Chapter 220 Chapter 220 Heavy Fog
"Dad, there's a monster! There's a monster trying to catch me!"
"Dad is coming! He's holding a knife. Xiaoyu, run home quickly."
A cry of extreme fear spread throughout the community, and thick octopus tentacles were faintly visible in the hazy white mist.
He Junxia woke up from the bed instantly.
He hurriedly got up and left the bedroom and knocked loudly on the bedroom where the wisher's son and daughter-in-law were.
"Bang, bang, bang"
"Kangping, Shuhui, come out quickly, something happened outside."
"Dad, we're here."
The young couple in the bedroom had already been awakened by the panicked cries for help from outside. When they heard their father's words, they hurriedly put on their coats and got out of bed.
Zong Kangping and Zhang Shuhui came out each wrapped in a long down jacket, looking a little nervous and feeling uneasy.
The three of them hurried to the balcony and looked down, but their vision was obscured by a thick white fog. Not only was it difficult to find the person calling for help, but even seeing each other clearly was difficult.
“Dad—”
The cry for help suddenly stopped, and anyone could hear the fear and terror in the words.
A moment later, another voice called out, clearly looking for the girl who had called for help earlier.
"Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, where are you?"
"Xiaoyu, Daddy is here."
"Xiaoyu!"
The man kept calling his daughter's name, his voice gradually becoming hoarse, each call more panicked and desperate, but he never got any response.
The worst thing happened.
Zhang Shuhui's voice trembled. "That girl seems to be Xiao Zheng from Building 7. I remember she works in a kindergarten in the west of the city and gets up very early every day."
Zong Kangping swallowed his saliva and said, "Dad, did Mom tell me in the dream what big thing would happen?"
He Junxia: "She didn't say."
After all, this incident was just an excuse for his reasonable behavior.
The man downstairs continued to call out, his voice hoarse like the roar of a wild beast, carrying the most desperate pain of a father, making it unbearable to listen.
"Let's go back. It's too foggy here." He Junxia closed the balcony door and said, "Please ask the company for leave and don't go to work today."
"No, I have five classes today."
Zong Kangping is an elementary school mathematics teacher. Although he is not the class teacher, he is responsible for four classes, and the teaching task is not easy.
Zhang Shuhui held her husband back and said, "Listen to Dad. It's so dangerous out there. What will happen to our family if you encounter a monster?"
Zong Kangping hesitated for a moment before saying, "Let me see what the teacher group says first."
“Ding ding ding…”
The three people's cell phones suddenly vibrated at the same time, making a beeping sound similar to that of medical equipment, and the phone screens flashed a red light indicating danger.
At the same time, a low but extremely penetrating ethereal alarm sounded in all directions, which was creepy, like a sign of the coming of hell.
"Mom, Mom."
"Mom, I'm so scared."
Zong Yipeng ran out of the bedroom holding his sister's hand, and the two children suddenly threw themselves into Zhang Shuhui's arms, crying with tears in their eyes.
To be precise, Zong Yipeng cried like a little crybaby.
Zhang Lingjia, the younger sister, was very calm. She rubbed Zhang Shuhui's face stickily and complained, "Mom, my brother is so noisy."
Zhang Shuhui burst out laughing. The two children's childish words briefly dispelled the haze that lingered in her heart.
"Dad, wife, look, the government has issued a notice asking everyone to stay home. There are unknown monsters that eat people hiding in the fog."
Zong Zong Kangping held up his phone. The screen displayed a text message from the Yue City government. Scrolling further, he saw messages awarding someone the title of Moral Model. It couldn't possibly be a prank.
"The school has also issued a notice of suspension of classes."
Zong Kangping sat heavily on the sofa, and the soft memory foam sofa suddenly sank, revealing an incredible arc.
He Junxia and Zhang Shuhui also sat down.
The little boy got up, stood on the sofa, stepped over Zhang Shuhui's legs and found He Junxia: "Grandpa, what are we going to eat in the morning? I'm hungry."
His words woke up the three adults in the room.
Zhang Shuhui was extremely thankful and said, "Dad, it's a good thing you bought so many things for home yesterday, otherwise we really don't know what to do."
Zong Kangping also hurriedly asked: "Dad, did you dream about my mother today? Did she say anything else?"
His worldview was turned upside down when he received text messages and sirens from the government.
What science?
Can science explain what is happening today, or do the things passed down by our ancestors make sense?
He Junxia glanced at Zong Kangping and said, "You didn't listen to the old man's advice, and now you're suffering. You don't even believe it, and you still want your mother to pass on the news to you?"
Zong Kangping smiled awkwardly: "I believe it, I believe it, why wouldn't I believe it, Dad, from now on, I will do whatever you say, without hesitation.
He Junxia sighed: "Your mother only came that one time, told me the news, and then left. She said that people below can't get involved in things above, and if they are found out, they will go to jail."
"Do you still have to eat prison food in the underworld?"
Zong Kangping is a little hard to understand. To put it bluntly, it is too immoral to let someone go to jail after he has become a ghost.
He Junxia glared: "Why, you wish your mother would go to jail?"
Zong Kangping waved his hands repeatedly: "No, Dad, I don't think so, what are you talking about."
Zhang Lingjia stepped forward and pulled Zong Kangping away, smiling and saying, "Dad, Kangping didn't mean that. He just doesn't think before he speaks."
Zong Kangping pecked at the rice like a chicken: "Yes, yes, I didn't mean anything else, I just said it casually."
He Junxia snorted.
Zhang Shuhui smiled and said, "Dad, what do you want to eat in the morning, or do you want the same thing as before?"
Zong Yipeng jumped up and raised his hand: "Mom, I want to eat noodles. I can have two fried eggs."
He Junxia: "There's no rush to eat. Call your in-laws and tell them to be careful and not go out."
Zhang Shuhui felt warm in her heart: "I've already told you, my parents and my brother and sister-in-law all know."
He Juanxia nodded: "Then let's eat below."
Zhang Shuhui cooked a big pot of cabbage noodles and fried several eggs and luncheon meat as side dishes.
The shiny eggs and luncheon meat on the white dragon beard noodles, topped with green bok choy leaves, is a pretty good breakfast.
If it is sold outside, it will cost at least 15 yuan.
However, except for the two children who were ignorant of the world, the three adults in the family all had no appetite.
Zong Kangping and Zhang Shuhui sat on the sofa, each holding a mobile phone and constantly checking the trending searches, feeling extremely anxious.
Unfortunately, most netizens were similar to them. After hearing the sudden low and creepy alarm, they followed the government’s text message and stayed at home, completely unaware of the situation outside.
"Hey, honey, this anchor is going to live broadcast outdoors, let's go and take a look."
Zong Kangping put his phone in front of Zhang Shuhui. On the screen was a young man dressed as a lively guy talking nonsense in the bedroom.
"Some unknown man-eating monster? Their organs match, right? A bunch of..."
The spirited young man arrogantly raised his middle finger, filling the entire screen: "Hat fans, shout, shout again."
"Family members, please pay attention. If there's a great white shark, I, Monkey, will take you out to find the monster."
As the words fell, the screen stopped moving. A ferocious great white shark slowly emerged from the water, revealing its bloody maw to the audience in front of the screen.
The great white shark paused for a few seconds and then disappeared, and then many gifts such as starfish, shells, and clownfish floated across the screen.
"Thank you, Brother Hai. Thank you for the great white shark. Thank you, thank you!"
The male anchor who called himself Monkey jumped up and down in the room excitedly, even doing a somersault, really like a monkey.
"Family, if you haven't paid attention yet, please do so. Monkey will take you out to find the monster soon."
"What the hell are you spouting? You're calling me a monkey who cheated me out of gifts. Can't you see I'm putting on my shoes?"
"Why do you care how long I wear it?"
The male anchor, whose name is Monkey and whose body is like a monkey, talked a lot and finally got ready to go out with his mobile phone.
"I, Monkey, keep my word, Heizi..."
Monkey raised his middle finger towards the live broadcast room again, then opened the door and walked out.
"Look, my family, I'm out now. A lantern fish tells me which way to go, and a clownfish walks five meters."
"Interested families, come and play. The monkey will follow your instructions wherever it goes."
A lantern fish and a dozen clownfish suddenly flashed across the screen, and the monkey was overjoyed.
"Brother Hai is so generous. Brother Hai, which way do you want to go?"
"Walk eighty meters west. Okay, wait a minute, where is west? Can the family give us specific directions?"
Receiving the hint from the audience, the monkey walked towards the west, counting one every meter, and soon reached eighty meters.
Monkey looked at the live broadcast room that had already broken through the 100,000 mark and reached 150,000 people, and said smugly: "I told you there are no unknown monsters. They are just lying. If you haven't followed it yet, please follow it."
As an unknown little anchor, Monkey dreams of becoming famous and becoming a big anchor with girls around him.
He tried playing games, exploring restaurants, and eating shows, but his gaming skills were too poor, he couldn't eat much, and he couldn't retain an audience.
I only made a few hundred yuan a month from live streaming, and that was the support money the platform gave to newcomers. I couldn’t even pay the rent.
But from today on, everything is different.
He, Monkey, finally caught the opportunity and will become a big anchor on the Dayu platform with over 100,000 online viewers, hahahaha...
Let’s see if those female anchors dare to refuse to connect with him in the future!
The monkey was ecstatic, but he didn't know that the audience in the live broadcast room outside the screen were wide-eyed in horror.
[Anchor, run! ! ! !]
[Anchor, don't look back, run! ! ! !]
【!!!!!!】
[Holy crap, what the hell is that? It really is a monster!]
The audience in the live broadcast room suddenly changed their tone. Monkey frowned at first, then laughed out loud: "Family, do you really think Monkey was scared?"
"See what I have in my hand? Even the most skilled martial artist is still afraid of a kitchen knife. I'll kill every monster I come at."
The monkey waved the kitchen knife in his hand at the phone screen, looking fearless.
However, the comments in the live broadcast room were still filled with crazy exclamation marks and various quotes urging him to run away.
The monkey began to feel a little panicked.
Are there really monsters?
"Haha, stop scaring me. If there really is a monster, I won't eat it!"
Suddenly, a thick tentacle stretched out from the thick white fog and rolled up the monkey like pulling up an onion in dry land.
“Ahhhhhh—”
The monkey turned its head stiffly, and a tentacle with a spike on the tip poured water into its open mouth.
He held a cell phone in his left hand and a knife in his right hand. He slashed at the tentacles with the knife. The tentacles retracted in pain but came back again the next second.
"Family, please send some gifts. Click to watch the monkey fight the man-eating monster."
The host's voice asking for gifts came from the phone receiver. Zong Kangping was surprised: "He is really brave. He dared to fight a monster. That monster actually has tentacles."
Zhang Shuhui: "I'm not jealous of people like this making money. They deserve it."
He Junxia didn't say anything.
Judging from the number of tentacles and the outline of the monster emerging from the fog, this anchor is probably in great danger.
Unless he can hold on until the SWAT arrives.
However, given the current weather conditions, the ground is completely covered by fog, visibility is less than one meter, and the police cannot arrive in time even if they want to.
“Pah.”
"Ah, I was wrong, I was wrong, don't eat me——"
After a few dozen seconds, accompanied by the sound of a phone falling to the ground and the host's screams for help, the live broadcast screen went black.
“Mmmmm…”
There was a sound like struggling and strange sucking. Soon, the struggling sound disappeared, but the sucking sound continued for a long time.
"Batta"
A drop of cold sweat fell from Zong Kangping's forehead, and he was so scared that he almost threw his phone away.
Zong Kangping shuddered: "Was the anchor eaten by a monster?"
Zhang Shuhui didn't say anything, and He Junxia didn't answer either. The three of them had the answer in their hearts, a definite answer.
This live broadcast quickly topped the trending search list, with countless people heatedly discussing the types of monsters, and several experts even drew simple model outlines of the monsters.
Panic spread at an extremely fast speed. In addition to heated discussions to vent their anxiety and panic, most people expected the government to give an answer.
What exactly is a monster?
octopus?
But where inland areas can you find such a big octopus?
Amidst the panic and chaos, some conspiracy theories quietly surfaced, including but not limited to Cthulhu, experimental monsters, and the end of the world...
A group of people were arguing fiercely across the Internet, each claiming to be right. Their emotions were like lit firecrackers and they couldn't stop at all.
Amidst this heated discussion, it was twelve o'clock noon and there were sudden new changes in the outside world.
Zhang Shuhui looked out the window through the glass: "Honey, do you think the fog is getting thinner?"
Zong Kangping hesitated: "It seems a little bit."
He Junxia affirmed, "The fog is dissipating." The uncomfortable sticky feeling has been reduced a lot.
Another half an hour passed, and the fog outside had mostly dissipated. They could already clearly see the color of the flower pots on the security windows of the building opposite.
The two children were tired of playing with building blocks, so they stood on the sofa and imitated the adults, standing on tiptoe to peek out the window.
Zong Yipeng said excitedly: "Mom, mom, I saw two pieces of clothes on the ground."
Zhang Lingjia added softly, "There are still a lot of black hairs on the clothes."
Zhang Shuhui was frightened by the sudden sound and turned around suddenly, her chest heaving violently and her face full of fear.
She quickly picked up the two children from the sofa and said, "You are mistaken. There is no hair, just two pieces of clothes."
"Although you don't have to go to school today, the teacher has assigned you homework. Copy each new word you learned yesterday fifty times."
"Go do your homework!"
"Mom just makes us do our homework."
Zong Yipeng pouted and took his sister Zhang Lingjia back to the bedroom to do homework.
Little did they know that as soon as they closed the door, their mother Zhang Shuhui sat on the sofa with her hands covering her chest, still in shock, and their father's face looked extremely ugly.
Zhang Shuhui's voice trembled and choked a little: "What is that?"
Zong Kangping held her hand tightly, and the two of them gave each other warmth and strength.
"It's human skin that has been sucked clean."
He Junxia's expression was solemn.
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