Chapter 10: The Quagmire of Horror
"Who are you?" I took a few steps back, put away the dusty memories in my mind, and asked in the direction of the voice, although my voice was a little excited and a little trembling, but I was still trying to restrain my urge to pounce;
But once again, the other party fell silent, unresponsive to my question, as if the time had been turned back to a minute ago;
"Old Tan?" My voice trembled more and more!
Most of the people who can call out my name are already sixty or seventy years old, and even many of them have entered the coffin, and in such a young voice, there can be no one else except Lao Tan, Lao Jie and those few miscellaneous people who have been crawling together since they were children.
"Little Dumb ......"
The other man seemed to lean a few more steps towards me, and the few steps back just now seemed useless;
"Is it Lao Tan?" I took a few steps back, and I couldn't tell whether it was fear or excitement;
"Are you deaf, Lao Tzu is here!" , the suppressed power in my heart was poured out by me, and I roared angrily in the direction of the voice;
Suddenly, something seemed to shake in the darkness, it seemed to be a low bush, or a branch, but it was a violent tremor that I could see clearly in this dark environment, and then there was a rustle and a sharp retreat;
Damn, I want to run! I thought to myself, but how could I let the other party run away? I tried to pick up another guy from the ground, but when I touched it, there was only a pile of slimy things, like mud on the ground.
"Don't run, I won't hurt you!";
I shouted as I threw myself into the dwarf bush with my bare hands, and who would have thought that a meter or two in front of the dwarf bush was the sharp slope of a small mound;
By the time I realized the danger, I had already stepped under my feet, and the man was planted under the mound.
This fall made me stumble, the main reason is that I was completely defenseless! It's a completely different thing from falling and getting up again in the dense forest, and when I even reacted, people had already fallen down the steep slope below the mound.
Inertia carried me down, and in a panic my hands flicked around behind me, hoping to catch something to stop, or at least slow down the momentum of the roll, and in the darkness I could not even see whether there was a cliff or an abyss under the mound, and no one who tasted it once was like a second time;
But all I could touch with my hands was the slimy feeling just now, and my hands didn't have a grip at all;
At this moment, my foot suddenly seemed to have kicked something, but when I reacted and tried to catch it with my hand, I found that it was a long-dead tree trunk rubbing against my scalp, and the whole person instantly lost its sliding position, and instead rolled and fell to the bottom of the mound.
I gritted my teeth and endured the feeling that my internal organs were already out of place, but fortunately, the mound was not high in this place, and it was the slimy mud that slid down all the way, but if I replaced it with a stone slope, Lao Tzu didn't seem to have to peel off the skin!
A feeling of being calculated by the person just now came to my heart, and I even felt as if that person was deliberately leading me over and wanted to fall me to death!
But among the people I knew when I was a child, who had such a deep hatred and hatred for me, and could still fall here with me?
I touched every part of my body, fortunately they are still there, nose, ears and feet, there is no injury, but the back is a hot pain, it is estimated that the rotten branches in the mud that have just slipped down make me slightly bruised, so that I did not expect that I did not move this way, it turned out that I did not slide to the bottom of the slope at all, but was just stuck on the shore of another pool, I obviously did not hear the sound of water, but I moved, the whole person was instantly planted into the pool.
Huya is right, this waterhole is really evil, the bottom of the water is like a devil tearing me into the water, the seemingly calm and normal undercurrent under the surface of the water, suddenly pulled me to the center of the pool, before I can surface to breathe, a more terrible suction brings the whole body into the bottom of the pool;
The water is a bit salty...... This is my first feeling after taking a sip of water, like seawater...
I tried to thrash upwards a few times, and a kind of despair ensued, yes, I don't know water, although I have eaten the imperial rations of the navy, but I can only splash in the water a few times.
The huge suction force tossed my body around the waterhole, and the feeling was familiar!
Eight years ago, when the Zheng He was shipwrecked, wasn't my sea so torn apart by huge waves and undercurrents?
Only this time it seemed to be a little different, because I didn't feel any hopelessness, fear was there, but not despair, because just as I was pulled into the bottom of the pool, a narrow space like a tree hole actually led me into another pool!
The change in the temperature of the water made me wake up instantly, and the water in my depths was noticeably warmer than it had just been! On top of that, there are many horizontal branches of trees at the bottom of the water for me to grasp, and little by little I get rid of the same undercurrent and move my body upward;
The moment my head came out of the water, I didn't even care about the droplets of water still dripping down the tip of my nose, and I didn't care if the water was sucked into my lungs to cause a violent reaction! I didn't leave my mouth, nose, sweat, pores, anything I could breathe in;
Standing wet in the mud, I didn't dare to leave the shore again, even if it was right next to the waterhole, it seemed to me that I had a sense of security, and I didn't dare to step into the evil jungle again, no matter who was calling my nickname, I didn't want to fight for my life anymore;
The deathly silence around them, the sound of nervous heartbeats, and the sound of even breathing, were unusually clear in the quiet and eerie atmosphere.
"Tiger girl...... Bald ......", I yelled like a wolf at the moon I met again, yelling at my teammates, the two teammates who had killed a thousand knives and had no heart to throw myself in this hellish place!
I had just been sucked into a puddle, and even though I had been "spit out" by another nearby puddle, I should still be not far from them, and in such a quiet environment, there was no reason why they could not hear my pig-killing scream!
But God just didn't open his eyes, and when I shouted so that my throat was a little hoarse, there was still not even a shadow around me;
Of course, fortunately, there is no shadow, otherwise, after this half-day tossing and just now, with my current sluggish mental state, the shadow will definitely scare me to death.
My cries became smaller and quieter, and my heart became even more uncomfortable, and I thought that all the bad things had fallen on me;
I even began to recall that if I hadn't gone out to sea on a boat out of curiosity, why would I have made myself so thrilling every day after many years...!
The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to find something to pick up and throw into the water a few times to scatter the evil fire, and then I realized that there was still nothing in my hand, and in this situation, "empty-handed" was definitely an unwise act;
I groped around the shore in the hope of touching something like a broken tree root that could be used as a weapon for a while, but there was nothing but silt;
The smell of the mud was really uncomfortable, and I even scared myself that my feet felt like they were being gnawed by some big insect in the mud, but when I pulled my feet out, I found that there was nothing, it was just an illusion;
But this delusion frightened me even more, and I took a few steps in the moonlight and moved in the direction of the dense forest as far as my eyes could see;
At that moment, my foot suddenly felt like I was stepping on something, but it looked like a broken tree root......
I thought to myself, it can't be such a coincidence...... Is this God preparing a weapon for me to fight in this dense forest again? Lao Tzu will not be fooled like this again! You're just going to get me a fox standing in the woods and waving at me, and you don't want me to leave this moonlit field overhead!"
But just as I bent down to pick up the hard object under my feet, my hair burst open, and something in front of me instantly made me sit in the mud;
It was a white bone, a human thigh bone, diagonally lying in the mud!