Chapter 167: Human-Insect Pit
“Come here, come here, come here, come here, come here–“

In the forest opposite the hotel, an unknown monster began to repeat these words, like a cassette disk, a TV with signal interference… full of a weird mechanical feeling; then at a certain moment, the voice suddenly stopped, and became weird and cold.

“–come over.”

The sound became clear and loud, reaching everyone’s ears.

It was as if a bomb of terror had been lit and thrown into the crowd. Someone on the balcony screamed, and then everyone fled back to their rooms like crazy.

“Hurry, run away!”

“Have you told the teacher?”

“Call the police!”

…

When several accompanying teachers arrived, they saw panicked students running around the corridor. Several girls went back to their rooms and hid in tears, not daring to go out.

It was not until they heard an adult’s voice shouting “Hey! Who’s there!” that they realized it was the teacher and they felt more confident.

……

“what happened?”

The teachers came to the side corridor, where the windows were in the same direction as the nearby rooms, facing the Baijingshan Scenic Area.

“The students said there’s something hidden in the woods down below.”

“What? A wild beast in the mountains or something?”

“I don’t know, they say it can talk…”

“Isn’t that a human? Someone must be playing a prank…”

Looking at the forest immersed in darkness, the teachers looked at each other, their expressions unconsciously changing, as if they were affected by the atmosphere. The cold night wind flowed in through the gaps in the windows, chilling everyone’s heart.

A circular beam of light shone towards the woods, and the disoriented light spot swayed around in the darkness. It was the teacher waving the flashlight back and forth, leaning out from the corridor and looking down.

“Who is it? We called the police!”

The beam of the flashlight was drowned in the darkness as deep as the sea. In the silent night, pale, conspicuous objects moved among the tree branches.

“What…what…”

The weak light could not reveal the full picture of the thing. The unusually white and huge limbs and skin flashed by in people’s vision.

The teacher holding the flashlight took two steps back. If he hadn’t been supported by his colleagues behind him, he would have collapsed.

“You, did you see it…”

“Uh… um.”

He looked around and saw that his colleagues’ faces were as pale as paper as his own.

For a moment, he almost lost the ability to speak and could not see the whole picture of the things in the forest at all, because “that thing” was moving too fast.

But all those who witnessed it had a similar feeling: it was definitely not a human, but a terrifying creature that was similar to a human but even larger.

Just seeing a few scales and feathers made me feel terrified and shocked.

“Snapped.”

The flashlight in the teacher’s hand suddenly fell down and rolled into the corner nearby.

After losing the light source, the corridor suddenly became dark; the darkness that submerged the mountains and forests outside the window turned into a tangible, flowing liquid and invaded the interior of the hotel.

People in the corridor shouted in panic.
“what happened?!”

“Teacher Xu, are you still there?!”

The teacher who lost his flashlight only felt something cold and slippery in the darkness, grabbing his hands and feet tightly and dragging him towards the window.

Like a snake without its scales, the arms of a giant octopus, or… a thick bug.

This thing was incredibly powerful, and an adult had no way of resisting it. He didn’t even have time to struggle, and he crashed headfirst into the glass in front of him.

Veins popped out on his forehead, his eyeballs bulged bloodshot, and he desperately opened his mouth to call for help, but the cold and slippery substance had already poured into his throat, leaving him unable to utter a word.

“boom!”

In the darkness, there was a sound of wind tearing the air.

Then there was a loud bang, thunder coming out of nowhere, and a creepy roar.

The sturdy fist came down like a cannonball, smashing the monster’s tentacles and the glass windows in the corridor.

“Pah—Pah—Pah—”

The cracks spread rapidly, and more than a dozen windows shattered at once. Glass shards flew all over the sky, reflecting a crystal luster in the night.

Cen Dongsheng arrived at the scene.

He saw the white tentacles trying to drag him into the forest outside the window, so he punched without hesitation.

The evil creature that humans could not resist suddenly became weak in front of the curse master’s fist and turned into flesh.

The monster howled.

His eyes were fixed on the window. A white shadow flashed by and disappeared. It retracted its remaining half tentacle and tried to retreat back into the forest.

In the blink of an eye, Cen Dongsheng’s eagle-like sharp eyes had already locked onto the target hiding in the darkness.

“Want to go?”

He stretched out his arms, grabbed with his big hands, and grasped the tip of the monster’s limbs at lightning speed, and then he flew into the air.

……

The darkness in the corridor dissipated and the lights came back on.

When people’s vision was restored, the last thing they saw was the figure of a tall man jumping out of the broken window, his coat fluttering in the wind, as if he was flying.

*
the other side.

On a mountain trail two kilometers away from Baijingshan Resort Hotel, a beam of high beam light flashed by, and a Santana was stumbling along the uneven mountain road.

Song Yutang held onto the handrail, pursed her lips tightly, and let the vehicle sway and roll.

The car radio initially played lyrical songs from the radio station. Once we got up the mountain, the signal became unstable. The songs were intermittent, and there was a “crackling” noise in between, which was very annoying.

She was about to turn it off when another white hand reached out and slapped the button away.

Song Yutang glanced at her companion and found that her lips were also pursed into a thin line and she was staring straight ahead.

Under the vast night sky, only the small area illuminated by the headlights can be seen, and the rest is endless darkness.

As the car drove through the empty fields, there was a sense of endless loneliness.

No one spoke until the silence was broken by sudden laughter.

“Haha, it’s finally here!”

Jiang Yunmei, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, glanced at the end of the mountain road in the distance and seemed to have discovered something. She slapped the steering wheel and laughed happily.

“It must be here.”

“Hey, Senior, you’ve been repeating this sentence since the sun started to set three hours ago…”

The corners of Song Yutang’s mouth twitched slightly.

“Don’t worry, there won’t be any problem this time.”

Jiang Yunmei pointed ahead, indicating the destination for her companions. Just beside this bumpy road, they could vaguely see several greenhouses covered with plastic film.

“See? There’s a house there. It’s definitely where those guys are stationed.”

“Yeah……”

Song Yutang sighed. “I hope so.”

……

To be honest, the senior’s navigation was not accurate.

Although before coming, she was full of confidence and promised that she could help Song Yutang find the group of cultists who worshipped the “Jingshan Man-worm”; but after the car drove to the foot of Baijing Mountain, she spent most of the next half day going around in circles, looking for what she called the “nest”.

In addition, the search area was in the mountains where few people went, and there was not even a passerby to ask for directions, so they had been struggling until now. The two female college students had dinner in the car, and found a convenience store at a gas station to buy some instant noodles and bread to get by.

“It can’t be helped. It’s not easy to find a specific person. I choose one by one according to the probability… Although it’s a bit unlucky to get the wrong answer every time.”

Jiang Yunmei didn’t know whether she was complaining or explaining.

After a while, she suddenly laughed again, as if she thought of something good.

“You can’t say that all my predictions are wrong.”

“what?”

“For example, I didn’t bring my own car this time, but chose to rent a cheap car that I could build as I pleased, which was very smart.”

“…”

Song Yutang was a little speechless. Why did she feel that this student union president was a little out of touch? She thought that if she had known earlier, she would have gone directly to find the master.

Of course, what she didn’t know was that Cen Dongsheng was also unsure, and the man was thinking of waiting until his apprentice arrived before making a decision.

“Anyway, we’ve found it this time.”

Jiang Yunmei pushed open the car door, put her hands on her hips, looked at the deep forest in front of her, and her expression became more and more certain.

“Ke Junchen… is he in this place?”

Song Yutang got out of the car and looked at the deserted mountains with a hesitant tone.

“Yes. All other places have been ruled out. This is the only possible place.”

The senior student’s expression didn’t seem like she was lying.

Song Yutang realized that her previous driving in circles was not a waste of time, but she was actually checking for suspicious locations.

……

The two female college students parked the car aside, traveled light, and used the light of their flashlights to illuminate the rugged mountain road in the night.

In the deep mountains and forests, late at night, it is a risky move for a young woman to walk on a country road.

The premise is that they are really ordinary weak women——

“Student Song, I’m going with you. If we get into danger later, please protect me, okay?”

Jiang Yunmei said with a smile.

She had already seen the abilities of this junior schoolmate, who was simply superhuman, so she was not worried at all.

“I will.”

Song Yutang answered seriously.

“But at the critical moment, if I tell you to run away quickly, you have to obey.”

“clear.”

The senior student saluted playfully.

……

The place they arrived at was an abandoned farm.

There are more than a dozen agricultural greenhouses on the outskirts, all of which appear to have been abandoned for a long time.

Dirty plastic mulch and greenhouse film were scattered on the cultivated land, and rusty bicycles lay in the lush grass. This place had not been cleaned for a long time, and even the insulation curtains were mostly torn off, as if they had been visited by wild animals.

When I got closer and looked inside, I saw that the vines and branches that originally had crops on them had all withered and the soil had turned into mud; wild grass was growing wildly all around and the atmosphere was desolate.

Passing by the greenhouse area, you can still see several three- or four-story cement houses standing on the hillside. There is no light coming from inside, and the houses are empty, just like a haunted house.

“Is there really anyone here?”

Song Yutang thought about it and took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, she heard a faint sound, floating in the night wind and penetrating into her eardrums.

It sounded like a swarm of insects crawling, or like some incomprehensible and confusing words that were spoken out of a person’s mouth in the form of a dream.

Senior Jiang next to her subconsciously reached out and grabbed her wrist.

Song Yutang turned around and saw that her expression was stiff. The force from her fingers proved that she was feeling nervous.

…She thought the other party was really fearless.

Along the way, the senior sister, who was just an ordinary person, took the risk to act with her, but she acted more relaxed than her, a curse master, and was even in the mood to joke with her.

However, is Senior Sister Jiang really an ordinary person?
Although she claimed that she “just sees a little more than ordinary people”, which is what ordinary people call Yin-Yang eyes, she should not have any curses or supernatural powers, but…

How did she determine the location of the cultists?

Judging from the fact that Jiang Yunmei had to drive around and verify the authenticity of each location, she did not have any intelligence channels, but discovered it on her own…

This thought emerged in Song Yutang’s mind, and she secretly kept it in mind, intending to share it with her master later. The girl whispered:
“Don’t worry, Senior, I’m right here.”

“There’s something ahead…”

Jiang Yunmei’s voice trembled slightly, her eyebrows were furrowed, and her eyes were staring straight into the distance.

“more than one.”

“……Yeah.”

Song Yutang nodded slightly.

“Well, Senior, you wait here. I’ll be back soon. When the time comes, listen to my signal and decide whether to run or not.”

……

Jiang Yunmei remained quiet and stood where she was.

After a while, Song Yutang reappeared on the hillside. She looked unhappy. She waved at him and said:
“Come on, there’s no one here.”

Jiang Yunmei hesitated for a moment, but still quickened her pace to catch up with her back.

The tiny sounds linger in my ears and won’t go away.

Stepping onto the hillside, what comes into view is a huge dug pit; and inside the pit is a disgusting scene.

Jiang Yunmei stared at this bizarre, surreal scene for a long time. The girl’s pupils flickered in the dim light, and she murmured:

“‘Jingshan Man-worm’… I finally understand why it is called this name.”

Song Yutang on the side agreed with this.

……

In the darkness of the night, a fat, bloated, worm-like, pale body was wriggling vigorously in the mud; and at the front of it was a solidified human face.

Without a doubt, this is the “man-worm”.

There was not just one, but more than a dozen, ranging in length from five or six meters to more than ten meters. The human-worms with strange insect bodies and human faces rolled in the pit, their bodies without limbs entangled with each other, and they could only move slowly by crawling. Without the help of external forces, they could not even climb out of the pit.

The human heads include male and female, old and young, and the only thing they have in common is that their expressions are all frozen at a certain moment, be it fear, ecstasy, sadness, or numbness.

Without thoughts or intelligence, a dozen human-worms were squirming stupidly in this huge dark pit, making tiny sounds tirelessly.

(End of this chapter)