Chapter 78
Chapter 78 Three-Headed Person
[“I am the Guide, if anyone sees this note please go to the third supply point, the map is placed directly below the seventh floor tile after entering this wooden house, I won’t make it, but only that place is the way out, you must, you must destroy it!”]
The mission has appeared.
At the place guided by the note, he shattered the wooden board with a single gunshot.
Sure enough, there was a map beneath it.
There were four marked points on the map, respectively marked with the numbers one, two, three, and an End.
The first three were the three supply points, and this End was located at the very top of the snowy mountain, which should be the final destination of the scientific expedition team that came here.
Then, why did this Guide want to hide the things? Was it out of fear of being discovered by something?
“It’s a bit far, but the time… should still be enough.”
After a brief thought, since the mission had already appeared, there was no reason not to complete it.
Even if there were any traps, he had to step into them first before thinking about how to crack them.
“The direction is…? Here?”
He purchased a compass on the Trading Platform, followed the map, and headed up the mountain.
This mountain was relatively flat, without too many bumpy areas, and the snow on the ground was exceptionally compacted, as if it had been crushed by something.
This actually saved him a lot of effort, driving the Roadhog all the way upward.
The scenery all around was completely identical, and looking at it for too long could easily cause someone to get lost within it.
After driving for about forty-odd minutes, he finally saw the wooden house that was almost identical to the second supply point.
If not for the fact that he was indeed going all the way up and the distance between him and the Train was increasing, he would have really thought he had gone in a circle and returned to the starting point.
The wooden house was the same, but it seemed something was slightly different.
“That is? Smoke?”
Faint cooking smoke was drifting upward from the chimney on top of the wooden house.
In other words, there was someone inside? Or, something else?
Thud——
He threw a snowball at the wooden door.
Before long, a few trembling voices came from inside the house.
“Who, who is it? Is it a monster?”
“Don’t open the door, it must be the monster coming!”
“Maybe it’s rescue personnel sent by the Guide, those outside, say something outside!”
It really was people.
Ye Qiyan did not put down his gun, and shouted loudly toward those people inside the door:
“I am the rescuer sent by the Guide, specifically here to take you down the mountain. Open the door and let me in, it’s freezing to death outside!”
“Open, go open the door! It’s the rescuer!”
“Hahaha, we are saved!”
“You are not allowed to go, the one outside must be a monster trying to trick us!”
“Hurry over there, go over!”
“I said we can’t open the door, opening the door will get us killed!”
Judging by the voices, there were three people in this house, and two of them wanted to open the door.
Then, why were they being held back by the remaining person?
Something felt a bit off.
Ye Qiyan lowered his head to glance at the pure purification stone hanging around his neck.
It was not glowing; whatever was inside was not some evil and ominous entity.
Finally, after the noise inside the wooden house continued for a while, the door of the wooden house was pushed open.
“Save, save me!”
Hearing this sentence that was completely a human voice, Ye Qiyan did not speak, but instead took a step back, aiming the gun in his hand at a head.
“Don’t shoot! We, we are humans, we are not monsters!”
“Right, we really are humans!”
Humans?
Looking at the person in front of him who grew three heads, six arms, and whose lower body was completely intertwined together, Ye Qiyan suppressed the urge to fire, finally understanding why it was impossible for just one person to open the door.
“What on earth happened here? You three… people, why did you become like this?”
The three-headed person looked at each other, and the one in the middle sighed. Judging by the voice, it was the one who had just stopped the other two from opening the door.
“We are from the scientific expedition team, young man, come inside and talk, it’s too cold outside…”
Entering the wooden house.
Ye Qiyan maintained a safe distance from the three-headed person.
He pointed his gun at these three fellows. The head in the middle nervously swallowed its saliva and spoke:
“Young man, you being able to come up the mountain to save us means that the Guide managed to escape?”
“Why do you say that?”
“Uh, otherwise how did you find us?”
Ye Qiyan slightly narrowed his eyes, recalling the contents of the diary.
“Didn’t the Guide go up the mountain with you? I was just assigned to look for you because you hadn’t been in contact for too long after going up the mountain. When I reached the second supply point, I found things left behind by the Guide and a diary.”
He spread open that diary.
“You guys know the person who wrote this diary, right?”
“We know, we know… It’s my younger brother…”
The head on the left suddenly grew angry.
“I know him! It was him who harmed us into becoming like this! This lunatic! He killed everyone!”
“That’s not it, my younger brother, he!”
“Your younger brother is simply a demon!”
“You are not allowed to talk about my younger brother!”
“You two stop arguing, damn it, don’t hit the face! I feel pain too!”
Watching the three people constantly beating their own bodies and faces, coupled with this extremely deformed appearance, for a moment, it was actually a little bit funny.
“Cough, cough-cough, stop hitting. So what did you mean just now when you said it was all because of him that you became like this? Tell me everything that has happened since you went up the mountain; maybe there is still hope for you.”
The three-headed person was bruised and swollen. Still, the head on the left gritted its teeth and said with bitter hatred:
“The scientific expedition team originally had fifteen people. Our purpose was to go to the top of the mountain to study a mysterious substance that only exists on this mountain. Unexpectedly, after arriving at the first supply point, the Guide who should have been waiting for us there was gone. Everyone figured we couldn’t just make a wasted trip, so simply stopped waiting and went straight up the mountain.”
“When we reached the second supply point, one person developed a high fever. At that time, everyone drew lots to leave one person behind to take care of the patient. The person who stayed behind was this lunatic who wrote the diary, and the rest of us continued walking up the mountain.”
“Unexpectedly… an accident happened.”
As if a Memory of some terrifying matter was recalled, the face of that head twitched wildly.
“We, we got lost. On the way to this third supply point, we completely lost our direction. Wuwu, we, we really couldn’t hold on anymore. Many people, many people starved and froze to death. We were lost there for almost half a month, half a month ah! Why didn’t you come earlier to look for us, wuwuwu!”
The crying was very noisy, and there was completely no intention of stopping.
Even the other two looked like they were going to be affected by it and start crying as well.
Bang——
A gunshot rang out.
The bullet precisely flew past right above those three heads.
At the same time, the crying stopped abruptly.
“Continue talking. If you keep crying, the bullet won’t just graze past you anymore.”
