—THAADAM!!
A bone-rattling sound rumbled through the woods, followed by a series of ground-shaking tremors.
It felt like a small meteor had struck the earth not too far from us.
We nearly lost our balance.
The trees shook violently, giant leaves raining down from above.
The massive insects around us started chittering wildly — some even crawled out from underground and skittered around in full-blown panic.
It was as if the entire world had suddenly started trembling.
Then, after a few seconds, the earthquakes finally stopped.
Lily froze and turned to me with wide eyes.
The next words out of her mouth just had to be, "What was that? We should probably check it out."
'Why you, dumbass?! Why in the name of all heavens would we willingly walk toward the suspicious noise in the middle of a nightmarish forest?' — is what I wanted to ask her.
I mean, honestly, it was like these main characters had zero survival instinct!
