Chapter 9: Strange Plants
As the saying goes, I think about it every day and dream at night, but I have nightmares.
In the dream, there was a female ghost with a cloak chasing me, I couldn't run away from the female ghost after all, I got closer and closer to her, closer and closer, and finally, a cold hand grabbed my neck.
"Ahh I woke up from my dream and slammed to my feet. It was only after I realized that I was dreaming that I relaxed.
I looked at my phone, and it wasn't even five o'clock.
It was Xu Xue who was keeping vigil now, and when she saw that I had woken up, she smiled at me.
I smiled back.
"Go get some sleep." I said, "I'll keep watch for you." ”
"Thank you." Xu Xue smiled: "But don't bother you, I'm not very sleepy." ”
I smiled and nodded, and counted the numbers.
Seven people, no less than one, and it seemed that we had spent the first night safely.
"Is it the ghost who didn't find a chance to make a move, or is it the calm before the storm?" I thought to myself.
And what does it mean that the last sight of a middle-aged driver is not necessarily believing? This sentence is to the effect that what the eyes see is not necessarily true, what exactly did the middle-aged driver want to tell me?
But maybe it's just a casual remark he just makes, and it doesn't mean anything at all. Maybe it's just that my listener intentionally took this sentence as a lifesaver.
I opened my backpack, took a sip of water, licked my lips a little unsatisfactorily, and put the water in my backpack.
I asked people last night, and everyone only had two bottles of water in their backpacks, and it was almost impossible to last six days with this water alone if they didn't save water, so I was actually more inclined to accomplish the goal of killing ghosts. The second goal seems to be safe, but in fact it is not, assuming that even if we can really stick to it forever, over time, we will really be able to save our lives under the pursuit of ghosts due to extreme lack of water?
During the day, we discussed our next steps.
Cui Shiyu believes that holding on is the safest way now, so it is recommended that we strengthen vigilance on the spot, take retreat as advance, and wait and see what happens.
I think we should be both offensive and defensive, and we must defend at night, but we might as well go out and have a look during the day, as long as we are careful not to be left alone, we should be fine. Then I patiently analyzed the current situation for you, probably saying that if you keep guarding, it will be no problem for two days a day, but when it comes to five or six days, it may be difficult for us to fight against the ghost of the extreme lack of water, so it is better to go out during the day to see, maybe we can find any clues.
Seeing that everyone was still a little worried, I said, "We won't go far, it's a big deal to make some markings on the way there, and maybe we can find a water source." ”
Only then did everyone nod, and Cui Shiyu snorted coldly, but he didn't object.
Actually, there is another point that I did not say, and that is that I would like to take this opportunity to learn more about it. Now we simply don't know anything, so we can only silently accept the orders of the head teacher, and the final outcome is likely to be death. If you know more information now, you may have a better chance of life.
So we walked cautiously in one direction, with our backpacks on our backs and ghost sticks in our hands, and we carved a cross-shaped mark on a few large trees.
Because we had to watch out for ghost attacks and make markers, we walked very slowly.
The further you go, the more terrifying it becomes, because the flowers and trees around you get weirder and weirder. For example, not far ahead, there is a tree that looks like an umbrella, and the outer edge of the umbrella tree is covered with unknown heart-shaped red fruits, and the bright color does not make people feel beautiful, but has a strange horror. There was also a plant that looked like a morning glory, but it was much larger, and it was larger than a grown man.
"Ye Yan..."Zhang Xinyu swallowed and foamed, and said, "Are you sure we want to go on?" ”
Actually, I'm a little cowardly when I get here, and I haven't seen these weird plants all over again. I said, "Let's go back, I always feel that something bad might happen if I keep going..."
Just as we were walking back, Chen Ming suddenly exclaimed.
We turned around, looked at Chen Ming in confusion, and asked what was wrong?
"You... Did you see that the umbrella tree was moving? Chen Ming stammered.
Hearing this, we immediately looked at the umbrella tree, and it didn't seem to be anything unusual.
"You're hallucinating, aren't you? Maybe it's just the wind blowing, so don't be suspicious..."Li Qing sneered, and just as he was about to mock, his voice stopped abruptly, because the umbrella tree moved right under our noses, and the morning glory flower also seemed to have legs, moving towards us quickly.
Li Qing was so frightened that he screamed, and he couldn't care about the ridicule anymore, and even ran and crawled back in the direction he was in.
We also tried our best to run back, and halfway through the run, we only heard Chen Ming screaming.
I looked back and saw that Chen Ming's upper body was bitten by the morning glory, and Chen Ming's cry for help came faintly from inside. As the morning glory trembled, Chen Ming's body was also sucked in little by little with the morning glory, and the two of them held on to the outside with one hand, trying to break free. But it was clear that he wasn't strong enough to push the morning glory away, and his body was still sucked in at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Since people are still alive, then no matter what, I can't die without help. I immediately ran back, grabbed one of Chen Ming's legs, and pulled it out hard.
I couldn't pull it out for Chen Ming even though I tried my best to feed, but it also stopped the trend of the giant morning glory from sucking in.
Zhang Xinyu saw me running back, hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth, ran to my side, and grabbed Chen Ming's other leg.
"I'll shout one, two, three, count to three, and we'll both drag it together." I said it succinctly.
"Good!"
"One, two, three!"
With my order, Zhang Xinyu and I used force at the same time, and finally pulled Chen Ming out of the mouth of the giant morning glory.
Chen Ming's face was covered with red mucus at the moment, and a fishy smell floated out.
"Let's go." Zhang Xinyu and I dragged Chen Ming left and right, running forward desperately.
When they ran to a certain range, the plants shook their huge bodies a few times unwillingly, and then stopped.
Even though the strange plants didn't catch up, we still ran forward for a long time, and we didn't stop until we couldn't see the plants at all.
"Grass, this smells disgusting." After Chen Ming ran out, he coughed heavily.
"It's okay." I stepped forward and asked.
"It's okay, you're paralyzed." Chen Ming went up and punched me in the face, scolding as he hit.
I didn't fight back.
"Chen Ming, what are you doing?" Seeing this, Zhang Xinyu stopped Chen Ming, glared at him and said, "Are you crazy, without Ye Yan, you would have become the nourishment of that morning glory a long time ago." ”
"Oh? You mean I have to thank Ye Yan? Chen Ming sneered and said, "Don't forget, it was Ye Yan who proposed to come out and have a look." ”
"X fuck, can you blame Ye Yan for this? Besides, didn't you agree at the time? Zhang Xinyu scolded angrily.
"Okay, Ye Yan also saved your life, it's settled, if you have any dissatisfaction, wait until you go back to school, now is not the time to quarrel." Guo Mengqi persuaded.
I bowed my head and said I apologized.
"Hmph." Chen Ming glanced at me indignantly, but he didn't do it anymore.
Cui Shiyu looked at me, snorted coldly, and said, "How about Ye Yan, or my direction, right?" At least safely. ”
I have no words.
Seeing that I was silent, Cui Shiyu said proudly: "You have all seen it, walking around will only give you your life in vain, so let's keep it honestly, lest you die and don't know how to die." ”
So we went back the same way, and on the way Chen Ming scolded: "What the hell is this, it really stinks." ”
Chen Ming wanted to wash his face with water, but it was impossible for him to use his life-saving drinking water to wash his face, so he could only endure it.
Along the way, we finally found traces of yesterday's fire, which was so safe compared to the place we had just started.
As we did yesterday, we broke many branches and used them as firewood. Then he sat where he was and guarded carefully.
From daytime to night, we raised a fire.
Or the vigil in the order of yesterday.
I concentrated for an hour, woke up the next person, and leaned against the tree to sleep.
In a daze, I felt as if I heard a scream.
I leaned on the tree, stood up, and looked at Chen Ming with a frightened face in confusion.
At this time, Zhang Xinyu came over and said a word to me with an ugly face, which made my sleepiness disappear suddenly
"Li Qing is dead!"