( 14 )

An unknown amount of time passed and the clock above the cabinet changed.

Beijing time, four o'clock in the morning.

The sudden cry from the rooster frightened everyone.

They quickly sat up and looked at each other before realising that they had fallen asleep.

Yu Wen slapped himself a few times to wake himself up.

When he lowered his hands, he heard a strange sound.

"Shh———"

He gestured and asked quietly: "Do you hear something?"

"What?" Old Yu looked at his son thinking that he was speaking nonsense.

"Don't you hear it?" Yu Wen asked, "That...crunching sound."

The room fell silent. No one dared to move.

Everyone had a wary expression as they listened for movement.

Sure enough, after a few seconds the crunching sound was heard again. This time everyone heard it.

It was like...something heavy being dragged in the snow.

The stick thin man in the hospital gown gestured out the window and mouthed: "Here."

Before his mouth could close, the door opened with a creak.

A black shadow was cast in from outside the door.

Following that, a pale faced man holding a bundle of rope entered the cabin.

His figure was large, but he wasn't very tall. His face looked like over exposed paper and his eyes were also very strange. The iris looked a little too large for his eyes and the white sclera only occupied a very small amount.

He bent down to roll the rope up. On his waist hung a wide knife and a small bell rang with his movements.

No one in the room spoke. Everyone watched him drag a sack into the house and then closing the door.

At this moment, he finally looked around at the fire stove. His dark eyes blinked a few times: "Ah....That's good, there are guests."

Everyone: "........"

The one who came was the hunter that they had been waiting for.

He squeezed his hand and said: "Snow had blocked off the roads for the past few days so I knew that foo...I mean, guests would come."

Guests: "......"

"It's really cold outside." He said slowly: "The snow is too heavy. Everything was hidden so I couldn't find a prey. I spent a long, long time to finally dig out one."

He kicked the sack and smiled at everyone. His lips looked like they almost reached his ears: "You're really lucky to be able to join me."

He sighed again and explained: "I can't help it. There aren't many things on the snow mountain, and it would always be a long time until I come across a group. I have to tighten my belly to survive so I only have two meals a day.

"Once in the morning at 4am and then in the afternoon at 4pm. There aren't many chances to have a wonderful meal with me." He looked at the clock above the cabinet and said: "Ah, it's just the right time. You must've waited long and must be hungry. I can hear your stomachs growling. Can't wait?"

Guests: "...…."

"How many of you are there?" He held out his finger and counted them one by one, "Old woman, sick man, thug, alcoholic, alcoholic's son...."

None of the names were nice but when he pointed at them, their faces all turned green.

When he reached You Huo, he paused and wasn't happy: "Why is there one still asleep."

"Forget it." Hunter A was no longer interested. He looked at the answer well and said: "Looks like there are a total of 13 people but I don't have enough food. Only enough for 12. What a pity."

As he said that, he licked his lips: "I'm really hungry, but you'll have to wait a little longer. I have to prepare. It's my first time having so many guests."

Yu Wen: "...….."

It's also my first time seen such a girly hunter.

Hunter A bent over and picked up the sack.

The sack looked particularly heavy. They didn't know what it contained and they also didn't want to know...

He dragged the sack over to the corner of the room and stopped before the room with the hen hanging from the door.

The keys clanked and Hunter A picked one out. Using it, he opened the door to the room.

A rotten smell spread out.

It was a smell that was hard to describe. It was like rotten meat, dust and decaying wood all mixed together.

Everyone had thought that the room with the hen hanging from the door was the bedroom.

Now they realised that it was actually a kitchen.

Inside was a long counter. It was no problem for someone to lie on it.

On the other side was a tall red wooden cabinet. Numerous locks hung from there.

Hunter A smiled at the people in the room and then made a small bow: "Please wait. It'll be done soon."

He then closed the door.

The people by the fire stove was silent for a long time. One of them said with fear: "I don't want to eat, I want to go home."

"Who doesn't want to go home!" The tattooed man had at some unknown point in time joined the crowd. He was probably afraid of Hunter A, "Can we go back? If you have the ability, go and rush out through that door!"

Everyone fell silent again.

After a moment, Old Yu swallowed: "That hunter's mouth was so big. It wouldn't be a problem to swallow a human head. I have a feeling he eats humans....."

Yu Yao muttered: "What's in that sack?"

Putting those two sentences together, it was extremely terrifying.

Everyone's eyes moved out the window.

The snowstorm outside still had not stopped. Before the exam, Old Yu went out to investigate and said that everything was covered in snow. There weren't any people or houses within a hundred miles from here.....

Where did the prey come from?

What's more, Hunter A said that the food was dug out.

When they arrived here in the afternoon, there was a man who didn't listen to the radio and his body was soon buried under the snow....