Jun Aoyan turned Mo Dao upside down with one hand and grasped the metal handle as if holding a stick. Bai Ya was about to raise his hand when Qi Huan grabbed his wrist from behind and covered his mouth with his other hand.
The old man's movements were slow, but he was getting closer and closer. It was easy to throw Qi Huan away, but the movement must have been very loud. The three of them remained in a stalemate, motionless.
The old man appeared in their field of vision, but did not react at all, as if he was blind. No wonder, he looked very old, and his whole person was as thin and dry as a date stone. His teeth and hair
Everything was gone, his mouth was pursed, and his long and sparse white beard hung on his chin, with some sand stuck to it. His eyes were narrowed to a slit, and he was afraid that it would not work well.
No one dared to take action until the old man discovered something.
"A quarter of the hour."
The old man said this suddenly, and they were all stunned.
The old man didn't look over, or even turn his head. He just said these words lightly, and even though he was so close, it was difficult for the young people to listen. He turned around slowly, and wandered back again.
Not even after a long time
There were monsters coming, and there were no other incidents. The voices of young people could be heard one after another, and I was afraid that they had all come back. It was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so the three of them took the opportunity and left quietly. The whole process was really frightening, and I was even cautious about breathing.
It's fatal.
Even the dense forest was no longer safe, and the villagers' searches had penetrated here. They were dodging, hiding and seeking. There were several times when Bai Ya was so irritable that he couldn't hold it in anymore, and Qi Huan just dragged him back to prevent him from being exposed. He said, since
No one has used the props yet
They came to divine their location. It was probably because they were lucky. The monsters had not picked out what originally belonged to Qi Huan. They could hide it for as long as they wanted. The earlier they were exposed, the more dangerous they would be. Until they got deeper into the forest.
, the villagers didn’t come looking for him.
At that time, they were hiding behind a huge old tree. Bai Ya exposed half of his head from the dense bushes and observed the situation on the other side through the gap. A young man was about to walk this way when he was stopped by another older man.
The woman grabbed her shoulders, shook her head, and signaled him not to go over, so the boy gave up. This was probably the most critical time besides meeting the old man. After they left, the few of them slumped under the tree, sighing.
One breath.
It was past noon, and they were all a little hungry. Qi Huan stood up, patted the dust, and pointed deep into the forest.
"Shall I go find something to eat?"
"Don't go there just yet." Bai Ya said cautiously. "I don't think it's because they gave up searching here because they didn't have enough time. There may be something more dangerous deep in the forest that even the locals can't deal with."
"Hiss... what you said seems to make sense." Qi Huan sat back helplessly, cross-legged and propped up his knees, "What should I do? I can't be hungry all the time, right? I feel like since I landed on the island,
The food is not as good as before.”
Jun Aoyan kept pacing behind the ancient tree. She looked uneasy, like an anxious beast, and glanced in the direction the villagers were leaving from time to time. While they were discussing, she suddenly stopped and stood between the two of them.
one side in between.
"Wait a minute, I think we have something very important that we should discuss clearly. What does the old man mean by 'the moment of Hai hour'?"
"Obviously, it's time." Bai Ya responded lazily.
"Of course I know. But what exactly do we need to do? Does it mean waiting for him at 1:11? Does he have anything to say?"
Qi Huan said: "I also think he is a little weird. Unlike other villagers, he did not report to the monsters immediately. Everyone obeyed the instructions of those monsters, only he let us go. He clearly saw
We haven’t betrayed the whereabouts of us foreigners, so are you planning to help us?”
“You might even be able to catch a big fish if you put your long-term approach to it.”
"Miss Jun, you are too sensitive. What is he trying to do?"
"I don't know either. I'm just worried instinctively. Ever since we got off the ship, nothing that seems logical has happened. It's full of surprises all the time."
"We are already so unlucky, shouldn't something good happen?"
Jun Aoyan was still hesitating, but Bai Ya also stood up and made his position clear.
"What good can he do by helping us? Helping us means fighting against monsters."
"Why do you think so? Then tell me, what else can you do?"
"At one quarter of the hour, go to the place where you were just now to meet him."
"Aren't you worried?"
"There is no other way."
"cut."
That's how Bai Ya is. He always opposes something, but ends up doing it anyway, with no new ideas. But he just wants to hurt you like that, making you uncomfortable, and he still looks innocent without intending to do it. It's really annoying. There's nothing else.
They decided on the method first. Just after it was quiet for a while, Qi Huan's stomach began to growl again.
"Can you be quiet?"
"Aren't you hungry? Just tell me to be quiet. Come and let me ask it for you." Qi Huan was so angry that he put his hands on his hips, lowered his head and said to his almost sunken belly, "Brother, can you be quiet?
?”
The only answer to them was a series of cooing sounds.
Bai Ya muttered: "Is there a pigeon living inside you?"
"I wish there was a pigeon in there!"
Jun Aoyan responded with some embarrassment: "Indeed, I am also a little hungry. I haven't eaten anything for so long."
Yes, there are too many things that consume energy now, especially fighting. It's not that Bai Ya isn't hungry, it's just that he was used to being hungry when he was a child. The more people say he is hungry, the easier it is for him to think of it, so he yells
Qi Huan controlled it. How could Keren's yearning for food be easily suppressed? After careful consideration, they decided to go a little deeper into the forest.
"It's really dangerous." Bai Ya emphasized as he walked, "I personally saw a chipmunk being eaten by flowers."
"No, brother, don't hallucinate because of hunger."
Qi Huan disagreed. Only Jun Aoyan said slightly cautiously that it was better to be careful. They didn't walk fast, and their eyes didn't miss any tree or inch of grass. They just walked for a long time, but they didn't see any fruits or anything.
Familiar weeds. I saw a lot of mushrooms along the way, but the colors were intimidating and I didn't dare to take risks easily. Qi Huan saw a bird's nest, and finally let Bai Ya put it up. When he touched it, he found that it was empty.
Moreover, the further they walked, the more they felt that this dense forest was indescribably weird.
In addition to a large number of unknown plants, there is also a very intuitive feeling - beauty. Yes, it is real beauty, and it is also indescribable, indescribable, with a trace of indescribable awe and danger.
The beauty. This kind of beauty is being cracked step by step with the unknown, but the edge of the unknown is growing faster and faster.
As the speed spreads, the less time you have to catch up with it. Whenever you learn about a new situation, more questions will follow and the desire to clarify the principles will become stronger. Even the parts they explore and understand are
It greatly exceeds the common cognition of human beings. Experience is completely inapplicable to the ecology of this island.
Take flowers for example. There is a kind of beautiful flower. Its shape is similar to that of a lily, but smaller, but it grows in a string on a vine. And if you look along the vine, you can find many colors. White, yellow, red,
Green, even green appears. What’s even more surprising is that they actually grow on the same vine.
"I know that honeysuckle is yellow and white and grows on the same tree... There are also some other common flowers that can grow two colors on the same body. Such a large number of heterochromatic flowers is really rare. Even if
I know that there are also magical flowers with quite a lot of spiritual power or demonic power. But these flowers are very ordinary, and it is difficult for me to feel its power."
"Me too." Bai Ya rarely nodded, "It's just that I can still feel a very powerful spirit here, but I can't tell what it is. It's like we are in a powerful magic circle or field, and we can't figure out the ingredients.
"
Jun Aoyan didn't understand a word. She only thought it was beautiful, very beautiful, and soul-stirring. She unconsciously stretched out her hand to hold up a flower, preparing to get closer and smell it.
"Wait!"
Bai Ya suddenly drew a knife and stopped it at her chin, and the back of the knife touched her skin. When she came to her senses, she felt that she had been a little reckless.
Qi Huan also accused her anxiously: "It's too reckless. What if the fragrance of the flowers is poisonous?"
"No way...it's so beautiful."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Jun Aoyan realized that she had said the wrong thing. This was indeed a bit out of mind.
"I haven't seen you pick and eat so many beautiful mushrooms before!"
"...Yes, yes." She responded repeatedly.
This is not uncommon. They also saw many incredible parts, such as a fruit as big as a watermelon growing on a tree. They thought the fruit was as heavy as a watermelon, but it was light when they picked it up. Try picking it.
When they came down, blue liquid came out from the joint, which was as viscous as blood and exuded a clearly audible bitter taste, making people wonder whether such a fruit could be eaten. In the end, Qi Huan persuaded them to give up. After all, if it could really be eaten,
Maybe it has been eaten by animals long ago, and it won't be human's turn.
Speaking of which, they haven't seen any animals. The only thing they saw was a shadow in the bushes. It had a body like a sheep, but had crooked antlers like a deer on its head. The "antlers" were different from any species they knew.
If the deer hadn't run away vigilantly, they would have thought it was actually a tree branch. Jun Aoyan said in amazement that she saw two sharp tusks sticking out of the strange sheep's mouth, and the other two people didn't believe it.
, I think she got it wrong.
"If you really have those teeth, there is no need to run."
"I'm serious!"
The sincerity looked like he was lying, not to mention it was unnecessary. Jun Aoyan wanted to chase after him, but finally chose to give up because the antlered and fanged sheep headed deep into the dense forest at a very fast speed.
In their familiar homeland, almost every area has one, two, or three or four things that they have never seen or heard of. It may be a living thing, or it may be some kind of technology. And in this weird place, almost all the unknowns are condensed, and they are common.
It’s the stuff that makes it seem so rare. After walking for so long, even the ordinary grass looks touching.
What really stopped them from going forward was a pool of psychedelic moss.
The moss may be a whole, with colors ranging from dark green to dark blue to dark purple to dark yellow and dark green. They are clustered together at irregular heights, and different colors have different heights. They don't dare to get too close, so they just stand like this
Observing as closely as possible, you can see that some of these moss are pointed, some are curled up, and some are as thin and sticky as ordinary moss.
The scary thing is that it is the outline of a person - standing. A bare white patch is exposed above it, like a skull.
"Go back." Bai Ya said simply, turned around and left.
