Absurd Deduction Game

"That…"

 In the silence, the Siren drawled and asked a clear question: "Are we going to take a detour?"

Lao Huang woke up with a start, trembled, and grabbed Zhao Mou's sleeve: "Quick, quick, quick, before she notices us, let's go!"

 The woman's voice was still there, whimpering, whimpering.

Zhao Mou frowned slightly, and pulled off Old Huang's unruly hand from his sleeve with some gloominess: "Don't touch it."

"Oh, oh..." Lao Huang was a little embarrassed, but even more anxious, "Let's go!"

"No." Zhao Mou snorted, "The forest is so big, how long will it take to go around it? If it's like you said, this forest doesn't exist...how can you be sure that you can go around it?"

 Lao Huang's face showed shock: "Then what do you want to do?"

Zhao Mou: "Want to go in and take a look?"

 He twirled his copper coin bracelet and said with sharp eyes: "Come on, I just happened to see something - what the **** dares to wander out at six o'clock."

"Stop!" Lao Huang was frightened. "Damn it, you can't do this. I'm sorry, I'm not lying to you. This thing is really dangerous and can kill people!"

He turned his head and said anxiously to Yu Xing and Siren: "Please persuade him, he can't come in!"

Unexpectedly, the beautiful woman laughed out loud: "I'm curious too, let's go in and have a look."

Yu Xing had a lazy expression and didn't take it seriously at all. He glanced at Lao Huang and said, "You think we haven't seen each other before?"

 Then, under Lao Huang’s dull eyes, they stepped into the unfamiliar woods one by one.

As soon as we entered the forest, the cold wind suddenly picked up.

The sounds of insects disappeared, replaced by wind and low cries, coming from all directions like 360-degree surround speakers.

There were faint footsteps behind him. Yu Xing glanced and saw that it was Lao Huang who was following, and Zhao Yijiu was walking at the end to ensure the safety of the rear.

After entering, Lao Huang stopped talking and just followed them closely, shrinking.

Zhao Mou, who was walking at the front, used a flashlight to illuminate. Just like before, the light could not travel far and was trapped around everyone. Once it reached a distance, it was eroded by darkness.

Leaves covered the ground, making a rustling sound when stepped on.

Siren complained: "With such a big movement, how could the bandits not find the woman who was running away?"

 She was also brave and did not feel that there was anything to be shy about when bringing up the storyline at this time.

 In the darkness, the crying sound became more obvious.

"From the outside, the forest can't be reached for a while." Yu Xing said leisurely, "The legend also says that women can't get out of the forest no matter what. In other words, this is a dense forest, specially designed to trap women. of passers-by.”

Zhao Yijiu listened quietly, and with a look on his face, he noticed that Old Huang was shivering and walking slower and slower, gradually falling behind him, and was about to step on his foot, so he stretched out his hand calmly: "Don't hold back."

 Lao Huang turned around, his green face looking like a dead man.

 Zhao Yijiu stopped.

The three people in front were still chatting. After Yu Xing brought up the role of Linzi, Zhao Mou naturally proposed that he should lead the way. His divination was very useful in this environment.

 For a while, no one seemed to notice what the person at the end of the team was doing.

 Lao Huang's dead face stared at Zhao Yijiu silently, which was particularly terrifying against the backdrop of the dark woods and dim flashlight light.

Zhao did not move even after drinking, and looked at him with a look that was calmer than a dead person.

 After a long while, the indifferent Cool Brother finally frowned.

 Lao Huang grinned a malicious smile, and his slow eyes fell behind him, where a woman wearing an old cotton-padded jacket slowly emerged from the darkness.

 The sound of crying became clearer than ever at this moment, complaining and getting closer and closer.

Lao Huang was just about to say something terrible when he heard Zhao Yijiu whisper dissatisfiedly: "You have already accepted Zhao Mou's money."

 Dead Face Old Huang: “?”

Brother Ku took out a short knife from nowhere, and without looking back, he first cut off the head of the woman in the cotton-padded jacket that had floated behind him with his backhand, and then stabbed Old Huang through with the knife.

 The crying stopped suddenly.

He used a knife to string up Lao Huang. With his arm strength, he easily strung Lao Huang forward and kept up with his teammates who were almost out of sight. He said ruthlessly:

 “Even if you die, you must still be a good guide.”

 Lao Huang who was penetrated: "?"

He was pierced and did not bleed. Only a faint ghostly aura dissipated from the wound, and the pale dead man's face showed a little shock.

 The person in front happened to notice them.

Yu Xing turned around and saw Lao Huang's new look, and said with disgust: "What are you doing? This is too lazy."

Zhao Mou held a branch in his hand, without looking back, gesturing on the ground, and then lost interest: "This formation is too simple, it is so easy to find the exit."

 “Let’s go, the exit is right in front.”

Siren shrugged, obviously because the difficulty was too low, he couldn't even praise it.

Soon, they walked out of the woods that were said to trap people to death.

Outside the forest is a very spacious land with many potholes and pits. Not far away is a cliff, facing the other shore in the distance. The ground on both sides is connected by a suspension bridge.

 The moment they came out, the air was slightly distorted. Looking back, the woods were gone, replaced by a section of the road they had walked before.

　　——This is the place where Lao Huang first started telling ghost stories.

Zhao Yijiu pushed Lao Huang to the ground, stepped on him with his boots, and crushed him condescendingly: "How to deal with it."

Zhao Mou came over, shined his flashlight, and looked around.

 Lao Huang's dead look was not obvious at first, but now he can no longer hide it.

His face was as white as powder, and his eyes were cloudy and black. The strangest thing was that there were two round lumps of blush on his cheeks, and the corners of his mouth were curved.

"When did it start..." Zhao Mou murmured and moved closer. Just when he was about to take a closer look, Lao Huang suddenly let out an inhumanly sharp laugh. The next second, his body exploded into a burst of blue. cigarette.

Zhao Yijiu felt his feet were empty, and he stopped his strength in time to stop stepping down. When the smoke cleared, only a small shadow figure was left in place.

 “Shadow puppet?” Zhao Mou picked up the things and did not expect that this thing would be following them.

 The shadow puppet in his hand is not the image of Lao Huang, but the image of a man wearing an old coat, with a common face and no features, but there is a gap in the chest that has been stabbed.

"Where's Lao Huang?" Siren wondered, "Why do you think Lao Huang is a human being? Has he been transferred?"

"The original one is at the stream." Yu Xing answered for Zhao Mou, "We crossed the stream on stones, but Lao Huang didn't come over. He fainted at the other end of the stream."

"How do you know?" Siren was surprised. Although she could sense that something was wrong with Lao Huang later, she didn't know when the original Lao Huang was replaced.

But Yu Xing knows so clearly?

Yu Xing smiled when he heard this.

This place...is a mountain forest.

 There are naturally countless trees and dead branches in Guolong Ridge, and all the branches... can become his eyes and tentacles within a certain range.

The place Guolongling is indeed an evil place. It has a harmonious aura. Every plant and tree seems to follow invisible laws. An "outsider" like him needs to spend more energy to control the trees.

 But at least the general environment is very favorable to him.

 So, the moment Lao Huang fell, he realized it.

But before he could say anything, he saw another old Huang standing in the team in the blink of an eye, exactly like the real old Huang, quietly blending into them.

So Yu Xing wanted to see what this thing was going to do.

Later, as they walked towards the mountains, "Old Huang" began to tell them ghost stories, and the strangeness on his body became more and more obvious as he told them.

 That is a kind of ebb and flow.

Yu Xing could feel that the story told by "Old Huang" was coming true under certain rules, and a non-existent forest and a non-existent female ghost appeared in front of them.

 The story consumes the power of "Old Huang" and makes him unable to maintain the perfect disguise.

 When they broke through the small obstacle of the mysterious forest, "Old Huang"'s power also came to an end, and he finally turned into a faded shadow puppet, silently captured by Zhao Mou.

 Overall, this behavior seems to be to scare them away and prevent them from getting closer to their destination.

"The location we are in is still within the range of activities of the people in Longtou Town. Old Huang must have passed by, so he dared to take our business. Logically speaking, this place is not so evil." Zhao Mou took the shadow puppets in Backpack, after some thought, "Unless today is an exception."

　A few people looked at each other.

 Why is it a special case?

 Because the copy of Acid and County is about to be opened.

Perhaps it was the energy leakage before the dungeon was opened that allowed the shadow puppet elements that should have been in the dungeon to enter the mountain. As for why they were accurately found, it is difficult to say.

But no matter what, there is a fact before our eyes.

 They don’t need a guide anymore.

Strange events have already started to take place in advance, and the surrounding environment is definitely different from the original mountain forest. It is best for them to rely on themselves and be careful in everything.

"As for Lao Huang—" Zhao Mou didn't care much about this man's life or death. "It's not an unreasonable disaster to let him encounter something if he accepts my money. Let him sleep there. People like him will wake up." It will run on its own."

 What kind of contractual spirit and professional ethics are nothing to Lao Huang.

"What a loss." Zhao Yijiu felt heartache for the money he had paid, although his face was expressionless.

 Zhao Mou is funny. When did his brother become a money-lover?

“It’s okay, I only paid a deposit, not much at all, just as mental damage compensation.”

"If I have a choice, I don't want him to make any money." Siren muttered, "He works as a guide in Longtou Town and must be involved in a lot of black business. It's not a good thing at all."

But everyone knew that the focus was not on Lao Huang. After chatting for a while, they turned their attention to the suspension bridge connecting the two sides of the ground.

 There was a dull darkness at the other end of the suspension bridge.

 After dark, some things hidden during the day gradually tend to emerge, making the mountains no longer ordinary.

Zhao Mou calculated it and said: "Let's cross the bridge first. If something unexpected happens, it will make my positioning easier." (End of this chapter)