"What's wrong?"

Mu Qingye's face was slightly gloomy.

"Two people have been out to fetch water for more than half an hour, and they have not returned. ”

After another pause, he added.

"There is a water source not far from here, and it stands to reason that it will only take a quarter of an hour at most to go back and forth, and I haven't come back yet, so I'm afraid it's ......."

Something went wrong.

After pondering for a moment, Lou Xinyue said.

"Uncle Gu, you and Mu Gongzi asked everyone to pack up their things and leave here as soon as possible, and I will look for them. When I find yours, I'll speed up and catch up with yours. ”

Mu Qingye raised her eyes to look at Gu Chuanfeng.

Gu Chuanfeng nodded.

"That's fine, it's just that you can do it alone, girl, you can go with the young master. ”

Mu Qingye also agreed with Gu Chuanfeng's idea.

"Uncle Gu is right, you are indeed too dangerous alone, I'll go with you. ”

Lou Xinyue waved her hand and politely declined the kindness of the two.

Although Mu Qingye is credible, she still has many secrets that cannot be known to others. Mu Qingye is very smart, acting with him, her identity is easily exposed, and Mu Qingye is here, she can't cast spells, and her mystical power is very average. When it comes to danger, it's basically helpless. On the whole, with Mu Qingye, it is really dangerous.

"No, Uncle Gu, I'm fine. ”

Seeing that Lou Xinyue was so stubborn, Gu Chuanfeng and Mu Qingye no longer insisted, so they told her the direction of the water source.

"Don't worry, Uncle Gu, I'll be careful. ”

Lou Xinyue waved her hand and turned to leave.

In place, Gu Chuanfeng and Mu Qingye looked at each other, very helpless.

And at this time, by a small stream.

Two guards dressed in Mujia clothes are fetching water.

One humanity.

"Why don't you go a little far, you can't see a place to rest here. ”

"It's fine, it's not too far. The water we took before was salty and muddy, and although it was a little farther away, the stream was very clear and it must have been very sweet to drink. ”

"But I always think it's weird around me, so let's go back quickly. ”

Another guard disagreed.

"Look at what scares you kid, I haven't even seen a demon beast along the way, what will happen. ”

"That said, but I'm still not at ease. ”

"Okay, okay, the water is full, we'll go back now. The other guard reluctantly collected the water bladder and inadvertently kicked a stone into the stream as he left.

The two chatted and walked away.

But what they didn't notice was that after the pebble fell into the stream, a red undercurrent seeped out of the bottom of the stream, and dispersed in the water, and in the blink of an eye, the originally clear stream water turned all blood-red, and from a distance, it looked like a blood river winding through the mountains and forests.

It's chilling!

In the dark forest, the faint sunlight casts dappled afterimages through the gaps in the leaves.

The sound of hurried footsteps came, and two pairs of shoes stepped on the fallen leaves on the ground, which were the two guards of the Mu family before.

It turned out that the two of them had not walked out of the forest for a long time, only to find that they had been spinning in circles. Both looked anxious and flustered.

"Brother, are you sure this is the way back?"

"That's right, I made a mark on a nearby tree when I came, and the road we're taking now follows the mark. ”

"But this road is very strange to me, and it doesn't look like it has been before. ”

"Then either we'll go further, or if it's not right, we'll quit. ”

"That's all there is to it. ”

The two were about to leave, when there was a sudden movement in the grass not far away, and there was a rustling sound.

A figure flashed by.

The two of them broke out in a cold sweat, involuntarily clenched the knife in their hands, and looked nervously at the grass.

"Who?!"

They were still answered by a rustling in the grass.

There was a breeze blowing in the dark forest, but it inexplicably made people feel cold all over the body.

The two of them gradually approached the grass with knives from different directions, looked at each other to hint at their next move, and at the same time raised their knives and prepared to cut into the grass.

At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in the grass, and when he saw the two of them, he was overjoyed.

"So you're here. ”

The knife stopped in mid-air, and the two of them were a little dumbfounded.

"Lou girl!?"

The person who came was Lou Xinyue.

Lou Xinyue didn't find the two of them at the previous water source, so she used Mu Jue to find this place through the breath of the trees. It's just that he used Mu Jue to change his body again, so he had to hide behind the grass and return to his original state, but he didn't expect the movement to be a little big, and he was almost discovered by the two.

The two were a little embarrassed, quickly put away the knife and scratched their heads.

"Lou girl, why are you here?"

Walking out of the grass, Lou Xinyue pretended not to know and patted the weeds on her cuffs.

"You've been fetching water for too long, and everyone is worried, so I've come looking for you. ”

The two of them were a little embarrassed, they almost hurt Miss Lou just now, so they hurriedly saluted.

"Thank you, Miss Lou, we're fine. ”

"It's okay, the others have already set off, so let's catch up with them as soon as possible. ”

"Yes. ”

"Dare to ask what the two of you are called?" Lou Xinyue thought that she didn't know the names of the two yet.

The older guard replied.

"The girl has been promoted, lowly Mu Yuan, this is the lowly brother Mu Qian. ”

Lou Xinyue nodded.

"It turned out to be brothers, no wonder they looked so alike. ”

Mu Yuan smiled and looked at Mu Qian beside him, but did not answer.

Suddenly, Mu Yuan thought of something, his face froze, and he asked.

"Miss Lou, do you remember the way back?"

Sensing that Mu Yuan's expression was different, Lou Xinyue asked more.

"Remember, what's wrong?"

"In fact, the two of them saw that the water source in the original place was not good, so they came here to fetch water, because it was easy to get lost in the twists and turns of the forest, so they deliberately marked the trees when they came. But the two of us have been walking in this forest for more than an hour, and we can't get out no matter how we go. ”

Hearing this, Lou Xinyue's eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked at the surrounding trees.

It stands to reason that since you have made a mark, it is basically impossible to make a mistake.

Unless......

His eyes fell on a marked tree beside him, and Lou Xinyue walked closer.

Huge trees stand on the ground in knots from the bottom to the top, and the dense foliage cascades down to block out the sun.

It doesn't look like there's anything wrong with that.

There are shallow special scratches on the body of the tree, which should be the marks made by Mu Yuan. Lou Xinyue stretched out her index finger and wanted to touch it, but at the moment when her fingertips were about to touch it, the tree seemed to come alive and retracted by itself.

His eyes froze, and the alarm bell suddenly sounded in his head.

Lou Xinyue withdrew her hand and retreated more than ten meters at a rapid pace.

The tree is alive!

Scanning the surroundings, Lou Xinyue found that this kind of tree was indeed not a common species in the forest, and there were at least a hundred such trees around them, and they were in the center, forming an encirclement.

Mu Yuan and Mu Qian walked towards Lou Xinyue with a questioning face.

"What's wrong with Miss Lou?"

Lou Xinyue hurriedly stopped.

"Don't move!"

Seeing this, although the two brothers Mu Yuan didn't know why, they still stopped.

Lou Xinyue was just about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, there was a tremor under his feet.

At some point, the surrounding trees began to move.

The body of the tree gradually began to twist into grimaces, the leaves fell off, and the branches turned into rattans, revealing their original faces!

Before the three of them could react, they frantically swung and attacked the three of them.