Xu Huo stopped washing dishes and pointed to the window, "I just saw a figure walking by, but I didn't hear a knock on the door for a while."

Seeing his movements, the woman's face changed and she quickly lowered her voice and said, "Don't talk!"

The other two in the room became nervous, rushed into the room with a look of alert and carried the two children out, covering their ears.

With Xu Huo and the painting girl's faces full of confusion, the door was knocked:

"Knock, knock, knock."

The even-rhythm knock sounded twice in a row. Xu Huo patted the woman's sleeve, pointed at the door, and asked her with her eyes whether she wanted to open the door.

The woman shut up her mouth, looked at him with a sharp look, and then shook her head vigorously.

Xu Huo stood there honestly, knocking on the door again, and then fell into endless silence.

When these people relaxed, he asked, "Who was knocking on the door just now? What...a bad person lives here?"

He deliberately said something obscure, but the old man understood what he meant, "It's not someone else. There are no bad people here, and even if there are, bad people will not dare to come out at night."

Xu Huo sat at the table and made a gesture of wishing to hear the details.

The girl from there shared two fructose for the child, and the two children also pulled her down and begged the old man to tell a story.

After drinking the tea, the old man chewed all the tea leaves in the cup, and then began to tell this story that has been passed down from generation to generation.

"Hidden friend."

It is similar to what is mentioned in the game background introduction. People began to appear in the fog here a few generations ago. At first, everyone thought it was a dazzled look. After all, there are many foggy trees, so it is not surprising to see any strange things.

But gradually, as more and more people saw the figures, some of them suddenly disappeared, one today and one tomorrow. At first, no one suspected the figures, thinking that they were just lost in the forest or eaten by wild animals. Before the forest changes, there were a lot of people living here, and the woods were not so dense and wide, and there were almost no large beasts like now.

Until later, one person saw another person being called away by himself.

The story was like this. Two people went into the forest to hunt. They knew each other before they met, but the person behind caught up with him and wanted to ask him to go together. Unexpectedly, before they could open their mouths, the person in front suddenly raised his hand and waved to the distance, answered and called out the name of the person behind, and called him and waited for him to go together.

At that time, the two were only more than ten meters apart. Although the person behind was not sure if there was really no one in front, he was sure that the person was definitely not him.

Under normal circumstances, the people behind only think that the person in front of him had recognized the wrong person, or that someone who knew them was joking, so the people behind him quickly followed. They originally wanted to call the person in front, but there was a thick fog ahead. The people in front disappeared before they walked far away. The people behind him shouted for a while but did not respond and gave up.

On the second day and the third day, the person who walked in front did not come back. The person behind went back to ask friends who were familiar with them, and then learned where they were going that day. He was sure that it was not a joke from his friend, so he told him what he saw.

At that time, many people had seen people calling themselves and saying hello to them in the woods. There were so many people that they could not use dazzling excuses, so they made a response strategy.

People who see figures are usually alone, so when you enter the forest, you must be with you, say hello to someone, and don’t answer before you see your face clearly. This is safe and sound for a while, and people begin to be dissatisfied with self-protection, and want to find out what is happening to the missing person.

So some people started to go into the mountain alone with their equipment. No one of these people actually took pictures, but some disappeared with the equipment.

This incident gradually spread, and authoritative organizations also came to detect and search, and finally came up with a result of a magnetic field chaos causing visual hallucination. As for the figure, they were completely unseen.

A few times later, some experts called this figure "hidden friend".

At that time, it was a relatively large town. Although there were legends, most people did not live in the forest and were amazing, so they did not consider the issue of relocation. Until a plant change, a large number of mutated plants surged out of the woods in a very short time, flooding the town and two nearby big cities.

At that time, except for those who went out to work, all the original residents of these cities died, and even no body was found.

I don’t know if it was because of this tragic incident that many of the residents outside the country had hallucinations and always saw figures calling themselves in the fog. In fact, the fog that started in this mutant forest was indeed spreading towards the surroundings.

Originally, this incident ended with some people entering mental hospitals, but then there were changes in other areas. Human residence was repeatedly reduced, and the safety zones formulated new rules, and some people who were not able to protect themselves were abandoned - they were not driven out directly, but were called to let them go out for investigation.

Some of these abandoned people survived in the undeveloped areas and built cities here.

However, there are so many mutant plants. After the destruction and reconstruction over and over again, the people living here are only left with local materials. They lack resources and talent. There are few players among their descendants, so they live so hard.

"It is a great blessing for us to be able to live in this forest." The old man said: "At least there are no mutated beasts here, friends who are hidden... friends we don't need."

Judging from the experience of people living nearby, their response methods are enough to protect themselves. However, the old man mentioned in his narration that the "hidden friends"'s method of finding friends sometimes changes. In the past, it was always in the mountains and forests. I don't know when it will appear outside the house, and sometimes it even imitates outsiders. For example, when Xu Huo and others knocked on the door just now, the "hidden friends" may imitate him and knock on the door.

The knocking sound just now was just an introduction made by Xu Huo, but there were actually people who came to knock on the door, most of whom were players making dungeons.

However, "hidden friends" have appeared for so long, but no one mentioned it in the copy information near Mei Hao Tomorrow Station, and it is simply classified as strange stories.

None of the players who can come in to make dungeons go out alive, right?

"It's getting late, you can rest early, and the two children's room is cleaned up." After the story was finished, the two children slept in their parents' arms satisfied. The old man was a little tired, but she still instructed: "If someone calls outside at night, don't agree."
Chapter completed!