Village Chief Zhang's words "It's become different from before" made it more and more difficult for me to understand, and I had to ask what he meant? ”

"Although our village moved out of the mountains, most of the villagers still have the habit of digging bamboo shoots in the mountains. A month ago, it was a good time to harvest spring bamboo shoots, and at that time, my father and son also walked through this forest several times in a row, and the forest at that time was ...... How to say that? ”

Village Chief Zhang paused at this point, as if wondering what words to use to describe it.

"We don't know how many times we pass through this forest every year, and the trees in the forest are getting thicker and taller every year. Although it is impossible for us to know every tree in the forest, every path in the forest that we have walked out of is familiar to us, and the trees on both sides of the path are basically very familiar to us! But now ......"

Village Chief Zhang stopped again, obviously there were only three of us in the forest, but he lowered his voice more and more as if he was afraid of being heard.

"You just saw those paths, they're all covered with thorns and thorns, and you can't go any further! And these trees ...... Alas, I don't know what to say, in short, this forest is very different from before, and when we look at it now, it is completely unfamiliar! ”

I looked up and saw the large trees in full bloom and full of life, and my heart was full of doubts.

"What does Village Chief Zhang mean? These trees weren't like this before? I asked.

"What my dad means ......," Zhang Zhuang said, pondering and carefully wording, "The trees in this forest are not the same as before!" In particular, these willow trees, although they are different in size and thickness, have become almost the same, and even the crooked-necked trees, which were easily recognizable in the past, do not know where they have gone, as if they have disappeared out of thin air! And these canopies! In the past, the canopy was not so dense and not as stretched out on all sides as it is now, so when we walked from here, the sun would shine through the branches and leaves, and it was easy to see the direction! But now I don't know what's going on, but the canopy has all become so big and dense that there is not even a single gap between the canopy, and you can't see the sky or the sun, and unless you climb to the top of the tree, it's hard to know which is east and which is west! ”

He was right, the forest was not very dense in appearance, and most of them were willows, but each of them had a large canopy—

The crown of the willow tree is generally not small, but the shape of each willow tree will be very different, and its crown will be either left or right, in a thousand postures, swaying.

But the willow trees in this forest, not only are the branches and leaves of each one particularly luxuriant, but as Zhang Zhuang said, all the willows in my eyes are almost the same.

The canopy of each tree is not crooked or slanted in the center, and it extends as far as possible in all directions, like a large umbrella with its top open.

Moreover, the large umbrellas that were stretched out were superimposed on each other, and only a very small amount of sunlight was sprinkled down, which not only made the forest look very gloomy, but also it was indeed difficult to determine the southeast and northwest by visual inspection alone.

"The most terrible thing is ......" Village Chief Zhang spoke again, but he only stopped saying such a sentence, and once again shrank his head and looked around.

"What's the scariest thing?" I had to ask.

"This forest seems to be alive!" Village Chief Zhang said.

I almost burst out laughing.

Because the forest must be alive, otherwise it should not be green branches and green leaves in front of us, but dead branches and rotten trees.

Seeing that Village Chief Zhang's face was pale and his voice trembled slightly, my smile quickly faded again.

"Why do you think this forest is alive?" I asked.

Village Chief Zhang moved his lips, but did not make a sound, as if he did not dare to speak.

"It's hard to explain clearly with Comrade Gao!" Zhang Zhuang replied on behalf of his father, "It's better for Comrade Gao to walk a hundred meters in any direction, leave marks along the way, and look back later!" ”

Strange in my heart, I took out my knife and carved a mark on the trunk of a large tree in front of me.

The father and son of the Zhang family looked at each other, but neither of them spoke.

I looked in one direction and walked forward, and as I went, I kept carving marks on the trunk of the big tree with my knife.

The Zhang family followed me closely, as if they were afraid that they would be separated from me.

After walking more than 100 meters forward, Zhang Zhuang said: "It should be almost over, so please ask Comrade Gao to take us back to the place where we stayed before!" ”

I thought it was funny, because we had only walked a hundred meters, and I had left marks on the trunks of a dozen trees along the way.

However, I didn't say much to the Zhang family father and son, but immediately turned around and walked in the direction I just walked.

I thought that even if I didn't leave a mark, I would be able to walk back to where I had left off.

But I was wrong, I only walked more than ten meters, I passed through six or seven trees, and I didn't know where to go.

The trees in front of me are all upright and not crooked, at most they are thick or thin.

Of course, the varieties of trees are not exactly the same, and I remember just leaving marks on the trunks of eight willows, one elm, and two large trees that I didn't recognize.

But now, I can't find any marks on all the trees around me.

It was as if in just a few minutes, those imprints had been naturally repaired by the tree as it grew.

I had only walked a little more than a hundred meters, but I had indeed lost my way and could not find the place where I had been.

The father and son of the Zhang family said that this forest seemed to be alive, and what they said was not wrong.

This forest is indeed like a living ecstasy array, changing form at any time, and once one enters it, it is difficult to get out.

But why is this happening?

Before, I thought that the case of the disappearance of the people in Gaopo Village and the suicide of the old village chief were at most haunted by ghosts.

But as far as I know, ghosts and the like can enter the human brain at most and manipulate human words and actions, but they will never have the power to change the ecology of the entire forest.

Could it be that behind these strange events, there is not a ghost, but an extremely powerful supernatural being that I have never encountered before, or even imagined?

I feel chills running through my body!

I've been through so many spooky things that I thought nothing could scare me.

But now, facing this vibrant willow forest, I am also uneasy by ignorance.

"Comrade Gao, didn't you say you had a high-tech orientation device? Can you take it out and have a look? Village Chief Zhang said again.

I knew he was terrified, and in fact I was equally afraid that my orientation would be affected by the "living" forest, so I hurriedly took the orientation finder out of my trouser pocket and looked at it.

Fortunately, the direction finder did not fail, and I only had to follow the direction indicated by the direction finder to get out of the forest and return to the path we had walked on at the entrance of the forest.

"Don't worry, the direction finder is good! Just follow the direction of this pointer and we will be able to walk to the path that has just entered the forest! I said, pretending to stretch out my arm easily and let Village Chief Zhang and his son look at the electronic pointer on the direction finder.

Village Chief Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then let's quit quickly!" ”

"Now quit, what about the person who cried before?" I say.

To be honest, I had the same fear of this incredible forest, but I had heard people crying before, and now I couldn't do it if I wanted to ignore it entirely.

"But...... Can Comrade Gao really be sure that someone is calling? Village Chief Zhang asked me with a sad face, "Even if Comrade Gao can be sure, but now that person's voice is completely gone, even if we want to find him, we can't find him!" ”

I knew he had a point, but I didn't give up and looked around and shouted again.

"Is there anyone in the woods? Are you hurt? If you don't say anything more, we're going out! ”

Once again, my voice echoed through the woods.

Before, I was open-minded and didn't think this echo was anything terrible, but now I feel very terrible when I hear it in my ears.

Looking back at Village Chief Zhang's father and son, he was even more shocked.

"It's useless for Comrade Gao to call him that, right? I just heard that voice scream, I must have passed out, or ...... Killed by some beast! Zhang Zhuang said.

I had already thought of these two possibilities as he said, so I could only smile wryly and look around.

Fortunately, I looked at it more, because out of the corner of my eye, I happened to catch a shadow.

It was a small figure, dressed in a green suit and trousers, much like a child of seven or eight years old.

I immediately turned my face to see better, but the figure had already run deep into the woods.

"There's a figure there, do you see, it looks like a little boy?" I opened my mouth and said.

Zhang Zhuang and Village Chief Zhang immediately followed my eyes and turned their eyes to look at it.

"No? You're dazzled, aren't you? Zhang Zhuang said.

"Yes, in the depths of this dense forest, how can there be children!" Village Chief Zhang said.

I didn't want to argue with them, so I just said, "Follow me, don't get separated!" ”

Then he ran in the direction where the little boy had disappeared.

Village Chief Zhang's father and son had to rely on my orientation to get out of the forest, so they had to sigh and follow me closely.

Fortunately, I didn't go too far this time, and as far as I could see, I suddenly saw a man lying under the trunk of a thick tree.

The man's hair was disheveled, his face was full of red scratches, and his clothes were messy and dirty, as if he had just crawled through the thorn bushes.

I saw that his eyes were closed, but his chest was visibly heaving and his breath was short, and he was not dead.

"Hadron! This is the strong son of our village, the last one to go missing! ”

Zhang Zhuang exclaimed and immediately wanted to rush forward, but I instinctively reached out and grabbed him.

(See Chapter 341 "Python Mouth Escape")