Chapter 23: No Man's Land
Jun Aoyan poured the Mo knife with one hand, and grabbed the metal hilt, as if holding a stick. Bai Ya, who was about to raise his hand, was grabbed by Qi Huan from behind, and covered his mouth with the other hand. The old man's movements were slow, but they were getting closer and closer. It would have been easy to shake Qi Huan away, but it must have been a big move. The three of them were in a stalemate, motionless.
The old man appeared in their field of vision, but there was no response, as if he was blind. It's no wonder that he looks very old, and his whole body is thin and dry, like a jujube pit. His teeth were as loose as his hair, his mouth was pursed, his long, sparse white beard hung from his chin, and some sand stuck to it. His eyes narrowed into a slit, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to use.
No one dared to make a move until the old man found out something.
"A moment."
When the old man said this, they were all stunned.
The old man's eyes didn't look at it, and he didn't even turn his head. He just left it down lightly, and even if it was so close, it made it difficult for the young people to listen. He turned around slowly, and staggered back again. After a long time, no monsters came, and there were no other changes. I can hear the voices of young people one after another, and I am afraid that they are all back. This place should not stay for a long time, and the three of them seized the opportunity and left on tiptoe. The whole process was really scary, and I was breathing with caution.
Even the jungle is no longer safe, and the villagers' searches have infiltrated here. They dodge and hide. There were a few times when Bai Ya was so irritable that he couldn't hold back, and Qi Huan dragged it back so as not to expose him. He said that since no one has used the props to divinate their location yet, it is likely that they are lucky, and the youkai have not yet drawn what originally belonged to Qi Huan. How long can you hide it, and if you expose it early, it will be more dangerous. It wasn't until they got deeper into the forest that the villagers didn't find them.
At that time, they were hiding behind a huge ancient tree. Bai Ya peeked half of his head out of the dense bushes, observing the situation on the other side through the gap. One of the boys was about to go this way when another older woman grabbed him by the shoulders and shook his head to signal him not to pass, so the boy gave up. This is probably the most critical time besides meeting the elderly. After they left, a few people collapsed under the tree and let out a long breath.
It was past noon, and they were all a little hungry. Qi Huan stood up and patted the ashes and pointed to the depths of the forest.
"I'm going to find something to eat?"
"Don't go yet." Bai Ya said cautiously, "They gave up searching here, I don't think it's because of the lack of time." It is quite possible that there is something more dangerous in the depths of the woods that even their natives can't handle. ”
"Shhh...... It seems to make sense when you say that. Qi Huan sat back helplessly, cross-legged and propped up his knees, "Then what should I do, I can't be hungry all the time, right?" I feel that since I landed on the island, the food is not as good as before. ”
Jun Aoyan kept pacing behind the ancient tree. She looked restless, like an agitated beast, glancing from time to time in the direction the villagers had left. While they were discussing, she suddenly stopped and stood between them.
"Wait a minute, I think we have something very important to discuss. What did the old man mean by 'a moment'? ”
"Obviously, it's time." Bai Ya lazily responded.
"Of course I do. But what exactly do we need to do? Is it waiting for him all the time? Did he have anything to say? ”
Qi Huan said: "I also think he is a little weird. Unlike the other villagers, he didn't tell the youkai in the first place. Everyone was under the command of those monsters, and he was the only one who let us go. He clearly saw us, but he didn't betray the whereabouts of our strangers, could it be that he planned to help us? ”
"You might be able to catch a big fish with a long line."
"Miss Jun, you're too sensitive. What is he trying to do? ”
"I don't know. I was just instinctively a little worried. Ever since we disembarked, nothing seemed to be a natural occurrence, and there were always surprises. ”
"We're already so unlucky, it should be a good thing, right?"
Jun Aoyan was still hesitating, and Bai Ya also stood up and made his position clear.
"What good can he do for us? To help us is to fight against the youkai. ”
"Why do you think so? Then you say, what else can be done? ”
"At the right moment, go and see him where you just now."
"Aren't you worried?"
"There's no other way."
"Cut."
Bai Ya is like that. On the one hand, I always objected to something, but I still did it, and there was no new idea. But he just wants to choke you like that, making you uncomfortable, and he looks innocent without intention, which is really annoying. There was no other way, so they decided it first. After being quiet for a while, Qi Huan's stomach began to rumble again.
"Can you be quiet?"
"You're not hungry? You just call me quiet. Let me ask it for you. Qi Huan was angry, crossed his waist, lowered his head to his almost sunken stomach and said, "Brother, can you be quiet?" ”
All they answered was a series of cooing.
Bai Ya muttered, "Do you have a pigeon in it?" ”
"I wish there was a pigeon in there!"
Jun Aoyan catered with some embarrassment: "Indeed, I am also a little hungry. I haven't eaten in a long time. ”
Also, there are too many things that consume physical strength so far, especially fights. It's not that Bai Ya isn't hungry, it's just that he wasn't hungry when he was a child, and he was used to it. The more others said that they were hungry, the easier it was for him to think of this stubble, so he shouted to Qihuan to control it. But how can people's yearning for food be easily suppressed? After much deliberation, they decided to go a little deeper into the woods.
"It's really dangerous." Bai Ya emphasized as he walked, "I saw a chipmunk being eaten by a flower with my own eyes. ”
"No, brother, don't be hungry and hallucinate."
Qi Huan disagreed. Only Jun Aoyan said a little cautiously, it is better to be careful. They don't walk fast, and they don't let go of any tree, not an inch of turf. I've only been walking for a long time, and I've never seen any fruit or weeds. I saw a lot of mushrooms along the way, but the colors were daunting, and I didn't dare to risk it easily. Qi Huan saw a bird's nest, and finally let Bai Ya put it on it, and when he touched it, he found that it was empty.
Moreover, the more they walked, the more they felt that this dense forest was indescribably strange.
In addition to a large number of unknown plants, there is also a very intuitive feeling - beauty. Yes, it is a real beauty, and it is an indescribable, ineffable beauty, with a hint of indescribable awe and danger. This beauty is decoded step by step as the unknown is cracked, but the edge of the unknown spreads at a faster rate, and the less you have time to catch up with it. Every time I learn something new, more questions and a desire to understand the principle are stronger. Even the part that they have explored and understood is far beyond what humans usually know. The experience is completely inapplicable to the ecology of this island.
For example, flowers. There is a flower that is very beautiful, the shape is not far from that of a lily, and it is smaller, but it grows in a bunch on the vine. And if you look at the vine, you can find a lot of colors. White, yellow, red, blue, and even green. What's even more surprising is that they actually grow on the same vine.
"I know that honeysuckle is yellow and white, and that it grows on the same tree...... There are also other common flowers that can grow two colors on the same subject. Such a large number of heterochromatic flowers are really rare. Even if I knew, it was a divine flower with quite rich spiritual or demonic powers. But these flowers are very ordinary, and I can hardly feel their power. ”
"Me too." Bai Ya nodded rarely, "It's just that I can still feel a very powerful spirit here, and I can't tell what it is." It's like we're in a powerful circle or field force, and we can't figure out the ingredients. ”
Jun Aoyan didn't understand a word. She just thinks it's good-looking, it's very good-looking, the kind that takes people's hearts. Unconsciously she reached out and held up a flower, ready to lean in close and sniff it.
"Wait!"
Bai Ya suddenly drew a knife and stopped her jaw, and the back of the knife stuck to the skin. When she came back to her senses, she felt that she was a little reckless.
Qi Huan also anxiously accused her: "It's too reckless." What if the floral fragrance is poisonous? ”
"Not really...... It's so good-looking. ”
As soon as the words came out, Jun Aoyan reacted that he had said the wrong thing. It's a bit of a brainstorm.
"I haven't seen you pick so many beautiful mushrooms before!"
“…… Yes, yes. She replied again and again.
This is not uncommon. They also saw a lot of incredible parts, such as the big fruit of a watermelon growing on a tree. They thought the fruit was as heavy as a watermelon, but when they reached out and picked it up, it was fluttering. When I tried to pluck it, a blue liquid came out of the joint, as thick as blood, and it exuded a clear and smelly bitter taste, which made people wonder if such a fruit could be eaten. In the end, Qi Huan persuaded them to give up, after all, if they could really eat it, they might have been eaten by animals long ago, and it would not be the turn of people.
Speaking of which, they haven't seen any animals all the time. The only shadow I saw in the bushes was a sheep-like body, but on its head it was crooked like a deer's horns. The "antlers" were unlike any other species of deer they knew, and if it hadn't run away alertly, they would have thought it was actually a branch. Jun Aoyan said in surprise that she saw two sharp fangs on the strange sheep's beak, and the other two didn't believe it, thinking that she had seen it wrong.
"If you really have that tooth, you still need to run."
"I'm serious!"
It doesn't look like it's a lie, and it's not necessary. Jun Aoyan wanted to chase after him, but finally chose to give up. Because the antler-fanged sheep went deep into the forest, and it was very fast.
In their native land, they knew it, and almost every region would have one or two, three or four things that they had never seen or heard of. It could be a living thing, or it could be some kind of technology. And in this strange place, almost all the unknowns are condensed, and the common things seem rare. After walking for so long, even the ordinary grass looks touching.
What really stopped them from going down was a puddle of psychedelic moss.
The moss may be a whole, ranging in color from dark green to dark blue to purple to dark yellow and dark green. They are clustered together in varying heights, and their colors are high and low. They didn't dare to get too close, so they just stood and looked as best they could, and could see that some of the mosses were pointed, some curled up, and some were as thin and sticky as ordinary mosses.
The horror is that it's the silhouette of a man – standing. A bare white patch resembling a skull was revealed.
"Let's go back." Bai Ya said this simply, turned around and left.
No one had any objections.
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