The croaking of night crows echoed through the forest. Heavy shadows swayed in the dark forest.
The night sky, the scattered rocks, the dried leaves, and a pool of stagnant water with some green algae floating on it. Right next to it, there was a rotten tree trunk lying on the ground. From its thick outline, it could be seen that this rotten tree was once a lush and leafy tree.
It appeared to be an oak tree.
"Why, why am I here …"
Beside the pool, Gu Jun looked around with confusion. He held his throbbing head. 'Is this an illusion? A dream? No, it doesn't look like it … '
He was physically here, he could feel it.
"What's going on? Dirty-minded Yu and I returned to the Eastern State base. We went to the psychology building to visit the child called Zhong Huili. Then … Little Huili had a seizure and started cursing at me. My whole body convulsed from the pain. It was probably a stress reaction … and then … "
Some disjointed and chaotic memories flashed before his eyes. He mumbled to himself, he shouted, he pushed away the crowd that tried to stop him … He told the anxious Wu Siyu not to follow him, he told Cai Zixuan and the rest not to follow him, he told them not to follow him …
"Am I going crazy … Agitated? Manic? "
His heart sank. This was very likely. His current physical and mental state were different from before.
There was a biological change in his brain, and his mood had been fluctuating recently, as if he was suffering from PTSD at any time …
This time, it was probably due to the mental influence of the strange cursing.
"Where is this place?"
Gu Jun looked at his hazy surroundings. There was nothing but rotten wood and withered branches. The atmosphere was lifeless.
He had no doubt that this was a place where the forces of darkness and their cultists roamed. Perhaps it was here, around this pool of stagnant water, that the cultists carried out some kind of unknown ritual in the dark. They extended their sinful hands towards these innocent children.
He searched his body. There was no phone or walkie-talkie but he was still carrying the backpack. There were not many things inside. The 5 Carlop instruments, Dirty-minded Yu's watercolor … There was nothing that could help him communicate with the outside world or help him figure out where he was.
Looking through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the forest, he saw that the night sky was dark and starless. When the branches and leaves were swaying in the cold wind, the dark clouds remained motionless.
Gu Jun stood in the same place for a long time, but he still did not move. He listened attentively to his surroundings. There were strange and chaotic sounds in the forest, but there was no sound of calling …
"I must have escaped from the Medical Department's base and fled into the surrounding wilderness. But if that's the case, it's impossible that I haven't been found yet. The base is surrounded by surveillance cameras, sentries, and patrols. How fast can I run? We found a police dog and caught up with them in no time … "
Gu Jun didn't think that the others really listened to him and didn't chase after him. The environment here didn't seem like the surroundings of the base.
"Ah …" Pain shot through his head and some memory fragments flashed through his mind.
In his mind, he could hear people screaming, "Be careful, be careful!" Wu Shiyu lunged forward to pull him back but he was pushed away. He appeared to have … summoned something using a spell. Was it the Seven Cryptical Book of Hsan, the fifth chapter of the Great Nightmares … Byakee?
That was his speculation because he had read the written copy of the fifth chapter but not the book itself. Furthermore, he had not cultivated it to that level.
There was no memory to confirm his speculation. He appeared to have summoned some kind of abnormal creature and then used it to fly away from the base.
'Could that be some kind of foreign spell?' Gu Jun was confused. He was not sure if he was near the base or even in the Eastern State.
'How can I still use spells? My mental power is a mess … but when a person falls into madness, that's a different state. '
As Gu Jun thought about it, a sudden gust of wind blew. The grass and trees around him rustled. He whipped his head around and saw a shadow scurrying through the forest. He frowned and looked around. Then he turned to look at the pool. Other than the reflection, there appeared to be some rotten flesh that looked like rotten mud …
He couldn't just stand there. He started to search for footprints in the mud to see if he could find the direction he had come from.
But it seemed like … the abnormal creature had landed here, and the rotten flesh was the thing that exploded.
In the cold night wind, there was a faint tinkling, tinkling … It was the sound of a piano.
'Piano, why would there be a piano in the middle of nowhere? Have I arrived at the place where the enemy wants me to come?'
Was this an invitation?
"Who are you?" Gu Jun asked softly as he took out the Carlop scalpel and held it in his hand.
The sound of the piano became clearer and clearer. The melody was melodious, like the quiet words of the forest.
However, Gu Jun focused his attention and did not allow himself to be drawn into the music. He walked in the opposite direction of the piano and walked into the gloomy forest. However, after he walked for ten meters on the rotten mud, he felt like he was getting closer to the piano …
He immediately turned and walked in the other direction, but after a short distance, the piano was still getting closer.
He tried every direction with the pool as the epicenter, and he confirmed that the piano was following him like a ghost.
Gu Jun knew that this was the enemy's territory. No matter where he went or what he did, it would not affect the approaching piano.
Ten steps, twenty steps, fifty steps … The sound of the piano rang through the forest. He walked out of the dense forest and arrived in a spacious woodland. In front of him were some ancient and huge oak trees. The twisted branches formed a strange and grotesque scene. It was an oak forest.
Beside one of the oak trees, there was an old black piano covered in moss. A figure sat in front of the piano.
Gu Jun's eyes narrowed. What was that? Was it a human?
The figure was only draped in rags. Its body was swollen like a giant's corpse. Only its hands were withered like bones. The slender fingers were constantly playing on the piano keys. From the outline, it did look like a human, an old man.
At this time, the figure slowly glanced over. Its face was also old and swollen like a corpse, and its eyes were filled with pain.
Gu Jun's hair stood on end. The more he listened to the music, the more he felt that the style was similar to some of the Mozart pieces he had heard in the past few days …
His head suddenly hurt again, and he heard a chuckling female voice in the forest.
"Dear brother, you're here …"
The shadows in the oak forest were heavy, and the swollen old man under the tree continued to play the piano.
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