The courtyard of "Mountain Renjia" has been shrouded in darkness.
What is a little reassuring is that there are still faint sounds of sonorous fighting coming from deep in the courtyard. The mysterious alpaca man seems to be dragging the monster so that it cannot chase him.
"Run quickly..."
run?
The people who escaped from the farmhouse were shocked by the miserable state of the man in front of them before they had time to wonder.
On the road, the man was crawling and crouching, with wounds on his legs and feet dripping with blood and flesh, as if he had been eaten by some kind of creature. He looked extremely bloody and terrifying.
On the ground behind him, two long traces of blood trailed out.
Did he...did he crawl all the way here?
These people couldn't help but swallow their saliva, feeling inexplicably shocked.
Some later buildings, such as farmhouses, were mostly built near the entrance of Shan'ao, serving as facades and getting straight to the point.
Practically speaking, there is actually quite a distance between the local residential complexes and here.
So, it's hard to imagine.
What kind of motivation drove this man to climb here with just a pair of hands?
"Who are you……"
As an older generation in Shan'ao, the old man was naturally familiar with the people in the same village. At this moment, he seemed to recognize the man on the ground and hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Wenyuan, what's wrong with you? In the village...
…”
"monster!"
The man pushed his hand away, with an inexplicable look on his face: "Fourth Master...run..."
"If you don't run...it will be too late..."
"monster?"
Everyone was suddenly shocked.
This word seemed to possess some kind of magic power, making it difficult for them to recall everything they had experienced at the farmhouse.
If there really is a monster in this world, then there is no doubt that it deserves the title.
"This is not the place to talk."
The old man found someone to lift the other person off the ground: "Let's leave quickly and find a place to take shelter from the rain first."
It was already late at night, but the rain showed no sign of stopping. As they were running for their lives, they were running in a hurry, so only a few of them had rain gear with them, and most of them were just getting wet.
They found an awning in the parking lot, and now they didn't care whether it was clean or not. They sat on the ground one by one, breathing heavily.
The nerves were gradually relieved from the tension, but the biting chill suddenly came. Many people's upper bodies were soaked, and they suddenly started to shiver when they were blown by the mountain wind.
In the corner, some straw and rotten wooden boards were piled up like debris. No one would have thought that these things that looked like garbage in the past would actually play a decisive role at this time.
The shop owner pressed the lighter, ignited it, and then carefully placed it into a simple fire surrounded by stones.
Boom boom boom.
Under the scorching flames, the slightly damp wooden board made a crisp crackling sound, and bright orange flames rose up, bringing with it a long-lost light and heat, illuminating the faces in the darkness.
Everyone had a look of fear and anxiety on their faces.
"Wenyuan? Wenyuan?"
The old man patted the man lightly and found that the man's cheeks were abnormally hot.
"He has a fever. Where are the B&Bs nearby? Do they have fever-reducing medicine and first-aid kits?"
Some people immediately shook their heads and said in denial: "No, there is no one nearby at this time. If you want to find help now, you can only go to the village."
"do not go……"
A man's weak voice sounded.
His Adam's apple rolled, his consciousness was blurred, and his words seemed like murmurs in a dream, as if he was witnessing his own fear with his own eyes.
"Run quickly..."
"It's coming...it's coming..."
Someone followed his words: "Who is coming?"
"I have no idea……"
The man shook in panic, as if he wanted to escape: "In the breeding farm! It broke out of the chicken's body..."
"Killed the guard dog..."
"And the concierge...the concierge..."
The person who asked the question turned pale and completely connected the two experiences: "What happened to the concierge?"
The man didn't respond and stared blankly at the ceiling of the awning. Suddenly, as if he was having a flashback, he struggled to get up and firmly grabbed the old man's arm.
"Run quickly..."
"The highway is closed... just take the mountain road... Fourth Master, you know... the old road out of the mountains... we can't delay..."
"Let's go for a walk on the mountain trail now?"
The old man looked serious: "What's the difference between this and seeking death?"
"No...we have to go..."
The man seemed to have exhausted the last bit of strength in his body and retorted: "Keep it...no one can survive..."
"That thing...has been..."
Gradually, his voice became more and more ethereal, and his consciousness finally couldn't bear the fatigue of his body, and he fell into a coma.
"Now how to do?"
One person asked: "Want to go back to the village to have a look?"
The people who were drying their clothes around the fire thought for a moment. But soon, most of them made the same decision.
"Go back? Are you crazy?"
One person was horrified: "He told us that the village is very dangerous and asked us to leave immediately and never go back. Now that we have just escaped from the farmhouse, you are going to die on your own again?!"
Several other people also agreed very much, thinking that they could not return to the village now and should go up the mountain immediately and try to leave here.
In addition to tourists, most of these NPCs are outsiders. They have nothing to worry about here and naturally have no intention of going back.
"My family is still in the village."
Soon, a local retorted: "I can't just sit back and watch them and escape by myself."
He also represents the opinions of another group of people. Although they knew the man's warning before, they still want to return to the village and find their families because of their relatives and friends.
"Then what do we do?"
Those who were in a hurry to leave immediately said dissatisfied: "I don't know how to get out of the mountain road. Is it possible that you are going to die and you are leaving us here waiting to die?"
"One of you, someone who knows, will lead the way!"
"Don't even think about it!"
At this time, the atmosphere in the crowd was a little tense. The originally intact whole suddenly had a faint tendency to split into two factions because of two different voices.
"Everyone, please stop arguing."
The store owner stood up and waved his hand, trying to stop him: "Actually, our purposes are not conflicting."
The quarrel suddenly stopped, and everyone turned their heads with doubtful expressions on their faces.
"We can definitely work together."
He continued: "Let's go to the village together first. While looking for our respective families, we will also collect some tools and supplies needed to go up the mountain."
"If you really want to escape through the mountain road, I don't think you can go there empty-handed and unprepared, right?"
The group of people who were anxious to leave suddenly became quiet.
This is true, because most of them didn't even have raincoats in their haste to escape, let alone supplies. A group of people like this, entering the mountains at this time, is indeed tantamount to seeking death.
Looking at the group of people who wanted to return to the village, the shop owner said again: "So in exchange, they can help you find your family first, and we can use the tools and supplies at home for everyone's final
What do you think about going up the mountain?
The two groups of people thought for a while and agreed one after another.
The two parties, who were originally in tit-for-tat opposition, returned to the original atmosphere once again because they found the benefits they needed in each other.
