Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 182 176. Past Events
"Yes, yes... About ten years ago, there was a heavy fog. It was so thick that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. People had to stand face to face to see each other clearly."

The old man's eyes were blurred and he was lost in his memories. He began to tell the story of what had shocked their village that year.

"But the villagers have to keep going, and it's just a thick fog, and there are no dangerous animals like tigers, leopards, jackals or wolves around, so those who go into the mountains to collect herbs continue to go into the mountains to collect herbs, and those who chop wood continue to chop wood."

After all, Jingzhou is densely covered with waterways, so it is reasonable to have occasional heavy fog, and the locals are naturally not surprised.

"But at that time, there was a boy who chopped wood here. I remember his name was... Xiao Liuzi. He encountered a terrifying thing when he entered the mountains..."

That morning, Xiao Liuzi said goodbye to his mother at home as usual, carried his bamboo basket and took his axe and went to Zhangshan.

Although the fog was so thick that people could not be seen a few meters away and they could only communicate by voice, Xiao Liuzi had been walking on the road to Zhangshan for more than ten years, almost the first half of his life, so the thick fog blocking his vision did not have much impact on him.

In the village, Xiao Liuzi could still say hello to the elders and fellow villagers without seeing each other. But once he left the village, there were not many people outside. Even if there were, they were familiar colleagues or people collecting herbs. Everyone was familiar with each other.

After an hour or so, Xiao Liuzi groped his way up the mountain. The path was treacherous and difficult, so he had to be careful.

Although it took more time than usual, it did not affect Xiao Liuzi's efficiency in chopping wood. He soon reached the woods he was familiar with, unloaded his bamboo basket, took his axe and prepared to chop wood.

Xiao Liuzi played table tennis for a while and his arms felt sore, so he sat on the ground to rest for a while and recover his strength. This was just like he usually did.

However, today's fog has lasted for a long time. It is almost morning now, and the fog is still everywhere. The visibility has not changed much. In fact, due to the lack of air circulation above Zhang Mountain, the fog seems thicker than that at the foot of the mountain.

"Crack... crack... cluck!"

Suddenly, a strange noise was heard in the fog, causing Xiao Liuzi to look sideways towards the place where the sound came from.

The noise just now was made up of two parts. One part was something stepping on the mud, but it didn't sound like human footsteps. Human footsteps are faster, and generally there are no other unusual sounds except when they hit the ground.

The "footsteps" just now, in addition to being slower in frequency, also had a crackling sound, like the sound of wood, which was a sound that Xiao Liuzi had never heard of before.

The human voice was also strange. It didn't sound like someone was talking. There was only one man's voice from beginning to end, and what he made sounded like the whistle of riding a horse or herding sheep, rather than a normal "language".

"Who is this dot?"

Xiao Liuzi couldn't help but stand up and quietly moved in that direction. Xiao Liuzi was young and quite curious about this kind of thing. He was also very brave, so he quietly moved towards the place where the sound came from.

“Crack…Crack…”

However, to Xiao Liuzi's surprise, as he got closer, he could tell that there seemed to be more than one footsteps, but the time when many footsteps landed was almost the same, so if you didn't listen carefully, you couldn't hear them at all.

“Crack…Crack…”

Slowly, Xiao Liuzi approached the place where the sound came from. From his feeling, the other party was probably less than twenty steps in front of him, but because of the heavy fog, neither side could see each other.

"Lehut!"

Suddenly, a low shout was heard in the thick fog, exactly the same voice as the man just now. However, Xiao Liuzi had no idea what he meant by the shout. He could only observe silently, hoping that the other person would come into his sight.

“Crack…Crack…”

Xiao Liuzi was squatting in a bush, and heard footsteps getting closer and closer to him. It seemed to be the footsteps of four or five people, but from beginning to end there was only the man's voice, and these people did not communicate at all, which seemed very strange. However, as a black shadow appeared in the thick fog, Xiao Liuzi knew that the other party was coming, so he simply held his breath and wanted to see clearly who the other party was.

Slowly, following this black shadow, three more black shadows followed behind. They lined up in a row and walked steadily towards this direction.

"Could it be bandits or soldiers from somewhere?"

Xiao Liuzi saw that the other party's way of marching was quite military style, and couldn't help but speculate in his mind.

But immediately, he knew he was wrong, very wrong.

The black shadow in the front walked to a distance of three or four meters from him, but Xiao Liuzi hid in the bushes and took advantage of the heavy fog so he was not afraid of being discovered by the other party. He just looked carefully.

The man was wearing a coarse cloth shirt that you can find everywhere, and ordinary pants, and everything seemed normal. But Xiao Liuzi felt that something was wrong, so he looked up and saw that the man was wearing a strange wooden mask, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

Xiao Liuzi saw that the man moved stiffly and paused when he walked, which made him unable to help but feel suspicious.

The old people often said that there were mountain spirits and ghosts in this mountain, as well as zombies that were dead but still had a breath of resentment, just like the person in front of him.

“Crack…Crack…”

The first person passed by quickly, and the second person passed by the bushes where Xiao Liuzi was hiding. Xiao Liuzi looked carefully and found that his clothes were exactly the same as the previous person, with no difference.

But then Xiao Liuzi discovered the problem. This person was just like the previous one. When he walked, his arms did not move at all. They just hung quietly on both sides of his body, and his palms were also tucked into his sleeves, so he did not look like a human.

However, there will always be bumps when walking, and Xiao Liuzi took advantage of the other party's bumps to see a scene that made him terrified. There was no arm in the man's sleeve, it was clearly a piece of wood!
"what!"

After all, Xiao Liuzi was just an ordinary countryman. When he encountered this situation, he was inevitably surprised and screamed in fear.

"Tekalu!"

However, the other party seemed to have discovered him because of the scream. The man behind him who was nowhere to be found shouted again, and the "figures" in front of him all stopped.

Xiao Liuzi's first reaction in panic and fear was to chop down one of the "monsters" before they could react, and then escape in the fog. As for killing people and reporting to the police, he had long forgotten about them. All he thought about now was how to survive.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Xiao Liuzi shouted, encouraged himself, picked up the woodcutting axe at hand and swung it straight at the head of the man in front of him.

"when"

However, there was no feeling of flesh and blood as imagined, but instead a feeling that Xiao Liuzi was very familiar with, exactly the same feeling he felt when chopping wood every day. It was the sound of metal hitting wood.

The mask on the opponent's face was chopped off directly by Xiao Liuzi's axe and fell directly to the ground, allowing Xiao Liuzi to see the opponent's face.

It was not a big deal but it cost Xiao Liuzi his life.

There were no facial features or head under the mask. It was just a piece of polished wood without any human organs.

(End of this chapter)