Chapter 38: I Know You're a Deed
The situation on the other end of the telescope was similar to the ritual they had seen when they first arrived in the village nine days earlier.
Li Lin pinched a handful of sweat in his palm, and Zhao Yingying was already kneeling on the ground.
If she can't cut the rope herself before the villagers untie her, she won't have any initiative, and if the villagers do, she won't be able to control her limbs.
"She can't do it......"
Han Li took the binoculars over, didn't answer Li Lin's words, and stared at the woman on the other end.
Looking closely, he could see that her body was shaking violently, and her hand was a blind spot at this angle, and he couldn't tell if she had taken out the knife.
When a villager raised his hand and pulled her armβ
She suddenly stood up on her own.
Holding the knife in her hand, she didn't know when she cut her own hand, her hands were covered with blood, and she used the knife to gesture at the villagers indiscriminately, her expression was panicked and frightened.
Naturally, no sound could be heard from such a distance, Han Li's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, now the villagers were still confused, afraid of the knife she was wielding indiscriminately in her hand, and did not directly attack her, a few steps behind her was the spring, this was the best time.
If she wants to live to see the Eye of the Spring, she must do so now, before the villagers attack her.
Han Li raised his throat in one breath, only a little, but at this time, Zhao Yingying did not turn around and go to the spring as agreed before.
She saw that the villagers were afraid of the knife in her hand, so she held the knife like this, and staggered to try to break through the encirclement of the villagers.
A robe-like white robe tripped her and almost fell to the ground, and Han Li tightened his grip on the binoculars, knowing that everything was over.
Li Lin kept asking beside him: "What's the situation, did she do it?" Let me see ......"
Han Li simply threw the telescope to Li Lin.
He was in a terrible mood, his body moved, he jumped directly from the roof of the car and fell to the ground, a layer of sand rose under his feet, and He Xiu, who was leaning on the car in shock, suddenly opened his eyes.
He opened the car door, pulled his bag, reached in and touched a few times, there were guns, medicines, and all kinds of tools that he used to use outside, but there was nothing he was looking for.
After a few seconds, I remembered that there was no smoke now.
The last cigarette also made the woman smoke.
He looked up suddenly.
The car was empty, and there was no trace of the woman.
He clenched his fists, closed the car door, took two steps back and looked up, Li Lin was still sitting on the roof of the car, but he no longer held the telescope to look at the direction of the village, the hand holding the telescope was hanging, and the person was stunned.
"Zhao Yingying, she, she was ...... again"
"Don't say it," Han Li interrupted impatiently, "Do you know where Liang Jun went." β
It was a sure thing that Zhao Yingying was caught back to continue the ritual, almost without thinking, he gave her a short knife to let her cut the rope and fight for a chance to jump into the spring alive to see what the eye of the spring was, but she didn't listen to him, she thought that she had cut the rope and could escape with such a knife.
This kind of naΓ―ve idea really killed her, most of the villagers are five big and three thick men, and there is no shortage of more powerful weapons, once they react, it is not difficult to deal with her at all.
Han Li's mood was already extremely bad, Zhao Yingying didn't cooperate with him with his own little calculations, and it would take another ten days to wait for the next opportunity.
Li Lin was stunned for a few seconds, "Liang Jun? Wasn't she in the car. β
"Not there."
Li Lin touched his head, looked around and saw no one, and hesitated to guess, "Could it be to go to the toilet...... Don't you want to tell us? β
"She took everything."
"Huh?"
Li Lin's first reaction was: "Did you leave the car keys?" β
"Nope."
Li Lin hurriedly got off the roof of the car, and Han Lizheng lowered his head and asked He Xiu, "Have you seen where Liang Jun went?" β
He Xiu shook his head.
The moonlight was white, and there was an endless desert all around, and there was not a single figure.
Han Li's fist slammed into the car, and Li Lin was startled.
Seeing Han Lila pull the car door and take the bag, Li Lin wanted to comfort him a few words, "Taking something doesn't mean that people will go far, after all, her car is still here, she is so shrewd, she must understand the truth that she can't escape without a car, she should be back soon, don't worry......"
Han Li's face was expressionless, but the air pressure around his body was extremely low, and Li Lin was a little uncomfortable in speaking by this huge sense of oppression, "Don't worry...... She's so good, she's going to be fine. β
Han Li didn't speak, and after taking out his bag, he looked at Li Lin, "You are looking at He Xiu here, and I will go to find Liang Jun." β
Li Lin's eyes widened in horror, "What? I don't want to be alone with this ......."
He pondered his words, "I don't want to be alone with her!" β
With Liu Jiale's face and body, but not Liu Jiale, Li Lin felt panicked when he thought of He Xiu.
Han Li walked to the back of the car without saying a word, opened the trunk, and said to Li Lin, "Stuff her here, connect the rope to the car, you follow me." β
He Xiu's eyes widened, "You can't do this to me!" This body belongs to your companions, and you cannot ......."
Han Li ran out of patience, took a few steps over, raised his hand to the back of her neck is a hand knife, and when he saw the person fainting, he raised his eyes and glanced at Li Lin.
Li Lin walked over with a little weakness on his legs.
He Xiu was terrifying, but the current Han Li was no better.
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As Liang Jun expected, this night, all the villagers gathered on the other side of the spring, so that there was not a single ghost in the rest of the village.
So she made a detour to the forest.
Alone, late at night, going to this kind of weird place, for her with a leg injury is actually not a wise choice, but she has no choice, the only trace of Liang Ye is this place, she has come here thousands of miles away, the purpose is to find Liang Ye, and it is impossible to give up because of these difficulties and fears.
Limping into the forest, she clearly felt that the woods were different that night.
To describe that feeling, it is probably that the whole atmosphere is a little unspeakably restless.
The night had been quiet at first, but today, she always felt the sound of the wind in her ears, and the rustling of leaves and branches.
They were all towering old trees, their lush branches and foliage obscuring the sky and the moon, and she held the flashlight in one hand and the gun in the other, moving slowly and carefully.
She didn't have the courage to call Liang Ye's name directly at the top of her voice, but she would call a few times in a low voice.
These calls were like stones sinking into the sea, dissipating in the wind, her heart seemed to choke on something, she couldn't breathe well, and she had to stop and listen to the movement around her after walking a few steps.
The sense of time was very vague, and she didn't know how long she had walked, but she heard the sound of that night again.
The kind of female voice that was like crying and complaining, and the scalp tingling echoed poignantly, Liang Jun didn't run again this time, she took a deep breath, raised her gun, and tried to discern the source of the sound, but it was difficult to determine, it seemed to be this sound in all directions.
Looking around with a flashlight, and when she reached the point of origin, she saw the tree man she had seen.
It seems that the human figure is randomly pieced together from branches and vines, and it actually walks over step by step, and the figure is a little twitching when it moves, adding a bit of horror.
Liang Jun took two steps back, did not shoot immediately, and restrained the fear in his heart to speak.
"I know you're a deed."
There was a stutter in the treeman's movements, and the crying female voice weakened.
She realized it and continued, "I won't give you my body, if you come closer, I'll tear down your pile of branches." β
The tree man didn't move again, his hand lifted, and then drooped again, followed by the cry again.
Liang Jun was sure that Qizi couldn't speak, but it was obvious that he could listen.
She continued: "I'm here for someone, don't get in my way. β
The Treant neither got out of the way nor attacked, maintaining a position of standing more than a meter in front of her.
At this time, a sudden gust of wind blew the leaves on the tree man in front of him and made a rustling sound, and at this moment Liang Jun felt even more terrifying than before-
It was a pile of branches that didn't even have an eye, and she thought it was looking at her.
The gaze might have been ill-intentioned, but she couldn't tell it, she couldn't discern any emotion from the pile of branches.
She pointed her gun at the tree man and took small steps to the side, her injured leg was not sharp, and she had just taken two steps before she tripped over something.
She didn't dare to take her eyes off the treeman, but she clearly felt something under her feet, climbing up her legs.
She looked down consciously, and the thing had gotten into her pants, and she immediately sensed that the vine-like thing was cold, like some kind of reptilian thing, wriggling and squirming up her legs.
There was nothing left in her mind except to escape, she raised her leg and tried to kick those things away, the light of the flashlight flashed, and a bunch of branches had gathered under her feet, her leg was injured again, and the struggle was a little weak, and the knee joint hurt when the force was too strong, and the tree man in front of her was also moving.
Liang Jun was not as calm as before, and raised his hand to shoot at the tree man.
In the darkness, the sound of gunfire resounded through the forest, and her own eardrums were buzzing.
She gasped for breath and saw that she had hit the treant in the chest.
The treeman's body shook and a hole was punched in her heart, but her arm was raised and stretched out towards her, the branch in her hand stretched extremely fast, and she lowered her head and quickly shot the treeman's legs twice.
The tree man fell to his knees, and Liang Jun noticed that the branches under her feet relaxed for a moment, and she turned around and started running without looking back.
The pain in the joints became sharp, she limped, and at the end the tears of pain were about to flow out, but the direction was not the one who went back, she ran into the depths of the woods, turned off the flashlight, and then hid under an old tree.
It was about a hundred years old, and the trunk of the tree was enough to obscure her figure, and she tried to calm her breathing and glanced back.
The back was empty, and the Treants didn't keep up.
The branches and leaves above her head rattled, she closed her eyes and opened them, the whole world was still dark, the branches became slender, each one was moving, she stared at the ancient tree behind her a few times, it felt like she was falling into an unreal dream, even leaning against a tree she felt that this tree may not be reliable.
But the pain in her knee reminded her that it was all true.
With only two rounds left in her magazine, she slipped the gun back into her bag, then pulled the dagger out, her mind quickly calculating.
The Treant can't speak, but it has a sense of hearing, and it's not entirely sure of the Treant's vision, although she has been attacked, but some animals can also rely on sound waves and other positioning, but the Treant's body is actually very fragile, and it's not impossible to deal with.
The branches were all ordinary branches, and she clenched her dagger tightly.
As long as you react quickly and attack properly, don't get besieged by the treemen, and watch your feet, it's not impossible to survive in the forest.
The problem now is, how to grasp the direction of such a large forest, try not to risk taking the repetitive road, and find Liang Ye or other traces left by Liang Ye.