Chapter 18: The Giant Face
Two white-robed stretchers carried me and the bald man through the dense forest, the tiger girl and the black bull walked in front of the team, and it can be seen from the speed that she was marching carefully, and the seemingly reckless black bull did not say a word at this time, but silently followed the tiger girl's side;
It took me a few minutes to realize that the camp we had just made was already on the edge of the woodland, and we had not gone far before there was no shelter overhead, and the harsh light was very uncomfortable, and a large swamp came to my eyes, and there was a smell of death in the light.
Fortunately, it is daytime, Huya, a mature hunter, will naturally not take us into the swamp in danger, she led the team to move slowly, there is a water area at the edge of the swamp, this water is not like living water, Xu is because of the swamp, a large amount of rain gathered together, so it is very clear, we only need to find a place with stones at the bottom of the water to put our feet will not be in danger.
"Is this the same swamp where you found this thing?" I asked, holding the piece with the name of the head with the words on it and the amber on it, and calling a bald man's subordinate;
"It's about the same, but the water is not so deep, it's just a shallow layer, so it's not quite like it", the white-robed man looked around and replied;
"If you look around, is there any resemblance to where you picked it up?" , I asked unwillingly;
The white robe raised his head and squinted his eyes and looked around carefully, but did not speak, but shook his head gently;
The tiger girl at the front of the team made a "silence" gesture at us, and the white-robed man hurriedly left my side and returned to the team, obviously he was also intimidated by the tiger's obscenity!
I'm still fiddling with the transparent stone, especially the five words engraved in it:
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You're self
By entering
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What the hell is this?
Thinking about it, there was a sudden darkness in front of him, it turned out that the team had gone deep into another dense forest again, but the terrain was much higher than the one just now, and the trees were "twisted" together irregularly, and the crowns of several trees even interdepended on each other arched a few small bags above their heads, like several huge islands hanging upside down, the mud swamp under their feet was still there, looking at the way everyone grinned and marched, the water must be full of rocks, but this is fine, at least in the vicinity of the swamp such "road conditions" are the safest.
It's just that the farther you go into the forest, the light dimms a lot almost instantly, and the vines are crooked and twisted in the air, which saves us a lot of effort in our march, and many white-robed people crawl forward with these vines with their arms, so as not to be awkward, but the two white-robed brothers who are responsible for carrying me are suffering, and listening to the two of them hum, I feel very guilty!
The black bull and the tiger girl switched positions and walked in front, he had a lot of strength, the thinner branches he could use his body to break to open a path, and the thicker ones ...... Hehe, no one can do it, choosing a new path is the right one;
I seem to suddenly understand why Huya asked all of us to "silence", there is not even the slightest sound in such a dense forest, remember... I had asked Huya why there were no birds in this dense forest, and now it seems that although these dense forests must not be the same place, they are also silent and deadly.
"Don't look at me, I've never been to this kind of forest, even if this is really our original island, we've never been to the place where evil insects haunt...", Hook walked beside my stretcher and hooked my fingers with his hand, smiling and grinning, frowning from time to time, obviously hurt by the stones under his feet;
"Could it be that there are too many white-fleshed insects, and all the people who can breathe in this forest are extinct?" , I asked;
"You're so stupid, you're all dead, what do you eat?" The hook grinned and sneered, and she actually looked good when she smiled, and the girl who loves to laugh is usually lucky, and I hope that her luck will accompany us back to the gentle slope and to safety.
Thinking of those white-fleshed insects, several people, including me, were silent, but they didn't see half a shadow of the evil thing along the way, which also made me relax a little.
I tilted my head to watch the movement in the dimly lit forest, and the otherwise calm stagnant water was waded through a series of strange sounds, and a huge bubble rolled out of the water and sprayed on my face.
The hook giggled and wiped the water droplets on my face with his rough palms, and the white robes behind the stretcher also happily watched the scene of me being "molested" by the blisters just now, and the tense atmosphere was suddenly eased a lot;
"Huh?" , After walking out for more than ten minutes, the hook suddenly frowned;
"How?" I asked softly;
"The mud seems to be gone, and the soles of my feet are full of stones, and the water is not quite right," the hook said, leaning down to pull out an egg-sized pebble from the water, and then a huge bubble came out of the bottom and exploded under me with a thud.
At the same time, the white robe in front of the stretcher tilted his head back and said: "Pass down: the terrain is strange, beware", and in an instant, Huya's orders have been passed to the end of the team one by one;
Just when I was pleased with the tacit understanding and proficiency of this kind of team, my body suddenly sank into the water, and was immediately fished up, it turned out that the tiger girl made a fist "guard" gesture, including the two people carrying the stretcher, everyone habitually squatted down, until I immersed in the water They reacted...
Everyone in the four corners stared forward with bated breath, and a few white robes behind them had already jumped on the surrounding tree trunks without waiting for orders, bows and arrows on the strings, and their feet between the tree trunks, looking at everything around them vigilantly.
"What's wrong?";
I turned my head sideways to ask the hook, but she just shook her head, and I was about to ask when I heard a rapid treading of water in front of me, and the tiger girl beckoned to my stretcher, and I was carried by one of the white robes, and walked to the front of the line;
"What's the situation?" I asked the tiger girl in front of me, but she only pointed to a huge tree not far away, and at the same time signaled me to silence;
With the footsteps of the white robe carrying me, I just took a few more steps to bypass the giant tree, and the white robe under me exclaimed, and at the same time, I had already seen strange things:
It was a face, a very strange big stone face, poking in the water a dozen meters away from us;
The face was so large that the part that emerged from the water was about a man as tall as a man, motionless like a large stone lion in front of the Yamen, its face was covered with green moss, its eyes were wide, and its head was covered with countless vines, as if it had grown its own hair;
In particular, its eyes, though almost obscured by moss, could still make out the deep admonition expressed by the stone statue, which seemed to convey the meaning of turning back;
The sound of "crackling" came, and the tiger girl made people light the torch with the black bull in his hand, and walked towards the big face, through the clarity of the water surface, we can clearly see that the stone face is not a lonely existence, there may be a body under it, but it is buried under the rock, it is too big, and it can't be dug out for a while.
Huya and I looked at each other, each of us understood that this was a dangerous situation, and I subconsciously looked at Lin Hai behind the stone statue by the light of the torch, could it be that the purpose of someone poking the stone statue here was to warn us not to break in, or just not to welcome us uninvited guests?
I turned my head to look at the stone statue again, then raised my hand to look at the transparent stone engraved with words in my hand, gritted my teeth, and nodded at Huya......