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Chapter 118 Horror Story in the Dark

It was raining outside the car; inside the car, Xie Yuzhi put down the phone brought by her father with a subtle expression.She turned around and said to her friends:

"Father just called. He said that Baiyue Town has been sealed off by the government."

Yan Jingxing blinked.

"...Blockade? So those cars just now were..."

"Well, it should be someone who is preparing to set up a sentry, or the sentry has already been set up and is patrolling the road."

Yan Jingxing couldn't help but fall into silence.

This is the first time they have encountered such a situation: this adventure is no longer limited to three people, but involves people around them and even the entire town.

Is it related to that black tower?

If this is really the case, will the official response be too fast?As soon as the front leg of the Black Tower was activated, someone came over from the back leg...

"Send me home first. I want to confirm the situation."

*
After returning home, as soon as Yan Yongzhi saw his nephew coming back, he immediately called him with a serious expression.

"Jing Xing, I just have something to tell you." He ordered, "It doesn't matter if you run around normally, but you'd better not go out these days."

Yan Jingxing paused for a moment, having a premonition in his heart, and turned around with a pretended puzzled expression on his face.

"Did something happen?"

"Well, it's a bit bad." The uncle rubbed his eyebrows, as if he was hesitating whether to tell the child this, but in the end he did not choose to hide it, "Someone died in the town."

"……died?"

"It's a murder case."

So, Yan Jingxing suddenly thought of the convoy he saw on the way back.

However, if a general murder occurs, do armored vehicles need to be sent over, and the entire town needs to be cordoned off?
"The situation is serious?"

"I don't know the specific situation yet. I know that the murderer has not been arrested and is probably still lurking in this town. So you must be careful. It is best to stay at home during this period."

In fact, Yan Yongzhi heard some things:

The victims in the town were a family. The whole family died. It is said that the death was very miserable. The person who reported the crime was their neighbor. As soon as he entered the house and saw the scene, he fainted from fright. When he woke up, he quickly called the police.Several police officers who came later vomited all over the floor...

A colleague whose family had connections with the police station described it vividly to them.

Baiyue Town Experimental Middle School is the only junior high school in the town. Most parents in the town and more than a dozen nearby villages send their children to study here. People from all walks of life and all walks of life are there. In this kind of rural small school Once news leaks from one person's mouth, it quickly becomes common knowledge.

In this quiet and peaceful town, a vicious incident that is rare in ten years suddenly occurred. The murderer has not been caught so far, which is of course a big deal.

Like a huge boulder dropped into a quiet pool of water far away from the crowds, the ripples formed by alcoholism have not dissipated; there are various opinions, and the teachers in the school basically all live nearby, so they can't help but feel uneasy.

Some people suspected that it was a group of professional robbers who broke into houses and robbed houses. And judging from the situation at the scene, there might be more than one person in this group of robbers, and they were a whole group of vicious criminals.

If this is true, the situation is even more serious: although the murder occurred in the town, the gang could be anywhere.

"No matter what else you want to do, or your friend wants to play with you, wait until the police arrest the person and everything settles down."

Yan Yongzhi warned his nephew.Yan Jingxing nodded obediently, indicating that he understood.

"Does everyone in the school know this news? It's summer vacation now, and we're not in school. There will definitely be people going out to play. Isn't it dangerous?"

"Teachers will call parents to inform them and ask them to keep an eye on their children."

The uncle waved to him, turned around and went to make a phone call.

……

Yan Jingxing did his homework for a while, then went out to stretch, and then heard voices in the living room.

He leaned against the wall and stood behind the door, eavesdropping on the phone calls between his uncle and his colleagues.

"I just had a meeting, and the leader was very lucky. He said that fortunately the students are on vacation now. If it happened during school, it would be troublesome. I don't know if classes should be suspended. If the teaching process is stopped and the teaching process cannot be caught up, there are Parents will still have objections, but if someone goes missing or dies, the school will really have to take responsibility."

...How realistic, Yan Jingxing thought.

"That's right. By the way, how is the situation over there?"

"I have notified everyone who needs to be notified. Some people always don't answer the phone, so I can only come to their door. What about you?"

"It's the same here. There are a few households where I don't know if no one is there or if they don't have phones. Are you leaving together later?"

"Okay." My colleague laughed, "To be honest, I'm a little scared to go out alone now."

Yan Yongzhi put down the phone and turned around to see Yan Jingxing hiding in the corner and eavesdropping. He was a little bit dumbfounded.

"Did you hear what I just said? You and your two friends should be careful. Don't go out in the next few days."

"I know, I know, you've said it several times."

"As long as you know. Okay, I'll go out later, and I've made an appointment with my colleagues to visit the students who don't answer the phone."

"Very busy? Can you come back tonight?"

"I can't tell. If I haven't come back by six or seven o'clock, there are still leftovers in the refrigerator. You can eat it by yourself... Hey, I suddenly remembered that I am still on vacation like you."

Yan Yongzhi reached out and rubbed his nephew's head.

"Sir, you'd better work harder and cherish the moment."

*
The night is getting darker.

Yan Jingxing sat in front of the window, looking at the courtyard gradually being covered by gloom, and felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart for some reason.

He had already spoken on the phone with Xie Yuzhi and Ji Chunzao, and both of them knew that a murder had occurred in the town.

Fortunately for Miss Xie, Chun Zao, like herself, is closely watched by adults and cannot go out for the time being.After chatting for a while, everyone decided to find an opportunity to meet again in two days.

He put down his pen and walked out, looking at the gloomy sky tonight with no stars or moon. The dullness in his breath seemed to indicate that a new heavy rain was coming.

……no.

Unlike his two friends, he has powerful and free abilities, and nothing in the world can restrict his actions.

If he really listens to adults and sits at home like an ordinary child and does nothing, then he is really a fool.

Yan Jingxing turned back to his room, and then a figure wearing a raincoat walked out of the courtyard and jumped over the door wall, moving as dexterously as an ape.

His movements paused for a moment before flying directly into the sky.

*
"Teacher Zhao, is this the last one?"

Yan Yongzhi held the contact book and stood in front of a two-story single-family house, looking at the closed wooden door in front of him.

The windows on the second floor were dark, and the thick curtains blocked the view of others from prying eyes, not allowing even half of the light in the room to shine through.The house stood in the silent night like an upright cliff.

"I don't know if anyone is home."

In this place, about a few hundred meters away from the center of the town, there is a row of houses with uneven heights and angular eaves. Downstairs is a row of shops, including cigarette shops, clothing stores and hardware stores. They are all closed at this time.Unlike in cities, people in small towns still maintain a rhythm of life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

"I went to knock on the door?"

"Ah."

Teacher Zhao pushed open the wooden door.This door is only half a person tall, and there is a security door on the steps inside. There is a courtyard between the two doors.

The yard is lush and green, but if you look closely, you can see that the plants in several pots have fallen into mud, as if they have been roughly trampled on.

Yan Yongzhi frowned.

The silence around the house was like a tomb, and he felt a pang of uneasiness in his heart.

"Wait a minute, Teacher Zhao."

"Well, what happened?"

Colleagues, stand firm.

"...I'll make a phone call first to see if his family is here."

Yan Yongzhi took a deep breath and said.

"It's so late and it's not a good idea to come and disturb you."

"Too."

Teacher Zhao thought for a while and then withdrew his hand preparing the tips.

Yan Yongzhi picked up the phone and dialed the number again.

This was the home of a student in his class. He remembered that this classmate was one of the more active in the class. His family members were also very concerned about their children's academic performance and often called to ask.

So when I called him this time, I made several calls but no one answered the phone. Yan Yongzhi felt a little strange.

"...Du, Du, Du..."

Got connected.He said quickly:

"Hello, I'm Yan Yongzhi, do you remember me?"

No one answered.

Although the call was connected, there was only silence from the other side of the radio wave.

"Is this Mr. Sun? I am your child's class teacher. Hello, hello? Is anyone at home?"

Yan Yongzhi pricked up his ears and waited for a while.Not sure if it was an illusion, but he seemed to hear the echo of some kind of liquid dripping on the ground.

Tick, tick, tick, falling from the void...

"No one picks up?"

"Answered, but no one said anything."

Yan Yongzhi said that the uneasiness in his heart was getting stronger.

"Hey, forget it, let's just knock on the door."

This time, Teacher Zhao, who was a little impatient, knocked on the door without waiting for him to speak again.

"Is anyone here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the security door automatically opened back.

"Is the door open?"

Teacher Zhao muttered and poked his head into the door.

"Why don't you even turn on a light..."

The first floor was also dark. From Yan Yongzhi's perspective, his colleague's back seemed to be swallowed by a huge mouth waiting for prey to come to him, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

"Wait! Don't...!"

"Puff!" Before Yan Yongzhi could shout, there was the sound of glass being broken, followed by a loud noise from the alley beside the house, which startled him.

"Did something fall from the window?"

Yan Yongzhi took a few steps forward and his eyes fell on the wet bluestone road.

A black shadow was slowly crawling on the ground, making a weak and miserable gasp.

Until he got closer and used the light of the flashlight to see the pale face clearly.

"Sun Hao? Are you Sun Hao? What's wrong with you?!"

Yan Yongzhi recognized the faces of the students in his class and quickly ran forward, intending to help him up.

"Old, teacher..."

Sun Hao tried hard to raise his head, his cracked lips trembled, and he could only say "teacher" in a toneless voice.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't talk yet."

Yan Yongzhi didn't know what happened. It was so dark and he couldn't check whether there was anything abnormal in Sun Hao's physical condition. The only thing he could do was to call "120" quickly.

"Old, teacher..."

Yan Yongzhi was pressing the buttons, but classmate Sun Hao lying next to him refused to stop and continued to speak hard, trying to convey something to him.

"Don't worry, I've called an ambulance. You need to rest first..."

"——Run away..."

Yan Yongzhi was stunned.

Then, he saw the boy lying on the ground suddenly open his mouth, the corners of his lips split open until the teeth, gums and base of the tongue were clearly visible, and his facial muscles rolled up to both sides.

It's like there's another person hiding in the boy's body, a monster that wears humans like a holster——

An unusually fat arm stretched out from Sun Hao's mouth. The skin on the arm was layered with wrinkles, like it was wrapped with a lot of fat, or like the swelling of a drowned corpse after being soaked. It shot towards Yan Yongzhi's neck. Grab the ground.

In panic, Yan Yongzhi stepped back a few steps to avoid the attack, but failed to keep his feet steady and sat down on the ground.

He could only watch helplessly as the monster slowly emerged from the boy's body, emerging from the human body like a cicada shedding its shell, and stood in the middle of the alley.

——It was a pale giant, more than two meters tall, with a bloated body, with "fat" stacked up like swimming rings. At first glance, it looked like the mascot of Michelin tires, with its body covered with transparent of slime and flesh.

The corpse at its feet had long lost its human shape, its head was completely deformed and torn in half, and its body deflated like a burst balloon.

It can be seen that its body is full of incredible elasticity. Otherwise, with its current size, it would be impossible to get into the body of a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old.

Yan Yongzhi's legs felt weak and his mind went blank, knowing that he could no longer escape...

(End of this chapter)