There are levels of fear.

If you are alone in an alley at night and encounter a perverted murderer who is chasing you with a knife, any normal person would feel scared at this moment.

Unless there is something to rely on.

What is even more terrifying than this is encountering things beyond your cognition, such as terrifying ghosts and monsters.

Because people will have a premonition that something terrible is going to happen, they know they are no match for their opponent, and they know they might die.

This is where the fear comes from.

But there is a fear that goes beyond both of these.

That is, in cognition, familiar things suddenly become unfamiliar. Strictly speaking, this is a subversion of cognition, which is a kind of unknown horror.

This is the kind of fear that Zhang Yang is experiencing now.

The person who was most familiar to him now had a ferocious look on his face and was chasing him and his son with a sharp knife.

It's crazy!

Zhang Yang could only escape for his life.

Not even wearing slippers.

On weekdays, Zhang Yang knew his familiar wife was so virtuous, gentle and considerate. At this moment, he could feel how strong the fear brought about by this reversal was.

There was also a hint of anger in the fear.

Who turned his wife into this? Or, this familiar-looking but hideous woman was not his wife, Xiaofen, at all.

If so, where was his wife, alive or dead?

At this moment, Zhang Yang felt numb all over and he could feel his heart beating very fast. What he was more afraid of was that his son Tu Dou would be hurt.

He would rather die than let anything happen to his son.

The horrific incident at home obviously frightened the four-year-old Potato.

At this time, the child was crying loudly in his father's arms.

Zhang Yang ran out barefoot.

Suddenly, he felt someone grabbing his clothes.

When he looked back, he saw his wife with a gloomy face and a weird smile grabbing him.

Then he stabbed with a knife.

Zhang Yang reached out to block it in a hurry, but the knife pierced his palm directly.

The severe pain shocked Zhang Yang, because in extreme tension and fear, he didn't even shout, but pushed his wife away with force.

Keep running.

My son Potato was so scared that he kept crying.

There was blood all over the ground.

Finally running to the door, Zhang Yang opened the door despite the severe pain, but his hands were covered in blood and were so slippery that he failed to open the door lock several times.

There was a strange laugh behind me.

His wife Xiaofen came over with a knife.

Snap!

Finally the door opened.

Zhang Yang stumbled out.

He knew very well that there were four households on this floor, two of which were uninhabited and one was occupied by an elderly couple, but they should have already taken the light rail train to the safe zone by now.

But even so, Zhang Yang still shouted for help at the top of his lungs.

He hoped for a miracle.

Until now, he had no idea what happened.

I took a look at the elevator first.

One is on the first floor and the other is on the fifteenth floor.

And he is on the ninth floor here.

I pressed the elevator button, but the elevator didn't come. The person who looked like my wife had already arrived, so I couldn't take the elevator.

Take the fire escape stairs.

Zhang Yang ran towards the stairs holding the child, but at the same time, "Xiao Fen" also rushed over with a knife and stabbed Zhang Yang in the back.

Suddenly, the door of a house next door that should have been unoccupied suddenly opened, and several people rushed over and pressed Xiaofen to the ground.

These men were obviously trained and had professional-level fighting skills. Xiaofen wanted to resist, but was stabbed in the blink of an eye.

Being held down tightly.

"The target suddenly attacked and killed people. Action has been taken to control them urgently."

One of them preached into the intercom.

"Someone is injured, call the paramedics up."

Zhang Yang was slumped on the ground at this moment, looking at these people with horror. His mind was blank and he just held his son tightly, as if his son was his only hope now.

"It's okay. We are from the Security Bureau's action team. You are injured. Don't move. A doctor will be here soon."

The team leader came over to comfort them.

Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly. Suddenly he remembered something and looked at his wife who was struggling on the ground.

“She, she…”

He wanted to ask something, but didn't know how.

At this time, 'Xiaofen' on the ground suddenly stopped struggling.

At this time, she still had a weird smile on her face and stared at Zhang Yang.

"Honey, I will come back to find you, wait for me."

After saying this, he let out a creepy laugh, then tilted his head and stopped moving.

Escape into a nightmare world.

In a corridor that was much gloomier than the real world, 'Xiao Fen' climbed up from the ground.

Quickly enter the fire escape stairs and climb down.

right.

She wasn't walking, she was crawling.

Because it climbs faster.

Outside, Xiaofen was still very cautious, and she scanned the surroundings.

At this time, she found that there was a person walking slowly towards her in the alley in front of her.

'Xiao Fen' crouched down and stared at the man.

She remembered.

This was the man she had seen on the street during the day.

There was an aura emanating from the other person, very strong and dangerous.

"run!"

'Xiao Fen' is very confident in her own speed. No matter how powerful the opponent is, it is useless if he can't catch up with her.

Immediately, she fled in one direction.

In the dim environment, a shadow always followed Xiaofen, but she didn't notice it at all.

We passed through many streets and alleys and finally stopped at a place with a sign saying "Sanhe Butcher Shop".

The vigilant Xiaofen looked around and made sure that no one was following her. Then she stood up and walked into the dim butcher shop.

The butcher shop is obviously projected from the real world.

After pushing the door open, the floor was covered in dirty black dirt, the kind that looked like it had been greasy for years and couldn't be cleaned no matter how hard you tried.

Inside there was a table with a chopping board on it, and on top of that there were seven or eight iron hooks of different sizes, on which were hung rotten and smelly strips of meat.

This is also projected.

Because they are contaminated by the dark matter of the nightmare world, the meat rots faster.

Black flies lay on the strips of meat, sucking greedily.

'Xiao Fen' was obviously very familiar with this place. She didn't waste time here, but walked in. In the refrigerator she passed by, there were cut meat and some steaks.

Maybe because it was frozen, it didn't spoil.

If you look closely, you can see that there seems to be something hidden under the frozen meat in the freezer. It is a human hand, which is frozen purple.

Perhaps there is a human body frozen in this freezer.

Xiaofen lifted the dirty leather curtain in front, walked to the back, stood in front of an iron door, and knocked on the door repeatedly.

With a creaking sound.

The door opened.

A gloomy face appeared.

The other party looked at Xiaofen, opened the iron gate, and let the woman in.

Then the iron gate closed.

Inside the iron door was a relatively large space with several candles lit. The faint flames provided some light, but were not enough to illuminate the entire room.

In the dim environment, you can see that there are already several people in the room.

These people were of different ages and genders, but they all looked weird, with gloomy faces, like expressionless puppets.

Some of them are simply mannequins, without facial features but with just the outline of a person, indicating that no target to copy has been found yet.

Xiaofen walked to the side and saw several other dummies eating. She couldn't help but walk to an iron basin and picked up a bloody paw from it.

Then he squatted aside and started chewing.

Nightmares need to eat too.

The golems are a kind of weird nightmare that is very close to humans, and they are weird creatures that are copied with the goal of replicating living people, so their food is also humans.

This is their favorite.

In the following time, some dummies knocked on the door and came in one after another. Soon, forty or fifty dummies gathered in this place.

Among them, half are in their most primitive state, without facial features, like the mannequins in the window of a clothing store.

Because they don't replicate the appearance of humans, these dummies don't even have mouths.

Without a mouth, there is no way to eat.

They can only endure the horrible feeling of hunger, and no dummy is willing to continue to endure this pain, so this is a driving force for the dummy to find a living person to replicate.

Finally, a middle-aged man wearing glasses walked in.

At this moment, all the dummies in the room stood up.

Because the one who came in was their leader.

This butcher shop belongs to the leader, and the leader uses various resources and means to find and collect the dummies outside to form the current organization.

In addition to the middle-aged man with glasses, there were several other people of the same kind who were dressed in extraordinary clothes following him.

Obviously, they are all core members of this fake organization.

After the leader arrived, the meeting began.

Dummies also hold meetings.

Experiences and lessons learned will be summarized, and then the next course of action will be discussed and formulated.

These are all learned from humans.

Xiaofen over there immediately took a few steps forward.

"yes."

"Tell me what happened exactly." The leader's tone was calm, but there was a hint of danger in his eyes.

For a fake person who has been successfully cloned and has an identity in human society, the most taboo thing is to expose his identity.

Because that might expose them all.

According to their rules, exposed members are not allowed to come to the base again.

But Xiaofen still came.

This is breaking the rules.

Xiaofen behaved very honestly in front of the leader, and was even a little timid at this time.

She explained the situation.

"Don't worry, leader. I'm very careful and no one is following me." Xiaofen made the assurance.

What the leader cared about was what the other person said, the person who saw through her identity at a glance.

"You mean, today on the street, you and that person just met by chance, and he glanced at you, and you felt that you were exposed?" the leader asked with narrowed eyes.

Xiaofen shuddered.

She hurried to explain.

"Even though he only took a quick look, I'm sure he knows my background. The aura on that person is very special, and it even feels very similar to ours."

"I understand!" The leader said with a gloomy face, "So, you couldn't bear it anymore, exposed your identity, attacked your family, and finally got caught by the security bureau."

"Yes, but those people from the Security Bureau were stupid. They didn't even set up defenses in the nightmare, so I was able to escape easily." Xiaofen was quite proud at this moment.

"idiot!"

The leader finally couldn't help but curse at this time.

"They were able to set up defenses at your doorstep in the first place, how could they forget the defenses in the nightmare? Damn you, idiot!"

After saying that, he waved his hand.

Xiaofen immediately felt creepy.

It could see that the leader wanted to kill it.

"I……"

Just as it was about to explain, a dummy next to it suddenly covered its mouth, and then a knife stabbed into its body from the side.

Then came the second and the third.

The dummies around were all holding knives, and at this moment, they were stabbing Xiaofen with knives.

The latter struggled twice, fell to the ground, and twitched. The facial features disappeared and he returned to the original appearance of the mannequin. After that, he melted into a pool of wax water.

"This is what happens when you break the rules. You all remember this. If anyone behaves like it again, this will be the outcome." After the leader said this, he immediately asked all the dummies to leave.

"Leave immediately, we can't stay here anymore."

The iron gate was opened and a dummy walked out first, but soon came back.

The chief was about to ask what happened, but he saw that the dummy was being strangled by a hand and was being pushed back forcibly.

Soon, a man walked in from outside, twisted his hand, broke the dummy's neck, then slowly turned around, closed the iron door, and locked it.

The dummies in this big house felt extremely strange at this moment.

If it's a group of people, they think it's normal and may even be scared.

But the other party was alone, and although he had great strength and broke the security dummy's neck in one go, he was still alone after all.

This person ran in, isn't it looking for death? But the other person looked like he was surrounding all of them, so it felt weird.

Because it was so weird, all the dummies in the room remained silent.

Like a mute.

Of course, they also sensed the strange aura from this person.

It's that feeling of being at loggerheads with them.

The leader among the dummies reacted very quickly.

It remembered what Xiaofen had just said.

I know who this person is.

"Are you the person Xiaofen met today?" asked the leader.

Until now, it is not particularly panicked.

Generally, people who are not panicked are confident, and the source of confidence ultimately comes from strength.

In other words, the leader of this group of dummies is very powerful.

At least that's what it thinks.

"Yes, it's me!"

The man who locked the door said with a smile.

Of course, this person is Lin Mo.

He had set up a trap for Xiaofen before, and the other party cooperated and got in.

Followed by a ghost, we found this place.

In fact, Lin Mo could have done it earlier, but he was greedy because he wanted to catch a few big fish in this net.

If Lin Mo hadn't seen this group of dummies and realized something was wrong and wanted to run away, he wouldn't have shown up.

"How many people are outside?" the leader asked with narrowed eyes. He thought that since the other party dared to come, they must have been well prepared. He estimated that the butcher shop had been surrounded by experts from the Security Bureau.

This is definitely not a good thing.

But the leader was not afraid.

This room actually has a tunnel leading out.

So no matter how many ambushes there are outside, it doesn't matter to it.

It had already made up its mind to kill the man and then immediately evacuate from the tunnel.

"There's no one outside!" Lin Mo looked at the leader, his expression seemed to be very surprised why the other party asked such a stupid question.

The leader sneered and said nothing more.

To it, it makes no difference whether there are people outside or not.

"Kill him!"

The leader stared at Lin Mo for a while and immediately gave the order.

There are fifty or sixty dummies here, and there is only one on the other side. According to its estimation, this battle will not take more than five seconds.

By then, this person would probably be dismembered and eaten clean by the dummies.

The dummies around immediately pounced on him.

The battle is over.

More than a dozen dummies fell to the ground. At some point, ghost shadows appeared on the ground. Ghost hands stretched out from these shadows and killed the dozen dummies.

The whole process was incredibly fast.

The leader didn't react.

Lin Mo shook his head repeatedly and said, "You disappoint me so much."

"I thought you were a big fish, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid. Don't you think about it? If I don't have any skills, would I dare to come in alone?"

The leader was confused.

The other dummies didn't dare to move.

This situation is a bit strange.

In the past, they always scared other living people like this, why is it the other way around this time?

At this moment, there was a sudden banging sound from the other side.

After hearing this, Lin Mo slapped his forehead.

“I forgot.”

After that, he ran over quickly, saying as he ran: "Sorry, Doudou, Dad forgot to let you out for a walk."

There was a cardboard box in the corner over there, I don't know when it appeared.

The chief is very familiar with this place.

It is certain that there were no cardboard boxes in that place originally.

It's so weird.

Then, the dummies, including the leader, saw the man open the box and take out a child from it.

That child looks really strange.

It's similar to a purple sweet potato.

very funny.

But none of the dummies dared to laugh.

Because the breath of this child was so terrifying that it suffocated them.

"Dad, Doudou wants candy!" The child can still talk and ask for candy.

"Yes, here, I just bought this." Lin Mo took out a candy from his pocket and handed it to Doudou, then reached out and pushed back the tooth ghost that wanted to jump out of the cardboard box.

"Just don't come out and cause trouble."

Tooth Ghost was not very happy, but he did not insist.

Lin Mo walked over with Dou Dou, and then walked in front of the leader.

All the dummies along the road got out of the way.

Some were even so scared that they faced the wall.

The leader also wanted to face the wall, but Lin Mo did not give him this opportunity.

"Please help me look after the child for a while!"

Lin Mo didn't say anything and stuffed Doudou's little hand into the leader's hand.

At this moment, the leader felt his scalp tingling and his whole body was numb. He looked down and saw Doudou smiling at him.

Lin Mo began to interrogate.

Ask one by one.

If someone doesn't know the clues of the other dummies, the ghost will immediately break the other person's neck.

If anyone knew clues about other dummies, Lin Mo would carefully take out a small notebook and write them down. Of course, for the sake of reward, Lin Mo did not kill these dummies.

There were also those who wanted to take advantage of the situation and fabricate lies to deceive others, but under the guidance of Lin Mo's bewitching curse, they all confessed.

The outcome is even worse.

After a while, there were only seven or eight dummies left standing in the room.

The others are all dead.

Finally, the leader was left. Lin Mo walked over and said, "If you can't provide some valuable clues, I will kill you even if you help me look after the child."

With a thud, the leader fell to his knees.

"There is a larger gathering place for dummies in Qianlong City. It's nearby. I can take you there!"

(End of this chapter)