Strange Corpse

The old man in front of the coffin neither moved nor showed any expression; he simply stood there like a corpse, completely unlike the Baldy they had met on the hillside earlier.

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

Because the distance was more than 20 meters, it seemed to be beyond Hua Yuan's attack range.

Since the corpse showed no signs of movement or killing intent, Hua Yuan waved his hand.

"Let's go. If this thing doesn't catch up, there's no need to waste time... If it does, we can deal with it. There are plenty of coffins in the forest; we don't need to deal with them all."

"Um."

But just as the two turned their heads and shifted their gaze away from the corpse,

Swoosh~

The sound of leaves being rustled underfoot immediately followed.

The two turned their heads again.

It had only been a second since the last time the view was taken away.

The old man's body had moved more than five meters away from the coffin. Strangely, his posture was exactly the same as before, and it was impossible to tell that he had been running.

"Um?"

Hua Yuan suddenly became interested and walked towards the corpse.

She had seen similar tricks before; her former sorority had a Girl known as "Puppet," who made the geisha puppets used for monitoring and patrolling the perimeter of the gatherings.

These puppets are like that.

When they sense the prey's gaze, they will freeze in place. Once the prey's gaze leaves them, they will begin to chase. When they reach a certain distance, they will reveal their terrifying true form and prey on their target.

Hua Yuan suspected that this corpse also had similar characteristics.

As she slowly approached in her little leather shoes, the expected scenario of the corpse suddenly revealing its true form and lunging at her did not occur.

The body just stood there, motionless.

Even though Hua Yuan was standing right in front of the corpse, he remained unmoved and felt no threat whatsoever.

Hua Yuan also tried to display her beauty, imprinting 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.

"Um?"

This puzzled Hua Yuan, who didn't quite understand the significance of the corpse's existence.

She still didn't kill it, as if figuring out the meaning of its existence was more valuable than killing it.

Hua Yuan made a rather risky move.

She turned away from the corpse when she was less than a meter away. Of course, the spirit surrounding her was also providing protection in secret, ready to eliminate it if it sensed any threat from the corpse.

Sure enough, the moment the view disappeared,

The body moved!

But there is still no threat.

The corpse simply moved its body closer, the cold body and loincloth pressed against Hua Yuan's back, and a strange sensation could still be faintly felt.

This touch evoked extremely unpleasant memories for Hua Yuan.

Stress response.

Buzz!

An invisible force completely crushed the corpse behind them, like a compressor.

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

However, there was still no threat.

The crushed corpses lay peacefully scattered throughout the forest, and the flowers and grasses bathed in starlight began to gnaw on them like saprophytic creatures, absorbing the pieces of the bodies.

It was cleaned up in less than ten seconds, and even the smell of the corpse disappeared.

but,

Wait for the cleaning process to be completely finished.

The plants in the forest produced a synchronous activity.

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

≮En'othk uulg'shuul≯

Neither Hua Yuan nor Luo Di could understand this language.

The whispers ended, and all was quiet; the forest remained unchanged.

I don't know why.

Despite the lack of any tangible threat, cold sweat seemed to seep from their dry pores like earthworms, urging them to look around.

Even Hua Yuan felt uneasy, a sense of unease about the unknown, as if something should have happened but nothing did.

"Hua Yuan..."

"Um."

Luo Di said in a low voice, "If we encounter this kind of corpse again, we should try not to kill it if possible. It just doesn't feel right."

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

She simply responded coldly, "Okay."

After observing for another five minutes to confirm that everything was normal in the forest, Hua Yuan returned to the straight path they had chosen.

As she approached Luo Di, her left hand suddenly reached out.

"Hold my hand."

The tone of the command carried a hint of seriousness.

A greasy hand wrapped in pigskin and soaked in oil reached out. When the two touched, Hua Yuan's expression did not change. Instead of disgust, he held on 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 based entirely on the two people's intuition. After all, the changes happening on the island are already very obvious. Whether it's trees or stars in the sky, they may move and mislead. Only trusting themselves is the most reliable thing.

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

That means the route is fixed, and you're bound to encounter something along the way.

Sure enough, after walking for a short while, more coffins came into view, some less than five meters away from the straight path the two had been walking, and others more than thirty meters away.

These coffins, each a different color and decorated, belonged to elderly people who died naturally in the village.

As before,

If the two wanted to ignore the coffin and walk straight past it...

Knock knock~

A knocking sound will then come from inside the coffin, and the corpse inside will immediately crawl out. The appearance remains unchanged, the loincloth is the only clothing, and the eyeballs have all detached from their sockets; the only difference is gender.

Once there is no eye to watch them, the corpses will quickly move closer.

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

"Um."

The two changed to stand back to back.

As Luo Di watched the group of corpses from behind, they indeed remained standing still. However, in the darkness of the forest, visibility was at most only thirty meters.

Once they could no longer see the distant corpses clearly, they would immediately emerge from the darkness and chase after them, maintaining the maximum visual distance between them, making it impossible to shake them off, not even one of them.

As the two continued forward, more and more corpses were awakened. The sheer number of corpses was equally unsettling and unsettling.

This forest seemed to have no exit, with no end in sight.

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

"Since the forest can swallow up the road, it can also move the ground beneath our feet, so that we keep going in circles here and can never get out."

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

The desire to go out may not be possible.

Perhaps only under certain special conditions can we leave this forest. Mr. Di, are you willing to take this gamble? If we win, we can buy more time to search for the monster's incarnation; if we lose, you may never see Isabella again, and instead be buried here with me."

Luo Di was also thinking along the way; he shared the same thoughts as Hua Yuan.

Letting these corpses follow behind is not a good thing.

"Let's get started."

Having said that, Luo Di turned his head away and stopped looking at the corpse behind him.

A large number of footsteps rushed in, and just as they were about to surround the two of them... crack! All thirty corpses were crushed and scattered all over the ground.

Forest activities,

Devouring the body parts

A deeper, more profound, and more subtle whisper echoed through the Yu Lin.

≮En'othk uulg'shuul≯

Hua Yuan and Luo Di simultaneously assumed their battle stances, shifting their gaze from the vanished corpse fragments to the surrounding forest, attempting to glimpse the possible presence emerging from the depths of darkness, or to observe the potential distortions that might occur in the trees.

But nothing happened, as if killing any number of these corpses had no effect; it was just a charade.

However,

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

At the edge of the field of vision,

A pitch-black coffin appeared out of nowhere...