I was startled and struggled to break free, trying to stop the hunchback, but the tin man followed and grabbed the back of my coat. After a delay of two or three seconds, the hunchbacked hands had already grabbed the leaves. Ye Zizi sat in place in a daze, as if he didn't know anything, and as if he was frightened by the hunchback, he didn't move. I don't know if the hunchback will have poisoned the leaves at that time, and my heart is clenched.

But at the moment when the hunchback grabbed the leaf, his waist trembled suddenly, a cold sweat broke out on his head, his eyes were full of horror and uneasiness, and he said, "This"

I have been looking over there, I can see very clearly, the dull leaves do not move, but there seems to be a piece of light as smooth as jade flowing on the body, the hunchbacked body is as if it has been electrocuted, and before I finish a sentence, the whole person suddenly exploded, and the internal organs and flesh were splashed everywhere.

The hunchback was shattered, and the tin man suddenly seemed to have lost his backbone, and he was absent-mindedly entangled twice, turned around and smashed through the wall, and fled in a hurry. I was worried about Yezi, I didn't chase her out, I turned around and pulled her up, looked up and down, Yezi's condition was fine, although her body was trembling, she was not injured.

Bone

The hunched body burst completely, and its head hit the wall, then rolled to the ground and rolled to its feet. Miao Wu's vitality is different from ordinary people, his hunchback expression is very weird, grinning, I don't know if he is crying or laughing.

"She's she," the hunchbacked head struggled to say something, and I quickly crouched down and asked eagerly, "What is she?" ”

But this sentence was cut off from it, and the hunched mouth was slightly open, and there was no movement at all. I raised my eyes and looked outside, and some people in the stockade were alarmed, and they came out with a lamp, and when they saw the clay figures kneeling in the stockade, they all saw ghosts and drilled into the building. I came out of the almost shattered stilted building with the leaves, found an elderly man, and asked about something.

The old Miao people said that these clay figures were raised by Miao Wu and used to summon some evil things. The people of Miao Village were afraid and disgusted by these things, and when I said that the matter had subsided, Lao Miao called out a few sturdy young people to clean up the mess. This incident made me feel that there might be some turmoil ahead, Ye Zi was stupid and naïve, and she didn't know anything, but she was definitely not an ordinary person. The hunchback before he died has explained everything, I just want to rush to Jiuli as soon as possible, finish what I should do, and then slowly explore the origin of the leaves.

"Is this still far from Jiuli?" I asked the old Miao people.

"Jiuli?" The old Miao people shook their heads, as I thought, the title Jiuli did not exist a long time ago, and the Miao people mentioned their past, and they all knew that Sanmiao Jiuli, but that was just the past.

"It's the front." I pointed in the direction of the mountains.

"That's not Jiuli." Lao Miao said: "That's Lei Chi." ”

"Thunder Pool?" I was also surprised by the old Miao people, because I had never heard of any thunder pools.

The old Miao people said that if they walked forward for seven or eight days from here, they would be where the thunder pond was. There will be a thunder catastrophe in that place every year, the old Miao people had seen it with their own eyes when they were young, when the catastrophe came, the sky seemed to be torn apart, and the dense thunder turned into a sea of thunder, pouring from the sky endlessly. It was almost terrifying, and it could turn everything on the ground to ashes. But in the legend of the village throughout the ages, that place was used to contain thunder, and after the thunder catastrophe passed, it was still full of life.

I don't know if the old Miao people's account is true or false, but it is completely different from my cognition. I was afraid that there would be a mistake in the communication between the two sides, so I asked again and again, and the old Miao people said very hard, and they insisted that the place where Jiuli was located was Lei Chi. When dawn came, I left the village with the leaves, and there may be no more Miao villages on the road after that. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, before leaving, I specially asked Lao Miao for a set of clothes. Wearing this Miao costume, I feel very awkward.

"Zixin" Ye Zi looked me up and down a few times, as if to say, this dress fits very well.

It is estimated that there are still seven or eight days to go, and I have walked through the mountains in front of me for a few days with the leaves that I know nothing about, and the climate here in the southern region is still warm, and the vegetation is unimaginably lush. When we reached the halfway point of this journey, it was like a nest in the silent mountain forest, and a group of various animals ran for their lives from all directions of the forest.

Bang

I pulled the leaves and quickly hid beside them, and just after hiding, the two trees on the other side of the forest were knocked down hard, and I saw a large shadow appear behind the beasts. At first glance, it looked like a giant elephant, but when it came closer, it became clear that it was an illusion made of wood and iron bars, covered with animal skins sewn together, and it was running violently from the other side of the forest. The birds and beasts in the forest were all frightened by this "giant elephant" and avoided it like a ghost.

The giant elephant went on a rampage, unscrupulous, and drove out all the living creatures in the forest, and I saw a group of people behind the giant elephant, these people were clearly different from the Miao people in the village outside, and at a glance they knew that they came from the wild and isolated Jiuli.

While the giant elephant tied up with wood and iron bars was rampage, there was a rumbling sound from the far woods. There must be more than one group of Jiuli people, and they are all driving this "giant elephant" to find something in the vast forest. At this time, I must not show my face, I pulled the leaf tightly and continued to hide. The Jiuli people in front of me are getting closer and closer, and all the living creatures in this forest may have been driven out, and I saw those Jiuli people scolding in a hurry, and constantly whipping the lone wild creatures. I don't understand the formal Miao language, but Jiuli's local dialect and Miao language are not the same thing, when I was with Miao Yu, I heard her say something, and these Jiuli people in front of me even talked and compared, I hid next to listen to a rough idea.

"I'm almost rummaging, and I still can't find it!"

"If you can't find it, you have to look for it!" A sturdy Jiuli man kicked hard in the back of the giant elephant and said, "I can't find it again!" Jiuli is over! ”

"This kind of thing doesn't happen once in hundreds or thousands of years! Why did it fall on our heads! ”

A group of Jiuli people spread out in the forest as they spoke, spreading a net over like a net. I don't know what they're looking for, but it's in a hurry. Ye Zi and I hid, afraid that those Jiuli people would find us when they searched for us, so we quietly got up, left with the cat's waist, and made a detour, deep to the other side of the forest.

I thought that I would avoid those Jiuli people in this way, but the whole forest was full of their figures, as if all the Jiuli people were dispatched. I had no choice but to try my best to hide back and forth in the woods and not meet the Jiuli people. Just like that, from mid-afternoon to dark, the original route was all disrupted.

The living creatures in the forest were all driven away, as soon as it got dark, there was a deathly silence around, Ye Zizi may have been a little scared, and shouted Zixin in a low voice, and then pulled my arm, I just wanted to take advantage of the night to walk a little longer, completely avoiding those Jiuli people scattered around, so I whispered to comfort her, and walked slowly. About a mile or so, the hand that the leaf grasped me suddenly tightened, and I stopped.

There seemed to be a noise in the silence of the woods, which made me immediately alert, and I crouched down on the spot, leaning against a large tree and hiding. The sound erupted just as I hid, and I don't know how many bone spears swished out through the forest, rushing together into a half-man-tall field of dead vines and weeds.

swish

So many bone spears were thrown with all their might, and a huge shadow immediately jumped out of the weeds, the shadow was one and a half years tall, a white velvet hair, strong but flexible, raised his hand to hit all the bone spears thrown by the mess aside, his two eyes scanned the surroundings, grabbed a bone spear, and rushed over.

At this moment, I saw clearly, it seemed to be a huge ape, I don't know how many years it had lived, its hair was already snow-white, it was holding a bone spear and moving forward bravely, and the figure of the Jiuli people was sparsely around it, and they all raised the weapons in their hands and shouted loudly.

I suddenly realized that what this group of Jiuli people were looking for was this old man ape with snow-white fur? Jiuli people said it so seriously, as if this old man ape was related to the survival of the entire Jiuli.

As soon as the thought in his heart turned, the old man ape had already rushed to the front at a gallop, and the bone spear in his hand raised his hand and waved it, knocking over the two Jiuli people who were surrounding the vicinity. The old man ape was fierce and brave, and rushed out of the encirclement, those Jiuli people couldn't stop it, but they refused to give up, they chased after it like a swarm, someone whistled, the whistle echoed in the forest, and the nearby Jiuli people would definitely be able to hear it.

The old ape moved freely in the jungle, and its speed became faster and faster, and every time it was about to be caught up by the Jiuli people, it would turn around and wave its bone spear to stop the other party. With a gesture, I saw that it was holding a bone spear in one hand and a horn-like thing in the other.

When I saw this thing, my heart moved, and the horn-like thing in the old man's ape's hand was like a newborn crescent moon. I suddenly remembered the tattoo I had seen on Miao Yu's back before, a crescent-like tattoo. The horn-like thing in the old man's hand is almost the same as the tattoo on Miao Yu's back.

Thinking like this in his heart, he couldn't help but secretly follow the footsteps of the Jiuli people chasing the apes, wanting to follow and see what was going on. Since the Jiuli people have done this, it means that it is not alarmist, this white-haired ape is related to the safety of Jiuli.