Chapter 44: Climbing the Canopy
I frowned, and I didn't dare to move, for fear of alarming something.
In the darkness, the black shadow was also motionless, because the campfire had been extinguished, and it was impossible to see what it was. I quietly turned my head and looked at the wax to the side.
The two candles were still burning quietly, almost two-thirds of them burned. The back of my head didn't get cold, which showed that the black thing wasn't something evil.
Thinking of this, my heart settled a lot, and I turned to look at Liang Ruoyi and the pig's head, both of whom were still asleep, and I could hear a slight snoring sound.
I swallowed and sat up slowly, the pain in my chest still preventing me from exerting my strength. I fumbled around the ground and picked up a flashlight that lit up.
A flashlight shone towards the black shadow in the darkness, and when I looked at it, I was shocked: this black shadow was no one else, but the seventh master who was curled up in a ball and lying on the ground!
"Seven, Seven?!" I couldn't see the Seventh Master's face clearly, but I could remember that body and the clothes clearly.
After I screamed, the seventh master's body moved, and with this movement, the back of my head suddenly felt cold, and I hurriedly subconsciously dodged backwards and crashed into the arms of Liang Ruoyi, who woke up behind me!
I hurriedly turned around and patted Liang Ruoyi: "Hey, is that the Seventh Master or what?!" β
I felt soft for a while, but I didn't react for a while, and when I finished speaking, I saw Liang Ruoyi's angry look, and when I looked down, I found that my hand was touching the ice beauty's chest!
"Him!" I hurriedly withdrew my hand and turned my head to point to the place where the seventh master was just now, but when I took a look, I found that the seventh master was gone!
"Huh?!" I stroked my chest and stood up: "No, the seventh master was still here just now!" β
"I see it!" Liang Ruoyi said coldly, and then kicked the pig's head awake: "But I didn't see it clearly, I only saw a black shadow passing by and disappeared." β
"What's that?" The pig's head slowly woke up, rubbing the peanut kernel eyes and asking, "What time is it?" What are you going to do when you get up before dawn......"
"I saw the Seventh Master just now!" I also kicked the pig's head: "Get up! β
I looked at the time as I spoke, it was already five o'clock in the morning, and I didn't expect that the sleep I had on my stomach was quite porcelain.
"Seventh Master?!" As soon as the pig head heard the words of the seventh master, he suddenly came to his senses, and a spirit sat up and looked around: "Where is it?" β
"It's gone......" I touched the back of my head that had returned to normal: "No, I obviously saw the seventh master, and the back of the head was cold at the time, there should be an evil object nearby, but the seventh master disappeared, and the back of my head also returned to normal!" Pig's head, do you think the Seventh Master will become an evil thing?! β
"Get out!" The pig's head stood up and kicked me back: "How could the Seventh Master become an evil thing?!" β
"Then how do you explain what just happened?!" I said as I glared at the pig's head.
"Stop arguing." Liang Ruoyi frowned: "Maybe it's something else, wait and see." β
After that, Liang Ruoyi took out three loaves of bread from his backpack and distributed them to us: "The last full meal, and the rest of the time will be saved." β
I glanced at the pig's head a little speechlessly, took the bread and ate it.
If you want to say the difference between a pig's head and an old clam, one is naΓ―ve and one is mature. Although the old clam usually likes to make some jokes, he has nothing to say in his actions, and almost every time he rushes to the front, never ambiguous, and will not do the kind of sacrificing others as the pig's head before.
The pig's head is completely different, judging from the contact in the past few days, this is a selfish fat man who is easy to be emotional, without the control of the seventh master, completely ignoring the interests of the team.
Alas, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse to have such a teammate!
It took a few minutes to eat breakfast, but the seventh master never appeared again. Although I didn't mention it again, I kept hanging in my heart: the seventh master appeared just now, and the back of my head was cold, and then the seventh master disappeared, and the back of my head returned to normal - isn't this that the seventh master has become an evil thing, what else can it be?!
In case the Seventh Master really becomes an evil thing, it will be a great challenge for us......
After resting for a while, Liang Ruoyi and the pig's head studied how to go up, beckoned me, packed up his things, and began to climb up.
It was already past seven o'clock in the morning, and it was dark, and we could see the warm sunlight outside the canopy of several trees more clearly than we could last night.
At a cursory glance, the huge canopy above the head has four layers, all of which are interspersed with the branches of these huge thousand-year-old trees in the surrounding area. Each layer was about the same size, like four irregular circles, about ten zhang in diameter, and each of those branches was at least the thickness of my thigh, and it looked extremely spectacular.
Because the angle is not large, and the density of the branches is very large, it is difficult to see what is on it. To go up, you can only climb the surrounding ancient trees and follow the branches.
Liang Ruoyi and the pig's head chose an ancient tree that was relatively easy to climb, because the pig's head was the heaviest, the first to climb, I was in the middle, and Liang Ruoyi was the last.
The ground is more than two zhang high from the first layer of canopy, and the pig's head looks very fat, but his skills are really good, and the branches are more than two zhang high, and he climbed up in a few clicks.
I followed behind and climbed up, although I climbed the tree quite well, but because of the constant pain in my chest, coupled with some fear of heights, I trembled and climbed for more than ten minutes before moving up. The last Liang Ruoyi also came up soon.
Originally, I thought there would be some trembling on it, but when I came up, I found that it was unusually stable, and there was no shaking at all when I walked on it. The entire first canopy has only an altar in the middle, made of earth, with three stone steps in front of it, which are also empty and empty when they go up.
I looked around the altar carefully, but I didn't find any mechanism or anything like that.
After that, we started to climb to the second floor.
It was still the pig's head that went up first, followed by me. The height between the two floors is more than a kilometer, but it is difficult to climb up because there is no tree trunk as a foothold. I grasped a thick branch with my hands and feet and slowly moved towards it.
Halfway through the climb, I suddenly felt a chill in the back of my head, and I hurriedly stopped my movements and looked up, and saw a figure flash in the darkness below, which quickly disappeared from sight.
Lotus Mountain Old Woman?!
I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that the figure was trembling, very much like the old woman of Lotus Mountain, and the coolness in the back of the head should be because of the blood baby on the old woman's legs!
"Hey, what's wrong with you?!" The pig's head above asked.
"Oh, it's fine." I knew that the pig-headed didn't know any old woman from Lotus Mountain, and it was a little difficult to explain, so I didn't say anything, I glanced down at Liang Ruoyi, and saw that she was still studying the altar below, took a deep breath, and continued to climb up.
By this time, my palms were already full of sweat, and after climbing up for a while, I stopped again: no! The old woman of Lotus Mountain should be gone! That means that the blood baby also followed her, so why is the back of my head still chilling?!
Oh no, there are other evil things around!
I tensed up again and looked down to see that the dimly lit ground was empty and there was nothing. This made me frown and shouted at Liang Ruoyi: "Beauty, there are things around, be careful!" β
Liang Ruoyi answered, took a piece of Hundred Blood Stone Season in his mouth by the way, and got up to look around.
The pig's head on it also stuffed a piece of blood stone into its mouth, and its small eyes looked around.
I looked at it for a while, but I didn't find anything, and I opened my mouth and asked, "Hey, did you see anything?!" β
Both of them said they didn't see anything, and as soon as I gritted my teeth, I thought it would be better to climb up first, so I blew a few breaths on my hands to let the sweat evaporate, took a deep breath, and continued to climb up.
I didn't climb for a few seconds, and Liang Ruoyi suddenly whistled at me below!
I was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Beauty, shouldn't I blow the hooligan whistle to you?" β
"You, you're ahead!" Liang Ruoyi looked up at me in the darkness and muttered.
"Ahead? What's going on up front? I stopped again, held on to the branch, and looked up ahead......