Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

human laughter?

How could there be anyone else here besides them?

Hearing the vague laughter, Tom stood up abruptly, left the campfire and came to the edge of the camp, vigilantly observing the dense forest to the east of the camp.

Seeing Tom leave, Aisha was left alone by the campfire.

The lake emitting a faint white light makes the scenery here more beautiful, but Elsa is not in the mood to appreciate it, but makes her feel scared, so she also gets up and goes to the edge of the camp, standing beside Tom and looking towards the dense forest.

The two remained silent and listened carefully.

"Chirp~chirp~." But only the chirping of insects was heard, as if... just had an auditory hallucination?

"Haha~."

But not long after, faint laughter came from the depths of the dense forest, which meant that the two of them did not have auditory hallucinations at all, but that there were really "people" there.

"Tom...what should I do?" Aisha asked tremblingly.

"Go and get George and the others to get up." Tom, who had been staring at the dense forest, said in a deep voice.

"Yeah." Aisha nodded and turned back to the camp to wake everyone up.

Although Tom's brain is one-sided, it doesn't mean he's stupid.

The self-luminous lake and the laughter in the forest all represent that this area is not normal. Tom is very confident in himself, but he will not be a hero to check the source of the laughter.

Less than a minute.

"My God? This lake actually glows?"

Tom heard Hans sigh from behind.

Soon, George, Hans, Crawford and Aisha had just gathered around Tom, and just heard the frolic coming from the dense forest.

And the frolic was getting closer to the camp they were in.

Hearing such movements, the sleepiness of the three of George disappeared without a trace, and the atmosphere became much more dignified.

"Everyone." As the leader, George immediately said to everyone:

"Get ready, I, Tom and Crawford will go to the forest to check, Hans and Aisha, you two stay in the camp, if necessary..."

"Wait!" Before George finished speaking, Hans raised his hand and interjected, "I don't think this is appropriate."

George was not annoyed by Hans' interruption, and asked patiently, "Do you have any good suggestions, Hans."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Hans.

"It's not a suggestion, it's just my viewing experience." Hans explained with a serious face: "You know I like watching movies, especially horror movies.

As for the horror and vulgar films shot by Lao Mei, the protagonists are usually composed of five to six college students, you see..."

As Hans spoke, he glanced at everyone, then pointed to the glowing lake surface, and then pointed to the dense forest where the laughter came from:

"We are five college students, and we encountered a weird natural phenomenon, is it similar to the plot of a horror and vulgar movie?

You must know that the main reason for the tragic death of the protagonist group members in horror movies is to act separately!

There are many people together and great strength, if we are separated, isn't it waiting to be broken one by one? We are not professional special forces, and the quality of individual soldiers is not as good as that of ordinary soldiers, so we must not act separately. "

After Hans's voice fell, everyone nodded with deep sense of reason.

"You're right, we really should stay together, so do you have any other suggestions?" George asked again.

Hearing the question, Hans thought for a moment and said: "Crawford has a satellite phone, and our positioning system has not failed, which means that we will not lose contact with the outside world, and we also have weapons for self-protection.

It's late at night, it's very unwise to flee in a hurry in the forest, but it's even more impossible to go deep into the forest to investigate...

So we should first ask for help from the outside world, then rely on the favorable terrain and light provided by the camp to defend, and wait for the laughing thing to show up. "

"Good!" George agreed with Hans' proposal, and said to Crawford:

"Crawford, you should contact your father first and let him know the situation we have encountered. If your father negotiates, I think the Bulgarian side will send someone to rescue as soon as possible."

"No problem." Crawford trotted back to the tent.

"Tom, come with me to get the gun." George said, and turned to the tent where their instruments and equipment were kept.

"Okay!" Tom quickly followed.

next.

Crawford used a satellite phone to talk to her father in London, telling them about the discovery of the first Artemis Temple and the weird situation they encountered, so that her father could use his influence to contact the Bulgarian government.

While Crawford was in contact with his father, George and Tom also took out the three pistols they brought and less than a hundred loose bullets.

Naturally, these students would not dare to come to this uninhabited forest without taking any weapons.

The process of being able to legally carry a pistol was difficult, but that wasn't a problem for Crawford.

In the end, George, Tom, and Crawford held pistols and evenly distributed all the bullets. They came to the east of the camp, paying attention to the dense forest to the east.

Aisha and Hans, who had no emergency capabilities, stayed in the camp and helped the other three to pay attention to other directions.

And Hans also took out his beloved UM-UD 3000, used the night shooting mode, and pointed the lens at the dense forest that George and the three were wary of.

everything's ready.

The camp returned to tranquility, except for the chirping of insects, there was the sound of playing closer and closer, and the hearts of the five people almost rose to their throats.

After waiting for a few minutes, Hans, holding the UM-UD 3000, was the first to see through the screen who made the noise.

I saw more than a dozen larger "butterflies" playing and playing with each other, flying out of the dense forest, came to the open area, and flew towards the white light-emitting lake.

! ! !

Seeing the "butterfly" clearly, Hans's eyes were wide open with astonishment on his face. He couldn't believe that the creatures captured by the UM-UD 3000 actually existed in real life.

The "butterflies" were only slightly smaller than seagulls, with translucent, colorful butterfly-like wings, and to Hans' astonishment, their bodies were "human women" dressed in equal proportions.

fairy.

Hans knew that this was a small banshee in Greek mythology. They did not pose any threat to humans, after all, their size was too small.

Before Hans reminded them, the other four people also saw the group of fairies flying out of the dense forest through the lighting equipment set up around the camp.

As for faeries...

There was also surprise and confusion on the small face.

They flew out of the dense forest, apparently not expecting humans to appear here.

However, they were only dazed for a moment, and then continued to flap their wings and fly towards George, Tom and others.

"KαλωHPΘATE (Welcome)!"

"Χαρομαιπουσεγνωρζω (Nice to meet you)!"

At the same time, they waved their hands and spoke a language similar to Greek, as if they were saying hello to George and others.