what's weird

Gu Yizhi was about to go over to help when he suddenly heard a crackling sound from the inner room, as if something had fallen to the ground.He hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Wenhao and the others who had already run away, thought of Yu Qianqian's various strange behaviors and Zhang Bo who disappeared from time to time, his brows sank, and he walked towards the inner room.

At that time, the group of them encountered heavy rain and landslides. They were inevitably panicked and anxious, eager to find a safe place to hide, so when they met Uncle Zhang in the mountains and forests, they followed him without thinking twice.Now that I think about it carefully, isn't it weird enough for an old man to appear in a deep mountain forest with a cat under such heavy rain?

Moreover, ever since they came to the village, there has been weirdness everywhere, the dull expressions of the villagers, the aggressive eyes of the cats, the woods with no way out, it's too abnormal, everything is too abnormal!

Gu Yizhi frowned, and stretched out his hand to push open the wooden door leading to the backyard.

This bungalow was made up of several rooms, and they lived in the three empty rooms in front, he and Yuan Feng each lived in one, Li Wenhao and Yu Qianqian lived in one, Zhang Bo slept in the backyard.They had never been there before, when Gu Yizhi pushed the door open, his expression froze.

It seems that this place has been deserted for a long time. A big tree beside the mud wall has withered, its dry branches are stretching towards the sky, weeds are overgrown in every corner of the yard, and the path paved with gravel has been buried.An old dilapidated house stands under a dead tree. The wooden window lattices are incomplete. Two New Year pictures with no discernible patterns are pasted on the board door. A layer of greasy moss is crawling on it. The iron lock is rusty. Shuan was drooping to the side, and there was an unpleasant smell of damp and rot coming from the half-closed door.

As a policeman, Gu Yizhi could tell at a glance that there was no trace of human activity here, that is to say, Uncle Zhang didn't live here at all.

The sky was very dark, just like Gu Yizhi's heart was sinking, his intuition told him to leave here as soon as possible, but he remembered the voice he heard just now, could Yuan Feng be inside?

He hesitated at the door for a moment, then slowly reached out his hand to the wooden door, his fingertips touched the wet and slippery moss, his heart skipped a beat.

Amidst the dull creaking sound, a pair of burning white candles came into view, and a figure stood with his back to him, his body covered in the shadow, motionless.

"Yuan Feng?" Gu Yizhi called tentatively.

Under the gloomy candlelight, Yuan Feng turned around slowly, revealing a black and white photo hanging on the wall.The person in the photo had an old face, and stared at the front with empty and lifeless eyes. Gu Yizhi's pupils shrank suddenly, and he cried out, "Uncle Zhang!"

Yuan Feng's face flickered under the flickering candlelight. The 1.8-meter-tall man said in a frightened voice, "Yizhi, he...we..."

"Let's get out of here first!" Even after experiencing such a thrilling thing as a zombie, Gu Yizhi couldn't help feeling chills in his heart.Ghosts are invisible, and compared to physical monsters, they are more terrifying and more difficult to guard against.

In the front yard, they saw Li Wenhao walking towards here holding Yu Qianqian's arm, Yuan Feng rushed up and shouted: "Go! Let's get out of here!"

"What's going on?" Li Wenhao asked in bewilderment seeing his panicked expression.

"Uncle Zhang is not human!" Yuan Feng shouted, his voice changed.

"What... what?" Li Wenhao was stunned, while Yu Qianqian was giggling, her eyes glazed over.

"Don't ask! Let's go!" Yuan Feng grabbed his arm and ran away.Seeing this, Gu Yizhi had no choice but to pull Yu Qianqian up to follow them.The villagers who were sitting at the door of the house disappeared, and the whole village was eerily quiet, as if there was no one there.They ran into the woods, and were only slightly relieved when the village was completely out of sight.

"Yuan Feng, what's going on?" Li Wenhao asked while leaning on a tree trunk, panting.

"We've hit the devil." Yuan Feng's face was very ugly.

"Ah? You mean Uncle Zhang..." Li Wenhao opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and looked at Gu Yizhi questioningly.

Although the portrait in the old house in the backyard does not prove that Zhang Bo must be a ghost, there is definitely something wrong with this village.Gu Yizhi said solemnly: "Don't worry about it, let's find a way to get out of here."

"I remember we came in this direction, where's the tunnel?" Li Wenhao looked around and said.

"All of this seems to be a trap, we are trapped here." Yuan Feng said.

"You mean there is no exit here?" Li Wenhao exclaimed.

"As long as you can come in, you can definitely go out. Let's look carefully." Gu Yizhi comforted them, although he didn't know what to do.

A group of four walked with difficulty in the overgrown forest with dense branches and leaves. Yu Qianqian let Li Wenhao pull her like a puppet. The surrounding was eerily quiet, only the sound of their footsteps echoed.The light was getting darker and darker, and a gust of cold wind blew by, Yu Qianqian suddenly laughed, in this silent space, it was as terrifying as a night cat crying.

"Qianqian, wake up!" Li Wenhao grabbed her shoulder and shook vigorously, his voice full of guilt, "It's all my fault, if I hadn't quarreled with her, she wouldn't have become like this."

"Don't worry, we'll figure out a way after we get out, she'll be fine." Gu Yizhi said while observing the surroundings vigilantly.

"She looks like bewitched." Yuan Feng's attitude was not optimistic.

"It's all me! I shouldn't have gone to Longquan Ridge!" Li Wenhao said angrily as he punched the tree trunk.

They stood under the shadow of the trees, surrounded by overwhelming trees, Gu Yizhi's face became extremely gloomy: "We have been spinning around in the same place."

Yuan Feng and Li Wenhao looked at him at the same time, but Gu Yizhi's gaze stayed on a piece of rag hanging on a dry branch. Li Yuhao recognized that it was just hooked off from Yu Qianqian's clothes.

"We..." Li Wenhao's expression changed drastically, and he could no longer speak the following words.

Yu Qianqian let out a gurgling sound that sounded like crying or laughing. In that gloomy and dry voice, more and more figures appeared behind the trees and walked towards them slowly.

"What's going on, who are these people?" Li Wenhao said in a broken voice.

"It's the villagers!" Yuan Feng noticed their clothes.

The three of them were close together back to back, their expressions full of vigilance, and among the figures that kept pouring out, Gu Yizhi saw the black shadows walking at their feet, their bright and gloomy eyes glowing like will-o'-the-wisps .

"Cat..." Gu Yizhi's heart shuddered.

When Li Wenhao saw Zhang Bo in the crowd, who was ashen-faced and dull-looking, great terror seized his heart. If Zhang Bo was not a human being, then what was he feeding them?Thinking of the bowl of yellow-yellow-white soup and other foods, Li Wenli couldn't help but feel his stomach churn, and leaned over to retch.

The villagers surrounded them, walking mechanically, approaching them constantly.Gu Yizhi found that their eyes were all empty without exception. Although they were looking ahead, they were not focused at all.

Could it be that...they don't have self-awareness?

The group of cats walked in front of the villagers, their furry bodies had already exposed their sharp claws and fangs, and there were continuous neighing sounds.

Gu Yizhi suddenly remembered Feng Ze's words.

——"Souls are invisible, they cannot hurt or kill people in the true sense, but they can confuse people with illusions and make people kill themselves."

Yes, maybe it's all an illusion!

But how do you break the illusion?

Gu Yizhi couldn't help but regret that he didn't ask Feng Ze clearly about the method, but he knew a method, which was to wake himself up through pain and psychological hints.

He bit his lower lip hard, the smell of blood spread in his mouth, and blood dripped down the corner of his mouth.

In this clear pain, the figure in front of him dissipated like smoke.

"Sure enough, it's all hallucinations, you guys..." He cast surprise eyes on the other three people, and suddenly froze in place.

Amidst the continuous meowing from all directions, Yuan Feng, Li Wenhao, and Yu Qianqian stood under a shadow, their limbs were mutilated, their heads were damaged, their brains spilled out, and their bodies were dripping with blood.

"Yizhi, what's the matter with you?" Li Wenhao spoke, and blood kept gushing from his mouth.

"They're gone, let's take this opportunity to leave!" Yuan Feng's half of his head was shattered, and red and white brains flowed down his face.

"Go, Yizhi!" Li Wenhao stretched out an arm with torn muscles and exposed bones to pull him.

Gu Yizhi took a few steps back suddenly, avoiding the incomplete hand, his expression was full of shock.One of Yu Qianqian's eyeballs was hanging out of the eye socket. She patted her severely deformed palm and shouted, "He saw it! Hahaha, he saw it!"

"Yizhi, what did you see?" Li Wenhao asked with a pair of gray eyes.

It turns out that they are...

Seeing his best friend who was beyond recognition, the grief in Gu Yizhi's eyes was far greater than fear: "Wen Hao..."

Yuan Feng saw the strangeness in his expression, stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong with us? What did you see?"

Gu Yizhi couldn't answer, he didn't even know whether he should turn around and leave, or stay here.Li Wenhao became anxious, and shouted: "Yizhi, you are talking!"

In his voice, a cat passed through Li Wenhao's body and neighed at Gu Yizhi, and then countless cats jumped out of the grass, staring at Gu Yizhi as if they were prey.

"What's going on, I..." Li Wenhao looked down at his body and was stunned.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!" Yu Qianqian laughed wildly and rushed into the depths of the woods.

"Qianqian!" Li Wenhao wanted to catch up, but Zhang Bo suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking his way.

"It's late, it's late, wake up." Zhang Bo's cold voice came from his throat.

"It was you who made Qianqian like this, I will fight with you!" Li Wenhao yelled angrily, and rushed towards Uncle Zhang.

"Wenhao, calm down!" Yuan Feng pulled Li Wenhao, and Zhang Bo's figure disappeared without a trace at this moment.The cats surrounded Gu Yizhi, and Yu Qianqian had already disappeared. In this quiet and strange forest, a corpse smell spread.

Gu Yizhi had no place to retreat, and the group of cats stopped one meter away from him, as if they were afraid and did not dare to approach any more.Li Wenhao was frightened by this scene, exchanged a glance with Yuan Feng, and murmured, "What the hell is going on..."

"We..." Yuan Feng looked at his hands, "Are we all dead?"

"How is it possible! Yuan Feng, are you out of fright? Aren't we doing well? How could we possibly die?" Li Wenhao laughed, and a piece of flesh on his face fell to the ground.

Perhaps it was precisely because he realized that he was dead, Li Wenhao gradually changed from a normal person to a mutilated corpse in Yuan Feng's eyes. He took a step back suddenly, his eyes widened, showing a look of incomparable horror.

"Yuan Feng, why do you look at me like that? What's wrong, tell me!" Li Wenhao shouted.