We chatted about something innocuous and walked on for nearly half an hour, when we finally saw a clearing, which was a large, bald rock, on a higher ground. In the past, when people in our village went out of the mountain, if they walked late, they would rest on this rock for the night, but I didn't expect to see it, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia.

Kong Xian set up a tent and collected fire, and I squatted on the rocks with a slingshot to shoot birds, preparing to roast game tonight. For this bite of bird meat, I even prepared cumin powder and chili foam, and if I wasn't too tired to move, I could catch a few rabbits and pheasants, and add two vegetables.

"Muyu." Kong Xian suddenly called me behind my back.

I looked back at him and waited for him to speak. He had already picked up almost all the firewood, and it was stacked on the side. Holding a tent rack, it is being assembled. But his expression seemed to be a little solemn, looking at the big birds flying in the sky, and said faintly: "These birds are not allowed to eat." ”

"What does it mean you can't eat?" I was puzzled and asked, "Can it still be poisonous?" ”

Kong Xian pointed to the nearest woodpecker and said, "Look under its wings, this red color is not normal. ”

I turned my head to look at him and said, "Maybe I'm hurt." ”

"Your observation is really ......," Kong Xian shook his head and asked, "Didn't you notice that every bird that flew from here had this color under its wings, could it be that every bird was injured?" ”

I didn't pay attention to it, but after listening to Kong Xian, I observed a few more birds, and found that as he said, there was a touch of red under the wings of each bird. I couldn't help but sigh and asked, "My God, how much do you use your heart, can you still find time to observe birds?" So what does that mean? ”

Kong Xian's face was a little ugly, and he slowly spoke: "This means...... Something went wrong with the water and soil in the mountains or something that caused the birds to have abnormal symptoms. We've got to be careful......"

After he finished speaking, I went to my bag and took out the kettle to look at it, and said with a wry smile: "It's impossible for us not to touch the water and food in this mountain, unless you can call Meituan's customer service and beg her more to see if this mountain can be delivered." ”

"You really have a lot of takeaway, can't you learn to cook some food yourself?" Kong Xian said, taking the slingshot in my hand and hitting a black finch. He picked up the black finch and examined it carefully, pointed to the underside of the bird's wings, and said, "There may be some virus or plague or something, the blood vessels under the wings have begun to rupture, causing a lot of subcutaneous bleeding." How many days it can live depends on its life......"

I hurriedly kicked the black finch away from Kong Xian's hand, and said worriedly, "This thing is not contagious, right?" Why don't you wash your hands or something? ”

Kong Xian nodded, jumped off the rock, and walked into the forest. There is a puddle in the forest, about one and a half meters in diameter and more than two meters deep. From my point of view, I can see that the location is a water storage well dug by the people of our village in the past, so that it is convenient to get some water to drink when going out of the mountain.

He went to wash his hands, and I was on the rocks making a fire and worrying about what to eat. I picked up the biscuits and chili powder in my backpack and looked at them, but I could only sigh for a while, I couldn't eat the best game, and I could only foam the chili peppers on the biscuits. However, bad food is a trivial matter, and the key is that there is not much water left. Originally, I thought that there was water everywhere in the mountains, so I only brought a pot of water with one person, but now it's good, so I can go down by eating the old book, and at most there will be only a pot left tomorrow.

"Muyu."

At this time, I suddenly heard Kong Xian shouting at me. He hurriedly looked up at his position, and he was standing beside the well and bent down to look down, and when he saw me looking up at him, he beckoned me to come over.

"What's wrong again?" I shouted, then threw down the firewood in my hand, jumped off the rock, and walked over to him.

He didn't know what he was looking at, his eyes kept on the bottom of the well.

"What's wrong?" I asked again.

He looked up and pointed his chin into the water, motioning for me to look.

At first glance, I didn't notice anything unusual, but when I looked at it again, I felt that something was wrong. The color of the bottom of the water is a gray-red, but this gray-red does not float on the surface of the water, but sinks underwater, like a well-camouflaged beast crawling at the bottom of the well, ready to wait for its prey.

This strange appearance made me feel uneasy and curious. I went not far away and picked up a suitable stick of dead tree, and stirred it with a pestle, and found that the upper part of the water was still not stained with the gray-red, but the gray-red area below was in a very chaotic state like a storm.

"What is this, disgusting ......," I scolded.

Kong Xian took the stick in my hand, pestle it up and down a few times, and said suspiciously, "There seems to be a living creature down there." ”

My jaw almost dropped to the ground, and I was surprised and said, "And living creatures?" It's a pool of stagnant water, and it's good to have a little parasite, so don't tell me it's the Well Dragon King. ”

"Feel it." Kong Xian pulled me into his arms and let me hold the stick. He took my hand in the palm of his hand, dragged the pestle to a position near the edge, and said, "There's something moving here." ”

As he spoke, I felt some vibrations from under the stick, as if something was touching the stick. I think it's incredible, it stands to reason that there should be nothing to survive in here, some microorganisms or small insects may be fine, and even larger things like fish and shrimp are impossible to survive.

However, there are no absolutes in the world, and there is another possibility, that is, something has a hole underneath. If this is the case, there will be living water underneath, and there will be larger creatures at the bottom of the well.

I looked at the water and was too disgusting, so I said to Kong Xian behind me in disgust: "I think, don't wash your hands......"

When he heard me, he took up his two hands and looked at them, and suddenly smiled, and said to me, "Hmm...... Then don't wash it. Anyway, I was already holding your hand just now, and if it was poisonous, I would die together. ”

After listening to him, I almost sprayed a mouthful of old blood on his face, talking about the skill points of his teammates, this bastard said that no one dared to say the first......

He didn't say that it was okay, I only felt that there were thousands of insects crawling on my hands at the moment, itchy and disgusting, so I quickly rubbed my hand on my body, handed him a white eye, and said: "If you want to die, you will die by yourself, and my sister still wants to borrow another 500 years from the sky." With that, he shook off his arm and walked towards the tent.

"Muyu." Kong Xian came up and looked at me with some resentment and complained: "You also said before, if I die, you are martyrdom or widowhood, I can choose one, so soon I won't count?" ”

……

I didn't say a word, I just wanted to shout in my heart, "Present my Fang Tian Painting Halberd!" ”

Seeing that I ignored him, he was still a little unrelenting, sighing and muttering: "Alas...... Mu You, you are really a kind person. ”

"Thin peat......" I gritted my teeth and scolded: "You are especially beaten when you are in a bad mood, and you are especially cheap when you are in a good mood, you had better have a bottom in your heart, don't be broken into thousands of pieces one day and don't know why." ”

"Probably ......" Kong Xian pretended to think for a long time, "because of love." ”

“……”

With a speechless expression on my face, I climbed back onto the rock. After a long day of walking, we were really afraid to eat the game here, so we had to eat the dry food in our bags and drink our own water by the campfire.

It soon became dark, and there was a sound of insects chirping around, noisy and lively. Kong Xian chewed on the compressed biscuit in his mouth, thinking about something in his mind, his eyes occasionally glanced over the water storage well, and then glanced back at the direction of the tree man, his expression revealing a touch of coldness.

I saw that he was in a state of frowning and heart, and that he must be suffering from insomnia, so I simply did not be polite to him, and turned into the tent after greeting him, and asked him to wake me up in the middle of the night. He said yes absentmindedly, and then continued to ponder......

I don't know if it's because of the unfamiliar environment or because I was frightened during the day, I feel very unsettling, and I always dream that those tree people wrapped in human skins come to life, and the trees are chasing me, so frightened that my shoes have fallen off, and I am looking for shoes all over the woods.

After waking up a few times, I was already soaked in cold sweat, and when I raised my hand and looked at my watch, it was only eleven o'clock, and I estimated that I had slept for three hours.

I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to sleep well anymore, so I got up and got out of the tent to change Kong Xian to rest for a while.

I'm stupid when I lift the tent curtain! Unexpectedly, Kong Xian was not outside, and there was only a burning bonfire outside the tent.

"Kong Xian." I shouted, thinking that he might be looking for a convenient place to go, which should be not far away.

However, no one responded to me, and the silence around me was terrible, and the sound of insects chirping seemed to be isolated, and all disappeared......

I'm a little panicked, it stands to reason that Kong Xian won't leave this area, why is he suddenly gone? Shouldn't you meet a bandit and be abducted back to be the lady of the village? Besides, if something really happens, he will definitely wake me up, Ya Butterfly, you have to struggle and scream.

"Kong Xian!" I shouted a few more times. However, there was still no response.

The autumn night wind was a little cool, and it gave me goosebumps when it blew on my body. I want to turn around and go back to the tent to add a coat, and then take a flashlight to find Kong Xian.

Before I could turn my upper body, I suddenly saw some shaky black shadows at the edge of the woods in the distance. This really scared me, and I said, "There can't really be a bandit."

I quickly squinted my eyes through the firelight and looked closely. The more you look at it, the more strange it becomes, the dense black shadows in the woods, as if there are many people standing.

"Muyu." Kong Xian's voice came from the tent behind me.

I didn't have time to wonder why he was in the tent, so I hurriedly pointed to the woods in the distance and said, "Look what those things are!" After saying that, I looked back at Kong Xian......

I almost screamed out this time, only to see that in the tent behind Kong Xian, there were full of tree people. And he, with a dull and cold look in his eyes, said expressionlessly: "You can't run away, isn't this your home?" With that, he lunged at me and hugged me tightly.