When the Wei family member heard me say that the thing hiding in the bushes was watching us, he immediately ripped off his gas mask and picked up a handful of grass, wrapping it around the hilt of his knife to prevent it from slipping out of his hand after getting stained with blood: "Mr. Duan, whatever comes out of there, I'll carry it. You go first!"

"Now is not the time to talk about that. We didn't come in here to die. We need to find a way out!"

Hearing the sounds coming from the bushes on my left, I quickened my pace of cutting the grass: "Before that thing gets close, let's find a way to leave this area. Once there are no more obstacles blocking our view, it will be easier to move forward or backward."

"good!"

When the Wei family members heard what I said, they picked up their machetes again and began harvesting the grass in front of them.

As we moved forward, that voice, exactly like mine, remained parallel to us. No matter how we moved, the voice was like a leech, constantly repeating the three words "Wei Shengnan" on our left, making us feel both annoyed and terrified.

The sound was like a death knell, forcing me and the Wei family members to speed up the grass cutting.

Just five or six meters ahead, the voice suddenly appeared directly in front of us.

This situation caused both me and the Wei family members to pause for a moment.

Hearing the commotion ahead, the Wei family members looked forward with complicated expressions: "Mr. Duan, we..."

I listened to the sound ahead, turned around and started cutting the grass on my right: "Avoid it!"

After we moved forward four or five meters, the voice suddenly appeared in front of us again.

Then, we changed direction again, and the sound continued to appear ahead.

Annoyed by the noise, the Wei family members' anger overcame their fear, and they roared at the front, "Damn it! You're haunting me! Stop playing tricks and get out here!"

"Stop shouting! If this thing could be scared by a few words, it would have run away long ago. Why would it keep bothering us for so long?"

Hearing the sounds coming from the bushes ahead, I drew the Two Realms Sword from its holster at my waist: "Since it's not giving us a way out, let's not hide! Let's move forward and see who this is!"

"Let's do it!"

The Wei family members were also enraged. Now that we were ready to go directly to find the source of the sound, we no longer needed to cut grass to determine the direction.

"Splash!"

After deciding to find the source of the sound, the two of us pushed aside the bushes in front of us and started walking briskly forward.

Strangely enough, when we were searching for that sound, it was always some distance away from us, like the moon's reflection in water—visible but unattainable.

As I and the Wei family members approached, the voice became clearer and clearer.

I know that whatever the source of this sound may be, it is no longer hiding from us.

Whatever it is, I am about to face it, and I must face it, in order to walk out of this thicket.

"Wei Shengnan!"

"Wei Shengnan!"

"...!"

The sounds from the bushes grew closer and closer, soon becoming as if someone was speaking right next to my ear.

I followed the sound for two more steps, then suddenly parted the bushes.

Right in front of me, a long-haired woman was squatting. Her hair was like a veil, covering her body. As her shoulders swayed, three words were uttered: "Wei Shengnan!"

Upon seeing the woman, the Wei family members demanded sharply, "Who are you? Why are you putting on this act?"

Then, the woman lowered her head and said something in a voice exactly like that of the Wei family members: "Who are you?"

The Wei family member reached out and grabbed the woman's shoulder: "Damn it, you're still pretending with me!"

"Don't move!"

I grabbed the Wei family member's arm: "Don't touch her!"

After stopping the Wei family members, I walked around the woman and stood directly in front of her.

The woman's long hair, like a melon-shaped cap, not only covered her back but also her face.

I saw her squatting on the ground, and pointed the knife at her forehead: "Raise your head!"

The woman remained crouched on the ground, her shoulders trembling slightly, and asked in the voice of a member of the Wei family, "Who are you?"

Seeing that she couldn't understand me at all, I slightly extended the tip of the knife forward and parted her hair.

This is a face full of wrinkles, giving the impression of a hairless cat. Under the illumination of fluorescent plants, more than a dozen eyes appear densely packed on her wrinkled face.

Instead of long, narrow eyes like humans, they had round, protruding eyeballs, and their chins were stained with blood.

I brushed aside the hair of this inhuman creature, and it raised its head, staring intently at me with a dozen or so eyes. It opened its mouth, revealing two rows of sharp, pointed teeth: "Who are you!"

Seeing the creature's extremely ugly face and the bits of flesh hanging from its teeth, I understood that the blood in the open area must be related to this thing.

Before I could even make a move, the monster suddenly let out a strange cry and pounced on me.

I saw its movement and stabbed it in the neck with my knife. But the thing seemed to have springs in its feet, and it suddenly sprang up from the spot, jumping two meters high and landing in the grass some distance away. Its movement was many times faster than mine.

"run!"

As soon as I saw the monster's speed, I knew it was going to be tough to deal with, so I led the Wei family members and ran in another direction.

"Splash splash splash!"

As we ran, there was a constant rustling in the bushes to our side. Then the monster charged out from our side, knocking down the Wei family member with its immense strength, and crawled two or three meters through the bushes.

Seeing the Wei family member being pounced on by the monster, I rushed forward and slashed at the monster's back.

With one slash, I severed the hair on the back of this monster.

After losing the cover of hair, the skin on the monster's back was also exposed.

Like its cheeks, it was full of wrinkles, and the wrinkles were covered with a layer of hard black hair, which looked like stubble.

My powerful strike just now only grazed its skin, but the pain caused the monster to scream and jump off the Wei family member.

The moment the two sides made contact, several bloody holes appeared in the chests of the Wei family members, likely caused by the monster's claws.

I grabbed the Wei family member's wrist and helped him up. Taking advantage of the monster's escape, I continued to run wildly backward.