Chapter 13 Flute Sound
Chapter 13 Flute Sound
Without saying a word, Li Jiuhe immediately tightened the accelerator and headed towards the sports park.
It was just dawn, and many people were still asleep. Almost all the shops on the street were closed, with only a few breakfast shops open.
We sped along, turning two street corners, and the gate to the sports park came into view.
After entering from the front of the park, there is a large square where elderly people can be seen dancing, practicing Tai Chi, and doing other activities, both in the morning and evening.
The park is free to enter, with no entrance fee and no security booth at the main entrance.
At this moment, many elderly people are already dancing and practicing Tai Chi in groups of three or five in the square. Compared to other places, this place is much more lively.
Li Jiuhe parked his electric scooter and quickly arrived at the center of the square.
He looked around and saw that the elderly people were divided into at least seven or eight groups, each doing their own thing, while some were practicing Tai Chi and sword dancing on the other side of the square.
Another group of people were playing badminton at the foot of the mountain, near the interior of the sports park.
At first glance, however, nothing seemed amiss; everyone appeared normal.
But since the mission has already warned us, it means that the fear eater is right here and is consuming fear.
Li Jiuhe quickly ran down the mountain because there was a pool table there, and there were far fewer people there.
No one was playing billiards at the moment. Only two elderly people were playing badminton not far away, and near the foot of the mountain, there was a group of six elderly people, men and women, dancing ballroom dance together.
Li Jiuhe glanced at the dancing crowd and immediately noticed something was wrong.
The music was quite upbeat, but the three elderly couples dancing were clearly struggling to keep up, their movements were much slower.
Even as they were jumping, an elderly couple separated, one of them standing at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the mountain, motionless.
The other person held their head in their hands, looking around with a somewhat frightened expression.
The only elderly couple still dancing looked very uncomfortable; their expressions gradually became tense, as if they had seen something that terrified them.
"This is it!"
Li Jiuhe immediately moved closer.
He did not immediately enter the area where the six old men were, but instead observed the vicinity for any signs of the cannibalistic person.
However, after looking for a while, he couldn't find the guy.
"Where is it hidden?" Li Jiuhe wondered.
Just then, a faint flute melody drifted over.
The flute's sound was very penetrating; even with the noise from various speakers around the square, it still clearly reached Li Jiuhe's ears.
Upon hearing the flute music, he paused slightly, feeling a sense of unease throughout his body.
This feeling is strange, just like when I had a bad cold in my early years and felt uncomfortable all over, no matter where I put my hands and feet.
The flute music continued to play, but its source remained unclear.
Just then, Li Jiuhe suddenly remembered that when he came out, Li Yi had asked him if he had heard the sound of a flute last night. Clearly, this time traveler had noticed something was wrong.
However, he didn't hear any flute music last night, and only heard it now.
Shortly after the flute music began, the six elderly people who had been dancing ballroom dances, who had previously lost control, all stopped. The expressions of fear on their faces disappeared, replaced by blank stares.
Meanwhile, these elderly people probably felt the same way as Li Jiuhe at this moment, feeling uncomfortable all over. Some of them reached out and pressed and rubbed their bodies randomly, while others began to scratch their necks and the backs of their hands.
In fact, Li Jiuhe also had the urge to scratch his body.
He found that his skin started to itch. Although the itch was not intense, it was enough to make him feel uncomfortable.
Moreover, it felt like a certain area of skin was itchy, but after scratching it a few times, I found that it wasn't that area that was itchy, but rather the itching sensation coming from under the skin and muscles.
Those places are impossible to scratch.
Just as he was feeling surprised, Li Jiuhe's gaze suddenly caught a middle-aged man slowly standing up.
The man had been squatting less than ten meters away from him the whole time. It was a flat area at the foot of the mountain with no cover nearby.
But even so, he still didn't see the man who was squatting there.
And this man, dressed in tattered clothes, was the very person he had been searching for who had a fear of eating!
Therefore, people with a fear of eating should have a certain ability to be ignored. As long as they don't move, they can remain unnoticed even if they are curled up right under people's noses.
Li Jiuhe suddenly realized why he had searched so carefully yesterday but couldn't find the guy.
He may have already encountered the person with a fear of eating yesterday during his search, but because the person has the characteristic of being automatically ignored, even if he saw them, he might have automatically ignored their existence.
At this moment, it was clear that the person with cannibalism was also unbearably itchy, and he must have been unable to hold it in any longer to stand up.
After standing up, he, like the people around him, kept reaching out to scratch his shoulders, neck, and ribs.
Li Jiuhe felt a similar itch. When he saw this guy get up and expose himself, he felt uncomfortable all over and immediately went closer.
He glanced around and saw that the place was relatively secluded and no one was paying attention to them. Then he reached into his bag and grasped the silver-plated dagger.
Just then, a figure quickly arrived in front of him.
The figure paused briefly as they passed by, turned to look at him, and uttered two words: "Fellow travelers?"
Li Jiuhe was startled and quickly stopped.
He discovered that the speaker was a woman, tall and slender, young and beautiful, with a ponytail and wearing a gray fitted sportswear outfit.
After saying this, the woman seemed not to expect a reply from Li Jiuhe, and continued to walk quickly forward.
She quickly approached the raggedly dressed phalloid and swiftly affixed something resembling a badge to the phalloid's left chest.
The Fear Eater was startled, its expression hardening as if it were about to unleash its ability to materialize fear.
The woman's gaze suddenly became somewhat unfocused, but she quickly regained her composure and swiftly took out several badges, sticking them rapidly onto the chest and back of the terror eater.
In the blink of an eye, that guy had six or seven badges stuck to his body.
His expression relaxed again, and he became wooden, standing still, just like those dancing old people who had been dominated by his manifested fear.
At that moment, Li Jiuhe noticed that the symbol on the badge the woman was wearing seemed to be somewhat similar to the runes on the silver dagger in his bag.
The woman had a long, thin storage bag hanging from her waist, which looked similar to the shape of a flute.
"So she was playing the flute just now?" Li Jiuhe had a guess in his mind.
The woman had already grabbed the man's arm and was leading him toward her, just like she was leading an obedient dog.
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