Chapter Forty-Six: Another Dead Character

  "I had always thought he was long dead, but a month ago, I suddenly received a letter from him, the return address was very vague, but it should be somewhere around here." Jason said with great certainty.

  "You said your friend was dragged away by a monster, what kind of monster?" I asked in astonishment.

  Like some animals in the desert, it is extremely ugly, hundreds of times uglier than that thing, and it's very normal for Americans not to recognize it.

  "It's a tree." Jason replied in terror.

  "Tree?" If Yu Gang had glasses on just now, they were already smashed into pieces on the ground.

  "Yes, it's a tree." Jason's face 'exposed' an expression of disgust and fear: "That is a tree that grows very much like a person."

  We were all in shock, when suddenly someone came running back into the tavern from outside, shouting and crying to us: "It's terrible, it's terrible, many people and sheep are dead outside."

  As soon as he heard this, Tiebu Li hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the man back, asking: "Tina, what's going on? Tell me first."

  The girl crying and shouting was a waitress at the tavern, named Tynza. Her eyes were red from crying, and she stammered out: "I don't know..."

  The woman looked pretty good, only a bit round. She was so anxious that she kept waving her hands, and her face was full of tears: "Originally everything was fine, this morning when I saw him, he was still in high spirits, now he's dead. All the hair on his body has fallen off, revealing red skin underneath, it's really scary."

  Tiebu Li listened for a moment, frowning tightly, he didn't say anything and turned around to leave. Out of curiosity, we also followed him out.

  As soon as I came out of the wine shop, I saw a group of people gathered in the courtyard, chattering and making a racket. They were speaking in a language that I couldn't understand, probably Uighur.

  The speed in the iron cloth was one step ahead of us, he drilled into the crowd, and the people there saw him and dispersed to make room for us to drill in. We only saw a person lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth, dying, with skin and flesh that seemed to have been burned, hairless head, and exposed flesh that had turned into large red patches.

  What terrified me most was not just some, but that face had a bloody word carved on it, which was not difficult to discern, and it was a dead word.

  When they saw the dead word, Yu Gang and the old professor both took a deep breath at the same time. Yu Gang exclaimed, "Is this some kind of prank? How can there be so many?"

  I took a deep breath and suddenly thought of Xiao Zhen, Aqing, Dahei and others who were in the same situation, with a bloody character carved on their faces, making their entire face look extremely terrifying.

  Why is it that when things go wrong one after another, the faces of teammates are all carved with a dead word?

  Now even the villagers in the village are in the same situation, the only difference is that the person lying on the ground is dead, and that kind of unblinking gaze pierced my heart all at once.

  "It's too scary, it's too terrifying." Tina covered her face with both hands and cried grievously.

  Tiebu Li's eyes stared fixedly at the person on the ground, his complexion somewhat pale. He swept a glance around the surrounding people and said loudly, "This man is not from our village, does anyone know him?"

  I exclaimed, "He's wearing clothes just like yours."

  Tiebu Li Meng shook his head firmly and said with great certainty, "There is no such person in our village. Although he's wearing the same clothes, he must be an outsider."

  As soon as they heard that the man was not from their village, the villagers who had originally gathered in the courtyard immediately dispersed. They looked at the dead body on the ground as if it were a plague, eager to leave as soon as possible.

  Most of the onlookers had left, and those who remained stared at the dead body on the ground with anxious faces. Jason couldn't help but ask, "How did this person die? Why is there a word written on his face? It's really strange."

  Jason asked a string of questions, guessing he had never seen such a dead person before, and the whole person was also 'dazed'.

  As for these problems, we've seen them before but don't know how to explain them. Their deaths are too strange and no one knows how they became like this. Now even their hair has all fallen out and the 'flesh' on their bodies is slowly turning red.

  Our previous teammates, although they have never appeared in such a situation, but anyone with eyes also knows that these things are related.

  The old professor let out a cold breath, his face twisted in terror: "This is a curse."

  The moment the two words fell to the ground, I shuddered all over, and never thought that I would be involved with curses.

  Now I'm almost driven mad by what's unfolding before my eyes.

  I originally thought that after hearing what the old professor told me, the blood characters on my home's wall were their doing, but now it seems there is another hidden situation.

  The old professor is a mysterious person, he has done many damn secretive things.

  If the old professor said that to comfort me, then what's the connection between the dead person in front of me and the blood characters on my wall?

  If there is no connection, the old professor's expression seems not to be conveying that kind of information.

  At this moment, I was quite certain.

  It happened once or twice before, and it could be said that it was just a coincidence, but this time, it's definitely not a coincidence.

  One thing after another happens like this, it's as if someone is warning us.

  The two words "curse" seem to have a related story circulating everywhere.

  Not long ago, the curses that were widely spread were the Taklamakan Desert curse and the Egyptian Pyramid curse, all sorts of curses.

  Tiebu Li's face was black as he shook his head and said, "This is not a curse."

  "What is that?" Yu Gang asked.

  Tiebu Li paused for a moment, looked at the people on the ground and explained: "This thing, I always thought it was passed down by them, didn't expect it to be true. Listening to the old folks say that anyone who disturbs the mountain god will become like this. The dead words on their faces are carved by themselves. They follow the arrangement of the mountain god and belong to a part of the mountain god."

  "That's no different from a curse." Yu Gang spat out air, his face turning pale.

  "What's going on now?"

  I had just asked when a stumbling figure rushed over. By the time I got a clear look at him, I was stunned.

  Xiaobai's face turned white as snow in an instant, and he sat on the ground, bursting into tears: "Atting, how could this be..."

  I really can't take it anymore, Xiaobai's voice is originally like a duck's quack, and now with all the crying and fussing, it's just like slaughtering a pig. The person is already dead, crying won't do any good, not that I'm gloating, but I really don't know where Xiaobai's arrogant appearance from before went.

  The dead person was actually a friend of Xiao Baizhi, but why was he wearing Uighur clothes?

  Xiaobai's face cried for a while, he carefully examined Atang's body, stretched out his hand to hug, but the red and swollen appearance of the corpse scared him, he withdrew his hand, looked at the corpse, with red eyes angrily said: "Who did it?"

  His gaze fell on us, and his whole body suddenly emitted a strong murderous aura. I dare bet that if anyone said a word, he would immediately pull out his gun.

  When a person is in a fit of rage, they dare to do anything, so I quickly took a step back. Who knew he suddenly stood up and loudly roared at us: "Which one of you did it?"

  "We just came over to take a look, who knew someone was dead." Yu Gang's face didn't look good, he knew that the young man had a gun on him and didn't dare say anything to offend him.

  He saw the little white face pull out a handgun and point it at us. Jason, who had never seen such an unreasonable person before, was so scared that he hadn't reacted yet. He looked at the little white face and quickly explained, "I swear, it wasn't us."

  We all know Xiaobai's temper, besides, if there is a gun on the body, how can we swallow our breath?

  "Look at the wound on your face, he's holding a small knife in his hand, it's what he used to carve the character for 'death'. Tie Bu Li is the only one who isn't afraid of death, he took a step forward."

  His footsteps were slow, as if challenging the patience of Xiao Bailian, who suddenly shot a gun at his moving feet.

  Fortunately, Tiebu reacted quickly and the bullet was shot into the ground, fortunately no one was injured by the rebound.

  "Damn it." Tiebu cursed, his face turned very ugly. He gritted his teeth and said: "You'd better open your eyes and take a look yourself. Besides, all of your friends have guns, would he be stupid enough to do something like this? The words on his face were carved by himself, I know you won't believe me, but I still want to say that we discovered it before you did. Even if someone killed him, you'll still need to find a matching corpse. Who would be stupid enough to kill someone and then shave their head, and then put the body in a pot to cook?"

  Listening to these words, Tiebu's description was quite apt, and looking at the corpse on the ground, he suddenly felt extremely nauseous and super wanted to vomit.

  However, Xiaobai's face turned pale and white as he listened, shaking his head in disbelief at the words from Tiebu. He muttered to himself, "How is this possible? How could he be so cruel to himself?"

  Right after that, Xiaobai's face turned white again and he started crying. He shouted out loud: "Wake up for me! You said before that you wouldn't abandon me, what do you mean now......You're gone, what's the point of me living alone......"

  This guy, no wonder he's so heartbroken, turns out he was in a relationship with the deceased. His emotions are highly volatile, and if someone says something slightly off, I reckon things will escalate quickly.

  "I don't want to live either." Xiao Bailian's face turned resolute, and he shouted with a torn heart.

  Everyone heard this and realized things were not good, this little white face was going to commit suicide.

  We hadn't even had time to stop him, and saw Xiao Bai's face point the gun at his own head, "Bang", blood splattered everywhere.

  This happened so suddenly that there was no time to react, and he killed himself right in front of us.

  Tina bit her lip tightly, tears kept falling, and it was clear that she was frightened by the situation in front of her.

  "It's really sentimental, even life is not wanted." Yu Gang couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.