Ruins and crumbling walls.

There was no man-made structure, but somehow, Catherine crossed the word in her head. On the other side of the Tanatos River, a sense of desolation and desolation enveloped her, and the earthy earth cracked open into the distance. Strange rocks, strange-looking hills can be seen everywhere, unknown weeds grow haphazardly, they huddle in small clumps, each clump is far apart, these grasses are waist-high, most of them are withered yellow, occasionally a few with a little red.

Often there will be one or two trees separated by tens of meters, and the rainforest area behind them presents a strong contrast, these trees grow short, not to mention, one by one is still strangely shaped, none of the trees are straight and slender, all are crooked, branches and branches bend in various directions, there are few bare leaves on it, but they are all thorns and spikes. From a distance, the trees look like rows of demonic claws reaching out from hell to the sky.

The wind is blowing, there is no moisture in the wind, it is dry and hot, and the finer loess on the ground is still swept up by the wind, and if you are not careful, you will be fascinated by your eyes, if you don't see it with your own eyes, Catherine will not believe that there is such a semi-Gobi area in the world's largest and most abundant rainforest - Warcraft Rainforest.

Catherine had been attacked by the Dian Bai, and now her heart trembled at the sight of such a grotesque tree, but with the Master at her side, she still mustered up her courage and cautiously went to a relatively tall dead tree to observe it carefully.

The tree looks like it has been dead for a long time, the one-foot-thick trunk is full of deep cracks, horizontal, vertical and criss-crossed, the entire trunk is crossed, the exposed heart of the tree has become the same dark brown as the bark, and then look up, the branches of the tree less than five meters high begin to fork, and the trees in the rainforest are different, the branches of this tree are full of spikes, every few tens of centimeters are symmetrically clustered, this spikes are quite long, about five or six centimeters, the tail end is very sharp, and it is easy to pierce the skin of the person by eyesight.

Further up, the dead branches gradually thinned out, but instead the curved light brown branches hung down, shaking slowly in the wind, like snakes.

Wait?Like a snake?!

Catherine's hair exploded all over her body, and even her shoulder-length short hair exploded, and she jumped out of the place one by one, those crooked things, where are some brown branches!

Catherine cried out with tears: "Master, didn't you say that this species is particularly rare?

Ling Mo hid his face and sighed, feeling very powerless for his apprentice's nerves, he knocked Catherine's head and said angrily: "Look carefully! Don't think about the snake as soon as you see it! See how this snake hangs on the tree!"

Catherine looked at it intently, and then she saw that the thin snakes hanging down one by one were all headless corpses! Their hideous heads with fangs disappeared, revealing the pink snake flesh and internal organs from their necks, and the most excessive thing was that the headless corpses of the snakes were cruelly pierced on the spikes of the tree, the upper half was fixed with two or three spikes, and then bent and knotted on the branches, and the lower half hung directly under the tree, fluttering in the wind, telling endless desolation and weirdness.

Catherine looked at the tree in front of her, not to mention seven or eight snakes, the higher the place, the bigger the snake was worn, and the more miserable the death, and there were some small mammals at the top that were also worn on the tree, such as voles, rabbits, weasels, and Catherine even saw the remains of a small leopard at the top, neck, spine, The three points of the hind legs are fixed with spikes, half of the leopard's head has been eaten, and the other half is weakly drooping down, and the expression on the leopard's face is peculiar, looking from the bottom up, it seems to be a weathered smile.

This kind of eerie atmosphere, as if it was the scene of some extremely evil cult ceremony, one by one the corpses of demonic beasts were deliberately placed, and people couldn't help but immediately think of a word that was swept into the garbage heap of history: living sacrifice!

Evil scenes are always very uncomfortable, Catherine resisted the urge to retch, cautiously took two steps closer to Ling Mo, cautiously looked around, and asked, "Master, in the Warcraft Rainforest, there are other people who have reached such a deep place, what are they doing such cruel things?!"

Ling Mo looked at her inexplicably: "Where are the others?"

"Those things, those things!" Catherine pointed hard at the various animal corpses in the dead tree, "This must have been done by a group of people, right?

"Your associative ability is too rich, you shouldn't be a wilderness anchor, you should write a novel," Ling Mo said that you think too much: "This kind of scene is not made by anyone, but by a special bird." ”

"Birds, its idle eggs...... Ahem, is it panicking? When it catches its prey, it doesn't eat it, and it hangs it out for exhibition? Is it so disgusting to exhibit?"

"This bird has a very unique title, called the butcher bird," Ling Mo gestured with his hands and gestured: "Its size is not large, its length is only a few tens of centimeters, and its wingspan is only about two meters, but it is an out-and-out bird of prey, it moves very quickly, and its explosive power is superb, especially the mouth with a sharp barb, the lethality is very huge, and it likes to prey on snakes and small mammals, and it has a record of killing rock golems, but I have not seen it with my own eyes." ”

"And this bird has a very bad habit, because they like to live in a dry, hot environment, it is not easy to find food, so they often make up for the prey that they can't eat half to death, and then wear it on this thorn tree, so that the prey can not struggle and cannot die, and can be preserved for a longer time. ”

"That sounds like a thrifty bird......," Catherine twitched at the corners of her mouth, and then she noticed the contradiction, and pointed to the snake corpses and said, "This is obviously dead, right?

"Well, it's a special time for the butcher bird, and it's in heat. ”

"Estrus?!"

"Is it necessary to use such a surprised tone? Warcraft naturally want to be in heat, otherwise how can they reproduce? How can they have offspring?"

"That's not what I mean," Catherine scratched her head, "I'm not surprised by this, it's just that Master, you just described how ferocious this bird is, and then suddenly said that it was in heat and made me feel very disobedient, as if it were ...... Well, it's as if we're talking about how terrifying the demon king is, but the next sentence is his favorite leek-stuffed dumpling......"

“...... Okay, let's not discuss this," Ling Mo was speechless for a moment, and then straightened the topic to the point: "When the butcher bird is in heat, the female bird will hunt the prey in order to let the male bird see that she is strong, and only eat the most essential part of the prey, and then hang the carcass high and place it in the most conspicuous place, so as to attract the male to mate with herself. In more conspicuous trees, females will fight with each other, and the females who die in this kind of competition are several times more than the females who die during hunting, and there are even some extremely ferocious females who will hang the corpses of their own kind on the trees to attract potential males. ”

"It really is...... It's ferocious to a certain extent, but the female bird is used to attract the male? Master, are you sure you didn't say the opposite?"

"That's right, it's true that the female attracts the male, because for the butcher bird, after mating, the female lays eggs, but the male does the egg-incubating work, and during the five-month incubation period, the male can't leave the nest and can only wait for the female to bring him enough food, and if he doesn't choose a strong enough female, he probably won't be able to hold on at all. ”、

Catherine smacked her lips and sighed: "I'll rub it, then this male butcher bird has a really good life, I don't have to bear the pain of giving birth, and I am lying at home waiting for dinner like my uncle, I want to be a male butcher bird in my next life!"

"Heh, you won't think like that soon," Ling Mo sneered, then carefully observed the dead tree, he grabbed a handful of loess at the root of the tree, rubbed it, and then said: " Sure, there is indeed a female butcher bird in heat, it is obviously not a very strong individual, the tree is relatively low, and it is very close to the Tanatos River, which is definitely not a good place for a butcher bird, plus the prey placed at the top is only a sand leopard, I can conclude that the strength of this butcher bird is definitely in the lower middle of the population. So, your dinner today, it's obvious that this is it. ”

"I take the liberty of asking, what level of demonic beast is the butcher bird?"

"Level 4, it's just the prey that an intermediate martial artist can deal with. ”

What a fart!

Catherine resisted the urge to curse and rolled her eyes: "Yes, Master." ”

(ps: brothers, the second watch! kneel and beg for a recommendation vote!!!)