Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Carrion Shows the Way

I felt strange in my heart, not because of the appearance of an old man chopping wood in this barren mountain, but because of the time when the old man appeared. The current time, about three o'clock in the morning, an old man appeared in the deep mountains and old forests at this time, and he always looked like people felt chills down their spines and a little crazy.

But when I looked again, the old man was obviously waving at me, and when I saw that his face was kind, I made up my mind and stepped forward, saying that maybe I could find out something about the stone carving from the mouth of this old man.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I left, the old man also walked forward. I stood still, stunned, and then the old man stopped again, looked back at me, waved his hand again, and then I followed again.

As I walked, I noticed that this old man always seemed to be deliberately keeping a distance of about ten meters from me, as if he was going to take me somewhere.

Along the way, I was a little distracted, and I always felt that my mind was in a trance. I don't know how long I walked on the road, and I suddenly found that the dense forest around me had turned into dead trees, just like the mountain forest east of the stone carving.

I wondered in my heart, and I said that I had been following the old man to the west from the beginning, how could I go around to the east, could it be that there was also a strange dead forest on the west side of this mountain forest?

I subconsciously stood still, and when I turned around, not only did my heart feel cold, but the way I came was blocked by the woods and I couldn't find it.

"Hey, it's dangerous in the mountains, pedestrians turn back!" The old man shouted again.

I turned to look at him, and saw that he was holding a lantern again, standing there fluttering and waving at me.

Suddenly, a feeling of extreme horror and horror poured into my spinal cord like lightning, for I suddenly saw the old man's eyes slightly up, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he were smiling rather than laughing, as if crying rather than crying, but in short, a very proud look, as if a cunning fox had captured the prey of his dreams.

Fuck me! Is this old thing a human or a ghost? I hit a spirit, and for a moment I froze there and didn't dare to move.

"Hey, it's dangerous in the mountains, pedestrians turn back!" The old man repeated that he had been saying this sentence, or, perhaps, that he would only say this sentence.

I said in my heart that I would return to your sister, so I hurriedly took two steps back, turned around and ran behind me, but I didn't run two steps, and I stood still.

An extremely strange scene appeared in front of my eyes, and I saw that there was another old man chopping wood with a lantern behind me, who was also waving at me and shouting: "Hey, the mountain is dangerous, pedestrians turn back." ”

If you look closely, it's the same fucking old man!

I changed direction again, and there was still an identical old man standing there waving at me, south, east, north, west, and north, all standing in all directions, and all doing the same thing.

When I saw this situation, I must be lying if I said that I didn't feel scared. I stood where I was, knowing that it was useless to run on my own, but the main reason was that my legs were numb and weak, and I could almost predict that if I took a step forward, my legs would be weak and I would fall directly to the ground.

What made me feel even more urgent was that the four old men saw that I was not moving around, but gradually walked towards me, and the more they entered, the more I felt that their expressions were awkward and strange. I tried to shout for help, but I found that my throat was tight, I wanted to vomit, and I couldn't make any sound at all.

Just as they were about to surround me, I suddenly heard a screech in the air, a shrill sound similar to that of a bullet piercing through the air.

In the darkness, I only saw a point of light flying from the depths of the dense forest, which looked like a meteor in the sky, and the speed was very fast. The four old men all exclaimed, and looked in the direction where the light flew from, and then, a black shadow floated in, and suddenly rushed to my side, and suddenly, I heard a voice: Lord Peixi, you are really a cat master. ”

"Ahh I sat up abruptly, and realized that I wasn't just in the depths of the forest, but just sleeping on my backpack.

"Nightmares?" Ryazan looked at me and asked.

I glanced at him and saw that he was sitting in front of the burning campfire, holding in his left hand a small trunk that was the length of a man and a thick wrist, and in his right hand a long knife that sharpened the end of the small trunk like a pencil.

I looked at the others again, and Duan Yuwen was putting some simple instant food around the campfire to heat it up briefly. Bu Jin was awake at the moment, but her face was still a little pale, and she squatted on the side, beside her was the respectful Teng Yi.

A dream? I stood up and said to myself, "It could really just be a dream." ”

I walked over to Ryazan and sat down, and was surprised to find that there was a wound on his right arm that was nearly ten centimeters long, and although it had been treated briefly, I could still see that he had shed a lot of blood from the blood stain around the wound.

"How?" I asked him.

Ryazan looked at me and said with a smile: "A little accident, you can't die, a man has to let some blood if he has nothing to do, and he is healthy." ”

As soon as Duan Yuwen heard me, he probably just noticed that Ryazan was injured, so he said, don't move, don't move, I brought some anti-inflammatory potions and gauze, and I will bandage you in a while.

"Then thank you." Ryazan hehe

I saw that he had sharpened the ends of the small trunk like a simple spear used by the natives. After sharpening, Ryazan roasted the sharp points over a fire to make them harder.

"Make weapons? Don't we have knives? I asked.

"Peachwood, ward off evil spirits." Ryazan said simply, looked at Bu Jin twice, and then said: "We may not encounter anything next, in case we meet those dried corpses like your father and them, I will skewer them and give them to you to eat." ”

I was speechless and said, "You better keep it to yourself, I don't have that appetite." ”

After breakfast, we packed our gear, extinguished the embers from the campfire, and returned to the stone sculpture to the east into the dead woods.

Although there are no weeds to block this way, it is still not easy to walk. The leaves fall almost instantly, so the road paved with leaves is very soft, and sometimes your calves and stomachs sink into it if you are not careful.

Unlike the road you came from, it was quiet and quiet, but you could still hear birds and insects chirping occasionally, and it was a sense of peace and quiet. Where we are now, there is a dead silence, and there is no sound except for the rustle of our feet when we step on the leaves. Sometimes, when we stop to rest, I can even hear Teng Yi's breathing as he walks in front.

Ryazan was also rarely quiet on this road, with a long knife pinned to his waist, and a simple spear made by himself in his right hand, walking behind the most luke, not smiling, looking left and right from time to time, looking very vigilant.

As for Bu Jin, she was as silent as ever, except for when she first entered the dead woods, she raised her eyes to look at the dead old trees, her eyes have been a little dull, looking at the unknown distance, in a trance, as if she had lost herself.

We walked all morning, but we found that as far as the eye could see, there were still dead forests as far as the eye could see. I can't help but sigh, yesterday, Bu Jin's mantra caused how many old trees died in this nameless mountain! If all things really have spirits, then can Bu Jin hear the low sobs of those dead trees?

At eleven o'clock, we stopped to rest, Duan Yuwen ate compressed biscuits and drank mineral water, while sighing that the years had suddenly become old, and in a blink of an eye, the young man in his twenties had now become a man in his fifties.

I leaned against a dead tree, had no appetite at all, and drank only a few sips of mineral water. I was shocked by the scene in front of me, but I also felt very puzzled: why did Bu Jin chant a spell on that boundary monument? If you don't chant the incantation, won't these old trees die? If we don't chant mantras, can we just step into this forest?

I wanted to ask Bu Jin, but since Teng Yi appeared, I haven't had much close contact with Bu Jin, although I don't feel jealous, but there is always a weird taste. After hesitating and hesitating, he decided not to ask, leaned back, slammed his head against the tree, and let out a sigh.

However, in the slight concussion of my head against the old tree, a small stone-like thing suddenly fell from the top of my head, and it fell right into my kettle. I scolded secretly, saying in my heart that if people memorize ideas, they will really carry them home.

I didn't know what happened to the kettle, so I didn't dare to drink it again, so I simply poured out all the water in the kettle.

I poured it out and took it in the palm of my hand to look at it, and I felt sick in my heart, it turned out that the thing that fell into my kettle turned out to be a human tooth.

The teeth didn't look very new, the surface was black and yellow, and there was a large wormhole. I couldn't help but look up at the canopy I was leaning on, and I was shocked, "Holy shit, there's a dead man in the tree!" ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard my words, and they looked down at me in the eyes, and sure enough, among the thick dry branches, there was a badly decomposed corpse with a straw hat, which was fluttering slowly like a wind chime.

I was as surprised as Duan Yuwen and Teng Yi, in contrast, Bu Jin was quite calm, although there was some surprise on her expression, but no matter how you looked at it, it seemed that she had expected this kind of thing to happen. Ryazan, on the other hand, was a man of action, and while we were still surprised, he had already come under the tree, thrust his improvised spear into the ground, and lay down on the trunk of the tree five or six meters high in three or two strokes.

"Ryazan, be careful." Duan Yuwen said with concern.

Ryazan ignored him, and walked straight to the corpse hanging from the canopy, he first examined the corpse briefly, and then raised his head to look east, his expression was obviously stunned, as if he had seen something unusually spectacular. Soon, however, his expression returned to normal, and he shouted at me from the tree, "Master Peixi, I'll put him down, and you can continue." ”

Shall I proceed? I couldn't believe my ears. So a decomposing corpse, I'll pick up your sister? Do you want to give me a corpse sister who fell from the sky?

But just as I was thinking, Ryazan waved his long knife and cut the rope wrapped around the corpse, when I heard a "whoosh" sound, and the rotting corpse fell straight down to me. I instinctively took a step back, and I saw the corpse fall to the ground with a "thud", but fortunately, the fallen leaves on the ground were fluffy, and only the skeleton of the corpse's right arm was scattered.

Ryazan quickly climbed down, laughed and complained to me: "My Lord Peixi, didn't you let you continue." ”

"It's easy for you to say, why don't you take it?" I said angrily.

"I'll take it, then next time when something like this happens, you go up to the tree and put the corpse." Ryazan said.

"Forget it, how many more times can this happen."

Ryazan patted me on the shoulder and said, "If you can't stand this little thing, you better go back, there is something more exciting ahead." ”

I didn't understand the meaning of his words for a while, so Duan Yuwen, Teng Yi and others came over, gathered around the corpse, and said curiously, "What's going on?" How could anyone hang themselves here? ”

"Who said he hanged himself?" Ryazan raised his head and said.

We were stunned for a moment, and our hearts said didn't we? Ryazan saw our confusion and continued: "He was tied up by a tree vine. ”

After speaking, Ryazan glanced at Bu Jin, and a few of us also looked at it, only to see that Bu Jin was caressing the rough trunk with his hand, his eyes were in a daze.

Turning around, Ryazan said: "These trees are a little strange. ”

When we looked down, the corpse was dark brown all over, the flesh was badly decayed, and a few maggots were emerging from his body from time to time.

Duan Yuwen took off the straw hat on the corpse's head, we saw the corpse's face, at that moment, I gasped for air, and my heart chuckled, only to see that the rotting corpse's facial features were still complete, many of the teeth had fallen out, and the facial expression looked very strange, as if smiling rather than laughing, as if crying rather than crying, it looked like it was the woodcutter who chopped wood last night!

I reflexively glanced at Ryazan, and saw that he had pulled out the improvised spear that had just been inserted into the ground, and a trace of blood oozed from the bandage of his right hand.

I was shocked, last night, it wasn't a dream!