Lu Ban couldn't help but glance at Trist beside him.
The policeman was staring out the window, wondering what he was thinking about.
The blood on his body had long dried up, and he looked tired and decadent.
Lu Ban remembered the figure he had just seen in the room on the second floor of the hotel. It was undoubtedly Trist.
But the other party just stared at him without any movement.
If that was Drizzt, then who was next to him now?
Lu Ban recalled that when Trist described his experiences, many parts were extremely vague and hard to believe.
For example, whose blood was on Drizzt's body, his gun and bullets were missing, and why did Drizzt just lie on the ground after being attacked without receiving any other treatment.
In other words, Lu Ban began to suspect that the Tristana beside him might be a fake.
To Lu Ban, this is a relatively false world. Everything may just be his illusion or a dream created by the "Man of Darkness".
Therefore, the emergence of a fake Tristram is not completely impossible.
But what is the other party’s purpose?
If the purpose was just to hurt Lu Ban, then the fake Trist would have done it long ago. There would be no need to put on so much drama.
Lu Ban looked forward through the car window. The thin mist gradually dissipated as the altitude increased. The moonlight illuminated the road ahead. The old villa was brightly lit, guiding the direction.
No one in the car spoke, as if they were relying on silence to calm themselves down.
Lu Ban began to sort out his current experiences and future goals.
It was obvious that there were supernatural things on this island. It was likely that the cultists wanted to summon evil gods and communicate with those indescribable great beings in exchange for power. It was unknown whether their rituals succeeded or failed, but in any case, it brought about the previous thick fog.
Lu Ban now has two choices. The first is to find the leader of the cultists and the place where they hold the ceremony. Then, he can help these cultists to summon the evil god and use that unknown evil god to fight against this illusion and find a way to escape.
Another option is to thwart the cultists' conspiracy, escape unscathed, and then find an opportunity to study how many extraordinary powers there are in this world.
The former choice obviously involves taking a risk. In this world, Lu Ban does not have such a strong resistance to pollution. If he really goes along with the cultists, the simple response from that great being might drive Lu Ban and those cultists crazy on the spot, and before returning to reality, they would turn into a mass of rotten meat without self-awareness.
The latter option would take a much longer time. Extraordinary events were something that could only be encountered by chance, and Lu Ban could not guarantee that he would encounter one again in the future. It was possible that he had spent decades in this fantasy world and still might not be able to encounter similar events.
He decided to observe Drizzt's condition first. If this was Drizzt in disguise, then he must have certain demands.
When the car passed through the gate, Lu Ban discovered that the security guard who was originally guarding the security booth was nowhere to be found. He stopped at the door of the sentry post, rolled down the window, and took a look inside.
The lights in the security booth were on and the air conditioner was running normally, as if the security guard on duty inside had slacked off or gone to the toilet.
They waited for two minutes. It was quiet and there was no one around.
Lu Ban killed a mosquito that came close to him, and his palms were covered in blood.
Rolling up the car window, he took out a tissue from the armrest box next to the driver's seat and wiped it.
“I don’t know where the person has gone.”
Xia continued to drive forward. Although the road was bright, it gave people an eerie feeling. The headlights illuminated the road ahead, which was somewhat monotonous and boring.
Suddenly, something seemed to rush out from the side of the road.
The white shadow tried to pass by the car, but its speed was not enough and it was hit directly by Xia. The huge impact force made the thing fly out and disappear from the range of the car lights.
Xia hurriedly stepped on the brakes, she was a little nervous.
"Was that a person just now?"
She looked forward, but apart from the area illuminated by the car lights, there were only hazy shadows everywhere else and she couldn't see clearly.
"It should be just a small animal, a rabbit or something."
Lu Ban thought of the classic Australian joke again. There were no native rabbits on the islands of Australia, but some kind-hearted people brought them in by boat and released them into the wild. As a result, the rabbits had no natural enemies and became a disaster. In just a few years, their population multiplied to tens of billions.
There is probably no rabbits on this island. If we bring a few pairs of rabbits here, after a few years, rabbit meat might even be cheaper than fish.
"I don't think so. It's too heavy."
Xia gripped the steering wheel tightly, started the car again, and moved forward slowly, while speaking.
"You testify, I was not drunk, nor was I speeding, that thing hit me on its own."
Drizzt leaned over and looked around, trying to find the object that had just been knocked away.
Lu Ban looked at the area illuminated by the light. The rough surface was bumpy and unchanging until... a hand appeared under the light.
The pale hand looked like a sweater washed with bleach, with a disgusting grainy feel. Xia immediately slowed down, and the low beam headlights quickly captured the entire picture of the thing.
It was a humanoid creature.
Its body size is only that of an eight or nine-year-old child. It is completely white, and its skin is as rough as a pilled carpet. It has six arms, and its legs seem to have degenerated to the length of its arms. The whole person looks like a giant spider.
Its head is round and most of its facial features cannot be seen clearly. Only the top of its head has many holes like a honeycomb, which makes it look quiet and scary in the dim light.
"What's this……"
Even Xia couldn't hide the panic on her face after seeing such a strange thing with her own eyes.
It’s like, although cockroaches are very common, and students in the south have seen countless large cockroaches, but if you hear noises in the kitchen when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and run over to turn on the light and find a cockroach as big as a husky, no matter who you are, you will immediately learn Spider-Man’s wall-climbing skills.
This thing completely exceeds human imagination, as if there really are gods in this world, and this god's aesthetic taste is extremely bad. In an ignorant and dark age, such an existence is enough to be called "blasphemy."
Even after more than a decade of education and witnessing the bizarre imaginations of patients with various mental illnesses, Xia still believed that the thing in front of her should not exist in this world.
For a moment, there was no sound in the car, even the sound of breathing became faint.
"Should we get off the car and take a look?"
Lu Ban suggested. He could hear Trist beside him swallowing and feeling a little nervous.
"…There's a flashlight in the back seat. I'll go take a look."
Xia said as Lu Ban handed her the flashlight, opened the car door, turned on the flashlight, and walked towards the motionless "creature" on the ground.