Solang opened the door, exchanged a few words with the person who knocked on the door, and hurried upstairs. I saw that the man showed no signs of leaving, and realized that things might be a little harsh.

"Did something happen?" I pulled the corner of Tomkai's coat. He more or less understands what he said here, and I think he has just listened carefully with his ears pricked up, and he must have noticed something.

"Two villagers have gone missing, and their families have just come to inform them. Some people said that the last place they saw the two was the wasteland in the west, and they wanted Solang to lead the team to find them. Tang Kai's expression was unmistakably revealed under the torch that the man was holding, and by the light of the fire, I could see that there were a few shallow marks lying on his vicissitudes of life, not yet dry.

Was he just crying?

Solang got dressed and came down from the stairs with some self-defense. Yang Jin should have also been woken up by a knock on the door, wearing a coat at the moment, anxiously poking his head into the ground, and when he saw me and Tang Kai also there, he was obviously stunned.

yes, that's a normal reaction in the middle of the night.

Solang wanted to go out, but suddenly seemed to have forgotten something, patted Tang Kai on the shoulder and said, "Don't you want to go to that magical place?" I'm going over now, do you want to come along? ”

Tang Kai immediately stood up from the ground like a non-commissioned officer, patted his chest and said, "Let's go!" ”

He zipped up his coat and turned around to find that I had been tugging at the corner of his coat.

"Bring ...... too Take me there. I said with a half-smile and half-begging, as if knowing that he would reject me.

"Nope." Solang and Tang Kai replied almost at the same time. "The wasteland is not safe, and women can't go."

I looked out and saw that in addition to the man who knocked on the door, there were two younger young men at the door, strong and strong, and very powerful with torches. I thought about it. pulled Tang Kai aside and kept begging: "Take me with you, you see so many of you, nothing will happen to me." Besides, every woman in your group lacks a sixth sense. ”

Tang Kai rolled his eyes back at me, turned around and was about to leave.

"Hey! That one...... Isn't my friend missing too? Chances are he's been to that wasteland. Take me there, and I'll find something! I really don't bother you! Seeing that I was swearing and swearing, Tang Kai was a little shaken.

"I haven't said what you just asked me. I know so much! If you don't take me there, maybe I won't want to talk about it even if you think about it! ”

"Okay, okay, but you must tell me if you feel uncomfortable, or you will cause trouble for Solang and them again."

"Good, good! I'll follow you well. No hassle! ”

Tang Kai probably went to discuss with Solang and them about bringing me, and I didn't want to listen to Solang shirk. I trotted upstairs, changed my clothes and ran down again. Yang Jin stopped me, put a robe on me, and spoke something in the local dialect to me. I didn't understand, so I guess I was going to be careful.

I suddenly remembered that I was like this when I was at home before, and I was going out. My mother wrapped me in a thick and thick bag before I was allowed to go to my grandmother's house to celebrate the New Year. In the blink of an eye. I'm thousands of miles away.

When I walked outside, I found that the snow had stopped, so I excitedly pulled Tang Kai's clothes and said, "I was not allowed to enter the mountain yesterday, but today I should be okay, right?" ”

"No, the snow is slippery, you stay at Solang's house for a few more days." Tang Kai is not as easy to talk as Qin Chuyi, nor is he like a crane who says no, and he has already agreed in his heart. I was bored with myself, so I stopped asking him and muttered to myself.

"When I came, I said that there was not much snow this season, but it turned out to be heavy snow, and it didn't count at all......

Tang Kai listened on the side and laughed out loud. "Isn't that the plateau welcoming visitors from the iceberg?"

A group of five of us walked towards the West End Wasteland, where the missing person was last seen. Solang led the team, and the other two walked behind me and Tang Kai to prevent emergencies. I asked Tang Kai what happened suddenly, and he almost exaggerated to say to me, there are wolves and snow leopards here, and if I can't eat it, I will be taken away, after all, I am the smallest in this group, and the persimmon is soft and pinched.

Although I knew it was scary, I couldn't help but tremble a few times, and I didn't want to say anything to Tang Kai.

After walking for about half an hour, I finally arrived at the legendary western wasteland. I thought there would be a large wilderness in front of me, but a dense forest obscured my view.

What kind of wasteland is this, it's just a forest, could it be that the wasteland in the words of the people here means the woods? I saw that my eyes were about to fall out, and I turned my head to look at Tang Kai as if I was verifying.

He wasn't as shocked as I was, but he obviously didn't expect this to happen, and his brows furrowed.

"Solang, this is where you told me?"

Solang stopped in front of him and said in unskilled Chinese, "Yes, that is." Look at this wood, it's strange. ”

Tang Kai and I turned our eyes to the forest at the same time. The roots of the trees in this forest are unusually thick, and the leaves are strangely green, covered with a layer of fluffy snow, motionless, as if they were still. Tang Kai and I looked at each other, feeling that the forest in front of us was indescribably weird, and we could even smell a strange and pungent smell in the air.

Solang shouted, and we followed him forward once more. It was already early in the morning, and the sky had begun to turn from black to purple when it was just on the snow, giving a sullen blue-gray color. But as soon as I entered the forest, it was as if I had returned to the middle of the night, and I couldn't see my fingers when I reached out in the dark. Fortunately, a few people were holding torches, and they could still see clearly.

"Oh, by the way, what color did your friend say?" Tang Kai glanced at the surrounding trees and said slowly.

"Bright orange, I remember what his wife said, orange is a good recognition. If you see something orange in the distance, you must remember to call me. ”

Once in the woods, Solang began to describe to me the appearance and characteristics of the missing two. But after talking for a long time, I didn't notice a key point, in short, it was a man and a woman, husband and wife, the woman was wearing a skirt and a robe, called Mai Duo, and the man was dressed by Solang, named Qu Cuo.

The two of them were herding sheep nearby, and when they went back with their companions before dark, they found that one was missing, so they came together to look for it. The people who accompanied them waited for a long time and didn't see them, thinking that maybe they might go back first. It wasn't until midnight that it was discovered that the two had not shown up at all.

I listened to Tang Kai talk to me, and I kept looking for traces of people. I don't know what happened to this forest, not even a living thing was seen, and there were no weeds near the roots. The air is almost all stagnant in it. I took a few deep breaths and felt that the strange smell before I came in was almost used to my nose.

"Tang Kai, do you know what kind of tree this is, looking at the strange evil sect."

Tang Kai shone it with a flashlight and replied, "Jubai, it looks quite similar." But it's a bit unscientific, how can the giant cypress grow like this. And Solang told me before that this place was still a wasteland not long ago, and this forest grew out of nowhere, how could it be possible if it could grow like this, not for ten years and a hundred years? ”

Tang Kai said as he patted the trunk of the giant tree with his hand. The trunks of those trees were very ugly, as if a good ancient tree had been splashed with sulfuric acid, and in some places, it grew up layer upon layer like a wound, like a bloody scab; In other places, there is a hole in it, as if one eye is on us "invaders".

"Tang Kai, I don't think we can come here." This sentence is almost blurted out, a direct reaction of the sixth sense.

"Now you know you're scared? Who did you just ask me to know? He smiled wickedly and turned to follow Solang.

The sheer size of this wasteland is staggering. We kept walking inside, and we walked for a full twenty minutes, and we didn't see half a figure. Most of the people who continued to move in the cold wind were a little difficult, looked at each other, and decided to rest on the spot for a while.

said that it was rest, and several men didn't dare to lie directly on the snow, but just leaned on the trunk of the tree to take a break and rest for a while. I was looking for the bright orange figure with all my eyes, but I was almost blinded by the white and green in my eyes.

"Are you alright?" Tang Kai asked worriedly when he saw that I was looking pained with my eyes closed.

"I'm fine, I'm just too dazzled." I rubbed my temples and whispered.

"It's no joke to be uncomfortable. Little girls like you who come from the city are especially prone to problems. ”

Tang Kai's words sounded a little harsh to me, and I stood up from the ground and walked forward angrily.

"Hey, don't go far, I'm going to lose another one later." 、

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I walked ten meters away, half of my body into the darkness, and I didn't feel afraid. Tang Kai looked at me from a distance and smiled, and he didn't explain when he saw Solang asking. I picked up the folding knife that Tang Kai stuffed in my hand before I went out, and plunged into the body of the giant tree beside me.

It may have been because of the great force, and it took me a lot of effort to pull it out, until I made a long mark on the trunk of the tree, and then I got the folding knife out, and I stumbled, and the man almost fell into the snow.

I could almost feel the uncontrollable smile on that head of Tang Kai, and his face turned red all of a sudden.

What a laugh! Haven't you seen it! What's so funny!

I turned around and threw out a stinky face, but suddenly I felt something strange around me.

Something is flowing out.

I subconsciously looked at the folding knife in my hand, and the smooth knife was stained with black things. When I put it in my nose and smelled it, it turned out to be a fishy smell.

I suddenly understood what I was doing, and immediately took three steps back, and shuddered, took out my flashlight and shone it at the tree that had just scratched.

On the mark carved just now, a blood stain was slowly flowing down the mark, as slow as the scene in a movie.

I stared blankly at the picture in front of me, something buzzing in my head, until I slumped to the ground and shouted at Tang Kai in a panic, "Tree...... The tree is bleeding! ”

"The tree is bleeding! Trees are alive! (To be continued.) )