Chapter 84
The weeping and plaintive wails echoed in the dark night, accompanied by the howling wind, making people's hair stand on end. The directors were frightened by the sound and their faces turned pale. The hunting dogs barked, finally waking up the others.
"Brother, what's that sound?" The little monk crawled out of the haystack, his lips trembling with fear. He raised his foot and wanted to step over Xia En and get close to Chu Huaiqin, but Xia En pushed him back with a palm.
"Xia En." The little monk was furious and glared at him.
"Stop it, I'm going to go check." Chu Huaiqin turned on the light on his watch and saw that Su Huaichen and Lin Zhinan had also gotten up. The former looked serious, the latter frightened. Chu Huaiqin patted Lin Zhinan's arm comfortingly and walked out, followed soon by Xia En.
The dark forest brightened as everyone woke up. Besides the headlights in the director's tent, several people from the camp also emerged, their watch lights on, illuminating the area like daylight. But except for their circle, the rest of the area was dark. The sound was impossible to discern, leaving everyone trapped, feeling trapped.
It felt suffocating and scary.
There were people standing in front of each wooden house, huddled together and looking around in fear.
"Mr. Chu," a shout broke the silence. Fuji Shinzhi from Japan trotted over and asked nervously, "Where did the sound come from? Can you tell me?"
Chu Huaiqin closed his eyes and listened, then shook his head. The sound was soft, yet it seemed to linger around his ears. It was loud, yet he couldn't grasp the direction it came from.
The Japanese broke the silence and asked the team that had been crowded in front of their wooden house to disperse. These people mainly gathered in two places, one was heading towards the Peacock Kingdom, and the other was heading towards Chu Huaiqin.
"I think it might be caused by the sea breeze blowing onto the rocks." Two people from the Sheep Country walked over to Chu Huaiqin with heavy expressions. Although he said this, his heart was beating fast.
"Bermuda is known as the 'Devil's Triangle' and the 'Sea of Death'. Could this sound be coming from those who are dead?" The voice of the camel team member suddenly appeared among the group of people. Everyone's expression froze and they looked at them, only to see that the man was already silently chanting Allah.
"Should we go and take a look?" the people from the Sheep Country suggested. The sound was too strange.
"No," Xia En immediately objected, "We can't even get out during the day, are we going to die at night?"
Everyone then remembered where they were trapped at the moment, and for a moment, they felt even more uneasy.
"Let's all go back to sleep!" Chu Huaiqin didn't understand what was going on for a moment, but it was already past midnight and he was tired after another day of work. "Good night."
Chu Huaiqin waved goodbye to everyone, but the camel team suddenly grabbed Chu Huaiqin and said cautiously: "Chu, I will sleep with you tonight!"
Chu Huaiqin: ...
"I have money," the camel team members said immediately when they saw Chu Huaiqin didn't say anything, "We also have coconuts, coconuts."
"Thank you," Xia Entang forcefully pulled the Sheep Nation's hand away and said coldly, "We also have plenty of coconuts and water. We're not short of anything."
Live broadcast room: Of course, you account for more than 70% of the supplies of the entire survival team. How could you be short of anything?
The people in the camel team were disappointed, but Fuji Shinzhi from Japan was a little envious. He also wanted to ask Chu Huaiqin if he could sleep with him. Among so many people, he always felt that Chu Huaiqin was the calmest and made people feel the most secure.
Seeing that the people from Japan and Sheep Country were looking at Chu Huaiqin, Xia En said with a cold face, "Go back to sleep, don't stay here."
"Aren't you afraid?" The people from the Sheep Team looked at Chu Huaiqin with a troubled look on their faces.
"This is the seaside, it might be caused by the sea breeze, nothing strange." Chu Huaiqin was calm.
Everyone was disappointed, as they thought he could say something!
Seeing Chu Huaiqin yawning, the group of people could no longer disturb Chu Huaiqin's sleep. Just as they were about to say goodbye to him, a scream came from a distance:
"Ah, snake!"
In the stillness of the night, the sound was clear. Everyone suddenly turned to look at the Peacock Team, only to see a snake being thrown to the ground. The snake was only the size of an index finger, about three inches long, with a triangular head and was poisonous.
"Ah! Snake, it's a snake."
Another scream came from Japan, and Fuji Shinzhi immediately ran back. Before anyone could figure out what was happening, more screams rang out, not only from snakes, but also from lizards.
Sensing something was amiss, the gathered group quickly ran back to their cabins. Snakes and lizards were discovered in every cabin, sometimes as many as three or four, sometimes as few as one or two. This strange phenomenon made everyone's scalp tingle.
"What's going on?"
The live broadcast room was also shocked.
"Oh my God, could it be that they were led into this terrible place by the devil?"
"Why do I feel like the weather is abnormal? Could it be an earthquake or tsunami?"
"No way! Although Bermuda has had many accidents, I've never heard of a tsunami!"
"Considering the sound that's still ringing, don't you think it might be a supernatural event?"
"Stop it."
"Bullet screen protection."
"I was a little scared before, but now that everyone is awake and the lights are on, I don't feel that scared anymore."
"No, I just feel like this place makes me uncomfortable, but I can't put my finger on why."
Several people posted this comment in the live broadcast room.
"Brother, I feel a little uncomfortable." The little monk followed Chu Huaiqin into the wooden house and turned on the light of his watch to shine everywhere.
"Why do you feel uncomfortable?" Chu Huaiqin also turned on the lights and checked everywhere. Although they found a roadblock and surrounded it, they were still afraid that there might be leaks.
"It's just the same uncomfortable feeling as when I looked at the watchtower before." The little monk came close to Chu Huaiqin and grabbed the corner of his clothes, feeling sorry for him.
Chu Huaiqin turned around, saw the fear in the little monk's eyes, and nodded.
"This means that this place may be not far from the watchtower." Chu Huaiqin came to this conclusion.
Little Monk: ...
"No, brother, don't you think there might be something here? This is the Bermuda Triangle. Many people have died here, and there are also missing ships and planes, and..."
"calm."
Seeing that he was getting more and more excited, Chu Huaiqin quickly spoke up, shocking him. Sometimes people are like this. At first, they may just feel a little uncomfortable about something, but as time goes by, this discomfort will accumulate into fear, and eventually become terror.
"Look at me, little monk," Chu Huaiqin turned the man's head and said in a deep voice, "Did you know that the Bermuda Triangle is a tourist area?"
"ah?"
"Since this place is a tourist destination, it's not as scary as the legends say. Perhaps there's a magnetic field problem somewhere that causes planes to disappear or ships to sink, but we're on an island now. Furthermore, these so-called legends all happened before the 21st century, when neither the internet nor smartphones were as developed as they are today."
"Brother, are you saying that those are all fake?"
"It's not that they're all fake, they're just not as scary as the legends say. They're all events that can be explained scientifically. You're just scaring yourself."
The little monk nodded and felt that it was not so scary anymore, maybe what his brother said was right!
However, although the little monk was a little more open-minded, he could not resist the decision to sleep with Chu Huaiqin in his arms tonight.
Xia Entropy: ...
The snakes and lizards didn't appear for long, and after a thorough cleanup of the room, no more were found. Even so, panic still reigned, with some teams and individuals even considering withdrawing from the competition, though they ultimately kept their thoughts to themselves.
The director team was also quite worried and asked experts who have studied this area. According to them, this was caused by the upcoming weather and everyone was advised not to worry.
The director felt relieved when he knew everything was fine, but the contestants on site didn't know!
How could they feel at ease with these inexplicable noises and the sudden appearance of snakes and lizards? Besides, they were building a wooden house, and who knew if there was a venomous snake hidden among the branches and long grass that covered the house? With this thought, no one dared to enter the house.
So several teams squatted at the door of the wooden house and endured the pain. With the sounds that appeared in their ears from time to time, a group of grown men huddled together and shivered. Even though they were extremely sleepy, they still held on and dared not fall asleep.
"Didn't the Rolling Team find any snakes in their cabin?"
Someone suddenly asked this question in the live broadcast room, which instantly attracted the attention of the audience. The audience looked towards Chu Huaiqin's wooden house and found that all of them had gone into the house to sleep.
"You have such a big heart."
"The director team didn't even notice any snakes!"
"That's because they have medicine."
"Don't tell me Chu Huaiqin and the others have medicine too!"
"No, I saw them using a kind of grass I had never seen before to cover the house."
"Stabbing block? They've used this herb before."
The truth was discovered in the live broadcast room, but no one from other teams noticed it. They just muttered, "Are the people from the Gun Gun team really not afraid of snakes?"
"Brother, it's still ringing." Lin Zhinan huddled on the straw bed, clutching her shoulders tightly. She was very scared at first, but after going out and seeing so many people, she felt less scared.
"It's okay, just think of it as music! It's the sea breeze." Chu Huaiqin comforted.
Lin Zhinan hummed softly and closed his eyes.
Everyone was destined to have a bad sleep that night. Not only were they worried about the snakes and lizards appearing again, but the sound never disappeared. However, after dawn, the sound disappeared.
This discovery made those who had not slept all night pale, but they could not care about it anymore. It was already dark, and the hail predicted by the director team was likely to come soon, so everyone hurried to complete the wooden house.
At noon, the sky was getting darker and darker, as if the night had come early. The wind was blowing hard, making the wooden houses rattle. When the first hailstone fell, the people outside rushed into the house. But after a while, the finger-sized hailstones gradually grew larger until they became the size of buns, hitting the wooden houses and making crackling sounds. It seemed as if it would smash all the wooden houses through.
Lin Zhinan squatted in front of the wooden house, using a wooden stick to pick up the hailstones that were hitting the door side one by one. The little monk found it interesting and ran over to huddle with her. Chu Huaiqin and Xia En started a fire on the broken cans and roasted potatoes. For a moment, everyone enjoyed a brief period of peace.
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