Chapter 28 The Monster in the Shadows

In the morning, when the sun first appeared, it was the most beautiful time of the day, but at this moment, Duomu Village, an affiliated village under Luye Town, was shrouded in a huge cloud.

"Old man, the little stone is gone."

In the largest yard of Domu Village, the logging captain Voss found Old Enke, the elder of Domu Village who was really smoking tobacco.

Hearing this, he raised his head and glanced at Voss who was holding a double-barreled shotgun. Old Enke took a sharp puff of herbal cigarettes.

"Is it that monster again?"

He lowered his head and exhaled a big mouthful of smoke, making it hard for people to see the expression of old Enke at this moment.

"should be."

As he said that, Voss could not help but clenched his hands holding the shotgun tightly, his veins showing.

Duomu Village is mainly engaged in logging. As the leader of the logging team and the second person in Duomu Village, Voss has encountered many dangers, such as being attacked by a hungry brown bear while logging, but none of them made him like today. Feeling powerless as well.

Six days ago, an old scythe of a lumberjack in Duomu Village disappeared inexplicably. At first, it did not attract everyone's attention. It was not until the next day that the villagers realized that something was wrong and organized people to look for it.

The search was of course fruitless, and in the process three more villagers disappeared, and an atmosphere of panic began to spread in Duomu Village.

Under such circumstances, the old Enke decisively gathered the villagers together and asked Voss to lead the young men in the village to take up arms to protect everyone. No one disappeared on this day.

With the protection of the armed forces and the gathering of everyone together, the hearts of the villagers began to calm down, but the good times did not last long. On the third night when everyone got together, two more people disappeared. The most important thing is that no one knows when and how they disappeared.

The seeds of fear began to take root, and the hearts of the villagers were unknowingly swallowed by the monster called panic. Many people's sanity was on the verge of collapse, and it was at this time that someone proposed the idea of ​​leaving the village.

There are people who support and oppose this idea, and there are more people who oppose it than those who support it. After all, this is their home and their comfort zone. More importantly, leaving the village does not guarantee safety, and it may be more dangerous.

Sensing that the situation was wrong, old Enke stood up and quelled everyone's disputes.

Without leaving the village for the time being, everyone took up weapons and could not act alone at any time. They handed over the only two rough horses in the village to two young men and asked them to go to Luye Town for help.

On the fourth day, they watched the two young men ride away on horseback. The villagers pinned their hopes on them. The day was safe and sound, but none of the villagers dared to fall asleep at night.

On the fifth day, the weather was fine, and the villagers spent the day tremblingly, but fortunately, everything was safe, as if the monster had left.

On the sixth day, before the villagers could breathe a sigh of relief, fear struck again. The little stone disappeared, and anxiety boiled like boiling water. The monster never went away.

"Old man, what should we do? The villagers are very disturbed, and they don't know when the town's call for help will come."

His own force is not reliable, and Voss, a tall and strong man, can only pin his hopes on the help of Greenfield Town at this moment.

Taking a deep breath and lowering his head, old Enke did not speak, nor did he share his deepest thoughts with Voss.

Duomu Town is relatively far from Luye Town, but two days of riding back and forth on horseback is enough, but today is the third day that Luye Town's call for help still hasn't come, if something didn't delay it, then The request for help was not sent to Luye Town at all, and the second possibility was far higher than the first, because no one was missing in the village that day.

His heart was heavy, but old Enke could only bear it silently by himself, because at this moment, Duomimura had become a powder keg, and a spark could detonate it, and according to so many days of observation,

Old Enke guessed that the unknown monster probably regarded the village as its own granary, eating two or three people every day, no more, no less.

This conjecture may be a bit cruel, but old Enke knows that it is likely to be true. As an old hunter, old Enke knows the psychology of those beasts very well, but it is a pity that even if he guesses the truth, he can't do anything. Not to mention a kind of sorrow, the sorrow of the weak.

Although something might go wrong when asking for help, old Enke did not despair, because every once in a while Lvye Town would come to collect a batch of wood, and counting the days, the most recent is these few days, when the time comes, Lvye Town will definitely You will find the exception here.

Of course, all old Enke can do now is to pray silently, hoping that this day will come sooner, hoping to save a few people from dying.

"well!"

Looking at the back of Voss leaving, old Enke sighed deeply, his body became more rickety.

Watching the villagers die silently, hiding the facts from them, and letting them wait for death in peace, this is a cruel way of death for the old Enke who grew up in the village, but he had to do it because once the villagers Knowing the truth and fleeing on a large scale will probably anger the unknown monsters in the dark.

Stay in the sheepfold with peace of mind, and it is used as a food reserve for monsters. Although people will die every day, the number is limited after all. If the sheepfold is torn apart, they will not be willing to store food. The monster will be enraged, and it is likely to hunt on a large scale and make retaliatory punishment .

Huh, taking another deep breath, Old Enke silently told himself to be patient, to be patient.

Two days later, on the eighth day when Duomu Village was shrouded in clouds, Iluka's brows were tightly knit together in the Luye Town Government Affairs Hall.

"Are you saying there is no news at all?"

"Yes."

Glancing at Iruka's face, the clerk continued to say, although he was feeling uneasy in his heart:

"Your Excellency, Secretary, the staff of the government affairs department who were in charge of collecting timber had already set off for Domu Village three days ago, and they should have returned the next day, yesterday at the latest, but they haven't returned until today."

Phew, took a deep breath, put down the quill in his hand, and Iruka's face couldn't help but sink.

As a pioneering place, Lvye Town seems to be stable, but in fact it is full of dangers. Under such circumstances, public servants have strict time schedules when they go out on business. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to violate it. And those who have not returned until now are likely to be dead. Something went wrong.

After thinking for a while, rubbing the space between his brows, Iruka took out a special paper for government orders and quickly wrote a government order and stamped it with his official seal.

"You take this to Sheriff Eros, and ask him to send more people to Duomu Village to have a look."

Without any news, without any intelligence, Iruka had neither full strength nor reason to ask Ferrolie to mobilize the army. He could only ask Eros to send someone to look at it, hoping that this matter would not be troublesome.