Chapter 2: The Scourge of the Enchanted Forest (2)
The map is full of fine and dense marks with different colors, but there is no comment, and the deeper you go, the more red fine lines are covered. Nangong Mu frowned, and the haze between his eyebrows became heavier and heavier...... I wondered in my heart, what are these red lines?
It was getting late, and the afterglow of the setting sun was spilling through the gaps in the leaves and falling on the map, and the whole map was faintly transparent. A few lines of small characters emerged from the back, and Nangong Mu opened his eyes wide and studied them carefully.
Meilin, located at the junction of two major families in the northwest, is the culmination of everything in the world. The depths of the magic forest are dangerous and abnormal, and those who don't know should be cautious.
Nangong Mu was shocked, if you want to get to Lingyangze on this map, you have to pass through the deepest part of the magic forest. She began to panic for no reason, what the hell is going on? She turned her head to look at Nangong Ying, and her voice subconsciously sharpened a little.
"Where did you get this map?"
"Huh?" Nangong Ying was startled by her sudden reprimand, and her eyes flashed with emptiness, "Go...... Go dig it out in the library!"
"Isn't the Library Pavilion forbidden to anyone?" Nangong Wen shouted in a loud voice, and when he went back, he must sue him in front of his grandfather, and let out a vicious breath.
"Am I not worried about my mother's illness?" Nangong Ying's voice couldn't help but be a little smaller, and she seemed to be lacking in confidence.
"What's the use of talking about that now?" Nangong Jin took a step forward and quietly diverted everyone's attention, "It's important to find something!"
"Have you ever thought about it...... What's in there?" Nangong Mu's face was rare and dignified.
"Cut...... What can there be? Waste is waste!" Nangong Ying looked proud, his eyes were full of disdain, "If you don't dare, go back by yourself, we didn't force you to bring the map." ”
Nangong Ying took out the map in Nangong Mu's hand, held it in his hand and looked at it a few times, and pretended to walk along the path by himself.
The group looked disdainful, completely oblivious to who had led them to their way.
Nangong Mu pondered for a moment, but still followed, if she went back well, the others would lose her arms and legs, and the second aunt would spare her?
As the sun set, there was less and less light through the enchanted forest, and after a while, the vision became blurry. There were also all kinds of noises around me, faintly like the cry of a baby, getting louder and louder, and it was a little creepy to listen to.
"I'm so scared......" The little girl next to Nangong Jin shrank beside Nangong Jin.
"What a fuss!" Nangong Jin reprimanded her in a low voice, but the beads of sweat on her forehead betrayed the fear in her heart, and the slender fingers holding the hilt of the sword couldn't help but tighten.
In the depths of the enchanted forest, the crying of the child became louder and louder, and the girl next to Nangong Jin suddenly cried and said in a sobbing voice, "I want to go back...... I'm not going to look for Ran's fish with you......"
"You want to go back now, the big snake has eaten you!" Nangong Wen said with angry eyes, scaring her.
The girl's cry was louder, alternating with the cry of a baby deep in the forest, and through the eardrums it made the skin shiver.
Nangong Ying suddenly strode towards the girl, slapped her fiercely, and said in a sharp tone, "Cry, cry, cry, you know crying!"
The girl's crying barely stopped, and her face was full of pear blossoms and rain. There was a deep five-finger mark on the left side of his face, which immediately became swollen, and he looked more and more pitiful.
"Why are you hitting her?" protested behind him, expressing dissatisfaction.
"She disturbs the morale of the army!" Nangong Ying looked displeased, but his eyes were erratic, obviously hesitating and regretting.
"Let's take out the sword! Be safe!" Nangong Wen was the first to pull out the saber at his waist, and walked forward cautiously with the sword, the sword body exuding a cold luster.
Everyone also drew their swords and slowly moved towards the depths of the Charm Forest. The further I went, the heavier the baby's cry became, one after another, with the wind fluctuating, deep and shallow, and the depths of the enchanted forest emitted a faint green light, and the forest was cold and terrifying.
"Alas......" Nangong Wen, who was walking in the front, shouted, and suddenly fell to the ground. The saber in his hand was also accidentally thrown into the distance, his expression was frightened, and he completely lost the momentum he had just now, "Ahhh......h What's that? What's that?"
The crowd panicked instantly, and a few timid people began to scream, and a few people standing behind also faintly wanted to run back.
"What's going on?" Nangong Mu walked through the crowd and strode forward.
"I don't know, I don't know, it tripped me, it's a big ......" Nangong Wen's voice trembled, and he covered his face with his hands. Nangong Mu grabbed Nangong Wen's arm and lifted him up. Squinting his eyes and observing carefully on the ground, sure enough, there was a black thing under him who fell, and Nangong Mu stretched out his foot and kicked it. Didn't move......
"It's just a stump," Nangong Mu breathed a sigh ......of relief.
"What...... It's just a stump, is it scared like this?" A few young people behind him reacted, and immediately began to taunt Nangong Wen.
"How is that possible?" Nangong Wen jumped up from the ground in an instant, looking at everyone, his eyes were split, and his face was full of incredulity.
"See for yourself!" Nangong Mu pointed to the stump on the ground, and a branch stretched out from the root of the tree to the ground, which from the perspective of the point of view exactly matched the place where he fell.
Now, the ridicule was even worse, Nangong Wen lost face, his eyes were red for a while, he grabbed Nangong Mu's clothes and pushed her under the big tree, "If I say no, it's not, what will you know about this waste?"
"......" Nangong Mu was about to say something, when suddenly there was a sound of something rubbing against the big tree, the leaves rustled, and even the big tree shook. The leaves kept falling, and in an instant, they were already covered in a patch. The baby's cry is getting louder and louder, and it is breathtaking.
A huge tail rose into the air and swept through the air, bringing with it a gust of wind, black scales glistening in the moonlight. For a moment, he actually crushed a big tree, and then moved forward at the speed of an arrow, and he was instantly invisible. I don't know who exclaimed.
Nangong Mu looked at everyone's panicked faces, knocked down the hand on the placket, and yelled as hard as he could, "Run————"
From the place where the tail had just disappeared, a huge cyan head suddenly poked out, spitting out snake hyacinths from time to time, and its eyes flashed with a cold light, looking like it was bound to win, staring at the prey running in front of him.
The crowd ran back, so frightened by the behemoth that they forgot that they could fly with their edges.
Nangong Wen ran halfway through, and suddenly remembered the sword that fell to the ground, and turned back to pick up the sword. The huge tail swept over, easily rolling up Nangong Wen. put it to his mouth and looked at Nangong Wen contemptuously with deep eyes.
"Ah......" Nangong Wen screamed in fright, the jade crown on his head had just been knocked off, and now he looked like a male ghost, and he had long lost his original momentum.
I've never seen a snake this big......
Nangong Mu scolded him fiercely in his heart, saying that he had more than enough success and more than failure, and began to run back, with the sound of the wind whistling in his ears. She shouted at Nangong Wen, "You idiot, stick your sword into it......"
Nangong Wencai reacted, lifted the sword in his hand and stabbed it fiercely into the snake's eyes. The big snake was in pain, and suddenly started to go wild, and his eyes turned red, as if there was a red flame jumping, and he kept twisting his body and threw him out heavily. The sword snapped in two in an instant.
Only then did I see its entire body, which was black, but its head was blue, and the tip of its tail was as thick as that of a strong adult man. It rolled, and the shrill screams of birds kept coming out of the enchanted forest.