Calamity Dance

Chapter 18 Tragedy
The sun is getting stronger towards noon.With no trees for shelter, the ruins of the village were as hot as a steamer.Xu Qingquan, who was a little nervous, was already sweating profusely, and kept wiping the sweat off his face with his collar.Sanqianying walked ahead, continuing to search for the nightmare-eating tapir.

"Didn't you say that you received a distress signal, why not pinpoint the location of the distress signal and see where it is, and you may find new discoveries." Xu Qingquan made a suggestion, although he didn't know if it was feasible.

"Because there are not many signal base stations, the signal in the rain forest will be much weaker than that in ordinary towns. Besides, this village is already very small, and it is estimated that there are only a few dozen households at most. It is already very good to be able to locate the location of the village, no matter how accurate it is. It can't be done." Sanqianying shook her head, expressing that it was very difficult.

"This kind of beast can slaughter the entire village, are you sure that you are alone?" Xu Qingquan murmured in his heart, after all, what he saw was just a girl in her early 20s.

"Isn't there still you here?" Sanqianying turned her head and said to him with a smile.

"Farewell!" Xu Qingquan waved his hands quickly, and the sweat dripped from his head, "24 hours ago, I was a dead person, and now I am alive again, and I am a cripple, you still have to free your hands to protect me .”

"Don't worry, it's fine. The nightmare-eating tapir is only a third-level beast spirit. It's not big. It looks like a wild boar. It's very common. No matter how strong it is, it can only reach the second-level. But it was rare for beast spirits to attack people before. There must be a reason for the incident, let alone the massacre of an entire human village, so I will tell you about the situation after I deal with it, and see if there is any news from the Beast Spirit King."

"It seems that you guys are very familiar with this kind of beast spirit, and you have divided it into levels, but these three levels can kill so many people, and the higher levels will endanger the safety of the planet?" Xu Qingquan couldn't imagine it anymore. , the smell of blood has filled the surroundings. Although no corpse was seen, the scene of the massacre of the entire village has emerged in Xu Qingquan's mind back and forth.He subconsciously covered his nose with his hand, it was too uncomfortable.

"Don't think too much, there is no need for the beast spirits to compete with us for territory, they are still very friendly. But what's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable?" Sanqianying noticed Xu Qingquan's strangeness, stopped and asked.

"Didn't you smell it? The whole air smelled of blood. I've never felt it before. It's like soaking in a pool of blood." Xu Qingquan frowned, feeling like he was about to suffocate.

"No!" Sanqianying took a deep breath, "I didn't smell anything. I guess it's because your senses are different from ordinary people, after all, your body doesn't have the same blood as ours. "

Xu Qingquan didn't answer the call, if Sanqianying hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten that he is no longer a normal person.Now I can only endure the unpleasant smell forcibly.

The two passed a slightly larger yard, the house inside had two floors, and there was a huge open-air square platform. "Go in and have a look." Xu Qingquan said, "It looks like a place where villagers gather for activities. If there is a rescue device, then this must be the most suitable place to install it. And I feel that the smell of blood is particularly strong inside, so go in and have a look. "

"Okay, you have the ability of a guard hound!" Sanqianying pushed open the rusty iron gate of the courtyard.The iron gate has been in disrepair for a long time and is a bit rusty and loose. It can be opened with a push. It should not look like it will be useless for a long time.Sanqianying briefly looked around and said, "It hasn't rained in the forest for the past few days, and there is not much dust in the courtyard. There must be people who have been active recently. You go to the small room over there and I will check over there. Two floors." Sanqianying pointed to the small bungalow on the side, which looked like a small warehouse.

Xu Qingquan listened to her command and went to the small bungalow to investigate, and the purple energy field also followed Xu Qingquan.The door of the small bungalow was ajar, and there were some old photos hanging inside, most of which were group photos of the elderly.This village should be lived by a group of old people. In this era, the only people who are willing to watch the open-air stage are these remote jungles far away from urban civilization. Thinking that the old people may have suffered misfortune, Xu Qingquan felt very uncomfortable.He cheered himself up, determined to find out the real culprit that caused the tragedy to happen here.The sense of justice instantly burned in Xu Qingquan's chest.In addition to the cabinets for displaying photos, there are only a few square tables in the room.Xu Qingquan stepped forward and touched the table. There was no dust on it. It should be that there were still people here when the distress signal was sent out.There are some old-fashioned agricultural tools in the corner of the room, which Xu Qingquan has only seen in books. These hoes, shovels, sickles and other tools in the farming civilization era have long been replaced by mechanized harvesters.However, these agricultural tools are still neatly placed in the house, which means that when danger comes, everyone does not even have any time to react.

"Come here, I have a situation here." Sanqianying's voice sounded in the yard, Xu Qingquan immediately stopped looking in the room, and walked out quickly, heading towards the direction the voice came from.

Sanqianying stood at the door of the two-story building, showing a nervous expression. "What's the matter?" Xu Qingquan asked before he walked over.

"Don't rush in, just take a look inside." Sanqianying lowered her voice.

Xu Qingquan looked in the direction Sanqianying was pointing at, and the situation in front of him made his eyes widen.

The walls of the two-story building are made of glass sliding doors, and the back door of the room is also made of glass sliding doors, so you can see through the whole situation of the house and the backyard at a glance.Through two layers of old and fuzzy glass sliding doors, Xu Qingquan vaguely saw densely packed people kneeling on the ground in the backyard.This scene made Xu Qingquan shudder, and he tensed up after relaxing a little.

Sanqianying took the lead to go in, pushed open the glass sliding door, and entered the building, without the isolation of a glass door, the scene in the backyard was clearer, yes, there were indeed dense crowds of people kneeling inside, and they were facing the other Side, back to the house, head down, can not see the top of the head. "Do you want to go in..." Xu Qingquan said in a low voice, he was very scared, and his hands and feet were a little uncontrollable.

"Don't be afraid, you didn't smell any other smells, did you?" Sanqianying confirmed to Xu Qingquan.

"Not at the moment, only the smell of blood."

"Well, the nightmare-eating tapir should not be nearby, it just left an illusion and left, I don't know if it will come back, let's go in and have a look first, it's okay, don't be nervous!" Sanqianying comforted Xu Qingquan with a smile , let Xu Qingquan relax a little, and concentrate on smelling the strange smell around him.

After pushing open the second sliding door, the whole scene was exposed in front of the two of them.The backyard was densely packed with kneeling people, who should be villagers from the looks of their clothes.When the door was just opened, many flies swarmed into the house. It seemed that some corpses had already begun to rot in the sweltering heat and humidity of the rainforest.The backyard is very large. It is estimated that there are hundreds of people, and the whole village is about that many people.

Xu Qingquan didn't dare to say anything, and followed Sanqianying closely, standing in the purple energy field.The two walked around to the side of the kneeling crowd and leaned over to check.Seeing the faces of the crowd, Xu Qingquan was even more shocked. Everyone's eyes widened, their faces twisted and stared at the ground in front of them, and their bodies seemed to have been drained of blood, withered and weak.Xu Qingquan felt nauseous, covered his mouth with his hands, and turned his back. "Don't turn around, throw up as much as you want! Don't leave your back to unknown enemies! There will be many such things in the future!" Sanqianying warned.Xu Qingquan was forced to turn around and looked at the corpse of the villager kneeling on the ground.

"They should all be dead, it's been more than two days." Sanqianying sighed and analyzed, "Both of us should have died when we came yesterday. I guess it didn't take long for the rescue alarm to be controlled and drained." body."

Xu Qingquan didn't speak, he couldn't speak, he could only listen to Sanqianying.He couldn't believe all this in front of him, and he couldn't believe that a girl in her early 20s could face this situation so calmly, as if she had experienced it many times.

In the dense crowd, Xu Qingquan seemed to have seen the old aunt when she first entered the village. She didn't expect that this old aunt was really a resident of the village, and what did she do wrong? "Are they all eaten by the nightmare?" Xu Qingquan squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

"Not all of them were eaten, only part of them were eaten, and the rest were exhausted in order to satisfy its desire to kill."

"What's wrong with these villagers, they have to suffer such cruel killings! I want to kill it for revenge!" Xu Qingquan gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

"When we came in just now, we violently destroyed the illusion it constructed. It may have been discovered by it. We must always be careful and not be careless."

"Yes!" Xu Qingquan calmed down a little, and continued to feel the atmosphere around him.Suddenly, a different breath floated into his nose.This smell is completely different from the smell of blood. It is a sour smell mixed with the smell of carrion.He quickly looked around, and when he looked back at the room, there was already a huge blurry figure outside the iron gate of the compound.

Sanqianying also noticed this, and immediately dragged Xu Qingquan into the room, and returned to the compound at the main entrance just now.The giant beast in front of it was brownish red, with the body of a horse, the face and mane of a lion, a thick and long nose like an elephant, and a thick tail. When it was lying down, it was already a head taller than a human. It is as wide as two people.Seeing the two people coming out, the nightmare-eating tapir stood on its hind legs, its claws were extremely sharp, and it made a deafening cry like a cow.

Xu Qingquan was immobilized by this momentum.But Sanqianying remained calm, with a firm expression, glaring at the giant beast in front of her, and said, "Nightmare eating tapir! I don't know if you have a name, but I know you can speak our language! Why did you commit such a crime of massacre! "

Xu Qingquan was completely at a loss, turned his head and asked, "Can this thing still communicate with people? How do you speak to it with some polite grammar?"

The nightmare-eating tapir didn't respond and continued to growl.It landed on its front foot, panting heavily in its nostrils, and stared straight at the two with its two big blood-red eyes.

Xu Qingquan looked into the eyes of the dream-eating tapir, and suddenly the world around him began to spin, and the world began to turn upside down.He couldn't stand and sat down on the ground. The dream-eating tapir in front of him disappeared at some point, and Xiao Nan appeared in front of him.

(End of this chapter)