Chapter 71

As this man spoke, many small black lumps appeared on his body, making him look like a huge black human-shaped toad.

Some people couldn't help vomiting, some raised their phones to take pictures, and some started whispering to their friends, as if they wouldn't be noticed if they said a few more words.

A gust of wind blew by, and everyone could smell the odor coming from the dying man. It was a very strange smell, and no one could tell what it was for a moment. So, they could only stare at the man as he walked forward, walked to the wall, and bumped into it. There was a bang, and the man suddenly turned into a black pulp.

Someone shouted, "I know! This is the smell of black sesame rice paste with lots of sugar. This is the smell. When I was at home, someone would often tear open the bag and make this black sesame sugar paste which emits a strong smell when adding water!"

As he spoke, he began to vomit. Perhaps he had smelled it too many times in the past and now he couldn't stand the smell anymore.

Someone else shouted, "It's clearly the smell of black cuttlefish and cuttlefish roe mixed into a paste. That's it. I can't remember it wrongly. I only ate it once on the way here. When I passed by a restaurant by the sea, the smell inside was the same. It's said that it lingered for several months and didn't dissipate. Some people even said it was related to the sea god."

"The big red octopus was cooked with a lemon flavor. I couldn't chew it or swallow it. I knew it was this! It tasted terrible! It tasted terrible!"

The crowd started to quarrel.

The originally tense and solemn atmosphere was somewhat eased.

Just when the people watching the live broadcast were about to smile knowingly and thought that the matter was almost over, a loud rumbling noise was heard, and the mountain began to shake rapidly.

The mountains and plains were covered with fallen leaves and rolling stones. Fortunately, the stones here were only small stones, otherwise, some people standing on the road would be directly crushed to death and would not have the chance to see the end of the matter.

The sky was cloudier than before.

The ground was also more blurry than before, as if there was a thick layer of dust.

People shouted, grabbed, and pulled each other, trying to get higher, to a safe place.

"Oh my God, why did I suffer such misfortune?"

"I haven't eaten enough, I haven't gone home yet, I don't want to die like this, wuwuwu——"

"A bunch of trash, a bunch of weak cowards, a bunch of sick-brained things, why am I here? How could I die here? How could I possibly be mixed up with such garbage! What on earth am I doing? Ahhh——"

When everyone was shouting in panic, the shaking of the mountain suddenly stopped, just like a person shaking his head and suddenly heard the cry of a group of rabbits, so he stopped his movements out of curiosity and panic.

[No way? It looks like this is for real.]

[It's as if what was said before was not true. Could it be that what so many people saw was fake? Of course it's impossible! ]

[Please, everyone, please wake up. We are not playing a game now. People are really going to die. Isn't this a very scary thing? ]

[No matter how scary it is, it's just that. Anyway, we are not there now, so what are we afraid of? If we are afraid now, what will we do in the future? Will we not live? Will we just die like this? Well, you can die now and I won't go. I won't care about you and I can't control you. You can go right now and I will clap my hands and cheer for you, okay?]

[In the final analysis, it's the same thing. If you are so scared that you can't live anymore, you might as well commit suicide now. If it hasn't come to that, then don't mention it. No one wants to know how you are suffering, and no one cares what you are going to do next. You can do whatever you want.]

The teacher said to the students, "Let's get to the top of the mountain quickly. It may be safer there than here."

One student shouted in panic: "I don't care, I want to go home, I don't want to play with you, you go by yourselves!"

As he spoke, he rushed towards the cliff, fell down and died.

Some people were still screaming, but gradually black spots began to grow on people's bodies, with wriggling worm-like bumps underneath. It looked extremely scary and uncomfortable, and even the people watching the live broadcast were affected, feeling like they were about to vomit.

This is not a happy experience.

【What's going on? 】

What happened?

[What are the police doing? Do they have to wait until the incident is over before they show up? By that time, everything will be over, so what do we need the police for? Are we doing this just to watch others clean up the mess and collect the bodies? Everyone knows that’s not the case!]

[Someone I know is still in there. It's so scary. I hope this won't happen to me.]

Some people have turned into a black mass of mud, emitting the odor of a stinking sewer.

Some people became like turtles, lying on the ground, crawling on all fours, unable to turn over, with gurgling sounds in their throats, and trying to swallow something.

Finally, at this moment, someone suddenly seemed to react and shouted, "Go to the top of the mountain! Jump into the well of the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, and we will find the medicine to cure this condition halfway up the mountain! The panacea is not fake! Everyone, don't lose heart! If you give up like this, you will get nothing, and things will only get worse. We have to save ourselves!"

Some people were persuaded and went up.

Zhong Ren and Paradise blended in with them, not conspicuous at all and not standing out at all.

When the crowd arrived at the gate of the so-called Taoist temple, they suddenly discovered that the temple seemed to have grown out of thin air, very strange. Half of it was charred black due to fire, and the charred part fell off bit by bit from mid-air, revealing a part underneath that was full of cracks and dust, which looked even stranger. The other half was brand new, as if something that had never appeared before was suddenly thrown out to see the light of day.

“Is this the Taoist temple we are looking for?”

“Isn’t this thing too weird?”

"Strange? Even if it's not strange, we're going to go inside anyway, so we might as well let it be a little strange. Think about it, if this thing is ordinary, doesn't it prove that what the man said was false or that he was deceived by others and also deceived us? Or, it's not the end for us to walk here alive, and we have to walk around inside to find what we want. Isn't that even more troublesome?"

A group of people chattered for a while, nodded, and continued to rush in.

Some people disappeared as soon as they opened the door, while others walked slowly behind and were squeezed by the crowd and stuck to the door, as if the new door gods had suddenly turned into something like a flat piece of paper.

Some people were screaming, some were crying, some were taking advantage of the crowded crowd to secretly beat their children, it was a mess everywhere, and it felt a little more chaotic than before.

The previous chaos seemed like an accidental misunderstanding, but the current chaos is more like a last-ditch carnival after making a mistake and being surrounded by the police.

I don’t know who was shouting “good” behind me, and the scene became a little more chaotic.

Zhong Ren and Le Yuan walked hand in hand at the end of the crowd and entered the Taoist temple. However, there was no trace of them in the live broadcast, as if they did not exist here at all, or perhaps they were not the living people needed for the live broadcast.

A group of people appeared in the courtyard of the Taoist temple. There was a nice well here, but the well mouth was narrow and the well was almost dry. There was not much water in the well. If you jump in from here, you will either fall to death or die of fright. In any case, you can't drown, and it is impossible to get medicine from the so-called mountain from here.

Someone couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "I'm here to ask for directions, but what good things can there be in a place like this? I'm not going to do it anymore! If you want to go down there, go by yourselves. I won't accompany you! Even if you get down there, you won't get the medicine. How can it be that easy?"

As he spoke, he rushed to the door of the next room which had been opened at some point, and disappeared in an instant, as if he had been snatched away by a spider that suddenly appeared.

The scene was very quiet, with people standing around the wellhead as if in silence.

Jongin asked, "What are we going to do next? Just sit there in a daze like we are now?"

The people around him looked at him when they heard the voice, frowning in confusion: "Who are you? I didn't see you before."

Jongin replied, "I came to the mountain to have fun."

He pulled Leyuan and said, "We are friends. We agreed to come here together at the beginning, but something happened and we got separated. So he arrived before me. It's normal that you didn't see me on the road, but you must have seen him on the road, right?"

Everyone's eyes fell on Le Yuan, looking at him suspiciously. Someone whispered, "I did see him on the road, but you said you were friends, and we don't know. What if you are some kind of monster or ghost that can confuse normal people's minds and make them think you are his friend? If we believe you, wouldn't we be hurting ourselves? Besides, you don't have any bumps on your body."

Jongin pulled Leyuan and said, "Neither of us has any pimples on our bodies. You know, it's a random thing, right? Even when we entered the door, not everyone had this problem. Is there anyone who doesn't know?"

This statement is somehow provocative.

No one answered, but everyone looked at each other and nodded, tacitly agreeing with what he said.

Jongin knew they didn't believe him yet, so he took Leyuan two steps forward and said, "I know you're worried, how about my friends and I testify for you?"

Someone asked, "What? What are you going to do?"

Jongin smiled and pulled Leyuan to the well. Leyuan took a look at the bottom of the well. It was filled with clear water at this time, and it looked like a mirror. Leyuan jumped in without hesitation, and Jongin followed closely behind: "Goodbye~"