Chapter 31 Section 31

In the end, I seemed to have dozed off, but a sudden thunderclap woke me up.Dusk turned into a starless and moonless night, and in the darkness, I couldn't even see the heads of the children lying on my lap, but I felt their soft little hands and knew they were still asleep , unaffected by the storm over the woods. Overhead the branches and leaves roared violently in the storm, while the woodland beneath the trees was silent.The air is stagnant, and only the occasional sound of water piercing through the forest cover proves that it is raining heavily outside. It would be a lie to say that I am not at all afraid.But after a while, I got used to the existence of the storm. We were surrounded by the forest, and we could only hear its roar, and I could see lightning bolts piercing through the dense forest. In the deep darkness of the forest at night.

Finally, the storm finally weakened, and the slanting lightning only illuminated the upper forest cover, and the thunder became distant and slowly disappeared into the sky.The strong wind also subsided, and the high branches and leaves changed from frantic swaying to gentle swaying.Nikolai and Ilo were still soundly asleep, unaware of the wrath of nature, and I let myself sleep again. I was in a daze, not sure if I had fallen asleep for a while, but I just remembered being woken up by a blood-curdling horrible sound, sat up all of a sudden, stared at the darkness with wide-eyed frightened eyes.

At first I was scared and dazed, I didn't know what I heard, so I could only sit stiffly, not daring to take a breath, feeling extremely terrified of what would happen next moment. For a moment, the stories I heard when I was a child came to my mind. I remembered the horror legends of Transylvania that my grandma told me and Radu. Those night creatures who survived by sucking human blood frightened us. up.I immediately pushed these memories out of my mind, reminding myself that I am already twelve years old, and now, the mountains and strange legends of my hometown have long been left behind by us.

However, in this silent night, even the last wind disappeared with the storm and thunder, and those childhood memories lingered and lingered.I secretly complained about my grandma's ability to tell stories. She can always tell the most incredible legends vividly and truthfully.If only Radu were with us now. I was thinking about my brother who died young, when suddenly, the sound from the night again interrupted my thoughts.This time I was fully awake, and I recognized the terrible sound at once-it was the creepy howling of wolves! My blood was cold, and I was stiff and trembling.The bodies of Nicholas and Yiluo moved, and I hugged them up and shook them gently to let them fall asleep again. I don't want them to share my current fear.

Maybe it was a hallucination, maybe it was real, I began to hear the sound of something moving around, but the night was so dark that I couldn't confirm it at all.I was trembling with fear, even though I am not a very devout believer, I started to pray desperately at this time, for the first time in many years, I prayed so hard to God, praying to let us get rid of evil, get rid of those who may even be around us, at any time The devil ready to stretch out his claws on us. The howling of the wolf sounded again, although it was not close yet, but I'm sure it was closer than last time. The eerie howling passed through the maze of the forest and arrived at its destination without fail: my soul!

I closed my eyes forcefully, as if doing so would strengthen my defenses, I hugged the two children tightly by my side, and made up my mind that no matter what was going to hurt them, it had to pass me first. Even if every bone is gnawed off, I must protect them! I sat on full alert, shivering in the dark. I don't know how long it took. I don't know whether God heard my prayer or I exhausted the last bit of energy. I gradually lost consciousness and finally fell asleep.