Chapter 4 A Crucial Step Before the Dream Comes True (6)
After hearing the legend of Moth Wing Lake, Sha Xinchen's heart swelled with ominous gloom.
Arcis the goddess of the moon was not a popular deity, and her mount, the Luna Moth, was considered a sign of bad luck.
"The powder on the moth's wings will blind your eyes and make it impossible to tell the difference between the real and the fake." An old businessman once told Sha Xinchen this.
The lie exposed by the captain of the blue ocean made him feel that there must be something strange about this matter.
Why make up false information and identities? Why did you find me? Why is it so low for a bag of rough stones to cost only 60 gold rings?
The more Sha Xinchen thought about it, the more he regretted it, regretting that he was attracted by high profits and forgot to act cautiously. He reminded himself that he must carefully observe his surroundings and the businessman who claimed to be surnamed Lian Ling, and not let anything go wrong with the business he had been running for many years.
The boy in green turned a corner behind a shaded black stone path, and Sha Xinchen hurriedly followed—he found himself walking into a thick wood.
The forest must have been the one that needed to be cut down, but it was very different from what he had imagined.
Various trees grow together in a crowded manner, and the spaces between the trees are filled with vines and shrubs.
Sha Xinchen recalled all the information about the trees on the paper, but he couldn't distinguish between camphor trees, black trees or soapberry at all, but he deeply felt that this was a forest that gave people a strong sense of oppression.
Where does the feeling of oppression come from?
After walking for a moment on the dark path in the forest, Sha Xinchen realized that there was no trace of life in this forest.
It was morning, but he didn't hear insects or birds, and he didn't see any beasts in the woods. The outstretched branches of the trees were covered with gray-green moss, which piled up in the shape of droplets but did not fall, as if the raindrops had been cast a static spell at the moment of falling. From time to time, pools of dark water appeared on the ground, and they did not move. The low whimpering wind between the trees and bushes and the eerie silence in the forest dulled Sha Xinchen's ability to discern direction. He didn't notice when the boy who led the way disappeared, and just followed Captain Blue Sea along the forest path from turn to turn.
Fine beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead, and the clothes behind his back were already wet.
Finally seeing the end of the forest road, Sha Xinchen hurried a few steps out.
The moment he saw the Moth Wing Lake, he stretched out his hands to cover his mouth, for fear that he would make a surprised sound to alarm the undead of the Moth God in the lake.
The water of this lake is simply an amplification of the body of the moon god moth. The two sides of the lake are symmetrical wings, there are several large patches of dark green duckweed floating on the lake, as if the unique crescent-shaped markings on the wings of moths, the wetland across the center of the lake is a slender body, and the huge rock in the center of the lake shore is like a moth head, lifelike.
It wasn't until the thin man stood up and walked towards them that Sha Xinchen noticed that there was a person sitting on the rock just now.
"Mr. Sha Xinchen of Shield City, welcome! Working with me is the right choice for you, I believe that our business will win you a family name, I have thought of one for you, what do you think of 'Treasure Lake' as a surname? ”
The man walked up to them, a passionate smile on his face that didn't fit in with the decadent dark woods they were in.
Suddenly, the smile on the man's face froze, and Captain Blue Sea removed his hood.
"Hello, the head of the Lianling Academy."
"Captain Blue Sea." The thin man tried his best to suppress the surprise in his words. "Are you and Mr. Sha Xinchen old acquaintances?"
"Nope. He brought me to deliver amethyst. Yes, he has already told me the ins and outs of the whole thing. I didn't expect you to have another identity in Shield City. And I never thought you'd be unaware of the name of Moth's Wing Lake, which is a household name in our Star Harbor town. ”
Yulin Lian Ling smiled, he had regained his composure.
"The merchant of Shield City is my brother, and he may not have made me clear. I said that the lake containing the amethyst was once a borderless lake, but I am about to take ownership of it, as long as I expand the temple in case it is encased. Since you have agreed to come, you must have taken a fancy to the profits. No matter how much Mr. Sha Xinchen promises to pay you, you can get an additional five gold rings from me every time you ship goods. As long as you keep your mouth shut, what do you think? ”
Feiluo Lanhai was just about to answer, when suddenly, the short and fat man next to him let out a terrifying scream!
He looked back at Sha Xinchen and saw that the merchant was holding his hair tightly with one hand, and the other hand was trembling and pointing to the lake.
Following his fingers, Fei Luo Lanhai was horrified to find that the green duckweed on the surface of the Moth Wing Lake had turned blood red at some point, as if the undead spirit of the Moth God had been awakened and opened his eyes full of anger!
Sha Xinchen didn't listen to what the thin man was saying.
In his ears, the thin man's conversation with the captain was just a meaningless hum, and he couldn't take his eyes off the lake as if he had been swallowed by the spirits of the undead in the Mothwing Lake.
When there was a slight ripple on the lake, he first felt that he had seen it wrong, because the surface of the water had not moved until now, and then he noticed that it was not only the water of the lake that had changed, but also the four crescent-shaped markings on the moth's wings. He saw that the dark green duckweed with white fluff was wrapped in a transparent film, and black and red streaks appeared in the chaos, and then instantly turned red, as if the huge bloodshot eyes suddenly opened and stared at him. He heard his own inhuman scream, and turned and ran into the woods.
Sha Xinchen, who was in a panic, just wanted to leave the strange lake, and when he opened the branches in the forest, there were still four bloody eyes in his eyes, and his mind was filled with a buzzing sound.
In a trance, he felt the ground under his feet shaking, his feet were numb, and when he looked down, he didn't know when, his feet were covered with dense centipedes!
The centipedes, which were longer than his fingers and covered in red and black stripes, were coming in droves from the trunks of trees and the dense forest beside him, rushing into his body in reckless proportion! Countless centipedes moved their bodies and stepped on their companions to climb up, the sound of "Su Su Su Su" from their fine legs and feet surrounded Sha Xinchen, and the great fear made him unable to cry for help, the paralysis spread from his feet upwards, and he fell backwards.
Bushes, tree trunks, tree canopies, and a small patch of sky flashed in turn.
A huge net slowly hung down from the sky, and two bloody eyes hung in the net!
The undead of the Moth God are here!
So close to him! So much so that he could clearly see the red and black striped vertical pupils in the silver and black eye sockets, and the two big words "Go away" under his eyes!
Sha Xinchen fainted.