The sky outside slowly darkened, and before long, large raindrops began to fall.
Lin Yan had already visited Yi Fei and knew she had a minor concussion. After a brief check on her condition, Lin Yan did not linger to disturb them.
Lin Yan was currently standing by the window of her room, looking at the rain curtain outside.
This rain was very timely. Of course, this was surely a plot device, but this rain had thoroughly extinguished the desire of the people in the villa to leave immediately.
"Lo Sheng, do you want to see your brother?"
"I want to see him very much, and yet I don't."
When she had first regained her senses, she had desperately wanted to see her brother. But after realizing that others still couldn't touch her, and she couldn't harm them, she had become reluctant to see him.
What was the point of meeting? She already knew from Lin Yan's attitude that her brother was the one causing trouble for these people in this house.
She was happy that her brother was avenging her. But her brother had already accepted her death. Seeing her in spirit now would only make him endure the pain of separation once more, wouldn't it?
"Your brother misses you dearly. I think you should still go and see him."
The person Lin Yan was thinking of, however, was not still in this villa as Lin Yan had imagined.
After completely sealing off the villa, he had left through another passage and pursued the two people who had escaped.
In the forest, due to the dense trees in summer, the rain was not particularly heavy, and it was relatively easy for Glasses and the other one to walk.
As they walked, they lost their bearings. They seemed to have walked for a long time, but when they checked their phones, they realized they hadn't walked for very long.
The heavy rain made it impossible to discern their direction. Fortunately, the compass on their phones still worked, but its usefulness was limited.
They wanted to find a place to shelter from the rain, but they were completely unfamiliar with this mountain. The little wilderness survival knowledge they had learned was useless without tools.
"Perhaps we should go back. With this heavy rain, we'll soon not even be able to see the path," Glasses said with a frown.
"Go back? The villa is sealed off all around. You've tried it yourself. To prevent the people inside from coming out, they definitely won't let anyone open it easily."
"Even if we can't get into the villa, the garages and such nearby would be better than this wilderness. Moreover, neither of us brought much food, and we can't last long."
Da B knew that what Glasses said was very true, but he was truly unwilling to go back. Putting aside everything else, their abrupt departure would surely have angered them.
If they could bring back help, it would be one thing. But if they returned without help, they would certainly be ridiculed.
"I'm not going back anyway. Maybe we'll find a phone signal soon. Next time I go out, I will absolutely not choose such a desolate place.
Why not have fun in a big city? Isn't the seaside, the beach better than here? How could you have been so misguided as to come here!" He kicked the grass beside him as he walked.
"Who could have predicted we would encounter something like this? Originally..." Glasses didn't continue.
"What is it?" Da B asked, turning to Glasses, who had trailed off.
He saw Glasses staring blankly, his face filled with terror, at a tree. Da B followed his gaze and saw a colorful snake.
It was coiled around a tree, slowly flicking its forked tongue towards the two of them.
"Glasses, do you think it's venomous?" his voice trembled slightly.
"It should, it should be venomous." Although he didn't recognize many snakes, he reasoned that anything that brightly colored in nature was likely venomous.
"Then, what do we do?"
"Run!"
They quickly ran in another direction, discarding anything on their bodies that was cumbersome and hindering their escape as they fled.
The forest was too dense for them to run fast. At this moment, both of them had the same thought: to outrun the other.
As long as they could get ahead of the other, they would be safe!
The snake did not chase them for long. These two were not its prey, and it had no intention of expending effort on them.
When the two finally stopped, unable to run any further, they found the snake was gone.
Supporting themselves with their knees, they panted, relieved to have escaped the venomous snake.
However, some of their belongings had also been discarded.
Looking around, they found themselves in a completely unfamiliar environment. They didn't know which direction to go.
The rain grew heavier. Although the leaves above provided some cover, their clothes were still getting wet.
"What do we do?" Glasses asked, still panting.
"Let's find a place first. Summer rain usually doesn't last long. We'll find a place to shelter from the rain and then decide after it stops."
After catching their breath, they randomly chose a direction and continued to walk. As for their backpacks, with the snake around, they didn't dare go back to retrieve them.
Neither of them noticed that someone had been following them all along. The sound of rain hitting the leaves was so loud that it completely masked the footsteps of the person behind them.
He approached the two men step by step. Sheng'er must have been very frightened when she fell from the high place. The wind on the rooftop of the sixth floor must have been very cold.
He had checked. The highest cliff on this mountain had a drop of 500 meters to the bottom. Falling down would prolong the enjoyment of such a descent.
He would let these two people thoroughly enjoy this feeling.
The two men ahead had no inkling of the danger approaching. They continued walking forward. If they could find the winding mountain road, it wouldn't be so bad. At least they would know how to get back to the villa.
However, unfamiliar with the terrain, they kept walking deeper into the woods. Furthermore, the cliff that the person behind was thinking of was also in the direction they were heading.
The rain grew heavier. Mist began to rise from the forest, making the scene almost like a fairyland.
If not for their current predicament, they would have taken out their cameras or phones to capture this scenery, which was comparable to a landscape painting.
Now, they had no energy to appreciate the beauty.
A Rui and Li Yi Ze searched the entire house but found no exit, and returned to the sofa dejectedly.
Yue Yue, seeing that it was getting late, decided to endure the pain in her leg and prepare food for everyone in the kitchen.
Li Yi Ze wanted to stop her, but realizing that none of them could cook, he didn't prevent her. However, he still carried her to the kitchen and then moved a high stool from the bar for her to sit and work.
He stayed by her side, ready to help at any moment.