bookbashuk Chapter 466: Man in the Mist (10)
Chapter 466: Man in the Mist (10)
"No!" Chen Xing suddenly retorted to Bai Yao. He excitedly took off his shoes, revealing his missing toes. "If the man in the fog is an illusion, then how do you explain my toes? It can't be that I bit off my own toes while sleepwalking, right?!"
Bai Yao spread his hands, "How should I know?"
"The Weird has a hunting mechanism. Perhaps you did something that triggered the Weird hunting mechanism, causing the Man in the Mist to hunt you!"
Chen Xing said again:
"Then why did he only break one of my toes and then let me go?"
Bai Yao was silent for two seconds and guessed:
“Maybe, he’s a foot fetishist?”
After these words were spoken, not only Fu Yan and Chen Xing fell silent, but also all the netizens in the live broadcast room fell silent.
If the people in the fog knew this, they would definitely skin the white monster alive!
"Well, our understanding of the Man in the Mist is still superficial. We only know that he can't kill people, but can only scare people. If we want to solve the mystery of the Man in the Mist, I feel that we have to start with Zhong Fei and the others!"
Chen Xing didn't hear anything else, but he heard that people in the fog cannot kill people!
He suddenly became excited, and his voice became a little louder:
"Since the man in the fog can't kill people, can't we just find a way out? Why bother solving the mystery of the man in the fog?"
Bai Yao patted his shoulder and said helplessly:
"You want to find a way out, fine, but you'd better think about how you triggered the weird hunting mechanism! What if you were triggered when you were a few hundred meters away from the exit of Wushan? How do you plan to hide?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Xing immediately wilted.
He also couldn't understand what he had done to be hunted by the man in the fog.
Moreover, if the people in the fog see that they want to escape, they will definitely frantically lure them to trigger the hunting mechanism.
In their current situation, they had a preconceived notion that the man in the fog was an illusion. If they really triggered the hunting mechanism without realizing it, they would be doomed.
But if the person in the fog runs away as soon as he comes out, he will undoubtedly waste his energy. What if the other party just comes out to scare them?
To run or not to run, it is difficult to make a choice.
"What about Zhong Fei and his men?"
Fu Yan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up.
“They have been here for three years and should know the hunting mechanism of the Fog People, but they did not leave the Fog Mountain…”
Bai Yao frowned slightly. This was indeed true. If it was really for some treasure, they could also negotiate and temporarily leave Wushan to discuss it later.
"No! It's not that they don't want to leave, but that they can't leave!"
A gleam of light flashed in Bai Yao's eyes, "Zhong Fei and the other four are probably the root cause of the birth of the Man in the Mist. Maybe the Man in the Mist just can't kill other people, but he can kill Zhong Fei and the other four directly!"
Fu Yan recalled Zhong He's severed hand and said:
"But, the man in the fog did not kill them..."
Bai Yao shook his head, "It's just saving my life!"
“What really keeps them alive in the foggy mountains is the wooden house!”
"Do you remember the story about the bell you told me yesterday? The high priest will eradicate evil spirits and protect Tanshan Village, and the wooden house was built by the villagers of Tanshan Village..."
"I speculate that the wooden house must have been cast a spell by the high priest, so that no evil spirits can approach it. It is used to protect the villagers of Tanshan Village. This is why Zhong Fei and his companions have not been killed by the man in the fog!"
"After all, if the man in the fog could really get into the house, how could Zhong Yangyang dare to go out and pretend to be a ghost in the middle of the night? Wouldn't she be furious if she ran into a real ghost?"
"No, wait, what are you talking about? What do you mean by pretending to be a ghost? Aren't Zhong Fei and the others villagers of Tanshan Village?" Chen Xing asked blankly.
Bai Yao looked at Fu Yan, and Fu Yan had no choice but to explain it to him patiently.
After hearing Fu Yan's words, Chen Xing fell into a long daze.
"They...are actually fake?"
"That's right!" Fu Yan nodded.
"Then why didn't they tell us that the cabin was safe, and why did they pretend to be ghosts to scare us?"
Bai Yao cleared his throat, leaned against the sycamore tree behind him, and explained:
"Two purposes. One is to drive us out and see if the Man in the Mist is still there. They don't know that the Man in the Mist can't kill other people. Because you triggered the hunting mechanism, they mistakenly believe that the Man in the Mist treats everyone equally!"
"As for why they were able to drive you out, it's all thanks to their psychological suggestion!"
"On the one hand, they talked about how dangerous the man in the fog was and how he would enter the wooden house and kill people. They even asked Zhong Yangyang to act like a ghost to scare us. On the other hand, they told us through Zhong He that the man in the fog might not really kill people and might let people go. Your toes are a good proof of this..."
"You are tempted by the hope of survival and will come out to try to get a glimmer of hope!"
"Secondly, it saves food. If they drive us away, they won't have to worry about us stealing their potatoes!"
Recalling Zhong Fei's animal skin, Chen Xing muttered:
"If we didn't know they were in disguise, we wouldn't dare to rob them, right?"
After all, the other party’s character is a fierce hunter from primitive society. Ordinary people wouldn’t dare to rob him, right?
The white demon shook his head, "You are wrong!"
"Not to mention that people are so hungry, how dare they snatch food from dogs!"
"The opponent has been eating potatoes for three years. Forget about three years. If you asked Tyson to eat a potato a day for a month and then go to the ring, it would be good enough for him to be able to stand and walk onto the ring!"
Chen Xing was silent. He indeed overlooked this point.
"Then shall we go back now? After all, the cabin is safe and people in the fog cannot approach it..."
Bai Yao thought for a moment and said, "Let's not go back yet. Let's go to Tanshan Village and take a look. There are big problems with those ditches and grass!"
Chen Xing didn’t know what the ditch and grass that Bai Yao was talking about were, but he had no choice but to follow him.
In his eyes, Zhong Fei and his three companions were no less threatening than the man in the fog!
Following the same route he took yesterday, Bai Yao saw Tanshan Village again.
After going downhill, Bai Yao threw the dice of fate again, which was as expected.
"Let's go!"
Chen Xing looked at Tanshan Village curiously, while Bai Yao and Fu Yan came to an unreasonable ditch.
The weeds here were dense, half a person's height, but the road where they were standing was clearly visible, not obscured by the weeds at all.
The white demon slowly raised his hand and stretched it out, only to see that above the empty ditch, there seemed to be something invisible, blocking the white demon's outstretched hand.
Touching the rough skin, Bai Yao understood.
"Sure enough, this Tanshan Village is fake!"
"Everything here is an illusion!"