... Zhang Fan and the four of them were walking on a narrow mountain road covered with rough stones. The mountain road is winding and winding, with yellowing and dry trees growing on both sides. It stretches from top to bottom and has no end as far as the eye can see.
Su Qian held the graffiti map drawn by her hand and walked in front to guide Zhang Fan and the others. This kind of map is made with special symbols from a medical perspective. It is impossible for outsiders to understand it. It can only be interpreted by Su Qian, who is also a doctor.
In the human world, Su Qian was an orthopedic surgeon. She held a high position in the hospital where she worked and became the current director of orthopedics at a young age.
Su Qian is 29 years old. She has excelled in studies since she was a child and is ahead of many of her peers. A few years ago, she even successfully obtained a doctorate. She is so powerful that even those who pursue her, There are also a few, including returnees from overseas, rich second generations from famous families, and some of their own classmates.
But for these suitors, Su Qian didn't like them. In the final analysis, there were two reasons. One was because of her younger brother, and the other was because she was selected by the hell maze. There were many things that she couldn't control at all.
Her brother had a car accident when she was a senior in college and became a vegetative state. He had been in a coma for so many years and could not wake up. Her parents spent all their money to treat her brother, but in the end they still had no results. .
In fact, the major she initially studied was not medical at all. She later switched to medicine in order to help her brother wake up as soon as possible.
But as she learned more knowledge, she felt that the possibility of curing her brother was getting smaller and smaller. Her brother was currently described in one sentence as a severely comatose vegetative state. Without a miracle, he would not be able to survive in this life. wake up.
Patients with this type of disease are only one step away from brain death. In fact, many experts and doctors advised Su Qian to make early plans and go back to prepare for the funeral. However, as her only brother, Su Qian did not want to give up and still tried her best to treat her brother. She was once a wealthy girl from a wealthy family. , but something happened to her brother, which shattered all the good things she had. Later, her father couldn't bear the blow, and finally chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building on a rainy night. And her mother She was even more unable to accept the fact that her brother had become a vegetative state and that her father had committed suicide. She had a neurological problem and became crazy.
Su Qian watched all this happen, but could not stop it. This eventually became the pain of her life, and she almost died with her father, but when she thought of her mother who became crazy and her brother who became a vegetative state, she She still gritted her teeth and survived.
Until later she was selected by the Hell Maze... In a maze scene, she accidentally learned the news that if she continued to participate in the maze scene, one day in the future, she would get a way to wake up her brother. .
When she learned the news, Su Qian's already numb heart was ignited and a new dawn ushered in.
She is actually very fragile and not strong, but for the sake of her family, she can only move forward and grit her teeth until the end.
To be honest, she wanted to find someone to cry to, but... there was no other option. ..... The sky is dark and gloomy, there is no light on the mountain road, and there is no sound at all. It is terrifyingly depressing. If it were just a person walking here, it might be anyone else who would feel cold in their heart unconsciously.
The maze scene is full of unknown dangers. No one can guarantee whether some ghost will suddenly appear from the side and attack them.
According to the only drop of blood they have left, they will die immediately if they are attacked. Su Qian walked in front while looking at the map. Zhang Fan walked on the right side holding a bronze coffin nail to ensure her safety. If there was any danger, Zhang Fan could help her in time. As for Li Mu and Zhou Jianren, they walked behind. One walked on the left, each holding a torch to light the way forward.
After an unknown amount of time, Su Qian paused, with a look of surprise on her face, and whispered: "After walking a hundred meters forward, you will reach the first dangerous zone - Wild Wolf Valley!!" She said in a low voice. , as if afraid that if the sound is too loud, it will spread out and attract the attention of some unknown things.
"Wild Wolf Valley...Wild Wolf Valley...Do you think this is the lair of the wild wolves that attacked us before?!" Li Mu frowned and whispered.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jianren's face changed slightly, he thought a little, nodded in agreement and said, "I feel it is very possible!"
"Don't worry about this, I have a way to deal with them!" Zhang Fan heard this, clenched the coffin nails in his hand tightly, and said.
After hearing this, Zhou Jianren and Li Mu realized that it was Zhang Fan who had led them safely through the siege of a group of black wolves and successfully arrived at Huaishu Clinic. Since he said there was a way, there must be a way. .
"Follow me closely, don't fall behind in a moment, I will take you there!" Zhang Fan protected Su Qian behind him, and walked forward holding the coffin nails in his hands.
When Su Qian saw Zhang Fan's subtle movement, she felt strangely moved in her heart. In the maze scene, many of the survivors she had seen were basically fighting each other, and they were all thinking of stabbing her in the back. How could Zhang Fan be so cautious and tenderly protect her behind him? For a moment, Su Qian felt cold in her heart. I also felt the warmth.
If she had just had a good impression of Zhang Fan before, now she was moved in a strange way, and this feeling was still growing and sprouting. Perhaps, it wouldn't take long before it would be completely uncontrollable and grow into a towering tree.
Li Mu and Zhou Jianren looked at each other and hurriedly followed with torches. After walking a hundred meters in a hurry, a huge valley suddenly appeared in front of us.
The valley is surrounded by mountains. The entrance is a circular cave. It is extremely dark inside and cannot be seen clearly. A strong stench of feces blows out from the inside with the roaring valley wind, making Zhang Fan and others After smelling it, they all subconsciously covered their mouths and noses.
The smell was so bad that I almost made them vomit. Zhang Fan swallowed and waved to Li Mu and the others, gesturing for them to follow.
After making this gesture, Zhang Fan strode towards the inside. But just a few steps away, Li Mu couldn't help but exclaimed and stopped.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Zhang Fan heard the sound and turned his head to look at Li Mu in confusion.
"Listen... have you heard anyone crying?" Li Mu pricked up his ears and opened his eyes wide, looking very surprised.
"Crying?" Su Qian was stunned when she heard this, and quickly tilted her head to listen, but she heard nothing.
"No? Why didn't I hear it? Did you hear it wrong?" Su Qian thought Li Mu heard it wrong, and said with her beautiful eyebrows furrowed.
"No...I really heard it!" Li Mu listened again and heard the crying sound coming again.
"This crying... seems to be coming from outside!" Li Mu said, turning around and looking behind him.
"Don't worry about this cry for now, it might be some unknown ghost!" Su Qian said worriedly when she saw Li Mu turn around.
"But..." Li Mu also felt that what Su Qian said was reasonable, but for some reason, the more he listened, the more inexplicably sad he felt. This kind of voice reminded him of his childhood.
His parents had been busy with the family business since he was a child and rarely took care of him. They left him alone in a huge villa without caring about him.
He had no friends or playmates, and everyone around him was afraid of him. The servants at home were afraid of him, the housekeeper was afraid of him, and even the teachers who came to teach were afraid of him.
He didn't know why those people were so afraid of him. He only knew that he was living a lonely life. Even though the children outside were talking and laughing, he couldn't. He could only be trapped alone in the villa like a prison, unable to go anywhere.
Perhaps in other people's mouths, he is a rich young man who has no worries about food and clothing, but those people don't know how lonely he is inside.
This feeling of loneliness was like a flesh-eating beast, devouring him all the time. A sense of emptiness mixed in the air, looking so pale and feeble, like poison, getting closer and closer.
How many times had he woke up crying in his sleep, looking at the dead silence of the empty room, and falling into despair.
The powerless emptiness and dark loneliness have been with him from childhood to this day. Li Mu listened to the inexplicable crying, which resonated in his originally lonely heart.
The cry was mixed with sadness and desolation, making Li Mu's hand holding the torch tremble constantly.
He wanted to take a look, wanted to see who was crying and why the crying would make him extremely heartbroken.
Seemingly sensing Li Mu's sadness, Zhang Fan sighed and said: "If you want to go, just go, of course... for your safety... we have to go with you! "After getting along for such a long time, Zhang Fan has long regarded the child Li Mu as a friend. He is not afraid of any danger he will encounter. After thinking about it, he decided to go with him so that if he encounters any danger, he can still have a mutual relationship. Anaphora.
"Brother Fan...thank you!" Li Mu glanced at Zhang Fan gratefully. Although Zhang Fan did not participate in as many maze scenes as he did, Li Mu still felt sincerely kind and trustful towards Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan is different from other survivors. He is a warm-hearted person. He is also very good to his friends and it is very comfortable to get along with him.
After finishing speaking, Li Mu held up the torch and quickened his pace, walking towards the outside of the cave entrance. Zhang Fan shook his head helplessly and hurriedly led Su Qian to follow.
Li Mu followed the source of the sound, passed through a patch of grass covered by withered yellow trees, and finally came to the place where the cry came from.
Peeling away the grass that was as tall as a person, Li Mu saw a little girl curled up on the ground wearing an animal skin coat.
The little girl was not old, she seemed to be only six or seven years old. She was dirty, her hair was messy, and she exuded a pungent stench. She looked like a street child.
At this moment, her right leg was bleeding with blood, as if she had been injured. She cried helplessly and desperately while desperately covering the bleeding wound, but no matter how hard she struggled, it was to no avail, and the blood still couldn't stop pouring out.
Seeing the miserable appearance of the little girl, Li Mu looked complicated and walked out of the grass, wanting to help her.
But when the little girl saw a stranger like Li Mu approaching suddenly, she was startled. She suddenly showed a fierce gaze and her face became ferocious, like a wild beast. She bared her teeth at Li Mu and let out a low growl.
At the same time, Zhang Fan and three others happened to come over. When they saw the little girl wearing animal skin, they were obviously confused. They didn't expect that what Li Mu said was true, and someone was really crying.
"Sister Qian, can you help take a look at her injury?" Li Mu could not do anything to treat the injury, so he could only ask Su Qian for help.
Li Mu knew that Su Qian's profession in the human world was a doctor, so it might be appropriate for Su Qian to come and take a look.
Su Qian nodded when she heard the sound, put the hand-drawn map in her hand into the system backpack, and strode to the little animal skin girl.
The little girl in animal skin became very excited when she saw Su Qian approaching, and the growl in her mouth became louder and spread far away. She wanted to resist, but she was unable to do anything because she was injured.
"Li Mu, hold her down first, don't let her move!" Su Qian looked at the struggling little animal skin girl, raised her eyebrows slightly, and whispered.
"No problem!" Li Mu nodded and held down the little animal skin girl hard. Li Mu's current physical strength is as high as 9 points. It is not possible for such a thin little girl to resist, and she was soon suppressed and unable to move.
Taking this opportunity, Su Qian rolled up her sleeves to help the other party check the injury. A moment later, Su Qian moved her right wrist, glanced at the animal skin girl, and said, "It's just that the bones are a little misaligned. Just press them straight and it'll be fine!" As she spoke, Su Qian twisted her hands gently, and with a crackling sound, the bones There was a crisp sound, and the animal skin girl's injured leg stopped bleeding instantly.
"Okay! Let her rest for a while and that's it!" Su Qian stood up with a smile on her face. If the injury was really serious, there was nothing she could do. In the maze scene, many medical equipment were not complete and treatment was impossible. But fortunately, everything was not that bad.
"Great!" Li Mu heard Su Qian's words and quickly let go of the little animal skin girl, looking very happy.
His purpose of saving the little girl this time was not for any reason, but because he simply felt that the girl was very similar to his former self, lonely and desperate, which made him unable to sit back and ignore her.
The little animal-skin girl blinked her eyes and saw that her injured leg was no longer bleeding. Her eyes widened in shock. After a while, she staggered to her feet and faced Zhang Fan and the others. He babbled a lot of unintelligible words, Yang Tian howled, and left without looking back.
Seeing the other party leaving so happily, Zhang Fan suddenly looked strange, smiled and scolded Li Mu: "Your kind intentions, they don't seem to take it seriously!" After hearing what Zhang Fan said, Li Mu's expression showed a little. Embarrassed, he just said "leave quickly" and quickly escaped from here.
In response to this, Zhang Fan and the other three looked at each other, dumbfounded. Li Mu's incident of rescuing the little girl was just a small episode and would pass quickly.
..... After passing through the entrance of the cave again, Zhang Fan and the others finally walked into the valley. There was silence in the valley. There was no sound at all. Not only was there no sound, even the light was very dim. Only the strong wind whistling in the distance kept coming. The strong wind was mixed with the stench of feces. , rich and thick, almost substantial, so smokey that Zhang Fan and others almost vomited.
Such a thick stench obviously told Zhang Fan and the others that there seemed to be many terrifying beasts lurking here.
Zhang Fan did not dare to be careless. He held up the bronze coffin nails with a solemn expression, mentally prepared for a wild beast to emerge at any time.
Their current blood volume is only 1 drop. Once they are attacked, they will basically die. Even with the coffin nails in their hands, Zhang Fan's palms still broke out in a cold sweat.
Su Qian took out the hand-drawn map from the system backpack, took a look at it in her hand, determined the direction of leaving the valley, and walked nervously ahead to guide Zhang Fan and the others.
The stench of feces here is so strong, there must be terrifying beasts, which means that every second they stay here, the more dangerous they will be, so they should leave as soon as possible while it is still safe. good.
Su Qian also had a lot of physical bonuses, and she ran very fast, covering hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.
Following her was Zhou Jianren first, followed by Li Mu, and Zhang Fan was at the back. Among the four, Zhang Fan was the weakest survivor. Unlike others who had participated in the maze scene more than a dozen times, he had only participated eight times.
As they ran past, the torches and fireworks in Zhou Jianren and Li Mu's hands were swaying in the wind, as if they would go out at any time.
After running for who knows how long, the temperature in the air began to become more and more humid. The fire on the torch dimmed little by little, as if it was extinguished little by little by the humid air.
"Wait a minute!! Something's wrong!" Suddenly, Zhang Fan shouted loudly. His voice was so loud that it spread far away, causing Su Qian and the three people running in front to stop when they heard it.
"Brother Fan, what's wrong?" Li Mu looked sideways at Zhang Fan with confusion.
"There's something wrong around here!" Zhang Fan looked around as he held the bronze coffin nails tightly, as if facing a formidable enemy. At that moment, he clearly felt the coffin nails in his hands suddenly trembled strangely, as if giving some warning.
You know, Coffin Nail will automatically warn you only when danger is approaching.
"Isn't this possible? The surroundings are obviously very quiet, why..." Li Mu was stunned for a moment, and quickly looked around. After a few glances, he didn't find anything unusual. He thought Zhang Fan was making a fuss. But just when he was about to say something more, suddenly, a black shadow jumped out from the grass in the distance and attacked him.
Sensing the danger approaching, Li Mu instinctively turned sideways and narrowly dodged.
"Hiss—" Li Mu suddenly took a breath of cold air and froze on the spot when he saw the dark figure wiping his clothes and rushing past.
Not only him, but also Zhou Jianren and Su Qian were shocked.
"What the hell is this?!" Li Mu's hand holding the torch almost let go. He swallowed and subconsciously illuminated the black shadow falling in the distance with the weak firelight.
As the firelight shone, at this moment, Zhang Fan and the other four finally saw its appearance clearly. I saw that this was actually a black wolf with a dark body and thick hair.
This wild wolf was astonishingly large, as strong as a bear, with a pair of green eyes that shone with bloodthirsty light in the darkness.
"Sure enough, they are the wild wolves that attacked us before!!" Seeing this scene, Li Mu's skin went numb. Their current survivors only had one drop of health. If they were attacked, they would really be doomed.
"No! There's something wrong with the wild wolf. It seems different from the wild wolves that attacked us before. They seem to be bigger!!" Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes slightly and saw the difference in this wild wolf. Not only that, he I also found that the wolf didn't seem to be too afraid of the shock of his own bronze coffin nails.
You must know that before, those wild wolves on the muddy path would be scared to death and run away just by looking at his coffin nails from a distance. However, this wild wolf that jumped out did not seem to be in this situation. On the contrary, They will also take the initiative to launch attacks.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan's face suddenly turned sideways, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. However, he did not jump to conclusions, but planned to test the other party first to see if he was really not afraid of the nails in his coffin.
I hope I am just overthinking it, and the attack just now was just an accident. If this wild wolf is really not afraid of the nails in his coffin, then that is the real despair!
Zhang Fan raised the coffin nail high and pointed it at the strong wild wolf in the distance, shaking it a few times. As he shook his head, the wild wolf tilted his head and took a step back.
Seeing the wild wolf retreating, Zhang Fan breathed a sigh of relief and said in surprise: "It still works! It seems that I was overthinking it!!" But before he could finish his words, Su Qian's anxious voice came out the next second. Suddenly there was a sound: "Be careful, get down quickly!!"
"Huh?" Hearing the sound, Zhang Fan was a little surprised. He didn't understand what happened. Just when he was surprised, a rapid sound breaking through the air suddenly rang in his ears.
"Be careful!" Li Mu also exclaimed, hurriedly threw Zhang Fan down and rolled him over.
"Plop!" A dull sound of landing sounded. At this time, Zhang Fan came back to his senses. When he looked up, he found that the wild wolf had appeared at the place where he was standing.
"Holy shit!!" Seeing this scene, Zhang Fan's face turned pale with fright, and he lost the slightest bit of calmness. In other words, if Li Mu hadn't knocked him down and taken him away from the place just now, I'm afraid he would have been bitten to death by the wild wolf at this time.
From this, it can be seen that the conjecture I just made is not false, but true. The nails in the coffin really cannot deter this wild wolf.
If this wild wolf cannot be frightened, the next situation will be really bad.
"Ouch--" The wild wolf saw that he had jumped into the air, and his green eyes spurted out ferocious bloodlust, and he howled into the sky.
As the sound of howling came out, the next moment, one after another, one after another, the howls reverberated continuously from every corner of the valley.
