The darkness may not be so terrifying, but what lurks in the darkness is the most terrible unknown.

I looked at the dark woods around me, even if it was a blur of shadows, I could only see a few trees close to me, and the farther ones were shrouded in darkness, and only the sound of "rustling" could be heard.

"Come here, get some closer."

Lu Haisheng's voice sounded low, a small volume, but it came to everyone's ears very clearly in the silence. No one refutes or questions it, and in the face of danger, everyone chooses the best way to protect themselves.

Whether it was the five people or Chen Si, they all approached in silence, and eleven people gathered together, and Lu Haisheng pulled me behind him.

I looked around and lowered my eyes slightly, I have to say that the human heart is really a very delicate thing.

Eleven people, six men, and five women, at this time, they didn't need anyone or anything, and they formed a back-to-back circle very tacitly.

The circle is not large, and there are people around the perimeter who are guarded, and there are people who are protected inside.

Lu Haisheng and Lin Ya both stood on the periphery of the circle, guarding the surroundings, me, Fang Ruoxi and Yu Pu were all within the protection of the two, Yu Pu was still asleep and did not wake up, I tried to call him a few times, but it was useless.

I gave up after shouting a few times, I know Yu Pu's ability very well, he doesn't have a strong combat power like Lu Haisheng, nor does he have strong muscles and agile motor nerves like Lin Ya, if you use force value, Yu Pu should be on the same level as me and Fang Ruoxi, in this case, even if you wake him up, it won't be of much use. After I entrusted Yu Pu to Fang Ruoxi to support, I asked for a knife from Lu Haisheng, which blocked between Fang Ruoxi, Yu Pu and Lu Haisheng's forest cliff, becoming the second line of defense.

Of the five people on the other side, there were four people standing on the perimeter, or three people were more suitable. Wang Haobo stood in a prominent position, and the weapon in his hand turned out to be more than half a meter long, and he didn't seem to be afraid or even a little excited. The two positions around him are people I didn't expect, Li Sheng on one side and Fu Lingjun on the other.

Li Sheng is a writer, and he is in his fifties, and his force value is probably not as good as Yu Pu and me, but he still chooses to stand on the outermost edge and face danger first. This makes me think that although Li Sheng has thoughts and a city government, at least he can be sure that he is an upright person. An upright person, I think as long as we don't think about hurting him first, we don't have to worry about being hurt by him.

Although Fu Lingjun is a woman, perhaps because of her profession, she also chose to face danger directly in the outermost part with a pistol.

And the remaining two people, Wen Shiming, as a weak girl, is not strange to stand in a protected position in the back row, but the position where Lin Chang stands is very intriguing

The position of Lin Chang is very vague, that position is exactly at the boundary of Wang Haobo and Fu Lingjun's protection range, he takes a step forward is to face the danger of the upper periphery, and if he takes a step back, the whole person will hide in the protection of others, and if the danger really comes, what will he do is always easier to retreat than to advance, I think it is not difficult to guess.

And Chen Si was originally standing in the middle of the two groups of us, and when we gathered, she was also standing in the middle position, I looked at her and hesitated slightly, and then took a step in the direction of Wang Haobo's people.

Thinking about it, Chen Si felt that Wang Haobo's protection was safer, but did she really know what this step represented?

In just a few seconds, the attitude of everyone at this moment gave me a basic understanding of everyone's attitude, but at this moment, it is more important to resist the impending crisis.

The rustling sound was closer, and I listened closely, and there seemed to be heavy breathing mixed in, which didn't look like human breathing.

"Be careful!"

With Lu Haisheng's reminder, a small green light appeared in the dark and approached us, the faint green light made my back cold, and when I looked closely, I found that it was not a small lamp, but a pair of eyes—the eyes of beasts.

The green light approached little by little, and huge black shadows gradually emerged from the darkness, with low roars and suppressed gasps.

It wasn't until the beasts got closer that I could vaguely see them, but for a moment I didn't recognize what they were.

It was a beast I had never seen before, with a huge body, sharp teeth, a tiger's tail, a wolf's claws, and a head like a tiger and a wolf, I couldn't tell the difference.

"Is this a tiger or a wolf?"

"Quiet! Don't talk. ”

It was Wen Shiming who asked, who had just been stopped by Lu Haisheng in a low voice. No one answered her words, not because they didn't hear it, but because they didn't have time to dwell on such an inconsequential question.

It seems that I am not the only one who thinks that this beast has the characteristics of both a tiger and a wolf, but as far as I know, it is impossible for the characteristics of a tiger and a wolf to appear in the same animal. But it really doesn't matter, we just need them to be beasts, and I don't think those sharp teeth are for grazing.

A beast that hurts, a beast that kills us.

The beast was still approaching, and I looked around to see how bad our situation really was. These beasts of prey, which resemble tigers and wolves, did not come from one direction, but did not know when they had surrounded us from all sides.

I thought back to the rustling sound I had heard, and it was probably the sound of these beasts moving around us.

In addition to the few that I had already seen, the green light in the darkness reminded me that there were more beasts lurking in the darkness, ready to pounce and bite my throat and take my flesh and bones.

Those tiger wolves stopped moving forward after getting close to a certain extent, and I roughly estimated that it was only about five meters, and this distance of five meters was probably only a second for these three-meter-long beasts.

"Climb the tree, everyone, they shouldn't climb the tree"

Lu Haisheng's voice that could be suppressed came to my ears, and his volume was well controlled, just within the range that could be heard by all of us, but nothing more.

Climbing trees may really be feasible I pursed my lips, after all, wolves and tigers can't climb trees, so thinking about it, these beasts probably don't have the ability to do this. But the problem now is that I don't have the ability to do it.

How many of the children who grew up in the city really knew how to climb trees? I don't think I'm the only one here who has never climbed a tree before.

It's just that there is no time for me to think about it now, and the tigers and wolves are constantly probing, getting a little closer and then immediately backing away, and this temptation is becoming more and more frequent, which means that our situation is becoming more and more dangerous. Even if I'm not a zoologist, it's clear that the current behavior of these beasts is a prelude to an attack.

When the desire for our flesh and blood overtakes caution about danger, the next approach will no longer be a temptation, but a complete attack and killing.

"Listen to me, everybody, and I'll count to three. One-two"

In order to survive, whether you will or not, you must be able to do it.

"Three!"

As Lu Haisheng shouted the "three", everyone moved at the same time. Fortunately, we are now in a dense area with three trees close to us, and these trees are all relatively thick, which gives us enough space to climb.

As we moved, the tigers and wolves roared at us, and I seemed to hear the screams of someone, but I had no time to care about the situation of others.

Crawl! Climb! You can only survive by climbing up!

I don't know how far away those tigers and wolves are from me, and I don't have time to think about whether I will be the dinner of those beasts in the next second. Even if it was my first time climbing a tree, my speed was by no means slow, and I thought it would be a little difficult, but I didn't expect that the moment my hands touched the trunk, it was almost an instinct to climb up with my hands and feet.

For a moment, I could even smell the fishy smell in the mouth of the tiger wolf, and then something seemed to pass my ear, and a high-pitched roar of the beast came out, and I just crawled up single-mindedly. Until my hand was grabbed and my whole body was pulled upward, and when I came to my senses, I found myself on a thick branch of the tree.

I looked at the person who was pulling me next to me, it was Lu Haisheng, and there was another person lying on a branch at his feet, but it was Yu Pu. I just remembered that Yu Pu was still unconscious, it seemed that Lu Haisheng had just taken Yu Pu from Fang Ruoxi and climbed the tree with him.

Another sharp beast roar came, and from the roar you could feel the anger and pain of the vocalizer. I followed the sound and saw that it was a wounded tiger wolf, and it was a knife that caused its wound.

It's a very ordinary knife, I have one at home, and I have always used it to cut fruits, but now, when it is in Lu Haisheng's hands, its role has become a tool for protection and killing.

I looked left and right, and saw that there was more than one wounded tiger wolf, and the same crouching under the tree we were in was a wounded tiger wolf with a knife stuck in its right eye.

After a slight pause, I checked several other injured tiger wolves, and each injured part was the right eye.

If you think about it carefully, you can understand that the knife is not very sharp after all, and Lu Haisheng used it to kill the tiger wolf without preparation, and only relied on the pain of the knife in the eye to stop the attack of these tiger wolves.

Finally, all eleven of us climbed to the top of the three trees, temporarily eliminating the danger of being torn apart by the tiger and wolf.

I, Lu Haisheng, and Yu Pu, who was still asleep, were on the same tree. Lin Ya, Fang Ruoxi, Fu Lingjun and Lin Chang were on the same tree. The remaining four people, Chen Si, Wang Haobo, Li Sheng and Wen Shiming, were on a tree.

Under the tree, there are dozens of tiger wolves eyeing each other.