The face was riddled with holes and had been decayed for a long time. Even the fear in the dull expression had dissipated.
The head was just scattered on the gathered haystack, and even the insects were unwilling to cling to it.
Mary took two steps back suddenly, but bumped into something hard.
She hurriedly turned around and realized it was Lu Jian.
"Has this person been dead for a while?"
Lu Tan fiddled with the head with a crowbar, and the unbalanced head rolled to the ground.
"You won't be left with only one head after an accident. Are there any dangerous creatures around?"
Lu Tiao used the crowbar to push aside the faintly fluorescent weeds. He picked up the flashlight and illuminated the front.
"There is a sound."
"Hound" seemed to hear some noise, and he took out a pistol with his right hand and pointed it forward.
Lu Tan listened carefully, but didn't hear anything.
It's very quiet, too quiet.
Usually in such lush grassland, there must be many mosquitoes and small animals living there, maybe even big rats like the one just now.
But now, the whole grassland is quiet and there is no sound at all.
No.
Gaah——
Lu Tiao followed the direction of the "Hound" and heard a strange movement.
It was like the last sob coming from the mouth of a patient who had been bedridden for a long time, with a foreign sound that made people's skin crawl.
Crisp and continuous, like glass beads rolling down the ground.
Quack, quack, quack—
"Hound" stepped on the tall grass and walked forward cautiously. The fluorescent grass just fell down, forming a narrow road.
Lu Tan looked back and saw that Mary and Shitou were staying at the door of the car, staring in the direction of him and "Hound". Their figures were gradually obscured by vegetation, and only the roof of the bus was vaguely visible.
Quack, quack, quack—
A series of whimpering sounds came from the front again, and the light of Lu Jian's flashlight passed through the dense and lush grass, seeming to illuminate something.
The "Hound" slowed down slightly, glanced at Lu Tan, and then rushed out of the grass curtain.
Lu Tiao followed closely behind. He felt that the ground under his feet suddenly became soft. Before he could feel it carefully, he saw that this was an open land.
Grass that is taller than a person invariably avoids this area of land. The ground is dark, as if it is made of accumulated humus. In the center of this area, which is less than the size of a basketball court, lies a bloated man.
It's the bus driver.
"Hello."
"Hound" saw this and barked at him with some vigilance.
"Save...save..."
The driver made a weak and difficult sound, his arms were twisted in unnatural directions, and one of his legs seemed to be broken. It was obvious that he had been tortured after being thrown out of the car.
"Don't move, I'll be there right away."
"Hound" immediately prepared to withdraw his gun and save the person.
However, Lu Tan raised the crowbar and stopped the "Hound".
"I feel something is wrong."
Lu Jian's inspiration told him that the area ahead was very problematic.
Why is there such an empty area in such a lush, wildly growing grassland?
Why is the soil here softer and darker?
How did the driver get thrown so far away from the bus?
"Save...save..."
The driver continued to moan in pain.
Lu Tan thought for a while, took out a bag of compressed dry food from his backpack, and threw it towards the driver.
Snap——
The bag of compressed dry food fell next to the driver's body.
“…!!!”
The "hound" who didn't act rashly saw that the soil next to the driver started to squirm.
The black soil seemed to be alive, squirming slightly, and then, under the bag of compressed dry food, a little green emerged.
Those are new green shoots.
Outside the area illuminated by the flashlight, the world is silent and dark, but within that circle of light, some kind of life is being nurtured.
A handful of grass emerged from the black soil and covered the compressed dry food. After a moment, the compressed dry food disappeared, leaving only a small patch of green grass.
The driver's cry for help gradually changed its pitch, became distorted, and finally became the weird sound that Lu Tian and "Hound" had heard before.
Lu Tan and "Hound" moved around the driver for a short distance, and then they saw that the driver's eyes were already covered in blood and flesh. Green grass was growing on the wound, and the eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth of the driver were all covered with blood.
grew out.
"Quack...save...save..."
The grass moved automatically in the absence of wind, causing the driver's vocal cords to vibrate like this.
This is a hunter.
Lu Jian knew it very well.
It mimics the appearance of its prey, sends out a cry for help, attracts the same kind of prey, and then starts to hunt.
If Lu Tiao and the "Hound" rush over, they may be captured, swallowed, and integrated into one body.
This piece of grassland is probably...
Lu Jian saw that on the driver's face, where the wound was most serious and where the blood was densest, a flawless white flower grew between the green grass.
One flower, two flowers, three flowers, his corpse suddenly turned into a small flower field, and those pure flowers bloomed like this, forming a beautiful but also extremely tragic picture.
"Let's go quickly and get back to the road."
Lu Tuan instinctively sensed the threat, and he signaled the "Hound" to go back, but when they turned their heads, they found that the grass seemed to have grown taller, completely covering the roof of the bus.
There were no stars or moon, and the surrounding grass was indistinguishable. In this dark night, Lu Jian could only know the general direction of the bus.
"No matter, let's go."
But the danger of staying here was obviously greater. Lu Tiao swiped the crowbar in his hand and knocked down the fluorescent vegetation. He walked into the increasingly tall vegetation.
The smell of earth and grass became stronger, as if creatures were preparing to hunt, and a strange atmosphere was brewing.
Lu Jian and "Hound" moved forward hard, and the flashlight was almost useless in such dense grass.
He felt as if the grass was actively growing, trying to get into his clothes and under his skin.
In the grass without direction, without end, without light and without sound, death is growing.
"Where are you?"
"Hound" barked loudly, and a few seconds later, a response came from one direction.
"Here, here, there is a problem!"
It's the sound of stones shaking.
Lu Tiao caught the direction of the sound, turned his body, and moved with difficulty among the weeds that were growing and becoming denser.
After a while, Lu Jian and "Hound" finally broke through the barrier and saw the roof of the bus.
"arrive."
Lu Tan barked and turned to look at the "Hound".
At this time, he saw that the hound's injured left hand was already covered with green grass.
The green color that represents life is also a symbol of fear at this moment.
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