Chapter 12: Loaches
I don't know when these two weird trees appeared, but they did block the way back of Tang Yichuan and the others.
Moreover, Tang Yichuan clearly felt a danger, not only the two trees in front of him made people feel dangerous, but also the many trees around them that surrounded them, these trees were like yin and yang trees, they could be moved, and the bodies of these trees were very weird.
Tang Yichuan finally realized what the voice he heard was, I am afraid it was the sound of these trees in front of him.
Their chattering voices let Tang Yichuan know that these trees seem to have their own consciousness like people, but the trees inside look strange, especially the two trees blocking their way, these two trees seem to be a combination of humans and trees, their bodies are very similar to humans, but they have many tree characteristics.
Such a tree is strange.
"Lots of food!" A face loomed on the trunk of the small tree, it was the face of a little boy, and when he saw Tang Yichuan and the others, he immediately seemed to be extremely hungry, and suddenly he became excited, and wanted to eat everyone in front of him immediately.
The big tree next to him was protecting the front of the small tree, and he also appeared with a face, his eyes searched the entire yin-yang tree, and after seeming to realize something, he asked, "Among you, who is the boss?" I have something to say to him. β
All the people hesitated, a few pointed at Tang Yichuan, and a few looked at the tree. I felt that this tree was a little evil, so I said directly: "What do you want to do?" β
Gongsun Lan and Tang Yique beside her all looked at the big and small trees vigilantly, and the rest of the surrounding trees did not make them feel terrified, but the two trees in front of them, I don't know why, made them feel very terrifying.
An eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy suddenly appeared on the branch of the big tree, he sat on the branch as high as Tang Yichuan, looked at Tang Yichuan in front of him and said, "You are probably their boss, it is the first time I have seen so many people here who can live until now." Can I say a few words to you? β
"Say whatever you want." Tang Yichuan looked at this half-human, half-tree thing, he probably knew what it was. It can also be regarded as a type of dryad. It is supposed to be the person who died here, and the soul was attached to a tree that became a spirit, occupied the body of the entire tree, and was united with the tree. It became a half-human, half-tree thing.
The boy was supposed to be a man too. I'm afraid they stumbled into this place by mistake. He looked like he was wearing clothes from the same era as Tang Yichuan and the others, so he hadn't been here for a long time.
"Can you talk about it alone?" The boy asked.
"If there's anything you want to say, just say it." Gongsun Landau. "What do you want to do?"
"I don't do anything, I just want to talk to your boss." The boy was still looking at Gongsun Lan, who was sitting on the branch, swinging his legs, waiting for Tang Yichuan's answer.
Tang Yichuan clearly remembered that the little tree next to him said that he was hungry, and the boy said that he would have something to eat soon, he was not sure what they were saying about what they were eating, maybe they were eating them.
Although these two trees were originally humans, is it not uncommon for people to eat people?
The boy actually looked quite innocent, dangling his legs, and there was no malice on his white face.
"I'll talk to him." There were already a lot of trees around them that had surrounded them, Tang Yichuan knew that at this time, it seemed that he had to talk to the boy in front of him, these trees seemed to be controlled by the boy.
On the small tree next to him, a boy who was only twelve or thirteen years old also jumped out, and he should have followed the boy's brother, so he looked very similar.
"Brother, I'm hungry." The younger brother looked at his brother and said, and he jumped from his own tree to his brother's tree and sat down with the older boy.
The elder brother touched his younger brother's head and said softly, "Good, there will be food soon." After finishing speaking, he raised his head and looked at Tang Yichuan harmlessly, "Do you want to talk?" β
Tang Yichuan didn't have a choice, jumped directly onto the boy's branch, sat next to him and said, "If you have something to say, just say it." β
"We don't have a big appetite, give us two." The elder brother looked at Tang Yichuan and said, "Any two of them are fine, as long as you can give them up." Anyway, so many of you will definitely kill each other in the end, leave it to the two of us to make food, and I promise not to touch you again. β
"You want to eat people?" Although he had already guessed it, Tang Yichuan's tone was still a little surprised.
"Was it a surprise?" The elder brother said, "This is originally a world where people eat people and ghosts, and if you want to survive, it means that you have to eat more, and only more can become stronger." How do you think we have been able to keep our souls until now? From the beginning, we fed on dead bodies, but unfortunately there were too few people and too many ghosts, and we still died......"
The elder brother looked up at Tang Yichuan and said, "It seems that you are not familiar enough with this place, have you just come down?" There is no way out here, and absolutely no one can leave, so it is better to hand over two people, and I can show you a clear path. β
"You're dryads, do you need something to eat? Isn't it okay for trees to photosynthesize? Tang Yichuan looked at his brother and said.
"You think too simply, seeing that you are older than me, but you think so simply." The elder brother chuckled and said, "If it is just in a very safe place and there is no danger, we can indeed survive just by photosynthesis." It's a pity that it's such a world of the jungle, you look at the sky, there are so many ghosts waiting to eat you, as long as there is a chance, they will wait for the opportunity. This is only what can be seen, and there are many things that cannot be seen, those things that cannot be seen, but I wish you had something, once you become weak, it is their food, from body to soul, how do you think we survived until now? β
Tang Yichuan glanced at the pair of brothers twice. He understood what his brother said, because they had gone through such a journey, and they had already roughly understood the dangers of this world, and the way for souls to grow in this world was to eat other souls.
If they want to live, they can only eat more people and more souls.
"You don't dare to attack us lightly, so you will say these things to me." Tang Yichuan looked at this brother and said, "You are afraid of us, so let me take the initiative to hand over the two of us." I'm not going to let anyone stay. Not to mention. It's not the end yet. How do you know we're going to end up like you? β
"It's something that goes without saying." The elder brother said, "Look, are there any living people here?" I've seen more here than you, and we've been here for three years and eight months. In the space of three years. The only people who accidentally intruded here were you. There were three hundred and seventy-eight of them, and I didn't kill any of them. But they were all dead, and there was not even a soul left. Don't think you're powerful, although I'm really a little afraid of you, but among the people who came in at the beginning, there were many people who were more powerful than you, a Taoist priest who could go to heaven and earth, and a demon hunter who specialized in demon hunting, which one didn't die tragically here. When I came in, I said that I could go back if I wanted to, but I didn't even find a way back? So I advise you not to expect to take everyone back, at this time, if you can leave a burden, you have to leave a burden, so that you don't end up being a burden, and it is not clear why you will be hunted down. What I'm telling you is the truth, since you can become their boss, you must have something extraordinary, and you control that tree, right? And those two black dragons? To be honest, these two things are enough to make me afraid to do anything to you, but it's not just me here, I live at the bottom of the food chain here, and anyone can eat me. β
The younger brother next to him looked at Tang Yichuan with blinking, this younger brother looked a little naΓ―ve and didn't talk much.
Tang Yichuan said: "You already know that you can't snatch anyone from me, but you also want to discuss it with me, then you should also know that we will try to see if we can get out of here anyway." β
"It seems that there is no discussion." The elder brother touched his younger brother's head and said, "I wanted to give you a chance." I don't want to fight you, but he's hungry. β
While speaking, the countless trees around him attacked the Yin Yang Tree like a devil, and this elder brother asked Tang Yichuan to come over for another purpose, that is, to take the opportunity to control Tang Yichuan, and then take down the people on the tree.
He is not greedy, he only needs to take two people, so the surrounding trees have already aimed at the target, and the two powerless ordinary people who were hung at the outermost end of the yin and yang tree were suddenly snatched away by the two trees, and they began to run crazy after snatching the two people.
The branches of the Yin-Yang Tree chased after them, but they couldn't keep up with the speed of the trees, and the forest seemed to be under the control of the two boys, and the Yin-Yang Tree couldn't save anyone.
Tang Yichuan's body was suddenly entangled with vines, and these vines wrapped Tang Yichuan into a mummy, "You're right, even if it's impossible, you should try it!" β
"You're also human, can't you think of something else?" Tang Yichuan said, "That's a living person!" β
"Only people are the easiest to capture. In this world! My brother said.
The vines on Peng-Tang Yichuan's body exploded, and he stood in front of his brother, looking directly at his brother who wanted to escape, and that brother felt a terrible pressure, and for a while he forgot to run away.
"Let the people go!" Tang Yichuan grabbed the boy's shoulder and said, "I don't care about you, but if you were once a human, don't eat people!" β
"No one wants to die." My brother laughed and said, "I won't let people go, if you let people go, you will die, if you don't let people go, you will die, anyway, I have already died once, and it doesn't matter how many times I die." β
The younger brother next to him had already run away, and the elder brother glanced at his brother's absence, obviously relieved.
Gongsun Lan, Chu Xuan, and Tang Yique came over standing on the branches of the Yin Yang Tree, and Gongsun Lan snorted coldly: "Release people!" β
The boy looked at Gongsun Lan coldly, he didn't mean to release people at all, he wanted to kill or kill you, but he would never let people go.
Grimace flew in pursuit, but soon to no avail, there were too many dangers in the forest, and the two trees disappeared too quickly. There was no way for him to catch up with the two people who had been captured, and even the little boy was missing in the blink of an eye.
"I'll help you get food, and you let people go." Tang Yichuan finally compromised, he didn't know when that younger brother would eat the person, and he didn't have much time to think, so Tang Yichuan could only make a decision to ask the boy in front of him to let the person go, and he would help him find food.
For these two trees of human souls, humans are actually not the best food, the best food is still those stronger souls, after eating. It can make them stronger.
It's just that with their abilities, they can't hunt more powerful souls now. So these two little dryads chose to eat people, in this kind of place, it seems that there is only such a way to survive.
Tang Yichuan can somewhat understand the child in front of him. Before entering this world. Tang Yichuan may not be able to understand what this person is doing. But after arriving at this place, Tang Yichuan somewhat understood the child in front of him.
However, of course, Tang Yichuan will not let the living die.
Too many deaths have been seen from the beginning to now. Whether it is Tang Yichuan or others, they all hope that the last remaining people can leave this place safely and alive, and no one wants anyone to die in this place.
"Really?" The boy looked at Tang Yichuan with some disbelief.
"Really." Tang Yichuan nodded affirmatively, "As long as you release the people, I will help you catch food." β
"Good!" The boy immediately nodded and said, "We don't have to eat people, we can't eat people because we can't survive, if you are willing to help catch other food, we can talk about your people to be released, but the premise is that you can't break your promise, otherwise, I will just eat your people." β
Tang Yichuan nodded, and Gongsun Lan frowned and said that Tang Yichuan had no need to help the two cannibals, but Tang Yichuan had already agreed to the boy after all.
The boy said that he could let him go, but he needed Tang Yichuan to hunt something he could eat before he would release him, and the boy had already helped Tang Yichuan find the target.
"Since you don't want to kill people, you may catch ghosts to feed us, and there is also a certain psychological barrier for you, so you can help me catch two monsters." The boy said as he led the way for Tang Yichuan.
To help the boy catch monsters, in addition to Tang Yichuan, there are also Hua Ruyi and Gongsun Lan, Hua Ruyi himself is a monster, and he has certain means for monsters, and Gongsun Lan insists on going over, and the rest of the people stay in place and wait for Tang Yichuan and a few people to come back.
The boy soon takes them to a nearby place that is said to be the lair of two powerful yokai.
This is a swamp, and there are usually a lot of strange and terrifying creatures in the swamp, not to mention that in a place with so much yin energy, there are probably more strange creatures that breed.
"There are two big loaches here." The boy shrugged and said, "Maybe it's not a loach, it's big anyway, it's as slippery as a loach, and if we can catch them for our food, we can eat them for a long time." So, you're going to help us catch it, right? As a partner in exchange for you, the conditions are not too high, right? β
Tang Yichuan glanced at the swamp in front of him, the boy was obviously reluctant to get any closer, looking at the boy's expression, this place was probably not just two loaches.
"Tell me what it is and how to deal with it." Gongsun Lan looked at the boy with a stern expression.
The boy glanced at Gongsun Lan, and the whole person stepped back, and suddenly he had retreated to the huge tree at the moment in the rear, sitting on the branch, the boy sat on a high place and looked at a few people and said, "If I want to know, I still need you to come and help catch it?" Of course I don't know how to deal with it! I don't think it's hard to deal with these two monsters with your strength. β
Gongsun Lan glared at the boy.
Hua Ruyi seemed to smell the demonic aura and asked the two of them to prepare.
Tang Yichuan vigilantly summoned the black dragon, and the three of them jumped on the black dragon's back, waiting for the creatures in the water to come out.
The swamp is a very dangerous place, whether it is Tang Yichuan, Gongsun Lan or Hua Ruyi, they don't like this ghost place very much, the ghost knows what is under the swamp. The creatures in the swamp had apparently smelled the living, and the ground began to bubble. Something was slowly arching up.
At first, it was just a small arch under the feet of Tang Yichuan and a few people, but gradually the arched place became bigger and bigger, and when it came to the end, the arched thing was more than ten meters long, like a small mountain range, and the three people who saw it were all numb in their scalps.
"What is this?" Gongsun Lan looked at the small mountain range with a shudder, "It can't be a loach, right?" β
"Creatures of hell." Tang Yichuan looked at the mountain range and said, many creatures in hell are very rare things in the human world, they have all kinds of different forms, and the way to store zΓ i is also different. And it's also very difficult to deal with. If it's really like what the boy said. This is the world of the jungle, so this so-called loach, I don't know how many creatures it has eaten to grow like this.
It was not easy to deal with such a loach, and they were now dealing with two huge loaches.
"Can we catch them?" Gongsun Lan was a little skeptical. They did encounter a lot of dangers along the way. But none of them are so dangerous. It is not very difficult to catch two loaches of this size.
"Give it a try." Tang Yichuan looked at the huge loach and said.
In fact, Tang Yichuan felt that there seemed to be no yin and evil aura on this loach, if there was no such breath. Maybe the three books and four orders can deal with it, as long as the three books and four orders are useful, then the big trouble will become simpler.
Of course, unless it is a last resort, Tang Yichuan will not use the three books and four orders.
A loach suddenly rose from the swamp, and the swamp seemed to have set off a monstrous wave, a wave of waves, splashing Tang Yichuan and several people who couldn't dodge, covered in muddy water.
The boy had already avoided it, Hua Ruyi glanced back, frowned, and said, "This kid shouldn't have deliberately brought us here and let us die here, right?" β
"Eighty percent of them are." Tang Yichuan smiled.
"You already knew? And you're still here? Hua Ruyi glanced at Tang Yichuan with the eyes of a madman.
"I only thought of it when I came here." Tang Yichuan said, "But I also have a reason to do this, at least he won't do anything to other people now, his forest is very safe, if we can stay here for a long time and wait for rescue, it will be much easier than constantly running for our lives." And he knows more about the environment than we do, which is good for us. β
"So, you want to risk killing these two things?" Hua Ruyi glanced at Tang Yichuan twice.
"Yes." Tang Yichuan suddenly took out the exorcism bow, and suddenly three exorcism arrows were fired at the same time in front of him.
The exorcist arrow chased after the dragon-like loach, and the first arrow pierced the loach's eye, but when it was pierced, the arrow slipped a little, and was slapped by the loach's tail and stuck in the mud.
The second arrow pierced the loach's open mouth, and at the same time, Tang Yichuan had already rushed to the back of the loach, grabbed countless long charms in his hands, and pasted them from the tail to the top of the loach's head, and the moment he rushed to the top of the loach's head, Tang Yichuan put his hands together and began to chant words, and as Tang Yichuan spoke, the entire loach burned spectacularly.
After flicking its tail twice, the loach suddenly rolled over, and its back rubbed twice in the swamp, and all the charms failed.
The loach's body did not suffer any substantial damage, this loach was not very flexible because of its huge size, so Tang Yichuan stood on top of his head and turned over a few times, the loach couldn't swallow Tang Yichuan, it grew its mouth and wanted to eat Tang Yichuan, but Tang Yichuan always stood on top of its head, so that it was helpless.
The second arrow always lingered around the loach's mouth, but it was never able to pierce the loach's mouth, and the third arrow tried to pierce the loach's abdomen, but failed, not only did the loach have a lot of mucus on its body and it was very slippery, but the skin that didn't seem to be too thick was so thick that even the exorcism arrow couldn't penetrate it.
The other loach has also woken up, and the loach in front of the closed body is even bigger, and Gongsun Lan and Hua Ruyi besiege the loach.
Tang Yichuan was looking for the loach's dead hole on the top of the loach's head, and at the same time he was also observing the pair of eyes that were secretly watching them. (To be continued......)