Helfas was lost in the jungle again.

He had a map open in his hand, but he couldn't see the sky and it was hard to tell the direction. There were trees everywhere as far as he could see, as if all places were the same.

"The next place is a river."

He marked it along the way and turned around several times using the stupidest method before finding the right direction.

The sound of the rushing river appeared in his ears, and he quickened his pace.

Following the cracks between the giant trees, the long shadows of the trees passed by, and he finally saw a white light appearing in the gaps between the trees.

While running, he took one step forward.

I saw dense spots of light surging on the clear river water.

After washing his face, he checked the map again: "This is it."

Next, he drew another dot on it: "I am roughly at this position now."

According to the map, this place is already very deep into the Full Moon Forest.

However, the next problem arises. The river is very fast. How can we cross it?

He went down the river to look for a relatively gentle section of the river to see if there was any chance of crossing it.

"Clatter!"

No other sounds were heard along the way, only the river was surging. But the river was very wide, and Helfas searched for a long time but could not find a place to cross the river.

The sky slowly darkened. At this time, it was the movement in the woods in the distance that attracted him.

"bright?"

Helfas became more cautious. He looked around for a long time before slowly approaching the light source.

But as we got closer, the weak firefly went out.

"It's out?"

Helfas immediately prepared to retreat, but at this moment he heard another voice coming from the jungle.

"Hmph...hum hum..."

It was obviously a human voice, humming some kind of melody.

Melodious and sweet, accompanied by the tranquility of the night forest.

Helfas followed the sound and approached, and then saw a figure under a tree.

He is very strange.

This is already the deepest part of the jungle in the Land of the Full Moon, and weird things appear frequently. Ordinary dragon people will not come to such a dangerous place, nor can they come here.

He was a young man who sounded and looked about the same age as Helfas.

He put his hands behind his head, closed his eyes and sat leisurely on the tree, biting a branch and leaf in his mouth, and humming a rhythmic tune through his nose.

It seemed as if we were not in a full-moon forest full of strange beasts, but in the shade of a tree beside a field in the afternoon.

Helfas, who was wearing a sealed object mask, wanted to keep his eyes open when sleeping in such a ghost place. Any slightest movement would wake him up. He didn't understand where the other party's confidence came from.

As if feeling Helfas' approach, the person under the tree opened his eyes.

Under the moon.

In the jungle by the river, two strangers looked at each other, one standing and the other sitting.

The other party spoke first: "So it's a human being!"

He was biting something in his mouth and his speech was a little slurred. He seemed a little disappointed when he saw that it was Helfas.

Helfas asked him: "Who are you?"

He calmly took off the branch from his mouth and said to Helfas: "I am a person who wants to worship the gods. There is a temple in the Full Moon Forest. You should have heard of it!"

Helfas looked at the clothes on the other person's body. The pattern and texture seemed familiar to him.

"Are you from the Zhi tribe?"

The other party nodded without retorting.

After confirming that the other party was not something strange, Helfas got closer. However, the other party should have set off at least a month earlier than him. Why did he end up here now?

He didn't ask, but asked a key question.

"How are you going to cross the river? By the way, I also want to go to that temple, so I should go with you."

The other party pointed to the river and said, "I have a wooden raft."

Helfas was very surprised: "In this case, there will be no problem in crossing the river. Can I borrow your raft by the way?"

The other party said it didn't matter: "If you are willing to sit down, come up tomorrow morning!"

Herfas thanked him for his generosity and had to say that the other party had solved a big problem for him.

Helfas found a place to sit down next to the young man, preparing to eat something and take a rest.

At this time, the young man was playing with a stick stuck in the ground. He seemed to reach out and pat something, and finally turned his eyes to Helfas.

"Hello!"

"The mask on your face is a weird thing, isn't it? Is there any way to make it contain its um...smell...?"

"You can understand the taste, right?"

He made gestures.

Helfas understood what the other person was talking about. To be precise, it should be called breath.

He looked at the young man, and he actually knew that weird people would emit a special aura, and they could feel each other even if they were too close.

Helfas immediately restrained the aura emanating from the mask. He usually let the aura of the mask cover his own aura, disguising himself as a weird one.

As Helfas moved, the stick in front of the young man lit up.

Only then did he see what it was and understand where the light he had seen before came from.

It was a long wooden pole with the skin peeled off. There was a cloth bag hanging from one end of the wooden pole, and something was shining inside the bag.

If you look closely, it looks like a glowing insect.

Helfas immediately said: "Weird?"

The young man did not deny it, and even introduced it to Helfas.

"I call it a coward."

"When there is no danger, it will emit bright light. At this time, it is safe and can also be used as a lantern."

"And once there is something dangerous and strange around, it will immediately weaken its own light, and even actively extinguish its own light as the other party gets closer, for fear that the other party will discover it."

He approached the light source, letting the light illuminate his face, while looking at Helfas.

Only then did Helfas get a clear look at the other person's face. He looked very thin and his face looked very young. He didn't know if he had been hungry for a long time and his face felt a little sunken.

However, when he spoke, he seemed to be in good spirits and had a sense of leisure and contentment.

He said to Helfas.

"You haven't seen it before!"

"There are actually such guys who are greedy for life and afraid of death among the weird ones. It feels like we are afraid of those scary, powerful and unknown guys."

Helfas nodded.

It is indeed a very weak monster, but this ability is extremely powerful for humans. This is something that can save lives in the weird world.

Helfas could also feel some weird auras through the mask, but that was only close to face to face, and this kind of weirdness was obviously a large-scale induction.

He finally understood how the other party was able to reach such a deep place in the Full Moon Forest.

But since it is weird, it must have a dangerous side.

Helfas asked: "Isn't it dangerous?"

The other party said: "It must not come into contact with the body."

As for why it couldn't be allowed to come into contact with the corpse, and what would happen if it touched the corpse, the other party did not elaborate.

The next morning, the two of them set out.

They worked together to lift a raft to the river beach, and then pushed it into the water little by little. Helfas was behind and climbed onto the raft while dripping with water.

Suddenly, the other party urged Helfas.

"Pull harder!"

"Hurry up, there's no time."

The two people slid hard to the other side. The raft was driven downward by the current, and finally landed at a location diagonally opposite.

The young man abandoned the raft and ran to the shore, urging Helfas to quickly enter the forest.

"Come in quickly."
To be continued...