Chapter 22: Something in the form of a human being
Almost at the same time as hearing this faint sound, Bo Yanhe held his breath. For some reason, she always felt cold behind her, and there was a hint of murder in the air.
The hand hidden in her sleeve clenched, and she kept that half-up motion, her eyes rolling to the place where the voice sounded. Just as she was about to turn her eyes to the limit, a chuckle rang out.
"Wake up!"
Bo Yanhe suddenly stiffened and slowly widened his eyes.
The voice was so familiar to her that she couldn't be mistaken, because not long ago, the owner of the voice had stabbed a long sword into her chest.
Bo Yanhe didn't know how he got out of the hole, but he remembered that Di He came over, stood in front of her, looked at her condescendingly, and then pulled her up with a smile.
When the sun shone on her, her whole body felt like she had been pricked by needles, and she felt dense pain.
Sensing that the people behind him did not follow, Di He looked back, only to see that Bo Yanhe had retreated back to the cave at some point, and was holding the entrance of the cave at this time, looking at him.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"......" Bo Yanhe trembled and couldn't say a word.
Di He frowned imperceptibly, and then walked towards the entrance of the cave.
Seeing his action, Bo Yanhe stepped back a little, shrunk his neck, and only showed a pair of eyes.
Di He immediately stopped, he looked at Bo Yanhe and raised his eyebrows: "Are you afraid of me?"
Without thinking about it, Bo Yanhe nodded vigorously, but when she came back to her senses, she shook her head again: "I'm not just afraid of you, I'm also afraid of ......."
She looked at the glare of the sun, her eyes dodging, "I'm still afraid of it."
As she looked at it, Di He didn't react for a while. When he remembered the things he encountered on the way, he reacted instantly.
Ignoring the mood of Bo Yanhe, who had been hiding backwards because of his approach, he strode into the cave, stood in front of Bo Yanhe, who was already hiding in the corner, and slowly squatted down.
Bo Yanhe buried his face in his knees, not daring to look at him.
Seeing her like this, Di He gradually felt a trace of guilt in his heart, he stretched out his hand and wanted to touch her head, but when he thought of the sentence "men and women don't kiss", he couldn't help it.
"Don't be afraid! I won't hurt you this time! β
Bo Yanhe thought that she had misheard, she cautiously raised her head and fell her gaze on Di He's face.
"There was some misunderstanding last time, it was my fault, I apologize to you!" Di He stared into her eyes without the slightest awkward feeling.
I didn't expect that Di He, a person who stood at a high point and had his own light, would actually say such a thing. Her brow furrowed, and she forgot to look back for a moment.
Because he had been stared at by a fiery gaze not long ago, it was not as difficult to accept now as it was then.
The moment he entered the Soul Leaving Mountain, the body protection formation that lingered around his body automatically opened, the whistling cold wind was mixed with a strong smell of blood, and there were blood stains everywhere on the ground.
It wasn't like a normal human, but if you listened closely, it looked like the grinding of bones.
Recalling what Wei Yuanzi had told him during the retreat, and what Lu Lin had said when he stopped him before entering the mountain, he naturally thought of Bo Yanhe, who had escaped under his sword.
At that time, he was particularly sure that the sounds he heard were made by Bo Yanhe, after all, there was some strong demonic energy in her body, if she couldn't bear the demonization, it was very likely that she would bring the people around her to demonize together.
With that in mind, he took out the long sword stained with her breath and walked towards the place where the sound came from.
Unexpectedly, when he found the source of the sound, what he saw was such a scene.
Di He stood on the tree, and after a long pause, he moved his gaze down again, looking down at the clearing below that had been burned to the point that there was not a single barren grass.
"Giggle-"
"Cluck-cluck-"
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Creepy voices rang out one after another in that clearing.
Everywhere the eye looked, it was blood-red, and dozens of humanoid objects knelt straight on the ground. Leaning forward slightly, with his hands crossed over his shoulders, it wouldn't be strange if you only saw this, but looking up a little bit, it was a little unbearable.
Most of those things were rotting up their necks, like corpses that had been buried deep in the ground for a long time, and had been dug up again.
The reason why they are said to be humanoid is that their necks are greatly tilted to the side from time to time, and the bones on the back of their necks are particularly prominent, as if they will break through the skin in the next moment, which alone is far beyond the limits of what humans can do.
Di He gasped, his brows furrowed much deeper than Fang Cai, his hand on the trunk of the tree subconsciously tightened, and the bark of the tree, which was already dry, fell down with a stumbling as he moved.
The sound of landing was not loud, but in this silent night, it was amplified several times.
Those things that were originally looking in the other direction suddenly raised their heads, and Di He immediately reacted, pinched the trick with his fingertips, and quickly left the dead tree.
Bo Yanhe had seen those things, and she clearly remembered their appearances, so when Di He said this, her stomach churned with some discomfort.
I forced myself not to think about it, but I still couldn't help it. A half-rotten face appeared in front of him, with no eyelids to protect his dry eyeballs, his nose bones exposed, and a few obese maggots crawling out of his mouth without a lower lip from time to time......
Bo Yanhe felt that he was looking at himself with those dry eyes, and opened his mouth in the next moment.
"Vomitβvomitβ" Thinking of this, she couldn't take it anymore and bent down and retched.
When Di He saw her like this, he immediately understood what she was thinking, and he walked forward, stretched out his hand and patted her lightly on the back.
"Looks like you've seen those things too."
When he said the last word, Di He felt that he had said the wrong thing.
Speaking of which, Bo Yanhe has been in this Soul Mountain for half a month, even if these things have not appeared when she comes, as long as they are in this mountain, they will always meet them.
In this way, what he said is completely superfluous.
Bo Yanhe finally eased up, and when she heard his words, her stomach churned again, she wiped her mouth, straightened up, and leaned her back against the mountain wall.
"Actually, not all of them are like that in this mountain......" At this point, she suddenly stopped, frowning and thinking for a long time, still not knowing what to call them.
Although she had only said that, Di He already understood what she meant.
He looked back out of the cave to feel where the objects were, and frowned when he saw that they were close to the cave.
When Bo Yanhe saw him like this, she originally wanted to ask him a question, but when she looked down at her chest, she immediately closed her mouth.
She didn't want another sword! Although Di He had told her that he would not hurt her again this time, and even explained the reason for stabbing her for the first time, she always had palpitations in her heart when facing him.
When Di He looked back again, she was the same person curled up again, squatting in the corner.
Di He was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head helplessly, it seems that for a while, she will not change her opinion of herself!
Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand to her: "Let's go!" I'll take you out! Those things are gathered around here, and if we stay like this, we can't make sure they won't attack us suddenly! β
Bo Yanhe glanced at his outstretched hand, hesitated, but still didn't stretch out his hand.
She stood up against the mountain wall: "They won't attack us."
"What?" Di He withdrew his hand, because he was immersed in the choice she made, so he didn't hear what she said for a while.
Bo Yanhe shook his head: "No...... It's nothing. β
Di He raised his eyebrows and did not speak again.
It was noon, when the sun was at its strongest, and almost at the same time as stepping out of the cave, Bo Yanhe screamed.
Di He pinched the trick with his fingertips, and a protective ball made of aura gathered enveloped her, and suddenly those pains on her skin disappeared.
"You've been in this forest for too long, and you've been affected by the poisonous gas of those things, so your body has developed a photophobia."
When he told Wei Yuanzi about the situation, Wei Yuanzi told him that the things he encountered were all poisoned by the villagers in the mountains, and then their bodies were mutated.
There is no specific name for the poison, and there is no antidote, and once it appears, only by eliminating all the people who are infected with the poison can we prevent more people from becoming infected with the poison.
"Do you remember what happened?"
"If I told you that I had amnesia, would you believe me?"
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"Actually, it's not that I have amnesia, I just don't remember how I ended up in this forest, and I don't remember why I became the way I am now, including those ...... How those things came about. β
After Bo Yanhe finished speaking, he looked at Di He cautiously, for fear that he would not believe it, and then withdrew the protective ball around her.
Fortunately, Di He didn't think like that, he believed Bo Yanhe's words: "Hmm." I'm here for this purpose, and since you don't remember, there's no use in staying here, so I'll send you out first!" β
"I'm not going out!" Hearing his words, Bo Yanhe didn't care that he would make a move, she walked forward quickly and grabbed Di He's sleeve.
"For ......" Di He turned around, originally wanting to ask her the reason, but when he saw her face, he suddenly stopped.
When Di He first found her, she had already fallen asleep, and she didn't know what she had encountered in her sleep, she curled up, biting her lip, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
When she woke up, although he felt that her face was a little abnormal, he only thought that she had just woken up and saw that he was afraid, so he didn't think much about it. Now that he came out of the cave, he felt that something was wrong.