter in diameter roaring and rolling down from the top of the mountain.

The roar was made by that guy.

"Watch the top of your head!" After Fang Xin finished shouting, he pulled Du Zijuan and threw himself forward, trying to avoid the trees that rolled down from the mountain.

On the other side, before Du Zijie and Xiaoxue could get up, the tree had already rolled in front of them. At the same time, it is also accompanied by large and small yellow stones and yellow mud rolling down together.

Du Zijie didn't think about it very carefully, and kicked at Xiaoxue. At the same time, he also rolled on the other side several times. Seeing the trees rolling down against his feet, Du Zijie stopped rolling and let out a long breath.

Looking at Xiaoxue again, she was kicked to the other side, and she didn't seem to be smashed.

And when Du Zijie looked up at Fang Xin and the others, he couldn't see the shadows of the two people anymore.

It turned out that Du Zijie and Xiaoxue not only rolled to the side, but also rolled down the mountain several times. At this time, it was a little far away from the direction where Fang Xin was, and it was night again, and there was smoke and dust all over the mountains. It is also natural to find Fang Xin them.

But Du Zijie believes that Fang Xin and his sister should be fine. So, when he got up, he first went to see if Xiaoxue was okay.

On the other side, the trees were basically rubbed against Fang Xin and Du Zijuan's scalps. Du Zijuan didn't even dare to open her eyes, and actually hugged Fang Xin.

After a commotion, it felt like calm had been restored. Fang Xin got up from the ground and patted the dust and dirt on his body. Du Zijuan on the side also got up from the shock, brushed the messy hair at the corners of her forehead, and looked at Fang Xin very worriedly.

Fang Xin looked at the place where the trees had fallen, and several small trees had already fallen down where he passed. With palpitations, he looked at the top of his head, the top of Xiaomao Mountain. I don't know how this tree was rolled down, it's so strange.

grabbed Du Zijuan, who was still anxious: "You're fine, right?" Although Du Zijuan looked flustered, her mind was still sober.

She shook her head and told Fang Xin that she was fine, and then turned her head in the direction of Du Zijie, looking for Du Zijie and Xiaoxue. However, in the almost dark night, she saw nothing. In front of her eyes, there was only endless darkness.

She anxiously asked Fang Xin: "My brother, my brother will be okay with them, right?"

At this time, Fang Xin had already locked his eyes on a place not far from them. He didn't answer Du Zijuan's question, and shouted into the darkness: "Du Zijie, Xiaoxue, are you there?"

After a few seconds, Du Zijie's voice finally came: "We have nothing to do!" When Fang Xin heard it, the voice was not coming from the direction he had estimated in advance. Instead, it was several meters away, almost at the foot of the mountain.

However, things don't seem to end there.

Just as Fang Xin's voice stopped, at the same time as Du Zijie's voice came. Directly east of Fang Xin and Du Zijuan, there seemed to be some unusual noise. From far to near, the sound became louder and louder, booming, like bursts of thunder.

Fang Xin picked up the flashlight and shone it in the direction of the sound. I saw a cloud of smoke and dust several meters high, accompanied by a rumbling accompaniment, galloping towards Fang Xin and the two of them at a speed that was incomprehensible to ordinary people.

The speed is jaw-dropping!

Fang Xin's face changed drastically, although he still didn't know what was going on. But looking at that momentum, it's definitely not going to be a good thing.

"Run!" Fang Xin shouted, picked up Du Zijuan, who was still stunned, and ran to the west.

However, there was no road in front of them, and it was extremely inconvenient for them to run, and the speed of their progress was naturally reduced. And the thing behind him didn't diminish at all. It's as if nothing can stop it in front of it. Everywhere it went, no matter how tall or large the trees were, they were cut into two pieces.

The most hateful thing is that the thing is always wrapped in smoke and dust, and you can't see its true face at all.

Soon, that thing caught up with Fang Xin and the others. But strangely, the thing didn't attack Fang Xin, but continued to sprint forward in a straight line.

However, Fang Xin and Du Zijuan are not having a good time. In addition to being almost out of breath from the smoke and dust, he was almost smashed by the downed trees.

Seeing that the thing had passed, Fang Xin hurriedly adjusted his direction and pulled Du Zijuan towards the top of the mountain.

Du Zijuan was exhausted, she had never experienced such a vigorous exercise. There were several times when she tried to speak, but she only opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound.

When she was approaching the top of the mountain, Du Zijuan suddenly saw that Fang Xin, who was originally pulling her to run in front, disappeared all of a sudden. It was as if she had disappeared into thin air, which made her feel terrified.

However, her fear had not yet had time to develop. I felt that my feet were empty, as if I was stepping on the clouds, light and fluttering. Then, I heard her long scream, and she disappeared into the dark mountainside.