Bai was not qualified to talk about Elder Qingwu in the past year, so he grabbed Bai Cisheng and said in a low voice: "We have a mission to come out, you are playing around like this, and the speed of progress has slowed down many times." ”

Bai Cisheng pouted, but his eyes were unwillingly staring at the little flying squirrel that flew to the tree.

Bai Xing stopped: "It's okay, Ci Sheng has never come out since he came to Chouhua Mountain, and he won't be delayed for too long to play for a while, not to mention that there is Elder Qingwu, an old medical idiot, that is, Ci Sheng doesn't play or make trouble, he will also delay time, the more he goes north, the more he will encounter some rare medicinal materials, Elder Qingwu can't help but not dig it." ”

Bai Cisheng glared at Bai Xinian proudly, cheered, and ran out to chase the small animal.

So stop and go, and it will be evening.

Bai Cisheng chased a civet cat, ran forward dozens of meters away, and suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterward, a baby's cry was heard in a large patch of grass not far in front of her.

The cry was very high-pitched, as if there was some danger or severe physical pain.

Everyone's footsteps paused, how could there be a baby's cry in this barren mountain and wilderness, could it be a child abandoned by the family?

Bai Xingzhi and Jiang Huaiyin glanced at each other, one dodged to block Cheng Weixi behind him, and the other flew to Bai Cisheng's side. It's very tacit.

Cheng Weixi looked forward from behind Jiang Huaiyin, only to see Bai Xingzhi pushing aside the grass more than one person tall from a distance, revealing the source of the cry.

It was not a baby that made the cry, but an animal with the body of a sheep and a tiger's tooth, which was half-lying and gnawing on an arm in its arms, and from time to time it made a cry like a baby's cry.

Next to it, there was an old man with no clothes on, his face was pale, and he had been dead for a long time.

The animal held its right arm up as it ate, and its armpit eyes looked around warily.

When Bai Cisheng saw this bloody scene, he stepped forward to drive away the bloody animal.

Bai Xingzhi stopped her with his arm, and the two walked back lightly.

Cheng Weixi asked anxiously: "Why don't you save people? Even if you are a wild man, you can't watch him being eaten, and that man-eating beast should also be surrendered." ”

Bai Xingzhi shook his head: "That animal is a roe deer owl, and it doesn't eat any wild people. ”

Cheng Weixi raised his eyebrows: "How come?" I can see it very clearly. ”

Bai Xingzhi did not answer, he turned around and walked to the tall grass on the left side of several people, stretched out his hand to flick the tall grass, and revealed a small open space, on which lay dozens of unclothed corpses of old people.

Count the "ah" in vain.

Cheng Weixi hurriedly hid his head in his arms.

At the same time, Jiang Huaiyin's hands also blocked Cheng Weixi's sight.

When the thin palm prints come into the eye, it seems to cover the heavens and the earth. The faint aroma is tangy, warm and familiar.

Cheng Weixi sighed secretly and gently pushed away his hands: "I said, I'm not afraid." ”

Jiang Huaiyin withdrew his hand, but his body silently blocked those corpses.

Elder Qinggo narrowed his eyes at the corpses, as if inspired, and pushed aside the grass on his right.

Similarly, a pile of corpses of old people was exposed, some lying on their stomachs, some leaning against tree trunks, stretching into the distance, as if they were several miles away, all of them were similar corpses.

Bai Xinian walked to the nearest corpse in a few steps, looked up and down, and the doubts in his eyes were even worse, he checked several other corpses, and then turned around and said: "There are no obvious external injuries, and it doesn't look like poisoning, it seems that they all died of natural aging." How can there be so many elderly people here who die of natural aging?"

Cheng Weixi had a flash of inspiration: "Don't you beasts pay attention to falling leaves and returning to their roots, just like cats, they will leave home before they die, but find a deep mountain to die, will this be the place where they will die?"

Bai Xingzhi walked back: "They are not some divine beasts. ”

Elder Qinggo chimed in: "It's not even an animal. ”

Cheng Weixi couldn't figure it out: "What is that? It can't be a plant, right? The roe deer owl gnawed fragrantly, and the flesh and blood were blurred, but I didn't expect it to be a vegetarian?"

Bai Xinian and Bai Cisheng also put on a question mark face.

Elder Qingwu said: "There is a peculiar tree in the Eight Desolations, called the Female Tree, which gives birth to babies at dawn, can walk at sunrise, and becomes teenagers when eating, is strong in the middle of the day, senile in the sun, does not die in the day, and in the middle of the night, the corpse is corrupted, becoming the nourishment of the grass and trees, nourishing the female tree, and the second day is restored. These old men and the middle-aged men who spied on us at the mouth of the forest should all be baby fruits born by female trees. ”

There is still such a god-operated plant?

A group of humanoid fruits, able to walk and run, smell the smell of meat and be hungry, a day of life, no disease and no pain, well, the corpse will bleed if it is bitten.

Can this still be considered a plant?

Elder Qinggo added, "The roe deer owl is eating the corpse of the baby fruit...... It will be leisurely, and after eating the baby fruit, it will no longer need to hunt. ”

Bai Xingzhi pointed to the road on the right: "Let's take this road!"

Cheng Weixi raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter? A group of us are still afraid of this roe deer owl?"

Bai Xingzhi replied: "Naturally I'm not afraid, it's not an opponent at all, but it's not wrong, so why bother to have a dispute and hurt him." ”

Oh, this ice cube face still has a heart of compassion for living beings!

Several people turned around and walked towards the road, which was littered with the corpses of old men.

The further you go, the more corpses there are, and the mountains of corpses can be seen everywhere, and I don't know how many female trees there are to give birth to so many baby fruits.

It was getting dark, and there was only moonlight in the forest, and there were shadows everywhere, and it seemed that the corpses were becoming more and more terrifying.

Although I know that they are not corpses, the form is too realistic, and it is difficult to calm down.

Fortunately, as the moon slowly climbed the treetops, the corpses gradually decomposed, seeping into the earth.

Bai chose an open space as a resting place for the group in the past year.

Bai Cisheng worked with him to clean up the weeds on the ground, and then took out a wooden plank more than a person wide from the void realm.

Cheng Weixi was really amazed, how many things this little girl had prepared for her.

In this barren mountain and wilderness, having this plank as a bed is naturally much more comfortable than lying on the dirt or sleeping among the branches.

Cheng Weixi was treated like sleeping on a plank, while the others slept on the ground.

After a night of pruning like this, in the early morning of the second day, when the first rays of sunlight penetrated the dense forest and shone on Cheng Weixi's face, the cries of babies were heard one after another.

Cheng Weixi was woken up, only to see Jiang Huaiyin half-squatting beside her, one hand over her body, supporting the ground on her side, and protecting her with her body.

The others were also woken up by these cries, and thought that the roe owl had followed, but the grass was empty. Everyone was blessed with souls, and they all looked up at the air.

I saw that there were babies hanging one after another from several tall trees around me, and when the sun shone on them, they fell off the branches like mature seeds, fell to the ground, and cried. After crying for a while, the sun grew stronger, and they staggered to their feet again, swinging their fat legs, and running in all directions.

It turns out that these are the female tree deities.

Note: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the North Mountains" says, there are beasts in Gouwu Mountain, called the roe deer owl, its shape is like a sheep and a human face, its eyes are in the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, and its sound is like a baby, cannibalism.

"Pen Dust: Silver Mountain in the Sea": "There are silver mountains in the sea, living trees, famous female trees, all giving birth to babies at dawn, saying that they can do it, and they all become teenagers when they eat, they are said to be strong, they are said to be aging, they are not dead, and they are said to be reborn." ”