Chapter 24: The Woods
Zhe Xi and I stepped up, not because we were scared because it was dark, but because our stomachs had already begun to drum, not to mention that the water had already run out, and after doing so much work, it was not enough to say that we were exhausted.
Don't feel that the desert is always hot, as soon as the sun sets, the cool breeze begins.
But the journey that accompanies hunger and thirst is very difficult. We decided to change our goal and go to the tent set up by Wang Honggang's father in the anti-sand forest first, where there must be something to drink. If you're lucky, you don't have to have some food or matches.
Starlight is confused, the road is hard to discern, and the trees are always mischievously sticking out a few branches to stop us. Zhe Xi said that the trees were very flexible and were dancing. Some have lower waists, some have lower forks, but they certainly won't flip their heels. I didn't care about any of that, and searched for the legendary wolfhound to prevent it from popping out of some dark corner and biting off our heads.
The moon was as timid as ever, and pulled a cloud from the side to cover itself, and did not dare to come out for a long time.
We walked to the tent openly, but we were more cautious than the thieves. I almost believed Zhe Xi's fallacy, feeling that the trees were staring at us. Hopefully, I was too careful, and the blood vessels in my body seemed to have been washed by the washing machine and began to shrink, so I clenched my heart.
The big wolfdog didn't show up, and the two of us gradually approached the tent with our arms.
A basin of water was on the ground next to the tent, crystal clear. I was dying of thirst, so I didn't care what kind of water it was, so I lay on the ground and put my head close to the water, pouted and began to suck. How is one sip enough, I drank several sips in a row. Close your eyes and enjoy.
Looking up, Zhe Xi had already taken out an oil lamp from the tent and lit it, and the dim light illuminated the ripples on the water.
Replace me with an oil lamp and lie down to drink water. The stupid guy choked the precious water out of his nose after just two sips. "Brother, he winked at me."
"Who's winking at you?" Just lie down and drink water, who can you see? I think he's joking with me.
"The me in the water." Zhe Xi's tone didn't seem like a joke.
"You're dazzled, hurry up and drink, and go home after eating the roast snake." He must have made up an excuse because he felt ashamed of being choked.
Zhe Xi squatted by the basin, I guess he had never looked at himself so carefully in the mirror.
"He laughed!" Zhe Xi punched his fist into the water.
"Alright, that's it." I took the lamp away, and now I couldn't see the reflection of the water.
"Brother, it's a little cold." Zhe Xi stood up after drinking the water and shivered.
"Well, it's a little cold." I put my left hand around Zhe Xi's shoulder, trying to get closer to keep warm, his body was cold. I'm tired, and I'm limping when I walk.
The starlight didn't know when it was obscured by the dark clouds, and the flames of the oil lamps jumped and jumped.
You'll have to get some firewood first.
"I'll roast the snake eggs in a minute, I'm so hungry." Zhe Xi's reluctant voice, my right hand was stuffed into four snake eggs.
"Okay." I stopped, my mind pulled from the dream of looking for firewood to roast snake meat, and Zhe Xi appeared from the right to get into the tent, but I grabbed him.
The wind rose, blowing the leaves like a madman laughing wildly in the middle of the night, and the lights almost went out,
I was obviously holding Zhe Xi's shoulder with my left hand, how could he stuff the snake egg into my right hand?
"How" Zhe Xi turned around with some doubts, his voice stopped abruptly, and his eyes widened.
Quickly looked back at what was in his left hand, only to feel that his left arm was light, and the thing was gone. There was a lot of panic in my heart, it seems that Zhe Xi didn't talk nonsense before, it wasn't that he was tired and hallucinated.
I threw away the snake and the egg, and pulled Zhe Xi with my right hand, "Let's go home first." ”
Zhe Xi was probably frightened and could only be dragged away by me. Only now did I find out that this anti-sarin was so annoying, it seemed to grow crazy and become dense in an instant, tearing through the clothes, and probably being scratched. I couldn't find the way I came, so I could only let go of Zhe Xi's hand and put down the oil lamp to open the way.
I was in a hurry, but the oil lamp barely gave any light, the shadows of the trees were mottled and swayed from side to side, the wind was stronger, and the trees beckoned to me with their strange gestures.
Pushing aside the branches, the oil lamp emitted all the light it had never had before, and then quickly extinguished. But at this moment, I clearly saw that Zhe Xi was right in front of me, his face was pale as if he had been smeared with a layer of powder, his eyes were almost bulging out, and two blood lines spread from his eyes into the corners of his mouth, and he reached out and grabbed my collar and ran. Looking back, I clearly saw that Zhe Xi was still in the place where I let go of him just now, why are there two Zhe Xi?
I was sure that the Zhe Xi behind him was real, and his eyes were not bleeding. Shake off the fake Zhe Xi who grabbed me running in front of me, and ran back to find that the Zhe Xi here was gone.
Something behind me tugged at my clothes, and a gust of wind blew past my ears.
"Brother, I'm here," Zhe Xi's voice came from the tent.
I took a step forward and tore at my clothes with a bang. Just this sound scared me so much that I almost sat on the ground, how dare I look back. Stopped where he was, looked around carefully, there was only one Zhe Xi, but not next to the tent. He walked over slowly, his body seemed to emit a faint green light, and a smile on the corner of his mouth shivered just by looking at it. Under my nervous gaze, his head burst like a balloon! But he was still walking on my side, and his steps were steady.
"Brother, I can't see it." The voice was in my ears, and when I turned around, Zhe Xi's head was on my shoulder, his eyes were closed, and the sound of grinding his teeth was too harsh. I almost screamed.
"Brother, what's wrong? What happened? On the other shoulder, there was the sound of Zhe Xi's voice, and it was the sound of grinding teeth as if he had chewed bones. I must be trembling so much, otherwise why would my teeth bite my tongue?
My body seemed to be crawling with ants, and it was like countless hands caressing.
Looking at Zhe Xi's head on his shoulder, Yu Guang found that something was approaching behind him, prostrate on the ground, his hands and feet bent strangely, and his long tongue spread on the ground. With such a distraction, Zhe Xi's body disappeared in front of him, and the two heads on his shoulders were gone.
Ghosts? It's not like I haven't seen it, it's not like that.
I was slapped on the back and I almost jumped. "Brother, what's going on?" Zhe Xi cried.
I didn't answer, is this the thing I saw just now or is it Zhe Xi? Then he laughed, his mouth grinning bigger and bigger, his cheeks cracked open and his mouth was the dividing line, and half of his head fell down, and blood spurted Lao Gao. But the movement didn't stop, awkwardly opened his hands to pinch my neck, I took a step back, he jumped forward, and then tripped over the tree, watching Zhe Xi's hands go directly through my neck.
I closed my eyes, hoping that these were hallucinations, and heard some small sounds. This should be Zhe Xi, I crawled in the direction where the sound came from with my eyes closed, and I didn't care about the pain of the thorny branches on the ground. Touch a foot.
"Brother?" It was Zhe Xi's voice, a lot of trembling.
I quickly got up and vaguely noticed that he had a lot of damage on his body.
"Hell we don't know." Zhe Xi was scared.
"Don't be afraid, close your eyes, hold on to my hand and don't let go of anything." I'm going to catch Zhe Xi.
Then Zhe Xi's eyes suddenly widened, and I quickly pounced, his feet didn't move at all, but his body began to slide back, and the speed was too fast for me to catch him.
I saw a huge mouth, viscous liquid dripping down, and a tongue around Zhe Xi's waist.
This made me angry, from the beginning of walking with the wrong person and limping, to the strange posture of seeing and reaching out to pinch my neck, to the current big mouth and tongue, it is clear that the frogman is making trouble, and he was actually being played.
The moment I reacted, Zhe Xi had already disappeared into the frogman's mouth, looked at me and turned his head and ran. This frogman grows fast enough, and it's not been so big in so much time.
I have to catch up with him and rescue Zhe Xi.
The frogman swallowed Zhe Xi's size, and a person could still become smaller. After chasing all the way, we ran out of the sandforest and re-entered the desert.