Chapter 25 Chapter two

Strangely, the murderer stopped near the woman's hiding place and did not continue to chase.The woman was terrified—could he...know that I was hiding around here?But, how is it possible? The murderer looked around, and there was silence around him.However, it was this silence that made the woman realize her mistake!Here she stopped, hiding, and the crunching of dry branches stopped.It is this that tells the murderer that he is nearby!The murderer searched the bushes.The woman's heart jumped into her throat.She covered her mouth tightly, not letting herself make a sound of panic.However, this won't save her.The murderer is already walking towards her hiding place!

The woman could no longer hold her breath and knew that she had been exposed.She rushed out of the bushes screaming and fled.But the murderer was already prepared, grabbed her and pushed her to the ground.The shadow of death hangs over.The woman shouted and kicked with the last of her strength. The strange thing is that the murderer didn't kill her immediately. Was he going to play with his prey like a cat and a mouse?the woman thought in horror.She knew she was dying, and that tearing and kicking had no effect on strong men. Finally, half a minute later, the sharp knife in the devil's hand pierced the woman's chest.Her movements stopped abruptly, and she died with her eyes wide open... (Bad Ending) (Third choice) Route A (Desperately continue to run)

Women don't have time to think.Intuition told him that if he continued to run forward, there might be a glimmer of life.Well, take a gamble!She gritted her teeth and dragged her tired body to continue running wildly.Her heart was beating wildly, she didn't dare to look back, but ran away desperately.Just when she was so tired that she was about to choke and bleed, she saw a glimmer of light appearing in front of her—thank God!It's a log cabin and there are people there! "Open the door, open the door! Please, someone is going to kill me!" The woman hammered the door violently.After a while, the door opened, and an old man stared at the strange woman with wide eyes in surprise, holding a shotgun in his hand.

The woman rushed into the house and said to the old man: "Please close the door quickly, a perverted murderer is chasing me; and... please turn off the lights, maybe he doesn't know that I have escaped here!" The old man did so and blew out the kerosene lamp on the table.The room was suddenly dark.Looking at the locked door, the woman felt more at ease.She thanked the old man and told the old man what had happened. After hearing the woman's narration, the old man was very shocked: "You mean, you saw with your own eyes that there was a mutilated woman's body in that magic cave?"

"Yes..." the woman was terrified, "and there may be more than one victim." "It's really scary. I didn't know there was such a horrible killer living nearby." The old man exclaimed, "Don't worry, he can't come in. You are safe here." The woman nodded while touching her heart.The old man asked her to sit down and poured her a glass of water gropingly.The woman drank the glass of water and felt much better.Her eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and she stared at the wooden house—it wasn't very big, but it had two floors, and the wooden stairs led to the attic above.The furnishings in the house are very simple, there is only a large bookcase full of books, a wooden table, two chairs and a fireplace, without any modern appliances.Apparently the homeowner lives a raw life...

Suddenly, she saw a man with draped hair standing on the stairs of the room.The man remained motionless, silently watching himself. "Ah..." The woman groaned in fear and hugged her body tightly. The old man noticed and said to the woman, "Don't be afraid, that's my granddaughter." "Why... didn't she say a word?" The old man was silent for a moment. "She's dumb." "...Really." The woman looked at the person on the stairs and found that she had gone down a few more steps.Although it was impossible to see her expression and eyes clearly in the dark, the woman could be sure that the girl had been staring at her intently.She didn't understand why.Maybe it's been a long time since outsiders have been here?The old man walked up to his granddaughter, gestured with his hands, and said: "She has encountered some troubles, she needs to hide here for a while, don't stand here, go upstairs."

The girl didn't make any response, turned around slowly, and walked upstairs like a ghost without making a sound of footsteps. The woman looked at the girl's back, and for some reason, felt a chill down her back.Why do the grandparents stay away from the city, live in a mobile wooden house on the edge of the forest, and live a life out of society?What kind of stories do they have? Everything that happened tonight was really weird to the extreme. After staying in the house for about half an hour, I didn't hear any unusual noises from outside.It seems that he has escaped the pursuit of the murderer, the woman thought happily.

"He didn't come after him, did he?" said the old man. "But it's very late now. You'd better not go out tonight. Go to the police in the morning. It's still a little far from the road." "Do you have a phone here?" the woman asked. "No." The woman had to follow the advice of the old man.The old man said: "My place is very simple. There are only two rooms upstairs, which are the bedrooms of my granddaughter and me. There is a storage room downstairs. If you don't mind, I will find you a blanket, and you will use it there. Just one night."

How can you be picky at a time like this?The woman hurriedly said, "Thank you so much, old man." The old man went upstairs and came down with a blanket in his arms.He took the woman to the storage room—fortunately, there weren't many things piled up here.The old man spread the blanket on the floor and said, "You can barely sleep." "It's okay, it's already fine." The woman said gratefully. The old man nodded to her: "It's past one o'clock in the morning, you should have a good rest." After that, he went upstairs. After the old man was gone, the woman closed the door of the storage room—it had no latch and could barely close.She lay down and slept on the blanket.After all the desperate running before, coupled with her tense emotions, she was already exhausted.She fell asleep almost as soon as she lay down.In the middle of the night, the woman heard some small voices coming from her side.

She opened her eyes, turned over vigilantly, and suddenly saw—a person squatting beside her!The man tilted his head and stared at his own face. The woman was about to scream when the man covered her mouth.At this time, the woman saw clearly that it was the dumb girl with draped hair. The dumb girl raised her finger to her lips, signaling the woman not to shout, and then slowly removed her hand covering her mouth. "What are you doing?" the woman asked in a low voice. The mute girl took out a piece of paper and showed it to the woman.Written in green highlighter on the paper - "Go, get out of here!"

The woman was stunned and asked, "Why?" The mute girl seemed a little anxious, as if her body was trembling slightly.She stared, and brought the piece of paper to the woman's eyes again, as if shouting loudly: "Go! Get out of here!" The woman was completely stunned, she didn't know what happened, and she didn't know whether she should listen to the girl. (Story branch:) Route A: Don't trust the girl, stay here until dawn. Route B: Trust the girl and leave the cabin. "Ah, what's the matter?" Sajia said in embarrassment, "Either option looks dangerous!" "Yeah, if you choose A - the house may not be safe; if you choose B, there are murderers outside, if you go out and meet again..." Goth shook his head and said, "I have no idea." "Then choose based on intuition." Chris said, "As I said before, luck is also part of strength." "Okay." Beidou was eager to try, "This story is starting to be interesting." "By the way, let me remind you one more thing." Chris said, "No matter how the plot branches in this story, the overall relationship between the characters will not change. That is to say, good people are good people from beginning to end, and so are bad people." He smiled , "Let's explain it more clearly, maybe you can get some kind of enlightenment through the wrong route." (4th choice): Route A: Araki Boat, Dark Fire, Lake, Chiaki, Beluga Route B: Xia Houshen, Sajia, Gothic, Ryoma, Beidou, Nantian (the fourth choice) Route B (believe in dumb girls) The anxious and tense expression of the dumb girl is not pretending.Women think about rendering.If she really wanted to harm herself, she could have done it just now when she was asleep.It can be seen from this that if he leaves immediately by himself, there may really be some special reason.And the only explanation is - there is also danger lurking in this wooden house! Thinking of this, the woman dared not stay here any longer.She got up from the ground.The girl took her hand, led her to the door, and opened the door silently with a slight movement.Before the woman left, she glanced at the girl hesitantly.The dumb girl pointed to the front and waved her hands vigorously, as if to say: "Go straight in this direction, don't look back!" The woman came out of the cabin.The girl made a gesture of "go quickly" and closed the door. Now that a choice has been made, there is no going back.The woman glanced around—the killer didn't seem to be waiting nearby.She took a deep breath and ran towards the direction the girl pointed. A woman shuttles through the dark and dark virgin forest.Now, she can only hope that the mute girl is not deceiving her, and at the same time pray that she will not fall into the clutches of her again.She kept walking in the direction of ten o'clock, hoping to see the dawn of hope—finally, after more than ten minutes, her vision broadened.Thank God, she saw a road, saved! The woman ran onto the road, expecting traffic to pass by.But now it is midnight, how can it be so easy to encounter a night train?Women can only go forward along the road, if there is a small town or village in front, they can be rescued! After walking for about twenty minutes, the woman was exhausted.The country road is pitch black, with wilderness on both sides of the road, and there is no one around.Women don't know when to go to the head, and they don't know in which direction they are walking.When I was confused and restless, a glimmer of light appeared in front of me—it was the headlights!Finally a vehicle passed by! The woman stood in the middle of the road and shouted: "Stop! Please, please stop!" A minivan stopped in front of the woman, and the driver poked his head out of the window—a middle-aged man with a hat and beard.He stared suspiciously at the woman who stopped the car in the middle of the night. The woman ran to the driver and said in a begging tone, "I'm being hunted down by a murderer! Please... let me get in the car and take me to the police!" Shi Ji squinted his eyes and looked at the woman, as if he was judging whether what she said was true.He noticed the bloodstains and scars all over the woman, hesitated for a while, tilted his head, and said, "Get in the car." The woman happily jumped into the car from the other side and sat in the co-pilot's seat.The truck started and continued to drive forward. After staying in the car for a few minutes, the woman asked, "How long until we're in town?" "Soon." Dead Machine answered briefly. Where are you delivering to? " "yes." "...What kind of goods are you sending?" Crash glanced at the woman, indicating that it had nothing to do with her.The woman shut up knowingly. The car moved forward silently in the dark, and the two were silent all the way.After a while, the woman became suspicious—I told him that I was hunted down by a murderer before, but he didn't show any surprise, and didn't even ask what was going on.Is this person too quiet to talk, or... Thinking of this, the woman became uneasy, and she quietly raised her eyes to observe the man's face through the rearview mirror directly above. The driver noticed this little move, and he asked, "What do you think I'm doing?" "Ah...it's nothing." The woman closed her eyes.The driver pondered for a moment, then asked abruptly, "Do you know me?" For some reason, the woman shivered when she heard him ask this question, then shook her head and said, "No... I don't know." "Really don't know?" "Of course, I just got into your car just now." Suddenly, the driver slammed on the brakes and stopped. The woman asked in astonishment, "What happened?" "It's nothing, I'll go to the back to see if the goods are okay, just wait for me." With that said, the driver opened the door and jumped in. Check if the goods are good?The woman thought in bewilderment.What's the meaning?Is the "goods" he pretended to be some kind of living thing? Also, why did he repeatedly confirm to me whether I knew him?Could it be... The woman frowned, feeling more and more uneasy. While she was meditating, she kept facing out the car window.Suddenly, a wolf's face popped up from below and appeared in front of the woman. "Ah----!!!" The woman screamed out of fear.The car door was opened, and the masked murderer appeared in front of her again.She leaned back desperately, but there was no room to hide in the narrow front seat of the truck.She was so frightened that she was at a loss, lost her senses, and was doomed to die. The murderer grabbed the woman by the neck, and held a gleaming sharp knife in his other hand.That terrifying wolf face stared at the woman for a moment, and the sharp knife stabbed fiercely into her chest... (bad ending) (4th choice) Route A (don't believe in dumb girls) The woman thought about it carefully, and felt that it was too risky to go out alone at this time - the murderer might be waiting nearby, and she didn't know the way at all, how could she guarantee to get out of this forest?In case I get lost, I go back again... "No, I won't go." The woman shook her head and whispered to the girl, "It's too dangerous outside." The girl looked helpless and anxious when she heard her say this.She took out a highlighter from her pocket and was about to write something on the paper when she heard a cough coming from the attic, she trembled in fright and stood up quickly.She walked to the door, looked back at the woman, sighed, and left. The woman quickly closed the door of the storage room, and found a wooden stick from the sundries to block the door from the side. Then, she hugged her knees and sat on the blanket, not daring to sleep again.What secrets are hidden in this wooden house? What does the dumb girl's warning mean?Is it wise to choose to stay here? ——She didn't know anything, she could only keep vigilant all the time, looking forward to the coming of day soon, so that she could leave this terrifying forest that hides infinite mysteries. After sitting like this for an unknown amount of time, suddenly, the woman heard a knock on the door from outside.Her heart suddenly tightened—who is here? After a while, the woman heard the old man's footsteps coming down the stairs, and then the old man asked, "Who?" A crying woman's voice: "Please open the door! Please... there is a madman in the forest!" The woman was shocked and stood up from the ground.Is it a woman who has the same experience as me?My God, tonight, how many people actually encountered that terrifying murderer? The old man was obviously shocked too. "God, another one!" He exclaimed, and opened the door to let the outsiders in, and then locked the door.The woman couldn't bear it anymore, she opened the door of the storage room, went out, and saw the old man carrying a kerosene lamp.Looking at the second guest tonight.This is a young girl in her twenties, in almost the same condition as herself - covered in scars and sweat, and her face is full of panic and terror.But this girl was hurt even worse, with one leg drooping, as if her foot was injured.