Chapter 25: The Thief
There wasn't much firewood, but it was enough for us to dry our clothes and shoes.
Wearing warm clothes is a treat, especially when you are shivering from the cold. Heating by the fire is the same as pancakes, you need to turn it over often, otherwise one side will already be pasted and the other side will still be alive.
This night was really exciting, Zhe Xi and I escaped several times, and our spirits were already exhausted, and our whole body was also ravaged. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries, which is definitely a blessing in misfortune, we didn't break our hands by stones, we didn't break our legs by the water, and we didn't let the water ghost turn around, we were so happy.
"Brother, this place is really strange." Zhe Xi jumped twice, this is his standard action for dressing, and often after lifting his pants, he found that the legs of Qiu's trousers ran to the knee, and it was too hard to bend over with a beer belly to toss this, and he could lose weight by jumping more.
Although his belt had been broken by me before, it was a little more decorative, and you can imagine how laborious it was for me to wrap my legs around his waist.
"What's so strange?" I'm much more miserable, I can't find my pants back, my coat needs to be cleaned up, and I don't know if I can hold out until I go out with my tattered waterproof leather boots, we're already far from the wellhead. That said, there's still a long way to go.
"Didn't you notice that the soil here is all red? And the smell is particularly strong. Zhe Xi lay on the water and straightened his hair.
I was stunned. I found out that the soil was red, and I thought it was the sequelae of using Gangyan's special ability that had not subsided, and I also smelled fishy, wasn't that the smell left by Zhe Xi kicking me twice in the water and bleeding from my nose?
Looking back, the only pillar on land was so much of an eyesore.
"Do you have any glowsticks?" I swept away my laziness and wanted to take a closer look. At this time, the physical strength has been almost used, and it is really difficult to deal with some powerful guys.
"Two more." He took it out of his pocket, feeling a little reluctant.
"Throw it into the water, as far away as you can."
"Oh." Then Zhe Xi threw the two glow sticks out together, and there were two sounds, and I stood there in disbelief.
"If you don't light them up, what's the use of throwing them out!" There are different liquids in the glow sticks, which are usually separated, and they need to be mixed to give off the light when they are used, so it is common to see smashing and bending shots on TV.
Zhe Xi threw it out directly! And it's two together!
I had to pull out a piece of wood from the fire and throw it out.
The firewood slashed across a curve, smashed halfway into the wall, and fell into the water. Although it was brief, it was enough to see clearly, and the walls on that side were perfectly circular, because the edge of the land and water were two concave and convex semicircles, so half of the water was narrow, the other half was much wider, and in the middle a circle of red sand was exposed to the water, supporting the straight columns.
The pattern became clear, and I walked to the pillar of the land, and with my hands cut through the red soil next to it, and water appeared. When I took it to my nose and smelled it, it was blood, and it stained the whole land red with blood.
I have always been able to sense some abnormal breath, thinking that it is a water ghost, and it has not yet dissipated, and then I realize that it is very wrong.
Here is a Taiji diagram, and the position of each element is just right. Although the walls are perfectly rounded, there are no traces of artificiality at all, and the jagged appearance of the columns gives me good reason that this place is naturally formed.
But it was discovered by some people with bad intentions, and the land that represents the yang was stained with blood, making the evil qi strong, what is this to cultivate?
People always like places with light and hate darkness. But sometimes the light doesn't always give you peace of mind. For example, this slightly damp firewood burning suddenly rose so high, the surroundings became much brighter, and the shadows were very clear, and suddenly it darkened again, and the scenery became blurred.
The light of the fire is sometimes bright and dark, and the shadow seems to have detached itself and begins to move on its own, like a ghost that has been wrapped around your feet, ready to grab your neck, spit out a long tongue from your mouth filled with blood, and lick your frightened face one after another.
"Brother? Elder brother! Zhe Xi at the water's edge suddenly screamed, and I heard a hint of fear in it.
"What's wrong?" I ran over with the trail, and I was so anxious that I almost tripped myself and swayed from side to side a few times. Hook on his clothes and pull him up. In the dark night, especially when you feel wrong, don't just pat someone on the shoulder and top of their head, something will happen.
Move between him and the surface of the water so that we can come face to face and ask what happened. The words were held back in his stomach, and he took a few steps back and stepped into the water. His face was gone, only some rough outlines remained, and he made some noises, and his hands kept gesturing, but he couldn't speak.
After a while, his face turned red, his skin was gone, he could not see, he could not speak, he could not breathe, only his ears could hear.
"Don't be nervous, don't move, it'll be fine in a while." I quickly moved to the left, helping Zhe Xi to lie flat on the ground, hoping to hold on for a little longer, but it seemed that it would only last less than two minutes at most.
Straddling over its body and ripping off its chest clothes, there is always some contingency solution, such as suspended animation.
But when I looked up again, his ears were gone.
Zhe Xi disappeared suddenly, and there was only a figure in red clothes in my eyes, one foot jumped in front of me, and then I saw that the other foot was hanging on my waist with an iron fan, and on the other side was a pocket, and the high bull's nose snorted.
It reached out and stroked the soft flesh of my chin, as if to soothe a sleepy cat, and I began to get a little confused. I felt my jaw being pried up, but it didn't hurt. When I moved my eyes down, I saw that my chin was gradually torn off little by little, and the feeling was very clear, a little sticky, just the right amount of slight pain but a little itchy.
Immersed in that subtle sensation, unconsciously reaching the lower lip, I finally thought of a similar sensation, as if tearing off the chapped skin of my lips.
The path flipped and punctured the pocket around its waist, and it disappeared in fright.
Zhe Xi let out a heavy breath and returned to normal.
Discovering the strange layout here, how can I take it lightly. I quickly sensed this aura entrenched in the surroundings, but Gangyan used a special ability, and it has not fully recovered at this time, so it must be left for use at a critical time, so I only know that there is something, but I don't know what it is.
I had already started to act when Zhe Xi had an accident, it seemed that I was in a hurry, jumping up and down in a hurry, my face was stolen and I couldn't breathe, there are many solutions, why do I have to move two steps and choose the most inferior fake death, these are all to cover up the traces of stepping gang, the trick has been pinched, otherwise how could I hook him.
The more unlucky one is Zhe Xi, who unknowingly accompanied me to play a good show for the ghost, a bitter meat scene.
I knew that this guy who had been eyeing him all along, snorted coldly, "I thought there was a mountain king, but I didn't expect it to be a thief!" ”