Deep in the Living

Chapter 180 Weird Corpse
The old man in front of the coffin had neither movement nor expression, he just stood there like a corpse, completely different from the bald man he met on the hillside before.

Most importantly, the corpse did not emit any threatening aura, and it was motionless, like a dead object.

Because the distance was more than twenty meters, it seemed to be beyond Hua Yuan's attack range.

Since the corpse did not move and had no intention of killing, Hua Yuan waved his hand.

"Let's go. If this thing doesn't catch up with us, there's no point wasting time... If it does, we can deal with it later. There are a lot of coffins in the forest, so there's no need to deal with every one of them."

"Ah."

But just as the two turned their heads and looked away from the corpse,
Sasha~
The sound of leaves rustling was heard immediately.

The two turned their heads again.

It was only a second since the last time my vision shifted away.

The old man's body was actually more than five meters away from the coffin. What was strange was that his standing posture was exactly the same as before, and it didn't look like he was running.

"Ok?"

Hua Yuan suddenly became interested and took the initiative to walk towards the corpse.

She had seen similar tricks before. The sisterhood used to have a girl called "Puppet", and the geisha puppets used for peripheral monitoring and patrolling of gatherings were all made by her.

These puppets are like this.
When they sense the prey's field of vision, they will remain motionless. Once the prey is out of their field of vision, they will start chasing. When they reach a certain distance, they will reveal their terrifying true form and prey on their target.

Hua Yuan suspected that this corpse had similar characteristics.

As she slowly approached in her little leather shoes, the expected situation of the corpse revealing its true form and rushing towards her did not happen.

The body just stood there, remaining still.

Even though Hua Yuan was standing in front of the corpse, he remained indifferent and did not feel any threat.

Hua Yuan also tried to show off her beauty and imprint it on the other person's brain, but it had no effect at all... The corpse's brain had long since decayed and could not accept any thoughts.

"Ok?"

This made Hua Yuan a little confused, and he didn't quite understand the meaning of the existence of this corpse.

She still didn't kill it. It seemed that in her opinion, figuring out the meaning of this thing's existence was more valuable than killing it.

Hua Yuan made a rather risky move.

When she was less than a meter away from the corpse, she began to turn around and look away. Of course, the spirits surrounding her were also providing protection in secret, and would kill the corpse as soon as they felt threatened.

Sure enough, when the vision was out of sight,
The corpse moved!

But still no threat.

The corpse just moved its body closer, and its cold body and loincloth were all pressed against Hua Yuan's back, and he could faintly feel the strange touch.

This touch brought back extremely bad memories for Hua Yuan.

Stress response.

hum!
An invisible force completely crushed the corpse behind him, like a compressor.

Hua Yuan also moved away immediately to prevent the dead body from leaking gas or exploding with parasites or the like.

However, there was still no threat.

The crushed corpses were scattered peacefully in the forest, and the flowers and plants bathed in starlight actually began to eat and absorb the corpse fragments like saprophytes.

In less than ten seconds, it was completely cleaned up and even the smell of the corpse disappeared.

but,

Wait for the cleanup process to be complete.
The plants in the forest produce a synchronous activity.

The leaves, branches, flowers and plants trembled together, and the sounds they produced were superimposed together and turned into an old and hoarse human voice, a whisper of death.

≮En'othk uulg'shuul≯

Neither Hua Yuan nor Luo Di could understand this language.

The whispering stopped and everything returned to calm. There was no substantial change in the forest.

Do not know why.

Although there was no direct threat, cold sweat broke out from the two men's cold and dry pores like earthworms, urging them to look around.

Even Hua Yuan felt uncomfortable, an discomfort with the unknown. Something should have happened, but nothing happened.

"Hua Yuan..."

"Yeah." Luo Di whispered, "If I encounter a corpse like this again, I will try not to kill it. It always feels wrong."

Under normal circumstances, if someone asked Hua Yuan to "not kill" in this tone, she would not only kill the current target immediately, but also stuff the dead person's body into the speaker's mouth.

At present, she just responded coldly: "Okay."

The two continued to observe for five minutes to confirm that everything was normal in the forest, and then Hua Yuan returned to the [straight path] they had chosen.

When she came to Rody, her left hand suddenly stretched out.

"Hold me."

The tone of command was mixed with a hint of seriousness.

A greasy hand wrapped in pig skin and soaked in oil reached out. When the two touched each other, Hua Yuan's expression did not change. He did not show disgust but held it tightly to prevent the two from being separated by something unknown.

The two continued walking in a straight line.

The so-called "straight line" is completely based on the intuition of the two. After all, the changes happening on the island are already very obvious. Whether it is the trees or the stars in the sky, they may move and mislead. The only reliable way is to trust yourself.

But there is also a big problem with walking in a straight line.

That is, the route is fixed, and you are bound to encounter something along the way.

Sure enough, not long after they walked, more coffins appeared in sight. Some were less than five meters away from the straight path the two were walking, and some were more than thirty meters away.

These coffins are of different colors and have different decorations. They belong to the elderly people in the village who died of natural causes.

As in the previous case,
Once the two wanted to ignore the coffin and walk straight past it,

dong dong~
There would be knocks from inside the coffin, and the body would immediately come out. The appearance remained the same, the loincloth was the only clothing, the eyeballs were all out of the eye sockets, and the only difference was the gender.

Once there is no visual observation, the corpses will quickly move closer.

"Hua Yuan, you lead the way. I'll walk backwards and keep an eye on them."

"Ah."

The two of them stood back to back.
As Rody stared at the corpses from behind, they indeed stood still without moving. However, in the dark environment of the forest, the visibility was only more than 30 meters at most.

When their vision could no longer see the bodies in the distance, they would immediately chase after them from the darkness, always keeping the maximum visual distance from the two men, making it impossible to shake them off, not even a single one of them.

As the two of them moved forward, more and more corpses were awakened. The dense density of corpses also made people's scalps tingle and feel uncomfortable.

This forest seems to have no exit and there is no end in sight.

When the number of corpses reached thirty, Hua Yuan stopped.

"Since the forest can swallow up the road, perhaps it can also move the ground under our feet, causing us to keep going in circles here, unable to get out forever.

The so-called "game" that person mentioned should include the forest project.

It may be impossible to go out.
Perhaps we can only leave this forest if certain special conditions are met. Mr. Di, do you dare to bet with me? If we win, we can buy more time to find the monster incarnation. If we lose, you may not be able to meet Isabella again, but be buried here with me. "

Luo Di was also thinking along the way, and he had the same idea as Hua Yuan.

It would not be a good thing to let these corpses follow us.

"Let's do it."

After saying that, Rody turned his head and stopped looking at the corpse behind him.

A large number of footsteps came quickly, and just when they were about to surround the two of them... Bang! All thirty bodies were crushed and scattered all over the ground.

Forest activities,

Devouring corpses,

Deeper, deeper, deeper whispers came from the woods.

≮En'othk uulg'shuul≯

Hua Yuan and Luo Di simultaneously assumed combat stances, shifting their gaze from the vanishing body fragments to the surrounding forest, trying to spy on the existence that might have emerged from the depths of darkness, or observing any possible deformations of the trees.

But nothing happened, as if no matter how many of these corpses were killed, it would have no effect, it was just a mystery.

however,
When the two turned their eyes back to the front, back to the so-called "straight path".

The end of the field of vision,

A pitch-black coffin appeared at some point...

(End of this chapter)