Chapter 598: Chapter 406: Until Dawn_3 Chapter 598: Chapter 406: Until Dawn_3 Lutina also walked over and, upon seeing these snails, said.
“Parasitic Bugs? Intriguing creatures…”
Chen Lun calmly made a remark.
He turned his head to glance at the panicked crowd, then returned his gaze to Lutina.
“Since they’ve decided to return at dawn, I won’t continue with you all… Tell me the route to the Augusta Mountains, I’ll go by myself.”
Lutina looked at him deeply and then nodded.
She took out a piece of paper from her backpack, wrote on it, and handed it to Chen Lun.
“It contains precautions and key landmarks… If you follow what I’ve written, you should be able to get out of this forest in about five days.”
Chen Lun put the paper away and thanked her.
At that moment, the forest suddenly filled with the shrill sounds of squeaking and a multitude of footsteps.
Everyone’s faces changed.
“What’s approaching?!”
“There’s so many of them!”
Lutina’s brow furrowed, and she ran towards the Hunter’s cabin with her double-barreled shotgun at the ready.
“It’s gunfire! The gunshots from before have attracted the attention of the Tamala Ratfolk, and they’re coming for revenge! Follow me, everyone, there’s a secret cellar I left in the wooden hut. We can hide there for the night!”
People panicked and rushed into the wooden hut following Lutina.
Gray, who was running at the back, suddenly noticed that the young man with the black hat, along with the boy with glasses and the cow, stood still. She hesitated, stopped in her tracks, and called out:
“Sir… Are you not coming in? Those Ratfolk are dangerous…”
Those hiding inside the door also looked back with questioning looks.
Chen Lun stood there, shaking his head slightly, and simply said softly:
Gray bit her lip, turned around, and entered the wooden hut, while Lutina gave one last look at the young man’s retreating figure and decisively closed the door of the hut.
One by one, people crawled through a trapdoor under the bed, each one not daring to breathe, squatting in a dim cellar, only able to faintly hear a chaotic ping-pong of noises coming from above their heads.
“We won’t be discovered, right…?”
“No, definitely not.”
After a brief exchange, silence fell again.
After experiencing tension and fear, everyone fell asleep, overcome by extreme exhaustion.
Who knows how much time passed.
Lutina woke everyone up one by one, then opened the cellar trapdoor, returning to the hunter’s cabin. It was dimly light outside; dawn was approaching, and strange bird calls could be heard in the forest.
The disordered scene dampened everyone’s spirits.
“Those Ratfolk must have left, right?”
Oslo asked in a low voice.
The door of the Hunter’s cabin had been smashed into three pieces during the previous night’s attack, lying broken on the ground.
Everyone walked out the door, and couldn’t help but gasp when they saw what was in front of them.
They saw a dense pile of Ratfolk corpses, haphazardly strewn outside the Hunter’s cabin, numbering in the hundreds… The dried blood turned dark brown, with an unbearable stench.
Oslo’s throat was dry; he was unable to speak.
Gray’s hands trembled as she spoke softly:
“Could it have been that sir who did this?”
“How… How could that be possible?”
Stiller swallowed hard and stared at the ground littered with corpses, saying.
“Unless… he’s not human!”
In everyone’s eyes was shock, yet inexplicably they believed what the spiky-haired boy had said.
Unless that sir was not human, how could he possibly do something .
Only Lutina, unnoticed in a corner, revealed a slight smile.
“Favored by the Gods…”