"No, those things are gone!" Chen Tao looked at the surrounding woods in disbelief.
The wind blew through the dry crown of the tree, and the branches made a strange crackling sound. The ghost-like black shadows on the branches all disappeared, and even the weird gurgling sounds disappeared.
"Did we scare you away?" Haozi loaded bullets into the rifle's magazine and looked around suspiciously.
"I don't think so. These things are too weird. They are not as simple as we thought. They disappeared suddenly. There must be something wrong!" Chen Tao took a torch from his backpack and relit it as he walked, burning the one that was almost finished. torch stuck in the sand.
"Is it possible that they have left?" Ye Rong followed Chen Tao, her face still looking a little nervous.
"No, they won't leave." Balohard's voice came over. He walked very fast, holding the gun tightly with both hands, and the rat-head mask on his face flickered in the torch lines. An inexplicable light.
"Commander Barlow, what are those monkey-like monsters? They look like dead bodies." Chen Tao walked a few steps to Barlow's side and asked him with a puzzled look on his face, "And , they seem to be invincible, I have never seen such weird creatures."
"Creatures? Haha..." Balohad smiled strangely and said something that Chen Tao couldn't believe: "These things are not living creatures!"
"What?" Haozi also followed, "Is it possible that these things are really fake corpses?"
"Salted fish?" Balohad frowned, not understanding what Haozi said.
"It's a zombie!" Chen Tao explained on the side.
"It's not a zombie, but it's almost the same!" Balohard nodded, and his tone became a little heavy: "This is the first time I've seen these things. When my father and the others entered the Forest of the Undead, I was still there. Coma. I don’t know how they got out of here, but I heard my father talk about these things a long time ago. They are the souls trapped in the Forest of the Dead!"
"Dead souls?" Chen Tao was stunned: "You mean, those things are people?"
"Yes, Nakala, the God of the Underworld, has cursed this forest. All those who break into the Forest of the Dead will die here, and their souls will be trapped in their bodies forever, and finally become monsters like the living dead. Kill the dead slaves in this forest of the dead."
Chen Tao's heart sank. As expected, nothing good will happen wherever there is a devil's map ghost willow. Before, there were soul-catching rats and bloodthirsty black worms, and now there are this weird zombie monkeys. Looking at these dried up devil's map ghost willows around him, , Chen Tao can’t wait to set fire to it!
Swish, swish, swish...
While Chen Tao was thinking about it, there was suddenly a rustling sound in his ears, as if someone was digging in the sand with a shovel. The sound was very small and subtle.
"what sound?"
Chen Tao stopped, holding the gun tightly in his hand, raising his ears to carefully search for the source of these sounds, and suddenly his expression changed.
These strange sounds actually came from the sand beneath their feet.
Almost instantly, Chen Tao knew where these sounds came from, and anxiously opened his voice and shouted to everyone: "Quickly, those things are in the sand!"
As soon as Chen Tao said these words, the sand on the ground began to move slightly. Everyone was jumped, and they raised their guns and shot at the strange sand.
The bullet plopped into the sand, and the place stopped moving for an instant. Then, a clearly visible pattern appeared next to the sand, and it was spreading towards everyone at an extremely fast speed.
"Let's go!"
The surrounding sand vibrated, and secret numb sand marks appeared on the ground, which were like threads that quickly extended towards the location of everyone.
Everyone was shocked. They didn't expect those monsters to be so cunning, and they all hid in the sand. Everyone raised their guns and fired at the surging sand lines, causing waves of sand to rise on the ground.
But when the bullet hits the sand, its lethality is greatly reduced, and it cannot hurt the monsters hiding underneath at all.
puff......
A line of sand exploded suddenly, and a black shadow shot out from it, rushing towards a guard in the crowd.
"Be careful!" Suok shouted, turned around, picked up the rifle in his hand and shot towards the black shadow.
Bang!
Suok's strength was so great that the monster was knocked away and fell hard into the dense forest on one side.
Cluck cluck cluck....
There was another scalp-numbing gurgling sound, and the sand lines on the ground were still spreading rapidly towards everyone.
Bang bang bang bang...
Sand lines exploded on the ground one after another, and zombie monkeys flew out from them, shooting at the running crowd like cannonballs. No one dared to stop, grabbing the rifle and fighting back, while quickly moving towards Barlow He ran wildly in the direction Harder pointed.
Those things got into the sand, and although the bullets couldn't do much damage to them, they also slowed down their speed. Everyone retreated desperately, and soon put some distance between themselves and those things.
From the time he encountered those zombie monkeys to now, Chen Tao has been running non-stop for more than two hours. His legs seem to be filled with lead, his head is buzzing, his face is red from holding back, and his lungs are about to explode. Same.
Not only him, but other people's faces were also getting increasingly ugly. Everyone's face showed an unconcealable exhaustion, but their desire to survive forced them to keep running.
He was panting heavily, and his body began to shake uncontrollably. Every step he ran felt like needle pricks, and it seemed that he would fall to the ground due to lack of oxygen in the next second.
"I...I can't do it anymore...I have to find a way to stop these things." Chen Tao couldn't stand it anymore and held on to a thick tree trunk. stopped.
"Don't... don't stop!" Haozi gasped and pushed Chen Tao's shoulder to let him go quickly.
The things behind them are still chasing after them, and some have even jumped out of the sand again, chasing everyone quickly in the dense forest.
"ah!"
A guard who was running at the end was not paying attention and was thrown to the ground by a zombie monkey that was chasing after him. He and the monster rolled on the ground several times. When he stood up again, he was already covered with crawlers. Zombie monkeys one by one.
The bloody and terrifying scene was staged again, and everyone watched helplessly as the guard was instantly overwhelmed by the zombie monkeys, and the shrill screams stimulated everyone's nerves.
"Damn it, fight them!" Suoke gasped, pulled off the mask on his face, held the rifle and fiercely pulled the trigger at the zombie monkeys behind him.
"Fuck! Let's fight!"
Chen Tao and the others could no longer run away. Faced with the zombie monkeys rushing around them, everyone could only grit their teeth and fight against them.
Ta da da da da...
The dense rain of bullets sprayed towards the forest again, and the bullets whizzed and hit the zombie monkeys that were chasing after them. Everyone's eyes turned red, and they roared and fired at the zombie monkeys that were surrounding them. With another round of bullets, even the trunks of the dead Devil Willow trees were smashed, and broken branches and broken bones were scattered everywhere in the dense forest.
Everyone stood back to back, with a look of despair on everyone's face.
"Haozi, it seems that our two brothers are going to end up here this time!" Chen Tao shouted at Haozi beside him while firing.
"Te Niang, just die. I wasn't tricked by your kid!" Haozi gritted his teeth, and the gun in his hand spurted flames, and every bullet accurately hit the heads of the zombie monkeys.
"Little brother, your marksmanship is great!" Suok yelled cheerfully, "If I can get out alive, I will ask you for advice again!"
"No, we have to live. The people haven't been rescued yet. We can't die here!" Ye Rong glanced at Chen Tao stubbornly, "You are not allowed to die, and so are you. There will definitely be a way out!"
"Yes, Miss Ye Rong is right. We can't just stay here. My father must have found a way to leave here back then. Maybe we can find it too!" Balohard didn't want Sok to be as impulsive as Suok. As the commander of the guards, he maintained his sense at all times.
"How to find it! Didn't your father tell you?" Chen Tao asked.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have fought so hard here!" Balohard quickly changed a magazine for the rifle and loaded it with a click: "The one who took them out was not my father, but your grandfather, old man Chen You! "
"My grandpa, grandpa took them out?" Chen Tao recalled quickly in his mind, but the more he wanted to know, the harder it became to concentrate in his mind, and he was so anxious that his heart went crazy.
Grandpa, how did you get out?
Chen Tao felt that his head was going to explode. Although his grandfather told him about the secret passage under Carosa, the God of War, he had not heard him say anything about the Forest of the Undead!
Seeing those zombie monkeys pressing closer and closer, Chen Tao cursed his mother anxiously, "How on earth can I get out of this damn place!"
In such a trance, Chen Tao didn't pay attention. A zombie monkey suddenly jumped out of the sand under his feet and jumped on him in an instant. His feet staggered, and the man and the monster rolled towards the sand on one side. Got out.
"Taozi!" Haozi wanted to rush up to help, but as soon as he turned his head, a zombie monkey was already in front of him. Haozi instinctively avoided it, but he lost the best opportunity to rescue Chen Tao.
At the critical moment, Chen Tao reflexively grabbed the zombie monkey's body and rolled it twice on the ground with the zombie monkey in his arms.
The zombie monkey pounced on Chen Tao's chest, hooked its two front paws on Chen Tao's clothes, opened its big mouth full of fangs and bit Chen Tao's neck.
All the flesh and skin on this monster was rotten, and a strong stench emanated from his mouth, making Chen Tao feel sick in his stomach.
Chen Tao turned his head away, and grabbed the zombie monkey on his body with both hands, trying desperately to tear it off, but the zombie monkey's claws were tightly hooked on Chen Tao's clothes, and he couldn't pull it off no matter what. Can't pull it off.
The zombie monkey screamed, and its four claws kept scratching Chen Tao's arms and chest. Chen Tao's clothes and sleeves were instantly cut into rags, and a few times they were scratched directly into the flesh. If he hadn't pulled hard, those claws would have disemboweled Chen Tao.
Chen Tao struggled on the ground, his mind filled with the bloody scene of the guards being torn to pieces by zombie monkeys. Was he going to end up like that too?
"Get out of my way!"
Chen Tao gritted his teeth and clenched the ribs of the thing tightly, and even pinched his fingers into the zombie monkey's carrion. But these things have no feeling and cannot be beaten to death, let alone this little flesh?
Cluck cluck cluck....
Several more zombie monkeys rushed toward him. Chen Tao rolled on the ground, tried his best to stand up from the ground, and gritted his teeth and pulled hard.
"Fuck you!"
There was a stabbing sound, and the monster was pulled off by Chen Tao and fell hard to the sand. However, his clothes were also torn by the claws of the zombie monkey, and a bright thing was torn from his body. rolled out of his pocket.
Chen Tao didn't have time to take a closer look, he was busy covering his arm with one hand.
The moment the monster was thrown out by Chen Tao, a claw hooked into Chen Tao's forearm. The sharp claw instantly made a bloody gash on Chen Tao's arm, and the blood immediately stopped flowing.
Cluck cluck cluck....
Before he could react, the zombie monkeys from before had already pounced on him, and Chen Tao's face suddenly turned pale.
It's over now!
