Chapter 113: Poplar Forest 16
The disappearance of Urati is a great loss for us, and we outsiders have no sense of direction in this desert at all, and without a guide, the road ahead can be imagined.
"Damn! I already knew that this nervous old man couldn't be trusted, and now I've finally left us and run away! The fat bear, who has always been dissatisfied with Urat, said indignantly.
In fact, you can't blame him if you think about it, after all, people are already a lot old, and they were forcibly dragged over by a few of us to sell their lives, and it is certain that there is resentment, and we are frequently attacked by enemies in the shadows, and people with a discerning eye know at a glance that we are not ordinary tourists. Urati was not stupid, knowing that we were by no means good, and that we must have other plans to enter the desert, and it was very likely that he would be killed after the deed, so he finally decided to slip away.
Fortunately, we also have a BUG-style Nangong Han here, with his magical powers, he will take us to find the ancient city, and there should be great hope for getting out of the desert.
Thinking of this, I suddenly realized something, and hurriedly looked at the tree where Nangong Han was lying before, and my eyes froze for a moment, and my body couldn't help but tremble: Nangong Han is also gone!
What's going on? Before we went into the tent, he was still leaning on it and sleeping, why did he disappear with all this effort?
I anxiously asked Fat Bear and Zheng Tian if they had seen Nangong Han, and they all said that they didn't pay attention, and Zheng Tian said weakly: "Could it be that Nangong Han found out that Urati had escaped and chased him?" ”
I shook my head and denied, "What kind of skill is Nangong Han?" If the old man had escaped, he would have been caught in less than a minute, but now he has never seen the two of them. ”
"That's when both of them abandoned us and left on their own." Alan Lin said coldly.
I think this statement is even more unreliable, Nangong Han may be reasonable to abandon you white-eyed wolves, but he was found by Uncle Dao to help me, how could he abandon me? So I replied confidently: "You guys are too worried, Nangong Han will not leave us." He must have something important to deal with. ”
Then the fat bear smashed me with his elbow and whispered, "What if he is gone?" After all, that kid's thoughts are not something that ordinary people can fathom. ”
I didn't pay attention to the fat bear, and proposed to everyone to wait for Nangong Han's return in the same place.
At first, I was still quite convinced of my inner fantasies, but when half an hour later, the sky gradually turned white, and a few rays of the morning sun shone through the shadows of the trees, my firm faith began to waver, and the rest of the people said that there was no need to wait any longer.
"It's dawn, it's time for us to set out to find Ganfeng and them." After a long dark night, Alan Lin, who saw the dawn of dawn, said eagerly.
Fat Xiong and Zheng Tian also felt that Nangong Han's departure should have their own plans, and it would be useless for us to wait here for a long time. It's better to grope forward first, after all, getting out of this deadly forest is the key.
The minority obeyed the majority, so I had no choice but to agree with everyone, pack my bags and prepare to set off.
Although we were very unfamiliar with this forest and couldn't figure out the direction at all, fortunately, Urati had pointed us in the general direction before, so we didn't have to go in the opposite direction.
And what surprised us even more was that after we had walked for half an hour, we found the mark carved on the tree again, which was very similar to the mark we had encountered when we first entered the forest.
Professor Wu looked at me in surprise and smiled: "It seems that we will meet Gan Feng and them soon."
Originally, I didn't believe Professor Wu's previous predictions, but now when I see these marks on the tree, I can't help but beat a drum in my heart, it seems that they really found something, but they didn't tell me.
Now that there are suddenly fewer NB people like Nangong Han in our team, Professor Wu and they don't take me seriously, especially that Mo Sen, who didn't look down on me very much, and now looking at me and Zheng Tian is like watching two people asking for food, I'm really afraid that one day he will suddenly snatch the order from me, and then send me, a waste with no use value, directly to the West Heaven.
The woods in our area were the same as the ones we had seen before, dry and twisted, black, and full of demonized grotesqueness. The procession was much faster than before, but it was not much faster because it had to lead a caravan of camels.
Although the sky has gradually turned white, the light in the poplar forest is still relatively dark, and the twisted and tall poplar forest obscures most of the light, only the mottled and sparse light shines in through the jagged and intersecting dead branches, and the sound of a gust of wind blowing through is heard from time to time, which makes the forest particularly mysterious and weird.
To make matters worse, the poplar forest was once again filled with an erratic mist, which spread slowly and silently, like resentful souls looking for a way to reincarnate in a daze, and we trespassers may have inadvertently offended them.
"This place is getting more and more wicked! There was such a fog! Fat Bear complained.
"Do you think this is a bad sign?" Zheng Tian asked fearfully.
Professor Wu waved his hand to signal us not to be afraid: "At the turn of day and night in the desert, the temperature difference is large, so there will be such fog, as long as everyone does not disperse and walk, there will be no problems." ”
Once strange things are explained by natural science, people will have a feeling of "it is just like this", although we are not sure whether this feeling is an illusion or not, but at least our hearts are much calmer.
But the calm stopped after a few seconds.
"Come and see this!" John, who was seven or eight meters away from me, suddenly waved at us and shouted loudly, while Elan Lin, who was standing next to him, stared at something without saying a word.
We immediately walked over, and when we got closer, the fog cleared a lot, and what caught our eyes was a tombstone!
There are a few words engraved on the tombstone, but I don't know them at all, and Professor Wu said that he has never seen them, but he thinks these characters are somewhat like local characters that were not commonly used during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
The tombstone was so abruptly pestled in this strange poplar forest, it was really weird, and with the white mist all around, I couldn't help but feel creepy.
But Elan Lin's expression was very calm, she had never taken her eyes off the tombstone since just now, as if she was thinking about something.
"Did you find anything?" I asked softly.
Ai Lanlin pointed to a gap at the top of the tombstone and said quietly: "This mark was left by Gan Feng and them. ”
I shuddered when I heard this, and when I looked closely, I found that the mark on the gap was indeed very similar to what I had seen before, but ...... But why did Gan Feng engrave the mark on this tombstone?
At this time, Professor Wu ordered Mo Sen and the others to carefully look at the surrounding poplar trees to see if there were any markings, and after some searching, the results they got were all no, that is, except for this tombstone, they had not set foot in any other places, in other words, Gan Feng and they disappeared when they walked here.
Why did they disappear? I looked at the gap in the tombstone again, and couldn't help but gasp - they couldn't have gone down to the tomb, right?