Chapter 40: The False Lake (I)
The moment I lifted the enchantress's blindfold, a pair of stunning eyes attracted me again, her eyes were like Medusa's demon pupils, and every man who looked at her instantly petrified on the spot.
This is not the point, the important thing is that this time the eyes of the demon girl, but not the first time I saw her is the royal blue black eyeballs, but turned into turquoise, which surprised me, indeed, I have seen the record of Persian women's eyes will change color in the history books of the Tang and Song dynasties, but it really made me meet a real person, and my heart still can't help but beat the drum.
While I looked into her eyes and carefully observed those beautiful pupils, she was also looking me up and down as if she was seeing me for the first time, muttering something in a questioning tone, but I couldn't understand it, her language was very similar to the language of the two Dandan, or it could be said to be the same, maybe they were once a tribe and then separated from each other in the shock, forming two different groups.
I wanted to ask her about the tattoos on her back, which is what I am most concerned about right now, and if the tattoo on her back is really a sea map, especially if it is related to the island, then many of my concerns may be solved. For example, information about the island, or whether she knows where my "desert island" is.
Of course, language is still a barrier, but Huya can understand, in the word "trust", I still believe in Huya more, but I also understand that this demon girl must know the existence of this island before anyone else, and she must have guided us here on the boat, otherwise, Huya on the boat will never be at her mercy and silent.
I was thinking about how to open my mouth to ask the riddle, but suddenly I saw a strange look in the eyes of the demon girl, her eyes looked at the top of my head, I naturally turned around to take a look, but found that behind me, the tiger girl was already standing there quietly. With a spear in her hand, she stared at the enchantress with a cold expression, like a statue, always on the lookout for any disadvantage she had against me.
But thankfully, this time, Huya did not use violence against her again, but warned her in a commanding tone, and this process took a few minutes, until the smile on the demon girl's face gradually revealed ice stubble, and then cold, Huya stopped such a lecture, and the demon girl nodded to her slightly as if she had agreed to some conditions.
I don't intend to tell the pattern on the back of the demon girl to the tiger girl, frankly I don't want to cause trouble for myself, if these patterns cause any more disputes between the two, the end of the bad luck must be me, this is obvious, whether it is the first time they meet and do it, or a few confrontations at sea, which result is not that I am either faint or injured? Why bother to find yourself so uncomfortable, but remind yourself that you must hold back, and you have to ask her alone.
The tiger girl leaned down and rubbed the forehead of the demon girl with her thumb vigorously, until she rubbed out a red seal, and the demon girl closed her eyes and frowned, obviously this was some kind of ritual between them, but when everything stopped, the tiger girl did something even bolder, she untied the shackles on the witch's feet, and when I asked her where the balls were, she did so, and then, like a bolt slave, led the demon girl to the depths of the forest, and beckoned to me from time to time, signaling me to follow too.
I don't want to move the nest in my heart, although this "simple bed" mixed with branches and young leaves is very uncomfortable, but compared to letting me walk now, I am still more willing to lie on this broken bed to recuperate, but Huya didn't seem to think that I would stay here alone, so I still moved this tired body to follow.
It is said to be a forest, but in fact, the forest is very shallow, but the light in the forest is really dim, which makes people feel densely packed.
After about half an hour of moving step by step, the trees in the forest suddenly became much shorter, and the towering giant trees suddenly became much shorter, and a relatively open green space appeared in front of me, and the stones under my feet became soft, mixed with many muddy grass branches, looking like a wetland.
The smell of sulphur was getting stronger and stronger in the air, and after a while, the whole picture of the open land was revealed, but the site was not large, surrounded by several mountain bags and trees, and it was amazing that in the middle of this open field, layers of fog covered the surface, and if you looked closely, it was a small lake composed of hot springs.
It's amazing, the hot springs are not connected to each other, they are irregularly scattered around many places, there are many birds hovering in the sky, and there are many birds floating on the hot springs, it is hard to imagine that the heat of the hot spring water is actually tolerable to the birds, and it is also a leisurely and complacent.
Dan Dan was lying lazily in a spring, his eyes closed, only his head was above the water, and his expression was as comfortable as the old man at my door taking a bath in the public bath.
He is happy, at least the easiest of us.
In his body, I understand that people are unhappy because although they can be as lazy as pigs, they can't be as lazy as pigs, for example, I used to feel very tired of life, and my sister said that I am a very thoughtful person, maybe it means that I can't be lazy with peace of mind.
Hot springs are like a dream for me now, not to mention the seed mud all over my body, which is the wound of this body, and hot springs are also the best way to heal wounds.
I couldn't wait to take two steps, but unexpectedly, the tiger girl pushed the demon girl and plunged into the spring of Dandan, while she herself stood by the hot spring with a spear and looked around vigilantly, without the slightest intention of going into the water.
Maybe they didn't care about the difference between men and women, but I was still not used to this kind of Japanese bathing scene, so I had to walk a few more steps before I leaned over in a hot spring not far away and scared away a few gulls and herons floating on it.
The distant view of the mountains is shaded by the giant trees on the mountainside, and although the view always feels familiar to me, I can't help but be a little disappointed. Geothermal hot springs, sparkling lakes, birds and flowers, if there is a little "cloud mountain view", it will be a pleasant thing.
There was a sudden itching of my arms and palms soaked in the spring water, and it was wonderful to see small fingernails gnawing at the dead flesh of my wounds, and although this service was available in many places, it was the first time it was so pristine, and I bet it was the only place in the world with such a natural hot spring service, and if it weren't for the bird's droppings that fell from the sky from time to time, the comfortable feeling would have made me fall asleep again in the blink of an eye.
Just when I was thinking about whether to take off my pants and take a naked bath, suddenly, the level of the spring water below me sank a few centimeters, and then, the hot spring seemed to be poured into cold water, and the gulls and herons in the sky jumped out of the spring with a scream, and some even soared directly into the air, and I noticed that not far from my spring, a few small birds in another pond with slow movements suddenly sank, and the body of the bird immediately sank into the spring and fluttered.
At the same time, my pants shook slightly as if they had been bitten by something, and then the wound on my elbow hurt, and I didn't know what had torn off a piece of flesh.
I hurriedly climbed out of the water with my elbows on the shore and rolled out of the water, and at this moment, almost all the springs in the distance boiled as if they had exploded into a pot, and the balls not far away also dragged the demon girl to the shore with a strange scream!