Crunch - crunch -
The old wooden wheels crushed the snow along the forest road, making a groaning sound.
In addition, there was the sound of wind, the scratching of sharp claws, and the hoarse meow of a cat.
Akimichi Nahiro slowly woke up amidst these chaotic sounds.
She remembered that she was originally waiting for her good friend Kanoya to arrive at the Hakkoda platform.
She seemed to have no memory of what happened after that.
And...where is this place now!?
Because he was lying flat on his back, he could only see the top. The surrounding light was dim, and thick tree shadows whizzed past him.
Akimichi Nahiro felt extremely bumpy.
She barely regained consciousness and turned her neck with difficulty.
I seem to be on a very simple wooden cart now?
That's right, wooden cart.
There seemed to be golden lines on the simple wooden board, which looked familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere.
Then look to the side.
The wooden cart was moving quickly, and surrounding the cart, pulling or pushing the cart forward, were a group of strange black figures.
Those black shadows were about the size of seven or eight-year-old children, and they looked a bit like little old men and old ladies with a wizened body.
Their bodies are hunched, their waists are hunched, and they are on all fours, crawling and running fast through the mountains, forests, and snow in an extremely weird and awkward posture.
"Meow--!"
Sharp and hoarse meows kept coming from the surrounding black shadows.
What are these!?
Where will they take themselves?
"babble!"
Suddenly, Akimichi Nahiro wanted to scream at such a strange scene.
But her voice was stuck in her throat, and all she squeezed out was an extremely vague grunt.
"Meow--!"
The meows around me became louder and hoarse.
Then, a dark figure jumped onto the cart, curled up and sat in front of Akido.
It was a scrawny old cat, about the size of a child.
Half of the old cat's body was rotten, with only a little bit of black fur hanging lifelessly on its body. The hair was stained with blood and an indistinguishable stinking mucus, and was dirty and hardened together, like a torn rag.
Each eyeball on its face hangs outside the eye socket, and under the exposed white ribs, you can still see the squirming incomplete organs.
"Meow!"
The old cat opened its big mouth and roared at Qiudao.
The rotten and fishy stench made the frightened girl almost faint again.
Her body trembled violently and she wanted to move, but the scary big cat in front of her suddenly raised its claws and landed on her chest.
As if a huge boulder was pressing down on his body, Qiu Dao felt a strong suffocation and could only open his mouth wide and gasp hard.
The body can no longer move.
Tears welled up in her eyes because she was too frightened.
What on earth is this?
Now this is a dream, right?
A nightmare.
Wake up quickly!
Akido closed his eyes hard and opened them again, but the terrifying scene still lingered in front of him.
Even the scary big cat got a little closer to her.
Akimichi could feel its sharp nails protruding from its claws and scratching the front of his clothes; he could feel the cold wind blowing on his face from the smelly breath of the big cat's mouth.
This is not a dream.
All feelings are extremely real.
"Brain...brain..."
The big cat spoke again, but this time he spoke vaguely.
The human voice it produced was intermittent, as if there was a thick lump of phlegm stuck in the throat, which was hoarse and unpleasant.
"Brain..." "Brain..."
The surrounding black shadows also began to learn to speak, and the voices came and went.
It was already certain that those things running along the mountain forest, dragging wooden carts, were all scary big cats that looked like ghosts.
"Don't...brain!"
The rotten big cat continued, the pupil that was barely intact, and the eye that fell out of its socket, all staring straight at Akido.
It's like looking at a mouse to tease.
"Don't...brain..."
"It's useless, throw it away..."
"Receive the body..."
The cats began to neigh.
"What...?" The frightened Akimichi Naxun suddenly thought of something.
The boxes in that warehouse...
The golden Maki paintings on the box seem to be somewhat similar to those on the wooden cart.
Also, brain.
correct!
brain!
Akimichi Nahiro has opened all the wooden boxes in the warehouse, and has also seen the words engraved with the names of organs on the bottom of the wooden boxes.
Inside those engraved organ names.
It seems that "brain" is not mentioned!
Although her body could not move, Akimichi's brain was still running rapidly. Probably due to the stimulation of adrenaline, her brain seemed to be very active.
As a native of Hakkoda, she thought of something else——
That happened a long time ago. About ten years ago, Akimichi was still in elementary school in his hometown.
One winter, a disappearance of a female high school student occurred in the originally peaceful Hakkoda.
The eldest sister who disappeared at that time...it is said that only the brain tissue left in the mountains and forests was found.
Because of this incident, Akimichi was so frightened that he did not dare to go to school for several days.
box.
A mysterious disappearance from ten years ago.
Two seemingly unrelated things were connected together by the terrifying scene before them.
So, is this what happened?
These strange cats were the instigators of that strange case ten years ago.
That box in the warehouse will attract these things as soon as it is opened?
To be continued...