The rain kept falling, but it was much lighter, and the thin streaks of rain hit the windows of the farmhouse, leaving shallow traces of water.

It was still very dark, under the cover of dark clouds, there was not even moonlight, and I couldn't see anything without the lantern, and the angle of the lantern was very clever, so that the faint light could shine into the living room, and it would not spread too far through the window.

In the living room lay the cat's corpse, its smashed head hanging on its neck, completely motionless.

Two hours ago, after the shadow monster exploded in the body of the cat corpse, although the threat was indeed much higher, it was much easier. No matter how much you attack before, you can't kill this dead thing, but this time, Babu and Monica chose it to drill out of the shadow mass outside the body at the same time, and under the burst of source energy, the weird shadow group dissipated instantly, turning into a free energy and integrating into the environment, and the cat corpse that had just opened its teeth and claws was paralyzed to the ground as if it had been suddenly drained of strength, and it didn't move.

The cat's corpse is placed on the dining table in the living room, and it is hard to imagine what strange things have happened to it, and it is even harder to imagine the destructive power of a fat cat, which can be so strong that the thick kitchen door can be easily torn like a piece of paper.

Anna had fallen asleep in Babu's arms, and after a night of fear, the little one finally escaped into his dream. But neither Babu nor Monica dared to sleep, and the two sat at the table, observing the development of the corpses on the table, while waiting for the rain to stop.

"So, this thing isn't a monster or a phantom beast, nor is it a normal mutant?"

"Neither." Monica stared at the cat corpse and shook her head, "I think it's more like ...... I can't think of a way to describe it. ”

"More like something parasitic on a cat corpse?"

"Yes, that's what it means, possession or parasitism." Monica clapped her hands, and the loud voice startled herself, "The source of the parasite is the shadow, so once the shadow is destroyed, it won't move." It is not necessarily a corpse that is parasitized, and it may be that it died because it was parasitized when it was alive, so there is no external injury visible on the surface of the body. ”

"Like the sheep last night?"

"Yes, now I can finally explain why I bumped into a dead sheep that can move last night, and I guess that sheep is parasitic like this thing." Monica was silent for a moment, and said with a wry smile, "I hope the people nearby are really like we guessed yesterday, they are fleeing to a safer place like the town center, a cat that can't be killed is annoying enough, if you change to a human ......"

Monica couldn't go on, because just as she was looking forward to it, she suddenly saw a light through the window.

More than a dozen fires were gathering from the surroundings, the destination was obviously the farmhouse where the two were located, and farther away, more fires were shaking, and it seemed that the farmhouse was also the target.

"It's broken." The two of them glanced at each other, and they both saw what each other was thinking, it must be a human being who lit the fire, and it was difficult to distinguish friend from foe, so they had to prepare in advance. And with the current visibility, reckless running is undoubtedly self-defeating, and the only way is to defend the danger.

The fire was still far away, and Babu leaned on the door to listen, and then slipped out of the farmhouse. Monica, on the other hand, ran in and out of the farmhouse, pushing large and heavy pieces of furniture from several nearby rooms into the living room at the door, and when Barb returned, she began to block the front and back doors with furniture.

In addition to locking the barn door, the Báb brought back a lot of planks and tools from the barn and the storeroom, and even a hunting bow and a large bag of hunting arrows. As soon as he entered the farmhouse, he immediately picked up his tools and began to seal all the windows on the first floor with wooden planks.

The tools and materials were complete, Babu and Monica's movements were fast, and with the clanging noise, when the fastest batch of firelight arrived, the windows on the first floor were already nailed tightly, and the second floor was not sealed, leaving a grid-like battlement in each window, and the outside could be observed.

Although there was still a drizzle in the sky, it was no longer possible to extinguish the torches, and the bright firelight gathered together, illuminating the surroundings.

Holding a torch in one hand and carrying a variety of farm tools in the other, pitchforks, nail rakes, long saws, sickles, and all kinds of farm tools were there, each of which was sharpened and reflected in the light of the torch.

The demeanor of these people was normal, and there was no stiffness characteristic of corpses, but everyone was expressionless, staring at Babu and Monica who were watching from the second floor, with eyes like dead fish.

The first to arrive were only seven or eight people, but a dozen more torches gathered not far away, and there were more points of light farther away, in addition to the points of light, dogs barking from time to time in the darkness, and the neighing of cows and horses approaching from afar.

The peasants gathered in a heap at the door with a cold expression, and for a moment there was only the crackling of torches and the faint sound of animals in the distance, and after a moment of pause at the door, one of the farmers raised his pitchfork and pointed in the direction of the farmhouse.

"Kill them."

As soon as the words fell, seven or eight people raised their farm tools and rushed towards the farmhouse.

"Whoosh", an arrow flew out of the window on the second floor, nailed to the neck of a peasant woman accurately, left forward and right back, and directly pierced the neck. However, although the peasant woman staggered from the force of the arrow, she quickly regained her balance, as if she was not affected at all, and did not even pull out the arrow, so she approached the farmhouse with an ornament stuck in her neck, and brandished a long saw.

Soon, there was a violent crash outside the doors and windows, and the farmers let out meaningless roars, just like the cat last night, viciously banging on the doors, windows and walls, as if they were going to divide the bodies of the three people inside, as if they had some deep hatred.

"Shoot, try it." In the window on the second floor, the two ignored the impact below, and Babu was hanging on Anna, who was holding a dagger and guarding Monica's side inch by inch, and after a little hesitation, he nodded to Monica and confirmed, "Anyway, let them crash like this, the doors and windows will be broken sooner or later, so it's better to take the opportunity to try it." ”

Open the bow, shoot the arrow.

With Babu by her side, Monica could safely ignore her own safety, concentrate on shooting her bow and arrows, shooting three arrows in a row, one was missed, one was in the chest to stop the farmer who was walking, and the third accurately penetrated the farmer's eye socket and came out of the back of the head.

The farmer staggered back a few steps, his head popping open like a watermelon, and flesh splattered in all directions, staining the muddy ground a layer of bright red. Sure enough, from the neck of the blood-spurting body, a large shadow also emerged, and the tentacles on the surface of the shadow were longer and sharper than those on the cat's body, dancing wildly around them, cutting the bodies of several farmers around them.

Another arrow flew out of the window, and the shadow that had just emerged in the middle of it, only to see that the shadow did twitch, but it did not dissipate, and the human body below did not fall, but just carried a strange cloud of shadows and tentacles, and flew out of the scythe in his hand upstairs.

With a thud, the inaccurate scythe hit the window frame, and the impact made Monica's eyes twitch, and she made three arrows in a row with a straight face. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the tentacles outside the shadows accurately blocked the first one, and then it was hit by two arrows in succession. The shadow couldn't hold it anymore, it exploded inside the neck, dissipated out of thin air, and the headless corpse immediately fell down, motionless after a few convulsions.

The surrounding farmers did not appear surprised by the change in his companion's headshot, but behaved extremely restless after he did not move at all, and they let out a voice that Monica could not understand but could follow, and the movement of breaking the door was noticeably louder.

"It's a good thing, at least it didn't tear it down." Monica rubbed her strangled fingers, "What's wrong with you, what are you wondering, you can't even understand their roars, what are they talking about?" ”

"Well, I really don't understand this, but I'm sure it's some kind of language." Babu shrugged, "Is it unique to this world?" ”

"I don't know, there are too many of them, maybe there are some special ones." Monica suddenly raised her voice and shouted, "Attention, the second wave of reinforcements has arrived, be careful that they throw scythes." ”

As she reminded her, she continued to pull the bowstring, and with the sound of continuous strings, several arrows flew in a string and flew towards the second wave of farmers who had just approached.

After the light sound, a ladder was erected up to the window, and the window appeared with the indifferent face of a farmer, but he was still climbing the ladder, and as soon as he showed his head at the window, he was met with a wood-splitting axe, which directly split the skull in half. When the skull exploded from the inside, the second axe had already arrived, and the force was greater than that of the first, and the shadow was split before it could be fully formed, returning to nature in a free state.

There was a thud and the sound of wooden planks cracking downstairs, and then shouts and footsteps rang out from the farmhouse, and Barb took a few steps backwards and peeked down from the staircase, where a farmer had already crawled in, staggering with torches, and approaching the staircase.

"It's time to go to war." Babu pulled out his dagger and blocked the staircase, "Then I'll guard this side, and you'll be in charge of the window, you ......"

Before the words fell, in the darkness outside the window, a rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded. The sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and the attention of the peasants inside and outside the house was completely absorbed by the sudden sound, and they had forgotten what they had done, and shouted with torches, and circled in the direction from which the horses' hooves came.

On the second floor, Babu and Monica also ran to the window to look in the direction of the sound of horses' hooves, and could see that a fire was lit up in the darkness, and a fast horse was galloping from a distance.