The Fantastical Beasts at World's End

The branches in the mountain forest are intertwined, covering the sky, and the light is relatively dark. Just after four o'clock, it looks gloomy.

Frog Ridge was originally a tepid tourist attraction in City H. Few people from other places know about such a scenic spot. When they come to City H, they usually go to a few famous places, but this city and several neighboring provinces People in the city like to drive and meet to climb mountains on holidays.However, due to various factors in the past two years, these relatively remote scenic spots have almost been deserted, and there are no people there all year round.

Xia Zhiming and Luo Xiaochen parked their car in a parking lot opened by the scenic spot at the foot of the mountain, and according to Ye Zhao's phone call, they found the mountain depression next to the stream.

The whole mountain was eerily silent, and even the "click" sound of shoes on fallen leaves was amplified many times. Human voice was the only sound other than footsteps, which made people feel a little creepy.

Seeing the two people coming down the slope, Ye Zhao beckoned, and stood up while supporting the tree.

"What happened to your eyes?" The two walked quickly to Ye Zhao. Xia Zhiming was startled when he found that Ye Zhao's eyes were stained with half-dried blood, thinking that he had hurt his eyes.

"Huh?" Ye Zhao reached out and touched the side of his eyes before realizing, "The monster was splashed when I stabbed it, and I didn't wipe it clean."

"..." When Luo Xiaochen was going up the mountain, he heard Xia Zhiming briefly describe what happened, but his description was only "Ye Zhao ran into a monster who was suspected of being the murderer of the case, but fortunately, the monster was injured and ran away. I'm hurt." Looking at it now, it's not as simple as it said!

Xia Zhiming also felt that he was fooled by Ye Zhao's calm tone earlier, just looking at the blood stains on his dark gray coat, it was far more shocking than imagined.

Ye Zhao looked at himself following their eyes, and waved his hands, "Except for the two lumps on the waist, the rest of the blood belongs to that monster."

"..." Luo Xiaochen's respect for Ye Zhao went up to another level, "By the way, have you treated the wound on your waist?"

Ye Zhao nodded: "There shouldn't be any serious injuries, but the blood was bleeding a little bit, and it was tied tightly with a shirt. The stream here is not clean, so I didn't wash it. I went back to the hospital."

"Yeah." Xia Zhiming agreed: "Recently, the ones that are abnormal one after another are all aquatic organisms. Even if the water has been treated, it may have potential impacts, let alone untreated water."

Xia Zhiming was about the same height as Ye Zhao. Ye Zhao put his hand on his shoulder and said, "Let me help you, let's go. It's getting dark. I always feel that something is wrong with this forest."

"Do you still think this kind of forest? It's not a good place at first glance. Birds don't shit." Luo Xiaochen was in front of them, helping to kick aside the branches that hindered walking, and pulling Ye Zhaoyi when going uphill from time to time. Bundle. "Speaking of which, I really want to kneel down to you, old man. I have been alone in this hair-raising place for nearly three hours, and my face hasn't changed."

"Hiss——" Xia Zhiming suddenly paused as he walked, and frowned deeply, "Yeah, I thought it was weird just now—it's too deserted and unsafe here, so there's no one there. I can understand, but why haven’t I seen a single bird?! Besides, it seems like there isn’t a single worm!”

As soon as the words fell, I felt Ye Zhao's hand gripping his shoulder tightened.

"Why—" Before he finished speaking, Ye Zhaokong saw a dagger in his right hand in the blink of an eye, and the scabbard slipped into his pocket at the same time, revealing the sharp dagger blade with a cold light.

Luo Xiaochen looked at the series of actions he completed in an instant, widened his dog eyes like copper bells (...), and said in surprise: "Wow! Control knives!"

"..." Ye Zhao gave a "tsk", glanced at him and said calmly, "Are you going to report me?"

Luo Xiaochen shook his head without hesitation, then looked at Xia Zhiming, who had the same indifferent face as Ye Zhao, shrugged and said, "Where is there a controlled knife? I didn't see it."

"..." As expected of the buddies who grew up together.

"Don't be in a daze, something is coming." Ye Zhao looked around with a serious face.

"What? How did you know something was coming?" Seeing Ye Zhao's expression, Xia Zhiming couldn't help frowning, hesitated for a moment, and then put his right hand on a protrusion on his waist.

Ye Zhao let go of his shoulder and pointed to his ear: "I heard it. The movement is small, but there are many."

"Huh?" Luo Xiaochen patted the hairs on his arms, "What do you mean a lot? Is it really a man to use only quantifiers?! I will have bad associations! Labor-capital intensive phobia is in the late stage!"

"I don't know, there is more than one thing to hear." Ye Zhao's voice was still calm, so calm that Luo Xiaochen wanted to pinch him.

"Then why didn't we just start running?"

"Can't run away." Ye Zhao shook his head slowly, "There are in every direction."

Luo Xiaochen trembled when he heard this, looked at Ye Zhao's dagger, then at Xia Zhiming's gun-like object, and said tremblingly with a mournful face, "The only sharp weapon in my body is the nail clipper, what should I do!! "

Xia Zhiming's ears moved, and he was also listening carefully to the surroundings, and squeezed out two words from the roots of his teeth: "Cold salad." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a very slight rustling sound, so slight that he couldn't hold his breath. You can't even hear your breath, it's like there are countless things crawling on the ground at the same time, from far to near, until you can clearly hear the movement.

This time even Luo Xiaochen could hear it—it was really a feeling of flooding the mountains and plains, coming from all directions.

"Fuck! What! Didn't you even see a lump of bird feces just now! This is going to be a thriller!" Hearing this gradually louder and smaller sound, Luo Xiaochen suddenly felt that every pore in his body was covered by ants Climbing through the general, I was shocked by Shen.

Along with the sound of Xixisuosuo, it gradually became clearer, and there was also the sound of "snoring" similar to being stuffy in the stomach, and the sound of "sizzling" like gasping...

The mountain, which was so silent before that even the sound of footsteps seemed particularly ethereal and abrupt, became more and more noisy now, and all the sounds were directed towards the three people standing back to back in a circle in the forest.

The sound of flapping wings suddenly rose, accompanied by countless sharp and strange bird calls, and a large area of ​​cages came in black, instantly covering up the light that penetrated through the gaps in the branches in the mountains.

The three of them only felt that the surroundings were dark, and all the previous mixed sounds stopped suddenly, except for their breathing, nothing could be heard——

It is precisely this kind of sudden silence that makes the atmosphere even more tense, like silk wrapped around the heart, densely entwined into a net, and then grabbing one end and pulling it hard, it tightens instantly, making people breathless ...