"No! Dad... I really saw her smiling at me!" Nai Xue frowned.
"Okay, it's okay, let's leave here now." Takahashi Yuya held his daughter in his arms and comforted her, stroking her hair.
"Uh-huh."
Nayuki was still very uneasy.
At this time, a faint pink mist floated out from the depths of the mountain forest, covering everyone like a veil.
They felt a refreshing fragrance pouring into their nostrils.
"What does it smell like? It smells so good!"
"It should be the wild flowers in the forest."
"Oh, it smells pretty good..."
"..."
Everyone was talking a lot. They were used to smelling the bloody smell of the apocalypse. Now they smelled the fragrance of wild flowers and felt extremely fresh. Flowers are the bloom of life and a beautiful yearning.
When Nayuki smelled the fragrance, she couldn't help but feel a little calmer.
But at this moment, she suddenly heard a crackling sound on the ground, as if there was something breaking. Then she looked in that direction, and her eyes suddenly widened.
Because she actually saw a withered and pale hand stretching out from the photo frame where the previous portrait was.
"Dad...look!"
Takahashi Yuya and others also noticed the movement and immediately turned their eyes, also showing fear.
In the photo frame, an arm was stretched out, then a shoulder, and then the old lady's old head, with the same weird smile on her face as before.
"this...."
Takahashi Yuya's eyes widened, and he instantly felt his scalp numb, his hairs standing on end, and the intense fear that almost suffocated him.
The old lady seemed to have practiced bone-shrinking skills. The bones of her body crackled and she actually came out of the narrow picture frame.
"What kind of monster is this!"
Facing the terrifying scene in front of him, Takahashi Yuya's scalp almost exploded. He clenched his teeth, pulled out the long knife with a clang, and instinctively swung it away.
"Shua——"
The long knife cut through the air and opened a large hole in the old lady's body, causing her body to fall backwards.
"Run!"
Takahashi Yuya picked up his daughter, turned around and ran away.
The rest of the people immediately followed his footsteps. Everyone panicked and hurriedly left the cemetery, looking back as they ran.
I found that the old lady didn't seem to stand up.
"Did you die just like that?"
Takahashi Yuya didn't know either, because...she didn't have the breath of life in her body.
However, he always felt that things would not be that simple.
I...can I really escape?
...
On the other side, Lin Dong followed the footsteps and arrived at the outskirts of the mountain forest. As soon as he took a look, he found something was wrong inside.
Because there is a faint layer of dust floating in the air in the forest.
With Lin Dong's eyesight, he can see clearly.
"Is it pollen..."
Moreover, this pollen seems to be mixed with the aura of the Corpse King.
It seems to be the fused corpse king.
Lin Dong immediately judged.
The mountain forest in front of us is not far from the provincial capital, just like the vast Beishan Mountain outside Jiangbei City.
There may be corpse kings like small mushrooms or flower pots guarding it.
Obviously, those pollen are not safe and may be a means of transmission or attack. Lin Dong does not want it to touch his body.
Because it will stain clothes...
This is very simple for Lin Dong. As long as a small amount of corpse field is emitted, the pollen can be isolated.
Then he walked into the forest.
There were a lot of people who had awakened from the island nation, leaving traces of trampling in the forest, and it could be seen that they were walking very hastily.
He must have been targeted by the Corpse King...
Lin Dong walked into the mountain forest, following the footprints left by humans, searching all the way forward.
After a while.
He smelled a faint smell of blood.
"Someone has died."
Lin Dong thinks this is not good news.
If everyone is eaten, then he will be forced to eat the corpse king...
He immediately rushed to the 'crime scene'.
The vegetation in the forest is dense, and rays of sunlight fall through the gaps in the leaves, creating a Dali Garden effect.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, not even a mutated beast or a bird chirping.
Lin Dong has encountered this situation.
There are no living creatures in the forest, which proves that... this place is ruled by apex predators.
After a while, the trees became sparse, and raised patches of earth appeared in front of them. There were many stone tablets in front of them, just like a cemetery.
The pollen here is very rich and smells like blood.
Lin Dong looked towards the ground.
I found a black and white portrait scattered not far away. There were traces of being wiped on it, and even human fingerprints were left on it.
The portrait shows an old woman with a wrinkled face and a solemn expression.
However, next to the portrait, there was also a corpse lying. Judging from the clothes he was wearing, he was a young man from an island country. However, there was a large tumor on his shoulder, which was as big as his head. It was very disgusting and ugly.
On his chest, a long knife opened a large gash, which exposed his body and took away his life.
The young man's eyes were still wide-eyed, retaining the despair and panic he had felt during his lifetime.
It can be seen that this man died not long ago, but at this time, several small pink flowers grew on his body, which were blooming particularly delicately.
The pink flowers, coupled with the young man's staring and frightened expression, formed a bizarre picture.
If other corpses saw this situation, they would definitely feel weird and terrifying.
The whole forest is filled with some weird colors.
But Lin Dong remained calm, and at a glance, he could tell what was going on.
Because he is an expert at doing this.
No one knows mutant plants better than him...
The current situation is too similar to the sarcoma parasitism of small mushrooms.
but.
What puzzled Lin Dong was that the knife wound on the young man's chest was obviously caused by a human being.
"Why do you want to kill your own people?"
It is not difficult to guess that it is probably the Corpse King here who is causing trouble, but his killing method is still unclear.
Lin Dong had no choice but to keep walking forward.
The human footprints ahead were still obvious, and they were even more panicked. It was obvious that something terrible had happened, and they fled in a hurry.
After leaving this cemetery, we have traversed the entire mountain forest and arrived at the outskirts. In front of us is a deserted farmland.
The fields are overgrown with weeds and without the cover of trees, the view is very wide.
At the edge of the farmland are a few dilapidated houses.
It was used by the farmer uncles to take a temporary break from working in the fields before the end of the world.
But the floating pollen, like the devil's claws, stretched out from the forest and enveloped those houses.
There was a strong human scent inside.
Apparently, Takahashi Yuya and others ran out of the woods without wanting to stay there for a moment, and hid directly in the field room.
At this moment, they were still frightened, thinking back to all the experiences last night.
First, he crashed in the wild, then accidentally entered a corpse nest, and finally escaped, only to encounter a ghost...
Takahashi Yuya now feels that there is no safe place at all.
"It's too dangerous here!"
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