On the south side of the small town of Tagwa on the outskirts of the Golden Lion Country, on the forest road leading to the Black Swamp, a team of nearly 1,000 people is dragging forward.

If someone looks down from a high altitude, they will find that in this so-called team, people are in groups of three or five, hundreds and tens, and they are not very deeply involved in each other.

If you look closely, you will find that those people who come in clusters also intersect and change from time to time, and in fact they are not too implicated.

They were like people who happened to be on the same road unconsciously, and there was no communication between their fellow travelers except for what seemed to be a bit of a mighty voice.

This wave of people came out of the Golden Lion Country, and saw a mixture of civilians, soldiers and soldiers, men and women, old and young, and even cats, dogs and even rats mixed in the crowd......

Because of the humidity of summer, the forest is always filled with heavy water vapor at night, and it looks foggy. This team loomed in the fog, looking very strange.

They don't give people a sense of excitement because of the large number of people, but because of the unusual quietness, they reveal an inexplicable sense of depression and weirdness, like the walking dead.

"How far is Mom?" A little girl asked in a whisper as she pulled the young woman who was holding her.

Children's eyes are always extra round, and the whites of their eyes are a little less than those of adults. On weekdays, when it is bright and clear, it looks particularly beautiful, but in this foggy night, there is an inexplicable sense of emptiness like a puppet.

The young woman had eyes as beautiful as hers, but they were also covered with a thin layer of fog and were unfocused.

She shook the little girl's hand and walked mechanically ahead with her eyes in front of her, and after a long while, she let out a soft "shhhh Her gaze was blank and frozen, and she didn't even look at the little girl, and said in an extremely flat and undulating tone: "It's not there yet, be nice." ”

The little girl's fingers suddenly struggled twice as if spasmoming, and then regained her composure, as if the slightest struggle just now was an illusion.

The mother and daughter walked at the back of the line, slower than the soldiers and young men in front of them, breathing a little heavier and walking a little slowly. Apparently having come a long way, physiologically starting to get tired.

The little girl slowly turned her head, glanced at the end of the line, and then turned back with a pair of big eyes and said blankly: "Are these extra people in the back also together?" They're going to that place too? ”

When they came out of the small town of Tagwa, they were at the end of the line. However, after passing through several homeless villages on the way, a number of people followed and joined the group, not far behind them.

The young woman nodded, and replied, "Yes dear, they are with us." ”

Every time these people walked a while, they would subconsciously raise their hands and tap their eyebrows and lips, and read a sentence almost silently. It's like some kind of worship or prayer.

About a few dozen meters away in front of the crowd is the most famous boiling swamp in the south-central part of the continent.

Large black wet mud lay there, bubbling with bubbles of various sizes, and when they burst, they made a slight "beep" sound, one after another, and the boiling sound of "coo-to-goo" became the only movement in the area.

The surface of the black mud is not smooth, and when the mud bubble bursts, it will bring out some other strange things, and the black will float on the surface, and after a moment it will be quietly swallowed back by the soft mud.

There is no vegetation in a radius of about ten meters around this swamp, and most of them are some long-shrunken stems, hanging and half-hanging in the mud.

Before I could get closer, I could feel the steaming heat of the swamp and the smell of decay mixed with the dampness of the earth.

But the whole team seemed to be completely unaware of the danger they were approaching, and walked forward mechanically and blankly, as if they only had the destination in mind, and did not even know the turn or detour.

The wind swept through the woods, carrying with it the disgusting smell of the boiling swamp, and fluttered in the faces of the crowd.

Probably because the smell was too exciting, several young men dressed as soldiers at the front of the line frowned violently, blinked their eyes a few times in succession, and their numb and empty gaze finally found a little focus at that moment.

In a semi-conscious state, they were frightened by the swamp in front of them, and they stopped abruptly.

However, the crowd behind still walked forward unnoticed, squeezing and shoving, pushing the soldiers forward and moving some distance forward.

On the one hand, the soldiers were stubborn in their heads, trying to make themselves more conscious, and able to control their limbs freely. On the one hand, I have to fight with the crowd pushing and pushing forward.

Instinctively driven, they almost broke away from the crowd and stepped aside so as not to be squeezed into the swamp. However, when one of the soldiers with a baby face struggled to turn his head, he happened to see a group of young and old behind him, the youngest cub who couldn't even walk and was held in his hand.

The cub's eyes were much clearer than the others, but he was equally unaware of the danger.

As the baby-faced soldier met the little thing, the toothless cub stared at him with dark eyes, and then suddenly smiled at him with a child's idiosyncratic smile.

"I ...... Grab My ...... hands! Seeing the smiling soldier, he suddenly sobered up a lot, he was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and shouted at the soldier next to him in a not very sharp voice: "Quick! Stopped...... Stop them! ”

The soldiers in the front row stretched out their hands one after another in his shouts, clasping their wrists, and when they were not very conscious, they pulled up a thin wall of people in an attempt to stop the people who were still moving forward.

However, just a few of them, it is almost impossible to fight against the nearly 1,000 people behind them.

They forcibly kept themselves awake while screaming and trying to wake up the people behind them, but they were pushed closer and closer to the boiling swamp by the crowd......

"Stop, stop!!" The toes of the soldier in the middle had almost touched the edge of the swamp, and the shouting suddenly became louder, almost sharp.

However, even so, he didn't think that he could choose to put his hand down and hide to the side.

"Wake up!!" The soldier on the very side, who looked very tall, was anxious, raised his foot and stomped on the foot of the person behind him.

Hearing a howl, the order of the people in that area was thrown into chaos, and several civilians were awakened by this voice. The crowd was like a fire bee gathered around the nest, and the buzzing sound gradually spread from the front to the back.

However, this is only a change at the front of the team, and the large army behind is still squeezing forward.

"Ahh A scream rang out, and one of the soldiers at the front finally couldn't stop it and was squeezed into the swamp.

His eyes widened and he struggled frantically, but in the blink of an eye, he sank into most of his body, leaving only above his chest. Boiling swamps, as the name suggests, are extremely hot, and just being hot can scald off a layer of skin.

The soldier's screams turned faint, and finally broke at the bottom of his throat, and along with his whole body, he sank into the black mud of the swamp.

As soon as there was a gap in the human wall, several more people followed closely behind and shoved into the swamp. The soldiers pulling the human wall went down three in the blink of an eye.

For a while, the screams in this area continued, and even people's hearts trembled when they heard it.

The baby-faced soldier persevered and persisted, almost sticking all his strength to his heels, but still couldn't stop the people behind him. He was pushed by two waves of people, failed to stand, and accidentally stepped towards the swamp.

The black mud of the boiling swamp is like a ferocious beast eating a man's bloody mouth, once it bites a foot, it will not let go again.

In despair, he found an irresistible suction pulling him deeper into the swamp, and the staggering black mud had reached his ankles and calves......

Although he is a soldier, he is actually not very old, he may have just reached adulthood, and compared to many people in the crowd, he is even a child, but he is just taller.

His eyes were red, and while he was screaming in sharp pain under him, he was still shouting at the people behind him: "Stand back! Damn it...... Wake up!! Ahh

Just as he felt that the black mud was already up to his knees, and the vitality was rapidly draining from his body due to the severe pain, he suddenly heard the howl of a beast in the sky.

He looked up in despair and confusion, and saw a behemoth swooping in this direction with its wings outstretched, and on the back of the beast sat a tall and thin man.

The man waved his hand in the night, and at the moment of his wrist wave, the beast beneath him also flared up a pair of huge wings almost synchronously and flapped violently.

Whew-

A gust of wind so strong that it almost lifted the trees to the ground slammed into the crowd, slamming the people who were still walking into the swamp out of the way.

The team of nearly 1,000 people, one by one, pushed from front to back, and in the blink of an eye, all of them fell to the ground, and they could no longer push and squeeze forward.

The doll blushed and was desperate, but subconsciously relieved.

Just as he resigned himself to letting himself be swallowed up in the black mud, he felt his neck jerk tightly, and a huge force strangled his throat, almost choking him half to death.

And when he finally recovered from the severe pain and spasms, he found that he had been pulled out of the swamp and placed on the ground leaning against a tree. A thin figure was half-crouching in front of him, wrapping him from the knee down with clothes that he had pulled from somewhere.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he always feels that the wrapped posture is as if his calves can still be useful.

"Find out if anyone else has a belt or something, draw two of them, and the strip of cloth will do." The man who bandaged his calf said without raising his head.

The baby-faced soldier froze for a moment, thinking he was talking to himself. As a result, as soon as he turned his eyes, he found that there was a fierce beast squatting next to the man, which looked like a snow wolf coming down from the ice and snow plateau, with beautiful fur, but it was so cold and arrogant that people did not dare to approach. It's just that he'd never seen such a big snow wolf, and it also had a pair of wings!

He thought that just now, these very beautiful wings had lifted off the heads of nearly a thousand people at once, and he felt very incredible. When did the wings blow such a strong wind?! It's as if a god beckoned his hand and temporarily sent a gust of demonic wind.

"Go!" The bandaging man wrapped it for the last time, and when he saw that the beast had not moved, he slapped it with a slap and blasted it away.

The baby-faced soldier was dumbfounded, and said in his heart that such a terrifying beast could still shoot like this? But in the next second, he didn't have time to think about these things, because the pain in his leg climbed up again, causing him to take a hard breath.

"Bear with me, don't touch or move for a while, if you want your calves to grow." The bandaged man shouted at him without raising his head.

"Thank you, thank you for saving me......" The baby-faced soldier opened his mouth with difficulty, and whispered, "Can my calves grow well?" I've seen people who fall into a boiling swamp, almost scalding their flesh, and in the blink of an eye, only bones remain...... I ......"

The man raised his head at him and raised an eyebrow and said, "If I say that if I can grow, I will definitely grow." ”

"Oh my God! Your Excellency, Commander! The baby-faced soldier finally recognized the man.

He was none other than Kevin.

Osvid, who had been sent to find a strip of cloth, hurriedly swept through the crowd, glancing at everyone's belts, and muttering to himself: Flap your wings so windy? Tut...... Something is wrong.