Desert Island Survival: A Hundredfold Improvement After Having a Baby?

"Then the footsteps stopped, right outside the crevice in the rock."

"That thing...squatted down..."

"It was crouching at the mouth of a rock crevice..."

"A face... just like that, right up close... right in front of me..."

Yang Ningcong's crying suddenly stopped.

He suddenly raised his head, and his expression was no longer one of collapse, but something deeper than collapse.

"Its face... is just like a human's."

"It has all five senses: eyes, nose, and mouth. It's human."

"But it's gray."

"Gray skin, stuck to the bones...without any flesh in between...like a layer of skin wrapped directly over the skull."

"The eye sockets are very deep...too deep...the two eyeballs are embedded in the very back."

Yang Ningcong shuddered again. "But those eyeballs..."

"Grayish-white...like the eyes of a dead fish..."

"It was staring at me, and what was most terrifying was that its eyeballs could move."

"It moved from An'an to me."

"Then……"

"Then it stood up, and it was as tall as me... no, taller than me... half a head taller..."

"Very thin...so thin you're just skin and bones..."

"Its arms are very long... they reach all the way down to its knees..."

"Her fingers are also very long...each finger is at least twice as long as mine..."

Yang Ningcong looked down at his hand. "Luckily, it didn't touch me."

"It went to find An'an."

"An'an... An'an screamed."

"Then there was silence."

Yang Ningcong bit his hand hard, making indistinct sounds.

"It carried An'an on its shoulder... An'an's head swayed behind it... its arms swayed too... like... like a wet garment being hung on a clothesline..."

Then it turned around.

"Its turning speed was normal."

"But the way it ran..."

"Lin Fan, listen to me..."

Yang Ningcong stared intently at Lin Fan.

"It stretches at least a hundred meters from the crevice in the rock to the edge of the forest."

"It passed by in a flash." Everyone looked at Yang Ningcong, and he didn't seem to be lying, so no one spoke.

After a long while, Xu Zhixia took two steps forward.

Her expression remained composed; her professional instincts compelled her to first find a reasonable explanation.

"When people are in a state of extreme panic, they tend to experience hallucinations and exaggerate the size of objects."

"The lighting is poor and the fog is heavy at night."

"Perhaps it's just some kind of large carnivore on the island. Like a bear, or an upright ape. Their silhouettes in the fog can indeed be easily mistaken for human figures."

Yang Ningcong turned his head sharply, looking at Xu Zhixia with despair.

"Dr. Xu."

"When it crouched in front of me, it was less than a foot away."

"Even in the thickest fog, can't I see something just a foot away?"

Xu Zhixia did not answer immediately.

"That's not an animal."

"Animals don't have noses, but that thing does."

"A person's nose has a high bridge and narrow nostrils."

"Animals don't have eyelids, but that thing does."

"It blinked."

"Human eyelids."

"You can see the wrinkles on it, you can see the eyelashes."

Yang Ningcong's lips trembled slightly.

"But the color of that face... was the color of a dead person."

"Grayish, with a hint of blue, like a corpse that has been soaked in water."

"Its skin was bloodless."

Yang Ningcong took one last look at the sunlight outside the cave entrance.

The sunlight shone on his face, but it couldn't warm him up.

"Its face is human."

"But that speed, that strength, those inappropriate proportions..."

"Not human."

"That's a monster; you wouldn't be able to stand up straight if you saw it."

He lay on his side on the stone slab, curled up in a ball, his hands tightly wrapped around his shoulders.

No one spoke inside the cave.

Xu Zhixia stood there, her lips moved, but she couldn't say anything.

All the impossible can happen on this island.

Lin Fan looked down at Yang Ningcong, who was curled up on the ground, and asked, "Then why didn't you come up last night?"

Yang Ningcong was stunned for a moment.

He huddled on the ground, half his face pressed against the stone slab, his whole body still trembling.

"I...I fucking want to come up here too..."

"After An'an was carried away by that thing, I didn't dare to move at all in the crevice of the rock."

"I've waited for a very long time..."

"The footsteps outside have stopped, and the fog has lifted a little."

"I thought, I should climb up quickly while it's gone."

As Yang Ningcong spoke, his whole body began to tremble again.

"I just poked my head out of the crevice... stood up... and hadn't even taken ten steps..."

"It appeared right in front of me."

Yang Ningcong's Adam's apple bobbed up and down.

"They didn't come from afar."

"They didn't come out of the woods."

"It's like...it just appeared out of thin air."

"One second there was nothing in front of me, the next second, that gray face was a fist's distance away from me."

"It's still in the same position, hunched over and with its head tilted to one side."

"Keep your eyes on me."

"what……"

Yang Ningcong covered his face with both hands.

I fainted.

Lin Fan stood there, looking down at him. That thing carried away the woman, but left Yang Ningcong behind.

Why?

If the creature is a predator, it is easier to catch a prey that is unconscious than one that is alive and kicking.

It had no reason to let Yang Ningcong go, unless it wasn't there to hunt.

Or rather, it only needs women.

The moment this thought crossed Lin Fan's mind, a chill ran down his spine.

He subconsciously glanced towards the compartments deep inside the cave.

Su Qingxue, Song Ya, Xu Zhixia.

Three.

"When I woke up, it was already daylight, and the sun was shining on my face before I dared to open my eyes," Yang Ningcong's words interrupted Lin Fan's thoughts.

"Was that thing gone when I woke up?" Lin Fan asked.

"It's gone."

"Where's An'an?"

"No." Yang Ningcong shook his head. "There's nothing in the crevice of the rocks, nothing on the beach. An'an's things, the wild fruits she picked yesterday... they're all still here."

"The person is gone."

Lin Fan remained silent for a few seconds.

He stared at Yang Ningcong's face, his eyes were bloodshot, and there were dark circles under his eyes.

The pupils are unfocused and the focus is off.

It doesn't seem like it was deliberately faked, nor does it seem like something a mentally sound person could perform.

Moreover, given Yang Ningcong's timid nature and the fact that he fainted, he couldn't think of any other reason why Yang Ningcong could spend the night down there.