I glanced in the direction of the river, where we had been before, and there was nothing along the way.

If our guess is true, the fog will begin to dissipate in an hour or so, and then we will have to experience a new wait if we want to enter Muzhang County again.

I'm just afraid that if Wang Min has already made contact with that end, as soon as the barrier changes, the possibility of us finding Muzhang County again will become like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the scope is unfathomable.

"Put the raft down, and we'll go now." I made a decision, Ziwei nodded, and hurriedly went to prepare.

Tang Jiao was a little flustered, almost bumped into Jiang Xun with a gloomy face, met his gaze, stunned, covered his head and hurriedly ran to get things, when he came back, a few bags plus Jiang Xun poured out of the messy sundries all in his arms, crying and mourning to me: "Shopkeeper Shen, my old Tang has put his life on the line and mixed with you, don't forget what you promised me before, the lives of both of us are in your hands, you must bring us both back alive and completely."

Ziwei looked at me with a little doubt in his eyes, and I didn't say a word, but took his outstretched hand and got on the raft.

Tang Jiao screamed and put the bag in his hand, pouted his butt and climbed onto the raft, rubbing it in to leave Jiang Xun empty.

Jiang Xun and Guo Zheng were both standing on the shore, and after Tang Jiao climbed up, the raft was not very stable, I frowned, and kicked him gently, "It's too heavy, you can only bring a bag, put down everything you don't need, and get it again when you come back." ”

"Huh?" Tang Ka looked up at me, picking and choosing in embarrassment, and finally threw out a pile of canned food, biscuits, and clothes, leaving Jiang Xun with a few items for survival in the wilderness.

"Miss Shen." Guo Zheng squatted down, handcuffed the handcuffs in Wang Min's hand who had fainted with his wrists, raised his eyes and said: "After these things, I will also gamble, I believe in you, if you can also trust me, I will help you guard these things." ”

He helped Wang Min up, hung his bag on his arm, and said, "I will take people back to the police station, you must be careful on the road, you must come back safely, all of us will be here waiting for your answer." ”

My heart sank, nodded, and then looked at Jiang Xun and asked him about his intentions with my eyes.

Come with us, or stay here.

I knew he had what he could do, and I could tell from the time he used the Tart Soul Whip against those Yin Spirits in East Salt that he knew how to kill better than I did, and none of the three of us was better suited to be a decisive executioner.

In this danger, we need such wicked people to save us from untimely kindness.

After a long time, I took a small step forward and tentatively extended my hand to him.

Jiang Xun seemed to be expected, and he understood all my thoughts, smiled coldly, but did not grab my hand, but stepped onto the raft himself.

I lowered my eyelids, and as I withdrew my hand, I heard him whisper in my ear, "This time, you invited me." ”

I turned my face and said, "You have already declined my invitation, this path is your own choice." ”

He smiled, "It's not a refusal, I just want you to know that I want to help you, you don't have to make any representation, as long as you need me, I will be there." The hesitation is because I need to make sure that my presence does not burden you with having to refuse, and that we can abandon exclusion and walk with prejudice. ”

He said: "Shen Qing, I never make it difficult for others. ”

Jiang Xun's breathing was very cold, and when he came into contact with him, there was always a strange feeling.

As long as he stands by your side and doesn't need to do anything, it will make people feel the cold through the bones, not the feeling of freezing in the sky, but the cold in the marrow.

So I couldn't communicate with him like I did with Tang Jiao, and when I faced him, my silence only contained the escape of inner suspicion.

Like he said, I was repulsed by him.

"Don't get tired of it, you two can help too, you can't see anything clearly in front of you." Don Ka struggled to paddle and complained.

I didn't say a word in my throat, but when I turned on the flashlight, I looked forward, and found that the light was sucked away, just like in the woods, and I couldn't see through the thick fog.

"There's something in the water." The wood pulp in Ziwei's hand stopped for a moment, as if he had poked something, and without scratching again, he slowly pulled out the part of the water.

I threw my flashlight into the water on the side, and it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.

"I didn't notice anything." Tang Kao muttered, "Don't be lazy." ”

As soon as the words fell, a rustling sound came into my ears, and I immediately pulled out my dagger and looked around, the echo in the cave was very loud, making people panic.

"Mom!" Tang Jiao screamed, I turned my head, and the quilt did not hold my head from behind and squatted down.

A swarm of bats overhead, their wings vibrating and crashing against the stone wall, filled the vicinity with this sound, echoing over and over again.

I covered my ears, but I couldn't cover them completely, when the fog seemed to lift a little, and the big letters on the walls on both sides began to show traces.

I knew that this was a precursor to another futile return, and hurriedly reminded me that in order to speed up, we must reach the entrance of the cave before the fog cleared at dawn.

The four of them scattered back and forth, sliding the oars back and forth with the strength of the milk, and bats kept flying overhead, and the sound became louder and louder.

My ears hurt so badly that the sound came to my head, just like in a cave, hitting the cortex of my brain, and bouncing back violently, over and over again, as if I was forcing people to commit suicide.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, Jiang Xun suddenly stopped, raised his hand and pointed to the wall on one side.

A few of us looked up, and the sweat was running down even more.

The moss that had grown on the wall was rapidly fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, the place that was hidden by the large characters slowly appeared in its original form, and the slogan appeared in front of me completely, encouraging production.

They are huddled together, on both sides, as if an old antique had fallen into the hands of a master of exquisite craftsmanship, with fingers that run through the past and the present, little by little, restored exactly as in the past.

The terrible thing is that there are no skilled craftsmen in front of us, and what is being restored is not an ordinary antique artifact.

It's a real location, and it's a time spent decades in the past.

They are taking us back in time.

"We ...... Got into the enchantment? Tang Jiamu looked at the two sides of the strait dumbfounded.

Jiang Xun snorted, "Look ahead." ”

At this glance, it was goosebumps again, and the water in the river was all covered by the drifting and rotting corpses, and it became very black, maybe it was another color, but it was definitely not the normal groundwater.

"How are we going to get there?" Tang Kari asked.

Ziwei withdrew the wooden oar, held it closer, and said, "You better think about how we can solve the current problem first." ”

Around the raft, a dark shadow on the surface of the water was coming towards us.

As we spoke, they quickly dispersed and sizzled around our raft.

I shuddered at the sound of my fingernails scratching at the wood from under the raft, and in the cracks between the planks and the boards, a hard-shelled insect the size of a child's fist crawled up and spread rapidly like a drop of stain into the clear water.

I held the dagger and stabbed them in the head, but their shells were harder than I had imagined, and instead of getting the first or second stabbing into them, they shook my palms with pain. The third time, when they approached and opened their mouths to bite me, they finally showed a flaw, and I stabbed them through the mouth, and their bodies were pierced on the blades, and the six legs under their abdomen shook, and they completely lost their lives.

Tang Jiao had no weapons in his hands, holding the oars and shouting for help while knocking them back into the water, and he was busy under his feet, kicking and stepping, but he was not spared, and was bitten on the thigh by the insect crawling up from behind, and jumped up holding his leg.

The raft shook so badly that it was about to turn to the side, Jiang Xun took a step over there, while stabilizing the raft, he grabbed Tang Jiao's shoulder and walked behind him, pressed his back, grabbed the insect on Tang Jiao's leg with his hand, dragged it down hard, and tore off a small piece of meat.

Tang Jiao screamed miserably, and I watched Jiang Xun shake it hard, and the insect carapace in his hand cracked, and his whole body became a torn corpse.

Jiang Xun saw me looking at him, glanced at him coolly, I trembled, and turned around to help Ziwei.

"It's not a way to go on like this, keep paddling, I have a way to get through the corpses."

After Jiang Xun finished speaking, Tang Jiao suffered the first response, crying and lying on the raft and paddling with oars, faster than at any time on the way.

The closer they got to the pile, the fewer bugs followed, and when there were only a few meters left, the remaining ones suddenly stopped and turned back.

"There will be cockroaches in the corpse pile in front of you to feed, this thing is afraid of them, you all be careful, no one can save you if you are stained with venom." Guarding against something else coming, Jiang Xun pulled out a rope from his bag with an eight-clawed hook at the end.

When the raft collided with a corpse, Jiang Xun put his wrist on the rope, and the beads on his wrist also rested on the rope.

He wiped his hand to the side and brushed it off the rope, and the lines in the blood jade on the beads were quickly pulled out and poured in, and a violent stirring changed the appearance of the pattern.

I looked at it in amazement, and saw Jiang Xun throw the rope out, and the eight-claw hook "ding" and hung firmly on a stone on the wall in the distance.

The corpse had no clothes to cover it, its stomach was empty, there were no internal organs and organs, the bones inside could be seen at a glance, and the rest of the body was also eaten clean from the inside, and the whole body was only wrapped in a thin layer of skin, almost transparent.

A huge centipede came out of his empty belly, Jiang Xun called my name, stretched out his hand, and I threw the dagger in my hand to him.

He ignored the centipede that was swaggering at him, raised his hand and plunged the dagger into the heart of the corpse, opened a hole, and put two fingers directly into it, probing inside, and grabbing a large, fat fleshy worm, larger than the queen we had seen before. And because of the fertility of the queen worm, only the abdomen is extraordinarily distended, but this one is beyond the scope of normal insects, very long, half-rolled body. If it were to be clumped into a ball, it would be twice as big as the hard-shelled bug just now.

This one should be the insect king in this nest.

Jiang Xun tightened the rope, raised his hand, like an animal trainer, really picked up the cockroach, and threw it out at the other end of the rope that was pulled closer.

When the cockroach falls, it is very light, and it falls like a feather in the middle of the rope.

Something unexpected happened, at the moment when Jiang Xun put the rope in the water, the other cockroaches seemed to have been summoned by something, and they all left their nests and crawled towards the rope.