Fear Collection

"They all ran away." Wang Hanchi said, "I also ran away at first, and then I heard someone calling for help from your side, so I went to your side, and met Zhao Wu on the way."

"What about you? Who called for help just now? What happened? Why are you alone?"

Xie Jinxi said: "I originally ran with a person, but he got stuck in the dead leaf bubble. He kept yelling that something bit him in the dead leaf bubble, and then sank without a sound."

Zhao Wu was a little irritable: "Then what about the three of us? What about Zhuang Zheng, Ji Chuanmo and others?"

Wang Hanchi gritted his teeth and said, "Go back to the camp! We all have to go back to the camp. I think Zhuang Zheng and the others must be able to figure it out. Let's hold on and go to the camp after dawn. It's really not convenient for us to move around at night." time."

The three people who had just experienced the desperate running were exhausted and did not dare to sit on the ground. Finally, they found a protruding rock along the way and sat down to rest for a while.

The three of them took turns to sleep lightly and watch the night. Finally, when the sky was about to dawn, a beam of extremely bright red light suddenly rose in the direction of the camp.

"It's a signal flare!" Wang Hanchi woke up the drowsy Zhao Wu, called Xie Jinxi to stand up, and said, "The direction of the camp, let's go back."

"It should be that Zhuang Zheng sneaked back to the camp and got the flare gun. The flare can't be fired in the forest. He should have fired it near the river. The danger is probably over. Let's go."

Under the cover of the canopy and trees, they could only vaguely see some red light, and they returned to the outskirts of the camp following the traces of Xie Jinxi's arrival and the guidance of the red light.

"Wait, wait." Wang Hanchi stopped Zhao Wu, "Observe, observe, observe."

Xie Jinxi and the three of them hid behind a tree trunk and carefully observed the situation in the camp.

The snake witch was still standing on the edge of the camp near the river, and it seemed that the python didn't attack him.

Behind a tree trunk some distance away from them, someone shook them with a flashlight. Xie Jinxi followed the light and found that it was Zhuang Zheng.

They hurried over to meet Zhuang Zheng. Except for Zhuang Zheng, Ji Chuanmo, He Yingwei and the young couple among the newcomers were all there. With the addition of Xie Jinxi and the three of them, there were only two newcomers left.

Xie Jinxi briefly recounted her own experience, Zhuang Zheng didn't react much after hearing it, and just said: "You have tried your best, don't think too much."

Xie Jinxi nodded.

Ji Chuanmo pushed his glasses, his eyes were full of puzzlement, but since the current situation is unclear and there are not enough people, he can only keep his doubts in his heart.

Zhuang Zheng said in a low voice: "I just took a risk and tried to get the backpack and the flare gun back. There are no more pythons on the other side of the river, and the key supplies must be brought back. There is also the snake witch. Without him as a guide, our journey will be fine." Way to go."

He looked down at his hand and said, "It's about half an hour before our scheduled break time ends. If they haven't arrived after half an hour, we don't have to wait, go directly to get the supplies and continue on our way."

After listening to Zhuang Zheng's words, the veterans basically had no doubts. The male in the new couple seemed to want to say something, but his girlfriend saw that the other seniors' reactions to the direct abandonment of two lives were very flat, so she pulled it away. boyfriend's cuff, signaling him to stop talking.

Xie Jinxi also felt that Zhuang was a very decisive and resolute leader. He would save his team members as soon as he could. If he couldn’t save him, he would resolutely give up the other party after weighing. He had a higher chance of surviving for others and himself. that way.

I don't know if this is because he has seen a lot of life and death, so he has honed his current character.

Half an hour passed quickly, and in the last 10 minutes, the two newcomers who hadn't come arrived staggeringly.

One of the two newcomers is a man, and the other is a middle-aged woman.Among the newcomers, there was a young couple, a middle-aged couple, her husband... was the one who was swallowed up by the dead leaves in front of Xie Jinxi's eyes.

Zhuang Zheng repeated it again, assigning work to them, trying to get all the supplies in the shortest possible time, and leading the snake witch away from the river.

After assigning tasks, they quickly rushed to the camp to pack sleeping bags, backpacks, etc. according to their division of labor, and then Zhuang Zheng went to call the Snake Witch and evacuated from the edge of the river.

After returning to the forest, everyone relaxed.

Their progress needs to follow the direction of the river, but they can't get close to the river, so they can only trek along the direction of the river in the forest.

Zhuang Zheng put his backpack on his back, looked towards the river, and said, "Yesterday afternoon, I was still thinking about it. We can't walk for a long time with just two legs. Why don't we cut down trees and build a raft."

"The description says that it is a temple located in the Snake Valley. The altitude of the valley must be lower than the surrounding area. It is probably because of this that you can reach the Snake Valley by following the river flow. If this is the case, why don't you build a wooden raft and use the power of the water to not only speed up but also Save your energy."

"Now that I think about it, I'm naive, 'He' wouldn't leave me such a shortcut." Zhuang Zheng laughed at himself, "Just keep going."

Originally, he wanted to use the power of the water, but that kind of giant python likes to inhabit around the river, and even swims underwater to hunt. Even Zhuang Zheng didn't dare to think that he could fight the python in the water.

Ji Chuanmo thought for a while, and said: "Your idea is actually good, so let's take this plan as an alternative. If we still haven't reached the Snake Valley by the end of the fifth day, then we will make a raft on the fifth night, and the sixth When the sky enters the river, it will be impossible not to gamble at that time."

"Okay, let's go." Zhuang Zheng said.

"Wait, wait!" said the middle-aged woman, who looked very impatient all the time, "You just left? Where is my husband? He hasn't come yet!"

Xie Jinxi only realized it at this time, because she came back late and hadn't heard the reason before, so he said it again.

"Dead?" The middle-aged woman couldn't believe it. "How is it possible? How is it possible? Then what killed him? Ah? Something is biting him?"

She shot Xie Jinxi suspiciously, and asked, "Did you really save him? Did you run away when you saw him sinking in?"

Xie Jinxi looked flat, almost indifferent, and ignored her.

He had done his best, and to be honest, he had a clear conscience. He didn't even say that the other party wanted to pull him in at the end and let him die together.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the middle-aged woman thought he was guilty, and even hysterical.

"Didn't you save him? You just didn't save him! You two don't want to save him!"

The panic in the middle of the night, seeing the python eating people, and running wildly in the forest, and then learning the news of her husband's death, made her obviously a little bit broken.

"Okay." The newcomer who came back with her came out to smooth things over, "We came back late because we ran too far after running away, and then it seemed that we ran into the previous... the victim of the expedition. body, so she was a little irritated."

"Oh?" Zhuang Zheng had seen too many people who had mental breakdowns or were crushed by fear, and he was more interested in the remains of the victims in this new population, "Can you still find the way? If you can, take us there. Let's see if we can supplement some corresponding supplies from them."

The newcomer looked a little ugly, nodded slowly, and said, "I remember Lu...but... that scene..."

"Well, anyway, are you sure you want to go there? You'll know when you go."

"Go." Zhuang Zheng said decisively, "Others who don't want to go can stay here and wait for us."

The others looked at each other, and in the end they chose to go together in order not to separate, but the Snake Witch followed them without saying a word, like a ghost.

A group of people followed the newcomer. He was smarter, probably because he was afraid of getting lost after entering the forest to calm down. It was his first time entering the Fragment World, and he brought his house key with him. He simply used the key to mark the tree trunks along the road.

They followed the mark all the way to the place he had mentioned, which was some distance from where they had camped, but also near the river.

It had rained before, which increased the width of the river and washed away a snake cave, which killed the archaeological expedition team.

The scene of the accident was a mess, several collapsed tents were covered with mud, and there were mud-wrapped tools everywhere.

Not far from these unusable tents, there is a hole that was washed out, which is probably the snake hole that was washed away.

At this time, there seemed to be no more snakes there, only two or three corpses lying there.

Zhuang Zheng cut off a branch from a nearby tree, and then walked over with the machete to check the details.

But Xie Jinxi caught another thing, and followed him, but he cautiously shrank behind Zhuang Zheng.

After all, Zhuang Zheng still had a machete in his hand, but he was unarmed.

After stepping on the mud and walking near the collapsed snake cave, there was an extremely strong smell of decay.

It has been at least two or three days since they died. The temperature is so high during the day and they are still soaked in mud. The degree of decay of the corpses is much higher than the average level.

Zhuang Zheng first poked the corpse with a branch, he paused, and said in a deep voice, "Empty?"

Then he denied it: "No, it's not right, it's not empty...there's something inside."

Xie Jinxi's attention was on the walkie-talkie held by one of the corpses.

Before entering this world, he once heard someone talking on the walkie-talkie on the TV in his fragmented world, could it be this?

"What?" Xie Jinxi didn't pay attention to the corpse, or he forced himself to focus on other places, and couldn't react for a while when he heard what Zhuang Zheng said.

Then, he saw the corpse's hand twitch suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, maybe that hand touched the switch button of the walkie-talkie, and there was a shrill electric wave sound that made the scalp tingle.

The surface of the corpse suddenly swelled up many bumps, as if some living thing was constantly agitating under the skin of the corpse.

"Back off!"

Zhuang Zheng stopped Xie Jinxi and took a few steps back away from the corpse.

The intermittent hissing sound of the walkie-talkie suddenly distorted a few times, and a person shouted hoarsely:

"Snakes! They're all snakes!"

"Don't go into the forest! Don't go into the temple!"