Chapter 184: Mud

Lü Yang’s feet were numb with pain. He suspected that if he kept running barefoot like this, the flesh on his soles would eventually rot away, exposing the bone.

The Faceless Person walked over step by step, stopping behind the broken wall where Lü Yang was hiding. For a long time, there was no movement, as if it had lost its target.

Lü Yang didn’t dare make a sound. He kept holding his breath, staying motionless behind the broken wall, wanting to wait until the Faceless Person left before making his own escape.

After a while longer, there was still no sound of the Faceless Person moving from the other side of the wall. Lü Yang was just thinking about whether he should seize the chance to leave when a strong sense of danger suddenly struck him. Instinctively, Lü Yang ran away from the broken wall.

Just as Lü Yang moved away from the wall, a hand smashed through it with a loud crash, grabbing at the spot where he had just been hiding…

If Lü Yang had reacted half a second slower, that hand would have caught him firmly at that moment.

Then, the Faceless Person charged right through the broken wall. Under the impact of its body, the wall collapsed as if it were made of tofu, scattering broken stones and bricks everywhere.

“Damn! Is your body made of iron!? Are you a Transformer!?” Lü Yang cursed loudly. After leaving the wall and quickly getting his bearings, he desperately ran toward the main gate of Mountain Peak Village.

As soon as Lü Yang started running, footsteps immediately sounded behind him. It seemed the Faceless Person was chasing him. Lü Yang didn’t dare look back. He quickly passed between two tall buildings ahead. Just as he was about to stop to catch his breath, he ran straight into two tall figures.

Lü Yang made a quick decision. He turned and ran toward the side of Mountain Peak Village. Unexpectedly, after only a few steps, someone grabbed his arm tightly!

Looking back, he saw it was the Faceless Person that had been chasing him. It had caught up and seized Lü Yang’s arm when he changed direction.

Lin Yin’s body was not strong. Once caught, she couldn’t break free. Fortunately, Lü Yang reacted quickly and kicked the Faceless Person in the crotch…

Oh my god!

That hurt like hell!

Lü Yang felt he really shouldn’t have used Lin Yin’s foot to kick a rock… Now his whole leg was numb and lost all sensation from that kick.

That wasn’t a human crotch! It was just a protruding rock, right?

The Faceless Person reached out with its other hand, pressed Lü Yang to the ground, and forcibly spread Lin Yin’s legs apart…

Lü Yang felt complete despair… He realized that once caught by this Faceless Person with its immense strength and iron-hard body, there was no chance of escape.

And, this guy was actually a pervert! Why spread her legs? Was it going to rape ‘her’?

Perhaps it wasn’t Lü Yang’s time to die, or maybe heaven had eyes. Just then, a flash of lightning lit up the sky, followed by a thunderclap that exploded over Mountain Peak Village. The sound was earth-shattering. Maybe because it was caught off guard, the Faceless Person was startled by the thunder. For a moment, it loosened its grip on Lü Yang.

These Faceless People had no eyes, nose, or mouth, but they had ears!

Seizing this rare opportunity, Lü Yang struggled free from the Faceless Person’s control and scrambled away. A few minutes later, he checked his direction again and found he was moving farther away from the main gate of Mountain Peak Village. Instead, he had reached the side of the village…

Lü Yang vaguely remembered from his daytime exploration that there were several broken walls on the side of Mountain Peak Village. From there, he could leave the village area.

Suddenly, bolts of thunder began crashing continuously. This gave Lü Yang a chance to find his way and also greatly hindered the Faceless People’s pursuit speed. It seemed… these Faceless People were afraid of the thunder crashing in the sky?

…

More than ten minutes later, when Lü Yang, scrambling and stumbling in panic, reached the stone wall on the side of Mountain Peak Village, he found the wall here was very intact, with no broken sections at all…

After all, Mountain Peak Village covered a certain area. The broken wall section might just not be near here!

Heavy, messy footsteps sounded behind him. Clearly, more than one Faceless Person was chasing him…

A sliver of despair rose in Lü Yang’s heart, but he still ran desperately along the wall toward the village entrance. After running for about seven or eight more minutes, he finally found a broken wall section. But at the same time, the footsteps behind him were getting closer.

These Faceless People had heavy bodies and weren’t very fast runners. Plus, the continuous thunder in the sky during this time never stopped, seriously affecting their pursuit speed. That was how Lü Yang had managed to run this far.

However, these Faceless People seemed to have endless energy. After running for so long, their footsteps still maintained the same speed without slowing down.

Lü Yang, on the other hand, was exhausted. His body was completely drained. He could barely hold on for another half minute…

Gritting his teeth, Lü Yang mustered the last of his strength and desperately ran toward the broken wall. Although this broken wall allowed direct entry into the village from outside, the ground inside the village here was lower than outside. To get out, he had to climb over the nearly half-person-high broken wall. For Lin Yin, who was much shorter than Lü Yang’s True Body, the wall reached up to her chest!

In the heavy rain, the broken wall was covered in slippery moss. Combined with Lin Yin’s small strength and his current completely exhausted state, Lü Yang tried twice but couldn’t climb over!

The footsteps behind him were getting closer and more urgent. From the sound, the Faceless People were less than ten meters away from Lü Yang!

Just as Lü Yang was completely despairing, a hand reached down from above. Another lightning flash lit up the sky. By the lightning’s glow, Lü Yang recognized the person reaching out his hand. It was actually the tour guide, the old man in his fifties from daytime, Gu Zheng!

Most importantly, his face had eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

The old man’s arm was strong. With his help, Lü Yang finally climbed over the broken wall just before several Faceless People caught up, escaping outside the stone wall of Mountain Peak Village through the gap.

After Lü Yang climbed up, the old man used his body to block the gap in the wall. He handed Lü Yang a flashlight and also gave Lü Yang his own shoes and upper garment. Then the old man pointed downhill and gave Lü Yang a push.

“Aren’t you coming?”

Lü Yang looked back at the old man. Only then did he realize… the old man who saved him didn’t seem to be the same fifty-something tour guide Gu Zheng from daytime. They just looked very similar.

“Go down the mountain quickly! I must guard this place.” After saying this, several hands suddenly appeared behind the old man, forcibly pulling him back into the gap in the wall.

Lü Yang didn’t dare stay any longer. He quickly put on the old man’s shoes, which were several sizes too big, and the loose upper garment. After briefly getting his bearings, he desperately ran downhill through the rain, struggling with each step.

He had no strength left in his body, but now, he could only run…

The Faceless People did not chase beyond the boundaries of Mountain Peak Village. It seemed some mysterious force prevented them from leaving the village.

Lü Yang found a shelter from the rain to rest for a while. Although he knew this place was extremely dangerous, his exhausted self had no choice. Without recovering some strength, he couldn’t run even one more step.

Fortunately, with shoes on, his feet felt much better.

…

More than two hours later, Lü Yang, walking and resting intermittently, finally arrived exhausted at a certain place…

The path ahead had become too muddy to walk on. Lü Yang looked around, feeling quite puzzled… This place… should be where the Mountain Peak Hotel was located, right?

But why couldn’t he see the Mountain Peak Hotel? He couldn’t even find the road anymore!

Further ahead, there was water everywhere, completely connected to the nearby Mountain Top Lake…

Lightning flashed again. By this flash of light, Lü Yang saw a building submerged in muddy water. The main structure of the entire building was completely sunk in the mud, with only a small part of the roof still visible above the surface… Was that… the tallest building in the scenic area? It seemed like… the place for playing billiards and ping pong?

What happened!?

Observing the location of that building, Lü Yang looked toward where the Mountain Peak Hotel should be…

Right now, there was only darkness there. He couldn’t see anything clearly.

Lightning flashed again at just the right moment. When he clearly saw the scene before him, Lü Yang’s heart sank completely.

The Mountain Peak Hotel had been destroyed by a Mudslide! The entire structure had collapsed and was submerged in the mudflow.

The Mudslide was probably caused by the Mountain Top Lake breaching its banks!

The continuous Torrential Rain these days had caused the lake’s water level to rise, and then… the banks gave way!

How could this be!?

“Xiao Ya!”

Lü Yang couldn’t help but cry out in alarm. If he hadn’t been mysteriously left in the Cemetery behind the mountain village, he would have been swallowed by the Mudslide along with his entire class!

“Xiao Ya!!”

Lü Yang shouted again. Just then, the ground under his feet suddenly collapsed and slid away. Caught off guard, Lü Yang fell to the ground. When he tried to straighten up again, both his legs were stuck in the mud above the knees, completely unable to be pulled out.

A lightning flash lit up the sky. At that moment, while bending over and struggling to free his legs from the mud, Lü Yang suddenly saw his own reflection in the swamp up close. He clearly saw his current face…

Was this face Lin Yin’s? It didn’t seem right!?

Why did it look like… one of the two boys and two girls who hadn’t returned to the group this afternoon?

What was going on!?

An illusion? No…

No wonder… he always felt something was off about Lin Yin’s chest… This pair was clearly a size larger than Lin Yin’s! And much heavier too!

The flashlight was gone. Without lightning, Lü Yang couldn’t see his reflection again, so he couldn’t confirm whether he had just experienced an illusion…