Fear Collection

Xie Jinxi followed Zhao Wu's gaze.

It was too dark in the forest, most of the starlight and moonlight were blocked by towering tree crowns, and the only source of light was the dying fire in front of them.However, the light of the flame made the surrounding environment look darker.

Xie Jinxi saw only darkness at first glance, squinted his eyes for a while, and then slowly saw the shadows of trees in the distance.

The tall trees in the forest abstracted into skinny shadows in the darkness, their outstretched branches and leaves hooked together, swaying with the cold wind, as if countless arms were intertwined and swayed.

And in the swaying tree shadow, there seems to be a human-shaped shadow hanging among the branches, floating with the wind.

The drowsiness left in Xie Jinxi's mind instantly faded away like a tide, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

So... what the hell is it?

After his eyes got used to the darker environment, Xie Jinxi confirmed that there was really a human-shaped thing hanging on the tree less than 50 meters away from them.

The thing seemed weightless, fluttering more like a rag than the swaying leaves beside it.

The way murderers in the first world kill ghosts is to see and realize that it has malicious intent, so after seeing that shadow, Xie Jinxi subconsciously looked away.

Zhao Wu didn't have the experience of Xie Jinxi, he stared over there, and made a low voice of doubt: "Ghost?"

Because Zhuang Zheng, who was watching the night before them, reminded them that there were rustling sounds outside the camp, as if something was approaching.

Seeing that Zhao Wu was staring at nothing, Xie Jinxi also turned his gaze to the shadow again, then nodded, and gestured for him and Zhao Wu to get up and call others, Zhao Wu understood.

However, when the two of them moved, the shadow hanging on the tree suddenly stopped moving.

Xie Jinxi's heart tightened, and she immediately held Zhao Wu down.

They didn't move, and neither did the shadow, it just hung there.

This time the shadow hanging there seemed to have gained weight, and it no longer fluttered with the wind.

In the dark forest, the two of them confronted the ghost figure hanging there far away strangely.

Since you can't move, then...

Xie Jinxi's hand touched the ground for a long time, and found an empty jar, which was probably left over from their dinner. He stared at the ghost, and tentatively took the jar into his hand.

The ghost was hanging on the branch, and its weight seemed to keep increasing.

Although Xie Jinxi and Zhao Wu couldn't see its specific shape clearly, they could feel that it bent the branches and dropped slightly.

Are you going to fall?

Xie Jinxi's heart skipped a beat, and with a flick of his wrist, he threw the jar backwards.

The ghost also fell down suddenly, like a ripe fruit falling from a tree.

"Fuck!" Zhao Wu yelled, fearing that the thing was approaching and they couldn't see it, so he simply turned on the flashlight and scanned around.

Coordinating with the jar that Xie Jinxi had just thrown into the camp, Zhuang Zheng, who had just been lying down for a while, suddenly sat up and pulled out his machete, and also picked up the flashlight, walked to Xie Jinxi and Zhao Wu, and asked, "What's wrong? What is it? "

Others also woke up one after another, picked up the flashlight and asked repeatedly.

Zhao Wu took a flashlight and looked around, saying, "Disappeared? Gone? Really gone?"

The ghost that fell like a fruit disappeared, and the white beam of the flashlight penetrated into the dark forest. After shining for a long time, I didn't see anything else approaching.

"There was a ghost hanging on a tree branch just now." Xie Jinxi organized his words and described, "It looks like a hanged ghost hanging on a tree."

"Just now that ghost fell down but suddenly disappeared."

Someone among the newcomers cursed, thinking that when I was sleeping, there was a hanged ghost hanging on the branch, maybe still looking at them, I felt cold from the bottom of my heart.

"Dropped? Disappeared?" Zhuang Zheng turned the flashlight and looked around carefully, but he really didn't find the ghost that was similar to the hanged ghost in Xie Jinxi's mouth.

Waking up, Wang Hanchi looked at the tree branches and murmured, "I'm not afraid of anything else, but this kind of... hanged ghost."

"You probably haven't been to the countryside. I grew up in the countryside when I was a child. There is a mountain behind the village. There are often... people who can't make it through hang themselves on the mountain with a three-foot hemp rope." Wang Hanchi's face turned pale when he said this, "once Some went up the mountain to pick wild fruits, and a rotten corpse that had been hanging for an unknown amount of time was thrown down directly."

"□□Shut up! Stop talking!" He Yingwei slapped him on the face, forcing him to shut up.

Looking at the dark forest outside, Ji Chuanmo said, "That's not right...although I don't know how many lives have been buried in this forest, but...it shouldn't be."

The middle-aged He Yingwei probably wanted to change the subject, so he immediately asked, "Oh? What's your opinion, Ms. Ji?"

"Generally speaking, the ghosts encountered in the Fragmented World are most likely related to our mission. For us, the fatal danger is likely to come from only one core, and other dangers are extensions of this core."

Ji Chuanmo said: "For example, in our world, for us, our task is to go to the temple in the Snake Valley to lift the curse within seven days. The danger we face is the core of the curse. Others who met before entering the Snake Valley Danger is an extension of the curse itself."

"So the danger is likely to be curse-related or mutated snakes. I don't know if you have seen the movie, "The Plague of the Anaconda". I have heard of it. I thought that our danger is likely to come from snakes, so why would it still be?" What about ghosts?"

Ji Chuanmo's eyes were full of suspicion, and she said sternly: "Although this is only my fourth world, when I lived in the third world, I met a person who has lived through four worlds and is the same as Captain Zhuang. A senior person. She has a special physique and can sense the existence of ghosts, so she has a lot of experience and knows far more than ordinary taskers."

"We have communicated that many worlds conform to the law of a core fatal danger and other dangers. If there are monsters, it is unlikely that there will be ghosts, and if there are ghosts, it is unlikely that there will be curses."

"That's why I said, it shouldn't be."

Ji Chuanmo pondered: "Could it be that this is a complex world? But the senior person told me that she had met a boss who had lived through six worlds. The complex dangerous world will only be experienced by the team. Only missionaries from the sixth or seventh world will appear, and we don’t have that kind of boss in our team, so it’s unlikely to encounter a composite world.”

"unless……"

Xie Jinxi silently completed what she wanted to say in her heart, unless some of them concealed the number of worlds they had experienced. After all, how many worlds they have experienced can’t be seen just by looking at it. Someone might lie.

But He Yingwei was thoughtful, and said: "Miss Ji, maybe it's just because this world is a bit special, and the difficulty has increased? The translation brother and the leader mentioned one thing, that is, this world was a battle royale type before. In the quest world, the questers would be hunted down by the tribesmen, but after the snake witch appeared, they stopped hunting the questers."

"We probably all know that the snake witch... I'm afraid..."

I'm afraid it's not a person, no, it can't be a person to be precise.

Xie Jinxi looked at the Snake Witch who had been standing motionless on the edge of the camp near the river.

Walking for half an afternoon yesterday, the Snake Witch didn't drink any water, let alone rest at night.

How could this be a living person.

The invisible snake witch shrouded in black robes, the ghost hanging on the treetops...

Xie Jinxi's heart kept sinking, and at this moment, Zhuang Zheng, who was still holding a flashlight to check his surroundings, suddenly said: "Miss Ji, you just said that the danger in our world probably comes from snakes... ..."

"Yeah... what?" Ji Chuanmo was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed drastically and he swept towards the forest with a flashlight.

Zhuang Zheng said seriously: "We are surrounded."

"The sound I heard before was the sound of snakes coming around."

"How is it possible?" Wang Hanchi couldn't believe it, "The temperature at night is not the temperature that snakes like and will be active?"

Wang Hanchi also turned on the flashlight and turned around, but he didn't see any snakes. He said, "Did you read it wrong? And how many snakes would it take to surround us... Snakes don't behave in groups like wolves A moving animal, no matter how you think about it, it’s unlikely.”

Xie Jinxi also turned on the flashlight. They camped overnight on a rock a little above the edge of the river, very close to the forest, but the problem is that the plants in the forest are too dense, and the roots of the trees are intertwined and protrude from the ground. , the ground is full of dead branches and leaves.

With the light of the flashlight in the darkness, it was impossible to tell which were tree roots and which might be snakes.

But Zhuang Zheng couldn't make fun of this kind of thing, everyone held their breath and concentrated, and slowly, others caught the abnormal shaking and rustling sounds of the plants in the forest.

On the branches of trees and in the bushes, some S-shaped wandering slender strips are approaching them.

"Snake...snake?" Wang Hanchi took half a step back, "This shouldn't be..."

His voice stopped abruptly, his eyes fell on the almost extinguished fire, and then he looked at the Snake Witch again, and shouted: "It's incense, there's something wrong with that incense! Damn it!"

The incense helped them drive away the poisonous insects, but it attracted snakes.

"Ahh! No!" A scream suddenly sounded from behind everyone.

Xie Jinxi turned around suddenly, and saw a newcomer wrapped around a huge python. The man kept screaming and struggling, but soon lost his voice.

But that boa constrictor was almost thicker than a person, and its length couldn't be seen in the dark, but it was definitely enough to swallow a person at a glance.

When they were looking at the forest, the snake sneaked up from the river and engulfed the man.

While the flashlight was flickering, Xie Jinxi actually saw several giant monsters swimming over from the river again.

"Run!" When Zhuang Zheng saw the boa constrictor, he wanted to go up to save people, but then he saw several other boa constrictors diving in the river, so he made a quick decision and ran away.

What a joke, they only have machetes in their hands, but no guns.

A dozen or so people may not be able to restrain that heavyweight and large python, and even one is enough for several of them to fight for their lives, let alone several others.

Their only hope is to run into the forest as far away from the river as possible, and then pray that the pythons are not interested enough to chase them into the forest on a cold night.