1247 The puppet master's tactics are straightforward
A gust of wind blew from the distant sky, and the forest sea all over the mountains and plains rippled with layers of deep waves in the wind. The rustling of branches and leaves, which should have been so soothing, sounded somehow along with Lin Sanjiu's reply.
The feeling of moisture between her lips and teeth was gone, making her a little less human - she sounded like a handful of dead leaves, ready to melt into the forest at any time.
"……No,"
Lin Sanjiu was still standing behind the tree, not moving for a long time. After Bohemia finished asking her question, it took her a while before she slowly replied: "I can't go out."
"Why not? I'm very hungry. Come out and bake something for me first." Bohemia glanced at the puppet master from the corner of her eye and wiped her nose with her big sleeve. She also thought she sounded a little panicked.
panic.
Lin Sanjiu was silent for a while.
"After I go out, I may not be able to find the traces left by that person when I come back. So," she said here, seeming to try to smile at the two people outside; I saw her face pushing a little bit from bottom to top.
She went up and fixed it layer by layer. When her stiff facial features and face finally barely fell into the "laughing" range, Bohemia couldn't help but shudder.
"...So, either you come in," she continued, "or I will go deep into the woods to find him."
That's absolutely not possible - Bohemia didn't know what was wrong with Lin Sanjiu, but she knew very well that if she let this guy go, she might never see her come out of the woods again.
"Wait a minute." Seeing the face in the forest in the distance turn away, she didn't even have time to see what the puppet master meant. She hurriedly took two steps forward, holding the fence and shouted: "Let's discuss it first!
"
Lin Sanjiu slowly turned her head back. She felt that it would not be strange even if she heard a dry crackling sound when Lin Sanjiu's neck turned.
"I, it's not that we don't want to go in," Bohemia thought for a moment, glanced at the increasingly dim sky, and made an excuse: "But you see, it will be daybreak in a while, wait until daybreak
Wouldn't it be safer to go into the forest again? If you don't want to come out, you don't have to come out yet... just stand there and wait for us for a while."
If they delay her first, at least they can think of a way.
Lin Sanjiu didn't say anything, but the pale male ghost behind her was a little suspicious. He looked at her sometimes and then at the two people outside the fence. After a few seconds, Yuan Xiangxi rubbed the corner of his clothes.
He said with embarrassment: "It's not good for you to be like this... I think you should go out. Your friends have said that she is hungry."
Bohemia was startled, looked back at the puppet master, and found that half of his face was also frowning.
Why did this long-haired male ghost speak for his side instead?
"It's really uncomfortable to be hungry," Yuan Xiangxi said to Lin Sanjiu, as if he didn't grasp the point of the situation at all, "I hate being hungry the most... You can't let your friends go hungry.
But having said that, I haven’t felt hungry in a long time.”
"I'm not going out for her own good." Lin Sanjiu's face slowly fell from the smile just now, and returned to a calm expression. Bohemia always felt that if she were to wear one on her head now,
By circling the leaves, she can seamlessly disguise a tree.
As soon as Yuan Xiangxi's eyes fell on Lin Sanjiu's face, he immediately jumped away, as if he wasn't very comfortable with the sight.
"You watch her here," the puppeteer standing on the fence suddenly ordered in a low voice, "keep an eye on her."
Bohemia was startled, and before she could ask, "My lord, what are you doing?", she couldn't help but close her eyes in the sudden wind - her long hair was blown behind her shoulders, and then she opened her eyes again.
At that moment, I happened to see a thin and tall black shadow leaping into the air and heading straight towards the forest.
The puppeteer jumped out?
Bohemia almost wanted to scream. She threw herself against the fence and leaned out half of her body. For a moment, her mind was blank. Lin Sanjiu, who had been standing between the trees, suddenly became confused when she saw this.
After reacting, he couldn't help but rushed forward a few steps, as if to greet the puppet master, and even opened his arms; but the next second, the black shadow in mid-air stopped abruptly, and suddenly appeared from before Bohemia's eyes.
In Hua's field of vision, it seemed as if she was thrown backwards. After drawing a clean parabola, she landed firmly on the fence again.
She turned her head blankly, looked at the pair of black boots that had just fallen not far away from her hand, and raised her eyes.
This... already violates the laws of physics, right?
The puppet master jumped just now, but he hit nothing but air: he neither landed on the ground nor brushed against a tree. The only difference was that there was a black leather rope hanging from his hand.
; The leather rope was tightly wrapped around Yuan Xiangxi's neck, and he was dragged out without knowing when. As soon as the leather rope came loose, the latter quickly lay down on the fence, gasping for air.
"I'm fine in the air here, and I'm fine in the air over there," the puppeteer said without any hint that he had jumped so far just now: "Because the fence can't block the air.
Circulation. Now, two of your friends have fallen into my hands. Don’t you want to come out yet?”
Yes, Bohemia can't wait to slap her on the thigh.
Lin Sanjiu is in such a bad shape now, it's best not to touch her when you don't know the situation; but this long-haired guy has climbed over the fence once, so it's no problem to catch him. He is truly a puppet master...
As expected of a puppet master, not only was he cautious enough, but he also thought that it was okay to only touch the air. He easily picked out a person hiding in the woods ten meters away... If it were another person, who would have done it?
Can you walk back and forth quickly on the air without touching anything, and then grab someone from the dense forest?
She sighed in her heart for a while, and suddenly the hairs on her neck stood up.
Two friends?
If Yuan Xiangxi is one, then there is another one... She looked around and her eyes fell on her hands.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly took a step forward and stopped abruptly in the open space outside the forest. There was finally a hint of anxiety in her voice: "You can't kill Bohemia."
...Don't just recognize her as your friend!
Bohemia was in a mixed mood, wishing she could kick someone. She didn't ask the puppet master to let Yuan Xiangxi go, but asked the puppet master to let herself go - okay, although from this point of view, she Lin Sanjiu had some conscience.
, but doesn’t this make it more concrete that the two are friends, making it easier for the puppet master to use her to threaten Lin Sanjiu?
"You can't even kill me," Yuan Xiangxi muttered while sitting on the fence, and suddenly said "Oh": "Yes, I almost forgot."
Bohemia clenched her back teeth tightly, and now she didn't care at all what he had forgotten. What if the puppet master really wanted to give it a try? Why was Lin Sanjiu's big-ass butt just unable to live or die?
Come out? Even when she told the puppet master not to kill her, she just took a step out and stopped... By the way, when that step landed...
"She means a lot to me,"
While Bohemia was thinking hard, Lin Sanjiu continued with her dull expression and her tone was frank and unabashed: "Not only her, you are also very important to me."
Even without turning around to look, Bohemia could feel where the puppet master was, and even the air was gradually becoming tighter and heavier, as if a storm was brewing to break through the world.
"……What did you say?"
"Both of you are very important." Lin Sanjiu stood upright on the gravel ground covered with weeds, "Both of you need to follow me into the mountains, and it's best if there are not a few of you."
Bohemia's shoulders suddenly relaxed - it's hard to say whether she was relaxed or disappointed. She lowered her head and wiped her face with her big sleeve again.
"She is really persistent about going into the mountains." Yuan Xiangxi murmured. He was dragged out alive by the puppeteer just like an eagle attacking a rabbit, but he adapted to the situation in the blink of an eye.
; At this time, he was sitting on the fence, without even taking off the leather rope around his neck, and he looked relaxed and happy. "I still don't understand why you refuse to go in and come out at the same time. This is not a matter of principle.
"
Until this time, the puppet master finally lowered his head and looked at Yuan Xiangxi carefully.
"...You are not a living person." He tilted his head slightly, his black hair fell from his ears, and a few dots of thick and surly purple flashed in the corners of his eyes. He actually looked a little less popular than Yuan Xiangxi - "Sure enough,
It’s a useless thing.”
With the last four words, the leather rope slipped off Yuan Xiangxi's neck as if it was alive; the puppet master raised his foot and kicked him off the fence. Yuan Xiangxi fell lightly to the ground, without any
He made a little noise, but still said "Hey" in response to the situation - he got up, dusted himself off, and when he raised his head, he couldn't help but be startled: "Why did you catch her? Aren't you all friends?"
At this time, Bohemia was gripped tightly by the severe pain on the back of her neck, and felt cold tears flowing down her face uncontrollably. Really speaking, this was the first time that the puppet master had touched her;
She knew that the other party was far more powerful than herself, but when she personally experienced the tip of the iceberg, his almost violent power was still far beyond her imagination - if she had a soul in her body, that soul must be being pinched right now.
She was stunned, as if she was about to be separated from her bones and flesh; let alone resisting, even if she just struggled, she seemed to be about to break free from this skin - this feeling was too real, even compared to
The pain, but the fear caused by this feeling, made her even more afraid to move.
...Is it this kind of power that Lin Sanjiu has been resisting all this time?
"I'm asking you again, do you want to come out?" the puppet master asked softly.
Bohemia was so caught that she could only raise her head and look at the night sky through her eyes blurred by tears; after a few seconds of silence, she heard Lin Sanjiu say in a dull tone: "...No."
She definitely didn't want to die here.
"Sir, sir!" Bohemia struggled to squeeze out two words from her throat. Compared with her throat, each word seemed too big, and it hurt her: "I just said
Found out...I..."
The puppet master bent down slightly and blew out a strong fragrance. "What?"
"She...when she raised her feet," Bohemia said word by word, "there seemed to be something under her feet...connected to the ground."