Chapter 203: The Man-Eating Tree

"You see there's a big tree up ahead, and we can rest and eat there." It was Elik's girlfriend, Kelly, who was now looking at everyone in an inquiring tone.

Xu Ran didn't make much sense, he was indeed a little hungry after taking the boat for most of the day, let alone a girl, he looked at Huang Si and Meng Qiuhe beside him as if asking, and saw that they all nodded in agreement, Xu Ran coped.

"Okay!"

Meng Li is a girl who is silent, she is rarely heard talking along the way, and when she heard her companion say that she wanted to rest, she nodded flatly, and suddenly subconsciously glanced at Xu Ran and the others.

"I have some steamed buns here that I bought today, do you want to eat some."

Hearing this, Huang Si and Meng Qiuhe didn't speak, but Xu Ran smiled and shook his head: "Thank you!" We have that too. ”

Meng Li nodded, said no more, and then took out some food and distributed it to his companions, Eric and Kelly were not polite, took the food and began to chew.

Although Xu Ran and the others had long suspected Meng Li's identity, no one had the intention of debunking her.

Xu Ran had a part of dry food in his backpack, he took some food and began to eat it, not to mention, once people linger on the edge of hunger for a long time, they will eat everything with relish.

"Bring it, I'll eat you." I don't know when. Suddenly, a hand reached out.

"Don't you have it yourself?" Xu Ran looked at the owner of the amateur hand, this person was Huang Si. She was staring at Xu Ran with unquestionable eyes: "Do you give it or not?" ”

"Give! Of course it gives! Xu Ran smiled helplessly, Huang Si was on the pole with him. took out some food and handed it to Huang Si, she still stared at Xu Ran with a cold face.

Meng Qiuhe on the side was silent, he lowered his head and completely immersed himself in his own world, as if Xu Ran and Huang Si were the air in his eyes, and he ate alone with the food.

This guy!

Xu Ran is suffering and discerning, who calls him his junior brother.

But there seemed to be a blank gaze staring at them on the other side, and then it disappeared after a while.

How could this action evade Xu Ran's eyes, he didn't need to see with his eyes to know who this person was.

"What! Your heart hurts beautifully? Huang Si, who was beside him, noticed Xu Ran's small movements, and suddenly said in a strange way.

"Can you be serious, it's completely different from your previous personality." Xu Ran smiled helplessly, he couldn't scold Huang Si.

Huang Si suddenly giggled, it was very charming and moving, she lifted Xu Ran's chin, and stared at Xu Ran's eyes without shying away, looking very bold.

"Remember what we talked about when we first met?"

Of course, Xu Ran remembered that she was like this at that time, and she aroused the desire in her heart step by step.

"Can you. Don't do this! Xu Ran couldn't resist Huang Si's move.

"You haven't answered my question yet." Huang Si didn't back down, staring at him without blinking.

"Remember!" Xu Ran nodded helplessly.

"Then tell me first, what is your first impression of me." She continued to stare at Xu Ran's eyes, those crystal eyeballs were covered with a thick layer of frost, as if to warn that if you dare to say a wrong word, the old lady will let your soul return here.

"Of course it's a fairy descending to earth!" Xu Ran didn't dare to say that which woman didn't like the opposite sex around her to praise her for her beauty.

"Count you as acquaintances!" Huang Si put away his fierce gaze, and suddenly smiled proudly, his appearance had both the charm of a mature woman and the childishness.

Xu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, why didn't he find out before that Huang Si was actually a woman with this kind of character.

Overbearing! This is absolutely overbearing.

The movements of the two of them were too ambiguous, and of course they couldn't avoid the eyes of people with other intentions. It's just that what can I do if I see it, I can't go up and beat them up badly.

After filling their hunger, the few of them were about to hit the road, when suddenly there was a sound in the dark and damp jungle, I don't know what it was, it was very similar to the sound of insects and ants crawling.

"There's movement inside." It was Erik's girlfriend Kelly who spoke, but in fact, she didn't need to remind her, everyone heard the movement in the bushes.

Xu Ran and the three of them had relatively big nerves, and as soon as they heard the movement, they immediately stood up from under the tree. Meng Qiuhe drew a dagger and stared at the front intently. Huang Si followed behind Xu Ran, although neither of them took out their weapons, their tense expressions were no worse than Meng Qiuhe's.

Eri grabbed Kelly's hand, I don't know when there was an extra pistol, the calmest person in the audience belonged to Meng Li, and her expression in the audience barely changed.

The sound was getting closer and closer, and large buns bulged out under the dead leaves on the ground, as if something was burrowing into the ground.

"Damn! What the hell is this? Eric behind Xu Ran suddenly cursed, the pistol in his hand tightened and tightened, and he didn't shoot in the end.

"Eric! Could it be rats underground? Listening to Kelly's words behind her, Xu Ran felt that her words were a little ridiculous, how could a fifty or sixty-meter drum bun be a mouse?

But as the ground moved, many half-decayed leaves and animal bones surfaced on the ground, and what was even more terrifying was that some of the animal corpses still had blood stains on them, presumably just dead.

Xu Ran looked at Huang Si as if asking, she was familiar with the environment here, only to see her shake her head and say, "I used to take other waterways. ”

Hearing this, Xu Ran could only look at her in astonishment.

"Don't look at me like that, they say I haven't been here."

"Stop arguing, and look at the ground." Meng Qiuhe, who was leading the way in front, suddenly reminded him, Xu Ran and Huang Si were stunned for a moment at the same time, and then they both looked at the ground.

The yellow leaves were moving, and the dirt under the leaves began to slowly churn outward, as if something was about to break out of the cocoon.

The young man from the United States couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere, so he shot the ground first.

"Bang!" The voice rang out.

Immediately, Xu Ran scolded "damn it" in his heart

Huang Si and Meng Qiuhe's faces changed and changed, what kind of teammates are these.

Meng Li reacted very quickly, and she immediately grabbed Kelly and Eric's clothes and stepped back.

Under the ground, where Eric shot just now, something like a needle prick suddenly came out, the size of an adult's arm, covered in blood, with a strong fishy smell.

"It's a man-eating tree, everyone get out of the tree's attack range." Xu Ran shouted loudly, and was the first to retreat behind him, Huang Si and Meng Qiuhe reacted faster, and after a while, they retreated behind Xu Ran.

And Eric, who escaped the catastrophe, seemed to be scared stupid, if it weren't for Meng Li's reminder behind him, it is estimated that he would have become the material of this cannibal tree.

"Let's get out of here first." Meng Qiuhe opened a path in the barren grass behind him, plunged into it, and disappeared in an instant.

Huang Si, who was behind Xu Ran, suddenly glanced at the three of Erik, took Xu Ran's hand and ran in the other direction: "Leave them alone, we should also part ways." After speaking, he didn't wait for Xu Ran to speak, and pulled him to roll into the grass.

On the ground, there are so many rhizomes of the cannibal tree that they are like thousands of arrows piercing the heart, and thousands of troops and horses. The ground, which was still a flat river just now, instantly turned into a thousand holes, and several rhizomes spread wildly in a circle to all directions.

Xu Ran and Huang Si, who escaped this difficulty, rolled into a small river ditch, and both of them came out of the water wet and looked at the place where the cannibal tree had just now.

Over there, the birds scattered, and a large number of birds gathered like clouds, flying in every direction. From time to time, the jungle is filled with animal calls.

Xu Ran pulled Huang Si and climbed to the tree along the branches hanging on the water, the two stared quietly into the distance, and only after hearing that there was no movement at all under their feet did they choose to come down to the ground.

In the grass not far away, it suddenly shook violently, and Xu Ran and Huang Si began to be vigilant.

A head came out of the grass in the dark, it was Meng Li beside Eric, and there were two people behind her, since it was Eric and Kelly.

They were all fine, but they had a nose on their faces, and they looked very embarrassed.

"Oh! God forbid! It's really good that you're okay. Seeing that there was one less person beside Xu Ran, Eric asked again, "What about Brother Meng Qiu?" ”

"Scattered!" Xu Ran replied, and suddenly he glanced at Meng Li beside Eric.

This person is very weird, how can she know where Xu Ran is.

Eric responded, raising his white-skinned hands and pulling some solid fuel from the backpack behind him.

"I'll burn it in a moment when I encounter this thing." He said with some resentment.

"Dear Eric, don't be impulsive, we managed to escape for our lives." Kelly next to her saw that her boyfriend was going crazy, and immediately spoke out to reassure her.

Meng Li nodded silently, obviously agreeing with Kelly's words.

"Let's get out of here." Xu Ran proposed on the side.

"I don't have an opinion, I'll follow you wherever you go." Huang Si suddenly grabbed Xu Ran's hand, I don't know if it was unintentional or intentional, and he seemed very close to Xu Ran. Presumably it was pretended to be for some people.

Meng Li's expression remained unchanged for eternity, as if the conversation between the two just now had nothing to do with her.

"Meng Li, do you think we're going in that direction?" Suddenly, Kelly, who had finished sprinkling dog food, looked at Meng Li beside her.

"This way!" She pointed in a direction.

Suddenly, Huang Si, who was holding Xu Ran's arm, suddenly squinted, and after a flash, he returned to his previous appearance. Her small action did not avoid Xu Ran's eyes, Xu Ran patted her hands, and then looked at her with a feigned smile, but he was actually asking what she meant.

Huang Si stretched out his other hand and wrote two words "the same" in Xu Ran's palm

I see! Xu Ran understood Huang Si's mood just now. It turned out that the route they were taking was exactly the same as their own. It seems that the identities of these three people are indeed very suspicious.

"It so happened that we were going there too." Xu Ran said with a smile.

"Oh! Oh, God! It's really great! There is an old saying in China that we work together, and we have a good company on the road. Eric grinned at Xu Ran and Huang Si.

Xu Ran smiled and nodded, and suddenly another one came out of the grass.

"Did you find anything?" Xu Ran saw that it was Meng Qiuhe, so he looked in a direction in the dense forest.

"There's a swamp ahead, and we have to go through it to get to the jungle on the other side."

"Oh! Damn, I hate swamps. Eric scolded with a straight face.

The group set off in full gear, and after Meng Qiuhe led Xu Ran, the three women were sandwiched between everyone.

The swamp is located in the northeast direction, surrounded by greenery, covered with fallen leaves, and the water in the lake is turbid and blue.

However, with the passage of time, Meng Qiuhe, who was leading in front, suddenly stopped, only to see him say a word, and then squatted down and looked at the water.

Seeing this, several people in the back also followed suit, squatting in a half-circle, checking the movement of the water surface.

The water here is so muddy that there are no waves on the water, and there is no way to check the results by exhausting all methods.

"I'll go down first and find out what's going on!" Seeing that everyone's expressions were a little hesitant, Xu Ran volunteered and took the lead in going down the swamp.

"Wait!" Suddenly, Huang Si ran to Xu Ran and pulled him out: "I have a climbing rope here, you hold it, remember to pull the rope whenever there is a situation."