Chapter 5: Dead? Dead fish?

"Is there a problem with this town?" Xiao Xia asked Wang Wenge tentatively, and then looked around in surprise.

Her words have an echo!

And in such a place there should be no echo, only in a completely enclosed and empty space!

Wang Wenge glanced at Xiao Xia, his eyes were faint, with a little despair of giving up everything, and it took a long time before he said, "This new town is no problem." This is where our whole town is moving in, how could there be a problem? The problem is - people! ”

"People? Who has the problem? Xiao Xia's heart sank.

No wonder! She felt that this could not be for no reason. There are indeed traps in this world, but they were designed from some distance from the town, so it is not as simple as unintentionally getting involved. The figure rushing away in front of the car, the dead fire of the car, the ghost hitting the wall, the turning city gate, the dark shadow of the rainy night, and the current siege, there is not a single thing that does not carry the smell of conspiracy.

Wang Wenge shook his head and smiled bitterly, but did not answer.

"This is important!" Xiao Xia took two steps closer, "I believe you see this matter very clearly, if we don't solve that hidden problem, we can't get out, can you please tell me?" Let's see if we can fix it. ”

Wang Wenge still didn't speak, as if what he wanted to say couldn't be said at all.

Xiao Xia knew that what Wang Wenge knew was likely to be the key to unlocking the mystery of this empty city, so he hurriedly chased after him, "At least please reveal a little bit of the situation, aren't you worried about your life?" Even if you can see life and death, don't you feel wronged? ”

"Wronged? Haha, that's not necessarily, no one can wipe the mud off their feet! Wang Wenge sneered.

"But what about my life? It can't be that everyone has done something wrong! "Xiao Xia is a little hot.

She had been in a state of confusion and panic, wondering why she had met with bad luck again! Here she is isolated, without the protection of Ruan Zhan and Wanli, everything has to rely on herself, and looking at this situation, it is clear that the longer the time drags on, the more difficult it is to escape, and now it is difficult to find a clue, but this man is spitting out, which makes her eager to force a confession!

"Your life—"

"Yes, my life! I've never been here in my life, what does all this have to do with me, and what about Liu Hong and Zuo De? Xiao Xia suppressed her grievances and asked as calmly as possible, "If you know but refuse to say it, isn't it wrong to kill innocent people?" What if you're not afraid of death? Know that death is just the beginning. ”

Xiao Xia unconsciously used Ruan Zhan's words, but he didn't expect that these words really stimulated Wang Wenge. He stared blankly at Natsu and muttered the six words over and over again, like a broken VCR playing a certain paragraph over and over again.

He said this for several minutes before he slowly raised his eyes to look at Xiao Xia, "I don't want to, but- I don't know what's going on, and the matter is forced into a corner!" ”

"What's going on?"

Wang Wenge's throat rolled a few times, as if it was very difficult to say this, "Ten - ten years ago, at that time this place - there was - "

He stammered, but before he could get to the point, he was interrupted by a juggling and cautious footstep.

The sound came from the west side of the square, and sounded like the footsteps of the ten men trying to escape from the town in the thick fog! It's just that they are walking eastward, but now they are coming back from the west, as if they have walked a circle and returned to the same place.

The leader was Zode, who was the first to penetrate the fog and enter the square. The scene in front of him didn't surprise him too much, because he had long understood that there would be such a result, but he was just a little disappointed, but Liu Hong, who was following him, was stunned for a moment, sat on the ground and cried loudly.

"I can't get out! Can't get out! I'm going to die here! ”

As soon as she shouted, the people who had not yet come out of the dense fog all broke into the square at once, as if the fog was a layer of white door panels, and the edge of the square was the door frame, as long as the door was opened, they entered another world.

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, but they didn't expect them to be back in place! And as soon as Liu Hong cried, despair quickly spread among these people, and immediately frightened cries and whispers erupted.

"Why did only nine people come back, and there was only one one?" Xiao Xia suddenly realized that the number of people was wrong, and blurted out this sentence.

For a moment, the scene fell silent, everyone looked at each other, and sure enough, they found that there was one less person.

"Xiao Tan is not here!" A person shouted in horror, "It's always been him who broke off, Lao Zhang, didn't you notice?" ”

When the man named Lao Zhang heard this, his whole long horse-like face turned green, and his lips trembled for a long time before he spoke, "I kept holding his hand, and I didn't let go until—until—"

He let out an 'ah' cry and ran as quickly as if he had been burned towards the artificial lake in the center of the square. The others, not knowing what was going on, thought that a ghost was coming to kill someone, and they also ran in, until they reached the lake.

"What's wrong, Lao Zhang?" Mao Fu asked.

"I—I remember—I heard Miss Liu crying at the edge of the square, and I let go of him!" Lao Zhang gasped and said.

It was only a hundred meters from the edge of the square to the lake, but the excessive tension and fear consumed his physical strength, and he was out of breath when he spoke, as did everyone else.

And his answer made everyone understand one thing, there was something hidden in this thick fog that could not be dissolved, and he sneaked up on Reporter Tan when he was unprepared. If it weren't for Tan, it would be someone else!

Xiao Xia was also panicked at the moment.

Although she has seen a lot of things, she has never dealt with this kind of scene. In the past, she was at a loss, and everything was arranged by Ruan Zhan, but now she is the calmest one in this group. But despite this, she was not very confident that she would be able to escape, let alone save the lives of this large group of people.

It was so strange that it was like a white mist, like a layer of glass that separated the square from the whole town. In other words, these people are the fish in the fish tank, waiting to be fished out by others, and 'he' is watching and waiting for an opportunity in a place where he can't see!

"What should I do?" Zhao Jiayuan asked, his voice trembled, and he didn't ask Mao Fu, and he didn't know who he was asking, or if he was just talking to himself.

"Calm down." Zuo De's steady and loud voice came, "Chaos will change, if we-"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by another scream from Liu Hong. Xiao Xia was about to rush up and slap this startled group emotional polluter, when he saw everyone looking in the direction of the artificial lake, opening their mouths wide and looking stunned!

Xiao Xia 'stool' in her heart, knowing that something had happened again. When I turned my head, I saw that there was nothing abnormal about the lake and the tower, the difference was only the fountain that sprayed into the air!

Originally, the water column was white, but now it has changed color, and it has become red, red like blood! Subconsciously, Xiao Xia slowly walked to the lake-

In the rippling blue waters of the lake, a naked figure floats face down on the water. The shape of the body should be that of a man, or rather of a fish-shaped, because his legs were clinging together as if they were bound by something invisible, and his feet were straight, like a pair of flippers; The same is true for the two arms, except that the elbows are slightly bent outwards and are arranged in the shape of fins; The thick hair on the head swayed gently like aquatic plants with the undulations of the water, giving people a sense of life, but the skin was as white as death, as if all the blood had been squeezed out!

What's even more terrifying is that he is naked, and his back and legs are covered with large and small black handprints, which 'grow' all over his body like spots!

Natsu covered her mouth and choked the screams in her throat. She turned her head sideways as if asking for help, and saw that the others had also stood by the lake with her, some far away, some near, and just as they formed a semicircle, but everyone was so frightened that they turned pale and could not speak!

What is it? Reporter Tan? How could he have run into the lake when he disappeared at the outer edge of the square! And there were so many people present, how did he get to the water? Also, why was he made to look like a human fish? What do those handprints on his back mean?

"A lot of people have caught him!" Zode muttered, "The handprints on his back are different, there must have been a lot of 'people' who caught him!" ”

No one answered him, and a gust of wind suddenly blew in the square.

The wind blew from the ground, blew from the edge of the square to the lake for no apparent reason, swirled, swept past everyone's feet, and felt as if it had touched everyone's feet and made a mark, making people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts and understand one thing.

There will be no one left in this city! The next one could be your turn!

The wind blew on the surface of the lake, and the lake made a small wave, and the corpse in the lake also moved with the waves, and was washed to the shore in three or two clicks, and the people who were standing around screamed in horror and scattered in all directions!

Knock--Knock-

There was a regular crashing sound in the lake, as if the mermaid's corpse was banging on the door and trying to get out of the water, and each blow seemed to knock on people's hearts, so that the despair of being besieged spread from the bottom of my heart to my whole body. And with a 'bang' of water, the corpse came out of the water, fell to the ground, fluttered like a freshly caught fish, threw droplets around, jumped, struggled, and slid on the marble floor! In the midst of the tossing, he turned around and let everyone see his face!

It's Reporter Tan, that's right!

His body could still distinguish his limbs from behind, but from the front, he could only see a pale torso, as if his entire body was tightly wrapped in a human leather bag, and it was still covered with black handprints!

And his face has not changed at all, it is still the same as before, there are no water stains, just a pair of eyes that are dark and do not reflect a little light, but everyone feels that it is looking behind them!

"Debt! Pay off your debts! Debts owed must always be paid! He suddenly spoke, and then continued to 'jump'!

In the screams, everyone scattered and fled, without thinking or planning, only by the word 'escape', not wanting to be caught by 'Reporter Tan'!

There was a loud laugh like a cough behind him, "Run! Run! Will be back anyway! ”

No one dared to look backwards, but Xiao Xia did. She saw that the pillar of blood did not fall, but still gushed high into the air, and Reporter Tan's body was no longer moving, lying in the center of the square like a dead fish, and the laughter did not know who made it!

And the next second, she couldn't see anything, because she had already stepped into the fog.

She forced herself to calm down and not to run around. Although she couldn't tell the direction at the moment, she still walked forward by feeling, a little farther away from the edge of the square, beware of the fact that the thing that only smelled her smile and did not see her shadow came out to hurt her, so that she had a relative buffer, and at the same time gave herself some time to think.

This situation is the worst! They should have thought of a countermeasure before they acted, but the sudden 'dead fish' frightened everyone, including her and Zuode, who seemed to be calm. In just a few seconds, animal instinct caused everyone to run to the place they thought was far away from danger, and cut off contact with each other!

In fact, she knew from the beginning that the square was not a good hiding place, because it felt more unsettling there, making people feel that they were the prey of being fenced, and everyone could be the next target! However, it is the only place where people can gather, and it is necessary to work out basic countermeasures there.

If the square is like a dead end, which can only be passively defended and cannot be escaped, then this unknown fog is more like a dangerous trap; If scattering brings more chances of escape, then uniting together will have greater resistance power!

Uniting all forces not only makes people feel more psychologically safe, but they can cooperate with each other and have a greater hope of survival. But now, the manipulators of the fog have apparently taken advantage of the first death, successfully causing their panic and dispersion, and everyone is left to their own strength!

In the white fog, Xiao Xia only saw that he was only one meter away from him, and took out his mobile phone to see, but there was still no signal, and it was still 23:17. She thinks it's not that there's something wrong with the phone, but that in this weird empty city, time and space are different from everything people are used to, or that time has stopped, because dead things don't need to count time!

She gritted her teeth and reminded herself to be brave. She has experienced so many things with Ruan Zhan and Wanli, how can she be so useless! Even if she can't escape in the end, she can't surrender so easily!

She hesitated, then turned back in her pre-calculated directions. She's going to go back to the square again!

One step - two steps - three steps -

She tried to slow down as much as she could, but she heard a loud noise, as if she was walking on a drum, and the sound was multiplied. This made her sweat with nervousness, but she still managed to walk step by step, until she counted more than thirty steps, and she realized that she was still in the fog, and she did not even see the shadow of the square.

Did you make a mistake? It is not easy to judge the direction in this fog without any coordinates! However, it may also be the will of this town, which wants to lose everyone!

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