Chapter 171: Forest of Death IV
Lin Xiaofan walked to the edge of the waterfall, took some of the rain that washed down, washed his face, and said: "When it is dawn, let's go back and pick up the equipment, and then go to find the Black Demon Sky and them, it's too dangerous here, we still have to get together quickly, I don't know, what happened to them......"
Gu Lajie said: "It's damn, sister, it's easy for you to say, when we ran just now, we were completely running around, and I don't know where the tree is, how can we find it?" There is no phone signal here, and I am dizzy."
"Then you have to look for it, if you don't go back now, it's even more impossible to find it when you need to." Lin Xiaofan pressed his face tiredly, rolled up his sleeves again, stretched his head into the waterfall and washed it hastily, after washing, his long hair was shaken, the mud and sand receded, and his pretty face finally returned to its previous appearance. He beckoned everyone to go.
Before I set off, I saw the Black Demon Sky and his party looking for them, but they were also very wolf. Not only was one person missing, one of them was missing an arm.
Black Devil Heaven, last night, they were attacked by five big crocodiles, and the tearing was also very fierce, and their clothes were covered with mud and water, obviously their situation was also very wolf, they got rid of the crocodiles and came over.
A few people carried their own things, A-Ning is a woman or does she prefer to be clean, seeing that we are far away, she pulled off her clothes and washed her chest with water, at this time, Lin Xiaofan's eyes flashed, and he saw a red flash in the waterfall, and at the same time we vaguely heard a "gurgle" sound. Lin Xiaofan suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said to A-Ning: "Be careful, stay away from the waterfall!" ”
"What's wrong?" A-Ning turned her head and glanced at me, I don't know why, she showed a very faint smile, which was different from her previous smile, Lin Xiaofan looked amazed.
At that moment, all of a sudden, a fiery red snake burst out of the waterfall and coiled around A-Ning's neck. It raised its head high and let out a series of poignant, high-pitched "clucks". Lin Xiaofan finished watching it! I threw away the things in my hand and rushed over, and before I took the first step, I watched the "pheasant neck" bite down like lightning. A-Ning used his hand to block but didn't block. The snake's head bit her neck. She screamed, pulled the snake down, threw it aside, covered her neck and fell into the water.
Everyone rushed over, but the snake did not escape. Suddenly he jumped up from the water and flew towards the group like an arrow. The fat man screamed, he didn't get it with a knife, and seeing that he was about to be hit again, Li Monan on the side pinched it in the air and pinched the snake's head in one fell swoop. The snake's body coiled around his arm, and he wanted to pull out the snake's head, but he saw Mo Nan Li stuck his other hand on the snake's neck, and the two hands twisted in the opposite direction, and there was a click. The head of the snake twisted him three hundred and sixty degrees, and then he threw it into the water, and the "pheasant's neck" twisted a few times, and then it did not move, and floated freely.
We were busy going to see A-Ning, and at this time, the Black Demon Heaven went to pick her up, but saw that the expression on her face had frozen, her throat was moving and she wanted to speak, and there were tears in her eyes, as if she was unwilling. Lin Xiaofan's scalp went numb. I don't know what to do, and the whole person is shaking. Then, in just a few seconds, her eyes drifted. The whole person softened, and then his head drooped. Two minutes later, A-Ning stopped breathing and died in Mo Motian's arms. A look of surprise froze on her pretty and unpredictable face in her messy short hair, and everyone gathered around her until she finally gave her breath. When you calm down, time seems to freeze.
Suddenly, Lin Xiaofan felt that everything stopped, his heart was sad, he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, and his chest seemed to be blocked by something.
This qiē happened too quickly. Death was so close that she couldn't help but think of retreating, thinking of her parents.
Although there were many dangers along the way, and she also expected that someone would have an accident, but she never thought that this woman would die, and die so easily, so suddenly. It happened without warning, and then the person who was still talking just now died like this. And it's really dead, if it's Li Monan who died, then she wouldn't even have a chance to save it.
She couldn't help but regret that she shouldn't, drag them into the water.
She didn't believe the situation at first, thinking that she was dreaming, how could this woman die? Although she has only been with her for two days, she is so strong, gorgeous and cunning, weak on the outside but strong as iron in her heart, although Lin Xiaofan doesn't like her, but as a girl, she still sincerely admires that another girl can endure such hardship. But she did die, right in front of me, so easily, so really, casually.
Although Lin Xiaofan didn't regard her as a friend, she wouldn't blink at the death of the bad guy, maybe she couldn't cultivate here, maybe the space couldn't be opened here, and maybe she was afraid that the people she cared about would leave her, so that it would be too late for her to save her, she suddenly became cowardly, and she also doubted whether her adventure was worth it.
This is the law of reality, not the plot of a novel or a movie, as long as this kind of thing happens, everyone will die, even if it is Lin Xiaofan, if he just stood on the edge of the waterfall, he would definitely die just now!
Lin Xiaofan raised his head to look at the dense jungle in front of him, and suddenly felt incomparable fear and despair. At that moment, I almost wanted to run away, not to do anything, to escape from this place.
At this time, the sky finally dawned, and the sun shone down from one side of the canyon, and all sides lit up, and the water in front of it was steaming, and the splashing water curtain of the waterfall formed a white mist over the dense rainforest.
The beauty is still there, but the beauty is gone.
Yang Xuan and Black Demon Tian are people who see through life and death, although they are also pity at this time, but they are much calmer than us, but they are seriously injured, and they can't say much, so they said to us, this is an accident, although it is very sudden, we must also accept it, I don't know if there is a similar kind of snake here, it is not appropriate to stay for a long time, let's go, find a clean place and find a way.
I remembered that Li Monan had killed the cockscomb snake just now, and I felt a little more compassion in my heart, and turned my head to look at the snake corpse floating on the water, but found that the corpse was gone. This snake is said to take revenge for killing things of the same kind, but it is endless, weird and abnormal, and it is indeed dangerous to stay here, thinking of A-Ning's tragic situation, I can't stay anymore.
For a moment, the Black Demon Heaven couldn't bear to leave A-Ning's body here. Let a companion carry it, the fat man helped Yang Xuan up, and several people didn't dare to go further into the jungle, so they followed the edge of the canyon. Wade in the water.
No one can chat, the fat man who has always loved humming can't sing mountain songs, and Lin Xiaofan doesn't even know why he wants to move forward. My mind went blank.
One foot deep, one foot shallow, and walked forward in a trance for more than ten minutes. But we have not been able to find a dry place for us to rest. The sun is getting higher and higher, and the coolness of last night's heavy rain is gone, and everyone has reached the limit, too tired, a night of running, fighting, climbing trees, dying, escaping, even the iron man has no strength. What's even worse is that as the temperature rises, the humidity here becomes very large, and the fat man can't stand this the most, panting to death, and finally becomes Li Monan helping him.
Just as we were thinking about whether to bring it up and rest on the spot, suddenly there was a downward slope in the canyon in front of us, and the rain stream on the ground became very rapid, flowing down the slope, and we carefully waded down the stream. Just go down to the bottom of the slope and see the exit of the canyon appear in front of us. The trees outside were sparse, and it was all a black swamp, more than 200 meters long. Then it slowly began to thicken, and behind it was a large area of aquatic rainforest soaked in the swamp, all of which were not tall but extremely luxuriant, and we all looked at each other, and a sense of fate came, the original exit to the so-called forest. We only had 10 minutes left last night, and we chose to stop, and if we had kept going, the result would have been completely different.
A few steps further on, we came to the edge of the swamp, from which the view of the swamp was limited, and not as wide as what we saw at the top of the valley outside. If you weren't walking along the mountain wall, you wouldn't know that you were out of the valley, and there was still a dense forest ahead, and it felt like it was just a continuation of the forest. Of course, there are still differences, the more you walk, the more you feel wrong, the water is getting deeper and deeper, and the sludge in the ground is becoming more and more untenable.
Fortunately, in the shallow part of the swamp, there was a large flat stone, which protruded very abruptly over the swamp and did not flood it. We wondered how such a large stone could be here, and we carefully waded through the water and climbed up, only to find that this huge stone was carved with intricate decorative patterns, and there was a very large shadow under the water, which seemed to be part of several large statues side by side. This is an entrance to the Linglong Kingdom, the Linglong Kingdom is the kingdom of Western Xia, and it has been the absolute spiritual leader of the Western Regions for a long time, so the entrance of the Linglong Kingdom is naturally not too shabby, maybe this is a stone sculpture at that time, or a statue on the city defense building here, used to give spiritual deterrence to the envoys who come and go, of course, after so many years, this kind of statue is naturally impossible to preserve under the washing of rain.
Lin Xiaofan looked at the ancient lines on the stone at first glance, and felt very similar to the one in Angkor Wat, and after a closer look, he found that it was not the lines of Khmer Buddhism, but because this stone was also blackened and gray by the wind and rain, and it looked particularly ancient and mysterious.
Just as I was thinking about whether there were other ruins under the swamp if there was a fallen statue here, I heard the Black Demon Sky call out and let us see his side.
We turned our heads to look, and saw that in the sun, in the deeper part of the black swamp in front of us, there were dense huge black shadows, which seemed to be calming something, and it seemed to be stones, and some of them were completely underwater. Lin Xiaofan and Yang Xuan looked at it with a telescope, and were surprised to find that the shadows under the swamp seemed to be all ruins and broken walls, stretching all the way to the center of the swamp.
The ruins of the ancient city of the Spirit Dragon Kingdom were actually buried under this swamp.
"After the collapse of the Linglong Ancient Kingdom, the queen is afraid that the drainage system will collapse, the groundwater will rise, and the rainwater with mud and sludge will be poured back for thousands of years, and the entire city will be submerged under water. It seems that the scale of the Spirit Dragon Kingdom is very large, and what we see now is only a handful. Yang Xuan said lightly.
Lin Xiaofan was also a little shocked, it is relatively common for the ancient city to be flooded, this swamp is actually absolutely not large, and the ancient city at that time has developed to the edge of this basin, indicating that the civilization at that time has reached its peak. But in this case, the palace of the Linglong Ancient Kingdom, isn't Qi also in the underwater sludge, how can we enter it?
Everyone looked at this entrance, and they were a little confused for a while, and at this time, the people of the Black Demon Heaven put down A-Ning's corpse, and Tianshi concentrated on studying this entrance.
But this stone. Almost all of them were trapped in the water, and the surroundings were even more intricate, Black Demon Tian and Lin Xiaofan. glanced at each other, obviously the other party didn't have a clue.
After soaking in the water for a long time, everyone was also exhausted. , found a dry stone to rest. At this time, everyone's clothes are soaked,
Yang Xuan took off all his shirts and spread them on the stones to dry, and the fat man wanted to start a smokeless stove, but he couldn't find any of them after rummaging through his luggage, and it seemed that he had fallen off in the chaos last night, and he couldn't make a fire, so he made do with the lamp cotton on the fuel can. Unexpectedly, the swamp here turned out to be saltwater, and it seems to be connected by a large salt marsh system nearby. Thankfully, the rain washed down from the canyon and there was basically no smell on the wounds, otherwise we might not even have a problem drinking water. I put a few disinfectant tablets in the first place and boiled some tea to drink. Then fetch water to wash your body.
After soaking in the water for a night, the skin on the body was wrinkled, the shoes were taken off, the feet were all soaked white, and the skin fell off when they were buttoned, even if everyone buckled the uppers, after taking off the socks, you could still see a small thing similar to a leech on the feet and kill them with a dagger. Pick it up and look at it. I can't tell what kind of bugs it is.
However, if the swamp is saltwater, the number of insects should be relatively small, at least it is unlikely that there will be saltwater leeches here. This is great news for us as we go deeper into the swamp.
The black devil handed the fat man a cigarette of his, saying that it was earth smoke, and he brought it himself, saying, it can be wet. Here this wet method. In a week, people will be soaked, and they will take a few mouthfuls on top, so as not to be able to walk when they are old.
The fat man took it and smoked it, the cigarette was wrapped in a plastic bag, but after such a toss last night, it was also tidal, and he choked after a few puffs, and the tears flowed, but it did feel very good, and I didn't know if it was physiological or psychological, and I felt a lot more sober when I smoked it, and the fatigue was not so obvious all of a sudden.
Lin Xiaofan thanked him, shook his head, took out a few pills from the bottle, and handed them to him, which was a four-grade elixir for healing wounds.
When the black devil saw the light in his eyes, he immediately thanked him and went back to give one to everyone.
Lin Xiaofan gave his pill to Li Monan, Fat Man and Yang Xuan, and each of them took two pills.
Ning'er is dead, and for the Black Demon Heaven, there are only five people left from the original eight people over there, and one of them is missing an arm.
Everyone is not far away this time, and there must be many people who are easy to do.
Lin Xiaofan knew that the one who was missing an arm was called Crazy Sand, and the one who was a little fatter next to him was called Lightning. The other two are called torrential rain and one is thundering.
When the Black Demon Heaven went back, Lei Ming also asked him for soil smoke, and the Black Demon Heaven pinched half of it for him. The other half was given to lightning. Lei Ming quickly nodded a few bites and it was gone, and he didn't give it to the Black Demon Sky if he wanted it again. The injured man, Lin Xiaofan had never seen him speak, and at this time, looking at the swamp on the side thoughtfully, the Black Demon Tian probably felt embarrassed to be one less him, so he also handed him half of it. Lin Xiaofan thought that he wouldn't pick it up, but he didn't expect him to take it too, but he didn't order it, but put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"Damn, little brother, don't spoil things if you don't know how to smoke." Thunder on the side protested, "This thing is not for eating. ”
"You know a fart, eating tobacco is much more energetic than smoking, and in Yunnan and Myanmar, there are more people chewing." Lightning said on the side, but after speaking, he also felt puzzled, so he looked at the wild sand: "But look at the little brother, you don't look like an old smoking gun?" How do you know to chew tobacco leaves? Have you run a boat? ”
Wild Sand shook his head, chewed a few bites, and spit tobacco on his hand to smear the wound on his palm. I glanced at it, and saw that he only had one hand left, and the flesh of the palm was white and turned up, although there was no blood, but obviously the heat here also made it difficult for the wound to heal, and after applying it, he looked at Lightning, who stared at him with suspicion and distrust, but he still didn't say anything, and turned his head to look at the swamp on the side, and ignored us again.
The people of the Black Demon Sky group are also used to this situation, and Wild Sand seems to be secretive about his own situation, but I understand that a large part of these questions are not even known to him, "A person who appears out of thin air, has no past, no future, and does not seem to have any connection with this world", this is his evaluation of himself, and it is really appropriate to think about it occasionally.
The fat man who took off the naked, only a pair of underwear left, plus the evaporation of the water on his body, felt a little comfortable, and felt a little relieved, and the fat man took out the compressed jerky for everyone to eat, because in his gift bag, in addition to eating, it was eaten. We munched on the tea, and we didn't know what it tasted like, but we filled our stomachs. As soon as his stomach was full, he was sleepy, so Li Monan used his backpack and the things inside to build a place to block the sun, he put it sentry, and a few of us shrank in. Everyone knew that after entering the swamp, there might never be a chance to rest again, and now it was a benefit to have a good sleep, and there was no superfluous thought, as soon as I lay down, my eyes were almost black, and I fell asleep.
It was dark, and I didn't know how long I slept. Lin Xiaofan woke up in a daze, but found that it was dark all around, and he was sticky, rubbed his eyes and took a look, and found that it was dark and it was raining again. Yang Xuan fell asleep on the side of the luggage, the fat man was next to Xiao Fan, snoring, and Li Heinan was also sleeping deeply with his face facing inward.
The fuel cans in the distance were still burning, but the rain was blue and couldn't shine far. Lin Xiaofan took out the wind lamp to light the flame and wanted to go out to the toilet, but after walking a few steps, he found that something was wrong at this time.
A-Ning's body is not far away,
It turned out that the sleeping bag wrapped in A-Ning's body on one side was opened for someone at some point, and A-Ning's upper body was exposed.
This is a very common thing in normal times, marching in the Gobi, before entering the oasis, we generally do not take off our upper body, but put our lower body into a sleeping bag to keep warm, so that we can quickly get up when there is an emergency. A-Ning was lying in a sleeping bag like this, and I didn't know how many times I had seen it all the way, it was very familiar, but when I thought about it, I remembered that she was dead, and I felt very sad.
But at this time, A-Ning Yijing died, and her body was completely wrapped in a sleeping bag before, who turned her out? Could it be a little fat man? What did he turn her out for?
When I stood up and walked over to the corpse and looked at it, I noticed that something seemed wrong. The corpse did move, and the hands were curled up unnaturally for some reason, and the whole corpse looked a little strange.
Lin Xiaofan subconsciously looked around, the sky was gray, the swamp was different in the canyon, the trees around were relatively sparse, nothing could shine out, the flames of the fuel cans were small, and the surroundings were completely dark, and nothing could be seen.
turned around and woke up the fat man, the fat man didn't sleep very well, and woke up after a beat, Lin Xiaofan pulled him over and asked him if he did it?
The fat man Gu Lajie was inexplicable, he came over to take a look, and shook his head, but looked at Xiao Fan with suspicious eyes, Xiao Fan saw that his expression didn't look like he was pretending, so he was even more puzzled.
suddenly thought of Xiao Ning's companion again, and said in his heart, could it be that the subordinates of the Black Demon Heaven have taken a fancy to the relics on A-Ning's body? Does this bastard not even let go of what is on his own people? But those people in Lin Xiaofan's impression seem to be unlikely. But who did it?
Lin Xiaofan's movements here were obviously alarming the Black Demon Heaven
Black Demon Tian washed his face with the swamp water on the side, walked to the side of A-Ning's corpse, lit up the miner's lamp and shone it down, wanting to see what was going on.
Aning's face still had the expression of the moment of death, which looked a little terrifying now. The corpse was wet with rain, and the black devil squatted down and straightened the hair on her face, and we saw that the wound on the place where A-Ning was bitten had turned black and purple and began to rot, and the skin on her body also appeared mottled dark purple, and the high temperature here had begun to corrode this beautiful corpse.
Shining in the light, everyone found that there were several mud marks on the corpse's clothes, and Gu Lajie touched it, which seemed to be stained for a short time, and following the mud traces, we suddenly found that there were several small things similar to mud footprints on the side of the corpse.
(To be continued.) )