jdhmnovel Chapter 157 Twilight of Mokaricchi 3
Chapter 157 Twilight of Mokaricchi 3
Upon seeing the blood-written words in a ferocious manner, the entire team seemed to have been drained of their senses by some unknown magic.
Before leaving, most of them had already written their wills and prepared for the possibility of never returning; it seems this is their grave.
Everyone understood the meaning of the blood-written words: the unknown creature here only allowed one person to leave; regardless of whether it would keep its promise, at the very least, it had no intention of letting anyone go.
Unbeknownst to everyone, a seed of greed had already been planted in their hearts the moment they saw the blood-written words.
It will sprout if it is watered with the right amount of blood at the right time.
"Now is not the time to give up." Adam's words echoed throughout the group. "As long as we have the strength to wield our swords, as long as we can catch that damned demon, all these difficulties will be resolved."
Adam preached again and again in an attempt to rekindle morale, but clearly, this time, the effect was not very significant.
The real problems facing everyone have begun to show their hideous faces, and the ridiculous idealistic lies cannot bring any spark of hope.
Everyone regrouped and set off again. Everyone wanted to go out, but they always came back.
This time...
What will be different this time?
"Xina—Xina—" As the group continued walking wearily, a sharp cry suddenly came from the back of the line.
Just as Captain Adam was checking on the team and walking towards the middle of the group, the accident happened.
Adam quickly went to the back of the line to see what had happened.
A person with a flustered expression was seen looking around anxiously.
"Don't look around—you'll see things you shouldn't see," Adam stopped him.
In theory, everyone in the team knew this rule, but perhaps what had just happened had triggered his nerves, making him unable to control his instincts in fear.
"Captain, Sheena is missing! She was just behind me!" the man said nervously.
Hina...
The oldest explorer in the team besides Adam and Eve, she has gone missing?
"Fourier, don't panic, what just happened?" Adam quickly reassured the flustered man.
“Just now…” Fourier tried to recall what had just happened, but found he couldn’t remember anything. “What… what was I doing just now?”
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Fourier, who seized upon the light in his mind: "That's right, Sheena was just asking me for fuel."
"And then?" Adam continued to ask.
“Then…then…” Fourier tried hard to recall, but all he could remember was Sheena’s face, bleeding from all seven orifices. “Ah—I wasn’t—it wasn’t me—”
Fourier immediately lost his mind.
He remembered what Sheena had said to him before she disappeared.
"We're all going to die!!!" he roared, clutching his head, before going berserk.
Adam promptly administered a sedative to Fourier. In the past, there had been instances in our team where people couldn't withstand the pressure and suffered mental breakdowns; keeping sedatives on hand was to handle similar situations.
Fourier quickly quieted down.
"What was I doing just now?" Fourier asked, bewildered.
Because of Fourier's hysterical roar, the entire team knew what was happening at the rear, and unease began to permeate the entire team once again.
At this moment, the entire team returned to the marked location.
The blood-written words changed to: "I am among you."
Because of that one sentence, all the unease was ignited, along with the previous fear. Sheena disappeared, Fourier went mad, and the evil spirit lurked among them.
Upon seeing that sentence, Fourier, who had initially regained his composure, suddenly burst into a silly grin: "He's among us, he...he...he...we..."
Adam knocked Fourier unconscious to prevent him from continuing his insane ramblings.
“Don’t believe the enemy. If he were really that capable, we would all be dead by now,” Adam said.
But no matter how hard they tried, cracks began to appear in the team.
From then on, with each additional trip they took, one member of the team would go missing, and another would go insane.
When they returned to the marker, they had run out of fuel and all the ghost lights had gone out.
Darkness engulfed everything, and they lost all direction.
"We can only have one person left. As long as there's only one of us left, that person will live." In the darkness, someone spoke, their voice hoarse as if it were not human.
“Don’t think I don’t know it was you who said it, Arthur.” It was Eve who said this, her voice always distinctive. “We cannot let morale waver.”
"Wave? Ridiculous, we're all dying," Arthur said. "Old woman, do you think you can boss your grandpa around just because you escaped?"
"Ah—" The whole team began to fall into chaos, as if someone had been stabbed for no reason and died without even knowing who had attacked them.
"Only one can live—and that person is me!!" Arthur went completely mad.
Adam tried to salvage something, but he found himself speechless.
His kidneys were pulled out by something, and the words he wanted to say turned into a large amount of blood he vomited.
"Captain... Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain..." It was Fourier, who had just woken up, who ripped the flesh from his waist. Before that, Adam had carried the unconscious Fourier.
If there were light, you would see that Fourier seems to have changed at this moment.
Sharp claws, bushy fur, like a wild beast.
The entire group descended into complete chaos.
Eve struggled to dodge the dangers coming from all directions in the complete darkness, feeling countless malicious eyes watching her. She relied entirely on her physical instincts to evade, but instincts are not invincible, for she could not outmaneuver them all. She was covered in wounds, but fortunately none of them were fatal.
Although she was the vice-captain, she couldn't think of any ideas in this situation.
“Fear, suspicion, cowardice—vulnerable.” A hoarse voice began to echo in her mind, a voice that was utterly unfamiliar. Instinctively, Eve immediately recognized it as the creator of all this disaster.
“Come out here and fight me if you dare!” Eve roared.
"Miss Eve, do you want to live?" the voice said.
"Get out here!!" Eve was so flustered that she couldn't even think about how that damned guy knew her name.
"You can live as long as you kill them, I'm the most honest and trustworthy person," the owner of the voice said. "That boring man is already dead, yes, that's your captain. The rest of the trash are a piece of cake for you."
"You killed Adam."
"No, no, he died from blood loss. What does that have to do with me? Listen to me, even if you don't want to kill your teammate, your teammate wants to kill you right now. Consider my suggestion?"
"Who are you anyway?"
"Hehehehehehehehe~"