In front of him was the shadow of an unknown creature, its gait similar to that of a monkey but much thinner, its height estimated to be more than two meters tall, the thing on its hand that Kent could not identify was a claw. or the fingers are twice as long as the average person.

It looks like a… Chimpanzee.

“Is it a wild animal or… a demon?” Kent was silent as he watched the dark figure moving around the tent while thinking.

Suddenly, the shadow leaned against the wall of the tent, and Kent almost cried out in fear. Kent tried to get close to the back, but this time things took a different turn.

Kent didn't notice that in the back there was a face imprinted on the wall of the tent, the face trying to rush in causing the wall to stretch. He doesn't know what's going on behind his back because Kent is paying attention to the black shadow of an unknown creature in front of him.

Full of fangs and claws, that was Kent's thoughts when he saw the shadow of the monstrous creature in front of him, but the creature seemed to be fidgeting around in front of the tent door, with no intention of entering the tent to help. Kent breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Kent felt something behind his back. A blast of cold air clung to his back, making him shiver. Kent glanced behind him, he saw a gaping face imprinted on the tent's surface as if trying to rush inside.

A frightened Kent tried to avoid the direction the face was looking, though he didn't know if the face had seen him or not. Suddenly, Kent felt that his body could not move, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move even a single finger.

The air seemed to be getting colder and colder, the most obvious proof was that Kent's breath always blew out white smoke. However, he did not know when sweat had soaked his clothes.

At this moment, Kent's shadow suddenly moved.

Yes, Kent couldn't move but his shadow was moving, it flexed like a shadow in a lake where a rock had been thrown and created undulating waves.

The abnormality of the shadow caught Kent's attention, anyway the firelight reflected everything so clearly especially Kent's shadow.

The space was strangely quiet, Kent was extremely scared. In front was an unnamed creature, behind was a strange face imprinted on the tent, and his shadow moved on its own.

Kent's breathing became rapid, as if in a second he would no longer be able to breathe.

"F*ck off!"

Thump!

Kent opened his eyes, saw the sunlight from outside shining on the camping tent. He realized that it was morning now, he was still lying in his picnic sleeping bag, the inside was soaked with his sweat.

Kent panted, looking around, there was nothing out of the ordinary.

“Strange, So what happened yesterday?” Kent wondered.

Last night clearly everything was very real, he saw everything with his own eyes, but now when he wakes up, the things of last night are like never before, everything is normal, even Kent has seen every single thing. The warm rays of the sun shine on the tent, and he can even hear the birds singing outside.

Kent sighed, then tried to sit up, opened the tent door and went out. At this point, Kent once again determined that the things that appeared yesterday were real, not just his imagination.

Above the ground, countless strange footprints and traces of something being dragged, like some kind of… octopus tentacles. Not far away, the fire that Kent had lit yesterday had gone out, but the ashes inside seemed to have drawn the shape of a face, and that face was the same face imprinted on the wall of the tent that he had seen yesterday. .

Kent recalled last night's voice, "Get out!" which he sounded very familiar.

“That voice… definitely Ann Reed.”

Kent did not mishear because Ann Reed's voice he had heard so many times, he even remembered Ann Reed's voice well. That's right, Kent didn't think he heard wrong, he rubbed his face wearily and thought: "Ann Reed is still by my side."

This saying if the subject is a lover or a girlfriend, then he is extremely happy, but the subject is a dead person, making Kent unable to be happy, only fear in his heart. However, what made him happier was that Ann Reed was by his side able to protect him.

Typically, last night, if it wasn't for Ann Reed, I'm afraid that terrible things will happen to him. However, Kent was also very surprised because he did not expect Ann Reed to just shout one word and drive away the other two "monsters".

This means that despite turning into a demon, Ann Reed is also a terrible demon, not a normal demon.

Come to think of it, Kent didn't know if he should be happy or sad.

Shaking his head trying to stop himself from thinking about it, Kent packed his tent and sleeping bag into his backpack, a jungle knife in hand, and continued his journey.

“This forest is strange.” After cleaning up, Kent looked around and began to evaluate: "It seems that there are strange creatures, no, to say "Demons" exist in this forest. That means the town of Riev doesn't seem so peaceful either."

Kent thought that this forest was already bizarre, perhaps the other town was even more bizarre.

"I have to prepare mentally well in advance, otherwise, by that time, I won't be able to find a way to escape."

Kent put his backpack on his back, continued to find his way to the town of Riev, anyway it is not safe to stay in this forest for a long time. Who knows if there are any other “demons” in this forest, so the quicker you get out of this place, the better.

Kent took out the tracker from his pocket, he was startled to see that the tracker had been broken since when.

“This…how do I plan on going like this?” Kent begins to feel that things are not right.

The first was the encounter with strange phenomena last night, now the location is also broken. Kent thought of asking the System to find a way, but no matter how the system just kept silent, not answering him.

Kent confusedly asked the System one more question, however, before he could ask, the System answered him.

[The system doesn't care about the surroundings and doesn't answer questions unrelated to the quest.]

Kent saw the system message on his phone, his eyebrows furrowed, he thought that the System would answer or give him some clues, but the answer in the end didn't help. for you.

Kent took a deep breath and continued his journey. This time he went from the morning, so by noon he went out of the forest, the whole journey was without any trouble, Kent thought that maybe yesterday Ann Reed had threatened the "devils" in the forest. this area, making them scared and have to find a place to hide.

Out of the woods, Kent saw a path ahead, flanked by long wheat fields, but those wheat fields had grown to as high as Kent's hips, and Kent could even see tall weeds. It's almost a meter like no one has taken care of it for many years.

Although he had gone out of the forest, this place made Kent feel heavier than he had been in the forest.

Although it was almost noon, the sky was murky as if it was about to get dark, the surroundings were eerily quiet, only the sound of each passing wind wailing like someone crying. The sound of the towering wheat fields swaying in the wind and rustling made Kent feel extremely mournful.

“This place… is like an abandoned town.” Kent muttered to himself, "Is it true that Doris lives in this place?"

Kent is also uncertain, he came to this place purely based on his own speculation. But when he went to this place, he felt strange, but the more bizarre the place, the more likely something related to Ann Reed appeared. That's right, Ann Reed had turned into a horrible kind of demon, it was strange that things related to her were normal.

“Perhaps I should get used to weird things later on.”

Kent sighed and then followed the trail into town, on the way, Kent thought of all the possibilities that could happen as he entered town. Anyway, this place is too strange, the wheat field, the grass has grown to his shoulder height, proving that it has been abandoned for a long time, the road in and out of town is also covered by trees.

Going another 1,000 meters, Kent now saw a few houses on either side, quite far apart, all built of wood. However, most of these houses were rotten, some even collapsed like this place had been swept by a hurricane.

"On fire?" Kent suddenly saw in the distance a fire burning so fiercely that it could be seen that it was a burning house.

“Perhaps there will be people there.” Kent hasn't seen a single person, let alone a person, not even a living thing, a dog, a cat or an insect.

The fire was not too far from where Kent stood, and he followed the trail to approach. The strange thing is that the house is still burning but there is no one around.

“Strange, even if the house is on fire, no one will show up?” Kent finds this extremely bizarre. It must be known that humans are an extremely curious creature, no matter what happens, there will be a lot of people around to watch.

Kent looked around and couldn't find anyone. Looking back at the burning house, Kent could guess that this house had burned since yesterday, now only a few wood chips were still burning.

"Ho!"

"Ho!"

Suddenly someone shouted, making Kent startled, from the bushes rushed out a lot of people, they held all kinds of high-damage farm tools pointing at Kent.

The people are old, young, boys, girls, all backgrounds. Kent looked around fearfully, the other group had already surrounded Kent. They were dressed in dirty clothes, their bodies were extremely thin as if they were only skin and bones.

Kent didn't know how to deal with it because all the way back was surrounded by these people. Their eyes were bloodshot, their expressions extremely angry as if they were about to do something very crazy.

"Stop!"