pertwk Chapter 361 Darkness Descends
Chapter 361 Darkness Descends
In the desolate grassland, the group of mischievous children walked for a while longer.
When they were about fifty meters from the edge of the forest, Amy suddenly stopped.
"Wait a moment."
Everyone stopped to look at her.
"Did you hear that?" Amy said.
What did you hear?
The children pricked up their ears in confusion.
Quiet.
It was very quiet.
There was not a sound around.
Tommy frowned:
"There's nothing there, just let us hear it..."
But before he could finish speaking, he froze.
There was nothing there.
Yes, how come there's no sound at all?
Before, when I walked on the grass, I could hear insects chirping and the wind rustling through the grass.
But at this distance... why did all the sounds disappear?
The wind stopped.
The insects have stopped chirping.
Even the sound of their own footsteps on the ground became very light and muffled.
This sudden and bizarre situation left the five mischievous children looking at each other in bewilderment.
Pete gripped Sophie's clothes tightly.
"Mo...Modi, I want to go back."
Pete said, his voice trembling slightly.
However, Modi did not answer his question.
The crowd looked at him with confusion, only to see him staring at the black trees in front of him with a somewhat stiff expression.
"There, there seems to be something over there... Let's go a little further."
His voice was much lower than before.
"We'll just take a look and leave."
"Modi!"
Upon hearing this, Sophie, who was standing behind, tried to stop them in a low voice.
"Just one glance! I'll leave right away!"
As he spoke, he took another step forward.
Then he stopped.
Because he saw it.
Something was moving on the ground between those black trees.
It is not an animal.
It was a gray mist, flowing slowly along the ground. It looked like an invisible pot of water slowly spreading across the earth.
The direction in which the fog was flowing was very uniform...
They all moved deeper into the forest.
"What is that...?"
Tommy, who also witnessed this bizarre scene, asked, his legs trembling.
However, no one answered him.
Because while they were observing the eerie fog, they also discovered an even more terrifying scene.
They saw those black trees moving.
Not the kind that's blown by the wind.
Rather, it is the trunk itself that is bending very slowly and slightly.
All the trees are bending in the same direction.
The direction is towards the depths of the forest.
Heading in the direction where the gray fog was flowing.
It gives the feeling that something deep inside is forcefully sucking everything in.
"Go back! We can't get any closer, we have to go back now!"
Seeing this, Sophie was the first to turn around and immediately grabbed Pete and ran.
Seeing that someone was taking the lead, the other children followed suit, then Tommy, and Amy followed closely behind.
Only Modi remained standing there.
At that moment, his feet seemed rooted to the ground as he stared intently at the forest. His face was pale in the moonlight.
Tommy, who was running away, turned around and saw this scene, and immediately shouted at Modi.
"Modi! Let's go!"
Hearing his companion's shouts, Modi snapped out of his daze and immediately turned and ran without hesitation.
Because he was the oldest among them, he quickly overtook all the other kids and took the lead.
The five children took off running towards the camp.
However, at this very moment...
Amy was running at the very back, and she couldn't help but look back.
Just one glance.
She saw something pressing down from the dark sky above the Black Forest.
It's not a cloud.
It is a huge, blurry outline.
She didn't know how to describe it because it was so big.
It was so big that Amy could only see its edges.
That silhouette obscured all the starlight in that area of the sky, and it was moving extremely slowly...
decline.
The terrifying scene made Amy's legs go weak, and she fell to the ground.
"Amy!"
Hearing the noise, Sophie turned around and saw her fall, so she quickly turned back to help her up.
"There's something in the sky... there's something in the sky..."
Amy pointed to the northern sky, her voice trembling.
Upon hearing her say that, Sophie subconsciously looked up.
The next second, her expression changed.
"Run!!"
Sophie grabbed Amy from the ground and pulled her along as fast as she could.
The five children ran for their lives toward the camp.
The grass wasn't long, but every step felt incredibly long.
Pete had been crying for a while, running and crying at the same time.
Tommy ran ahead, panting like a dog.
Modi was the fastest runner, having already sprinted more than twenty meters ahead, but he glanced back, turned around, grabbed Pete, who was the slowest runner, hoisted him onto his shoulder, and ran.
"Don't fucking look back! Run!" Modi yelled at everyone.
No one looked back.
Run all the way.
Finally, the campfire light came into view.
When the five children rushed into the camp, all the adults were alarmed.
"What's wrong?!"
Kenny was the first to stand up, already holding a shotgun in his hand.
"Over there in the forest!"
Modi put Pete down, bent over and panting.
"There's something in the sky! A huge thing! Falling down!"
Kenny paused for a moment, then his expression changed.
He looked up and headed north.
You can't see anything in the dark.
"You went to the forest?!"
Kenny immediately realized what was happening, his face darkening. "Who told you to go over there?!"
"Uncle Kenny, please don't yell, listen to me..." Modi was extremely anxious.
"Do you know how dangerous it is?! I've told you so many times not to go near that area!"
"There really is something!" Amy shouted from behind. "We all saw it! There's something huge coming down from the sky!"
All five children nodded at the same time.
Everyone looked at the fear on the faces of the five children; it wasn't feigned.
There was a moment of silence around the campfire.
Kenny put down his shotgun, walked quickly to the northern edge of the camp, and looked towards the Black Forest.
The other adults followed.
In the pitch-black night, nothing could be seen.
The outline of the Black Forest blends almost seamlessly with the night sky.
"I can't see anything," Jackson said.
Look closely at that patch of sky.
Modi followed, pointing above the Black Forest, "That patch of sky is darker than anywhere else; there isn't a single star!"
Several adults looked in the direction he pointed.
indeed.
If you look closely, the patch of sky above the Black Forest does indeed appear more solid than the surrounding area.
It wasn't the deep blue-black color of a normal night sky, but a pure, solid black.
"It might be clouds..."
Linda had just opened her mouth.
"It's not a cloud!"
Amy interrupted her.
"Clouds don't have that shape! That thing has edges! It's... a round thing!"
The adults exchanged a glance.
Kenny paused for a few seconds, then made a decision.
"Everyone, come inside. Now."
"Kenny?"
"Everyone inside! Close the door! Put out the campfire!"
His voice wasn't loud, but everyone could hear the urgency in it.
No one asked why anymore.
Everyone got busy. They put out the fire, packed things up, and herded the children inside.
Kenny stood at the edge of the camp, staring at the northern sky.
He held the hunting rifle in his hand, his knuckles tightening slightly.
With over forty years of life experience and twenty years of military service, I've seen it all.
But at this moment, he had a very bad feeling.
He had only ever had that kind of premonition on the battlefield.
It's an intuition that only veterans have!
He had a vague feeling that something was about to happen.
And it's already very, very close.
He took one last look at the dark sky, then turned, went into the house, and closed the door.
The entire camp was plunged into darkness.
Twenty-three people were crammed into a few wooden huts, without uttering a sound.
Outside, the wind had stopped.
And in the sky above the Black Forest, there was that enormous, unrecognizable outline...
It's still going down.
Little by little.
Little by little.
……
Nobody knows what it is.
Nobody knows what will happen when it comes to a complete stop.
But everyone knows one thing.
Their peaceful days in this valley are probably coming to an end.