Chapter 40: A Village With No Man
The relationship between us is really a bit strange. No one can do anything to each other. In fact, after getting along these few days, I feel that the old man is not a bad person, at least he is more caring for me, but if he wants to be my master, he still has to continue working hard.
At this moment, the old man had stopped, and I immediately walked a few steps up. The surrounding terrain still belonged to the hilly area. We were walking along the foot of a small hill, and we saw only barren mountains and barren mountains around us. After I stood beside the old man, my eyes suddenly became clear. A large open valley appeared in front of the left, and a small village was located in this valley. With the news of the village, there might be news that Qian Chuanzi was in the village. Maybe Qian Chuanzi was in the village. I felt excited and walked towards the direction of the village, but just after I took a step, the old man pulled him back.
"What are you doing!" I shouted in surprise, "Didn't you find something wrong with the village? You can't be reckless in anything. You must first see clearly and then think clearly, otherwise you won't know how you died." The old man's tone was extremely harsh. This was the first time he spoke to me in such a tone after he met him, which made me feel a little at a loss. He looked at the old man in surprise and turned his head to look at the village.
After watching for a few seconds, I found a trace of abnormality. It was morning, and it should be the busiest time of the day for the villagers, but there was no sign of a person in the village ahead and the nearby farmland, and even the sound of chickens and dogs could not be heard.
The scene in front of me was very similar to the village where I saw the living dead before. It was probably another tragedy of being slaughtered by monsters. But now it is daytime, there should be no danger when entering the village. I don’t know why the old man stopped me, so I asked in dissatisfaction, "Why don’t I let me enter the village?" "Aren’t you afraid of encountering monsters or living dead?" the old man asked back.
"Didn't you say that the yin energy on those things is very heavy, so do you like to come out at night?" "I just say that they like to come out at night, but I never said that they can only come out at night. There are some monsters that came here hundreds of years ago. If you can survive until now, you will have some adaptation to the environment here. It has not happened in the daytime village before." "You mean that the monsters in the village are still in the village?" "I don't know, but I just feel a bad feeling in my heart." "Hmph! Pretend to be a ghost", "If you are not afraid of death, you will go directly to the village", "I want me to explore the way for you, there is no way!" After that, I stood directly behind the old man. The old man ignored my shameless behavior, but focused on looking at the village for a while, and then walked towards the hillside next to me. I followed him.
The old man stopped after climbing to the top of the mountain and looked down at the entire village from a high place. The houses in the village were basically intact, and there was nothing unusual except for the inability to see people. After all, this place is a bit far from the village, so he can only see the whole picture but cannot see the details. So after watching for a while, the old man walked down the top of the mountain and walked around the hillside outside the village.
The architectural form of this village is exactly the same as before. There is a wall several meters high on the edge of the village to surround the entire village. However, when we walked to the back of the village, we found that there was a large gap in the wall.
Because the location of this gap is right behind a house, we couldn't see it when we stood on the top of the mountain just now, and we could only see it when we were around the back of the village.
When I saw the gap, I found that the stones in the gap were all undulating into the village. It was obvious that something had pushed down the wall from the outside. Although the wall here was not very high, it was at least four or five meters in visually, and it was built relatively sturdy. In order to defend against monsters, the villagers still put a lot of money. I couldn't imagine what could push such a wall. I guess even an elephant would be so tired that I vomited blood.
The old man stared at the gap and looked carefully for a while. Through the gap, he could see some incomplete corpses scattered on the ground in the village, as well as some minced meat and organs of various colors. Both the corpses and minced meat looked relatively new, and the blood stains sprinkled on the ground had not completely dried out. It seemed that this tragedy should have happened last night.
The strong smell of blood drifted over with the wind, making me feel like I wanted to vomit. I turned around and looked at the old man and found that he was frowning with an extremely solemn expression. "What should I do now? Do you want to go in and take a look?" I asked while pulling out the knife to give myself courage, "Don't go in, there should be no living people here, and I feel frightened, let's leave quickly." After that, the old man turned around and left and pulled me, signaling me to leave quickly.
Just as I turned around, a huge black shadow suddenly flashed out from the wall next to the gap. The black shadow was nearly three meters tall and covered with long black hair all over his body. The black hair in some places was dyed dark red by blood. It was twisted into a ball one by one. It looked very bloody, with a big head and covered with long hair. Only two small black bean-like eyes were exposed outside. It was impossible to see where the mouth and nose were. It could only be seen that its body shape and movement were like a bear, with its body upright, its feet on gravel, and in a few steps it broke out of the gap and rushed towards us.
"What is this?" I shouted subconsciously, and the old man turned his head and looked at it, shouting loudly, "It's a long-haired monster! Run!" The old man shouted that his feet had already started to speed up desperately, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed out several meters away. This ability to speed up was almost as fast as Ferrari.
At this moment, I also reacted, immediately threw away the bag on my shoulders and turned around and ran towards the mountain, and looked for rugged and difficult places. The long-haired monster was tall and strong, and its flexibility should be its weakness. Only by doing this can I have a chance to escape.
As expected, the long-haired monster rushed towards me at the beginning because the old man had already started to accelerate and I was still standing there. However, after chasing him for a few steps, he found that my escape route was difficult, so he turned around and chased after the old man.
This gave me a new understanding of the IQ of the Long Hair Monster. I didn't expect that this guy was quite smart. Just now, he must have been hiding in the wall next to the gap. He wanted to wait for us to go in, but immediately chased us out when he saw that we were about to leave. When he found that he had difficulty chasing me, he immediately changed his route to chase the old man. He knew how to wait for the rabbit and knew how to adapt to the situation. Such an IQ was already considered smart among ordinary people.
Soon, the old man discovered that his situation was very dangerous and immediately followed me to find rugged places to escape. However, the mountains here were relatively flat and there were only a few rugged places, so the routes of the two of us overlapped together without running far.
"Why did you come to me?" I ran away and shouted, "Nonsense! Can I run through it in a flat place?" The old man replied indifferently, "Don't you know the 'Status of Concentration'? Why don't you just give it?" "My 'Status of Concentration' is OK for ordinary people, and it can only be fixed for more than ten seconds. I guess I can't even hold it for a second when dealing with a strong big guy like the long-haired monster." "Old liar, do you still have the truth in your mouth?" I shouted angrily.
"Isn't your 'Dragon Slaying Sword' made of ten thousand years of cold iron. Can you take the head of a person within a hundred steps? Cut it?" the old man shouted at me, "That's to scare you. This is actually an ordinary iron knife, which doesn't even have a hundred years of cold iron." I shook the knife in my hand as I said.
"You don't even tell me the truth. Who is the liar?" the old man shouted angrily, then felt unhappy, so he added, "You are the one who deceives your master and destroys your ancestors!" "You are not my master yet!" I fought back without showing any weakness.
Since we couldn't fight, we had to escape with all our hearts, but we underestimated the toughness of the long-haired monster. Although it could not catch up for the time being, its physical strength was much better than ours. Until we were so tired that we couldn't breathe, it had nothing to do.
If it works harder at this time, it will definitely catch up, but it did not do so. It feels like chasing behind it, like a cat chasing a mouse, as if it has to wait until it has enough fun before catching it.
"This guy is playing tricks on us!" I said angrily, "What can you do?" The old man didn't care at all, "Fight with it!" I shouted angrily. In fact, the reason why I wanted to "fight" was second, and the most important thing was that I was so tired that I couldn't run anymore.
"I have backbone! I support you, you will turn around and chop it now." "Where are you?" "I will go to the top of the mountain opposite to cover you." "You think beautiful!" I looked at the old man, but I was not really angry, because the old man is in much better condition than me now. If he really wants to escape, he can throw me away immediately.
In this situation, he didn't have to outperform the long-haired monster. As long as he could outperform me, he could survive, but he didn't do that. He kept by my side during the entire escape process, even half a step behind me, which made me feel a little grateful and respect.
Just as we were talking, the long-haired monster behind us seemed to have played enough. After a few steps, a strong smell of blood surged into my nostrils. Now I finally understood why I smelled such a strong smell when I was standing in the gap in the wall just now, not only because of the large blood on the ground, but also because the long-haired monster was hiding next to the gap.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!