C18

At four in the morning, the rain had stopped. The fog had dissipated, and the bonfire was still burning. The surroundings were deathly still, with only the crackling sounds of firewood coming from the bonfire.

The night in Wild Mountain was very cold. I wrapped myself around the bonfire and smoked, and the sound of the ocean water snoring rose and fell within the cabin. I had nothing better to do, so I began to try to link the chaotic clues in my mind regarding Wild Mountain together, but no matter how I thought about it, I still felt that I was missing the most important link.

I need to find some people who know how to solve this, so there's no need to talk about Ji Xiang and the old man, Hu Guangzu might be hiding a lot of things, and Zhu Yingqiong is definitely Charles's person. As long as I can find one of them, I can solve this entire mystery.

After continuously smoking a few cigarettes with a throaty voice, I stood up and walked to the far end of the cabin to take a piss. When I returned to the campfire, I suddenly saw a half-squatting figure in the cabin.

The light from the bonfire wasn't very bright. At first, I thought that the sea had woken up, but as I quickly took two steps, I realized that something was wrong. I could already hear the sound of the sea snoring.

Who could it be?

Could it be Zhu Yingqiong? Ji Xiang? Hu Guangzu?

The names popped up in my mind, and I took off my hunting rifle, carefully moving it closer to the cabin. Throughout the entire process, my eyes never left the stooped, half-crouching figure, and I discovered that he had maintained that posture without moving, very strangely, like a hanging ghost.

I walked around to the side of the cabin door and looked up. In the dark cabin, a figure was squatting with his back to me in front of the sleeping sea. His hands were slightly shaking, and I didn't know what else to do.

Hu Guangzu?

My heart suddenly thumped, thinking to myself, what more does Hu Guangzu do sneakily?

Without hesitation, he stepped in front of the cabin door and roared: "What are you doing?"

The figure paused for a moment before turning his face around. When I saw his face clearly, I sucked in a breath of cold air and blurted out, "Sea!"

Only a pair of soybean-sized eyes could be seen staring fiercely at me. To my surprise, it was the ghost-like monster that I had torn apart the day before, the Bronze fox mask.

Hai Yang didn't die yet. When she heard my shout and stood up, her eyes fell on the monster in front of her. She was stunned for three seconds before she made a "F * ck" sound.

The orc's chest exploded, and with a crash he was sent flying into a corner of the cabin, where he let out a series of angry roars that echoed through the dead forest. He rolled to his feet, and with a single step, he landed on the shoulder of the sea, clawing at its face with his sharp claws.

"Bow your head!"

I hastily shouted as my finger instantly pulled the trigger. A loud explosion sounded and the bullet shot out, directly hitting the head of the Beastman and blasting his body away. His entire face was completely smashed, and his four limbs spasmed for a few moments before completely falling silent.

Hai Yang was still in a state of shock. She picked up her backpack and threw it to me and said, "Let's go! That beast was begging for help just now!"

The double-barreled shotgun could only be loaded with two rounds of bullets. I filled in another round and followed Hai Yang's lead into the forest. After about ten meters, I suddenly saw a large crowd of people hanging on a tree right in front of us.

They were like monkeys swaying on a tree branch. Their entire bodies were covered with black hair, and their slender bodies were like large flower vases, but each of their heads were the size of a fish tank. With a flash of the flashlight, all of them brought with them bronze fox mask, which looked extremely strange, as though they were looking down at us from above with a sinister grin.

A series of low roars came out from their mouths. They were very similar to the roars of cattle, but their roars were even louder, resounding through the forest. At a glance, there were at least a hundred of them.

Hai Yang held her hunting rifle and cursed loudly, "Damn it, we've come to someone else's nest!"

I also started to retreat nervously. As I spoke to Hai Yang, "Don't move yet. Animals normally don't attack humans first. Unless they feel threatened, we can slowly retreat!"

"Retreat my ass, we've been picked up!"

The ocean roared and pulled me towards the forest. However, the moment we moved, a series of deep roars sounded out from beside us. Following that, I saw the beastmen that were hanging on the tree begin to jump down in unison, like dumplings being dropped, the scene was extremely shocking.

From all over the forest, countless Beastmen had drilled their way out and were rushing towards us like a tidal wave. I saw that their sharp claws had already opened and under the Bronze Fox Face's mask, they revealed a bloody mouth full of fangs.

Kacha!

Kacha!

Hai Yang was the first to fire, two bullets whizzed out, knocking back the two Beastmen who were at the front, causing them to retreat. Originally, they thought that they would be able to intimidate the Beastmen, but obviously the Beastmen were not afraid, and continued to charge forward, one after the other. Hai Yang did not have time to change bullets, so he could only carry his gun on his back, took out his dagger and rushed into the crowd of Beastmen.

Kacha!

I had just fired a shot to chase away one of the orcs at the side of the sea when the gun in my hand was snatched away by one of the orcs behind me. One of them jumped up to my shoulder and threw me to the ground.

I kicked it into the air and staggered over to the campfire to use the remaining firewood as torches, constantly waving it to stop them from advancing. I quickly took two steps towards the sea and used a torch to chase away the beastmen on his body.

Hai Yang held up her bloodied dagger and cursed loudly. "I finally know why the British abandoned their ship and fled. They must have run into these animals!"

I had already thought of this, but there was no time to say anything about it now. I used a torch to wave away the approaching beastmen, and the sea was immediately filled with two bullets. After firing two times in a row, we knocked back the beastmen who were at the side and forcefully opened a hole in their defenses.

Like a runaway wild horse, we ran until the sky darkened and the moon disappeared without a trace. Our torches were extinguished while we ran, and we ran through the forest with our flashlights in our hands. We fell countless times, and were scratched everywhere on our bodies.

They looked up and saw that the beastmen were coming again, waving their branches. Their explosive power was astonishing, and as they jumped on the tree, they instantly landed on another tree, closing the distance between them at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye.

"Run!"

I yelled and charged into the dark forest again. The sea was close behind, and we ran through the brambles with the light of the flashlight. The orcs behind us could still keep up at first, but after another ten minutes or so, they were left behind again.

We didn't dare to rest and continued to run for another ten minutes. It was as if our legs were filled with lead and we couldn't even lift them up. Hai Yang sat down on the ground and panted, "Run..." I can't run anymore! "

I was also panting heavily from exhaustion. After calming down for a long time, I said, "They definitely won't let us go. We still have to run!"

I looked up and around. I was stunned, because I couldn't figure out where we were in the jungle.

At first, when we were running, I was still able to vaguely identify the direction, but after the second attack from the Beastmen, I wasn't in the mood to look at the road. It was completely a safe place to run to, so we were now completely lost in the forest.

We have no reference, and we don't even know whether to turn left or right. We are at a loss about everything around us, and that is a very deadly thing to do.

The sea didn't care about any of this. In his words, being able to escape with one's life was already pretty good for the ancestors, but when they were discussing how to get there once it was safe, just as I was about to reply, there came another rustling sound from behind them. The flashlight shone, and in the confusion of light, countless Beastmen could be seen chasing after them.

"Holy shit, there's no end!"

Hai Yang scolded us and we continued to run. It was as if our bodies had been scattered and we were exhausted from being soldiers, not to mention me. If it wasn't for the fact that we used to do exercises at home, we would have fallen behind long ago.

We ran into the forest without any explanation. I didn't care about which direction we were running, but another question arose in my mind. These Beastmen are so fast, and they are native to the mountains. How could they not catch up with me and the sea?

The beach said while running, "You can't figure this out? I've never seen a cat catch a mouse before. It's to play you to death and play you half dead before eating you. Fuck, we've become rats!"

Even if we are treated like mice, we can't just sit still and wait for death. The only option is to run, even though it looks like a futile effort, but at least we have a chance of survival.

The following process can be summarized in three words: dramatic. The two of us ran like mad, clearly seeing that we had already thrown them off before we started to rest, but in less than three minutes, the beastmen behind us will catch up once again. We tried everything we could, but no matter what, we couldn't get rid of them.

After running for a distance, the Beastmen caught up to us again and again. We were completely exhausted, feeling as though our legs weren't our own anymore. We didn't feel anything, and the Beastmen behind us didn't stop chasing us.

Two hours later, the sky was already starting to brighten up, and the scenery before our eyes became clear. We were in the dense forest, and we couldn't tell which way was which, and our bodies were covered with wounds, and our clothes were tattered and tattered. I was the first to fall to the ground, and the sea was dragging my body along.

They were wearing the Bronze Fox Face's mask, and their bodies were extremely strange. After surrounding us, we had already given up on running, and were prepared to fight to the death. But what surprised me was that they only surrounded us and roared non-stop, and did not charge forward, but only maintained a distance of over ten meters away from us.

I was a little confused. Looking at the ocean, Hai Yang was stunned for a moment, then her face paled as she said, "Sanjin, I understand now, the motherf * * king monsters are intelligent!"

I stared at the orcs that surrounded us and whispered, "What do you mean?"

Hai Yang sucked in a breath of cold air and said, "I felt something wasn't right last night. I could have caught up to us but I kept driving them away. At first, I thought it was a game of cat and mouse, but now it seems like they are forcing us to change our direction of escape!"

"Change the direction of our escape?"

I was stunned for a moment, and then I thought back to what happened the whole night, and then I was startled. From the moment the orcs appeared last night and chased us until this morning, they had been chasing us nonstop, not catching us but forcing us to escape. Every time we ran, they would surround us and we would have to break away from them in one direction, but now it seemed that they didn't want to let us escape, but they were deliberately letting us go in order to change the direction in which we escaped to force us here.

But what were they doing this for?