The speed of Gu Xingyun changed from slow to fast, and finally from fast to slow again.
In the extremely dense virgin forest, he finally slowly stopped on the spot and looked around with a solemn expression.
Nothing around seems to have changed.
The world is quiet.
The grass and trees are quiet.
Gu Xingyun stood under a thick giant tree, frowning and looking around, and did not speak for a long time.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that something was wrong around him, but he didn't know what was wrong.
A master's will is as firm as iron. The stronger he is, the more he trusts his intuition.
From a spiritual perspective, this is subconscious.
The uneasy intuition comes from the subconscious mind.
And in his subjective consciousness, he can't find anything wrong, which doesn't mean everything is normal here. It can only mean that he hasn't discovered anything abnormal yet.
What's wrong?
Gu Xingyun concentrated his attention and silently observed his surroundings.
The trees stood there quietly. There was no wind or even any sound in the forest. The extreme silence and absolute weirdness made the place feel more and more uneasy.
It's like everything around you is lifeless.
The whole world seemed to be completely dead.
The muscles all over Gu Xingyun's body gradually became tense.
He didn't doubt Jiang Shangyu's sincerity in cooperating with him. At least until now, he had never doubted that Jiang Shangyu wanted to harm him. However, the apparently normal but extremely weird forest around him made the chill in his heart grow stronger and stronger.
.
Gu Xingyun didn't know why, but the fear deep in his heart began to spread little by little, making his whole body become a little stiff.
He took out the hand-drawn map again and confirmed the location.
Less than ten kilometers away from the destination.
The direction is accurate.
This means that he did not go the wrong way, so what does this inexplicable feeling in front of him mean?
Gu Xingyun stood there and hesitated for about half an hour, then slowly moved forward and continued to move towards the destination step by step.
The forest seems to be changing all the time, but also seems to remain unchanged.
The increasingly quiet atmosphere made Gu Xingyun feel that his breathing and heartbeat were extremely harsh.
The sky seems to be getting darker and darker.
A drop of cold sweat trickled down Gu Xingyun's forehead and fell to the ground.
Gu Xingyun walked cautiously, subconsciously holding his breath.
The moment I held my breath, most of the harsh sounds seemed to have completely disappeared, and my heartbeat, which kept beating and even became more and more rapid, seemed to turn into deafening thunder in an instant.
Gu Xingyun's body froze in place.
An unparalleled fear completely swept over his will in an instant.
He finally understood what was wrong.
Quiet.
As we continue to enter the forest along the way, the environment here is getting quieter and quieter.
Several kilometers away, deep in the virgin forest, Gu Xingyun didn't see any birds or animals, he didn't even see a single insect.
This place looks like a real place of death.
There is no breath of life except himself.
The entire forest was extremely quiet, with no living creatures, no wind, and not even the slightest sway in the branches and leaves of the surrounding treetops.
It's like everything is completely frozen here.
It looks like an extremely dense forest, but in fact it is a tomb full of corpses.
Gu Xingyun stared at the trees in front of him quietly.
All the surrounding trees are extremely thick, but the trunks and leaves all have a hint of black. The straight trees are twisted into exaggerated shapes without any rules. Such obvious changes start from a little twist.
, perhaps from the moment he entered the forest, the trees were in this twisted state, but the distortion was very small, and after he entered the forest, it began to amplify little by little, so that now, if he did not pay careful attention, Gu Xing
Yun actually thinks that this extremely exaggerated and weird distortion is normal.
and...
The sunlight disappeared.
Gu Xingyun can be sure that it is daytime now, and the forest may be dense, but no matter what, there should be some subtle light here, but all those lights have disappeared at this time, and there is darkness all around. Nanyun's forest seems to have fallen into an icy cold
In winter, extremely cold temperatures continue to permeate the air in increasingly dense darkness.
Gu Xingyun concentrated on observing all the details around him.
A hand fell on his shoulder without any warning.
Penetrated his territory, and even squeezed his shoulder very affectionately.
Gu Xingyun, who was completely concentrated, jumped up almost instantly. When he turned his head, the domain was twisted at the limit. The hand was thrown away from his shoulder. From the corner of his eye, Gu Xingyun saw
It was a complete arm. The arm was spinning in the air, and slightly black blood was dripping from the air.
Where did the hands come from?
This is a forest, where did the hands come from?
The problem is, there is no one here, so where do you get the hands?
Gu Xingyun's heart was beating crazily as he clearly felt his shoulder being pinched. Without any hesitation, he rushed directly towards the direction where his arm landed.
The arm fell into a thick patch of grass.
Gu Xingyun's figure followed closely. He stared at the grass carefully, as if he wanted to seriously study the arm that did not look like a living person.
But there was nothing in the grass.
There was no arm, no blood, only a dead branch that seemed to have been broken for a long time.
Gu Xingyun looked at the grass in front of him and was silent for a long time.
Is it your own eyesight?
Or maybe the arm has been taken away?
Who is here?
Gu Xingyun suddenly glanced around 360 degrees.
In his sight, there were only extremely twisted trees in the dark forest that looked extremely painful and fallen. Those trees were twisted quietly, like pairs of eyes, with ferocious malice, staring at him.
Every move.
Gu Xingyun swallowed and began to retreat.
That uneasy feeling seemed to have exceeded the limit of his inner endurance.
The destination for him to break through was not far away, but Gu Xingyun did not dare to move forward no matter what.
It's a bit too weird here.
Jiang Shangyu seems to be a bit too evil.
He was planning to exit the forest and go to the outside world to have a detailed talk with Jiang Shangyu.
The speed of his retreat began to increase, getting faster and faster.
The dark, quiet, and twisted forest keeps receding.
Gu Xingyun's domain was fully opened, and he was flying in the dark forest.
But there is no light ahead.
Everything seems to be getting darker.
Gu Xingyun ran wildly for nearly half an hour before he stopped.
He was sure that half an hour ago, he could see the sun.
But now he was retreating back to his original place, but within half an hour, not only was there no sunlight in front of him, but the surroundings became darker and colder.
The extreme silence made all his sounds become manic.
His breathing was like a hurricane, his heartbeat was like thunder. In such a quiet environment, Gu Xingyun could even hear the sound of his own blood flowing in his body.
It was the sound of a tsunami-like wave crashing on the cliff.
His face was pale and he took out the map, trembling slightly.
Flames bloomed in his hands, and in the subtle light, he quietly looked at the map in his hands.
Perhaps it was a psychological effect, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this ancient-looking hand-drawn map actually had a strange feeling to it.
The flames were swaying in the darkness. He carefully identified everything around him, and the more he looked at it, the colder he felt inside.
He retreated for nearly half an hour.
But judging from the extremely complicated markings on the map, instead of staying away from the forest, he was heading deeper into the forest. So far, he seemed to be less than one kilometer away from his real destination.
The palms of my hands were sticky, as if they were sweating profusely due to nervousness.
Gu Xingyun held the map in one hand and wiped it casually on his chest with the other hand.
An extremely sad and bright red color appeared on the clothes on his chest, forming a bloody handprint that looked extremely sinister.
Blood?
The other hand holding the map is also getting sticky.
Gu Xingyun's heart almost stopped beating.
Slowly, in the darkness, he lowered his head little by little and looked at the map in his hand.
The surroundings are getting darker and darker.
The surroundings are getting quieter.
In the extremely low visibility light, he could only vaguely see what he seemed to be carrying in his hand.
It looks like a map, but it seems much bigger than the map.
The rich smell of blood spread in the darkness.
He could clearly feel the thick liquid flowing down from his hand holding the map.
Gu Xingyun's arms trembled slightly
Shaking, a burst of fire popped up again.
The fire illuminated the darkness, and at that moment, Gu Xingyun saw the map in his hand.
His heartbeat suddenly stopped for a moment, and then he threw the map in his hand completely like crazy.
In his hand, the much larger map turned out to be an extremely complete human skin!!
Warm blood flowed from the bottom of the human skin. The human skin was soft all over, but the face part was raised tenaciously, smiling strangely at Gu Xingyun.
"Grass! Grass! Grass!"
Gu Xingyun covered his chest with one hand and opened his eyes as wide as possible.
The thrown human skin fell on the tree.
The tree trunk was instantly stained red with blood, and a thin layer of human skin laughed silently and strangely, moving quickly on the tree trunk. In just one second, Gu Xingyun's eyes flashed, and the human skin appeared hanging upside down.
In front of him, its body was hung on the tree trunk closest to Gu Xingyun. On its head and feet, its ferocious face full of blood was smiling non-stop at Gu Xingyun, while its empty eye sockets were staring at it.
Eyes that look like ancient clouds.
The mood seemed to completely collapse at this moment.
Gu Xingyun is a master, an invincible master, and the god of war who protects the country.
He has met many opponents.
But never seen this before.
With his emotions completely broken, he suddenly exploded with all his strength, and the domain moved in all directions. He ignored it and chose a direction at will and rushed forward.
A violent field swept through the woods.
The woods were quiet and dead.
The darkness retreated crazily.
Gu Xingyun is moving forward at full speed.
One minute?
Half a minute?
Or a few seconds.
A familiar ray of sunshine suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
Gu Xingyun, whose eyes were almost filled with tears, rushed directly into the sunshine in front of him without any hesitation.
The next second, all the darkness suddenly disappeared.
The forest also appeared behind him.
He rushed out of a dark forest and fell gracelessly onto a relatively flat grassland.
The sun was shining down, but there was no warmth at all, and it was pale and almost false.
But this is light after all.
Gu Xingyun completely relaxed and stared at the forest behind him.
A dark forest was still staring at him quietly.
The human skin didn't come out either.
Gu Xingyun breathed a sigh of relief, tremblingly took out a cigarette and lit it, taking a long puff to calm the fear in his heart.
He didn't even have time to think about what was going on.
The light around him made him instinctively feel safe.
He just wants to leave here now.
He didn't even notice how abnormal the biting and almost biting cold wind around him was in the warm spring-like Nanyun winter.
The cigarettes were smoked quickly.
Gu Xingyun stood up and stabilized his mind. He was afraid of this forest from the bottom of his heart, so he kept his back turned, staring in the direction of the forest, and slowly backed up.
The grass underfoot is getting smoother and smoother, and even mottled ancient ground appears.
Gu Xingyun kept retreating until the back of his head touched something.
Gu Xingyun's scalp felt numb and he turned around suddenly.
In his sight, a lantern that he hit was floating precariously.
What appeared in front of Gu Xingyun was an extremely ancient wooden door.
The lantern was not hung directly above the door, but in the middle.
On the pale white lantern, a big word "Happy" was written in ink as red as blood.
The white lanterns and red characters make people feel uncomfortable no matter how they look at them.
Gu Xingyun carefully stepped back a distance, and then looked around.
There are white lanterns everywhere in and out.
There are red happy words everywhere.
Ancient houses are neatly lined up on the street.
Gu Xingyun seems to be standing in the middle of the street.
Gu Xingyun's heart began to sink and kept sinking.
His face became pale and no color could be seen.
The cold wind in the sky and earth seems to be even more severe.
The sunlight seems to be gradually dimming.
Gu Xingyun looked at the surrounding environment silently.
This... is a village.
Exactly.
This is a hand-drawn map, no, it's marked on the human skin...