Chapter 8: The Strange Tree
Yang Jian quickened his pace and continued to move forward in the darkness.
"Step, step~!"
But the clear footsteps behind him still followed closely and slowly.
No matter how Yang Jian sped up, he couldn't get rid of that footstep, and as time passed, that footstep was getting closer and closer.
At first, it was just a sound of footsteps five or six meters behind me.
But then the footsteps felt like about three meters behind him.
Further on, the footsteps were almost a meter behind him.
Yang Jian held the phone in his palm, he didn't dare to let the screen go out, because he was ready to click on the audio file at any time.
If that ghost does attack itself again.
The knock on the door from this audio file was the only means of saving his life.
Tense and ready to fight off the ghost at any moment.
However, things were not as Yang Jian expected, the footsteps behind him were always a meter away from him, neither leaving nor continuing to approach.
And whether Yang Jian sped up or slowed down, the footsteps still maintained this subtle distance.
"Could it be that thing is waiting for your phone to run out of battery?"
Suddenly, Yang Jian's face changed suddenly, and he became more and more uneasy when he looked at the mobile phone's power that was only less than ten percent left.
If that's the case, it's only a matter of time before he dies at the hands of that ghost.
It's impossible to get out of here alive.
Look at the battery level on the phone screen: 7%
"If the battery level is less than 5%, it is possible to shut down at any time. ”
Yang Jian now regrets a little, playing with his mobile phone during the day and losing the battery.
"But now is not the time to think about this, if I don't want to die here, I can only run out of this place before my phone runs out of power, or ......"
Gritting his teeth, he began to run.
Run as fast as you can in the direction where the ticking sound of water came from.
"Tread, tread~!"
The footsteps behind him followed closely and lingered.
Yang Jian could even feel the cold air coming from behind him, as well as the faint smell of corpses.
The ghost followed him like a shadow, and he chased after him.
Running with all his might, the position of the sound of the drop of water is getting closer and closer to him.
But at this moment, the phone screen is automatically lit up.
Battery: 5%.
It says: In order to prevent the phone from shutting down automatically, please charge it in time.
"Damn it. ”
Yang Jian gasped, sweating all over, he glanced at it, and his heart became more and more panicked.
Although he was already tired, he did not dare to stop.
To stop means to die.
Keep gritting your teeth and running wildly.
Suddenly, a faint light appeared in front of him in the darkness in front of him.
The light was a faint red color that was particularly clear in the darkness, like a spark in the night, faint but conspicuous.
"That's ....."
Yang Jian's eyes lit up, and his heart was ecstatic, as if he saw the hope of living.
However, at this time, the mobile phone in his hand vibrated and the screen lit up again.
It says: Auto power off.
Although there is still a little battery, the phone has already begun to be forced to shut down.
However, at the moment when the phone screen went out completely.
Yang Jian felt a cold aura enveloping him behind him, and the sound of footsteps quickly approached...... The thing was sticking to it from a distance of a meter in an instant.
Right behind the scenes.
Although he couldn't see it in the darkness, he could feel a cold, pale palm reaching over his ear and grabbing at his neck.
No matter how much he ran, he couldn't get rid of this palm.
"Are you going to die here......" Yang Jian already felt that the cold fingers had touched the skin on his neck.
The ice-like cold instantly spread throughout the body, causing goosebumps.
A faint smell of corpse permeated the tip of his nose.
There is no way out.
The red light in the darkness became more and more conspicuous.
Suddenly, the footsteps behind him stopped, disappeared in an instant, and the cold palm that had just touched Yang Jian's neck suddenly froze and did not pinch it.
Yang Jian, who had run a few steps forward, felt the thing behind him pull away.
It seems that the ghost didn't continue to chase after him.
"Just now, just now, what's going on......"
After running a little further, Yang Jian really couldn't run, he stopped and gasped for breath, he was covered in a cold sweat, and he was frightened.
Think back to the thrilling scene before.
He was sure that he could not survive because of his fate, but because the ghost gave up chasing and killing him, but why?
Listened left and right.
The footsteps that followed were never heard again.
I seem to be safe for the time being.
"Don't worry about it for now, since that thing didn't chase after me, it means I'm okay now, and I have to get out of here as soon as possible anyway. Yang Jian gasped, he raised his head to look at the location of the red light, and then walked over.
Soon, he came to the location that emitted a red light.
"Light bulbs, glass beads?" Yang Jian paused for a moment, and he couldn't see what it was in the dark.
He tried to reach out and touch the place where the red glow was emitting.
"Ah~!"
In an instant, Yang Jian felt a sharp tingling pain, and he quickly withdrew his palm.
"This, this is not a lamp. ”
However, to his horror, he saw that the red glass ball was sticking to his hand, and it was still squirming wildly, and it actually made a hole and sank into the back of his hand.
Cold, painful, instantly enveloped the whole body.
Yang Jian fell to the ground, and the pain made him convulse all over, as if he were cramping and crushing his soul.
But in the midst of the painful struggle, Yang Jian noticed that there were changes around him.
The darkness around him began to recede rapidly.
I can see it clearly......
Everything around you can be seen clearly.
It was as if all of a sudden he had the ability to see at night.
Pain comes and goes quickly.
After struggling for less than three minutes, Yang Jian felt that the pain began to recede like a tide.
He lay on the ground almost collapsed, gasping for breath, and the muscles in his body were still twitching slightly because of the pain just now.
"What the hell is going on. ”
After a while, Yang Jian recovered a little before he struggled to sit up.
However, when he saw everything around him clearly, his eyes suddenly shrank, and his face showed a look of horror.
In front of me is a tree.
A pale tree that grows like bones.
The trees were covered with tattered human skins, filthy strips of cloth, and the heads of dried corpses, and strange paper banners..... But what frightened him even more was that on the trunk of this tree lay a man who was four meters tall.
No, not people.
Rather, it is a shadow, a shadow with the same silhouette as a person, as if condensed from darkness.
The tall black figure was motionless, hanging upside down from the tree, head to the ground.
I looked carefully, but I found that there was an iron nail the thickness of an adult's arm nailed to the chest of this black shadow, no, to be exact, it should be a coffin nail commonly used by folks, and the coffin nail has been nailed to the tree for I don't know how many years, rusty, as if it is about to break.
"Tick, tick~!"
Black blood was bleeding from the place where the shadow was nailed.
All the way before, the sound of the drop of water in the darkness turned out to be this.
But when Yang Jian saw the head of this huge black shadow, he suddenly felt cold.
The head of the black shadow had no facial outline, only a notch, which seemed to be the location of the black shadow's eyes, and it seemed to be its eyeballs that had emitted red light before.
Yang Jian looked at the back of his hand.
"Gollum~!"
The cracked flesh was stretched open, and a red eyeball turned around a few times to reveal it, and a strange perspective appeared in his mind.
It was as if there was really an eye growing on the back of the hand, and the image of this eye could be transmitted to the mind.
Weird, grotesque, or an unknown ability.
But Yang Jian looked at the strange white bone tree, and the human skin, the dried corpse, and the huge black shadow nailed to the trunk of the tree.
"It's weird here, whatever the tree is, it's better to get out as soon as possible. ”
He vaguely felt that the huge black shadow nailed to the tree was even more terrifying than the old man.
And he seemed to be aware that the dry corpse hanging on the tree seemed to be watching him secretly.
There's a creepy feel to it.
He looked at the red eyes that were showing on the back of his hand, and a haze hung over his heart, lingering.
It's just that it's not the time to care about that right now.
The darkness around him seemed to have faded, and Yang Jian could see everything around him very clearly.
It was a dim, endless space, empty of nothing but this dead tree of white bones.
It's like another world, and it's not the school you know at all.
But when he looked back, he could see that there was a door in the direction he had come, and it was ...... Toilet doors,
It turned out that the door was so close to him, and he hadn't even noticed it before.