Desperate Night

"The quiet village, snow is falling."

"Under the gloomy sky, pigeons are flying~~~"

"The birch tree, engraved with those two names."

"Hmm~~~Hmm~~~"

In the gray fog, between the mountains and forests, there is a gray-white road that stretches to the distance.

The dark green jeep went forward all the way, speeding along the road.

The car was like a dark green insect on a gray paper tape, moving straight, slowly, and firmly forward.

The layers of fog were broken in front of the front of the car, and then rolled and twisted, breaking a gap for passage.

Yu Hong put his hands on the steering wheel and hummed softly.

The whole car, except for the rotation of the motor, had no noise.

The monotonous buzzing sound rang in Yu Hong's ears for more than two hours.

He was alone.

After listening to the motor sound for a long time, he could even hear his own breathing and heartbeat. The body's perception became too sharp in such a lonely environment.

But such sensitivity makes it even more unbearable.

Driving alone.

The lonely noise.

The lonely road ahead.

So he couldn't help but hum his favorite song in his previous life.

In fact, he forgot some of the lyrics, only the general idea, but it doesn't matter, as long as he remembers the tune, he can use "hmm" to replace the forgotten parts.

The car drove forward quietly, and Yu Hong picked up the map from time to time and flipped it to take a look.

The enhanced map has completely become a three-dimensional map, with three gradient colors of gray, black and white, showing different red value concentrations.

Yu Hong can avoid high-concentration areas according to the red value concentration to avoid encountering more monsters or ghosts.

The car hummed forward, and Yu Hong hummed the song at least dozens of times. He took out the water bag and drank a sip, pursed his lips, held the steering wheel with one hand, and let it drive straight forward.

The road in front of the car window was straight at this time, and he could relax a little.

After drinking the water, Yu Hong took out another protein bar and stuffed it into his mouth, and was about to chew it slowly to fill his stomach.

Suddenly, in the gray fog on the right, the dense forest gradually turned into steep gray rocks.

The rocks extended upward into the fog, and it was unknown how high they were, like a huge gray wall.

The rough layers of gray rocks on the wall were covered with some black things that looked like vines.

From a distance, these vines looked like a large mass of colloid stuck to the stone wall, and their surface was shining with water, some like peach gum, and some like amber.

Yu Hong drove past from the side, and after driving for hundreds of meters, he could see this kind of thing hanging on the left mountain wall.

‘What the hell’ The red value detector on his collar had soared to more than 60, flashing a warning red light.

Without stopping, Yu Hong slightly accelerated, quickly left the mountain wall, and once again entered the highway area surrounded by the forest.

But this time was different from before. The stone wall on the right was gone, but the newly appeared forest was also covered with large pieces of colloid like peach gum.

Some of the black colloids were hanging on the tree trunks, some were sticking to the colloids on the ground, pulling out sticky threads, and some covered the entire tree crown, as if digesting the tree.

Yu Hong looked solemn and continued to move forward.

The fog at this time gradually faded, and the visibility was much farther than before.

The car hummed forward, and soon drove out of the forest and entered a large angle bend.

During the turn, there was a cliff on one side and a forest on the other side.

You can see the scenery farther away from the cliff.

Yu Hong turned the steering wheel and looked at the cliff in the distance with the corner of his eyes.

In the foggy gray land in the distance, a hazy abandoned city stood quietly in a concave terrain similar to a basin.

The black river was like a ribbon, running through the entire city.

Tall buildings were quietly inserted in the middle of the city, without lights and human traces.

The buildings include bustling skyscrapers, ordinary hotel buildings, office buildings, landmark buildings, TV stations, etc.

Their common characteristics are quiet, no people, and no lights.

What is even more strange is that most of the buildings in this city are covered with a thin layer of black viscous substance, just like the colloid substances that Yu Hong saw just now.

‘What is this thing? ’

He felt a little depressed and felt that he might encounter trouble when passing by here.

He looked down at the black mark on the back of his hand. Since leaving the safe house, the black mark has frequently reminded him that the pyroxene grass bound by the mark will gradually wither, be eroded by the red value, and disappear after he leaves one kilometer. If necessary, it must be revived with internal energy.

‘Is this the mark binding? It’s a bit troublesome, but it can be used as a small guarantee to establish a temporary base at any time. ’

Yu Hong thought in his mind, retracted his sight, turned a corner, and glanced at the city again.

Suddenly his body tightened and his mind was shocked.

‘What the hell! ? ’

In the distant city, the huge black colloid covering the building suddenly moved just now.

That black, dead-looking colloid actually moved! ? !

Yu Hong stared in amazement as the colloid covering the upper part of the tallest building in the city raised something like a tentacle and slowly stretched out towards another building that was not covered.

‘That thing is actually alive! ? ’

A chill surged up from the bottom of his heart and spread throughout his body.

Driving, he unconsciously began to speed up, speeding all the way, away from the city.

After driving for more than half an hour, the strange city was left behind, submerged in the fog, and could no longer be seen.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

He picked up the map and looked at it.

‘Huanfeng City.’ This is the name of the strange city he just passed by.

“It’s best not to get close to this place in the future. There must be a big problem inside.” Yu Hong murmured in a low voice.

In this extremely boring environment, he couldn’t help but choose to use his own way of speaking to remind his ears so that they would not fall into some kind of inexplicable silence.

In an extremely monotonous, unchanging sound environment, people may adapt to the state, and even produce inexplicable phantom sounds.

The adaptation state will make people regard the monotonous environmental sound as silent.

Phantom sounds are the natural physiological reactions of people in an environment with excessively no ups and downs.

The sky gradually darkened.

Yu Hong did not continue to move forward, but quickly found a relatively open place along the road to park.

After stopping the car, he took out the atomic lamp that did not use energy, and let the light green light illuminate the car.

Then he quickly solved the problem of personal hygiene and tied it up with a plastic bag to prevent the smell.

Then he covered the car window with a black cloth to prevent the light from projecting out.

Click.

Yu Hong opened the car door and got out of the car with the plastic bag of excrement.

All around was an open field of weeds, and the patches of grass showed that this was a farmland before.

The shortest weeds were knee-high, and the tallest ones were more than one meter high, and the dense ones blocked a lot of vision.

Huh.

A fine white mist sprayed out of Yu Hong's breathing valve. Feeling the increasingly cold temperature, he walked to the side of the road and dug a hole to bury the bag.

Then he returned to the car.

Click.

Suddenly, behind him, there was a faint movement in the bushes.

Yu Hong paused and turned around abruptly to look back.

The bushes behind him swayed in the wind, empty, nothing.

He looked around and made sure there was no problem before turning around and continuing to walk towards the car.

Sitting in the car, shielding the atomic light, Yu Hong lay quietly in the back seat, listening to the movement outside.

In the enclosed space, he had to change the air every once in a while.

So this must ensure that he is always in a sober mental state.

Not long after.

A subtle voice, like singing, floated faintly from outside.

Then, there were sounds like sticky things constantly sticking and separating.

Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, raised his head and approached the car window, uncovered the black cloth, and looked out quietly.

I saw a two-meter-tall humanoid monster on the driveway outside, who was black all over, as if composed of countless sticky colloids, stepping on the road step by step, passing by the car.

This black humanoid, while walking, kept dropping clumps of black mucus on his body.

As he moved forward step by step, the humanoid did not notice Yu Hong at all, but just kept his head forward, gradually disappearing in the gray fog in front.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief. Facing a monster he had no idea about, he didn't want to act rashly. Who knew what abilities these monsters and ghosts had? The danger level was only used to judge their harmfulness, not their strength.

Fortunately, after the humanoid monster passed by, there was no other movement outside. Yu Hong lay on the seat and was able to rest for a while.

With the alarm of the red value detector reminding him, he had some time to close his eyes and rest.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next morning, the car started again and drove along the road.

Humming a song, he drove for more than an hour again. Finally, rural buildings in the suburban fields gradually appeared on both sides of the road ahead.

These buildings were all dilapidated and covered with dust, and some were obviously damaged.

Between the buildings, the fields were full of black mucus, without any weeds, and exuded the stench of some kind of rotting meat.

Yu Hong estimated the battery power. After driving for so long, the car had at most one-third of the power left. It was estimated that he had to charge it well before going back.

Buzz.

The car drove through black fields, and the houses on both sides gradually became more and more, turning into an empty street composed of low bungalows and low-rise buildings.

It seemed that we had entered the county.

Yu Hong slowed down involuntarily and looked at the situation on both sides slowly.

The streets were full of randomly parked electric vehicles and tricycles. Occasionally there were a few cars, all with broken windows and twisted bodies, as if they had been crushed by something.

"Help. Help!"

Suddenly a subtle sound came from the right side in front.

The voice was that of a young girl, tender and pitiful, and seemed to be enduring pain.

Yu Hong frowned and turned his head to look to the right.

At the entrance of the corridor of a gray two-story building, a little girl with long hair and no clothes on was squatting.

She hugged her body with her hands, squatted on the ground, raised her head and looked in the direction of the car, her face was pitiful, her skin was white, and it was stained with a little mud.

"Save me, please!" She begged loudly.