Daomu Biji: Restart

Book 1: Chapter 136

Fatty and I got pelted by the rain as we hid behind the rock and watched those motionless people. Fatty also made a move to roll his eyes into the back of his head and listen to the thunder. After doing it for a few minutes, he shook his head at me to show that he couldn't hear anything.

This definitely wasnt a joke meant for me. No one would tease others using such a ridiculous performance. Moreover, this definitely wasnt Xiao Hua's team. Everyone in Xiao Hua's team had a certain characteristic: they were very strong-spirited. Such people were often bored, but they wouldnt come up with such a bad idea at a critical time like this.

I wiped the water from my face. After the heavy rain, the air in the valley felt more refreshing. The water might have absorbed the toxic substances in the fog. Now that I felt better, I cautiously came out from behind the rock and went over to those people.

Fatty moved to pull me back, but I told him not to worry. I was sure that if these people werent possessed by evil spirits, then they were definitely idiots and there was nothing to be afraid of.

When I walked over to those people, I leaned in close to get a look at one of them. This person was completely stiff, the whites of his eyes were showing, and he appeared to be unconscious. The raindrops hit his scalp and slid down into his eyes. Even though it looked painful, he didnt seem to feel it.

I didn't touch any of them, remembering that trying to wake up someone who was sleepwalking would trigger unpredictable reactions. But I was certain that these people were all trapped in a nightmare of some sort.

The first thing I noticed was their arrangement. Their positions definitely werent ordinary. I could see that they had followed some rule, but there didnt seem to be any order to it. After carefully going through my memories, I realized that these peoples squatting positions happened to be similar to the arrangement of the seven ears on that monster corpse in Yang Daguang's family tomb.

The heavy rain had drenched the mans hair, which enabled me to clearly see his scalp. I found that these people's hair was very thin and there were some strange marks on their scalps.

When the lightning flashed again, I could see even more clearly. I took out my flashlight, turned it on, and leaned in for a closer look. These people all had incision scars on their scalps like they had undergone craniotomies.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, which made it harder to hear the thunder. I started to move to the next person, but had only taken two steps when I suddenly found that the person I was just looking at had now turned around. I immediately stopped and watched as the man stood up, but all he did was look at me silently in the pouring rain.

As we stared at each other, I noticed that his eyes were still white and his chin was slowly drooping down as if it were dislocated. His mouth widened in a way that I had never seen before.

This was a bone hearing method, which used the mouth to collect sound. Other than vibrations in the eardrums, vibrations in the jaw could also transmit sounds into the nerves.

But this guys expression was very exaggerated and unreasonable, almost like he was trying to demonstrate to me. When I looked at his widened mouth, I kept feeling that it was done intentionally. This was a special expression meant just for me.

As he stood there silently, I stared at him carefully. Every time the lightning flashed overhead, that sinister expression looked even more terrifying.

I didnt know why, but I felt like it was very familiar. I had definitely seen this expression not too long ago. This kind of familiarity had me falling into a kind of trance in the heavy rain. I couldnt tell whether the thunder was familiar or the expression was familiar.

Fatty suddenly dragged me back and pulled me behind the rock. I came back to my senses and wiped the water off of my face. Fatty started cursing, "Are you fucking stupid?! Were you listening to the thunder, too?!"

I somehow stood up and looked back out. The man was still standing there, but he wasnt facing me and his hands were curled up now. I suddenly remembered where I had seen that expression before.

It was the same expression the leather figurine woman had after I stuck my hand in her mouth.