Chapter 109: True Face
All of Aunt Niu's strange behaviors were explained after Ling Wei saw her lying on the bed.
Her fat body lay in a large shape on the bed, and her exposed skin was no longer flesh-colored, but black and cyan like the bark of an old tree.
No, no, no, it looks like old bark when you squint!
Startled, Ling Wei turned the light of the flashlight upwards and found that Aunt Niu's entire head had undergone a qualitative change!
Her forehead and cheeks were made of bark, and her eyes were covered with long, slender branches that circled her head and then meandered upwards and down the wall of the bedside into the darkness of the roof.
Looking at Aunt Niu's hands and feet, they have also become five wooden branches of different thicknesses. Like the branches in the corners of the eyes, the sides of the wooden bed and the entire floor are spread along the edge of the bed.
Ling Wei held her breath and cautiously picked up the flashlight and shone it upward.
The light was upward, and there were no branches where she was standing in the doorway. Further up, several walls were covered with vines and rattans from Aunt Niu's body.
The whole room is like a natural wooden cage, firmly enclosing every crevice.
Cage?
Ling Wei slammed the flashlight above her head.
A pair of cyan shoots poked their heads down between the black-blue branches, a few centimeters above her head, swaying from side to side.
Ling Wei subconsciously threw out a cloud of black mist in her hand.
"Squeak—"
The pair of buds let out a terrible cry, and the dissolved buds shook instantly. The branches in the room trembled at the same time, and they all swept towards Ling Wei.
Ling Wei didn't have time to think about it, and "swish" quickly threw out several clouds of black mist to block the incoming branches. Then he turned around and ran.
But she didn't take two steps before she noticed that the door to the treehouse was missing.
The original entrance has long been blocked by dense branches and rattans into a wall.
When I looked at the window, it was all blocked.
After a pause, the squirming branches behind him immediately followed.
Ling Wei hurriedly turned around to dodge. At the same time, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that a branch that had been invaded by the black mist had been broken on the ground by other branches that were immediately broken.
The branch was gone, and it didn't threaten the other branches that were intact.
As soon as Ling Wei stood still, the young shoots that had also cut off half of her body moved into Aunt Niu's eyes.
Suddenly, Aunt Niu writhed like a dead body on the bed and came back to life. It's just that her form is still the same as the tree it is.
At the same time, she turned her pitted bark neck, revealing the whites of her eyes that were occupied by young shoots, and opened her deadwood-like mouth towards Ling Wei.
"Little girl, even if you dare to be curious about the truth beyond your ability......"
Ling Wei frowned and didn't speak, looking at Aunt Niu who stood up straight with wood as her hands and feet.
Dryad?
Is this still the last days of the previous life......
Aunt Niu sneered secretly, and the branches all over the house became her hands and feet, but in the blink of an eye, she moved to Ling Wei's eyes.
"I wanted to give you back what you had preserved, but you didn't expect to spoil yourself. That's it, if it's ugly, it's ugly, for the sake of me carelessly losing half of my heart buds and contributing powers, the Lord will also be satisfied. Hey, hey, hey...... Maybe the reward you get can make it grow a little longer after replenishing the heart bud. Aunt Niu talked to herself proudly, and even picked Ling Wei up and down.
Although I don't know much about it, I just know that Aunt Niu wants to kill her.
Just as Aunt Niu's branches and rattans were entangled, Ling Wei, who seemed to be able to only resist weakly, suddenly burst out as white as water.
Bai Mo quickly picked up the branches stretched out from Ling Wei's body, and covered Aunt Niu's body with the force of a flood bursting the embankment until Aunt Niu had time to be stunned, and then spread to all the branches she was entrenched in the tree house.
Looking at a room of immobile ice crystal tree rattans, Ling Wei, who had been released, leaned back with a "whew".
She knocked on Aunt Niu who had turned into an ice sculpture in front of her, and pulled out a faint smile, "I have more than a little ability......
Then the ice hammer in his hand was condensed, aimed at Aunt Niu's head and knocked it down.
The big wooden bump-like head shattered into Xiaoice blocks and scattered on the floor in an instant.
"Huh?"
Ling Wei leaned down and pulled from the Xiaoice block to find it.
Where did that pair of shoots go? I don't think I saw it when I knocked on the head just now.
Thinking of this, she stopped rummaging and stood up straight to look at all the branches entrenched in the treehouse.
Those pair of buds are obviously Aunt Niu's soul and consciousness, and they should be the heart buds in her own words.
Therefore, the immortality of the sprouts probably means that even if Aunt Niu's head is gone, she is still alive.
It's just that there are so many branches, and it's really nerve-wracking to find the shoots that are the size of the beans.
Do you want to break all the frozen branches?
Ling Wei immediately dismissed the idea.
A room full of ice sculptures, including those on the roof, is time-consuming to knock, and it is difficult to keep the neighbors next to them from hearing them......
Not to mention, it has to be crushed......
Now thinking back on the words of those neighbors, and comparing the behavior of Aunt Niu, it is obvious that this village is a black village.
Thinking of this, Ling Wei covered it with ice branches again, adding another layer to the original foundation.
Then, with the slightest movement, she smashed the branches in the doorway, and stepped out of the cage-like treehouse into the forest in the night.
In the pitch-black forest, the other treehouses on the side were like terrifying monsters surrounding Ling Wei.
Aunt Niu's treehouse is on the very edge, and when you leave the village, you only need to pass through the other two adjacent buildings to completely walk out of the village.
Passing by the last treehouse, Ling Wei, who was standing at the bottom of the tree, suddenly heard the sound of squirming from above.
“…… Niu Da ...... Good luck ......"
"yes...... Lord ...... Give ......"
It seems that Aunt Niu is mentioned?
Ling Wei frowned, listening intermittently, and after a little thought, she simply climbed up quietly, leaned to the window and listened to the corner.
"Humph! It was also her luck that the sacrifice was the first to jump onto her house and be the first to be seen. If it weren't for the Lord's decree that whoever sees it first should belong to whomever it is, we would have snatched the sacrifice a long time ago. How can there be Aunt Niu's share? ”
"The Lord knew that we would rob, so he made this rule. You're still less jealous. You must know that the Lord has always hoped that we will live in harmony, unity and fraternity, and gradually develop the village into a town, then a city, a country, and finally enter the human world, and make the vast land the world of our Aoki tribe! ”
"Cut...... You've forgotten there's the Earthbeard. ”
"Those guys who only drill into the dirt don't mention it. Having said that, Aunt Niu is already dealing with the sacrifices at this time, right? Two days later is the day to go and offer to the Lord, and if you don't start dealing with it now, then two days later it will not be too late to offer a perfect offering. "I want to talk about "The Last Days of Rebirth" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "Youyue Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~