Chapter 26 Chapter 12 The Cave Visitors

Under the light of Hu Wenfei's flashlight, I saw a person—no, it should be said that it had human characteristics, but it was a terrifying monster: it was wet all over, with sparse and long hair, skin and bones, tall About 1.5 meters, with a huge head and a slender body, the hands and feet are covered with thick black calluses, the whole body is naked, and the eyes on the big head protrude like dead fish bubbles. It was shot in the back, and the bullet penetrated the gap between the shoulder blades, from top to bottom, and went straight to its lung lobes. It fell prone on the ground, and was turned around by Hu Wenfei with his feet.

I looked at this wrinkled face like an old man, and saw that black plasma bubbles were constantly spit out from its mouth, flowing down its cheeks, its eyes were dull, and it held a extinguished gun in its left hand. The torch, with his right hand firmly grasping the trouser leg of Hu Wenfei stepping on its body, his face twisted, and a hoarse roar came from his throat continuously, like the sound of sandpaper being polished on glass. For a split second, I had a vision of Gollum, the cave monster from The Lord of the Rings. "What is this?" I asked, pointing to the guy on the ground.

Hu Wenfei shook his head and said he didn't know, his expression was heavy, he didn't pay attention to the monster struggling with his life under his feet, and turned his eyes to the west side of the gate of the village.There, there were a few sneaky black figures, looking towards this side while leaving. Evidently, the intelligent beings in this valley are not just our group of outsiders who escaped from the dwarf mule's cave. These guys can use fire and know tools, so they must be some kind of intelligent creatures. Where do they come from? Beyond the canyon?Or the dark cave at the end of the stream that scares the golden silkworm Gu?Or in the forest where countless poisonous insects are hiding...all of these are mysteries.What worries me is that they set fire to us as soon as they came up. It is conceivable that these guys really don't have much kindness towards us.

So were the people who died in this village killed by these guys? There are only three bullets left in my pistol, and I hesitate to point at the blurred silhouettes. Xiao Zhou also rushed over from the ancestral hall. Seeing the direction where my gun was pointing, he squatted down without hesitation, and fired two bursts in a kneeling position. His vision was blurred and he missed those few shots. A black shadow, on the contrary, scared them away and disappeared into the darkness. The direction in which they fled was just downstream of the stream. Seeing that he missed the shot, Xiao Zhou Zhou was full of anger and cursed, then closed his gun and ran to us. When he saw this monster on the ground, he was shocked. He pointed his gun at it firmly and asked us in a trembling voice, saying: Chief Hu, Brother Lu, where did this malnourished monster come from?Hu Wenfei bent down, bound the half-dead "Gulum" with his hands behind his back, and escorted him to the burning ancestral hall.He shook his head and said he didn't know, I, Hu, have been in the industry for sixteen years, and this is the first time I've seen such a monster.Take it back and see if you can recognize the remaining little Miao girls in the village.

This Gollum was only half breathed, how could he bear Hu Wenfei's toss, stand up and fall again.After I put the pistol in my waist, I stretched out my hands to hold its feet, and together with Lao Hu, I carried the thing back. I walk carefully.It feels that its feet are as thin as hemp stalks, its ankles are full of water, its soles are covered with mud, and there is a layer of yellow oil on the surface of its skin, which is like butter or corpse oil, greasy and exudes a kind of Weird smell. When I held my breath, frowned, and Lao Hu carried the Gollum back to the ancestral hall, I found that most of the room with the largest area had been burned.The flames soared into the sky, and smoke and sparks continued to fall from the sky.It was too late to put out the fire, except for the impotent miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao and the necessary security personnel, the rest of the people were working hard to create a quarantine area to prevent the fire from burning the entire village.

I don't know how long it will take us to get out of the canyon, so this is our temporary habitat, and we have nothing to lose. The little Miao girl Youyou hugged the cloth bag containing the adult tiger cat, squatting shivering beside the miscellaneous hair path, we carried the Gullum to her and put it down in front of her. When the little girl saw it, she showed a very strange expression—horrified There was a hint of curiosity in it, and I couldn't tell how scared I was, but there was some sadness in it.Yang Cao was originally carrying combustible objects on both sides of the ancestral hall. Seeing this scene, he ran over, looked at the monster with only one breath left, and then asked her something in Miao language.

Youyou pulled the corner of Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao's clothes, said a few words timidly, then stopped talking, holding the fat hen tightly with both hands, her eyes were full of tears. I asked Yang Cao, what did the little girl say?Yang Cao shook his head, saying that the little girl said this was a monster...an ominous monster! Well, I understand why Yang Cao has a helpless expression on his face: it's as if he didn't say anything. Yang Cao's attention was focused on the Gollum on the ground, he lifted it aside, picked up a big stone, and began to torture this guy to extract a confession.However, monsters are monsters, how can they understand human language? After the two of them "talked to each other", Gollum finally died of blood, and the fish bubble eyes on his big head finally lost their spirit.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I feel that there seems to be a trace of reluctance and fear intertwined on Yoyo's face. Seeing that the thing died, I ran over to carry the things together with everyone. After working for 20 minutes, I finally controlled the fire in the courtyard of the ancestral hall and did not spread to the neighboring houses.When we retreated to the threshing ground in front of the Drum Tower, we could not help feeling bitter in our hearts when we saw the flames dancing wildly like demons, and the flames jumped and cheered wantonly.That unique dinner in the evening, perhaps, is our last meal of happiness, right?

In this canyon, it is not as wild and peaceful as we imagined. In this endlessly beautiful scenery, how many dangers are lurking in the dark? No one knows. Yang Cao was not idle all the time, he retreated to the threshing floor, wrapped a living dead man in rags, and began to dissect it. This living dead man was one of those who were beaten by us at the door. Half of his neck was torn off, his head was drooping, and his broken limbs were still twitching constantly.Yang Cao dissected it meticulously and carefully, and with the help of instruments that search for negative energy, he quickly made a standard surgical incision on the edge of its heart.When he picked apart the rotten flesh on his chest, revealing a peach-shaped organ, I saw a nest of small bugs wriggling and crawling on it beside this thing.

The worms are as big as the fingernail of a little finger, while the smaller ones are like black sesame seeds. Big and small, there are twenty or thirty of them. I squinted my eyes and saw that there was a pair of antennae on the head of these insects. The antennae were of different lengths and were divided into four or five segments in a jagged shape. The hind wings have degenerated, sticking with blood, the mouthparts are horrible, and there are swimming hairs all over the body... This appearance is exactly the appearance of the Zombie Gu recorded in the "Twelve Ways". Looking at the densely packed Zombie Gu, Yang Cao frowned, and asked someone to bring a torch, and put the flame close to the open chest, there was a burst of crackling insects, and there was a suffocating stench in the air .

Lao Jin, who was passing the torch next to him, couldn't bear the smell, turned around, and all the acidic water in his abdomen was sprayed out, and he vomited continuously, wasting all the food he ate at night.Seeing him spit happily, we all frowned and stayed away. Yang Cao raised his head and said, there are Zombie Gu on these corpses, in order to avoid omissions, why not throw all the corpses into the fire? We nodded one after another, stood up again, endured the heat of the sky, and threw all the living dead outside the ancestral hall into the fire. Although some heads had been chopped off, their bodies were still wriggling. After being thrown in, the flames quickly ignited them, writhing in pain, and slamming into everything nearby.Although the ancestral hall is built of stones, the main structure is still supported by wood. After such a long period of fire, it has become loose.Finally, with the bang of the main beam, the entire ancestral hall collapsed and hit the fire scene heavily, raising countless ashes and smoke. For some reason, my heart felt a little empty, and I had an inexplicable sense of substitution, as if I was also in this fire, and my body and soul creaked and burned together. Turning back to the threshing ground, Hu Wenfei came from the dark, shook his head at Yang Cao, with a bitter smile on his face. He had been looking for Jia Wei in the village just now, and the woman who made us suspect that she was possessed by a ghost disappeared at a critical moment.This incident caused Yang Cao and Hu Wenfei to panic for a short time. After the situation stabilized, they immediately looked around. It can be seen that although Jia Wei is disgusting, he is indeed an important person, which caused a headache for the two Secret Service officers. I walked over, and Hu Wenfei was talking to Yang Cao: "... Judging from the footprints and signs, it seems that we have left the village and headed towards the ruins of the ancient city. It is dark today, and there are many dangers outside. We should take a rest for the time being and look for it tomorrow. Right?" Seeing me coming, Yang Cao raised his head and asked me what I think?I smiled and said she left, isn't that just what you two meant? Yang Cao sighed, saying that Jia Wei disappeared, if we can get out of this canyon, I'm afraid we will never get ahead in the situation, and we must always be on guard against someone firing a black gun from behind, do you think it's scary? I nodded and said it was terrible, but no one can control it? Hu Wenfei smiled bitterly, saying that the world is far less fair than you imagined, what is justice?How much is a catty? I felt a little blocked in my heart. It was hard to imagine that such an angry youth's remarks were actually uttered by him.