COC Running Group-Long Dream Endless

What was the date of the first day Eve had the nightmare, and was there a sudden death on that day?Comparing the events and locations of the sudden death incidents may be able to know whether there is a connection between them. "

Before Eve could even say a word, she hurriedly took out her cell phone and made a call.Soon, her voice sounded: "David, yes, it's me... um... I have something I want to know, last Friday, yes... June XX, did anything happen? It's just... I mean the sudden death incidents that have happened recently... eh? Why am I interested? How should I put it, it’s because such terrible things happened around me, so I want to ask. Anyway, please help me to check, otherwise I will just check News is not out of the question."

After that, there was a long waiting time. Eve showed a little nervous look on her face, and the others silently moved to Eve's side. Seeing this, Eve silently pressed the loudspeaker button of her mobile phone.

Soon, a man's voice came out from the noise on the opposite side: "Eve, there was indeed a sudden death that night. It was a homeless man near XX Street. It was the next morning when he was found. According to the autopsy report, Point out that the incident of his death was around 1 o'clock in the morning."

Lisa couldn't help showing a look of surprise, it's possible that her guess was correct.However, Eve saw a complex expression on Eve's face, not knowing whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to be disappointed. Afterwards, Eve continued to ask: "Then I also want to know, when was the first sudden death incident in our block?"

"It was also that day," the male voice on the opposite side then replied, "In the single-family wooden house at No. XX Road XX, all three members of the family died, and the time of death was earlier, probably between 5:6 and [-]:[-] in the evening. It had been two days since it was discovered, and it was a bit smelly. At present, this family is the earliest sudden death that we have recorded."

Afterwards, Eve and David stopped after chatting for a few more words, and said dejectedly after hanging up the phone: "Although the date and time are correct, it is a pity that although I was drunk that day, I absolutely It is certain that I have not approached that road. Therefore, I must not have had the opportunity to witness the sacrifice site."

"Speaking of it," Sanders looked a little confused after hearing the content of the phone call, "I passed by that house in the past few days and didn't find that it was blocked by the police, and I didn't hear any news about someone's sudden death there."

"It's normal if you don't know. That family rarely communicates with the people around them. In addition, their house is a single house with no neighbors, so people around here know very little about this family. Even if they die, the people around them should know I don’t know.” Michael interjected, “The house my girlfriend rents is opposite his house, and I haven’t met anyone from his house for two years, so I can occasionally see people waiting in the room. She and I She said that she felt that there was a family squatting there, which made me very impressed. In addition, the recent deaths were all sudden deaths, which means that in the eyes of the police, these incidents may be accidents or infectious diseases, but they are absolutely impossible It's murder. In other words, they're not cordoning off the scene because it was just, accident."

"That's true." Lisa nodded, "If it weren't for the occasional lights inside, I would have thought it was a haunted house, and I remember that day, the day after the police said their family died suddenly, right? I saw a dead squirrel in front of his house, I don't know if it was electrocuted by an electric wire or died suddenly."

Sanders copied Lisa's words in his notebook, and said, "I saw it too, because I'm not very good at things like corpses, so I was really taken aback at the time."

Saying this, Sanders also thought of Lisa who ran past him on the way to work that day. The popsicle in her mouth made him envious all the way, and then she came to apply for IELTS, and then slowly get acquainted.

Thinking of this, Sanders asked casually: "Speaking of which, how is your IELTS preparation?"

Lisa froze for a moment, but in the next second she seemed to come alive suddenly: "Don't scare me, didn't you say that you can only sign up after three months after graduation? I didn't start preparing at all! I still have time!"

People around were amused by Lisa, and even Eve, who had always seemed preoccupied, couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, let's sum it up," Sanders snapped his notebook shut, "According to our current intelligence and speculation, the sudden death incident is related to the tour guide on Pohnpei Island and the cult ceremony, and the target may be the professor In addition, this kind of ritual may lead to sudden death. I think it should be a ritual related to statues, probably similar to some kind of totem worship. Finally, the first sudden death happened in that single-family wooden house, I think We can explore it when we have time, and we may find useful clues from the traces there."

can't get out of bed

After the discussion meeting ended, several people went back to their respective homes because of their own business. Only Michael followed Sanders behind him. In order to avoid his roommate's family, he borrowed and lived in Sanders' house.

In the not-so-spacious living room, the two men looked at each other awkwardly. After more than ten seconds of silence, Sanders went back to the room in silence, took out the spare quilt and pillow, and threw it on Michael.

Michael caught the quilt and pillow in embarrassment, took a step back by the impact, and looked at Sanders in a daze.

"Do you still want me to lay the quilt for you?" Sanders glanced sideways at Michael, who looked at a loss, and reminded by the way, "Remember to take a shower first, I have a new set of pajamas, so I threw it on the bed and gave it to you gone."

Michael, who finally remembered the reply, replied reflexively: "Oh."

After that, Sanders looked at Michael, who was like a goose, wobbled into the room with the quilt pillow that almost covered his face, and soon there was the sound of the exhaust fan and the sound of the shower.

Going back to the room and closing the door to take a rest, Sanders even felt a little uncomfortable. Except for some accidents before, Sanders had never shared a room with others in his memory, and the feeling of having a roommate was very important to him. subtle.

Thinking of this, Sanders opened the glass door and walked to the balcony to get some air.The small balcony on this side connects the master bedroom where he lives at this time and the study room transformed from the next room. This is good for one person to live in a room with three bedrooms and one living room, and the functional division of the room can be done as you like.

Standing on the balcony, he didn't feel cold while blowing the evening wind in winter. This was partly due to the thick nightgown on his body and the warm climate in Bucun even in winter.

"Sanders?" A familiar female voice suddenly came from the balcony next door. Sanders turned his head and saw Lisa and Johanna, who had not been separated for a long time, sitting at a small table on the balcony, each holding a bowl of instant noodles. Even the traces of the corners of the mouth being stained red by the spicy soup are clearly visible.

"What a coincidence." Sanders waved his hand with a smile, but he was laughing in his heart that these two big nighters actually had extra meals on the balcony.

Lisa and Johanna moved the stools to the side of the balcony near Sanders: "Shall we go to that room tomorrow?"

"Actually, I really want to go and see it today." Sanders shrugged.

Johanna turned pale a little, shook her head and said, "Don't go to a single-family house like that where people have died at night, what if those cultists secretly live in that house at night? What if, what if What about ghosts?"

"Don't you not believe in mysterious events?" Lisa waved her hands and taunted her roommate mercilessly.

Johanna grabbed Lisa's arm secretly, and argued: "I don't believe in the existence of ghosts, but since there are even cultists who make people die suddenly, then maybe there are ghosts, right? And I mainly It's for safety's sake!"

After the three of them chatted for a while, they agreed to go to that house to find clues the next day, of course, after everyone got up.

It was a miracle that two girls who were enjoying their vacation could get up before eleven o'clock. No matter how you think about it, this operation probably won't start until the afternoon.

The next morning, Michael and Saunders got up very early, one because they were not used to life with a roommate, and the other because they wanted to get out of bed.

The two ate some breakfast casually, prepared by Sanders of course, and then sat at the dining table looking at each other, and the awkward atmosphere once again filled the room.

"Do you have any thoughts on yesterday's inference?" Sanders said first.

Under the premise that someone spoke, Michael also relaxed a lot: "I personally don't think there is a big problem. I can only make such a guess within the scope of the known content. It is basically logical, but I think there may be some Question."

"Why do you say that?" Sanders waited for Michael to continue his analysis with great interest, and he always felt that there was something missing somewhere, just like a few missing pieces in a complete jigsaw puzzle.

Michael took an orange from the table and ate it by himself, and continued: "On the one hand, there are many places that are based on logical speculation, but we have no evidence to prove our conjecture, right? On the other hand, I I feel that we must have missed a lot of clues, and there are many places that have not been dug deep. One is why witnessing the ceremony will be haunted by nightmares, and the other is who these cultists in our guess are offering sacrifices to and what is their purpose Thirdly, if it was the translator who caused the sudden death here, it is impossible for him to find the professor. Isn’t it easy to find a professor with a known identity in modern society? In short, I always Something feels wrong."

"That's why we're going to explore that house today, and our focus should be on what's happening in our neighborhood, not on the anecdote of Pohnpei Island on the other side of the sea. Besides, we're currently Everything that happened on Pohnpei Island was told by the professor, and I don’t mean to doubt the professor. After all, doing such a thing can’t see any benefit to the professor, but this kind of after-the-fact memory will definitely be mixed with the professor My subjective thoughts and bias caused by personal feelings, we can’t be sure what exactly happened, unless someone who came back from Pohnpei Island tells it.” Sanders snatched back a piece of orange and stuffed it in the mouth.

Michael protected his "own" orange, and continued: "Why don't you search the Internet, maybe there will be something about Pohnpei Island?"

"What you said makes sense." Sanders took out his mobile phone, entered the names of Pohnpei Island and the leader of the expedition team, and quickly searched for relevant information.

Michael leaned closer to Sanders, stretched his head to look at the phone, and almost completely stuck it to Sanders: "What did it say? Let me see!"

"Probably, there was an accident during the investigation, and three divers died. The rescue operation also failed. In the end, it seemed that some kind of mechanical means was used to salvage. It was found that the three divers were in a state of complete equipment, eh? Drowning ?” Sanders looked puzzled by the end of the read.

Michael on the other side was also confused: "It seems that our speculation is wrong. The people who died on Ponapei Island and the people who died here are not the same way of death."

"But the way of death is also mysterious and non-human, so we don't have to completely overthrow our guess." Sanders said, "By the way, the two next door don't know if they are awake, you can call them and ask." ? I'll call Eve."

Michael, who had the same idea, quickly dialed Lisa's mobile phone number, but the beep sounded for a long time, and finally came a mechanical female voice: "I will transfer your voicemail, Please leave a message after the beep..."

In the room on the other side, Lisa fell asleep with her head covered, with one hand unconsciously pressed on the phone, completely unresponsive to the faint ringtone of the phone.

After three consecutive phone calls, Michael reluctantly dialed Johanna's cell phone, but this time someone answered it quickly, and Johanna's confused voice came from the opposite side: "Hello...hello..."

"It's me, have you guys gotten up yet? We've searched for something, and we'll go to that house to investigate together later?" Michael didn't care if the person on the other side was listening, or whether he was awake enough to understand a series of his words.

There was a ping-pong-pong sound on the other end of the phone, and then Johanna hurriedly replied: "You... get up so early? Oh, it's not too early, it's ten o'clock. Okay, okay, we'll be there soon In the past, I'm going to knock on Lisa's door now."

After hanging up the phone, Johanna walked to Lisa's door and knocked on the door.

Lisa was woken up by continuous, noisy, and a little too loud knocking on the door. At first she turned over in agitation, covered her ears with a quilt, and curled up.In the next second, as if reacting, he jumped up like a corpse, and lowered his head while maintaining a sitting posture.

After a few more seconds, she rubbed her drowsy eyes and shouted hoarsely at the door: "I... I'm awake, stop knocking, I really, really get up right away."

Johanna at the door stopped knocking, and replied: "I see, I will knock again if you haven't come out in five minutes."

two possibilities

By the time everyone assembled at Sanders' house, it was already an hour later. This was due to the fact that both Johanna and Lisa belonged to the type of putting on makeup very quickly. Both of them basically finished their make-up and change of clothes within half an hour. After waiting for a series of troublesome activities, the remaining half an hour passed in the duel between Lisa and sleepiness.

When everyone gathered, however, Sanders looked rather disturbed.

"What's the matter, don't you want to contact Eve? When will she come?" Michael looked at Sanders who just went out and came back. While waiting for the two girls next door, Sanders suddenly said nothing. He went out, and now that he came back, his face didn't look very good.

Sanders raised his head subconsciously, then frowned and rubbed the phone in his hand: "I just called Eve for a long time, but she never answered. I was a little worried and went to her house, but she was not at home. And When I called her downstairs at her house, I heard the phone ringing in the room, but she didn't seem to be at home."

"Could it be a coma? Or something happened?" Lisa also became worried.

Sanders on the opposite side shook his head: "I asked her neighbors, and they said that they went out in the early morning, when they were mowing the lawn. They saw Eve and said hello. would be wrong."

"Eve is already an adult. I think we don't need to worry too much if she goes out of her own volition. Maybe she has something to solve. Isn't what we should do now go to that house for a certain period of time?" Investigate, if we can solve the matter, is it possible that Eve's problem will also be solved?" Johanna suggested.

Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and finally agreed with Johanna's opinion. The top priority now is to continue the investigation. After all, it is not realistic to look for people everywhere, especially when Eve does not carry a mobile phone.

The single-family house has always looked gloomy, and the wooden house that Lisa has been using as a stage for imagination all the year round is quite close to the place where everyone gathers. After about 5 minutes, everyone saw the house standing on the side of the road.

This house is quite different, and its special feature is that it does not have a fence separating the courtyard from the road, especially when the surrounding houses have their own courtyards, and there are low wooden fences at worst. The house is naturally out of place.On the other hand, this is a wooden house. Although this is very common in Australia, it is rare to see such a dilapidated house full of the atmosphere of the times but still inhabited.

To be honest, if it weren’t for the lights that are always on in this house, this place is like the best stage for horror stories, haunted house, children’s secret base, murder scene, no matter which word is suitable for this room, and now, these Nouns seem to match houses better.

There was an open space in front of and behind the house, an overgrown, seemingly completely undeveloped lot.

"This family may be very rich." Michael looked at the situation of the courtyard and said with emotion.

Lisa looked at him with a subtle look: "They all live in this kind of shabby place, how do you know that they are rich?"

Michael, who was standing on the grass, squatted down and pulled out a weed and replied, "Don't you often hear the noise of people mowing the lawn with machines? It is so troublesome to mow the lawn, why do the lazy Australians never leave behind?" What about mowing the lawn? Aside from avoiding insects and snakes, the main reason is that they may be forced to pay huge fines for not mowing the lawn. What is the name for it? Seems like a tax?"

Just as he was talking, Johanna, who had already walked around the back yard of the house, said, "I never thought that the family's domestic water comes from the water storage tank?"

"Before the Australian government advocated water conservation, many people installed water storage tanks and used filtered rainwater during that period. At that time, the government even advocated that bathing should be completed within 2 minutes, and even issued a lot of hourglasses to encourage people to take a bath. Use the hourglass to time the time." Michael continued to popularize science like this activity encyclopedia.

While the three were talking, Sanders seemed to have remained silent all the time. He just stood silently at the door of the semi-open garage. If someone approached him at this time, he would find that the back of his clothes had been soaked in sweat.

He just stood there quietly, and after a while, he slowly walked to Michael and Lisa in the front yard.

The two people in the front yard looked up and saw Sanders, who was sweating profusely. Lisa asked suspiciously, "It's not hot today, what's wrong with you?"

"Come and take a look, I found something." Sanders' voice was a little hoarse, it sounded like he had just experienced some mental stimulation, and his emotions had not yet calmed down, "But that scene was a bit scary, you should be mentally Prepare."

While talking in the front yard, Johanna in the backyard saw everyone gathered together, so she leaned over and followed Sanders' guidance.

When he walked to the door of the garage, Sanders subconsciously turned his head to avoid seeing the scene, and just pointed to the direction of the garage.Looking at him, the other three felt that the next scene must be quite exciting, and subconsciously relaxed their hands and feet, cautiously following Sanders' fingers.

In the cool and dark garage, there were densely piled up things. Lisa turned on the flashlight of her mobile phone and shone it, and then she could see clearly the piled up, layered, yellow-brown remains of countless small animals. .

The corpses were piled up like stones on the river beach, and occasionally one or two small animals were turning their heads sideways in the direction of the garage door. Their black eyes were like clear glass, but looking at them made people feel uneasy and felt chills down their backs.

Probably because they had been reminded by Sanders before, except for Lisa who took a step back subconsciously, the other two were very calm, just looking at the dead animals and found something strange in them.

"Don't you think it's strange?" Johanna asked.

"Of course it's strange that so many animals died." Lisa replied angrily, while quietly hiding behind Johanna.

Johanna sighed and turned to Lisa and said, "Are you really blind? You didn't see it so obviously? With so many dead animals, there are no mosquitos here. Even though it is winter, the temperature is still high." Not too low, haven't you had enough of the flies by the trash can? Then why are there no flies in the place where the dead animals are piled up?"

"Yes!" Lisa suddenly realized.

Michael, who held his chin and looked like a detective, analyzed: "There are two possibilities."

unfortunately

Two students from the history department (not the acting department) who were very playful came to the same corner flamboyantly, and Lisa raised her voice emotionally: "Michael, please start your performance."

Michael continued to elaborate on his guess very cooperatively: "It's very simple, firstly, these small animals have just died not long ago, and secondly, they may have died of some kind of mysterious event."

"It's that simple?" Lisa couldn't hide her disappointment in her words, "Tell me something we don't know."

Michael shrugged dumbfoundingly: "We saw this scene at the same time, and you still expect me to find any difference. But you should pay attention to what I just said, that is, these little animals may have died not long ago. This The sudden death of the family members happened just a few days ago, right? The police must have carefully checked every corner of the house when they received the report, it is impossible to miss such an obvious place, right?"

"You are right."

"Then the only explanation is that these animals died after the police inspected the place, and then they were piled here, so they must have died not long ago. In this way of accumulation, these animals must not have died naturally, right, otherwise It’s impossible to keep running to the same place and piling yourself up,” Michael continued.

"That's the truth."

A little closer to some garages, Saunders, who still maintained the posture of not seeing the animal carcasses, also stared at Michael curiously, waiting for him to continue talking. Johanna also walked back to Lisa from the animal carcasses.

Michael, who was surrounded by a group of people, did not feel nervous. After all, his usual homework often included giving speeches in front of all his classmates, which was not too much trouble for him: "In short, the two possibilities I mentioned are actually The same thing, as far as I personally think, these animals were piled up here after being killed in the past few days. The reason for guessing that there are mysterious factors in it is purely subjective. After all, these animals did not see any obvious trauma, and If it appeared in the place where the first sudden death happened, it can only be assumed that the prisoner who caused the sudden death was active around here, then these animals may also be, we guess, sacrifices."

"That makes sense." Lisa nodded, "And then?"

"Then? Then, of course, continue to check the surroundings of this house. If my guess is correct, then the prisoner must have left some traces, right?" Michael rolled his eyes, why do I need to explain this The level is almost written on the face.

Unfortunately, however, none of the people present were very observant.

Lisa's short-sighted glasses above [-] degrees can hardly meet her needs. Being able to see the outline of color blocks of objects ten meters away is already extraordinary performance, so she should not be blamed for not finding anything.

As for Sanders, I don't know if the crit damage caused by the accumulation of corpses was too great. When everyone gave up searching, he was still pale and weak in cold sweat.

Johanna, who was the only one who noticed something, smelled a strange smell when she passed by the water tank. She frowned and remained silent for a moment before calling out to the others: "Come and smell it? I suddenly smelled a strange fishy smell."

Lisa was the one who rushed to the water tank the fastest, probably to compensate for her poor eyesight. Her sense of smell was quite keen, and soon she smelled the stench that had faded a lot.She waved her hand uncomfortably, stepped back a few steps by the way, and frowned slightly.

And when Michael and Sanders came to the water tank, the smell had almost dissipated. Michael didn't smell anything, and Sanders could only smell a little grass, like walking in the forest after the rain. smell.

The water storage tank in front of you, or the rain storage tank, is a very common style, and it is also quite huge. The height of nearly three meters makes it impossible to see its top. There is a ladder for people to climb on one side of the water tank, but the long-term The wind and rain and the harsh environment without maintenance have made this ladder lose all its functions.

This water tank must have been unused for a long time, and the weeds growing wildly around the shell were tangled together, and it even looked a little twisted and scary.

"What was that smell just now? Did this family raise fish in the tank?" Lisa complained in a low voice.

Johanna shrugged. She seemed to think of something, but after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't tell what it was. In the end, she had no choice but to give up: "I don't know where it came from, maybe it's the smell from the yard next door. Let's float over."

Just as he was talking, Michael had already walked up to the water tank, looking eager to try.Sanders tugged on his sleeve: "What do you want to do?"

"Of course I climbed up to have a look." Michael said as a matter of course.

Sanders frowned and shook his head: "Believe it or not, as long as you start climbing the water tank, people around will call the police. We'd better keep a low profile and don't do anything too strange, and the ladder of the water tank has been damaged. If you fall We can't save you if you get into the water tank."

After searching for a while, the four still found nothing, and they couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.

The winter night always comes earlier, but it was already dark after five o’clock. Seeing that there was nothing to gain here, Sanders shrugged: "It seems that if we didn't guess wrong, there are no clues here; Either that or we're really bad at doing searches on the ground. I personally think it's the latter."

"Then what should we do?" Michael, who kept questioning after Sanders' persuasion, failed to climb the water tank, and got a hole in his hand when he fell, returned sullenly.

"Why don't you go to the library again, maybe you can find other books?" Lisa said hopelessly, "and you can contact the professor, although I don't know what else to ask. I think we I got stuck and felt like I didn’t understand anything.”

Johanna, who felt the same way, also shrugged, saying that there was nothing she could do.

"Let's dismiss it temporarily today. I want to go to Eve's house again. Maybe she has come back." Sanders looked at the time on the phone and said, "She is not in the right state, I am very worried about her. Actually I don’t care much about the sudden death incident, the big deal is that I will terminate the contract with the real estate agent next month, and moving to another block will be enough, I just want to help Eve solve her nightmare.”

"Tut tsk tsk." Lisa made an inexplicable voice, glanced at Sanders with subtle eyes, and then looked back at Michael, "Senior, what are you going to do, are you coming to the library together next?"

Undeterred Michael replied: "I want to continue looking for clues, you guys go first."

A few minutes later, Michael was the only one left in the quiet courtyard who was looking around intently. The others left the small courtyard with different purposes.Behind Michael, in a corner he didn't pay attention to, the huge water storage tank gradually glowed weakly as the sky darkened, making it almost invisible.

The vegetation around the water tank began to shake strangely as the sky darkened, swaying in the windless environment, and the tips of the vegetation also emitted a faint light, as if there were countless fireflies dotted on them.

But when Michael turned his head to look at the water tank, he didn't catch all these abnormalities.Because the moment he turned his head, a barely visible band of light flashed past, and he couldn't even be sure whether the color caught in his peripheral vision was just his illusion.

The band of light leaves a vague image on the retina, which seems to be wrapped in endless colors, chaotic but follows a strange sequence, the luster on it seems to be swallowed by vision, printed on the cerebral cortex, but it is difficult for people to see Which is true.

Although this strange scene is just a flash, Michael seems to be manipulated by the instinct of the body, the deepest subconscious.He gave up on a more in-depth investigation of the abandoned courtyard, turned around and chose to follow the light belt.

In fact, Michael wasn't sure if he was 'following' the band of light, given that it was already out of his sight.But when he took a step, he seemed to be bewitched by the unknown, and spontaneously walked towards a certain road leading to the forest area.

The abandoned house is located in a residential area, and the opposite of these houses is facing a forest that covers an area that is not small. The forest is surrounded by dilapidated barbed wire. The destruction of all kinds of animals makes these barbed wires only play a decorative role, and they can no longer stop any creatures.

Occasionally, some animals living in the forest will invade the residential area, most of which are squirrels or other rodents. Of course, large creatures such as pythons will also invade the residential area from time to time, which is also the main work of the surrounding professionals.

At the same time, this forest is also the first choice for young people to hold outdoor parties, so Bluetooth speakers and various snacks and beer residues are often placed in the open space in the forest.At this time, three RVs were parked in the middle of the open space, forming a small circle, with empty pizza boxes and empty wine bottles piled up in the middle.

At around [-]:[-] p.m., the place used to be extremely lively. Even a block away, the explosive music and the unrestrained laughter of young people could be heard. Neighbors are very dissatisfied.

Many of them called the police, but only received a few perfunctory replies, and probably no police would come to check.

And now, around eight o'clock when the sky is dark and there are no stars, this place is never quiet.

The unusually swollen turkey stepped on the pile of fallen leaves and dug the soil backwards. It had already sunk into a rather deep pit, and the gravel and fallen leaves thrown behind it covered a large area of ​​the ground. There is something uncovered faintly revealed on the edge of the fallen leaves.

It was a gray and white left hand with tight and wrinkled skin tightly wrapped around twisted bones.

A few crows flew from the sky above the pile of fallen leaves, making hoarse calls, jumping and tearing at something, their pitch-black feathers glowing with a faint blue luster like metal.

Before all of this, there was a black figure standing quietly, holding an empty wine bottle upside down in her hand, amber liquid dripping from the edge of the half-broken bottle.

Michael walked into the woods with the light belt like sleepwalking, or with inspiration, when his feet stepped on the soft ground, when the dry branches were crushed and made a slight creaking sound, when he smelled the woods. The smell of plants in the middle, as if waking up from a nightmare, Michael looked at the surrounding environment in surprise.

How did I get here?Why am I here?Is that band of light real?If yes, what is it made of?Countless questions filled Michael's brain, causing him to retreat and hesitate at the edge of the woods.

But soon, Michael was attracted by the scene in front of him. The woods in front of him must have been more desolate and terrifying in his impression, with dry and twisted branches stretching wantonly, and the disproportionately huge fruits on the branches overwhelmed many thin branches. The stem hangs almost to the ground.

Some fruits are split from the middle, giving off a disgusting smell. The texture is like the pulp that is about to rot, exuding soft fluorescence, and the brilliance is even constantly changing colors.

A few small animals crouched on the fruit to feast on, their fur exuded fluorescence similar to the flesh, and the fur on their bodies shone like a translucent film.One of the squirrel-like creatures had strange limbs growing from its back, glowing from them like the hind feet of an arthropod.

When it caught the sound of Michael stepping on a dead branch, it stopped eating, its ears on the top of its head turned sensitively, and in the next second, it turned around.

My God, what a monster that is!Three pairs of eyes are arranged on its distorted head, and the eye sockets seem to be unable to accommodate the popping eyeballs. The green pupils are constantly shrinking. In its wide-open mouth, small mouthparts protrude from the depths of the throat. There are some fluorescent soft rotten flesh hanging.

"Fxxx! What the hell is this!" Michael kept his voice in his throat, cursing inaudibly.He slowed down his pace, and finally stood still in the distance, trying not to disturb the beast in front of him, but started to move back silently, but his eyes were fixed on the beast.It was the only way Michael knew how to deal with encounters with beasts in the wild.

The monster in front of him stood upright, standing on two hind legs, with three pairs of eyes sweeping around, as if those eyes could not be used to observe the surroundings and lock the target, the tip of its nose shrugged slightly, and a threatening grunt came out of its throat.

"It's staring at me, it's staring at me!" Michael's heart sounded like an alarm bell, and the abnormal fear swept over him like a sea wave. The weird shape and obviously abnormal appearance still brought Michael a great sense of oppression and threat.

Michael's sweat soaked through the sweater, and he felt sick at the feel of the fabric sticking to his back, and the breeze in the forest made him feel a chill spread from his back to his whole body.

His face was almost distorted due to fear, and the joints of his limbs made the sound of old machines rubbing against each other. Under the tremendous pressure, Michael only persisted for a few seconds, and then his legs softened, and he fell backwards as if he could no longer support his body. With his hands on the ground, some blood oozes out.

The little animal in front of him seemed to be attracted by the smell of blood, and approached Michael tentatively. Its mouthparts were restlessly exploring around Michael's legs, and its little paws were scratching anxiously on the ground, making a threatening growl.

As the monster approached, Michael became more and more panicked. Finally, he screamed uncontrollably, tears streaming down his face, and then seemed to react suddenly. In the depths of the forest with dots of fluorescence.

In the dark night, the lush woods are not dim, and there are dots of halo attached to countless dry branches, like fireflies, and seem to replace the bright stars in the sky. The colors seem to change without gaps in the streamer, which makes people unable to transfer line of sight.

The depths of the woods are quieter than the outside, away from the hustle and bustle of residential areas, and the animals in the forest also stopped all activities, even the insects completely disappeared.

It seemed that in an instant, Michael felt countless small eyes betting on him, and those eyes were like spotlights, all focused on his own existence, and the dim light in his eyes was mixed with countless fluorescent halos, which was secretive and vicious.

Layer upon layer of fear almost completely destroyed Michael's sanity, and he wandered like a headless chicken in the forest.Until the end of his line of sight, there was a vaguely familiar backlight that clearly belonged to a human being.

"Help!" Michael stumbled towards the only "similar" in the woods.

Tucao Leaflet

Oh my god, it's scary. Is there a problem with the law and order in Tuao recently?

The weather has been really hot recently, even at night there are more than 20 degrees, and the daytime has already exceeded 33 degrees.And me, as a poor international student, how could I be able to rent a house with air conditioning? It doesn't exist.

So I can only rely on the small electric fan that is not up to my knee height to maintain my life every day. At the same time, in order to prepare for the upcoming IELTS test, I choose to have an air conditioner every day.