Chapter 164 Caroline

Fear can cause a person to have physiological reactions of protective mechanisms such as accelerated heart rate, faster breathing, and cold hands and feet.

It not only provides protection, but also allows the attention to become highly concentrated, allowing for a clearer perception of the surrounding environment and potential dangers.

However, depending on the individual's quality, it can also cause the mind to become confused, judgment to decline sharply, and a freezing reaction to occur, where the body cannot move or respond.

The violent movements of the woman in front of him showed that she was both afraid and very aware of the current situation.

But we need to add some strong medicine.

York tightened his right hand around the woman's throat and pressed her against the tree with more force: "Otherwise I'll just have to let you lie down first."

Except for people he knew well, he had no sympathy for strangers.

York's voice fell into Caroline's ears, and the right hand that made her unable to breathe slowly clenched, causing her movements of banging her hands and twisting her body to slow down.

"Very good, it seems that you are still awake and aware of the current situation." York saw the woman blink a few times and loosened her right hand a little to allow her to breathe.

"From now on, I'll ask you questions and you'll answer them. Do you understand?"

Caroline was still trembling and in fear, but she nodded when she looked at York, because the York in front of her was fully armed like a real soldier and had night vision goggles on his head that she had never seen before. He was completely different from the people who were chasing her.

Yorks did not loosen his right hand that was holding the woman's throat, in case she did something he didn't want to see: "Are you running away?"

Hearing this, Caroline, whose face was covered in dirty sweat and tears, nodded quickly, as if she had heard hope.

Seeing that the woman seemed to be awake, York said calmly: "I will let go so that you can talk, and you can't scream, understand?"

Caroline nodded quickly, and the next second the iron hand that was grabbing her throat seemed to loosen, and she felt that she could really breathe and speak.

However, Yorks still maintained his grip on her throat, just enough to allow the woman to open her mouth and speak.

"Who's hunting you?"

In the dim light, Caroline looked at the tall stranger in front of her, wearing a helmet with a strange night vision goggles on his head and a gun on his shoulder. She took a breath and said, "I don't know, but all my friends were killed by them!"

What Yorks could see was that when the woman said this, tears started flowing from her already messy eyes again, and she seemed to be really very sad, but this matter was not within his scope of thinking. Instead, he cared about the words the woman used.

These words are obviously used to describe monsters or beasts. In the current situation, it can only be monsters, and there are more than one.

York twitched the corner of his mouth, analyzed her appearance and voice, confirmed that the woman was basically fine, and then let go of her hand.

"Tell me everything."

The lock that was grasping Destiny's throat disappeared, and Caroline was able to relax. She couldn't help but fall down and touched her neck which suddenly hurt. She took a deep breath and looked at the strange man in front of her. She knew that this man was the key to whether she could survive in the hands of these monsters.

"I'm."

As the woman spoke, York, who had been observing the surroundings, finally understood the whole story.

The woman's name was Caroline. She was essentially the same as him. She had decided to go on a trip with a few friends when school was about to start. However, she had never expected to run into a group of ugly monsters. She had thought it was some role-playing game, but the monsters didn't even bother to kill her friend with an axe.

Only then did they realize the seriousness of the matter, and from then on they began to hunt and flee.
What made York a little suspicious was that under the pursuit of this group of monsters, even several of his male companions were killed. How did Caroline hold on to the end?

This is not because he has any opinion about women, but in this situation, the survival rate of men is at least much higher than that of women, which is determined based on the differences between men and women.

After all, this is the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The mountain range has a height difference of 1500 to 3000 meters, with sparse vegetation, mostly shrubs and grasses. But in the Central Valley of California, it becomes a gentle west slope with deep canyons cut by many rivers, which welcome the moist air currents from the Pacific Ocean, resulting in abundant rain and snow, and a terrain with numerous rivers, lakes and dense forests.

This kind of terrain means it is even darker than outside at night. If you use your naked eyes, the view beyond three meters is pitch black. It is not so pitch dark that you can't see your hand in front of you, but at least you can't see anything beyond one meter.

But Caroline finally answered him with tears in her voice.

"My last friend was also killed, and Rez saved me! He was shot to death by it, oooo..."

Yorks glanced at Caroline who seemed to be a little collapsed, but didn't care. He just continued to look ahead. In his heart, he got some very important information from Caroline's not very coherent words.

There is not just one monster, but perhaps several or even more than ten of them. They are powerful, know how to shoot arrows, and are quite familiar with the terrain here. They know how to track a prey like a real hunter.

"Under extreme conditions, the other party may have quite outstanding night vision capabilities." York pursed his lips, feeling troubled.

In his analysis, these monsters described by Caroline were just like experienced hunters.

At the same time, without accurate numbers, it was rather troublesome for him to use firearms.

Although the fully-equipped HK416 is equipped with a silencer, which has the function of eliminating muzzle flash, firing a gun in the dark night is tantamount to exposing one's position.

Just as I finished this analysis, Yorks suddenly heard a noise. He immediately leaned over and covered Caroline's mouth with his hand. Looking at her wide-open eyes, he did not say anything but just put his index finger on his lips to indicate that she should not make any sound.

Caroline nodded, understood immediately, and leaned tightly against the tree, not daring to move at all, although her body was still shaking slightly.

Her actions made York see the possibility that she could hold on to the end.

York nodded with satisfaction, moved slowly, leaned next to her and looked forward.

At this time, the advantages of the four-eye night vision goggles are perfectly demonstrated.

In fact, in York's field of vision, there is really no difference from seeing with the naked eye, except that the actual color may be different from that shown in the night vision goggles.

With the front covered by trees, a figure appeared in York's field of vision.

It just felt very familiar to him.

This humanoid figure, about 1.8 meters tall, has a very deformed face, with half of its forehead high and half sunken, a flat and crooked nose, and lips turned up to reveal ugly and sharp teeth.

He finally understood why Caroline described them as monsters.

(End of this chapter)