The room was quite messy.

It's not that life is sloppy and untidy, but as if someone has rummaged through it several times, nothing is where it should be, and all the furniture and objects are turned into a mess, as if they have been looted.

But the door was locked, and the doors and windows were closed, and there was no sign of the damage.

At first, the two of them were still shielded from the breath of life, carefully exploring room by room, trying not to make a sound, but after checking for half an hour, they didn't care about the sound.

The farmhouse was large and there were a lot of rooms, but the situation in each room was similar, and the two of them went upstairs and downstairs several times, and they didn't find anything unusual except that things were turned over.

As for the owner of the farmhouse, he rummaged up and down, even the storage room on the other side, but let alone people, there was not even a single thing that could move, just like a huge farmhouse that had been abandoned.

"It seems that there is indeed no one left." Monica shook her head and turned on the lantern slightly, "I don't know what happened, the family left in such a hurry, not only did they take away all the valuable portable items, but they didn't even have a little food left." I had a bad feeling that they were more like a temporary escape than something to leave. ”

After carefully screening several times, the two finally stopped, sat down at the dining table in the living room at the door, and looked out the window at the heavy rain that seemed to never stop, the rain curtain in the darkness was like an ocean, and the farmhouse where the three of them were hiding was like a small lonely boat in the ocean, precarious, and seemed to be about to capsize at any time.

"The point is that the walk is not long, only two or three days at most." By this time Babu had already changed into a set of dry clothes, and although he wanted to warm himself by a fire, and there was a lot of dry wood in the barn, neither of them dared to make a fire to keep warm, lest the sudden light of the fire and the smoke would attract some unknown enemy. Babu wrapped himself in a bear skin and poured a large sip of spirits, enjoying the sensation of heat rising from his stomach, "Even if it is a temporary escape, two or three days is enough time for the fleeing people to return, unless they can't come back, or ......"

"Or the 'difficulty' for them to escape is not over, and they can't come back yet."

"yes." Babu exhaled a breath of wine and looked at the barn next door through the rain, "I wonder if it would be safer for us to go back to the barn and wait for the rain to stop." ”

"I don't recommend staying with the caravan, because if you encounter an enemy, if you get too close to the caravan, you will be tied up and don't dare to make much movement." Monica shook her head and said, "From the time you came in just now, you seemed to have some doubts about this house, and it was inconvenient to ask just now, what did you find?" ”

"The smell of rancidity, or more strictly the smell of rotting corpses, is only the characteristic smell of rotting animal carcasses." "The smell is not really heavy, it is mainly because it is more noticeable after two or three days of stuffiness with the doors and windows closed, and when it dissipates a little, by the time you come in, you will no longer smell it." ”

"But we didn't find any bodies just now, and I didn't smell any room that smelled anything particularly bad." Monica tried her best to remember, but finally sighed, "Maybe it's the rats in the wall or something like starvation?" ”

"That's all I have to think about first." Babu smiled bitterly, "Maybe tomorrow when the smell gets worse, you can ...... Well? ”

The Báb stopped, for there was a sudden wriggling in his arms, and a small, unkempt head poked out of the bear's skin. The little head was still on his chest, but suddenly he jumped out of the bearskin, and after a while, he took Babu's hand and walked into the room.

Babu and Monica glanced at each other and smiled self-deprecatingly, no one remembered that this little thing had the best sense of smell here.

"No, she, how does she know what we're talking about?"

Monica reacted suddenly, but Babu didn't reveal the secret of the little thing, just shook her head and didn't answer, and was grabbed by Anna and ran all the way to the kitchen stove.

Babu forcibly stopped the little one's intention to burrow into it in high spirits, and Monica whipped her up, and the ashes of the furnace were all over the sky, and the corpse of a tanuki cat was rolled out.

"Is that it?"

"That's it." Babu put on her gloves and leaned over to examine the tanuki's corpse by the faint light of the lantern in Monica's hand. The coat is shiny and the body is strong, and at first glance it looks like a domestic fat cat, with a weak body, and it is obvious that it has been dead for more than a day.

"There are no obvious external injuries, the cause of death is unknown, and if you want to find out, you must hand it over to a professional for autopsy." Within a few minutes, the Barb was back on his feet, taking a few steps back, throwing away his gloves, and surveying the corpse on the ground, "just like the sheep outside." ”

"Hey, is there a plague?" Monica picked up the stick to clean the stove and fiddled with the cat corpse on the ground, "The plague can explain why the family fled in a hurry and haven't come back, and why there are no lights around." The problem is, someone should dispose of these corpses, otherwise the plague will not get worse and worse, and the entire living world will die of the plague. No, it won't be that simple. ”

"Huh?"

"The plague can't explain why the dead sheep was hit head-on by us, whether it was thrown out or for some other reason, it can't be explained by the plague." Monica rubbed the corners of her forehead and said with a headache, "And the edge is changing, and this strange thing has happened in this world, and no one will believe it if they have nothing to do with each other." If it's really just a plague, that's a good thing, but if it's not an ordinary plague, it's troublesome. ”

"I'm more worried about another thing now." Babu took a few steps back, "If it's really a plague, will we already ......?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Monica explained, "People who can move freely around the edge are soul resistant, they can't easily be infected by these diseases, and even if they are already infected, don't worry, don't forget, we just bought a purification potion, no matter what infectious disease, a bottle of potion can be dispelled." So those ordinary people are the most dangerous. ”

After finding the source of the rancid smell and making sure that it was not from some strange corpse, the two finally felt a little more relieved, and planned to return to the living room to wait for the rain to stop and leave as soon as possible, but just as the two of them walked out of the kitchen......

"Meow~"

They heard a terrible cat meow, which sounded in the kitchen behind the two of them, and the cat meow was very close to them, and it was close to the two of them.

Swallowing hard, the two twisted their necks stiffly, and looked at the kitchen behind them, just in the middle of the kitchen, the tanuki cat that had been fat was squatting on the ground. The cat's back arched, its neck hair exploded, its claws popped out of the meat pad, clasped the ground deadly, stared at the two green vertical pupils, stared at the two people outside the door without emotion, and with a mouth, it was a terrible cat meow.

Babu and Monica each took a few steps back, their faces cloudy, Monica gave Babu an inquiring look, and Babu nodded with a wry smile.

"Yes, I checked it very carefully, and I'm sure it's dead, and it's been dead for more than a day. In addition, cats are hunched and fried, and are often attacked......"

Before Babu could emphasize and explain, the tanuki cat had already taken two steps forward, and then pounced on the two of them.

The reaction speed of cats is often dozens of times that of humans, fortunately, Monica has already taken the first step to prepare, as soon as the cat moves, the whip has already rolled around the kitchen doorknob, followed by two bangs, the kitchen door closed in time, and then the raccoon cat hit the door hard, the force of the collision was quite large, and the door frame fell a lot of dust.

"Monster or Phantom Beast?" Hearing a tooth-aching crack behind the door, Barbu asked Anna to hug him by herself, and she reached the dining table to pick up a heavy wooden chair and quietly returned to Monica.

"It's not quite like it, whether it's a monster or a phantom beast, it's essentially a manifestation of the pollution of the illusory world energy to the present world, but this thing is different, it's very strange. It's hard to explain, but I think it's a lot like something is influencing or manipulating its corpse. Monica saw Babu come back with a chair, and the two looked at each other, then nodded, stared at the scratching sound coming from behind the door, and raised three fingers.

Three, two, one.

The kitchen door slammed open.

The tanuki behind the door took a few steps back, and just finished running and jumped into the air to hit the door, when the door suddenly opened, and in the place of the target door was a thick wooden chair, which was rounded and slapped towards it.

The chair went up right to the bottom left, and slammed into the tanuki cat, and the fat big cat screamed and was slammed on the floor. After suffering such a heavy blow, the tanuki cat was still struggling to get up, and the struggle was extremely strong, and it seemed to be unscathed, but before it could get up again, the chair fell from the sky again and accurately hit the tanuki on the head.

"Bang", the chair was torn apart by the tremendous force of the impact, and the tanuki's head was completely flattened, and the colorful solids and liquids were mixed together, and there was a disgusting rancid smell.

The smashed cat did go limp for a moment, but then a cloud of black gas poured out of its neck, and the black gas did not spread, but condensed into a ball at the place of its original head, and several tentacles with sickle-like objects stretched out on it.

The tentacles slashed horizontally, extremely fast, making a sound of cutting through the air, and Babu and Monica had already bent down and bowed their heads before the tentacles waved, and rolled forward while avoiding the tentacle attack in time, quickly closing the distance between them and the cat corpse.

The tentacles were let go by the two, easily cutting the thick kitchen door panel, and the cat corpse that was approaching also cooperated with the tentacles to show their claws, and frantically grabbed at the two.