"what sound?"
The fat man was very sensitive to sounds and immediately looked around with his eyes wide open.
But it was completely useless. Anyone could see the strangeness of this mist, which appeared almost instantly. However, none of them expected that something strange would happen on the road before they found Daotou Village.
"Don't panic, everyone, try to get together as much as possible." Jiang Cheng reassured everyone.
They dismounted one after another, and then used their horses to form a circle around the entire team. The people hid in the circle and looked around vigilantly.
The strange sound was very fast, and came around them in a few breaths. Just when they thought they were about to be attacked, the strange sound suddenly disappeared, and the surroundings fell into a strange silence, which was so panic-inducing.
Jiang Cheng's eyesight was pretty good, but in such fog, the visibility was less than 3 meters.
But humans can't see it, and animals can't feel it either. The originally docile horse keeps pacing in place, and it's irritable that can be seen by the naked eye.
There are things nearby, and those things are still there, dormant quietly.
"Staying here means waiting to die. The horse is frightened. We must keep walking."
Zhang Qizheng's voice was trembling, and this old man rarely showed such a side.
Zhang Qizheng from Jiangcheng led the horse and walked at the front. Yao, Shunyu and Tang Qisheng were behind. The group confirmed the direction on the map and continued to move forward.
The mountain road was originally difficult to walk, and coupled with the fog, everyone could only move forward gropingly, and their nerves were always tense.
Cold sweat dripped from the fat man's forehead, and his lips trembled, "I said... I said, did you hear it? The sound is still there, right... right next to us."
Fatty heard it. As they started to move, the strange disappearing sound also sounded at the same time. It was very close to them, very close, and seemed to be hidden behind the mist in front of them.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the team suddenly stopped. Jiang Cheng, who was walking at the front, squatted down and stared at the ground.
The fat man walked over and saw footprints and horse hoof prints left on the soft ground.
"This...this is what we left behind!"
The fat man recognized his footprints at a glance, because he was wearing a pair of sneakers, and the patterns on the soles were still vaguely visible.
Zhu Jie was also a little panicked, and his breathing became rapid, "What is going on? We...we are lost?"
But everyone knows that this possibility is almost non-existent, because this road is a straight road, which is also marked on the map, and there are no branch roads at all.
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"Don't panic, it must be the fog." Zhang Qizheng said.
"It seems like something like a ghost hitting a wall, but how could something like this appear during the day?"
Tang Qisheng looked puzzled. Ever since he entered this place, he had been uneasy, as if something was bound to happen, and it seemed to have come true.
Everyone did not stay where they were. Jiang Cheng pulled off a piece of cloth, tied it to a prominent tree branch nearby, and then continued to move forward with the team.
But this time they didn't go far when the team stopped again, and what they discovered this time shocked everyone.
"Fuck!" The fat man stared at the messy marks on the ground, his whole body felt bad, "What the hell is this?"
Just after they walked a short distance away, Jiang Cheng suddenly discovered that the original footprints on the ground had changed. Because they had been walking in circles, there were horse hoof prints on the ground, as well as their footprints, but this time there were some other things on the ground. Those were smaller prints than their footprints.
It was about half the size of their footprints and shaped like an inverted triangle.
Jiang Cheng tested the depth of the footprints with his hands and found that it was deeper than theirs. This was not a small thing, at least not one that could be left by a small animal.
With the discovery of strange footprints, the team fell into unprecedented panic.
"Those things are following us, aren't they?" the fat man asked.
Tang Qisheng swallowed and his expression fell into panic, "It would be okay if they were really following us. What I'm afraid of is that those things are around us. Have you ever heard of ghosts covering our eyes? Maybe they are covering our eyes. That’s why we can’t get out.”
I have to say that Tang Qisheng's story was so influential, and Fatty was good at making up his mind. As a result, Fatty's body trembled violently, and his calves began to twist.
Jiang Cheng stood up at this time and said in a very firm tone: "Don't take chances, it's just like what you said, they... are hiding around us, even behind us, but we can't see it ."
"This..." Zhu Jie was stunned for a moment, then asked bravely: "How can you be sure?"
"It's very simple. You squat down and look carefully at these footprints."
Without using Jiang Cheng, Shao Tong spoke first. He squatted on the ground and gestured with his hands, "Look at these footprints. These footprints are very dense, but at the same time very clear. None of them coincide with our footprints or horse hoof prints. This shows that What?"
Zhu Jie understood immediately, "It means these guys are right next to us and moving at almost the same speed as us!"
"That's it." Shao Tong took a deep breath, turned to look behind him, and spoke after a long while, "I think we are in big trouble this time."
Now it is certain that the heavy fog this time is caused by those things. Although there are no plans to take action against them for the time being, it will be difficult to tell when it gets dark as time goes by.
The scene fell into silence, and everyone was thinking of a way. Soon after, Jiang Cheng's voice sounded, "Maybe the situation is not that bad. I have a way that I can try."
Jiang Cheng turned to look at Tang Qisheng, "Ghost-covering eyes is effective for humans, but what about horses?"
Tang Qisheng was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up, "Do you want to use horses to take us out?"
Jiang Cheng didn't explain much, and immediately chose a roadside with sparse footprints, and then let his horse out.
But they remained stationary and waited where they were.
The horse was also frightened. After losing control, it immediately raised its hoofs and rushed towards the woods beside it instead of along the road.
When the sound of horse hooves completely disappeared, Jiangcheng and others slowly approached the woods. The woods were where the fog was thickest, and just being close made them feel terrified.
Several people overcame their panic and found the hoofprints left by the horses in the woods. This time, the area around the hoofprints was very clean, and the inverted triangular footprints disappeared.
"Success!"
The fat man was so excited that he was about to follow the hoof prints and leave here. Unexpectedly, he was stopped the next second, "No, this may be a ghost. Everything we see now may be an illusion!"
"The rear team becomes the front team, let the horses out, everyone holds the tail of their own horse and closes their eyes." Jiang Cheng looked at the fat man, "You come with me."
"Remember, don't open your eyes, and don't let go of your ponytail!"
