Read Novel Full Chapter 604.2
Chapter 604.2
When Bai Lixin approached, there were already five people standing by the green down jacket, including someone he recognized, the survivor.
The survivor greeted Bai Lixin warmly, “Hi, what a coincidence, we’re in the same team.”
Bai Lixin returned the polite greeting.
“Our team has eight people in total. Now that everyone’s here, let’s set off.” Once Bai Lixin and Xia Chi joined the group, the green down jacket urged, “The mobile patrol team, as the name suggests, patrols. We don’t have a specific target, so let’s start by randomly patrolling the nearest areas.”
Bai Lixin glanced around, spotting Pink Hair and Black-framed Glasses among those staying to guard the supplies.
Besides them, he also saw Lin Jue.
Xia Chi sent Bai Lixin a private message: [I told Lin Jue to keep an eye on Pink Hair and not let him cause trouble. Even if he’s not a monster, he’s not a good person!]
Bai Lixin: [Thumbs up for you.]
When passing behind the safe house, Bai Lixin saw several neatly arranged small snow mounds, each with a small stone on top.
The survivor noticed Bai Lixin’s attention, and said in a low voice: “These are the players who died. The captain organized people to bury them here. Yesterday, it was a one-meter-high snow mound, but now it’s only a few centimeters. If it snows again, we might not even find these mounds.”
Bai Lixin counted.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
There were nine snow mounds in total.
The patrol was somewhat aimless; the green down jacket seemed unsure where to go and just wandered around.
As they walked, Bai Lixin noticed that the route had changed.
What was originally a circular route turned into a straight line, moving away from the safe house in the eight o’clock direction.
The eight o’clock direction was where the wooden house appeared and disappeared according to the survivor.
Although the green down jacket didn’t say it, he was also looking for that wooden house.
Bai Lixin silently followed at the back of the team.
“Plop!”
Bai Lixin turned his head and saw the survivor clumsily getting up from the snow, his steps somewhat stiff.
The green down jacket asked calmly: “Are you okay?”
Survivor: “I-I’m fine.”
Green down jacket: “If you’re fine, keep going. Stay with the group, come here, I’ll support you, don’t get separated.”
The survivor seemed a bit flattered, quickly waving his hands, “N-no need, I can walk by myself.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
It seemed the green down jacket hadn’t told the survivor about trying to find the wooden house.
He included the survivor in the team, clearly intending to use him to locate the wooden house.
In this way, they walked in the snow for three hours, from seven to ten in the morning, seeing nothing but endless snow.
The pale color stretched from the horizon to the sky, making heaven and earth seem as one, boundless.
The green down jacket asked: “Are you sure the place you encountered the wooden house was in this direction?”
Survivor: “I told you we were lost, the map was useless, I don’t know where it was. I only regained consciousness here.”
He paused, then asked in a negotiating tone: “Why do you want to find that wooden house?”
The green down jacket shrugged slightly, “I have a prop that can predict the future to a limited extent. I foresaw an opportunity inside the wooden house, so I want to find it.”
“Think hard and try to remember.”
The survivor stopped.
He stood in place, but his feet kept moving in the snow, as if he was trying to discern the direction.
Bai Lixin glanced at the man’s feet and saw that a small, flat pit had formed in the snow.
“It seems like it’s… Ah! Someone’s there!” The survivor had just stretched out his hand when he suddenly exclaimed.
Everyone immediately looked in the direction he pointed and saw a blurry shadow at the horizon, waving its arms dramatically.
The green down jacket said hurriedly: “Go, catch up with it!”
With that, he was the first to rush out.
Bai Lixin and Xia Chi followed closely behind.
The other players were not to be outdone either.
As the survivor had said, they kept chasing the shadow, but no matter how hard they ran, the distance between them and the shadow never seemed to close.
They ran in the vast snowfield when suddenly, a strange, eerie wind began to blow.
The wind was so fierce it whipped up the snow from the ground.
The blowing snow turned the world white and blurred their vision.
In the confusion, Bai Lixin felt something touch his hand…
After an indeterminate amount of time, the wind gradually subsided.
A wooden house appeared in front of them.
Seeing the wooden house, Xia Chi couldn’t help but gasp.
[Brother!] A private message came through, [This wooden house looks so familiar! Why is it so similar to the one we saw in that photo!]
Similar, but not exactly the same.
The wooden house in the photo was still new.
The wooden house in front of them was like an old man weathered by the years, every part marked by the ravages of time.
Ajagged and broken door.
Wooden walls with ravines all over them.
Dark and dull color.
Just looking at it gave a sense of foreboding.
“Ah!” The survivor screamed, his voice full of fear, “It’s here, it really appeared.”
“Don’t go in, trust me, don’t go in!”
He shouted hysterically, but it was as if the green down jacket couldn’t hear him.
The green down jacket took a step towards the wooden house, “Let’s go, since we’re here again, it means you have some connection with this place.”
Perhaps influenced by the green down jacket’s overly calm tone, but the surviving player’s down jacket rose and fell violently for a few times, and then slowly calmed down, “Okay, fine, I’ll listen to you.”
Bai Lixin glanced at the other players around them.
The team had eight people in total, and aside from the survivor, everyone else seemed united.
After the wooden house appeared, none of them showed fear, calmly following the green down jacket towards it.
Bai Lixin and Xia Chi exchanged a look and followed at the back of the team.
As soon as they stepped through the door, a putrid smell hit them.
A mix of the smell of ash, soil, blood, and rotting flesh.
The door behind them closed automatically after they entered.
The closing door made a loud “bang,” causing the survivor to scream again.
With the wooden door shut, darkness instantly enveloped them.
“Scrrr!”
“Scrr!”
As the darkness fell, Bai Lixin heard something scratching against the wood.
The source of the sound was very close, seemingly right above his head.
The next second, several beams of light suddenly filled his retinas.
It was the green down jacket and the others turning on their flashlights.
A dark shadow quickly flashed across the beam, and at the moment the shadow disappeared, Bai Lixin caught sight of it.
A skinny creature with long limbs, a hunched back and walking on all fours.
There was nothing wrong with the survivor’s description; the creature did indeed look somewhat like an ape.
More like a starved human.
Its thin back jutted out with a bony spine, the creature moved extremely fast, disappearing into the darkness at the end of the beam before the light could hit it.
The survivor gasped again, “That’s the monster, that’s the kind of monster I saw that day.”
The green down jacket’s voice carried a coldness, “Catch it!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the four players around instantly drew their weapons and leaped onto the beams.
The survivor hesitated but ultimately did not move.
The green down jacket turned his head, his goggles facing Bai Lixin and Xia Chi: “Aren’t you going? Everyone is making an effort.”
Xia Chi hesitated, “Should we go?”
Bai Lixin: “We don’t need to go. It’s not but I don’t want to make an effort, I’m just afraid that the roof might collapse.”
Green down jacket: “…”
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In the Live broadcast room.
[Hahaha, this is hilarious. God Xin is the pioneer of anti-PUA.]
[Xia Chi’s ‘Should we go?’ is pretty good too.]
[I’m afraid that the roof might collapse, hahaha. If this were the real world, I’d think God Xin was mocking some entertainment industry.]
[Psst, brother, keep it down, don’t get us in trouble.]
[It’s fine, this isn’t the entertainment industry.]
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It was unclear whether they caught the monster.
Bai Lixin only heard intense fighting sounds from above.
In this empty space, Bai Lixin didn’t stay idle. He took out a flashlight from his backpack and started examining the wooden house carefully.
Seeing his actions, the audience in the live broadcast room laughed again.
[Others are fighting above, but God Xin is acting like he’s visiting a museum. It’s both out of place and funny.]
[Time management is important after all; we need to understand God Xin.]
[Question God Xin, understand God Xin, and become God Xin.]
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The ground beneath his feet, the surrounding walls, and the beams above his head were all pitch black, as if scorched by fire.
Bai Lixin walked to the wall and wiped it with his hand. His black gloves remained black, showing nothing.
He then pulled Xia Chi’s hand, and before Xia Chi could react, he wiped Xia Chi’s bright yellow gloves on the wall. Xia Chi’s finger instantly turned charcoal black.
Bai Lixin then brought Xia Chi’s hand to his nose.
Xia Chi was startled, “Brother, what are you doing!”
Bai Lixin sniffed it thoughtfully before letting go of Xia Chi’s hand. He turned ninety degrees in place and walked to another wall.
The survivor had said the wooden house was bare, but that wasn’t entirely true.
This wooden house clearly had many things in it, in the past naturally.
The ash on Xia Chi’s hand had a strong smell of burnt grass and wood, and the smell of decay that occurs when calcified material reacts with moisture in the air.
That was the smell of bone ash.
The smell of bone ash even overshadowed the smell of grass and wood ash.
People had died here, many people.