Chapter Seventy-Five: The Fire Eats the Worm
"Have you ever dreamed of meeting anyone?"
Meng Ji waited for Yan Qi to calm down before asking cautiously.
He was afraid that Yan Qi would collapse again all of a sudden.
"Yes, there is a girl who paints on the mountain, and she has been giving me food all the time and asking me to exchange bodies with her."
Yan Qi said, Meng Ji's heart tightened.
"Have you eaten then?"
Yan Qi recalled painfully, it was all the big worms on the woman's feet looking at him strangely.
Yan Qi touched his feet in fear.
"There's a big one-eyed monster that keeps trying to climb on my feet, and then I'm so cold, so cold."
Yan Qi said and handed his foot over to Meng Ji to see.
"That's the foot."
Yan Qi's feet were extremely smooth, and Meng Ji asked her to put her feet down.
"You put your feet down first, and then tell me as soon as you encounter something unpleasant or that scares you, right?"
"But, I think it's just a nightmare."
Yan Qi poked his finger and said embarrassedly.
Indeed, the heart rejoices.
The two of them leaned on the window and looked out.
The sun is charming, and there are always people who happen to pass by, but it seems to them that it is just these two basking in the sun together.
Gradually, at night, the whole village came alive.
Yan Qi was fully armed by Meng Ji before pulling her out.
"You take this, remember that there is nothing terrible, there is me."
Yan Qi felt the power coming from Meng Ji's palm, and suddenly felt that he was also full of confidence.
"Okay."
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Deep in the woods.
A group of people and croppers sat together.
As the sun sets, a line of birds flies over them.
A bird suddenly stopped, and saw that the deep forest was crawling with a rush to attract birds.
After flying back and forth, they suddenly leaned down and rushed down.
A flock of birds landed and soon became lifeless.
The group of croppers took their hoes, touched their stomachs to wipe off the blood stains on their bodies, and stepped on the feathers all over the ground to stand up slowly.
"You're going to have to behave well tonight."
The words fell, and the last inch of the sunset was also put away by the mountain.
A bird that was still barely breathing flapped its wings and tried to escape.
The child, who followed the adult, came to the bird, smiling innocently.
In a few moments, the bird turned into a feather without a corpse, and the child hung it around its neck.
"Let's go, as a host, you can't make guests wait too long."
The child's voice was very immature, but there was a little old age in his tone.
At the children's command, the farmer took out a human skin and put it on for the child.
The child opened his arms, and a pair of eyes suddenly opened, far more than the yellowed skin became bloody and blurry, and countless pairs of eyes crawled into the human skin on their own, turning into a thin and yellow old man.
The old man staggered with his cane and led the farmer to the light of the campfire not far away.
That night, Yan Qi and Meng Ji, who were also walking, crossed the lifeless village under the leadership of the strong man this morning, and walked towards an unknown deep forest.
Meng Ji calmly took Yan Qi's hand.
Yan Qi was blinded by Meng Ji, so he saw that everything was beautiful.
In her eyes, the village is lively and prosperous.
The strong man in front of him is a cute old squirrel with cute rabbit ears and some obesity.
So Yan Qi naturally let go of the chatterbox and had to ask everything.
"Grandpa Fat Mouse, are we going to play there?"
"Why is it so lively here?"
"Isn't there a lot of delicious food waiting for us at our dust washing feast?"
The strong man who was confused by Yan Qi's question led the way in front without saying a word.
Looking at his swaying rabbit ears, Yan Qi couldn't help but want to pinch them, so she asked again: "Fat rat grandpa, can I touch you, your rabbit ears?" ”
Meng Ji knocked on Yan Qi's little head.
"Don't be so rude, or be careful that Grandpa Fat Rat will eat you in one bite."
When the strong man heard the word "eat", his heart beat a drum.
I thought to myself, isn't I exposed?
But he still smiled as if he was fine.
"How can I eat you? We are all human beings, how can we eat people? ”
The strong man said, and the devouring bird hidden between its hair quietly opened its eyes and glanced at them.
He was relieved to find that they were not the same, and the strong man breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go quickly, otherwise it won't be good for the patriarch to wait for a long time."
The strong man said, rubbing his hand holding the lantern, and his mouth unconsciously chirped as if he was hungry for something.
Where the light of the lantern could not reach.
A devourer lies on the ground and looks up with its eyes open, as if waiting for a pedestrian to arrive.
Yan Qi's feet stepped on the humus soil of the deep forest, the sticky liquid splashed at their feet, and an inaudible sound came from under their feet.
Yan Qi felt that something was wrong, so he glanced down at his shoes.
"I feel like I've stepped on something, and it feels soft and sticky under my feet."
The strong man had long known that Yan Qi and they were not afraid of devouring their bodies, and the reason why they didn't notify those of their kind was to eliminate some competitors who were competing with him.
The strong man turned around, and a gust of wind suddenly blew out the lantern.
His voice was fluttering and said, "Don't be afraid, there is no light in the forest all year round, and it is normal to have something......
Meng Ji, who felt that something was wrong under his feet, suddenly picked up Yan Qi by the waist.
"You can't get your shoes dirty, these shoes are your favorite, I'll hold you."
Yan Qi raised his head and looked at the sky.
In the inky sky between the gaps of the number, dark clouds swirled.
Yan Qi suddenly pointed to the secret numb leaves on the canopy and said, "Hey! Meng Ji, look! There are so many stars hanging upside down here! ”
Meng Jitai's head, a devouring dragon was hanging a silk thread between her and her at hand.
The eyes of the devouring dragon widened with an eerie light.
But Yan Qi was not afraid of her at all.
So the devourer was also very disturbing.
She was stopped in mid-air by Yan Qi's reaction and didn't dare to move.
And the devourers that had fallen from the canopy stopped moving because of the reaction of the devourers.
The impenetrable forest was terrifying in the dark, and the devourers seemed to be waiting for an order.
The strong man looked at the lantern in his hand and shook it a few times and said faintly: "I forgot to add candles, you wait for me here, I'll go back and add candles." ”
Meng Ji said quietly: "Okay, then you hurry up." ”
The strong man took the lantern and turned around and left.
Meng Ji blew on the devouring dragon that was crawling above Yan Qi, and surrounded it as soon as it left the fire.
Then he took off his clothes and laid them on Yan Qi and put her on the ground.
"Yan Qi is good, you will sleep first, and you will get better when you wake up."
Meng Ji said dotingly, as soon as the fire in his hand was sprinkled, he was blowing, and the whole forest suddenly burned.