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Chapter 1339 The Beginning of the Change (It’s Finally Cool Today)

"We'll find out pretty soon."

"Hey?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Sha Jiuye and Mr. Yamahara were both shocked, while Duanmu Huai held the engineer shovel in his hand and looked around. It was already late at night, and the entire campsite was pitch dark. Although there seemed to be street lights here, it was obvious that they could not be relied on for lighting in the current situation.

“Rustle…rustle…rustle…”

Soon, there was a sound in the bushes, and it was obvious that something was approaching. Duanmu Huai turned in another direction and looked over there.

"You guys hide behind me."

"Ah, okay."

Sha Jiuye and Mr. Yamahara also hurriedly hid behind Duanmu Huai, while Duanmu Huai stared in the direction of the bushes. At the same time, Sha Jiuye suddenly frowned and then covered his mouth.

“Ouch…it stinks…”

"Really, what does this smell like..."

Teacher Yamahara also had a look of disgust on his face, while Duanmu Huai's face was slightly gloomy, because he was sure that the smell was none other than the stench he had felt before he met the bear in the mountains!

"Roar-----!!"

  At this moment, a huge black bear suddenly emerged from the bushes and pounced towards Duanmu Huai!

This scene was simply a repeat of what happened during the day, except that this time, the huge black shadow did not stop. On the contrary, it seemed fearless and directly waved its claws towards Duanmu Huai's head!

"roll!"

  Facing a mere black bear, Duanmu Huai certainly didn't take it seriously. He just roared, raised the engineer shovel in his hand, and smashed it hard on the black bear's head—————!

"Pfft."

The next moment, the engineer shovel smashed the black bear's head and sent it flying. The headless body of the huge black bear fell heavily to the ground, twitching a few times before becoming motionless.

“No way…?”

At this moment, Mr. Yamahara, who was hiding behind Duanmu Huai, also widened his eyes and looked out in disbelief at the scene in front of him. Although people would believe that Duanmu Huai could kill a bear at the age of ten, that was just an analogy, not that he could really kill a bear!

And now, Duanmu Huai actually killed a bear in front of them with his bare hands—well, he just used a shovel?

  Even Sha Jiuye was stunned. Even if the system instilled her understanding of Duanmu Huai, there is still a difference between understanding and seeing with one's own eyes!

"Ok?"

Unlike the other two, Duanmu Huai also frowned at this moment, staring at the corpse in front of him with confusion.

In fact, when Duanmu Huai swung the engineer shovel just now, he discovered something.

It doesn't feel right.

Duanmu Huai used a shovel to hit the black bear. So logically, he should be able to feel the heavy muscles and hard skull of the black bear from the shovel. You should know that black bears are very thick-skinned and tough. If you shoot a gun at the head, it will basically be blocked by the bear skin or skull unless you shoot at the eyes like in the movies or shoot at the head when the bear opens its mouth.

Even though Duanmu Huai's strength is great, at least he will feel something like hitting an eggshell.

However, when Duanmu Huai hit it with the spatula just now, it felt like it hit a sponge or a cake. There was no resistance at all. Instead, it felt so soft that it made people feel a little nauseous.

“How strange…”

Duanmu Huai walked forward and used the searchlight on his head to illuminate the black bear's corpse in front of him. He saw that the black bear's head had completely exploded, and its body had become soft like a deflated ball - to be honest, it looked a bit like a balloon made of real bear skin after it had deflated.

"It must be dead."

At this moment, Sha Jiuye also carefully poked his head out from behind Duanmu Huai and asked in a low voice.

"It's definitely dead, but... well... it didn't run away this time."

"Maybe it was because it was dark and I didn't see my brother?"

"I don't think so."

Duanmu Huai silently glanced at the system bar, and there was not even any prompt on it.

"Hey, look!!"

At this moment, Mr. Yamahara next to them suddenly shouted and pointed at the bear. The two looked carefully, and then an unexpected scene appeared - under the light, the body of the black bear began to rot and melt rapidly, and in a moment it turned into a pool of black mud, and then disappeared into the ground.

"Eh————What on earth is this?"

Seeing this, Sakuya screamed in shock, and Teacher Yamahara turned pale. Only Duanmu Huai remained calm.

Hmm...obviously this isn't normal.

  In other words, it is the evil god who is causing trouble?

Or is this earthquake also related to the evil god?

  Then... then... everything will be fine!

Duanmu Huai was immediately relieved.

  That's right, that's right. Generally, investigators need to follow up and search to stop the conspiracy of evil gods or cultists in order to prevent trouble before it happens, but Duanmu Huai doesn't need to. Just summon him, and I'll beat him to death in front of you. What's the meaning of taking precautions before it happens? There is no such thing! I'll beat you to death! If you have the guts, summon him. If I can't beat him to death after summoning him, I'll admit my defeat!

"It looks like something is not right here."

Although he was so excited that he wanted to kill the other party immediately, Duanmu Huai still turned around and looked at the two of them.

"Why don't you guys go back to the car first, I'll go up and take a look at the situation."

Duanmu Huai thought that after such a shock, both of them would go back immediately. Unexpectedly, Sha Jiuye shook his head desperately, and even Mr. Yamahara said that he would continue to follow up, because from the data of the seismometer he got, the source of the earthquake was in this mountain, so he wanted to go and see what caused the earthquake!

You really don't want to live?

Duanmu Huai did not try to persuade him anymore. After all, it was the other party who was risking his life, not him. Although in the eyes of both of them, he was the one who was risking his life, but Duanmu Huai... forget it, there was no point in talking about this now.

Just go ahead.

So the three of them set out again, heading upwards.

Not long after passing the camping site, Duanmu Huai and others arrived at the construction site again.

However, the construction site is in a mess right now, with materials overturned on the ground and the machinery used for construction lying all over the place - well, I don't know how much money the insurance company will have to pay.

"Hello—is there anyone there?" Duanmu Huai was too lazy to look for someone, he just opened his mouth and yelled.

"Is there anyone here? Answer me now!!"

Duanmu Huai's roar echoed in the forest, but the entire forest was dead silent, with no reaction at all. At this moment, Sha Jiuye's expression changed, and he reached out to pull the corner of Duanmu Huai's clothes.

"Brother, is there any sound over there?"

"Which way?"

"there."

As she spoke, Sha Jiuye pointed to the other side of the mountain at the construction site. Duanmu Huai walked in the direction of her finger and then shouted again.

"Hey, is there anyone here? Speak!"

"…………………this………"

"save……………"

This time, even Duanmu Huai heard the faint sound coming from nearby. He adjusted the direction again, and then Duanmu Huai saw a place that looked like a collapsed cave. The sound seemed to come from inside - well, you'll know when you take a look.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai opened his thousand eyes, and soon, countless eyes flashed in the darkness. Then Duanmu Huai saw that at the other end of the collapsed cave, several workers were sitting or lying. Judging from their miserable appearance, this group of people seemed to be very miserable too.

"Alas-----!"

At this moment, one of the workers seemed to have noticed something. He jumped up suddenly and looked in the direction of Duanmu Huai's thousand eyes in surprise and suspicion.

"Yes, there is something! Something is looking at us! Monster! Monster——————!!"

"Hey, are you okay? Calm down!"

"Hold him down, what are you doing, stop making noise——!"

Well……………

Duanmu Huai silently retracted his Thousand Eyes.

Never mind, since their location has been confirmed, now...

"Brother? Is there anyone down there?"

"Yes."

"Then what do we do now?"

"How to do?"

Duanmu Huai raised the engineer shovel in his hand.

“Just dig.”

Fortunately, the cave's collapse was not serious. The reason they didn't dig it out by themselves was that a large rock blocked the cave. However, this kind of rock was not a problem for Duanmu Huai. He clenched his fist and punched the stone. The next moment, with a thunderous roar, the entire stone suddenly broke and cracked, revealing the dark hole inside. Seeing the hole open, the workers were also very excited and hurried out.

"Finally saved!"

"I thought I was going to be buried down there!"

"Oh my god, it's finally out!"

The workers were obviously extremely frightened. They climbed out of the cave despite their injuries. When they learned that it was Duanmu Huai who rescued them, they thanked him profusely. Since many of them were injured and some even had fractures, they returned to the simple shack next to the construction site to bandage and treat their wounds.

Sakyuye and Mr. Yamahara also joined in the effort to help. As for Duanmu Huai… well, forget about him. After all, if he got close to a wounded person, the wound would bleed. So he just walked around and found a worker with intact hands and feet to ask about the details.

  After all, if it was just an earthquake, why would they go to the cave? Wouldn't that be courting death?

Also, why didn’t they go home but stayed on the construction site when they should have gotten off work long ago?

Faced with Duanmu Huai's questions, the worker was a little nervous, but he still answered Duanmu Huai's questions obediently.

"In the afternoon, we dug a cave."

"Cave?"

"Yes, that's it... We were just curious at the time and didn't know what was inside. Some people said it might be a stalactite cave, while others worried that there was a cavity underneath. But no matter what, the captain decided to take us in to take a look. After all, the geological survey originally said there was nothing wrong with this place, but now there is a cave, which makes no sense..."

"and then?"

"Then... we went in. The cave itself was not complicated. There was only one path, but it was very deep. We even thought we had walked to the lake because some people heard the sound of water and the smell of moisture..."

By the way, there is indeed a lake next to the camping site.

"Also, after we walked deeper, we heard a strange sound—not the sound of water, nor coming from anywhere else, but as if it came from the cave itself. It was very uncomfortable, even if we covered our ears, we couldn't resist it, as if the sound was directly entering our brains..."

At this point, the worker's expression turned pale.

“Everyone felt something was wrong and wanted to leave, but the captain insisted on moving forward. The further we went inside, the louder the sound became, and finally we saw…”

At this moment, the worker's body seemed to have begun shaking uncontrollably, and his pupils gradually dilated, but he continued to speak, as if he was out of control.

"I don't know what it was. It was huge and terrifying. It was like... I don't know, but it was obvious that we had entered its lair... That guy seemed to hate light, maybe because he had been living underground. So when we went in, that guy rushed straight towards us! Everyone, everyone was running away desperately! But the captain said that we couldn't escape like this, so he asked everyone to turn off the lights, and then he took the flashlight to lure the monster away, and then... Aa ...

At this point, the worker seemed to have finally reached his limit. He screamed, hugged his head, and squatted down, shaking and screaming.

Duanmu Huai looked at the workers and thought at the same time.

In other words, it wasn't an earthquake, but the vibration caused by the monster tracking these workers?

  What on earth is this? Can a little bit of activity cause an earthquake?

…………Anyway, just go down and take a look and you’ll find out.