An Eerie Team-Building Trip
It was now dusk.
Buses full of passengers continued to arrive at the entrance of the shelter.
After all, the entire Keshanshi City has a resident population of over one million, so such a mass evacuation is a huge undertaking.
The residents who had already moved into the shelter had, after a day, generally adapted to this new way of life.
During this period, the people who moved into the shelter have been very well-behaved and have not caused any violent incidents.
Even if conflicts arise among the people, they at most remain merely verbal.
This actually makes management easier, and it certainly makes things much easier for the staff at the shelter.
The tent area, seemingly stretching to the horizon, looked spectacular.
Upon closer inspection, one could see people everywhere queuing to receive supplies or carrying buckets to fetch water.
In one of the tents near the edge of the tent area, several female students from Keshan University of Arts had just finished dinner.
Since it was still early before bedtime, we decided to sit together and chat to pass the time.
"Sister Yuhan, what happened next?"
Several girls turned their gaze to the girl in the main seat, who was dressed rather simply.
The unassuming girl, called Sister Yuhan, took a couple of breaths and said boldly, "And then? Then I hid! You got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and found a dark shadow in the hallway, did you still dare to go and look?"
"Too."
"Thank goodness you didn't go out, Yuhan, otherwise..."
"I heard the Guardian God took care of that Drowned Ghost in no time."
Several girls immediately started chattering and expressing their opinions.
Hearing them mention Lu Bai, Sister Yuhan's eyes lit up. "I even watched the live stream! Isn't the Guardian God really handsome?"
"Yes, she looks very young."
One of the slightly chubby girls squinted and grinned mischievously. "Are you guys in heat?"
"So what!"
Yuhan didn't mind her friends' teasing at all. Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she slapped her thigh and said, "I heard that the Guardian God has started taking on apprentices. Do you think I have a chance to enroll? Even if I can't defeat the Guardian God, it would be good to learn some self-defense skills."
"Self-defense? For what?"
The sinister voice rang out, and the tent fell into a deathly silence; even breathing seemed to stop.
They were roommates in the same dormitory when they were at Keshan University of Arts.
They were all very familiar with each other's voices.
But this sudden voice didn't belong to any of them.
Moreover, the undisguised malice contained in that sinister voice sent chills down their spines.
The bitter taste in their mouths made them even forget to scream.
Sister Yuhan seemed to have been thrown from the sweltering heat of summer into the dead of winter, her whole body stiffening as if petrified.
She mustered her courage and slowly turned her head in the direction from which the sound came.
The scene she caught of the corner of the tent when she turned her head left her mind blank, and her adrenaline surged wildly.
It was a woman.
The woman, with her hair disheveled, wore a pale, thin dress, her long, black hair extending from her head and obscuring her face.
The exposed skin appeared exceptionally white, not a sickly or healthy white, but a lifeless, withered, and dry white.
The veins and tendons in his hands, which were braced on the ground, were bulging, indicating that he was exerting a lot of force, almost to the point of being ferocious.
Just from its appearance, it was already blatantly telling them that this was a strange creature.
Not to mention the sudden drop in temperature inside the tent; everything made it extremely uncomfortable.
But when a person is terrified to the extreme, they feel like their body no longer belongs to them.
Yuhan and the other girls in the tent were all frozen in place, showing no reaction other than the beads of sweat on their foreheads.
In this deathly still and chilling atmosphere, the woman in the corner of the tent began to move unsteadily.
Under the horrified gaze of several girls, the woman slowly raised her head...
"Ugh! What's that smell? Is someone taking a dump outside? It stinks!"
Zheng Long cursed and lifted the tent flap, sticking his upper body out of the tent and looking around to search for the source of the stench.
However, he didn't find it. Instead, he saw a long-haired beauty squatting by the tent passageway.
The beautiful woman's clothing was very conservative, yet it still managed to reveal her alluring figure hidden beneath.
She hugged her knees with both arms, sobbing softly, looking utterly pitiful.
Seeing this, Zheng Long felt a surge of anger rising within him.
He silently licked his lips and stepped forward. "Beautiful lady, are you having any trouble?"
The beautiful woman who was squatting on the ground immediately got up and hugged him.
With the warm, soft body in his arms, Zheng Long almost forgot his own name and secretly swallowed.
He reached out and cupped the woman's cheeks in his hands, preparing to move her head closer to his face. "Um, don't be afraid, I'll tell you if I'm having any problems..."
But,
The moment Zheng Long saw the beautiful woman's face, his eyes widened like saucers.
What came into his view was no longer the beautiful and delicate face from before, but instead a terrifying appearance that made one's legs go weak.
The beautiful woman's cherry-like lips looked as if they had been violently torn open, with the crack extending all the way to her ears.
Its ferocious mouth was filled with sharp teeth, and a scarlet tongue protruded from it, resembling a giant python.
The distance was so close that Zheng Long could clearly smell the fishy stench emanating from the tongue.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Zheng Long's face turned deathly pale, and he screamed in terror uncontrollably.
Pfft~
The beautiful woman's large mouth expanded like a snake swallowing an elephant, and with one bite, she swallowed Zheng Long's head completely.
In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, covering the big-mouthed beauty completely.
The sudden scream carried far.
Even the staff at the entrance of the shelter heard it.
"What happened?"
A staff member wearing glasses led a group of citizens to the designated location and stopped, turning to look in the direction from which the screams came.
Out of curiosity and also out of a sense of duty, he pressed the intercom button on the walkie-talkie, intending to inquire about the situation.
Before he could even ask the question, he noticed a conspicuous dark figure on the road outside the shelter out of the corner of his eye.
The staff member's eyes widened in surprise, his pupils dilating.
Having come from the Action Department, the "Anomaly List" was a required course for him, so he naturally recognized the strange sequence on the highway at first glance.
His face showed terror, and even his frantic attempts to calm himself down were to no avail.
"A thin... Slender Ghost..."