Chapter 124: Come Here If You Dare?
Hearing Lin Yan’s words full of schadenfreude, Wu Xie rolled his eyes at him: “Don’t talk about me, aren’t you the same? Lin little dog? Lin doggy?”
Lin Yan’s laughter came to an abrupt stop. Lao Yang, listening beside them, looked completely confused: “Wait, what’s going on with you two—? I get Wu Xie the little dog, Wu little dog, but Lin Yan, you, you too…?”
Wu Xie and Lin Yan exchanged a glance. Although they knew Lao Yang probably wouldn’t sell them out, it was still better not to tell him about something like having a coffin at home. So Wu Xie casually made up an excuse about betting to brush him off, and Lao Yang didn’t suspect anything. Sure enough, no matter the era, guys always bet saying “if I do xxx again, I’m a dog,” just like all roommates want to be each other’s dad.
If roommate bonds aren’t deep enough, it’s because the father-son affection isn’t strong enough!
Before long, Wu Xie also recovered. The group lit a bonfire, prepared to have dinner, and enter the gorge early, so they could arrive at the place sooner.
Just as Lin Yan took out the meal and canned food given by the old man, the little white zombie suddenly jumped down from his shoulder and rushed toward one direction, making its first sound besides ying ying ying.
“Lü—”
What was this? Lao Yang had seen the little zombie behaving well along the way and was no longer afraid of it, but this sudden move scared him into trembling all over. He directly jumped behind Lin Yan. He thought to himself, this little zombie was brought by Lin Yan, so it probably wouldn’t hurt him, right?
Wu Xie and Lin Yan believed in the little white zombie’s essence as a cute pet, so they weren’t scared. They just curiously peeked in the direction it was calling.
The sky had just darkened, and with the bonfire, there was still some visibility. They saw patchy tree shadows in the distance, but nothing seemed to be coming.
Wu Xie turned his head to ask Lin Yan: “What’s up with Xiao Bai Bai? I haven’t heard this sound before. It can make sounds besides ying ying ying?”
Lin Yan shook his head. He hadn’t seen the little white zombie like this either! Could there be something over there?
At that moment, the little white zombie seemed to sense something and suddenly jumped to another direction, its calls becoming more urgent. Could some creepy thing be coming again? Wu Xie’s first thought was the ghost soldiers the old man mentioned, or at worst some zombies. The little white zombie was a zombie after all, maybe especially sensitive to such things?
He quickly turned on his flashlight and shone it in that direction. Sure enough, the ground was covered by bushes and nothing was visible, but there were many shadows on the trees, indistinctly approaching them.
Illuminated by his flashlight, those shadows suddenly became chaotic, making a noisy clamor all at once. The “squeak squeak squeak” sounds rang out together, so loud it hurt the three’s ears.
Hearing this sound, an image of a thing flashed in Lin Yan’s mind. He turned his head to look at Wu Xie, somewhat tearless: “Wu Xie, next time let’s not speak, okay? The monkeys really came!”
Wu Xie looked completely confused: “Hey, what does this have to do with me?” He remembered seeing a monkey like this the night before; maybe it was that driven-away monkey leading the monkey group to take revenge!
He explained to Lin Yan: “This really isn’t my fault! Do you remember that monkey we saw in the attic last night? It probably followed us early on, just waiting for us to go deeper into the mountains to rob us! We scared that monkey yesterday too, so it’s probably here for revenge as well!”
This was too ruthless! Revenge and robbery— was this monkey even human?! Oh right, they weren’t human to begin with! Having seen how lawless semi-feral scenic area monkeys were in his previous life, Lin Yan immediately felt numb. If semi-feral ones were like that, pure wild ones must be even fiercer. Maybe they couldn’t leave without leaving something behind this time.
But looking at the canned food in his hand, he gritted his teeth, hastily packed it back, slung his backpack to his chest, stood up and said to Wu Xie and Lao Yang: “Don’t daze around, let’s go in first while they haven’t come over yet!”
Wu Xie and Lao Yang exchanged a glance, thinking it made sense. So the two hastily extinguished the bonfire, grabbed their backpacks, and quickly dashed into the narrow gorge.
The monkey group was still approaching, but for some reason, kept changing directions. The little white zombie could always find the monkey group’s direction of advance, its calls in its mouth growing more urgent. The monkey group’s noisy shrieks surprisingly couldn’t drown out its single voice. Lin Yan wanted to reach out and hug it into his arms to take it along, but it jumped away.
“Xiao Bai Bai, let’s go quickly. No matter how strong you are, you can’t beat so many of them— er, so many monkeys!”
At this time, Wu Xie behind him seemed to realize something and walked back out, patting Lin Yan’s shoulder: “You think… this monkey group is afraid of it?”
“Hm?”
Lin Yan was stunned, then noticed the clue. After the little white zombie called toward the monkey group’s direction of advance, the monkey group would definitely change direction, and the closer they got to it, the noisier the monkey group’s calls became, as if they were afraid?
Now the monkey group was only about ten meters away from them. Shining the flashlight, they saw that the few monkeys directly facing the little white zombie would panic after it roared at them, nearly unable to grasp the branches, with some even falling from the trees before scrambling back up in a flurry.
When they were seven or eight meters away, the monkey group stopped advancing, shoving each other, their voices even lowering. Then the monkey king’s calls remained loud. Seeing the monkey group not daring to advance, the monkey king screeched angrily a few times, even clawing a few monkeys so their fur flew everywhere. Those few monkeys only dared to wail but didn’t dare take a single step forward.
The monkey king was probably annoyed. Seeing the monkey group not going up, it jumped to a spot five or six meters from them itself, squeaking a few times at those behind, probably thinking they had few people and urging the monkeys to swarm them.
The little white zombie called “Lü— Lü—” a few times at the monkey king, causing panic in the monkey group behind. But the monkey king didn’t flee like the other monkeys; instead, it widened its eyes, bared its teeth, and confronted the little white zombie.
Wu Xie realized this monkey king might not be very afraid of the little white zombie, but it also didn’t dare come up?
He looked at the pitch-black interior of Jia Zi Gou behind them and came up with a bold idea. He whispered a couple sentences to Lin Yan, and the two together “hehehe”d with laughter.
While the little white zombie was still confronting the monkey king, under Lao Yang’s shocked gaze, Wu Xie and Lin Yan put all the firewood they’d collected earlier into the cave, lit another bonfire, and unexpectedly, leisurely took out the food from their bags. They put the meal from the old man beside them and first took out a few cans to heat over the bonfire.
This completely baffled Lao Yang. He looked at the restless monkey group outside, then at them, somewhat disheveled: “Wait, what are you guys doing? Aren’t— aren’t we in a hurry to go?”
Wu Xie gave him a confident smile: “Look, this monkey group can’t come over. We can totally eat first before leaving?”
Lin Yan also smiled at him: “Yeah, look at Xiao Bai Bai. One can match a million troops. At this opening, isn’t it slaughtering them? Look at the terrain—the monkey group probably won’t come in from inside either, and the only entrance outside is blocked. Isn’t this super safe?”
Lao Yang looked at the cans already starting to give off fragrance and swallowed. Still a bit uneasy: “Then, what if the little zombie suddenly can’t hold back the monkey group?”
Lin Yan glanced outside and saw the monkey group already quietly retreating, with only the monkey king still holding on: “That won’t happen! Look, aren’t they almost retreating?”
Lao Yang saw it was true and finally relaxed, sitting down.
Lin Yan provocatively smiled outside, even raising the can in his hand to gesture— how about it? Mad yet? Want some? Then come over ah?
This infuriated the monkey king into jumping up and down, squeaking wildly, but with a little zombie in front, even if it came over, the monkey group wouldn’t dare. Wasn’t this just delivering food?
