Chapter Forty-Nine: The Man-Eating Swamp

Everyone looked at Wei Chiran's hand, and sure enough, they saw the tree and the bird's nest on the branch.

Fang Xunyi asked, "Are you not mistaken?" ”

Wei Chi said: "I can't be mistaken, when I walked under this tree, I turned my head and saw the bird's nest, which was on my left, and I thought how could there be birds in this strange place?" ”

Xiangsha stared at the bird's nest: "Yes, there are no birds in this place, since the first time I came here, I found that there are no birds here, and I can only see birds within a hundred meters of this swamp." ”

Guan Hongru looked a little frightened, he looked around in horror: "Could it be that this swamp is alive?" ”

Wei Chiran looked at Guan Hongru: "What do you mean?" ”

Guan Hongru said: "Haven't you heard the saying of living mountains and living forests? ”

Wei Chi shook his head, but Fang Xunyi said, "Of course I've heard it, but it's all a legend." ”

Wei Chiran asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"It's a kind of nature worship by the local indigenous people, who believe that the mountains are alive and the forests are alive, and if they don't respect them, if they are offended, they will get lost in the mountains and forests and eventually become part of the mountain forests," Xiangsha explained. ”

Wei Chiran said: "This kind of legend exists everywhere, don't be funny, but it's really strange, can it be said that these trees can move?" Xiangsha, didn't you notice it when you came here before? ”

Xiangsha looked around: "The nests of corpse ants are generally on the edge of the swamp, so I won't walk in without the necessary premise, and even if I do, I will pick a time when there is no fog." ”

Fang Xunyi was curious: "It's so dark at night, how do you remember the road?" ”

Xiangsha pointed to his head and said: "My memory is much stronger than that of ordinary people, after I led the team out of here for the first time, I remember every inch of the place I walked, I may not be able to find it when I open my eyes, but I can walk out with my eyes closed." ”

Wei Chiran was very surprised: "So, you brought us over with your eyes closed just now?" ”

Xiangsha smiled and said, "What? Don't believe me? ”

Wei Chiran said: "It's not that I don't believe you, but ...... Look! ”

Lieutenant was halfway through his words, and suddenly pointed to the tree with a bird's nest: "See?" It's moving! ”

Everyone immediately looked over and sure enough, they saw that the tree had moved, but then everyone realized that it was not only the tree that had moved, but all the trees around it seemed to be moving.

Wei Chi suddenly came to his senses, looked at his feet, and then looked at the tree he was leaning on: "It's not the surrounding trees that are moving, it's the place under our feet that is moving!" ”

The other three were reminded by the lieutenant to lean their backs against the tree, and raised a finger as a reference, and found that it was indeed the land they were standing on that was moving, not the trees around them.

Wei Chiran hurriedly said: "Everyone stand still, don't move, have you noticed?" The ground under our feet was spinning in circles, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. ”

Xiangsha looked down at the ground shrouded in thick fog, subconsciously leaned over, touched the ground was indeed dirt, and couldn't feel anything underneath, could it be said that this land was like a small floating island in a swamp?

So why is this land the only one spinning in place?

At the moment when Xiangsha got up, he couldn't control his body directly and fell to the side, Wei Chiran hugged him, and then grabbed his arm and put it on the trunk: "Hold the tree!" Come and hug the tree! ”

Everyone who came back to their senses immediately came to hug the tree, and at the same time they all felt a wave of dizziness.

Wei Chi closed his eyes and said, "If we don't leave, sooner or later the vestibular function of the ear will be damaged, and then it will be over, and it will definitely fall into the swamp." ”

The auricular vestibule mentioned by Wei Chiran refers to the fact that in addition to the cochlea, there are three semicircular canals, utricles and balloons in the labyrinth of the inner ear, which are called vestibular organs, which are the receptors of the human body for its own movement state and the spatial position of the head.

Keeping the same rotation for a long time, over time, will cause damage to the vestibule of the ear, and people will also be disorganized, resulting in vertigo, unable to distinguish the direction and grasp the balance.

Guan Hongru lowered his head at this time and said, "I want to vomit ......"

Wei Chiran closed his eyes and said: "If you want to vomit, you can vomit, but don't let go, once you let go, you will fall into the swamp." We have to think of a way, although the speed of this place is not fast, but the constant rotation at a constant speed is the most fatal, like a chronic poison. ”

Xiangsha tried to open his eyes and look around, looking for an opportunity to escape, but when he opened his eyes, he became even more dizzy. He had to close his eyes again, trying to remember, and then said, "There is a place under the tree with a bird's nest to step on, and I should be right." ”

Guan Hongru had already begun to vomit, and after vomiting for a while, he felt more comfortable, and said, "Find a rope to lasso and fix it." ”

Wei Chi said: "We are spinning, and using a rope to lasso doesn't it mean that we are tying ourselves!?" The boss is not small, and his brain is not open, how did you become a wanted criminal? ”

Guan Hongru was about to roll his eyes, and he couldn't fight back, so he had to hug the tree in front of him.

Xiangsha saw the opportunity, let go of the hands holding the tree, and jumped directly under the tree with the bird's nest, but because of the loss of balance, the moment he jumped out, he realized that he had deviated slightly from the direction, and his foothold was the edge of the field.

After the sand landed, his left foot stepped on the ground, but his right foot stepped into the edge of the swamp, and his body also sank to the right, directly sinking, and at the moment of the fall, he clearly felt something wrapped around his right thigh, dragging him downward with all his might.

Xiang Sha subconsciously raised his hand to grab it, but his left hand grabbed the bush next to him, and at the same time, Fang Xunyi also jumped over for the second time, landing on the ground easily, leaning on the tree to try to relieve his dizziness, but he didn't realize the crisis Xiang Sha was facing.

"Help me!" Xiangsha stretched out his hand towards Fang Xunyi.

Fang Xunyi rushed towards the elephant sand, and the moment he grabbed the elephant sand's hand, a force directly dragged the two of them into the swamp.

Oops! When Fang Xunyi was dragged by the force of the grasping elephant sand, he pulled out the dagger and stabbed it directly into the ground, trying to fix his body, but the ground was soft soil, as if he had inserted a dagger into a piece of butter, it didn't have any effect at all.

At the moment when Wei Chiran finally jumped over, the two had disappeared into the thick fog.

Wei Chi looked around for Fang Xunyi and Xiangsha, and called out their names: "Xiangsha, old Fang?" Fang Xun remembers! Fang Xun remembers! ”

No one answered, and the swamp returned to its previous dead silence.

"Wife!" Guan Hongru's shouts came from the thick fog.

Just when Wei Chiran looked in that direction, a black shadow flew directly from there, and when the black shadow fell to the ground, he saw clearly that it was Guan Hongru.

Wei Chiran was surprised: "How did you come here?" ”

Guan Hongru was also puzzled: "I was thrown over by someone." By the way, my wife is gone. ”

Wei Chi hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Guan Hongru looked at the big tree that was still spinning in place not far away and said: "After you jumped over before, I was going to throw my wife over first, but my wife was gone, I couldn't find it anywhere, at this time, something suddenly grabbed me and threw me over!" ”

Is there anyone else here? Wei Chi looked around nervously, but he couldn't care so much at the moment, he had to find Fang Xunyi and Xiangsha.

Just when Wei Chi was at a loss, Xiangsha and Fang Xunyi, who were drenched all over, were suddenly thrown at his feet.

Wei Chiran hurriedly squatted down to check on the two, and found that both of them were in a state of confusion, as if they were drowning.

Wei Chiran hurriedly took first aid to the sha, he didn't care about Fang Xunyi, he knew that Fang Xunyi couldn't die.

After Xiangsha vomited a lot of water, he was helped to rest under the tree by Wei Chi, and Fang Xunyi gradually woke up.

Wei Chi hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Fang Xunyi looked at the swamp suspiciously: "We were all dragged down by something, but not long after, a pair of hands grabbed me and Xiangsha and threw us up again. ”

Hand? Wei Chiran thought of the person who threw Guan Hongru over, he turned his head to look at Guan Hongru, but found that Guan Hongru was trying to jump back, and he quickly stopped it.

Wei Chiran grabbed Guan Hongru and said, "You don't want to die!" ”

Guan Hongru said: "My wife is gone!" I'm going to get her back! ”

Wei Chi raised his hand and gave him a slap: "You sober up!" Your wife is dead! ”

Guan Hongru pushed Wei Chiran away: "I know!" But I've got to get her body back, too! I can't throw her here! I'm going to find her! I'm going to take her back to her hometown! ”

Fang Xunyi got up and said, "There are other people here, and it doesn't seem that they are enemies. ”

Wei Chiran looked around and said, "Yes, it shouldn't be an enemy, otherwise it won't save us." ”

But who could this person be? Is it one, or several? Where did they come from?

With these questions, everyone held out until the early hours of the morning, waiting for the fog to clear, and then the elephant sand led them out of this cannibalistic swamp quickly.

Although Guan Hongru was extremely reluctant to leave, under Wei Chiran's persuasion and persecution, he had to leave with them, giving up the idea of looking for his wife's body in the swamp.

Who knows, when the four of them walked to the edge of the swamp, they found the warm body of Guan Hongru's wife who was placed on the ground by the light of a flashlight.

The warm corpse was still wrapped in a tarp, but the water on the surface indicated that the body had obviously fallen into the swamp and been scooped up.

In other words, there were indeed people in the swamp who were helping them just now, and it was this person who picked up the corpse and rescued Guan Hongru, Fang Xunyi and Xiang Sha.

Wei Chiran called Fang Xunyi aside: "Could it be early summer?" ”

Fang Xunyi shook his head: "Impossible, no matter how good your skills are in early summer, you won't be able to come and go freely in the cannibalistic swamp, right?" It's like having wings. ”

Wei Chiran wondered: "Who could it be?" ”

Fang Xunyi shook his head: "I can't care so much, we have to keep going." ”

Xiangsha walked over and said, "The next section of the road is relatively safe, we can rush to the other side valley before dawn, that place cannot be entered after dark." ”

Wei Chi asked: "The swamp is only entered after dark, and the valley on the other side cannot be entered after dark, this so-called shortcut is simply too weird." ”

Xiangsha said as he walked as he lifted his luggage: "In the past, many wanted criminals ran here in order to escape pursuit, but almost all of them went and never returned. ”

Wei Chiran thought of something, looked at Guan Hongru and said, "So, you are the only wanted criminal who left alive from here?" ”

Guan Hongru, who was carrying his wife's corpse, looked calm and did not answer.

Yes, it stands to reason that Guan Hongru hid in Menggen's Mansion and came back, at least two trips back and forth were safe, how did he do it?