73 Light Spot
◎Poor victims◎
Qi Qiuxue's words made everyone feel creepy.
The whole place was eerily silent, with only Xue Luo's voice ringing in their ears. In fact, everyone had already guessed it before Qi Qiuxue asked the question, but they didn't dare to think too deeply about it. When facing despair, deceiving one's own heart would make people feel much better.
Yes, if Dali had died a long time ago, then who was the person who had been talking to them? Or maybe that thing was not even a human, but an evil ghost or a monster.
“…”
This mountain is so weird, really so weird!
"I want to go home," Hanhan covered her face, mumbling helplessly in pain. In the freezing cold of Musoglu, she didn't even dare to cry. "But now we can't even go back the way we came."
"Who knows what's down there? If we go down rashly, we'll definitely die, end up like Dali!" Her voice was filled with despair, the dilemma crushing her emotions. "Is there any chance we can escape? Will we all die here?"
"No." Sister Yang leaned over and hugged her, forcing herself to calm down and whispered, "We will be fine."
"Sister Yang, it will be completely dark in just over three hours." Shen Jia took a deep breath and stared ahead with the same fear and helplessness. Turning back was impossible. If everyone really wanted to survive, they could only try to change direction and walk again. "Let's go in the opposite direction again."
"Maybe it's not a ghost wall." She suppressed her fear and said, "Maybe we really just took the wrong road."
"Although we don't have much time left, as long as we work harder and speed up our pace, we can still get out of this area before dark. Maybe we can even find accommodation along the way."
That's all we can do.
Sister Yang sighed. It was better to take action than to do nothing and wait for death. In order to conserve their energy for the next three hours of journey, they couldn't even dig a hole on the spot to bury Dali properly.
"Please forgive us. We really have no other choice." Sister Yang said goodbye to Dali's body with a guilty conscience. "If you can get out alive this time, we will pay you a proper tribute."
"Let's go." She called everyone and they set off again in another direction.
As it got closer to nightfall, not only did the temperature drop, but the wind and snow seemed to get stronger.
Under the ravages of extreme weather, everyone's faces were frozen and painful, and their bodies became increasingly stiff due to fatigue and cold, but they did not dare to stop at all. In order to survive, they could only force themselves to move forward.
Strange rocks, dead trees... The scenery along the way seemed no different from before, but before seeing that familiar hillside, everyone could only desperately brainwash themselves, not to scare themselves, it was just similar, just similar...
Until they saw the hillside again, and Dali's body was still lying straight there.
Shen Jia widened his eyes and sat down on the ground in silence.
"It seems like we've really hit a wall." Liu Ge frowned, silently looking at Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing, "What should we do?"
"Logically speaking, there must be a way out of this situation." Qi Qiuxue looked around and said softly, "It's just that we haven't found it yet."
"It's getting dark soon." She looked up at the sky. The mountain would be even more dangerous after dark, so she had to find a place to stay as soon as possible.
But everyone has walked through this area twice, and such a place... does not exist at all.
While I was thinking, the sky gradually darkened.
As if waiting for the judgment of fate, none of the NPCs spoke again. Even Sister Yang was already close to despair. She stood there in a daze, not saying a word.
They had no food, no lights, no firewood, no shelter. They stood alone and helpless on the pitch-black hillside, quietly waiting for death.
After it became completely dark, Musoglu became even more eerie. The whistling wind was like the roar of a monster. The branches of the dead trees were blown by the wind, tearing at the darkness like fangs and claws, and dancing under the cover of night.
In situations of extreme fear and fatigue, hallucinations are inevitable. Not only those NPCs, but even Qi Qiuxue was invaded by hallucinations. It seemed that countless monsters were hiding in the darkness, rushing towards her rapidly in the direction of the wind, and then suddenly dissipating when they were infinitely close to her cheek.
"Don't come over here, don't come over here!" Some people in the crowd started talking nonsense.
"Axue, are you okay?" At the critical moment, Li Yiqing held Qi Qiuxue's hand tightly, "I'm right by your side, don't be afraid."
Her tone sounded reliable and serious.
Qi Qiuxue glanced sideways, but couldn't see her face clearly. However, through her imagination, she could picture in her mind what expression Li Yiqing might have at this moment.
"Don't worry." Qi Qiuxue spoke softly after a while. After going through three dungeons in a row, how could she be easily defeated by such a difficulty? "I'm fine."
As he finished speaking, something bright suddenly flashed through his peripheral vision.
Qi Qiuxue keenly caught the tiny light and reflexively looked in its direction.
"Did you see that?" she asked the other NPCs, trying to verify whether it was just an illusion. "There's light there."
"Indeed!" Xiao Liu was the first to react and quickly looked up. "What's that light? Is it a lamp? Could there be someone else here besides us?"
"Could it be that this person was the one who spoke at the foot of the hill?" He stood up excitedly. Even though he knew there might be danger ahead, he still instinctively walked towards the light. "Maybe we were too scared at the time and mistook him for a ghost."
"Hey!" As if sensing his approach, the light began to sway up and down. "Are you tourists too? What's going on? Are you in danger?"
"Would you like to go together?" the light spot said loudly, "Let's go together!"
"Okay, okay!" Xiao Liu nodded vigorously. Perhaps this traveler knew a way out. Perhaps he had found a place to stay with light and food. Xiao Liu turned around and called to the others, "Let's go!"
"Why don't we wait a little longer?" Sister Yang hesitated. "What if..."
"There's no such thing as a chance of that happening." Xiao Liu interrupted her and continued walking forward. "No matter what, it's better than waiting to die here."
"Let's go, let's go together." He encouraged more and more NPCs to follow his pace. Everyone finally regained hope in the darkness and headed towards the light.
Qi Qiuxue and the other two followed their footsteps. Perhaps following that beam of light was the only way to break the impasse, but somehow, she always felt something was wrong.
——How did the thing on the other side discover them when it was so dark that they could hardly see each other’s expressions when facing each other?
"Stop!" Qi Qiuxue reacted and tried to stop everyone, but at this moment, the NPCs didn't care about that at all. They blocked her voice and had already given up thinking.
Soon, the NPCs arrived at the place where the light was, but just when they were about to see each other's identity, the light suddenly went out.
Darkness came again, burying everyone for a short time. Then, countless points of light suddenly lit up around them, surrounding them layer by layer, twinkling like stars.
Those are eyes.
It is the light emitted by the eyes of animals.
"..." Qi Qiuxue held her breath and used the light to see the identity of the owner of the eyes. It was a mandrill. One huge mandrill after another stood on dead trees, in the weeds, and in the snow, staring motionlessly at the prey in front of them.
They are much larger than ordinary mandrills. Their brightly painted cheeks and striking red noses look particularly terrifying. They open their mouths wide, revealing sharp fangs and blood-red tongues.
Qi Qiuxue was surprised to find that they actually had a tongue very similar to that of humans. It was because of this that they could speak as clearly as humans.
"Come on." The voices of the mandrills rose and fell, like the low moans of evil spirits, making people tremble with fear.
"Don't you want to join us? Come on, and take a few more steps forward."
"Poor, distressed person, don't hesitate, I will definitely provide you with good assistance..."
【Author’s words】
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