Pollution throughout the territory

Xia Ren picked up a piece of gravel from the ground nearby and threw it in. After a long time, there was no reply.

It was extremely dark inside the wellhead, and there was a bone-chilling chill. It was bottomless, like an abyss connected to another world.

Xia Ren lay down at the mouth of the well and took a look. He realized that he had the terrible thought of entering the well, so he quickly retreated.

"Pickman may have left a picture of the wellhead at home. Maybe it has some deep meaning, but the depth of the well is still unknown. If you go down hastily, you will most likely fall to death, especially now we don't know if there are other dangers hidden inside."

The reason why people are afraid of darkness is because they don’t know what secrets are hidden in the darkness. The biggest fear often comes from the unknown.

Xia Ren decided not to take the risk for the time being.

He turned his attention to other places in the room and found a painting covered with cloth on the other side.

He walked over, opened the canvas, and found that it was an unfinished painting.

Even so, the picture is enough to scare people to the point of madness.

The creature is extremely huge. Compared with the surrounding scenery, it is at least five meters tall. The existing human language is enough to describe its accurate appearance. If you want to apply any vocabulary to it, it will appear extremely lacking. When you look at it, The moment he saw it, Xia Ren's mind went blank.

It is far more terrifying than any demon imagined by humans. Its red eyes are full of boundless malice. It is crouching in a cemetery. Its body is huge and thin, as if only a layer of dry and rough skin is left, but its lower limbs Swelling, like a rotting corpse soaked in water.

The monster is holding a person between its bony claws. It is opening its huge mouth and using its sharp yellowed teeth to gnaw the food in its hands...or rather, it is gnawing at the human corpse.

What really made Xia Ren tremble was not entirely the content expressed in the painting, but the painting itself.

Pickman uses a skill so evil that no one can fathom it to create an eerily realistic depiction of the crouching monster.

The monster with a canine face and a rotten and swollen body seemed to be right in front of him. Xia Ren could even feel its bloody and cruel desire to eat, as well as the mold and rotten flesh emanating from it. The stench was overwhelming.

Even if Pickman did not depict it in its entirety, there is no doubt that this is the real ghoul. Just an unfinished portrait can make people feel desperate fear.

At this moment, Xia Ren suddenly heard a strange noise in his ears. He woke up from the terrible hallucination, looked aside, and found that the noise came from behind the locked doors.

Elliot was very nervous, and the relaxed atmosphere was instantly gone.

He once again persuaded Xia Ren to leave here quickly. God knows what kind of horrors lurk in those rooms that have never been explored.

But this time, Xia Ren chose to listen to Elliot's opinion.

Although he was not able to find Pickman, he could probably guess Pickman's whereabouts after seeing these paintings.

He was not sure about going down that well for the time being. If he continued to stay here, there would be no other meaning besides encountering danger.

The two were preparing to leave through the passage they came from when they suddenly heard a heavy bang from one of the locked doors. It seemed as if a huge beast was being held behind the door, trying to break through the confinement.

"Let's go!"

Xia Ren no longer hesitated and pushed Elliot's back to speed up his escape.

The two walked into the dark passage. The flame on the oil lamp might go out at any time because of their rapid movement. The light was too weak to see the road clearly.

At the same time, the sound of the door breaking reached their ears, and then, the hidden monster ran on all fours and rushed towards them.

The sound of heavy breathing and footsteps were getting closer and closer to the two of them. Their speed could not be compared with the monster. If they continued like this, even if they ran out of the passage, they would be caught by the other party.

Xia Ren's scalp was numb. At the critical moment, he thought of the weapon he carried with him that could cause harm to the monster - the revolver.

In the darkness, he couldn't see the specific situation clearly, so he just relied on instinct, took out his pistol and pulled the trigger continuously toward the back.

Bang! Bang! Bang...

With six consecutive gunshots, Xia Ren fired all the bullets in the revolver in one breath, then ran out of the passage without looking back and came to the first basement he had just entered.

I don't know if the bullet had an effect or if the gunshot scared the opponent away, but the monster didn't seem to follow him again.

They ran along the stairs to the foyer. The warm sunshine shone on them, but it did not bring much sense of security.

They didn't dare to stop for a moment until they ran out of the street and saw pedestrians. Then they were exhausted and sat on the ground breathing in the fresh air.

Under extreme tension and fear, their lungs were about to burst. Every time they took a breath, their throats and organs felt burning pain. They rested for a while before they finally recovered.

They all had expressions of surviving a disaster on their faces, and when they looked at each other, they could see the remaining fear in each other's eyes.

"Then what is it that bursts out of the closed room?" Elliot asked with lingering fear.

Xia Ren shook his head: "It was too dark at the time, and I couldn't see clearly."

He won't tell Eliot what's really going on.

In fact, at the moment of shooting, through the light coming from the muzzle, he could vaguely see the appearance of the monster.

It was a skinny figure, about one size larger than a wild wolf. Except for its head, it had no hair anywhere on its body, and its running posture was also very weird, as if it was not an animal naturally accustomed to running on all fours.

Xia Ren didn't know why that kind of terrifying creature was being held in the basement. I'm afraid only Pickman himself knew the truth of the matter.

"It's a good thing you brought a gun, otherwise we both would have died there."

After Elliot finished speaking, he seemed to realize something.

"Pickman's disappearance, could it be..."

He had already subconsciously believed that Pickman had encountered misfortune in the basement, and did not speculate in a more terrifying direction.

"Probably not, we didn't see any blood, did we?"

Xia Ren looked up at the sky. The sun had shifted to the west, and the sunlight was not as bright as it was at noon.

He patted the dust on his butt, stood up and said, "I'm going home, Theresa is still waiting for me at home."

Elliot also stood up quickly, feeling a little caught off guard by his sudden departure: "Are you going back so soon?"

Xia Ren sighed and said: "My husband died in a gang war. Now the hostile gang has taken control of our neighborhood. I sneak out in the morning and it takes more time to go back. And they don't know He will come to my door at any time, and I must get home before dark to prevent any accidents from happening to my daughter."

Elliot hesitated and asked, "Are you and your daughter the only two people left at home?"

Xia Ren didn't think much and said, "Yeah, originally I wanted to find Pickman, but I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, his brother-in-law turned out to be a hidden ghoul cub.

The relationship between wizards and ghouls is much older than he imagined.

Elliot seemed to have made up his mind and mustered up the courage to say, "How about I send you back. With me here, you don't have to worry about safety. How about that?"

"you?"

Xia Ren looked at him in surprise, not understanding what his purpose was.

Elliot thought she suspected that he had bad intentions, and said: "Pickman may not have disappeared. I haven't seen him for only a few days. Maybe he was not there when we looked for him and came back in the evening." Woolen cloth?"

Although Xia Ren doesn't quite believe that Pickman can come back, and even if he comes back, he can't trust a ghoul cub to hand over Theresa, but Elliot's proposal is really attractive , In the chaotic streets, the weight of a woman is completely different from that of a man. At least with the latter, the safety of the former can be guaranteed to a large extent.

Seeing that Xia Ren was a little shaken, Elliot continued: "I am an employee of a big company. Those small gangs dare not go against us. You can rest assured."

Xia Ren thought for a few seconds, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll trouble you."

Elliot seemed very happy that she could agree to the proposal that the two of them go home together. The two walked to a slightly busier street, took a taxi, and rushed towards Anna's house.

However, taxis in rich areas will not easily cross the border. When they reach poor areas, they can only change to horse-drawn carriages.

Yes, horse-drawn carriages still exist in Myrican Country, and they are very common in poor areas. They are an important tool for people's production and transportation life. After all, cars are too rare here and are not affordable for poor people, even if they can afford them. , and you need to drive to a wealthy area to find a gas station.

When Xia Ren came here, he was cautious and afraid of being stopped by the checkpoints set up by the Voodoo Gang on the road, so he didn't dare to take the carriage. But now that Elliot is here, safety is no longer an issue.

The driver is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, but his face is obviously older than his youth. People here have to face heavy life pressure and various dangers from the outside world, as well as seriously uneven distribution of medical resources. Ordinary people A person who can live to be sixty years old can already be called a long life.

The two of them were sitting in the carriage. Elliot's eloquence was not very good. He found a few dry topics, but it was difficult to continue the conversation, so he quickly fell into silence.

Xia Ren looked at the scenery on the roadside and thought about the next action in his mind.

This ancient dream is simply a hell mode. Before finding clues about the Old Ones, you have to worry about the most basic survival issues first.

Living in a chaotic neighborhood, surrounded by threats from human beings, I still have no help that I can rely on.

The only man in the family died suddenly at the beginning, and his body was that of a weak woman with no power to restrain a chicken. She also had to take care of an even weaker little girl. He didn't know how long this ancient dream would last before it ended. If it was Like the second ancient dream, it's fine if you only need to stay for one night, but I'm afraid that the situation will be similar to the first ancient dream and you need to survive for a month or even longer.

The longer you stay in the ancient dream, the greater the side effects you will have when you leave the ancient dream. Everything around you is so real. The longer you are immersed in it, the harder it is to distinguish the difference between reality and dreams.

Ancient dreams are so difficult, and the time and space travel that the doctor has been carrying out is even more difficult than you can imagine.

Those are the realities of other timelines. He has to stay awake in those long and real worlds and endure unimaginable suffering without losing himself. Who knows what kind of strong will it takes.

Xia Ren sighed, full of worries about the future.

He planned to go with the flow for the next period of time, because based on the previous two experiences, even if he did nothing, the surrounding environment would force him to lead to the death of the Old Dominators.

But this time, the situation is slightly different. It is difficult for a woman to survive in the country of Myrican alone, especially with a child. If there is no progress in the ancient dream, then even if he takes the risk, he must enter in person. Take a look at the situation in that well.

And there is another reason. Qin Yun is still in danger. Xia Ren cannot completely control himself from feeling anxious. If he stays in the ancient dream for one more day, he will bear one more day of pain. As time goes by, even if his No matter how strong your will is, it is still unbearable.

But currently, what he needs to worry about most is how to survive in the ancient dream.

Our current home is within the sphere of influence of the Voodoo Gang. As family members of gang members who are against them, generally speaking, the Voodoo Gang will not let them go easily. Even if they are old, weak, sick or disabled, they will be brutally treated. Treat so that the gang can establish authority and better control the new area.

Gangs in the past have done this, especially the Voodoo Gang, which is famous for its brutality and will not be merciful.

Therefore, Xia Ren had to consider where to move next.

It is of course the best to leave the country of Merican and join the Supreme Alliance Government, but the country of Merican has built a border wall on the border to prevent its own people from immigrating outside, and the exit inspection is very strict.

But at the same time, the country of Myrican is also famous for its corruption. After all, in a country controlled by large companies, officials have long been accustomed to taking money to do things and accepting bribes. The bosses of those large companies basically have the status of residents of the Supreme Alliance Government. status, but it also does not affect their company's status in Merican Country.

So as long as you pay a valuable bribe, you can leave the country at will.

But Anna's family is just an ordinary family. If there is such money to bribe officials, this road is bound to not work.

But in the country of Myrican, a mother and daughter who are weak and weak will not end up easily no matter where they move.

Xia Ren couldn't help but look at Elliot beside him.

Employees of large companies should be relatively wealthy, but that has nothing to do with him. It is impossible for Elliot to pay such a high price for a woman who has just been with him for less than a day, let alone the owner of this body. Already married and has a daughter.

Sad people.

Xia Ren couldn't help but rub his forehead.

No matter what they are afraid of, the carriage will soon arrive in the town, but it happens to run into a checkpoint set up by the Voodoo Gang.

The driver quickly got out of the car, squeezed the wrinkles on his face together, put on a flattering smile, and got close to the careless gang members. Then he took out a few banknotes from his pocket with difficulty and handed them to the other party's hands, begging not to meet him. trouble.

"Someone from our gang was killed during the day. Who knows if the murderer was sitting in your car."

This small amount of money obviously did not satisfy several gang members. They roughly pushed the driver away and walked towards Xia Ren and the others.