Desperate Night.

Chapter 105 Departure 105

"In the quiet village, snow is falling."

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

"The birch tree has those two characters carved on it."

“Hmm~~~Hmm~~~”

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

The dark green jeep sped forward along the road.

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

Layers of fog were broken in front of the car, then rolled and twisted, creating a gap for passage.

Yu Hong placed his hands on the steering wheel, humming softly.

The entire car has no other noise except the rotation of the motor.

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

He was alone.

After listening to the sound of the motor for a long time, he could even hear his own breathing and heartbeat. In such a lonely environment, the body's perception became much more acute.

But this kind of sensitivity makes it even more unbearable.

Driving alone.

The noise of loneliness.

Lonely road ahead.

So he couldn't help but humming his favorite song from his previous life.

In fact, he had forgotten some of the lyrics and only remembered the general idea. But it didn’t matter, as long as he remembered the tune, he could just 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 through it to take a look.

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

Yu Hong can avoid high-concentration areas based on the red value concentration to avoid encountering more monsters or eerie shadows.

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 now straight, and I could relax a little.

After drinking the water, Yu Hong took out a protein bar, 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 rock extended upward into the mist. I had no idea how high it was. It looked like a huge gray wall.

The rough layers of gray rock on the wall were covered with some black, vine-like things.

From a distance, these vines look like a large mass of gum stuck to the stone wall, with a watery sheen on the surface. Some look like peach gum, and some look like amber.

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

"What the hell is that?" The red value detector on his collar has soared to over sixty, flashing a warning red light.

Without stopping, Yu Hong slightly accelerated and quickly left the mountain wall and entered the road area surrounded by mountains and forests again.

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

Some of the black gummy substances hung on the tree trunks, some were stuck to the gummy substances on the ground, pulling out sticky threads, and some covered the entire crown of the tree, as if it was digesting the tree.

Yu Hong looked solemn and continued to move forward.

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

The car whirred forward, soon driving out of the forest and into a steep bend.

When turning, there is 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 glanced towards the cliff in the distance.

In the foggy gray land in the distance, a hazy abandoned city stands quietly in a basin-like sunken terrain.

The black river runs through the entire city like a ribbon.

Tall buildings stand quietly in the middle of the city, with no lights and no people.

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

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

What's even more bizarre is that most of the buildings in this city are covered with a thin layer of black sticky substance, just like the gelatinous substance that Yu Hong saw when he passed by just now.

'What on earth 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 to the mark will gradually wither and be eroded by the red value and disappear after he leaves one kilometer. If necessary, he must use his internal energy to stimulate it again.

"Is this the seal 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 gaze, turned a corner, and glanced towards the city again.

Suddenly his body tensed up and his mind was shaken.

"What the hell!?"

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

That black, dead-looking gelatinous substance actually moves!?!
Yu Hong stared in amazement as the gelatin covering the upper part of the tallest building in the city raised something like a tentacle and slowly stretched out towards another uncovered building.

"That thing is actually alive!?"

A chill quickly surged up in his heart and spread throughout his body.

While driving, he unconsciously started to speed up, speeding 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 was slightly relieved.

He picked up the map and looked at it.

'Huanfeng City.' This was the name of the strange city he had just passed by.

"It's best not to go near this place again. There must be something seriously wrong inside." Yu Hong murmured in a low voice.

In this extremely boring environment, he couldn't help but choose to use the way he spoke to remind his ears so that they would not fall into some inexplicable silence.

When people are in an extremely monotonous sound environment with no changes, they may enter a state of adaptation or even produce inexplicable phantom sounds.

The adaptation state causes people to perceive monotonous ambient sounds as silence.

Phantom sound is a natural physiological reaction of people in an environment with excessively static conditions.

It was getting dark.

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

After stopping the car, he took out an atomic lamp that did not require any energy, and let the pale green light illuminate the interior of the car.

Then quickly take care of your personal hygiene and tie it up with a plastic bag to prevent the smell.

Then cover the car windows with black cloth to prevent light from projecting out.

Click.

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

There is an open field of weeds all around, and patches of grass show that this place used to be farmland.

The shortest weeds are as high as knees, while the tallest are more than one meter high and so dense that they block a lot of vision.

call.

A fine white mist gushed out of Yu Hong's breathing valve. Feeling the temperature getting colder and colder, he walked to the side of the road, dug a hole and buried the bag.

Then return to the car.

Click.

Suddenly, behind him, there was a faint noise in the grass.

Yu Hong paused, turned around and looked back.

The grass behind me swayed in the wind, and there was nothing there, nothing at all.

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

Sitting in the car, blocking the atomic light, Yu Hong lay quietly on the back seat, listening to the noise outside.

In a confined space, he has to change the air every once in a while.

Therefore, he must ensure that he is in a clear mental state at all times.

Not long after.

A subtle voice, like singing, drifted in from outside.

Then, there were sounds like sticky substances sticking together and separating.

Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, raised his head close to the car window, lifted the black cloth, and looked out quietly.

On the driveway outside, I saw a two-meter-tall, pitch-black humanoid monster, as if made up of countless sticky gelatinous substances, stepping on the road step by step and passing by the car.

This black figure had black mucus constantly falling from his body as he walked.

As they moved forward step by step, the human figure did not notice Yu Hong at all. It just kept moving forward and gradually disappeared in the gray fog ahead.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief. Facing monsters 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 how powerful they were.

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

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

Nothing happened all night.

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

Humming a song, we drove for more than an hour again. Finally, rural buildings in the suburban fields began to appear on both sides of the road ahead.

These buildings are dilapidated and covered in dust, and some are obviously damaged.

Between the buildings, the fields were filled with black slime, with no weeds at all, and emitting the stench of some rotting flesh.

Yu Hong estimated the battery power. After driving for such a long time, the car only had one-third of power left at most. He guessed that he would have to charge it thoroughly before going back.

hum.

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

It seems that we have entered the county town.

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

The streets were littered with randomly parked electric bikes and tricycles, and occasionally a few cars, all with broken windows and twisted bodies, as if they had been run over by something.

"Help. Help!"

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

The voice belonged to a young girl, childish and pitiful, and she seemed to be still enduring pain.

Yu Hong frowned and turned to look to the right.

At the entrance of a gray two-story building, a naked little girl with long hair was squatting.

She hugged her body with her hands, squatted on the ground, and looked towards the car. Her face was pitiful, her skin was white and slightly covered in mud.

"Please save me!" she pleaded loudly.

(End of this chapter)