Chapter 287 Chapter 287

"What? Where is this?" Flynn walked to the wooden sign at the entrance of the town in astonishment, but no matter how hard he stared, the letters on it would not suddenly change to the town of 'Silbon'.

"We are in the wrong place." Paul held his package tightly and moved towards the car. "Friends, I think we need to leave here. Something is wrong."

Flynn snorted and looked at Tony. "We weren't right when we got here by mistake. Hey, man, what the hell is going on? I've been following you."

Tony didn't understand, so he looked at his girlfriend: "Sarah?"

Sarah was also confused: "I followed the navigation on my phone, I..." She wanted to check her phone, but found the screen was black and she couldn't turn it on no matter how hard she pressed it. Then she remembered that her phone was out of battery.

"My phone is out of battery." Sarah shook her head and looked at Jenny.

Jenny sighed, took out her phone and opened the map: "Wait, I'll check... I found out that our location is indeed Semiril, not Selbon. However, Semiril is near Selbon, only about fifty miles away. Maybe we went the wrong direction at a fork in the road."

"Well, that's not too bad," Flynn shrugged, getting back in the car. "It's only an hour's drive."

"Yes, the weather is clear too." Sarah smiled awkwardly.

It must be because of the lag in the phone's software. Sarah remembered the constantly drifting coordinates. It couldn't be entirely her fault. It was because of the thunderstorm.

Fortunately, the problem was not serious and we soon arrived at the town of Dasirbang, where we lay on the soft bed and drank hot coffee.

"Jenny's the navigator, follow me this time!" Flynn shouted from the car window.

Tony: “OK!!”

The two cars started again and left the town of Semeril.

In the car behind us, the co-driver Sarah looked through the rearview mirror at the distant town of Semillir and suddenly said, "Why are all the doors of the houses in this town closed?"

"Maybe there's no one here, that's normal." Tony turned the steering wheel and said casually, "There's no money, young people have moved away, it's not uncommon for towns to become deserted."

Sarah hummed, resting her elbow on the car window, recalling what she had seen in Semeril.

"Not long after we moved, I saw a small coffee shop with no dust on the tables outside."

"oh."

"They must have left in a hurry. I saw some new flyers on a shelf outside a store."

"Sarah, I don't care about that," Tony interrupted her. "I don't want to delve into it. If you're interested, you can investigate it later and edit it into news and publish it on your gossip website."

"Okay, let's change the subject." Sarah smiled. "How about that bag you gave me for my birthday that was so tasteless and made my roommates laugh for the whole day?"

"Ha... well, you can continue discussing the town relocation."

Sarah laughed out loud: "Nothing, I'm not complaining, Tony."

She played with her long golden hair with her fingers, and for some reason she felt uneasy.

Leaving the town and entering the jungle, the scenery outside the car window remained unchanged, all dense trees. Sarah closed her eyes, and just as she was about to take a nap, the car suddenly braked, her body leaned forward, and was pulled back by the seat belt.

"What's wrong?" Sarah woke up.

"Flynn braked suddenly." Tony cursed, "He almost hit me. I'll go check it out."

He got out of the car and walked to Flynn's car. Just as he was about to curse, he saw a tree standing in the middle of the road.

This tree looks so familiar.

Wait, they also encountered this during the previous rainstorm, right? Looking at the direction of the tree crown and roots, they should have been on the other side of the tree during the rainstorm, but now, they are on this side of the tree.

"What the hell." Flynn also got out of the car. "What's going on?"

"Did we take the wrong road?" The fat boy Paul also got off the car and said in panic.

"We didn't go the wrong way! There were no forks along the way. We went straight!" Flynn emphasized again, "Go straight!"

Jenny stared at the screen of her mobile phone. "There is no problem with the navigation. We are indeed going straight out of the town of Semeril. Could it be that during the previous thunderstorm, a tree fell here?"

"No, it's that tree." Tony leaned over to observe the trunk, his finger pointing at the charred marks on it, "Exactly the same."

"But... we were blocked by a tree before, and we had to change the road and take several forks before we got to the town. How can we go back..." Flynn was confused.

Jenny also stared at the tree blankly. Suddenly, she thought of something and hurriedly opened the weird live broadcast software and clicked on the map.

Then her heart turned cold, her fingers trembled constantly, and her voice trembled: "Guys, we are in trouble. This place... is a restricted area."

"What restricted area?" Sarah saw everyone gathered in front and got out of the car to check the situation. She heard Jenny's words and asked in confusion.

Jenny took a deep breath and calmed herself down. "It means it's scary and weird. Don't get close."

Flynn: "How strong?"

"If it's A, then there's more than one, or there's one but it's S-level." Jenny said, "It could also be that there are both S and A. The restricted area is the highest danger level."

She checks weird live streaming software every day, often browses weird posts, and is very familiar with the various warning signs on the weird live streaming map.

Fatty Paul almost fainted on the spot.

"I won't stay here anymore, let's go home!" Paul shouted miserably.

"How do we get there?" Flynn shouted, pointing at the fallen tree. "Tell me, how do we get there?"

There are towns and mountains behind, and forests on both sides. There is only one neat road in the middle, and the road is blocked by tree trunks that can hug two people. Unless you abandon the car and run? Do you know how far it is from the nearest gas station? It takes two days to walk to a place that takes one or two hours to drive.

"Saw down the tree. Do you have a knife?" Flynn said through gritted teeth.

He was also scared when he thought that there might be A-level or even S-level monsters here.

"How about a fruit knife?" Sarah asked.

She went to the trunk and took out a fruit knife. It was a small and cute one, with a blade no longer than a finger, and it folded for easy carrying.

If it were in the wild, it would be enough to cut fruits and vegetables, but why would it be used to saw down a tree so thick that it took two people to hug it?

"I can bite it faster than it can with my teeth!" Flynn cursed angrily.

"Back in town, there are shops there, and there must be saws," Jenny said. "It won't take more than thirty minutes to drive back, so we can be back quickly."

What to do if the door is locked? Smash the windows.

This little problem is nothing.

This proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone. Even Paul, who was the most fearful, knew that this was the only way at the moment.

“Do we need two cars?” Paul said, “We are just going to get some tools. One car is enough. Two cars will waste more gas.”

"Who's going then?" Tony asked.

Several people looked at each other, and finally Tony sighed: "Okay, I'll go by myself."

Sarah: “Tony?”

"Honey, wait here." Tony comforted his girlfriend, "I'll be back soon."

"I'll go with you." Flynn threw his car keys to Jenny, "If we're not back in an hour..."

"Just call the police. No, we have to go to the Serko Cult for help." Sarah's eyes lit up and she looked at Jenny.

Jenny took out her cell phone and said, "Actually... I've had no signal since just now."

And just when she wanted to make a call, the signal was immediately cut off. The timing was so clever that it was like something was watching them from behind. It was creepy.

In order not to frighten Paul and Sarah, she decided not to tell them about this for the time being.

Sarah looked disappointed.

Tony drove away with Flynn, leaving only Paul, a man, and two women, Sarah and Jenny.

Paul, trembling, said hello to the two girls and went back to the car. Only the closed car could give him a sense of security.

"I advise you to get back in the car," Paul said to them, "If we encounter something strange, the car can still resist it. At least we can drive away."

Sarah and Jenny thought what he said was right, so they got in the car, and Jenny took the initiative to sit in the driver's seat.

"I hope we can get back safely." Sarah whispered.

*

Tony drove smoothly back to the town center. There was no one in the town anyway, so he parked the car in front of the supermarket, got out, looked around for stones, and started smashing the windows.

The glass was very strong and it took several hits with a stone to create a crack.

"Get out of the way!" Flynn shouted, then swung the stick he picked up from the corner and smashed the glass completely, shattering it all over the floor.

"That's right," Flynn said loudly, his chin raised.

Tony used a stone to knock off the sharp glass on the edge and climbed in using the window as support. The ground was in a mess and most of the supermarket shelves were empty, with only snacks and worthless cards left. The two searched the shelves but couldn't find a saw.

"Not even an axe," Flynn scolded.

"It looks like they moved temporarily and only took away the valuables," Tony said.

Flynn nodded. He saw a bag of potato chips that was about to expire. He tore it open and poured the food directly into his mouth, throwing the empty bag on the ground.

"We should look for other houses," Tony said. "Someone must have abandoned their axe or saw here because they no longer needed it."

"Yeah." Tony took two packets of cookies and put them into his pocket.

Anyway, they were discarded by their owners and hadn't expired yet, so he just took them.

I just came out of the store and saw a strange young man outside the house in front of me. He was wearing a uniform that was easy to move in, with daggers on his thighs and waist and a backpack on his back. He looked like he was training for wilderness survival.

The man also saw Tony and Flynn, and walked over with a frown: "Hey, who are you?"

He saw the car parked outside: "Tourists here? You are crazy, didn't you check the map on Weird Live before you left? This is a restricted area."

"If it's a restricted area, why are you here?" Tony asked back.

The young man put one hand on his waist and said proudly, "Because I am a priest who has received the oracle and I am here to carry out my mission."