Xu Shuhan was fast… but even so, they still couldn’t shake off the Monsters trailing behind them… As the rustling sound grew closer, a black fog also gradually surged towards them, quickly reaching their backs. For a moment, she couldn’t tell whether it was the Monsters chasing them or the black fog wanting to Devour them…
“What should we do?” Xu Shuhan asked anxiously. Having exerted all her strength, she was beginning to feel a strong sense of crisis. Recalling the recent scream and the subsequent sight of a severed head being dragged away, she dared not think about what might be inside that black fog… At least, she didn’t want to meet those Monsters under these circumstances…
At this point, the only one who could do anything was clearly Ling Mo… In fact, before she even spoke, Ling Mo had already taken action. His method of counterattack was quite violent… Besides the Pistol he had drawn, there were also Tentacles firing incessantly. While attacking behind him, Ling Mo also showed a very odd expression on his face…
“Can we find a corner?” Ling Mo suddenly asked.
Xu Shuhan was somewhat puzzled, but still replied: “Of course…” Most of this passage was straight, but there were corners here and there, and she remembered there was more than one such corner. But what did he mean by asking this? Was he thinking of using the terrain to gain some distance?
“Alright, let’s stop when we find a corner,” Ling Mo said.
“What?! Stop?”
Isn’t this courting death! The speed of the black fog was already very fast! Even running at full speed felt insufficient, and yet he was suggesting they stop…
Despite this, Xu Shuhan didn’t raise any objections… Ling Mo wouldn’t put them in danger. At least she was certain of that… It wasn’t that Ling Mo’s methods were always flawless. Rather, compared to her, Ling Mo cherished the chance to survive even more. It was entirely a feeling… but strangely, this very cautious man always did some quite bold things. And she, this fearless Zombie, ended up being the frightened one!
“Ling Mo, there’s one ahead!” Xu Shuhan suddenly shouted.
“Charge through!” Ling Mo commanded.
Xu Shuhan stared at the dark corner, clenching her teeth. The Monsters behind them were getting closer, and she could feel it distinctly. The black fog was less than five meters away… Once she stopped, the distance between them would instantly shrink to just a meter or two… And that distance was nothing for those Monsters… A second, no, perhaps only a tenth of a second, and they would be just like that “Giant God Warrior”… decapitated, dead without a whole body…
“Can I speed up? If I stop, will I be able to start again? What do I do? Should I stop? Or should I speed up and rush through? What should I do?!”
Xu Shuhan’s mind was still a mess, but her feet had already carried Ling Mo into that corner, less than two meters in diameter.
Almost the moment she stopped, the rustling sound suddenly closed in!
“Ling…”
Just as Xu Shuhan began to speak, her mouth was suddenly covered, and as her eyes widened, Ling Mo pulled her down and pressed her tightly into the corner.
“What are you doing!”
Xu Shuhan was stunned. She had not expected this turn of events at all! Now they weren’t just failing to accelerate, they were literally waiting to die on the spot!
Almost while she was still in shock, the black fog had already swirled around them, quickly enveloping the two…
Time seemed to slow down immensely, and almost at the same instant her vision disappeared, Xu Shuhan could hear the rustling sounds all around. In that moment, she felt as if she was surrounded by countless giant centipedes, even feeling their legs crawling over her body…
Almost instinctively, Xu Shuhan shivered…
“We’re doomed…”
However, just as she was about to be overwhelmed by fear, a warm sensation suddenly came from behind her. At the same time, she heard a sound other than the rustling… the “thump-thump” of a heartbeat, pressing against her back, so huge it seemed as if it were coming from inside her own body…
“Ah!”
Xu Shuhan suddenly snapped out of it, and just as she woke up, the rustling sounds seemed to have disappeared into the depths of the passage…
“Eh? Not dead? Why?”
It was eerily quiet all around, except for the lingering black fog, it seemed like nothing had happened… The long and terrifying experience felt like a dream, almost surreal… But the stiffness throughout her body clearly indicated that she had indeed narrowly escaped death… Those Monsters hidden in the black fog had crawled right past her… ⱤãꞐ𝙤BΕ𝐒
“Okay, they’ve gone for now,” Ling Mo’s voice suddenly sounded from behind.
Xu Shuhan shuddered, only then realizing that Ling Mo had let go of her, and her body was completely leaning against Ling Mo’s chest, even her head resting against his chest… No wonder the heartbeat sounded so clear! How could it not at such close range!
“That… I…” Xu Shuhan quickly straightened up, but remembering the touch from just before, her legs went weak again…
“Ah…” A groan from Ling Mo as they both bumped back against the wall again.
“Sorry! I didn’t mean to…” Xu Shuhan scrambled off Ling Mo in a fluster, but then paused suddenly, and after two seconds, she suddenly turned around and lunged forward, grabbing Ling Mo by the collar and said, “Ling Mo, you scared me to death! I really thought I was about to die just now!”
“There was no time to explain,” Ling Mo said helplessly.
“Ah…” Just as Xu Shuhan was about to get angry, she paused again, thinking back, it seemed true… From the sudden variation to their hiding here… Although it felt quite long, it had actually only been about ten seconds in total. And although they had run a long distance, they hadn’t returned to the concrete tunnel entrance they had come through… Indeed, there was no time.
“But…” Xu Shuhan still wanted to say something, but after a few seconds of tension, she let go of Ling Mo, muttering softly, “Scared to death…”
“Sorry,” Ling Mo said at this moment.
“Ah? You’re actually apologizing…” Xu Shuhan was taken aback.
“I shouldn’t have let you take this risk…” Before he could finish, Ling Mo felt a sudden pinch at his waist, wincing in pain, “What are you doing…”
“Letting you talk nonsense!” Xu Shuhan turned her head away.
“I was apologizing!”
“You… forget it, I won’t argue with you. What happened just now? You weren’t just trying to creatively court death, were you?” Xu Shuhan said irritably, changing the topic.
Ling Mo, meanwhile, was rubbing his waist somewhat miserably, “Of course not… I only just confirmed this idea when I spoke up. Speaking of which, the answer can also be found on the Mobile Phone.”
With that, he took out the Mobile Phone.
The phone was also splattered with a few drops of blood, but the screen was still flickering as it recorded.
“Good, it’s not broken,” Ling Mo breathed a sigh of relief, then tapped a few times on the screen.
Xu Shuhan asked curiously, “Are we going to look at it now?” She was still worried about those Monsters, and being in this black fog, she didn’t feel too good.
“Didn’t you notice?” Ling Mo suddenly looked up.
“What?”
“If you stay long enough, you can vaguely see some things. As long as it’s not where those Monsters are dense, the black fog isn’t that thick,” Ling Mo shook the Mobile Phone, saying.
Xu Shuhan blinked, immediately staring intently at Ling Mo’s face: “Really… I didn’t notice.”
“It’s normal, you could already see a bit, so you wouldn’t notice such a subtle change. We can see things now, which means those Monsters are still far from us, and we don’t need to worry for now,” Ling Mo explained patiently.
“That so…” Xu Shuhan nodded, leaning in closer to peer at the screen, “Then let’s hurry and see, I only saw the black fog just now, didn’t even get a clear look at those Monsters.”
“Right…” Ling Mo opened the video, and as the screen shook, a blurry shadow began to slowly appear…