Chapter 895 The Drama Is On

The wooden house fell into silence again, the stove burned quietly, and the cuckoo wall clock also pointed to night after chiming several times.

Many pairs of eyes looked at the dark coniferous forest outside the window. The horrific scene they imagined did not appear. Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but their hearts were still heavy and unreachable.

The lieutenant colonel, who had played several games of chess with the huntress at the table, finally put down his chess pieces, stood up and looked at everyone, "I will try to cross the forest again tomorrow morning. If you have ideas, you can come with me."

"Is it possible that we can't get out of the forest because those monsters are up to something?" Adam, who had been sitting at the table watching chess, looked tired. It seemed that he was more tired watching the chess than the player.

"It's possible, but it's only possible. I didn't see any trace of those 'things' last night in the forest today. I don't know if they have completely disappeared or are hiding in the dark and watching us." Arrange the chess pieces. said the huntress.

"Observe us? Why observe us?" Adam was a little confused.

"The wolves will only swarm the prey when they are exhausted. This can ensure that the casualties of the tribe are minimized." The lieutenant colonel said calmly as he put the empty wooden bowl of stew back by the fire.

"You mean those ghosts are intelligent?" Adam's hair stood on end.

"It's hard not to think about this. I even think that those monsters deliberately drove away all the prey in the surrounding forest, leaving us in the current famine situation." The hunter said, "You said that now we Are these strange things we encounter really due to our bad luck, or are we being targeted by someone?"

"Are we being targeted?" Adam was stunned, as if he had never thought about this.

"If the snowstorm, the impenetrable forest, and the group of 'devil'-like things were really coincidences, then these things should have passed away like a dream, but now it seems that this nightmare has not yet awakened. I mean." The huntress looked at the dark coniferous forest outside the window with a solemn tone.

"It doesn't make sense. Why are they torturing us like this? Aren't those wild rabbits in the forest much more delicious than us?" Adam seemed not to want to believe this inference, and his chapped lips made his face look very panicked.

"Sometimes what seems like idle chess is actually a bait with a more profound purpose." The huntress looked at the 'queen' she had previously captured on the chessboard, "Maybe there are no wild rabbits in their diet, only living humans."

"Or maybe their purpose from the beginning was not us, but something else." Vika suddenly said.

There was silence in the wooden house, and they looked at Vika, who was holding the wooden bowl and stared at the fire pit again.

Everyone knew what he was looking at. Following his gaze, he saw the little girl hunter who was back on the fire bed holding an empty wooden bowl and licking it. She sighed softly, because as expected, the little girl fed all the meat and mushrooms to him. Her brother ate, but she only ate some wild vegetables and the soup base.

"You have heard it before, who are those 'devils' talking about all the time." Vika said.

No one spoke, and everyone fell into silence, because they all heard it clearly. On that nightmarish night, everyone's spirits were tense to the extreme, and they would not miss a single sound. Of course they remembered what those 'devils' were whispering. They longed for blood, life, and children.

Yes, kid.

Clearly, clearly, everyone heard what was whispered countless times. It was only because of their moral bottom line and panic that they did not turn their deepest speculations and impulses into reality.

Vika said that the group of 'devils' came for the boy and girl because the little boy among the siblings had the same golden eyes as the 'devils'. This argument was untenable under normal circumstances. But how can the current situation be considered 'normal'?

"Is there a possibility," Vika said, "that we are hiding something that the devil wants, so we can't leave here?"

On the fire bed, the little girl put down the wooden bowl. She drank the last drop of the soup and even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.

There was not much expression on the beautiful little face that was revealed after putting down the wooden bowl. She just lowered her head to avoid everyone's gaze, and hid in the corner of the fire pit with her brother, who seemed to be unable to sleep enough.

The brightness of the fire was limited and could not illuminate the corner of the dark wooden house, but everyone seemed to be able to feel that the little girl was looking at them.

How should a weak lamb look at these hungry shepherds?

No one knows and no one really cares.

The shepherds' only concern now is whether they will be able to survive after sacrificing their lambs to hungry wolves outside the sheepfold.

"Then what do you want to do?" the huntress asked.

"Find the 'devils' and give them what they want." Vika said, "Isn't this the most worthwhile solution to this situation right now?"

In this wooden house, Vika was the only one who called the things with golden eyes last night 'devils', as if he believed that they were things crawling out of hell. His fear and fear towards this strange incident were most obvious.

"I said, we don't trade or try with children." The huntress reached out and pressed her temples, irritation appeared in her eyes, "And those 'devils' you call... I didn't find them at all in the forest. Traces, even if you want to perform your so-called sacrifice, where will you find them?"

"So I think we should have done this last night." Vika said coldly, "Look at that old guy on the bed, how long do you think he can last? If we don't find a way out, he will have to be us It’s time for your next meal.”

"You" the huntress stood up, furious at Vika's cruel and cold words.

But suddenly a sound of vomiting interrupted what she was about to say, causing her to shift her gaze and look at the slumped figure next to Vika in surprise.

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"Dusa!?" Vika suddenly shouted, her voice distorted by fear. .

Dusha next to him fell to the ground for no reason, clutching her chest and opening her mouth to vomit. The sound of nauseating vomiting was simply terrifying, and the stew she had just eaten poured out of her mouth like a gate. And a large amount of light yellow water, as if he wanted to spit out his internal organs!

"Damn it." The huntress's expression changed when she saw Dusha's appearance. She subconsciously looked at the bowl of stew she had just finished eating. Her first reaction was that there was something wrong with this bowl of stew. Either the snake meat was not cooked well, or there was something wrong with the stew. There was an error in the mushroom variety. Anyway, it couldn't be that Dusha vomited it out after hearing Vicat's metaphor about cannibalism and being disgusted, right?

"Dusa, what are you doing?" Vika was suddenly as helpless as a child in the face of this unexpected situation, and the harshness and determination in her previous words had disappeared. He supported Dusha and wanted to pat her back, but Dusha pushed her away. He could only sit aside and watch his sister lying on the ground vomiting.

A large amount of pantothenic acid smell filled the wooden house. Adam, who was also stunned, wanted to go over and help, but suddenly he stopped walking forward and his whole body shook a few times, as if his head was not clear. He stretched out his hand The table next to the armrest was empty and fell to the ground.

"Huh? Why am I a little dizzy?" Adam shook his head and felt dazed.

The KGB lieutenant colonel immediately glanced at the stew bowl on the table, then frowned at the huntress. Neither of them seemed to have any obvious symptoms of vomiting or dizziness. Soon he looked over to the fire bed again. The old hunter and the little girl, brother and sister, were also staring blankly at this side without any adverse reactions.

"The stew is poisonous." Vika noticed the Lieutenant Colonel looking at the empty bowl. He looked blank as if he wanted to understand something, and suddenly took off the shotgun from his back angrily.

When he made this action, the huntress and the lieutenant colonel also immediately set up their weapons, and the Makarov pistol and bow and arrow were ready to fire at the same time.

"Do you want to kill us two?" Vika stared at the huntress and the lieutenant colonel and growled like a brown bear. It was the uncontrollable fury of being betrayed and attacked in an instant.

It happened so suddenly, without any warning, everything was a foregone conclusion.

"We didn't do it. Calm down!" the lieutenant colonel said in a deep voice.

The sound of Dusha's vomiting on the ground was already inaudible. She was lying on the ground huddled together, her face was a little swollen, her split lips were swollen, and her whole body was shaking.

Seeing her like this, Vika's eyes turned red. The muzzle of the shotgun was pointed at the huntress or the lieutenant colonel from time to time. He looked like he might pull the trigger at any time.

"Yes, calm down! It's not about the stew. You made this pot of stew yourself!" The huntress secretly cried out for trouble when she saw how he was about to lose control at any time. She knew that Vika was not stupid, but this lack of stupidity was based on the condition that the life of the sister he was taking care of was not in danger. Now it was obvious that this rationality was going to be broken.

"But you brought those wild vegetables back!" Vika aimed his gun and roared loudly. Dusha's face on the ground beside him was already buried in his own vomit.

"I ate it too!" the huntress yelled, "I ate those things too! And you scooped them for me!"

"Snake, is there something wrong with that snake?" Adam sat on the ground and climbed up with difficulty, leaning on a stool. His symptoms seemed to be milder than Dusha's, but he didn't look too good either.

"How could there be a problem with the snake! Even if there was a problem, it wouldn't be like this. It's not a problem with the stew! Everyone of us ate that pot of stew!" The huntress shouted and rejected this possibility.

"Someone poisoned me," the lieutenant colonel said suddenly.

"Poisoning? Who? Where did the poison come from?" said the female hunter. "There are only two people poisoned now. Even if it is poisoning, it is definitely poisoning. Who among us has touched their own jobs?"

Vika stared intently at the huntress, and then at the lieutenant colonel. He knew that the huntress was right. Whether it was Dusha or Adam's rice bowl, they had always held it in their hands, and the wooden bowl was assigned to him. , there is no possibility of precise poisoning.

"Vomiting and dizziness, could these symptoms be snake venom?" the lieutenant colonel said, observing the conditions of Dusha and Adam attentively.

"Snake venom?" The huntress looked at the snake skin and internal organs in the glass jar, but after a moment she shook her head quickly, "Snake venom loses its toxicity when exposed to high temperatures. The temperature of the stew is enough to destroy the protein of the snake venom! Even if it is still It is impossible for the remaining toxicity to cause her to react as violently as she did. Unless she is severely allergic, but this possibility is too low!"

"But isn't this symptom the poisoning reaction of the arctic viper?" the lieutenant colonel asked.

Swelling, dizziness, and vomiting. The huntress' heart sank when she looked at Dusha, who was nearly unconscious on the ground, and Adam, who was limp on the chair. Although she had just denied that the stew had been poisoned by snake venom, she had to admit that the two were now The symptoms of a poisoned person are indeed those caused by an attack of Arctic viper venom.

"Why are you two okay?" Vika pointed his gun at the huntress and stared at her uncertain face.

"You're fine too! The old man and the two children are fine too! If I wanted to poison you, I would definitely choose to poison you first instead of your sister!" The huntress also risked her life. Now that she was confused, she simply She tried reverse thinking to absolve herself, but it was obvious that her words could only make Vika even more angry.

"Calm down, everyone. Now we should figure out the route of poisoning and the person who poisoned it!" The lieutenant colonel's brows did not relax. Makarov pointed at Vika's heart and placed his finger firmly on the trigger. Right now It seems that Vika is on the verge of losing control.

"How the hell can I believe you?"

Just when the atmosphere in the wooden house was about to explode at any time, a hissing sound suddenly sounded outside the window. Everyone was familiar with it, a creepy hissing sound that sent chills down the spine.

"No, at this time?" Adam's face turned pale on the stool, and he stiffly turned his head to look out the window. The pairs of golden fireflies appeared in the coniferous forest as promised.

The figures came out of the forest like a tide, and the devils arrived as expected.

ps: I know that snake venom can only infect the blood (serious face)