The Death List Novel - Chapter 723
Chapter 723 The Other
Acadia National Park has dozens of camps in the wilderness. The campsite is not big by area, but because it is close to Sams Sand Fjord, there are many tourists in the campsite, and the rent for each tent camp is very high.
But now, these tourists who had fallen asleep safely scattered like frightened rabbits, rushing over from the beach camp near the fjord, looking like a rising tide at a glance.
“Don’t go there, there’s a monster!” A few kindhearted people who ran past Qin Lun and Donald reminded them in shock. Then, they ran away again and saw that their escape direction should be the parking lot in the distance.
Apart from a few fixed tourist routes, no large vehicles, such as buses or off-road vehicles, are allowed to park in the interior of Acadia. They rent small jeeps or sightseeing buses from travel agencies.
“Do you still want to go?” Fatty probed, and after receiving Qin Lun’s affirmative answer, he stopped chattering and followed behind him in a muffled voice.
Qin Lun sneaked a glance at Donald from time to time and revealed an inadvertent smile.
After walking for more than a hundred meters, the fleeing crowd could no longer be seen. The surrounding camps were in a mess, with collapsed tents, scattered luggage, food bags, and wine bottles everywhere.
Qin Lun’s expression became solemn. He bent over and used the cover of the bushes to tiptoe towards the camp. Big Fatty lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, and followed closely behind.
Close to Susan and the others’ camp, Qin Lun reached out and opened a corner of the bush to look outside. Wilson and the others’ tents had collapsed, and they collapsed to the ground like leaking balloons. The barbecue rack in front of the camp fell to the ground, and the ice chest in the corner where the meat was stored fell to the ground. Because of the low temperature, a lot of the broken ice did not melt.
In the tent that was originally Luke’s and Dana’s, two thick black thighs were exposed under the collapsed tent. The crotch of the thighs was sandwiched with an extremely horrified head. That was Luke’s head.
The tent covered the rest of the corpse, but judging from the strange posture of the corpse, the muscular black youth either had his head twisted off or was folded in half by some strange force from his waist and back.
Either way, this guy was dead.
Qin Lun looked around carefully and saw that there was nothing strange about the camp other than the place covered by the tent. The remaining two men and three women, led by Wilson, had disappeared. They might have escaped in a mess.
Qin Lun stood up from behind the bushes and walked towards the camp.
“Chris, wait!” Donald’s face was deathly pale. He looked frightened and followed closely behind Qin Lun.
Qin Lun’s right eye flickered with silver light, and his clockwork pupils appeared from time to time. In this world, his Apostle ability was greatly limited. This was, after all, the time and space of a technological civilization that had just transformed into a magical world. The Eye of the Clock, which had already reached the A level, was somewhat beyond the scope of the magical laws.
After confirming that the danger had temporarily disappeared, Qin Lun used his hunting knife to lift the tent where Luke’s corpse was. He wasn’t wrong. This black youth was indeed beaten in half by someone with strange strength from his waist and back. Before this, he seemed to have been ripped open and half of his organs had disappeared.
Qin Lun squatted down and examined it carefully before frowning slightly. Luke’s broken belly showed that his organs had been bitten by some kind of animal.
This didn’t seem like the style of that mysterious force! Qin Lun rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought.
“Chris, there’s another survivor here.” Donald shouted from a corner of the camp.
“Wilson?” Qin Lun quickly walked to the survivor’s side, only to discover that it was Wilson with a face full of blood. This young man who looked bright and sunny in the evening was now covered in blood. His left arm was broken and his right hand covered his chest. Every time he opened his mouth and breathed, he would spit out a string of blood foam.
Seeing Qin Lun come over, his eyes lit up. He raised his severed left arm as if he wanted to grab the only person he knew. However, after seeing his bare elbows, a trace of ashes appeared on his face. After thinking for a while, his right hand loosened the wound on his chest and tightly grabbed onto Qin Lun’s shirt sleeve. Blood bubbles spilled out of his mouth.
“Ke … Ke Li …”
“Don’t say anything, Wilson. You’re seriously injured. The ambulance team will be here soon. Hold on!” Qin Lun had Wilson lean his upper body against his arm and carefully examined the wound on his forechest.
Bones could be seen deep in the wound, as if they had been sliced open by the sharp claws of some large cat. Several sternum bones were broken, and one of them stabbed into the lungs in the opposite direction. A slight pressure on the wound on his chest caused fresh blood to spill out. It seemed that his chest had already been filled.
At first glance, Qin Lun knew that this young man would not survive. After all, he did not have Apostle’s Law Body, and the hospital in the town was too far away. The internal bleeding would suffocate him in the next few minutes.
“Chris, save … save them, Karin was taken away by that monster!” After spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, Wilson began to look back, and his words became clear.
“What kind of monster is it? Which direction? Where are the others?” Qin Lun had Wilson lean on his back to avoid blocking his trachea with blood. Although this wouldn’t save him, it would at least make his words clearer.
‘”No, I don’t know. It’s too, too dark. It looks like a bear! It, it’s so strong. Luke, Luke is as weak as a baby in its hands. I was hit by it and flew far away.”
Wilson’s eyes blurred as he recalled, “It’s heading east into the forest, and Karin has been kidnapped by it. Susan and Steinson never showed up … Ke, Chris, save Karin, save …”
The youth grabbed Qin Lun’s right hand and slid down. Before he could finish speaking, he swallowed his last breath. Her pale blue eyes, which had not been able to close even after her death, looked like a glass bead that had lost its color.
Qin Lun sighed and closed his eyelids. However, there was no ripple in his mind as he thought about Wilson’s final information.
Wild beasts? Coincidence, or the result of that mysterious force? Why were the six people attacked by Wilson? Could it be that they were also one of the targets?
Questions kept popping up in Qin Lun’s mind. He suddenly realized that his previous judgement seemed too arbitrary. The Broken Starry Sky had warned him that there might be a mysterious power law in this world, but it didn’t say that there was only one such mysterious power.
Perhaps the caution of those Superstring Reincarnations was necessary. They might not be facing a single main plot. Perhaps there were other side plots or other mysterious powers mixed in.
Should we abandon our previous plan and capture a Samsara cultivator to figure out the plot of their mission? Qin Lun couldn’t help but have this thought in his mind.
No, it’s not the time yet. If we attack the Samsara now, we might be able to detect the existence of Apostle in the superstring space beforehand. Qin Lun wasn’t afraid of being surrounded by Samsara, but in this way, he wanted to continue probing that mysterious power, and at the same time, the game he played with Hill and the others would basically be in vain.
“Ke, Chris, he’s dead! What are we going to do?” Donald looked at the corpse on the ground with an ugly expression, awakening Qin Lun from his thoughts.
“Let’s meet up with Alan and the others first!” Qin Lun’s words made Great Fatty breathe a sigh of relief. He was truly afraid that Qin Lun would ignore them and chase after the terrifying monster that had caused all of this.
“Chris, what did you say killed those two people? The monster that that person spoke of before he died doesn’t look like a bear, right? At least I think it’s much more terrifying than a bear.” On the way back, Big Fatty asked in a low voice.
“I don’t know what that is, but as you said, it’s definitely not a bear. Arcadia is a famous tourist destination, no matter what, and the rangers won’t let large wild animals run into the camps of tourists.”
Qin Lun rolled his eyes and suddenly asked calmly, “Donald, what do you think? Do you think that mysterious force is causing this?”
Big Fatty was slightly stunned, as if he hadn’t expected Qin Lun to ask for his opinion. However, because he was also thinking about this question, he immediately murmured, “It doesn’t seem to be the style of the mysterious power from before. Perhaps Arcadia also has some kind of mysterious monster here, right?”
“Haha, Arcadia is a famous tourist destination. If there really is such a monster here, why haven’t we heard of it before?” Qin Lun continued to ask with a smile.
“Just because you haven’t heard of it before doesn’t mean that you haven’t. Perhaps it was some kind of opportunity that alarmed it. For example, the mysterious power that chased us, or perhaps it was us!” Donald lowered his head and pondered, his eyes flashing with Mo Ming’s brilliance.
“Mm … Haha, I think I’ve overthought it!” Fatty suddenly woke up. He glanced at Qin Lun and rubbed his head with a simple smile.
“No, what you said makes sense!” Qin Lun moved his gaze away and revealed a meaningful smile.
Allen and the others’ tents were at the northeast corner of the camp, about two hundred meters away from the scene of the incident. After Qin Lun and Donald came over, they found that most of the people in the campsite were crowded here.
Apart from a few people who had already left by car, these tourists ran out of the tent, not to mention the car keys, not even wearing two clothes. Now, in the cold wind at night, they were trembling like little quails that had just been born.
“Donald, where did you go to shit? We thought something happened to you?” A loud voice came from the crowd.
Qin Lun looked up and saw the big John who had quarreled with Alan at the airport walk out of the crowd and carelessly hook Donald’s neck.
“Hey, John, let go of me. You stink too much.” Fatty shook off the young man’s arm and pulled Qin Lun to the side. He lowered his voice and said, “Look, who did I run into? This is the only guy who left the airport. He’s actually here with Arcadia!”