Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

Amelia shook her head crazily, not wanting to believe any of it. 

Sadly, the fact that she couldn\'t get off the running bed, no matter how she tried, already gave her an ominous feeling.

Were they truly monsters in this world? Or was this the work of some mad scientist who found the time to sneak into their homes and create mechanized robotic beds that could run like dogs?

Don\'t blame her for thinking so, since the concept of monsters was so far-fetched she began wondering if her children had secretly taken drugs from who knows where. 

They won\'t have snuck into Old Man Connor\'s home and gotten a taste of his special brownies, right? (`□\')

[The duo]:... 

Where is the trust? 

It took what seemed like an eternity to the boys for their mother to finally get a clue. 

Even then she still felt they were exaggerating things, but Davon inwards scoffed thinking she was only doubtful because she slept through the gruesome kidnapping.

She didn\'t see how the monster managed to open the door from the other side.

She didn\'t see the many dancing shadows that came to life in the room and did not also see the old man\'s twisting face filled with worms underneath.

Lying trough!

Had she seen it, won\'t she dare to argue with them while on their way to their deaths?

Maybe by coincidence or fate, Gregory and Helga\'s beds soon ran alongside them. 

Gregory\'s parents, as well as Helga\'s dad, were in the beds too. It seems all the kids had managed to bring their parents to sleep with them. 

It was strange that when the kidnapping happened, the monsters even threw newly born babies to the humans on the beds before sending the bed horses away.

Tonight, no one was bound to survive.

Tonight, it seems their little town would soon turn into a ghost town with all residents disappearing, leaving only the old behind.

The mystery will no doubt remain unsolved, as many strange mysteries that have gone down in humanity\'s history. 

From the disappearance of hundreds to the disappearance of thousands... Many will speculate the group found a line connecting them to a parallel universe, while others might speculate it was the work of Male serial killers kidnapping for a cause. 

They believed in science and would draw out all scientific explanations to the disappointment of many.

For the residents facing the crisis firsthand, words couldn\'t describe how helpless they felt now, feeling deceived by the government. 

Why? Why did such things exist and no one bothered telling them? 

Wasn\'t this a world of pure science? A world where people could sneakily get sent to the Looney Bin for the littlest speculations of the supernatural existing? So if it was all real, then why frighten them so much with the matter of the looney Bin? 

Davon stared at Gregory, suddenly treating him like an equal. "Little man, up five got a plan?"

Gregory nodded. "Sort of. We still have a long way to go before we reach the corn fields. There\'s a strange force keeping us bound on the beds but haven\'t you noticed we can still pick up objects along the way?"

Everyone around Gregory, including his parents, had brightly lit eyes, as they leaned against the bed\'s edge, grabbing as many stones and sharp objects they could find.

All the while they kept listening to Gregory, appreciating his brains and quick thinking.

Indeed, he was right.

They hardly knew the creature\'s weakness, except for vinegar.

"Good boy." Gregory\'s parents rubbed his head, proud yet distressed that he had to face such a life-changing event at such a young age. 

They hoped should he make it alive, he wouldn\'t be scared for life.

"Although we don\'t know all their weaknesses, we do know of their capabilities. They can move extremely fast, and can control blah, blah, blah, blah."

Gregory and the other children wasted no time telling what they found. 

"Hold on." Davon frowned. "Earlier, you said Timmy and a few of those who fled the town, had the elders in their homes go through several stages before their disappearance. So why are these creatures now doing mass attacks even though it\'s not our time yet?"

Gregory already had the answer in his heart. "Because they were provoked... by us."

"You--" 

Davon and everyone else froze. "Could it be the incident earlier today when you all were brought back by the police?"

Helga nodded. "Yes, Dad. During that time we were something we were not supposed to see and fled before running into the officers Macy and Trey." 

Suddenly the atmosphere seems 10 times heavier, knowing that they would have remained alive for a few more days before dying. I think you should take a look at

In these desperate times, all traits of humanity are quickly Unleashed with some showing hate for Gregory\'s group of nosy kids.

"It\'s you! It\'s all you!" A girl in her 20s exclaimed, pointing at Gregory hatefully.

Luckily, her father had cupped her mouth with his hands, apologizing to them for his daughter\'s outburst.

Helga\'s face turned pale, never imagining the beautiful girl she always looked up to, would one day poke at her like a shrew in a marketplace. 

You have to know that the youthful girl was dubbed the number one beauty in the town, with many little girls like Helga giving her flowers whenever they saw her. 

Who doesn\'t like to appreciate beauty? 

This elder sister was always poised and well-collected, though sometimes she tended to look down on people.

It\'s just that in the face of her face-changing skills, she could make many fascinated by her again. 

Helga has never seen her look so murderous. Everyone had the illusion that if she could, the beautiful sister would waste no time kicking them down and sacrificing them to appease the monsters.

Sure enough, after biting her father\'s hands away, she was quick to offer these children as sacrifices, wanting to gather a crowd behind her to support her ridiculous idea.

Even the girl\'s father was so shocked that he slapped her hard on the cheek. 

"I\'m sorry, everyone! I\'ve spoiled this girl stupid, making her lack some brain cells in that head of hers. We should be thanking the children rather than condemning them." He hastily said, explaining his thoughts.

Think about it.

If they were alone in their homes not even knowing the danger surrounding them, they would have been dying one by one as the days went by.

No one would be able to find their bodies, so it would be possible to think they left the town or are missing. 

They would have died without knowing the enemy in the shadows.

However, thanks to these children, they now had more information on the enemy, and could now work together in a large group aiming to take down the enemy together.

The man was a police officer who was off duty tonight.

It was a shame to hear his own daughter say such barbaric words like throwing the children to the monsters, who by the way would still most likely kill them even then.

When doing with villains, be they human or not, the moment you keep giving in to their demands, that\'s the money you lose.

A blackmailer will never stop if you keep giving in to them constantly. 

Likewise, a killer who already had the thoughts of killing you earlier will never stop, only dragging out your death day for an extended period before making their move. 

Just like that, some selfish and daring people in the crowd quickly thought about it, deciding not to sacrifice the children. 

Yes! 

Now, they need to overwhelm the enemy with their sheer numbers. Maybe the children would be useful as the first line of defense against these so-called monsters they haven\'t seen yet.

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RING~

Officer Macy held her phone by her ears, puzzled by why no one was answering her calls.

Seated within the police station, she and a few others whose shifts ended 2 hours ago, were still seated at their desks, working in the missing senior cases.

These days, she has been doing overtime constantly. She couldn\'t help wondering when it would all end, and when the so-called specialists from the capital were coming.

Eh? 

Macy frowned. "That\'s odd. No one is answering the walkie-talkies." 

Every night there are selected police teams assigned to drive around the town, but none is answering a goddamn thing. 

"I\'ve got no response too," Trey added, slowly rushing to his feet with worry. "We should send another team to check it out."

"Yeah." Macy and several other officers agreed and were just about to rise when they saw the old, renowned senior officer approach them slowly. 

He was the same senior officer who Greg and the others saw with Macy and Trey earlier together.

"Now, now everyone... where do you think you\'re going?" 

Macy\'s eyes widened, looking at the d officer whose smile was now unnaturally touching the back of his ears. 

The old man seemed to enjoy their fearful hazes, as he elongated his shoulders with a mischievous glint in his eyes. And the next thing Macy knew she was face down on the ground.

"Why leave when the fun has just begun?"

BANG!