The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked
Chapter 8
Cen Jin stared at the one-legged man with all his attention, and moved slowly, while the one-legged man stood motionless in place.
He walked around to the back of the unipedal male, and sure enough, he saw that there was another one on the back.
They are back to back, with deformed skin and flesh growing together. The one on the front raised its hands to cover its face, while the one on the back completely exposed its ferocious grimace, with a goatee and protruding teeth.
Cen Jin turned his head to pick up the bucket, and suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head with a stiff neck, and faced the one-legged man who appeared behind him at some point. Moving away, one can vaguely see a mouth full of sharp teeth and saliva.
He put the bucket in front of the one-legged man, and asked softly, "Ask the one-legged man, where are the gold, beans and silver?"
As soon as the words fell, he heard two soft noises, and Cen Jin saw a golden bean and a silver nude falling out of the unipedal man's mouth.
He picked it up and held it in the palm of his hand, making sure that it had the texture of golden beans and silver, and then put it in his pocket. He picked up the bucket and ran for about ten meters, but he didn't hear any abnormal noise behind him.
Cen Jin couldn't help but look back, there was nothing behind him, and the figure of the one-legged man had long since disappeared.
Surprised, Cen Jin's arm muscles tensed, and the moment he turned his head, he picked up the bucket and splashed it out. As expected, it splashed on the one-legged man who suddenly appeared in front of him!
After splashing, he threw away the bucket and kept walking. Cen Jin passed the unipedal man and ran for about four or five meters. Running wildly in the direction of the cabin in the woods.
Fortunately, the hut in the forest is not too far away, and I can see the roof of the hut when I look up.
Cen Jin drilled into a two-meter-high bush, chopped off the dead branches and leaves blocking the way, and suddenly a pool of viscous muddy yellow liquid fell from the top of his head.
On closer inspection, the liquid contained minced meat and bone crumbs.
Cen Jin raised his head slowly, and what he saw was a grimace hanging above his head, the one-legged man!
That grimace showed a ferocious smile at Cen Jin, the muddy yellow viscous liquid flowed out, and he stretched out his hand at the same time, everything in front of him was played in slow speed in Cen Jin's eyes, which was very visually impactful, and he swung the bone chopper completely reflexively , I don't know how much effort was used, anyway, when he broke free from the bushes, his fingernails even cracked with small wounds.
And all the chopping and chopping he had done with all his strength had only caused minor injuries to the one-legged man.
The unipedal man is like a nimble ape climbing and jumping among the trees, playing with its prey. When it saw a hut in the forest with less than 1% chance of encountering it during the day suddenly appearing in the open space in front of it, it jumped straight to run in the next moment Cen Jin intends to make a quick decision.
Like an eagle swooping down from the sky, the ape's arms and ghost claws gleamed coldly, aiming at the head of the prey. If there is no accident, the human's head can be torn off in less than two seconds.
Cen Jin ran vigorously, jumped directly onto the porch of the hut, his back arched due to inertia, his ghost claws pierced through his hair, and was about to cut his flesh. At the very moment, a thin black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and jumped into the open door of the hut , followed by two violently colliding figures flying into the hut. There was a loud 'bang', the furniture in the room was smashed to pieces, and the two tall monsters quickly fought.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet, the one-eyed monster doesn't care about anything when he sees the one-legged man, he roars and tears off a piece of flesh from the one-legged man's shoulder. Two pieces of meat were pulled out in one bite, and they were swallowed without chewing.
Next to him, there was Tong Tong who would sneak up on him from time to time, and the three foreign objects fought extremely fiercely, but whoever won would be disadvantageous to Cen Jin, especially in this battle where the one-eyed monster was obviously weak.
Cen Jin rushed up to the attic, cut off the lock of the toilet door, and very skillfully got into the next house, resisted a sack of bones and jumped out of the window, and sealed the window when he left.
The long-haired faceless woman noticed the movement downstairs and joined the battle, her black hair crawled all over the room and smashed everything she could see.
Seeing that the situation is not going well, Yuan Tong wants to slip away, but as soon as he escapes to the door, his feet are entangled in black hair. Seeing the dog at the door, Cen Jin immediately sends out a signal for help.
Cen Jin: "Bao, wait for me, I'm going to recruit allies!"
After he finished speaking, he ran away and closed the door behind him.
The laughter of the resentful boy who realized that he had been cheated filled the cabin in the forest, and it sounded like crying mixed with resentment and anger.
Cen Jin did not go to the fork in the road this time, but ran to the river.
The source of the river is the underground river, which crosses the warning area of the hut in the forest, but the forest rangers dare not swim up, but the bottom of the river is still full of strange snakes.
Cen Jin threw the bones out of the sack one by one, like fishing, except that while others caught real fish, he caught snake figurines.
At the beginning, the river was very calm, and the covered 'dead branches' remained motionless until Cen Jin finished throwing away the bones and finally threw the sack into it. 'Lin Xiao' couldn't bear it anymore, and crawled out of the water. All the black 'dead branches' were in short After shedding its skin in a few seconds, it climbed into the corpse of 'Lin Xiao', made a rustling sound, and instantly formed a foreign body with a human upper body and a giant snake lower body.
The forest ranger opened his eyes, and countless dense eyeballs stared at Cen Jin, "Garbage...clean up, clean up...garbage."
Cen Jin: "It's the trash thrown by the faceless girl and the one-eyed monster in the hut in the forest. They threw a corpse into the river and caused you to stab the snake's nest. I can help you get rid of them."
The ranger glared at Cen Jin, and his anger rose, "Eliminate...the trash."
Cen Jin frowned: "Can't communicate?"
When he met the forest ranger for the first time, the other party was "Lin Xiao" who could communicate and was also a humanoid foreign object. He thought he should be able to persuade the other party to join the team that killed the hut in the forest, but it didn't seem to work.
Perhaps the 'Lin Xiao' at that time was just the memory of the snake figurine imitating the body, and did not retain reason. The foreign object in front of him was just a monster called a forest ranger, which actually only had the instinct to kill.
Cen stepped back and kicked the dead branches and fallen leaves into the river, "Do you hate? Hate is right, come and kill me."
The ranger was so angry that he opened his mouth and roared, and the stinky saliva splashed everywhere. The tail of the snake slapped the river, and the water splashed in all directions. The strange snake fell to the bank with inertia, and crawled towards Cen Jin.
Cen Jin ran back to the hut in the forest familiarly, as if returning home was so joyful.
Holding the doorknob, through the crack of the door, Cen Jin and Yuan Tong who had been strangled by the faceless woman looked at each other. His palms were sweating from tension, but he remained motionless. He calmly stared at the bone chopper until the clean surface of the knife flashed by. The hideous face of the ranger - now!
Pushing open the wooden door suddenly, roaring like a tsunami, Yuan Tong tore off the face of the faceless girl, and threw himself at Cen Jin with hatred, opening his bloody mouth, and Cen Jin lay down on the side with a short body, exposing the fierce body behind him. The ranger who pounced.
The red-eyed resentful boy collided with the angry ranger who came looking for revenge, and out of inertia, he fell into the wooden house. Cen Jin quickly closed the door, blocked the door firmly, and listened to the fighting of foreign objects in the wooden house He was so tired that he sat down and looked up at the sky.
"I don't know if there is a bonus for removing foreign objects in the warning area, and if so, how much is one." Cen Jin muttered to himself.
Hearing this, the brass bell on the top of the door trembled even more.
**
Outside the warning area of Sihai Cave, in the open space, in the modified off-road vehicle, the green military oscilloscope suddenly emitted a sharp and rapid warning sound, and the red wave line fluctuated violently, and the observers quickly recorded and tracked it.
Shi Shahai came over: "Out of control?"
"The mental pollution index is between 220, moderate pollution, controllable, small-scale magnetic storms, satellite monitoring is not malfunctioning, and the risk control range is not exceeded. The alert area where abnormal fluctuations are monitored is... the cabin in the forest."
Shi Shahai: "Which candidates are still stranded?"
"There are 33 freshmen, 32 candidates have been monitored, 21 have been eliminated, and the remaining 11 are in the underground river. The freshman who was not monitored is called Cen Jin. He disappeared in the forest hut warning area an hour ago. Untraceable."
Shi Chahai was so impressed by Huang Maosangpi's appearance that he asked, "Did Zhou Man and the others find anyone?"
"No."
"It shouldn't be." Shi Shahai rubbed his chin: "Although the three of Zhou Man graduated two years ago and are still in the reserve service, they should not be troubled by finding someone. And the probability of meeting the cabin in the forest during the day is less than 1%, unless there is bad luck. pressing."
Observer: Huangmao...has he given nicknames to freshmen so quickly?
"If Huang Mao met the hut in the forest, there would be no bones left by now." Shi Shahai shook his head: "Aerial drones will reinforce ten more, and then send a team into the dense forest to search and rescue, and we must find new life. Zhou Man stays, Gan Zhiyi and Lu Chengping went to the underground river to meet up with the examiners and give the final assessment to the 11 candidates."
As soon as the words fell, another military oscilloscope suddenly issued a piercing warning sound, "beep beep—" the observer quickly recorded and tracked.
After it was over, she showed a surprised expression: "The mental pollution index is around 260, moderately polluted, and controllable. The one that monitored abnormal fluctuations is... the cabin in the woods?"
If the mental pollution index exceeds 280, it is considered highly polluted and needs to be monitored or cleaned up. Obviously, the mental pollution index in the warning area of the hut in the forest has reached a critical value.
Shi Shahaydn was curious about what happened to stimulate the mental pollution index in the warning area of the hut in the woods to soar.
He just changed his mind and wanted to inform Gan Zhiyi or Lu Chengping, one of the reserve members of the investigation team, to leave one to assist Zhou Man in the investigation, but he found two military oscilloscopes emitting harsh warnings one after another, and the two observers reported the situation calmly.
"The spiritual pollution index of the cabin in the forest has soared to 284, entering the stage of high pollution, and it is recommended to clear it—wait, it is still soaring, 307, 341...360, if the pollution index exceeds 380, entering the stage of severe pollution, it is recommended to clear it, At any cost."
The observer's suggestion is to immediately remove the unstable pollutants at any cost, and Shi Chahai, who is the chief examiner, is more concerned about the reason for the soaring spiritual pollution index of the cabin in the forest.
"Gan Zhiyi and Zhou Man immediately went to the forest hut to investigate according to the guidance."
However, there was another situation here. The oscilloscope stopped abruptly after a quick warning, and the observer was stunned: "The mental pollution index of the cabin in the forest dropped sharply, below 80, which is normal."
Never normal, which means the foreign object has been removed, or the foreign object is not dangerous.
Why does this mental pollution index change like a roller coaster?What happened to the cabin in the woods?
The three Zhou Man who were still in the warning area received orders from Shi Chahai and set out to investigate separately.
Shi Shahai tapped on the console in thought, "This situation is abnormal. Immediately monitor the spiritual pollution index and magnetic field fluctuations in the underground river."
The observer did so, and replied: "The underground river is normal."
Shi Shahai: "Monitor the underground reservoir."
The observer hesitated for a moment. After all, the underground reservoir is the main body of the Four Seas Cave. The real fourth-level restricted area, even if it is monitored, there is a risk of losing control at any time. Moreover, data monitoring can only be carried out on the periphery, and no one has been able to go deep into the center of the reservoir for the time being.
After about 10 minutes of data monitoring, analysis and speculation, the observer suddenly looked serious: "Director."
Shi Shahai looked over.
The observer looked panicked: "Unusual fluctuations have been detected in the underground reservoir, and the possibility of a third outbreak of mental pollution cannot be ruled out!"
The spiritual pollution of the underground reservoir can be called terrifying. It will destroy the spirit and sanity of creatures within a radius of [-] meters, and produce various cannibalistic foreign objects, with completely uncontrollable consequences.
"Step up the platoon control, the second team and the third team entered the dense forest respectively, and escorted the eliminated candidates out of the Four Seas Cave safely. All the examiners gathered in the underground river to protect the eleven candidates to leave quickly!"
"Yes."
He walked around to the back of the unipedal male, and sure enough, he saw that there was another one on the back.
They are back to back, with deformed skin and flesh growing together. The one on the front raised its hands to cover its face, while the one on the back completely exposed its ferocious grimace, with a goatee and protruding teeth.
Cen Jin turned his head to pick up the bucket, and suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head with a stiff neck, and faced the one-legged man who appeared behind him at some point. Moving away, one can vaguely see a mouth full of sharp teeth and saliva.
He put the bucket in front of the one-legged man, and asked softly, "Ask the one-legged man, where are the gold, beans and silver?"
As soon as the words fell, he heard two soft noises, and Cen Jin saw a golden bean and a silver nude falling out of the unipedal man's mouth.
He picked it up and held it in the palm of his hand, making sure that it had the texture of golden beans and silver, and then put it in his pocket. He picked up the bucket and ran for about ten meters, but he didn't hear any abnormal noise behind him.
Cen Jin couldn't help but look back, there was nothing behind him, and the figure of the one-legged man had long since disappeared.
Surprised, Cen Jin's arm muscles tensed, and the moment he turned his head, he picked up the bucket and splashed it out. As expected, it splashed on the one-legged man who suddenly appeared in front of him!
After splashing, he threw away the bucket and kept walking. Cen Jin passed the unipedal man and ran for about four or five meters. Running wildly in the direction of the cabin in the woods.
Fortunately, the hut in the forest is not too far away, and I can see the roof of the hut when I look up.
Cen Jin drilled into a two-meter-high bush, chopped off the dead branches and leaves blocking the way, and suddenly a pool of viscous muddy yellow liquid fell from the top of his head.
On closer inspection, the liquid contained minced meat and bone crumbs.
Cen Jin raised his head slowly, and what he saw was a grimace hanging above his head, the one-legged man!
That grimace showed a ferocious smile at Cen Jin, the muddy yellow viscous liquid flowed out, and he stretched out his hand at the same time, everything in front of him was played in slow speed in Cen Jin's eyes, which was very visually impactful, and he swung the bone chopper completely reflexively , I don't know how much effort was used, anyway, when he broke free from the bushes, his fingernails even cracked with small wounds.
And all the chopping and chopping he had done with all his strength had only caused minor injuries to the one-legged man.
The unipedal man is like a nimble ape climbing and jumping among the trees, playing with its prey. When it saw a hut in the forest with less than 1% chance of encountering it during the day suddenly appearing in the open space in front of it, it jumped straight to run in the next moment Cen Jin intends to make a quick decision.
Like an eagle swooping down from the sky, the ape's arms and ghost claws gleamed coldly, aiming at the head of the prey. If there is no accident, the human's head can be torn off in less than two seconds.
Cen Jin ran vigorously, jumped directly onto the porch of the hut, his back arched due to inertia, his ghost claws pierced through his hair, and was about to cut his flesh. At the very moment, a thin black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and jumped into the open door of the hut , followed by two violently colliding figures flying into the hut. There was a loud 'bang', the furniture in the room was smashed to pieces, and the two tall monsters quickly fought.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet, the one-eyed monster doesn't care about anything when he sees the one-legged man, he roars and tears off a piece of flesh from the one-legged man's shoulder. Two pieces of meat were pulled out in one bite, and they were swallowed without chewing.
Next to him, there was Tong Tong who would sneak up on him from time to time, and the three foreign objects fought extremely fiercely, but whoever won would be disadvantageous to Cen Jin, especially in this battle where the one-eyed monster was obviously weak.
Cen Jin rushed up to the attic, cut off the lock of the toilet door, and very skillfully got into the next house, resisted a sack of bones and jumped out of the window, and sealed the window when he left.
The long-haired faceless woman noticed the movement downstairs and joined the battle, her black hair crawled all over the room and smashed everything she could see.
Seeing that the situation is not going well, Yuan Tong wants to slip away, but as soon as he escapes to the door, his feet are entangled in black hair. Seeing the dog at the door, Cen Jin immediately sends out a signal for help.
Cen Jin: "Bao, wait for me, I'm going to recruit allies!"
After he finished speaking, he ran away and closed the door behind him.
The laughter of the resentful boy who realized that he had been cheated filled the cabin in the forest, and it sounded like crying mixed with resentment and anger.
Cen Jin did not go to the fork in the road this time, but ran to the river.
The source of the river is the underground river, which crosses the warning area of the hut in the forest, but the forest rangers dare not swim up, but the bottom of the river is still full of strange snakes.
Cen Jin threw the bones out of the sack one by one, like fishing, except that while others caught real fish, he caught snake figurines.
At the beginning, the river was very calm, and the covered 'dead branches' remained motionless until Cen Jin finished throwing away the bones and finally threw the sack into it. 'Lin Xiao' couldn't bear it anymore, and crawled out of the water. All the black 'dead branches' were in short After shedding its skin in a few seconds, it climbed into the corpse of 'Lin Xiao', made a rustling sound, and instantly formed a foreign body with a human upper body and a giant snake lower body.
The forest ranger opened his eyes, and countless dense eyeballs stared at Cen Jin, "Garbage...clean up, clean up...garbage."
Cen Jin: "It's the trash thrown by the faceless girl and the one-eyed monster in the hut in the forest. They threw a corpse into the river and caused you to stab the snake's nest. I can help you get rid of them."
The ranger glared at Cen Jin, and his anger rose, "Eliminate...the trash."
Cen Jin frowned: "Can't communicate?"
When he met the forest ranger for the first time, the other party was "Lin Xiao" who could communicate and was also a humanoid foreign object. He thought he should be able to persuade the other party to join the team that killed the hut in the forest, but it didn't seem to work.
Perhaps the 'Lin Xiao' at that time was just the memory of the snake figurine imitating the body, and did not retain reason. The foreign object in front of him was just a monster called a forest ranger, which actually only had the instinct to kill.
Cen stepped back and kicked the dead branches and fallen leaves into the river, "Do you hate? Hate is right, come and kill me."
The ranger was so angry that he opened his mouth and roared, and the stinky saliva splashed everywhere. The tail of the snake slapped the river, and the water splashed in all directions. The strange snake fell to the bank with inertia, and crawled towards Cen Jin.
Cen Jin ran back to the hut in the forest familiarly, as if returning home was so joyful.
Holding the doorknob, through the crack of the door, Cen Jin and Yuan Tong who had been strangled by the faceless woman looked at each other. His palms were sweating from tension, but he remained motionless. He calmly stared at the bone chopper until the clean surface of the knife flashed by. The hideous face of the ranger - now!
Pushing open the wooden door suddenly, roaring like a tsunami, Yuan Tong tore off the face of the faceless girl, and threw himself at Cen Jin with hatred, opening his bloody mouth, and Cen Jin lay down on the side with a short body, exposing the fierce body behind him. The ranger who pounced.
The red-eyed resentful boy collided with the angry ranger who came looking for revenge, and out of inertia, he fell into the wooden house. Cen Jin quickly closed the door, blocked the door firmly, and listened to the fighting of foreign objects in the wooden house He was so tired that he sat down and looked up at the sky.
"I don't know if there is a bonus for removing foreign objects in the warning area, and if so, how much is one." Cen Jin muttered to himself.
Hearing this, the brass bell on the top of the door trembled even more.
**
Outside the warning area of Sihai Cave, in the open space, in the modified off-road vehicle, the green military oscilloscope suddenly emitted a sharp and rapid warning sound, and the red wave line fluctuated violently, and the observers quickly recorded and tracked it.
Shi Shahai came over: "Out of control?"
"The mental pollution index is between 220, moderate pollution, controllable, small-scale magnetic storms, satellite monitoring is not malfunctioning, and the risk control range is not exceeded. The alert area where abnormal fluctuations are monitored is... the cabin in the forest."
Shi Shahai: "Which candidates are still stranded?"
"There are 33 freshmen, 32 candidates have been monitored, 21 have been eliminated, and the remaining 11 are in the underground river. The freshman who was not monitored is called Cen Jin. He disappeared in the forest hut warning area an hour ago. Untraceable."
Shi Chahai was so impressed by Huang Maosangpi's appearance that he asked, "Did Zhou Man and the others find anyone?"
"No."
"It shouldn't be." Shi Shahai rubbed his chin: "Although the three of Zhou Man graduated two years ago and are still in the reserve service, they should not be troubled by finding someone. And the probability of meeting the cabin in the forest during the day is less than 1%, unless there is bad luck. pressing."
Observer: Huangmao...has he given nicknames to freshmen so quickly?
"If Huang Mao met the hut in the forest, there would be no bones left by now." Shi Shahai shook his head: "Aerial drones will reinforce ten more, and then send a team into the dense forest to search and rescue, and we must find new life. Zhou Man stays, Gan Zhiyi and Lu Chengping went to the underground river to meet up with the examiners and give the final assessment to the 11 candidates."
As soon as the words fell, another military oscilloscope suddenly issued a piercing warning sound, "beep beep—" the observer quickly recorded and tracked.
After it was over, she showed a surprised expression: "The mental pollution index is around 260, moderately polluted, and controllable. The one that monitored abnormal fluctuations is... the cabin in the woods?"
If the mental pollution index exceeds 280, it is considered highly polluted and needs to be monitored or cleaned up. Obviously, the mental pollution index in the warning area of the hut in the forest has reached a critical value.
Shi Shahaydn was curious about what happened to stimulate the mental pollution index in the warning area of the hut in the woods to soar.
He just changed his mind and wanted to inform Gan Zhiyi or Lu Chengping, one of the reserve members of the investigation team, to leave one to assist Zhou Man in the investigation, but he found two military oscilloscopes emitting harsh warnings one after another, and the two observers reported the situation calmly.
"The spiritual pollution index of the cabin in the forest has soared to 284, entering the stage of high pollution, and it is recommended to clear it—wait, it is still soaring, 307, 341...360, if the pollution index exceeds 380, entering the stage of severe pollution, it is recommended to clear it, At any cost."
The observer's suggestion is to immediately remove the unstable pollutants at any cost, and Shi Chahai, who is the chief examiner, is more concerned about the reason for the soaring spiritual pollution index of the cabin in the forest.
"Gan Zhiyi and Zhou Man immediately went to the forest hut to investigate according to the guidance."
However, there was another situation here. The oscilloscope stopped abruptly after a quick warning, and the observer was stunned: "The mental pollution index of the cabin in the forest dropped sharply, below 80, which is normal."
Never normal, which means the foreign object has been removed, or the foreign object is not dangerous.
Why does this mental pollution index change like a roller coaster?What happened to the cabin in the woods?
The three Zhou Man who were still in the warning area received orders from Shi Chahai and set out to investigate separately.
Shi Shahai tapped on the console in thought, "This situation is abnormal. Immediately monitor the spiritual pollution index and magnetic field fluctuations in the underground river."
The observer did so, and replied: "The underground river is normal."
Shi Shahai: "Monitor the underground reservoir."
The observer hesitated for a moment. After all, the underground reservoir is the main body of the Four Seas Cave. The real fourth-level restricted area, even if it is monitored, there is a risk of losing control at any time. Moreover, data monitoring can only be carried out on the periphery, and no one has been able to go deep into the center of the reservoir for the time being.
After about 10 minutes of data monitoring, analysis and speculation, the observer suddenly looked serious: "Director."
Shi Shahai looked over.
The observer looked panicked: "Unusual fluctuations have been detected in the underground reservoir, and the possibility of a third outbreak of mental pollution cannot be ruled out!"
The spiritual pollution of the underground reservoir can be called terrifying. It will destroy the spirit and sanity of creatures within a radius of [-] meters, and produce various cannibalistic foreign objects, with completely uncontrollable consequences.
"Step up the platoon control, the second team and the third team entered the dense forest respectively, and escorted the eliminated candidates out of the Four Seas Cave safely. All the examiners gathered in the underground river to protect the eleven candidates to leave quickly!"
"Yes."
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