When he saw the other person, Lu Ban felt a chill in his spine.

The hairs on his back suddenly stood up and goose bumps appeared. A strange feeling of broken reality enveloped him, just like the night at this moment, cold to the bone.

The figure was pitch black, as if shrouded in black fog or wrapped in seaweed. His eyes had vertical pupils and were dark red like blood. Lu Ban did not see his other facial features, only his two hands, which were grabbing at the window. Those hands were not human hands, but more like a collection of tentacles. The wriggling tentacles grabbed the windowsill and kept wriggling, as if containing the world's deepest malice.

After looking at each other for a moment, Lu Ban's body moved naturally. He shouted from his throat and pushed open the window at the same time.

Bang——

The guy was completely frightened by Lu Ban's behavior, and fell from the windowsill as if he wanted to escape.

"Someone come!"

Lu Ban also shouted at this time. He saw the guy falling from the second floor and hitting the ground with a thud. It scattered like a puddle of mud, but under Lu Ban's gaze, the thing quickly gathered together, wriggling like a caterpillar, and fled into the darkness.

"What's wrong?"

Xia poked her head out and saw Lu Ban open the window and shouting something.

"I saw that one, the man in the water."

Lu Ban said simply. He tried to capture the direction the other party left, but the villa was surrounded by lush woods and he could not see clearly under the moonlight. He could only remember a general direction. He looked in that direction and found that it was a residential settlement at the foot of the mountain and the port was nearby.

"Did you see that?"

Xia peeked over Lu Ban's shoulder, but could only see the night.

"He ran into the woods. I'm going to check it out. He might have wandered into a residential area."

Lu Ban answered, he turned around and saw Amber and Hongye looking out of the door of his room. He didn't know what was going on. Hongye found it a little funny, thinking that Lu Ban was timid and was frightened.

Thump thump thump——

There was a sound of footsteps, Xiaya and Lu Ban saw that it was Trist, followed by Zou Changyu.

"what happens?"

Drizzt asked with some caution.

"The man we talked about in the water this afternoon, I saw him appear on the windowsill just now."

After hearing Lu Ban's words, both Trist and the villa's owner, Zou Changyu, found it a little unbelievable.

"A thief?"

Zou Changyu immediately took out his cell phone and started calling the police, while also calling security.

"Search the yard thoroughly, and search the hill again tomorrow morning."

His expression looked a little ugly. After all, his own child had also died at the hands of a thief, and now he might have encountered one again. He felt extremely indignant.

"I saw him heading towards the islander's town. Let's go over there and take a look."

Lu Ban said, and glanced at Amber and Hongye at the door again.

"You two stay here, preferably in one room, and don't move around."

He ordered.

At this time, Hongye and Amber realized the seriousness of the matter. They nodded and retreated back into the house.

"That's not human."

Lu Ban whispered to Xia and Trist.

"I saw him fall from the second floor and turned into a puddle of mud, but he was not dead. I looked into his eyes and he did not look like a human being."

He thought of the mud monsters he often dealt with in foreign lands, but the two were somewhat different. To be honest, this was more like the most primitive and basic one.

Trist had a serious expression. Although he did not believe in monsters, after witnessing the impact of the jade pendant, he knew very well that the inside story involved in this case must be beyond his imagination.

"Maybe they are people who have mutated after being exposed to radiation."

Xia guessed that this was the most common sense explanation based on her cognition.

"By the way, where's the jade pendant?"

Seeing that Trist was not holding a box in his hands, Lu Ban asked.

"I'll go check it out."

He said a few words to Zou Changyu and left with a security guard. After a while, Trist went upstairs.

“Still.”

He placed the jade pendant in the safe in the basement of the villa, together with some antiques that Zou Changyu had collected. Just now, Trist confirmed that the box was still there.

"Well, the three of us will go to the town and ask. Mr. Zou, please strengthen the security around the villa. There are no boats leaving the island at night, so the suspicious person will not be able to escape."

Trist said to Zou Changyu, and the old man nodded.

The three of them packed up their things, borrowed a car, and quickly drove down the mountain, following a road with dense vegetation on both sides and arriving at the town.

It is now ten o'clock in the evening. Most of the shops on the island, except for the bars, are closed. Only the dim lights on the second floor are still on, and there are still some human presence.

Lu Ban got out of the car and looked back at the villa on the mountain. It was indeed very conspicuous, like a castle.

He wasn't sure if the man was hiding in the woods, jumping into the sea, or hiding in this town.

The bustling scene during the day disappeared, and now this place looked like a dilapidated town in some horror game, shrouded in a light sea fog. The street lights flickered in the haze, leaving dim shadows.

“It’s a bit quiet.”

Trist said that he could only hear some noise coming from the bar, but there was not even the sound of the television in the residents' homes.

He came to the door of the bar. The bar, which was originally filled with noise, suddenly became quiet when Trist approached.

In the silence so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, Drizzt arrived at the door of the bar. Behind the sliding door, it was as dead silent as a grave.

Drizzt glanced at the door of the bar, which could be pushed open with just a little effort.

But some kind of creepy premonition made Trist stop his hand on the door.

The old, mottled wooden door looked like it was poured with cement at this moment, and Trist couldn't make up his mind to push it open no matter what.

He felt as if behind this door, there was a group of strange and ferocious people leaning against the door and listening attentively. Once Trist made any move, danger would come swarming in.

Thinking of this, Trist's desire to survive made him retract his hand.

"What's wrong?"

Xia, who was looking into the alley, noticed what Drizzt was doing and asked.

Drizzt turned his head with a slightly stiff neck. He swallowed, straightened up, and slowly, without looking back, walked towards Xia's direction with light steps.

Just as he passed the street lamp and stepped on the shadow in the mist, Trist clearly heard that the originally quiet bar behind him suddenly became noisy again, as if nothing had happened.

“There’s something wrong with this bar.”

Drizzt gestured.

In other words, this town becomes a little weird after nightfall.

Trist couldn't describe this feeling, but he remembered that in the first few years after he started working, he once encountered an operation to capture a murderer. At that time, at midnight, he was holding a gun and chasing the criminal into a bamboo forest. After he got separated from his colleagues, he had the same feeling under the silent moonlight.

It felt dangerous and strange, as if a vicious criminal would emerge from the darkness and pounce on him at any moment.

Trist remembered that at that time, his whole body was tense and any slight movement would cause mental disturbances. It was not until he heard shouting in the distance that he finally came to his senses and his clothes were all wet.

Creepy.

"Anyone there?"

However, at this moment, Lu Ban walked straight to the door of the bar and pushed it open.