The swamp was much larger than it could see, and the crowd was led slowly by benzoin, and when the sun set, it seemed that they were still a few hundred meters away from the big banyan tree.

In other words, either they had made a mistake in calculating the distance before, or the swamp would give people some kind of illusion about the distance.

However, probably because the poisonous fog was dispersed, the danger of the swamp was not as great as previously anticipated.

"Stop!" Benzoin, who was leading the way in front of him, stopped, "Count the number of people." ”

This is the fifteenth time that Benzoin has stopped to count the number of people, Yexin gestured to the pirate next to her with some impatience, and the pirate immediately stood aside cautiously to count, and then said, "Princess, the number is right." ”

Ye Xin raised her head and said to Benzoin in front of her: "The number of people is right, can you go?" ”

Benzoin turned her head and frowned at Yexin: "Don't bother me, I'm thinking about your subordinates, have you forgotten how those people who explored the path before disappeared?" ”

Yexin suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, and asked in a calm tone as much as possible, "You know?" ”

Benzoin shook her head: "I don't know, it's because I don't know that I'm so careful." ”

Yexin stopped talking, and whispered to the pirate next to her, "Be careful." ”

The pirate nodded, then waved his hand, and the team moved on.

Tang Anshu and Gu Feng, who were walking at the end of the line, glanced at each other, and Tang Anshu smiled: "Look, there is always a time when things will be resolved." ”

Gu Feng said: "I really don't know if you are pretending to be stupid, or if you really don't understand the love of children, two women quarrel, nine times out of ten it is because of men." ”

Tang Anshu just smiled, the afterglow of the setting sun at this time made him raise his hand to block it, and at the moment when he lowered his head and raised his hand, Tang Anshu saw a face appear in the puddle next to him.

Tang Anshu was shocked, and subconsciously moved to the side, Gu Feng reacted very quickly, stepped forward with a knife, and looked around.

Gu Feng observed for a while, found nothing unusual, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Tang Anshu pointed to the puddle and said, "Maybe it's dazzling, I see a human face in the puddle below." ”

Gu Feng cautiously looked at the puddle: "There is nothing." ”

Tang Anshu also looked fixedly: "Maybe it's really dazzling." ”

Gu Feng put away the knife: "Let's go." ”

At the same time, one of the pirates in the middle of the team also raised his hand because of the setting sun, and like Tang Anshu, he also saw a human face in the puddle next to him.

The pirate was not as surprised as Tang Anshu, but only glanced at it, because he subconsciously thought that it might be someone who died in the swamp in the past.

But the moment this thought flashed through his mind, he said to himself, "That should be rotten too?" ”

As he spoke, the pirate turned again, crouched down and looked at the puddle, stabbing his long knife in the puddle.

Another pirate asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"There seems to be something ......" Before the pirate could finish speaking, he could clearly see that a human face was indeed emerging from the puddle, but on closer inspection, it did not seem to be a human face, it just looked like it, and at the same time, the human face began to slowly rise from the puddle, and suddenly jumped out of the water, and threw itself directly towards its face.

The pirate's eyes widened as the thing in the water rushed into his face, sucking his face in an instant, and just as he raised his hand to pull it, the thing dragged him directly into the puddle in just three seconds.

The other pirate stood stunned for two seconds before grabbing the man next to him, pointing to the puddle and gesturing there, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"What's wrong?" The pirate he caught looked at his pale face.

"There's ......," the pirate gestured anxiously, "there's something underwater!" There's something! ”

When the pirate had finished speaking, the team stopped, and everyone looked in his direction, then stared warily at the puddle in front of them.

Suddenly, countless black objects appeared from the puddles on both sides of the group, and after jumping high, they grabbed the people in the group and dragged them into the puddles, and in an instant, the sound of gunfire and shouts was intertwined.

Seeing this, Gu Feng and Tang Anshu in the rear were worried about being injured by stray bullets, so they subconsciously fell to the ground, and this subconscious action saved their lives on the contrary - the moment the two of them fell, it just made a monster jump into the air.

Gu Feng, who was lying on the ground, instantly changed his posture, changed from lying on his stomach to lying down, and cut the thing in mid-air directly to the ground with his knife, while Tang Anshu next to him watched many pirates in the team in front of him being dragged into the puddle by the monster, and many people were injured by the stray bullets of their companions and wailed.

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Tang Anshu shouted there, and at the same time, he saw Benzoin, Yexin and a few pirates running wildly towards the front.

Gu Feng got up and squatted there, looking at the thing on the ground that had been cut in half by himself: "What the is this?" ”

Tang Anshu also turned his head to look at it, and found that the thing was both like a fish and a snake, the body was not as long as a snake, but it was much thicker than an ordinary snake, the head was very large, oval, and a series of lines on the top of the head were combined, at first glance you would think it was a human face.

Tang Anshu pulled out the dagger, picked the monster open and turned it over, looked carefully at the monster's huge mouth, and the circle of suckers on the side of the mouth, and then said, "Human head eel." ”

Gu Feng frowned: "Human head eel? What is it? ”

"A kind of freshwater eel, many years ago, Cai Qianqing and I met a geographic in Chengdu, that guy has a cookbook, which records a lot of animals that are not common on weekdays, and there is a dish called roasted human head eel." Tang Anshu shook his head and said, "It was also written in that book that this kind of freshwater eel is only available on the sea, and I was still thinking at the time, how can there be freshwater creatures on the sea, it must be made up, but I didn't expect it to really exist." ”

Gu Feng raised his eyes and looked ahead: "This place is really full of strange things. ”

Tang Anshu got up and saw that there was no one in front of him, and the few pirates who had been hit by stray bullets earlier had disappeared, leaving only one person still struggling there.

"Save people." As soon as Tang Anshu was about to get up, two human head eels jumped out of the puddle next to the pirate, opened his mouth and sucked the pirate's head and dragged him into the water.

The pirate struggled there as he couldn't make a sound because his face was sucked.

Tang Anshu and Gu Feng immediately rushed over, but most of the pirate's body had already been dragged into the puddle, and the two of them had to grab the pirate's feet and drag them out, tug-of-war with the human head eel in the water.

Just when Tang Anshu and Gu Feng were about to pull out the pirate, two more human head eels jumped out on both sides, Gu Feng had to let go and knock Tang Anshu away, and when he was holding a knife to cut it, the two human head eels drilled back into the puddle, and at the same time, he could only watch the pirate being dragged down.

"There is nothing that can be done." Gu Feng grabbed Tang Anshu and got up, "Be careful." ”

Tang Anshu looked ahead and saw that Benzoin, Yexin and the other three pirates had slowed down and began to slowly advance under the banyan tree with their guns.

"We've got to catch up with them." Tang Anshu pointed ahead.

Gu Feng looked at the sides: "We can only walk slowly, maybe these things will suddenly appear." ”

"I found one thing." Tang Anshu held a knife in his hand, "These head eels will only attack people's heads, and will not suck your feet, and didn't you see it just now?" The human head eel has no sharp teeth in its mouth and does not gnaw. ”

Gu Feng shook his head: "Why?" ”

Tang Anshu analyzed: "If the human head eel sucks people's legs and drags them down, people can lean over and attack with weapons, but if they suck people's heads, once people lose their vision, they will be more panicked, and they don't dare to take a knife to greet their heads, so they can only be dragged away by human head eels." ”

"These monsters we've encountered along the way are pretty smart." Gu Feng nodded, and continued to walk forward cautiously, "The human head eel has no sharp teeth and can't bite, how can it eat people?" ”

Tang Anshu looked at some white bones floating in the puddle next to him: "It is estimated that I will wait for the corpse to decompose before eating, so that I don't have to bite hard." ”

Gu Feng felt disgusting when he thought about it, and subconsciously quickened his pace, wanting to leave this ghost place as soon as possible.

Suddenly, Tang Anshu stopped and looked around: "Did you hear any sound?" ”

Gu Feng listened carefully: "It seems that someone is shouting? ”

As soon as Tang Anshu turned around for the sound, he saw a vague figure in the distance moving slowly towards this side, and from time to time he leaned over to avoid the jumping human head eel, and at the same time, the person also seemed to notice that Tang Anshu had turned around, raised the rifle in his hand and fired a shot into the air.

"There really are people!" Tang Anshu pointed at the man, "It seems to be my own person." ”

Gu Feng walked a few steps, and after finally seeing it clearly, he said happily: "It's Tang Hualong's kid!" That's great! He's alive! ”

Tang Anshu also breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to be alive, but it seems that the rest of Team A and Team B are less auspicious." ”

For the safety of Tang Hualong, Gu Feng and Tang Anshu also hurriedly walked towards Tang Hualong.

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Benzoin, Yexin and others, who were still some distance away from the big banyan tree, turned their heads to look after hearing the gunshots, although they didn't see Tang Hualong who was too far away, they saw Tang Anshu and Gu Feng turn around and walk back.

"Why did they go back?" One of the pirates wondered, "Who shot just now?" ”

Benzoin looked at it with half-squinted eyes: "There should be people alive, but they are left behind, they go back to rescue, let's go ours, we must reach the banyan tree before dark." ”

Ye Xin looked up at the sky: "Yes, once it gets dark, we can't see anything, so we can only let this strange fish slaughter." ”

The two of them, who rarely agreed on the same opinion, looked at each other and looked away, and rolled their eyes at each other at the same time.

The remaining three pirates didn't dare to say much, one followed Benzoin in front, and the remaining two broke off, protecting Yexin and continuing to advance.

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After reconciling with Tang Hualong, Gu Feng hugged him like a relative who survived the catastrophe.

Gu Feng let go of Tang Hualong and asked with concern, "What the hell is going on?" What about the others? Have you seen Li Zhaonian? ”

Tang Hualong's face sank at this time, and he hesitated for a moment before telling what he had experienced before.

Gu Feng was stunned after hearing this, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Tang Hualong said in a low voice: "Sir, I ......"

Gu Feng raised his hand to signal him not to say any more: "Ah Long, it's not your fault, don't feel guilty, everyone's choice is different, in fact, Li Zhaonian will be like this, it is already something we expected." ”

Tang Hualong looked at Tang Anshu at this time and nodded silently towards him.

Gu Feng said: "The rest of the words will be said until it is safe to leave this swamp, let's go, we must rush to the banyan tree before dark, and we should camp there tonight." ”

"That's right." Tang Hualong handed the two pistols he took from Li Zhaonian to Gu Feng and Tang Anshu, "It's better to have firearms to defend yourself, in this place, swords don't have much effect." ”

After Tang Anshu thanked him, he turned around and led the way, and rushed towards the banyan tree with Gu Feng and Tang Hualong.