An Su followed the other roots and climbed to the tree where Li Kai was, Li Kai's face was not good, and he used his hand to remove a cluster of freshly grown aerial roots from the trunk. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info These air roots are fluffy like a big beard.

Ansu saw clearly what was hidden by the air roots, a skull.

Fortunately, it was not a human skull, and Ansu breathed a sigh of relief. It has completely decayed, and only white bones remain. The most conspicuous thing is that there is a pair of tusks on its upper teeth, which protrude like ivory. It was very similar to the corpse Ansu had seen before.

I didn't think there were corpses here...... Ansu frowned, and nimbly climbed to the main trunk of another tree, and looked carefully into the root bushes, where white bones were faintly visible in the roots that had not grown into a piece. Ansu continued to look for the next one, and as she had guessed, almost every tree here had a white skeleton hidden in it, which had grown completely with the tree. The cold wind whipped in the dark woods, like the whispers of the dead.

"Captain, this is similar to the tree burials we've seen before." Li Kai walked over and said. His brows were furrowed, his face was not good-looking, and to put it bluntly, they were actually in a cemetery now. The thought that there might be white bones hidden in these trunks made his back feel cold. How many undead are hidden in such a large forest, with countless tree trunks?

Although Li Kai has also killed countless creatures, including humans and creatures on other planets, he does not believe in the existence of ghosts, but being in this eerie and terrifying place always makes him feel uncomfortable in his heart.

Ansu looked up at the sky, and the top was covered by a tight canopy, like a tomb, but judging by the fungus that began to light up on the ground, it was already night. There are more green fungi here than anywhere else, and even the gaps between the roots of the trees are lit up with a faint green light.

"Let's move forward." Ansu covered her mouth and nose with her hands, and Ansu remembered that these would release poisonous spores. This kind of place full of poisonous spores is not suitable for camping.

The two continued to walk through the jungle at the base of the trees, where the occasional footsteps sounded as they accidentally stepped on dead branches. There were no insects, no birds, and it was eerily silent. Li Kai suddenly missed those noisy noises a little.

I don't know how long it took to walk, the green light faded, and the darkness around me surrounded me, and now even if they were face to face, they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, and they could only see clearly when there was green light before. Now it's almost completely in darkness.

Ansu paused: "Let's rest here." So saying, he looked around a few times, jumped on a tree root, and climbed up. Li Kai then followed. In this environment, the two had to sit on the spot at the root of the tree and wait for the dawn to come.

The night wind stirs the leaves and whispers like a man. Anso's ears moved, and she heard different sounds mixed in with the wind. The dark woods suddenly lit up with a sparkling orange light, and some shadows on the ground continued to sway with the firelight, like ghosts. An Su pulled Li Kai into the shadows and quietly poked his head out to watch.

Carrying the torches were the same men as the two corpses, with dark blue skin and two fangs sticking out of the corners of their mouths, they were lined up in pairs, the front of them painted with various patterns and the eldest, he held a torch in one hand, and in the other he waved a wooden staff decorated with various bird feathers, and sang an ancient and mysterious tune in his mouth, and behind him, first two people on the left and right holding torches, and then four men carrying a stretcher, on which lay a man. Although his face was warmly colored in the light of the fire, Ansu could tell from his undulating chest that the man was dead. The four people at the back were wrapped in colorful ropes, holding torches and carrying weapons, and followed with expressionless faces. Ansu noticed that they were wearing weapons, but not elaborate crossbows, but bows and arrows, which were stuck in bamboo tubes hanging from their waists. The workmanship of these bows and arrows is no longer on the same level as that of crossbows, and they are not made of liras. This made Ansu even more curious about the origin of the crossbow.

Ansu observed for a while and found that this group of people was more like they were going to the funeral. The light of the fire grew farther and farther away, fading into the background.

An Su and Li Kai quietly slid down from the roots of the tree and followed. The group traveled eastward, and finally stopped in front of a leafy tree. Countless air roots hung down from the branches of this tree, like tentacles, swaying slightly under the night wind, as if they had come to life. Compared to the size of the other trees, this one can only be considered a small tree.

The man who took the lead, Ansu guessed that he was a wizard or something, stuck his staff and torch on the ground, and danced a strange dance, and the flames continued to shake as he danced hard, and suddenly, the flames slammed upwards and became a dark blue.

An Su narrowed her eyes, she didn't believe that there were ghosts in the world at all, the reason why the flames turned blue was because the person grabbed some powder from the bag on his waist and sprinkled it on the flames, but his movements were too fast, and he couldn't see it without a certain amount of eyesight.

After the flames turned blue, the leading wizard motioned for the wicked man behind him to lift the dead body off the stretcher and lean against the trunk of the tree, and then immobilize his limbs with ropes. As they retreated, the wizard stepped forward, took a scimitar from his waist, stabbed it into the lower abdomen of the corpse, made a cut, and then stretched out his wizened fingers like chicken claws and poked through the incision. Those nails were sharp, black, and I don't know how many corpses had been taken out of the stomachs. The dead hands groped in the corpse's belly, dark blood running down the arm and dripping to the ground.

The firelight danced on the old wizard's blue face painted with red patterns, which was particularly eerie and eerie. An Su and Li Kai suddenly felt a chill rise from the soles of their feet. If there was a Hell Yaksha in the world, it must be the appearance of this old wizard, with blue fangs and hands full of blood. This scene made An Su and Li Kai, who had experienced wind and rain, feel cold in their hearts.

The sorcerer took out the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys of the corpse in turn, tied these organs with colored ropes, and then stuffed them back in, and the end of the rope was connected to the handful of roots and tendrils outside. Finally, he sewed the incision up. Ansu saw that this was to guide the roots of the tree to grow towards the corpse, so that the tree and the corpse could completely merge together.

The wizard muttered an incomprehensible incantation, when suddenly a cold night breeze blew, blowing the tendrils around the corpse. The blue flame flickered violently and finally extinguished. Strangely, only one torch went out, and the others were unharmed.

They dismantled the stretcher and made it into four torches, which were not taken away but inserted in front of the corpse. After doing all this, they went back with the old wizard in their arms.

Li Kai swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at An Su, and asked with his eyes: Keep up?

Ansu nodded, glanced at the flames that had been blown left and right, and followed towards the faint light of the fire in the distance. (To be continued.) )