After a while, the sound of increasingly clear footsteps accompanied by a creaking sound came from a fork in the road ahead, and in the distance I saw only a figure wearing a reed hat approaching, and I vaguely saw that the comer seemed to be carrying something on his shoulder. Looking at the figure, it seems that he is also a person in a hurry, not like a bad person. I thought to myself. When he approached, I saw clearly that it was a woodcutter carrying two loads of firewood on his shoulders.

Unexpectedly, we could meet passers-by, Yuan Zhao and I were overjoyed, and now we finally have someone to help us show the way. Yuan Zhao hurriedly put away his sword and walked forward quickly. "This brother, disturbed. Yuan Zhao took a deep look, and the other party didn't speak, just stopped.

Taking advantage of this moment, I took a closer look at the woodcutter in front of us, and the huge reed hat covered most of his face, so that people could not see his face, except for a mouth and stubble on his cheeks.

"Dare to ask Brother Tai which way to go to Wuling Town?" asked Yuan Zhao in a good voice. The woodcutter didn't say anything, but just raised his right hand and pointed in the direction behind him, and then straightened the burden on his shoulders, preparing to go around me and Yuan Zhao and continue on his way. What does this mean? Could it be that the road he is pointing to is the road leading to Wuling Town? Yuan Zhao obviously wanted to be clearer, so he hurriedly called out to the man, pointed to the road he came from, and asked, "Brother Tai, is this the road leading to Wuling Town?" The other party stopped, turned his head to look, and a word popped out of his mouth: "Yes!" After speaking, without waiting for us to say thank you, he turned around and left.

"That's a weirdo. "Walking on the fork in the road where the woodcutter came, I kept thinking about the woodcutter just now, and I always felt that there was something wrong with him, but I couldn't say it for a while. Yuan Zhao looked happy, comforted me and said, "Okay, junior sister, don't miss him, let's hurry up and rush to Wuling Town to rest." "The doubts in my heart have not been solved, where do I have the heart to think about anything else.

"Senior brother, since he is not dumb, why didn't he talk to us directly at the beginning?" Facing my question, Yuan Zhao said disapprenously: "Do you think, in this barren mountains and mountains, who is not worried about encountering robbers and thieves, more things are better than less things, maybe this is a way for him to protect himself." Yuan Zhao's explanation was reasonable, and I couldn't help nodding frequently after listening to it, untying the knots in my heart, and my nervous heart for a day gradually calmed down, and I began to think about my plans for the evening. Alas, I haven't taken a shower for a few days, so I must take a comfortable bath tonight.

The sky had inadvertently darkened completely, and the town of Wuling had not yet appeared. Yuan Zhao dismounted and cut two branches from the side of the road, pulled a few unwanted pieces of cloth on them, and lit them to make torches for lighting. "Senior brother, why haven't you arrived yet?" Under the reflection of the firelight, the surrounding woods seemed to be distorted, and they looked particularly hideous, and the fear in my heart began to haunt me again. "If you look any further, you should be almost there. Although Yuan Zhao was also in a hurry, he didn't forget to comfort me.

The road ahead became narrower and narrower, and most of the road was encroached upon by trees, and it even required Yuan Zhao to use his sword to cut off the branches of the trees that lay across the road. Something was wrong, Yuan Zhao and I both felt that this road was wrong, but there was still a fantasy in our hearts: what if we could really reach Wuling Town?

Finally, we came to the end of this road, not Wuling Town, but a huge mountain rock, and Yuan Zhao and I had the last illusions shattered. "Senior sister, we were deceived by that person. Yuan Zhao stared at the mountain stone in front of him and said to me without looking back. "If he doesn't help us, forget it, why play us up" "I think he deliberately lured us down this path. ”

Yuan Zhao's voice was slightly excited: "Think about it, if you don't go to the village or the store, where is he going to go as a woodcutter carrying two loads of firewood." Yuan Zhao's words exploded above my head like a thunderbolt from the sky, and I suddenly realized why I felt that this woodcutter was different from the woodcutters I had met before. In the past, the woodcutter would rest his machete on his pole, but this woodcutter's pole was actually empty—without a machete, how did he chop firewood?

Why? Why didn't we find out about so many flaws in the first place? What was the purpose of his deception to us? What should we do now? Just as I was in a state of flux, suddenly I and Yuan Zhao's horse let out a terrible neighing at the same time! Then I felt that my body had lost its center of gravity and fell heavily to the ground.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a horrible scene: our two horses were lying on the ground, their blood gushing from their necks, wetting a large area of dry earth. Almost at the same time, I saw a multitude of dark shadows in the surrounding woods speeding back and forth like the wind.

Yuan Zhao threw away the torch in his hand and yelled at me: "Throw away the torch, the farther away the better!"