"elder brother?"

Hearing Dong Zheng's voice, Dong Linhai, who was hiding in the corner with a shovel raised high and ready to hit someone's head at any time, poked his head out.

Seeing that it was indeed Dong Zheng, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I thought it was someone else. Have the zombies been dealt with?"

"Arabidopsis is over there." Dong Zheng didn't say much. He continued to squat down and check the ranger's pocket, and took out a box of matches and a pack of cigarettes. There were only three sticks left in the cigarette box. The tobacco had become sticky due to time.

It became a ball and could no longer be sucked.

"Can rangers smoke?" Linhai asked.

"It should be possible in non-smoking areas." Dong Zheng put the cigarette back and tried to strike a match. It still worked, so he threw the matchbox into his bag.

Here, Linhai also began to search the house. As soon as he came in from the back door, he heard the slight sound of a window being opened. He quickly grabbed the shovel and prepared to beat the enemy, but he didn't have time to take a closer look.

Dong Zheng took out a palm-sized work manual from the ranger's breast pocket. The manual was a hard-cover notebook with brittle paper. It was written in Spanish. Dong Zheng studied Spanish in college.

, I can understand some of it, and I can even guess the meaning of the rest easily.

It probably means that the ranger found an unconscious man while patrolling the forest one day, and he kindly took the man back to take care of him. The man was a young man who called himself a bard. He got lost in the forest and was hungry and thirsty.

He just fainted. When he left, the young man gave the pendant on his flute to the caregiver as a thank you, and left playing an unknown tune.

From then on, strange things seemed to happen one after another in the forest. During a certain forest patrol, a ranger's dog ran away to play and never came back. One night, the captive chickens and ducks all climbed over the fence and headed southeast.

Fang Fei fled, and the sound of the flute was faint.

What was even more strange was that he discovered a cellar in the yard. There seemed to be something howling under the bottomless stairs, the content of which was unknown.

The ranger did not dare to go down to take a look. He decided to go outside the forest and call others.

Dong Zheng turned to the next page. There should be the last diary entry on it, but it was covered by a large amount of blood.

The remaining half of the book was completely blank, and the two pages on the back also recorded the expenses for purchasing daily necessities. The final outcome was obvious. The ranger was killed here before he could get out.

Dong Zheng put the notebook into his bag, turned around and didn't see Dong Linhai, and shouted: "Linhai?"

"Here it is!" Dong Linhai's voice came from the direction of the backyard, "Brother, I found a cellar!"

Dong Zheng went over immediately. The structure of the hut was very simple, with four rooms including a living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Dogs, chickens and ducks were kept in the front yard. The backyard was used to grow vegetables and was already full of grass. There was a pressure pump in the middle.

well.

The cellar that suddenly appeared was in the southeast corner. The door was open, and Dong Linhai was squatting next to it, holding up a lantern and trying to use the light to look inside.

"I saw it as soon as I entered the yard." Linhai raised his head and asked, "Want to go in and take a look?"

"I just got the log from the ranger. It said that this cellar suddenly appeared in his yard. The stairs could not be seen to the end. There seemed to be something howling underneath, and he was strangled to death." Dong Zhengfeng said.

Yun Dan repeated it again and asked, "Do you still want to see it now?"

Linhai:…………………………………………

Linhai: "No, I definitely have to go down and look at it. The more I say this, the more it proves that there will be clues below."

Dong Zheng: "Yeah, I'm just giving you a vaccination. If you encounter something strange, don't react too much."

Dong Linhai looked at the cellar entrance again, and his back started to feel a little rough. He was just an 18-year-old boy. He had just finished the college entrance examination and had not been around for a few days, so he came here with Dong Zheng. The previous novice level was not difficult.

, he followed Dong Zheng and passed in a daze, without getting much exercise at all.

To be honest, I'm a little scared.

Linhai sighed, "Brother, why didn't I realize you were so bad before?"

"If I don't remind you, if something happens to you if you go down unprepared, you will think I'm even worse." Dong Zheng struck a match and put it in. Seeing that it burned quietly, he initially determined the oxygen content inside.

No problem, he took the lantern from Linhai's hand and said, "Follow me."

The two of them stepped onto the stairs and walked deeper into the cellar. It was not too dry here. There were traces of moss on the corners of the walls. The stairs were a little sticky to the soles of the shoes, but Linhai didn't want to know why. The lantern illuminated a small set of stairs in front of him.

, and the darkness diagonally below seems to be endless, and there is a strange fishy sweetness in the air, which makes me want to vomit if I smell it too much.

The stairs are very narrow, almost as wide as a single bed in the dormitory. The walls on both sides give people a sense of suffocation. Dong Linhai can only talk to cover up his nervousness: "What is this smell?"

"have no idea."

Falling into silence again, Linhai swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but move closer to Dong Zheng. The twenty-six-year-old Dong Zheng was taller than Linhai, who was still growing. His back was solid and reliable, and his wound was

There were faint traces of blood on the gauze, which looked painful, but I didn't seem to care.

Dong Zheng noticed his brother's nervousness, looked back at him and said, "Don't be afraid."

Linhai held on and said, "I'm not afraid."

Dong Zheng hummed and stopped talking.

Linhai wants to cry but has no tears. It's really annoying, sir. Why don't you say more? Don't he feel terrible?

Fortunately, the stairs have reached the end. After walking down the last step, the view immediately becomes much wider. They are in a quite large "room" with not many furnishings. There is a chair in the center with a broken leg. It is slightly crooked, but it is still there.

Able to stand firm.

There were two kerosene lamps and a parchment book on the wooden table. Dong Zheng glanced at it a few times. He could recognize the Latin text, but could not understand the content. There was a huge double door against the wall.

There was a lot of dust and cobwebs on the cabinet.

There is a small space carved out on the other wall. There is nothing else in it except a bed covered with straw and a wooden barrel for excretion. It is surrounded by iron railings. It is obviously a prison. But there are several iron rods.

It has been deformed, revealing a big hole, as if the person inside has torn the cage apart from the middle.

The strange smell came from inside. Dong Zheng was not interested in finding the source of the smell and asked Linhai: "The door of the cellar was open when you first discovered it, right? The things closed inside have escaped. Maybe the ranger

That's what killed him."

Dong Linhai said "Ah?" "Does that mean there won't be any danger here for the time being?"

"Not necessarily, let's search and see if there are any useful clues or props." As he spoke, Dong Zheng once again turned his attention to the parchment on the table, and his intuition told him that this time it was a key prop.

Dong Zheng lit a lamp with a match and began to study the content carefully, trying to find something he could understand, while Linhai carried a lantern and searched everywhere.

After he got into the cell, he dismantled the bed and found a double-barreled hunting rifle in the gap between the bed boards. He moved the dung bucket and found two boxes of large-caliber hunting rifle bullets underneath.

I pulled out a box of medicines fixed there with tape from somewhere I didn't know where to look.

All in all, within five minutes, Dong Linhai didn't even miss the mouse holes, he searched all the places he could search, and he really gained a lot.

It was indeed a key location, but so many supplies... always gave him a bad feeling, just like playing a horror game, where there must be supplies before the battle.

When you come out of the cellar, you will probably encounter enemies or something.

Linhai thought and turned his attention to the only closet that he had not yet searched. He held the lamp in one hand and opened the closet with the other.

Dust was everywhere, and Linhai subconsciously held his breath. The dust interfered with his vision in the dim light, but the next second, he could still clearly see the bandaged body in the closet. It was so shriveled that it looked like it had been exposed to the scorching sun and cold wind for dozens of times.

Nian's dark eyes were facing him, and his mouth was grinning to both sides, like a sinister and evil smile.

Dong Linhai's eyes suddenly widened in horror, and he was about to scream, but the moment before the voice came out, the mummy rushed up at lightning speed, and grabbed his neck with both hands like iron pincers, silencing all the sounds.

In the chest!

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Dong Linhai smelled the sweet stench from the mummy's mouth. The bones wrapped in its shriveled skin were tightening in his trachea. The tall and strong boy tried his best to break the hands, but he couldn't let them loosen at all. He quickly suffocated.

His face turned red.

He remembered that Dong Zheng had said that the ranger was strangled to death.

elder brother!

Dong Zheng, who was looking at the parchment with his back to him, was completely unaware of all this. He frowned and made patterns on the table that looked like formations with his fingers.

The strong sense of suffocation made Dong Linhai's eyes turn black. The weird and evil smile of the mummy was right in front of him. His hands were no longer able to use the strength, and his cervical vertebrae made dangerous clicking sounds, as if they would break in the next second.

……elder brother!!

Are you going to die?

The bloodshot eyeballs made Linhai unable to see. He suddenly felt that his body became lighter, just like when he and his family were on a small island in the Maldives, blowing the sea breeze and drinking coconut milk. Yes, he should have let go.

How did you end up in this weird place while running on the beach?

It's all a dream, just wake up and you'll be fine.

"Bang--!"

A loud sound seemed to be in the horizon and in front of his ears. The hand that was holding his skeleton finally released. The burning sensation of air rushing into his lungs again made Dong Linhai unable to help but burst into tears. He held his painful throat as if to

He couldn't help coughing as if his lungs were being blown out. He took two steps back and hit the wall. His eyes were dim and he could vaguely hear Dong Zheng shouting:

"Go up!"

Linhai barely found the direction of the stairs and ran up the stairs, while Dong Zheng picked up the kerosene lamp and hit the corpse on the back of the head with all his strength, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and thrust it into its mouth!

The dagger penetrated the zombie's entire brainstem, but it was still able to move and wanted to strangle Dong Zheng's neck.

Dong Zheng punched the exposed handle of the dagger. When the zombie was forced to tilt its head back, he raised his foot and kicked it in the abdomen. He took the opportunity to turn around and run away.

Dong Linhai almost collapsed when he climbed up into the cellar. He staggered for two more steps and finally lay down on his back on the grass. He had never felt that breathing was such a painful and happy thing. It was painful, but

And truly told him that he was still alive.

Dong Zheng ran out after him, and the zombies behind him seemed to be chasing after him. He struggled to lift the cellar door, trying to close the thing inside. But the cellar door was much heavier than he thought, Dong Zheng
To be continued...