Chapter 12: The Vampire Tree I
At first, I thought my junior brother was joking, but at this time, Old Joe also screamed, saying that he had been bitten by something. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
That's when I got nervous: "What's it?" As he spoke, he subconsciously touched his neck, but there was nothing.
Old Joe paused for a few seconds, probably looking, and then let out an exclamation: "Hey, it's really strange, it seems to be ...... Leaf? ā
"Leaves? You read that right? I asked.
"Damn, I was fucking surrounded by leaves?" The younger brother was still not honest when he hung upside down, his butt was twisting around, his face and neck were red from congestion, and he felt sorry for him when he looked at me. I shouted, "Can you do it, do you want to help with words?" ā
"Humph!" The junior brother twisted his head, revealing a very sassy expression, "Master, I call this a different angle to see the world, comfortable!" Senior brother, why don't you come up and feel it too? Cure cervical spondylosis! ā
I said in my heart, you just die with a duck's mouth, and see how long you can endure. At this time, Lao Qiao suddenly shouted: "Xiao Qian, I seem to know ......" but he didn't say it halfway.
That's what I can't stand the most, either you don't say it, or you can say it in one breath, and for someone like me who has too much curiosity, it can drive people crazy. I was in a hurry, and I didn't think about it so much, so I raised my leg and kicked in the direction of Lao Qiao: "Choking on saliva?" You know what, say it quickly! ā
At this time, my feet and neck suddenly tightened, and a vine-like thing swished and wrapped around my right leg, and there was immediately a pinprick-like stinging pain on my calf, as if there were countless small sawtooth gnawing at my flesh, and the more I struggled out, the tighter it bitten, and the pain made me break out in a cold sweat, and his grandmother's scolded himself for being stupid!
At this time, Old Joe let out an "oh" and explained, "I suddenly thought of two questions just now...... Well, let's talk about this tree, I once read in a book on wild plants, this tree is called the vampire tree, and the first recorded appearance was in a forest north of Afghanistan, by several members of the International Joint Wildlife Expedition. The book says that once the leaves of a vampire tree get on a person's skin, they immediately become entangled and begin to suck blood until it drains the person's blood. The members of the expedition tried to wear rubber gloves to explore the mystery, but the gloves were immediately corroded, and the team had to interrupt the experiment in order to protect themselves, and the fact that the vampire tree could suck blood became an unsolved mystery. I was just thinking, this tree looks like it's been at least more than a hundred years old, and we are definitely not the first to be hit, but looking at it, there are no dried corpses or white bones near the trunk, did our predecessors escape, or were the corpses transported to other places after death? Moreover, according to the description in the book, this kind of tree has a very strong blood-sucking ability, and once a person or animal is entangled, it will be sucked dry in a few seconds, but we ......"
We all know what Lao Qiao didn't finish, from the first junior brother who was bitten, to me and Lao Qiao who were just recruited, all of us have been in contact with the vampire tree for far more than "a few seconds", according to normal circumstances, we should have played back and forth a long time ago, but the actual situation is that we are all alive and well.
This sounds like our brother took a big **** luck and picked up three lives, but if you think about it carefully, it's the opposite - this vampire tree is actually just a cover for trapping its prey, and the thing that eats people and doesn't spit out bones hidden behind it is the deadliest and most terrifying. And now we are like a turtle in an urn, a fish of swords, and no one knows what we will suddenly face in the next second.
The storm gradually subsided, but everyone's mood was like falling into a gloomy valley, the unknown is always the most terrible, and imagination alone can drive people crazy.
In fact, at this time, I really hope that something will happen suddenly, even if it is a wolf that suddenly jumps out, at least it is a target. If there is no goal all the time, then everything has the potential to become a goal. But on the other hand, I also hope that the goal will never appear, and everything is for us to scare ourselves, and when the wind stops and the rain stops, we can get on the road again alive and kicking, eh, hurry.
At this time, Lao Qiao suddenly said: "Actually, we don't have to scare ourselves too much, maybe we are really the first to fall from above, the first person to belong to the discovery of China's magical species, the people of the International Federation of Wild Plants know, and they will give us an award ribbon!" Moreover, our Chinese feng shui is very different from Afghanistan, and the Chinese people love peace, so the vampire trees that grow are relatively mild, and there is nothing to worry about. Xiao Qian, you try to cut it with a dagger, see if you can cut it? ā
I was stunned for a moment, and then I remembered that I had only resisted slightly, and I didn't use all my strength at all, let alone put on a knife, so I scared myself like this, what a fucking shame. I immediately responded, took out the cane and aimed it at the rattan on my ankle, and it was broken in an instant, and I couldn't cry or laugh in my heart.
Old Joe asked me how I was doing, I had the heart to save face, anyway, we were not far away, and there was a safety rope tied around my waist, so I jumped hard, my body tripped twice in the branch, and landed firmly next to Lao Joe.
Old Joe opened his mouth wide and looked at me in surprise, seeing that my vanity was greatly satisfied, and I was about to get rid of the things on Lao Joe's neck with a knife in my hand, but who knows, Old Joe suddenly pointed to my back, his eyes were wider than the copper bell, and he seemed to see something extremely frightening.
Suddenly, I was startled by a cold sweat on my back, and before I could turn around and look over, I caught a glimpse of a green withered hand on my shoulder, with distinct knuckles, and the flesh was a thin layer of green translucent, skinny and bone-like, but with great strength, grabbing my shoulder like five awls wedged into my flesh, the pain made me almost unsteady on my feet, my shoulder sank, and I almost fell from the tree.
My mind was dazed, and I didn't know what to do, when the rain finally stopped, and the biting cold wind began to blow up from below, reminding me that there was a bottomless abyss under my feet...... This feeling came again, as if there was a strange huge force that attracted my body to fall like a magnet, and I saw everything like a spin in the washing machine, stirring clockwise into a spiral circle, and I couldn't help but jump to the center of the vortex.