"I can guarantee that the spider mother will not appear, but I can't give it to you." Tan Yue shook her head decisively.
The village chief smacked his lips regretfully: "What a pity."
Her eyes became sharp: "I advise you not to make any inappropriate ideas. I know you are hiding something from us."
The village chief lowered his head with an incomprehensible expression, muttered "That's it, that's it" and staggered away.
…
That night, everyone in the team went back to the house where they stayed last night.
After driving for a day and encountering ghosts hitting the wall, everyone was not in a good mood. Zhou Chenghua even forced himself to complete the next day's battle plan. After assigning everyone's responsibilities, he hurriedly fell asleep.
…
Willow branches on the moon.
Tan Yue was lying on the bed and thinking over and over what she felt was inconsistent, when suddenly a black shadow flashed outside the window.
The figure looks a bit like a village chief, but the speed at which he flashes past is very strange.
She held her breath and waited for two minutes. After confirming that nothing unusual would happen again, she quietly got out of bed and went to the house where Qin Heng lived and knocked on the door.
It was Qin Shuye who opened the door.
Tan Yue said: "Is Qin Heng here?"
Qin Shuye took a step sideways, revealing the bare bed—Qin Heng was not there.
She asked quietly: "How long has he been gone?"
"It's been a while, maybe twenty minutes."
Qin Shuye asked: "Whatever you want to do, I can accompany you."
Tan Yue shook her head. She just had a vague idea and didn't want to alarm too many people.
She returned to the house, tossed and turned for a while, and sure enough she still felt that she should go out and take a look.
Tan Yue got out of bed quietly.
Xiao Miao was already asleep. When she heard the movement, she woke up alertly. When she realized it was her, she closed her eyes again.
She remembered the direction the village chief left.
The moonlight outside the window was particularly bright, and as soon as she went out, her shadow was cast on the ground.
She walked in one direction. During the day, Tan Yue remembered that direction. She asked what was in that direction, but the villagers changed the subject and only said it was some dilapidated buildings.
But she knew that there were no dilapidated buildings there, just a desolate area with various mutant plants.
She had long wanted to know what was there.
Tan Yue walked firmly in the direction she determined. The village is extremely quiet at night in the apocalypse, with the occasional call of a suspected mutated owl making people shudder.
As we walked, there were more and more dead branches in the village, even to the point where we could no longer stand. The road in this direction was particularly difficult, but the dead mutated plants were not aggressive, so Tan Yue's journey was relatively smooth.
The further you walk, the closer you get to the edge of the village; as you get closer, you can see human faces reappearing on some dry plants.
It was as if there was some kind of magic in this village that swallowed up all the faces.
In the distance, she saw the figure of the village chief.
Tan Yue quietly hid behind a thick tree root.
I saw the village chief bathing in the moonlight, facing the direction outside the village, taking off his shirt.
When I went out to the village, I was blocked by a few dead trees, forming a wall, blocking all the scenery outside the village. The village chief faced this wall and slowly, with a satisfied expression on his face, exposed his back.
Tan Yue suddenly covered her mouth and saw that the village chief's back was not human skin, but dry tree bark!
Tan Yue was scared and wanted to see more clearly. The scene two hundred meters away was too blurry, so she silently transformed into a divine invitation card and silently remembered the Spider Mother.
In an instant, her eyes turned into silver vertical pupils like a beast, and the scene two hundred meters away appeared in front of her. Because the sense of smell suddenly became more sensitive, there were suddenly many smells in the air, including the smell of sweat, blood, food, and even an inexplicable smell of death.
Tan Yue couldn't tell what it smelled like.
I saw that the village chief’s back, which was made of tree bark, was densely covered with human faces!
Tan Yue suddenly got goosebumps all over his body!
There was nothing in front of the village chief. Instead, there was a small statue of the Willow God. Next to the statue was a comatose man, twisted and lying on the ground, unconscious.
After asking God, the Spider Mother's good eyesight told her that that person was the strongest leader in the Awakened Team!
The village chief straightened his collar and cuffs and bowed three times to the statue of Liu Xian.
Then he leaned over, and Tan Yue couldn't see his movements clearly. He only heard the human being wake up from coma and let out a series of shrill screams!
The old man held down the human awakener tightly, and Tan Yue could only see his struggling feet. After about a century, those feet finally stopped moving.
The old man's withered back and under the bark of the tree squirmed for a moment as if something came alive. Then, a new human face grew out of the village chief's body.
…
Just when Tan Yue wanted to take a closer look, her vision went dark. The next moment, she sat up from the bed, gasping for air.
She looked around in panic. Xiao Miao had already entered a deep sleep, and everything was exactly the same as before she left.
She glanced at the time on her bracelet: four sixteen.
Tan Yue slowly exhaled.
Is it a dream?
But that's really true.
In shock and uncertainty, Tan Yue simply went to check her shoes. She picked up the shoes and looked at them carefully.
There was some mud on the shoes, which looked fresh.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like she was sleepwalking.
However, there is another way to confirm, and that is to find Qin Heng.
In the "dream", she remembered that Qin Heng was not in the house. Tan Yue guessed that he was also looking for information like himself.
But everything will have to wait until daybreak.
After such an experience, Tan Yue couldn't sleep at all. She tossed and turned with difficulty until dawn, and she slept for more than an hour just before six o'clock.
When washing up, the water superpower in the team turned into a large vat of water for the team members to wash up. Tan Yue found Qin Heng, who was brushing his teeth and washing his hair with cold water.
She secretly admired that in this weather, those who could wash their hair with cold water while brushing their teeth were brave men.
Qin Heng squinted one eye, holding a toothbrush in his mouth, and water dripped down his face. He turned his head and asked her vaguely: "Huh?"
Tan Yue panicked and secretly pulled him aside: "Did you go out last night?"
Qin Heng just said: "No."
She opened her mouth and asked in disbelief: "Really not?"
"real."
She suddenly looked at Qin Heng's shoes and argued: "Your shoes are very dirty, dirtier than others. Did you really not go anywhere last night?"
"I was awake and vigilant all night last night. I had my eyes open the whole time, I was awake, I didn't go anywhere, I didn't leave the area around the house."
He lowered his head and looked at his shoes silently again, and explained the origin of the mud on his shoes: "And I went to the river to wake up in the morning, and there was mud there."
Tan Yue was silent for a moment.
"Okay. You convinced me."
