A mound hides deep in the jungle

Where does the red mist of the stone tower go?

The autumn wind is bleak, and the forest looks particularly cold after the rain.

The three of us sat by the fire, and although the sun had gradually climbed into the sky, it did not mean to take away the cold here.

The only remaining dry branches in the fire were burned, and Zhang Chengyong was bored with a branch to provoke the dry branches in the fire that were almost burned into charcoal.

"What do you two think?" I don't know how long it took, Zhang Chengyong said leisurely.

"What do you think?" I glanced at him and said slowly.

"Of course it's the old boy's words, and that place! What else could there be? Zhang Chengyong looked at me and asked.

"Now that we're all here, we have to go in and see if we say anything!" I sighed and said, and then I looked at Ice again, "What do you mean?" ”

"I'm going to get in!" Ice didn't look at me, she just stared at the dancing flames in the fire and said slowly.

"In that case, when are we leaving?" Zhang Chengyong said as he stood up, stretched, and moved his hands and feet.

"Now!" Ice said as she slowly moved her gaze to the dense forest, "The forest is deep and there is no return, and the rooster cries at dawn!" It seems that we must find the land of ten thousand graves as soon as possible. ”

"That's right! We're in a hurry! I said and stood up.

But at this moment, Ice, who had already stood up, suddenly sat on the ground again, her face was pale, as if it was almost transparent, it looked as if she hadn't slept for more than ten days, and it looked like she suddenly collapsed after walking for a long time with heavy things, and her expression looked haggard and tired.

"What's wrong with you?" I hurriedly held on to Ice and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, maybe I'm in a bit of a hurry." Ice said with a wry smile and shook her head.

"Is it really okay?" I looked at Ice and asked with concern.

"It's really nothing, don't worry!" Ice said with a reluctant smile.

The wind was still blowing, and the leaves rustled, and although it was not loud, it seemed as if there was a great sense of oppression that held down the hearts of the three of us.

The sun had risen, and it was shining through the leaves, slowly dispelling the mist from the forest.

However, the three of us walked in this dense forest without feeling the slightest bit of temperature, but the deeper we went, the more cold we felt, a cold that pierced the bone marrow.

The trail after the rain was very difficult to walk, and the path made of fallen leaves and silt made it a lot of effort for the three of us to take each step.

Zhang Chengyong walked in front for a while, then suddenly stopped, and then he pulled Ice and I to squat, I just wanted to ask what was going on in front of me, Zhang Chengyong made a silent gesture to me.

Although Zhang Chengyong didn't speak, from his serious and slightly frightened expression, I could clearly feel that nothing good had happened in front of us at this time.

I lowered my body, cautiously moved two steps forward, came to Zhang Chengyong's side, and looked out through the grass and branches, and it didn't matter if I didn't look, I was stunned at this time.

Not far in front of us was a clearing, which was in an irregular circle, and the trees around it were as if they had been burned by the fire, showing a dark color, and in the very center of the clearing was a half-cut stone tower.

The whole body of the stone tower presents a pitch-black color, the black is very weird, the sun shines on it without a trace of reflection, as if it can suck in all the sunlight around it, and I don't know what kind of material the paint on the stone tower is.

The tower leaned on an old tree, and I don't know how long it had passed, and the old tree had been bent into shape.

The stone tower is very large, there are no windows on the tower, only two stone windows on the top of the tower, one of which leaks a large gap, and at this time there are bursts of black smoke coming out of the stone tower, as if the stone tower is on fire.

"There's ...... in there Is it on fire? Ice asked in a surprised whisper.

"Probably not, there may be ...... in there" Before I finished speaking, Zhang Chengyong suddenly held my mouth down.

At that moment, the grass around us suddenly moved, and then the sound of scales scraping against the ground was heard.

Although the friction sound of "salsa" is not loud, it makes people sound numb all over the body, as if there are countless ants crawling on you, and the feeling of overelectricity makes my whole hair stand on end.

At the same time, the deadly sound of friction was heard from all directions at the same time.

Then, dozens of large snakes with the thickness of bowls and turquoise scales scrambled out of the forest and crawled towards the stone tower like crazy.

"Those guys want to be inside that stone tower?" Ice covered her mouth and said in surprise, "Where do they want to go?" ”

"I don't know! But for sure, those guys must have been attracted by the black smoke! Zhang Chengyong gritted his teeth and whispered.

"I think that black smoke is weird, too! Look at ......! I said, pointing to the billowing black smoke, "See if there's a human figure inside." ”

"Sure enough...... Sure enough, there was a figure! After I said this, Ice whispered to the side. There seems to be a man sitting there! ”

"What sitting?" I said in surprise. "What I saw was ......"

"Not one! It's two seated figures! Before I could figure out what ice meant, Zhang Chengyong suddenly whispered on the side.

"How is that possible? What I saw was a standing man, huh? Don't...... Could it be that the man is still alive? I looked at the stone window with billowing black smoke in surprise, and then looked at Ice and Zhang Chengyong beside me.

However, the two of them did not look at me, they were waiting to look at the stone tower with big eyes, as if they had seen a ghost.

Seeing this, I hurriedly turned my head and looked at the stone tower, only to see that at this time, the billowing black smoke had slowly dissipated at some point, but the tide of snakes gathered more and more, and they were densely entrenched around the stone tower, forming a strange human shape.

I saw that the human form composed of snakes was extremely strange, with a large head and a small body, long hands and short legs, but it was also strange that I seemed to have seen this strange human form somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while.

And the more I couldn't think about it, the more I felt an indescribable sense of anxiety in my heart, and at the same time, an indescribable nameless fire began to slowly rise in my heart.

At first, I just felt a hint of resentment, but slowly, pictures of bloody violence began to appear in my mind, and indescribable anger began to rise in my heart, and I only felt that the blood in my whole body seemed to begin to boil at this moment, and even every breath I exhaled became extremely hot.

I glared at the strange group of snakes, and I don't know how long it was, but the humanoid pattern that was originally just swimming on the ground suddenly sat up.

Its large head, made up of black snakes, swayed from side to side, as if it was about to fall off at any moment.

I looked at it, and it looked at me.

It's just that instead of laughing, it did, not only laughing, but also giggling.

After hearing this terrifying and weird laughter, I couldn't help but be shocked, and then the roots of my hair stood up, and I secretly screamed in my heart: No, this guy has found us.

Then, pick up a rock and throw it at the monster.

But at that moment, someone grabbed my wrist violently.

I was startled at first, then suddenly came back to my senses, and when I looked back, it was Zhang Chengyong who grabbed my hand.

At this time, he was looking at me with a very strange and complicated look, and there seemed to be a kind of concern, a hint of worry, and a hint of fear in that look.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked quietly with a frown. "We seem to have been discovered!"

"You...... Are you okay? Zhang Chengyong didn't answer my question, but asked rhetorically: "I said Tianyi, how are you good boy?" ”

"Why do you ask that? I'm fucking good, tray! I cursed, then said, "Didn't you see that guy just now?" It seems to have found ......"

I said and turned my gaze back to the open space in front of the stone tower, but what I didn't expect at all was that the group of snakes that had been squirming and wriggling were not moving at this time, and not only that, but they all straightened their bodies up, with their bellies facing up, as if they had been scared stupid in a wolf pen.

"It's ...... What's going on? I looked at the scene in front of me and said stupidly.

"You really don't remember?" Zhang Chengyong looked at me and asked in surprise.

"Should I remember anything? It wasn't like that when I looked at them just now, now ...... How do you look like little sheep now? I asked, surprised.

Zhang Chengyong listened to my words, frowned slightly, and didn't say anything more, but whispered in my ear, "This place is weird, don't believe what you see!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" I looked at Zhang Chengyong and asked.

"Don't talk about it, there's a situation over there!" It was at this that ICE patted the two of us on the shoulder and whispered.

And looking in the direction of ICE's finger, I saw that a layer of reddish mist had risen in the woods not far away, and there was a clattering sound in the place where the fog was, and the big trees that could only be hugged by three or four people fell in response.

"What's that?" Zhang Chengyong asked with a frown.

"Shh As soon as he spoke, Ice interrupted him and whispered, "Listen! ”

"Listen to what?" Zhang Chengyong asked in surprise.

"Did you hear a buzzing sound?" Ice said.

I didn't pay attention to it before Ice said anything, but under Ice's reminder, I slowly closed my eyes and listened carefully with my ears. The woods were quiet, not even a hint of insects or birds, just the sound of the wind and the crisp click of the trees as they broke.

I was about to say that I didn't hear the buzz in Ice's mouth when I heard the sound of insect wings vibrating.

Although the sound was not loud, after hearing this sound, my whole scalp was numb, and an indescribable chill instantly spread throughout my body, because I suddenly realized what this voice was, and knew what the red mist was.

According to legend, there is a special kind of ant in Yunnan, they have a small head and a large body, two pairs of wings on their body, and the upper and lower parts of their body show a fiery red, which is called fiery red ants by the locals.

Fire ants are social creatures and are not lethal individually, but once they appear in a swarm, even the strongest elephants will be eaten in a matter of seconds. Fire ants are rarely seen, and only in very special cases do they go out on a large scale to hunt. But once they appeared, the grass did not grow wherever they went, and they were like a red mist, bringing death to all the places they passed.

So, in the mouths of the locals, those fiery red ants are not only the embodiment of death, but also a symbol of bad luck.

And the red mist that appeared in front of us at this time was undoubtedly those damn fiery red ants.