Chapter 54: Nine Deaths and One Life
Although I was not immediately strangled, the current situation was undoubtedly a death sentence for me, and there were twenty or thirty fibrous roots wrapped around me, each of which was the thickness of an arm, and it was not at all something I could shake. I'm afraid I'll starve to death of thirst in less than a week, and end up as fertilizer for this strange tree.
This is too damn ruthless, this way of dying is too hard, I really don't know what kind of tree these are, it's unlikely to say that this is a dryad, if it's really a dryad, I'm afraid you'll kill me directly, and you won't be so troublesome to lock me up in the roots.
Now I finally understand why Yeling has always been regarded as a forbidden place for the living to set foot in a radius of a hundred miles, aside from the big-headed monsters and other strange existences I have never seen, these moving trees alone, how many people come in are only a dead end! It would be terrible if all the trees in the whole of Yaling were so evil. But it's also strange, there are so many trees, but only these two are chasing me just now, are these two only alive, I'm just unlucky, just happened to bump into me?
It's unlikely when I think about it, because when these two trees were chasing me just now, the rest of the trees took the initiative to move their positions, which means that the rest of the trees can also move, but if the rest of the leaves can move, why didn't they do it to me just now?
I suddenly thought of a possibility, the two trees chasing me seemed to have one thing in common, and that was that I had done something to them.
Needless to say, the one that blocked the way was that I cut off the branches of other people, and it was strange that I didn't settle accounts, and as for the later one, it was probably because I tied a rope to it, which angered it.
Whatever the real situation is, one thing is for sure, these trees are alive, they not only bleed, but they also move, and I had assumed that the blood was just the sap secreted by the trunk to heal wounds, but now it seems that it should be wrong, it could really be the blood of the trees!
I lamented in my heart, I knew that these trees were so weird, I wouldn't have messed with them if I killed them, but now I'm trapped in the roots, if the Taoist priests can't find me, I can only wait here to die.
What trapped me was the tree I had tied with a rope, and there were many roots around me, different from those tentacle roots in the nightmare, these roots in front of me were similar to the weeping roots of an oak tree, and there were a few that hung down on my shoulders, armpits, and straddles, fixing me in a very uncomfortable position, and I couldn't lie down, I couldn't sit down, it was like a horse step, it was uncomfortable.
It's not my character to sit still, I struggled to find the knife on my belt to cut these fibrous roots, trying to see if I could escape, as for whether I would wake up this strange tree again, I don't care, it's all dead anyway, it's better to fight.
The knife that the third uncle gave me was very short, and even the diameter of the thinnest fibrous root around me was wider than it, and it was a huge project to cut such a thick root with a similar knife. Fortunately, the material of this knife was good, and it was extremely sharp, and it took less than five minutes, and I cut off all the fibrous roots around me that were restricting my movements.
Although I was still surrounded by fibrous roots, the range of activities that I could move around had greatly increased, and what pleased me the most was that there was no reaction when I cut off the fibrous roots, and there was no blood coming out of the fibrous roots, which was good news.
With more room to move around and more freedom of movement, I continued to cut the fibrous roots, and soon cleared a gap that I could get out of.
I resisted the joy in my heart and went out, only to see that the other tree whose branches I had cut was gone, and the path that had been blocked before had reappeared. I was overjoyed, rushed out, came to the edge of the sinkhole and threw the rope down, at this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound in the woods behind me, I was startled, turned my head to look, and found that countless snake-like fibrous roots in the dark and deep forest jumped straight towards me, and what was even more terrifying was that those trees were moving in this direction, not one or two, but the whole forest of trees were moving in this direction.
Regardless of the shock, I grabbed the rope noose and jumped off the sinkhole without hesitation, down to the sinkhole, I took advantage of the stone gap in the wall of the sinkhole to stabilize my body, and I heard a sound of brushing the air overhead, I looked up and found that at least hundreds of black fibrous roots rushed into the sinkhole, looking like that, it seemed to be ready to wrap me up.
I was horrified in my heart, I didn't expect these fibrous roots to be so powerful, and they actually chased them directly into the sinkhole. This is really going to die, I have gone down to the sinkhole, at this time if you want not to be caught by those roots, the only way to loosen the knot on the rope is to quickly descend, but the danger of doing so is very great, once the knot is completely loosened, the speed of the rope sleeve will be unlimited, I will fall quickly at the speed of free fall, even if I get rid of the roots, it is very difficult to stop, and in the end I may slide directly to the bottom of the sinkhole and fall to death.
Seeing that the roots of the trees had reached the top of my head, I thought to myself, rather than let the roots roll up to make fertilizer, it would be better to take a gamble.
Just as I was about to recklessly untie the knot, an unexpected scene happened, and all the roots above my head disappeared after going some distance into the sinkhole.
My eyes widened, and I thought I was mistaken, but after waiting for several minutes and still not seeing the fibrous root reappear, I realized that I had narrowly escaped the disaster.
I was secretly relieved, although I didn't know why the roots of the tree suddenly disappeared, but I was not in the mood to delve into this problem at this time, although there was a rope sleeve to reduce the damage of the opponent when falling, but it was still very laborious to climb the rock wall all the time. I didn't stop, kicked the rock wall, and the knot began to slide down.
The process of falling was smooth, and there were no accidents, but I still tried my best to control the speed of the fall, and after a few minutes, I estimated that I had fallen about forty or fifty meters, and my two arms had begun to weaken, and I was so sore that I was terrible. The top of the pit was completely invisible, pitch black, and I knew it was because of the fog, otherwise I would have been able to see some faint light from my current position.
I couldn't hold on to my arms, so I stopped controlling the knot, and it just so happened that there was a hollow groove in the rock wall that was hollowed in, and it looked like a stone plank road carved into the cliff face.
I didn't think about it, kicked the cave wall, and wanted to swing into the hole groove with the strength of the rope, my strength and angle were very well controlled, it stands to reason that this time I would definitely be able to swing smoothly into the empty groove, but what I never expected was that at the moment when I struggled to shake it over, the rope suddenly retracted upward, and the height that was originally just able to reach the empty groove suddenly rose a section, and at this time I just threw it out with all my strength, and it was too late to stop, and it smashed on the pit wall a little above the hollow groove of the rock wall.
Due to the great force used to swing out this time, I suddenly hit the solid rock wall, my qi and blood surged, and my hand broke away from the rope sleeve and fell straight down.
My heart was cold, I knew that it was going to be bad, although it had fallen more than 40 meters, but the sinkhole still could not see the bottom, and if I fell from here, I would definitely die!
The desire to survive instantly filled the whole brain, I didn't think about it, I instinctively stretched out two hands and grabbed the rock wall, and it was also a big loss to my life, just this piece of rock wall grew a kind of thumb-thick vine, I grabbed it casually, and just grabbed a dozen. This vine has tiny sharp barbs on it, and my hand was cut with blood the moment I grabbed it, but at the same time as it fell, a large number of leaves on the vine were also brushed off, blocking my hand, and it slid all the way for two or three meters before stopping, and the stone groove in the rock wall was right above my head.
I grabbed the rock wall and climbed up with difficulty, and I didn't care about the blood and broken leaves on my hands, and fell straight on a big stone in the empty trough, the fear of the rest of my life after the catastrophe has not subsided, the horror is undecided, it grows so big, this is the closest I have to death, even more thrilling than the one in Fengyang, even if I reacted a tenth of a second slower just now, I am afraid that at this time I have already fallen into a pile of minced meat.