Chapter 52 Black Hair

What was it?

Before I could get a good look at it, however, there was a splash and the thing suddenly jumped out of the water and came at me.

Thank God my conditioned reflexes were good. It was so fast that I couldn’t even believe it. I immediately rolled to the side, and the whole thing hit the rock wall behind me.

This was the first time I found that my body was faster than my nerves, and I realized it was because of what I had experienced recently. No matter what kind of thing it was, I must’ve seen something much tougher before and already learned how to kill it.

As soon as I fell, I immediately got up again. If it had been the me from before, I would’ve gone to see what it was. This time, however, I didn’t know what was going on so I didn’t bother. Even though I really wanted to turn around, I quickly went back to the bearing instead.

At this moment, I heard a strong blast of wind come from the place where I had just stood, and that thing immediately came rushing at me again. If I hesitated even a little bit, I would definitely collide with it.

But even if I hid well, the situation was extremely unfavorable. Before I could get up, I found that my waist had run out of strength after rolling two times. I immediately ran forward, pivoted, brought the shotgun stock up to my armpit, and pulled the trigger.

It had a strong recoil, but I had learned that before at the bronze tree in the Qinling Mountains. Now that I was mentally prepared and experienced, I threw my hand out along the recoil, instantly threw it on my shoulder, and fired another shot behind me.

All the movements were almost instantaneous. When I heard something tumbling behind me, I knew I must have hit it, but I didn’t know how effective it was. I ran around the bearing and back to the channel, tossed the gun in my hand, and opened the equipment bag. I pulled out the other two guns, stuck one on the wall, loaded the other one, and then lay down on the ground and turned around.

I had imagined that it was almost on my back by now, in which case I could blow it away with one shot. But at that moment, I found that there was nothing behind me.

At almost the same time, I saw the iron chain above my head shaking, and then the cold fireworks went out.

The whole room instantly became dark, and I instinctively rushed forward. I had no time to exclaim in horror before I felt a sharp pain behind me and something caught me on my back.

I was thrown to the ground by the impact, and my foot immediately twisted.

During these few seconds just now, I had almost realized my full potential. I had even felt as if I could handle it. But it was still just an illusion, damn it. My heart was so electrified—almost desperate even—that I felt like I was going to die.

Between one breath and the next, my feet suddenly left the ground and I lost my grip on the gun. I tumbled and rolled into the wellhead under the bearing and then fell into the water.

It was completely dark after entering the water, but I immediately hit the water wheel below. The current was so fast that it immediately carried me away, but I bumped into something with a jerk. It was an underwater chain.

As soon as I grabbed it, I felt around and found that there was a lot of space under the wellhead. But there were a lot of intersecting chains strung up like a net that encompassed the whole area.

The thing immediately moved to follow after me, but I had entered the water first, and the strong current made it pause.

I knew that no matter what it was, it would be impossible for it to kill me quickly under the water. My back felt like it was on fire, but I held my breath and quickly took out two cold fireworks. I stretched my hand out of the water, lit them, and threw them out.

As the fire’s dazzling white light descended towards the water, I saw a vague shadow in front of me.

I immediately kicked my leg out. Even though I had twisted my foot earlier, I actually didn’t feel any pain as I pushed it against that thing’s crotch.

I felt like I was treading on a thick tire, but the thing didn’t have much leverage underwater. I immediately kicked out and used it as a stepping stone to rush back to the surface.

It was surprisingly bright outside of the wellhead. I shouted as I used everything I had to climb up. I finally managed to flip myself out of the wellhead, but before I could get up, the water exploded again and the thing climbed back up.

At that moment, I finally saw what it was.

It almost looked like an ape, but I could tell that it was a person. They were extremely thin, but their body was covered in the hair we had seen in the cave before. Their nails were extremely long and seemed to be the color of ash. This guy looked like he’d been here for years.

What scared me the most was his eyes. I couldn’t see them at all because the sockets were full of hair.

His movements were very strange and unhuman-like as he came up and quickly descended on me. This time, I didn’t have the strength to escape, so I had to use my remaining strength to light the only cold firework I had on me and use it as a weapon.

Unfortunately, it didn’t have any effect. The creature practically fell on me with one leap, and a claw caught the edge of my ear, immediately creating a very deep bloody mark.

I couldn’t think at all. I was maddened with disgust and turned my hand to punch the thing in the face. But it was like hitting a lump of steel. The next time I swung the cold firework, I smacked the thing on the head, knocking it all over the place. I didn’t think it would work, but I found that the thing suddenly backed away.

At that moment, I saw that its hair was all twisted and I suddenly remembered that these fucking hairs were afraid of my blood.

I touched the blood on my ear and immediately threw it at the thing. As it shrank back, a strange feeling overcame me and I shouted, “Kneel down!”

But instead of listening to me, it suddenly stood up, climbed to the top of the chain along the bearing, and began to climb into the crevice.

As soon as I saw this, I knew it wasn’t good. I immediately turned around and grabbed the short-headed shotgun that was nearby. I took aim at the creature, shot it down, and followed up with another shot to stun it. I ran to the crevice, only to find that its collarbone was actually attached to a chain, and the other end led into the water.

I immediately went up, grabbed the chain, and wrapped it around the teeth on the bearing. The rotating shaft immediately pulled the chain and dragged it up. I didn’t expect that the creature was so powerful that the chain only pulled for a few minutes before the whole axle stopped. But the creature was still pulled to death by the chain and couldn’t move for a while. I took out a few bottles of wine from my equipment bag, threw them at the creature, flicked my lighter on, and then threw it over as well.

The fire immediately started to burn, spreading so fast that the creature’s whole body was engulfed in an instant. It soon lost its strength and the wheel axle continued to rotate until the chain was wound up. The fire went out as the creature was dragged under the wheel’s axle.

After the alcohol had burned everything away, I discovered that it was actually an ancient green corpse under the mass of hair. Its mouth was wide open and its eyes were empty as it lay smoking in the water. The smell of burning hair filled the air, making me feel sick.

As my legs began to shake, I breathed a sigh of relief and touched the injury on my back. I was afraid the skin had been torn open to such an extent that I would feel my spine.

As soon as I was distracted, I saw the green corpse’s head suddenly move. I picked up the gun, thinking that it was still alive. Several bubbles suddenly appeared on the water’s surface, and then it spit out a red thing from its mouth and threw it on my neck.

In the flash of red light, I saw that it was a red snake. It wrapped around my neck, raised its head to the corner of my mouth, and went in for the attack.

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Updated 11/19/2020