After a short rest, the group began to march deeper into the rainforest, with Wright leading the way, and the knights forming a one-way column, following the guide like a long dragon. Wright, despite his young age, was more familiar with the rainforest than anyone expected, and saw him holding a long, sturdy wooden stick in his hand, and as he walked forward, the stick was also 'inserted' into the wet mud in front of him. On several occasions, he had identified swamps that looked exactly like the ground around him, and had found the nearest way to get around them, avoiding the threat of the knights falling into the swamp. Not only that, but after making a lot of detours in the rainforest to avoid the swamp, everyone has lost their sense of direction, and Stan is even worried about whether they will go west or simply go back, but Wright is confident that he can see the direction at all.

Even so, the hot and humid climate of the Sweet Rainforest and the various unknown poisonous insects still made the group suffer. Several knights had several lumps on their necks bitten by flying insects that flew up at some point, and they couldn't bear the itch and kept scratching. Wright took out a bottle of 'poultice' from his backpack and 'handed it over' to the knights, and after applying the guide's ointment, a cool sensation spread throughout his body, and the pain and itching of the lump was temporarily suppressed.

Before passing through a puddle, Wright instructed everyone to tighten their trousers into their boots, and to put their necklines up to cover their necks, and hide all parts of their bodies except for their faces and hands.

Magir was very reluctant, and in the hot and humid rainforest, he had to wrap himself tightly, which was simply self-abuse. "Is there anything wrong with this puddle?

Wright was still a little scared of Magill, and timidly replied, "There are leeches in this water, and they will attach to the skin of people and animals to suck blood, so we must try to 'expose' some of our bodies as little as possible outside our clothes." ”

"Suck blood!" Nerfi suddenly shouted, and the mage looked in horror at the puddle in front of her, sweat wetting her hair from the side of her face and sticking to her cheeks. "Can't you get around it?"

Wright looked at Nerfi apologetically. "I'm afraid not, 'woman', this puddle is very large, and it is not like a swamp that has to be circumambulated, as long as it is properly protected, we can still cross it, which can save a lot of time. ”

Stan walks over to Nellfi and looks at her encouragingly. "Listen to Wright, he's familiar with this place, and we need to get to camp before dark. ”

Nerfi pursed her lips in worry, then took a scarf from her pannier and wrapped her neck and face around her. "How do those leeches suck blood, do they drain the blood out of people?"

Wright laughed unconsciously, for the first time the young guide had laughed since he saw everyone. "Don't worry, 'female', these leeches aren't big. Wright raised his right hand and measured the length of his thumb and forefinger more than an inch. "It's about that big, a few can grow two or three times, but it's just a few, don't try to pull them off when they're sucking blood, that will only keep their spines in your body, we need this. With that, Wright took out a dozen more short candles from the package and distributed them to the knights. "Just burn the leeches with these candles and they will fall off on their own. ”

The knights all nodded, and Nerfi became even more frightened when she heard this. "Will I bleed profusely after being sucked blood? How can I stop the bleeding?"

Wright seemed to want to laugh again, but held back. "'Female' man, the wound caused by the leech's blood sucking is very small, it only takes a few days, and the wound will heal on its own, and there will be no scar. ”

Nerfi was relieved, but she frowned and looked at the puddle hesitantly.

"But it's a bit of a hassle to light these candles, and it takes a bit of work to light a fire here. Wright took out flint and velvet from his package, and in this extremely damp rainforest, the air was full of moisture, and even the velvet was wet to the touch.

"It's not easy. Nerfi glanced at the candle in Stan's hand, whispered a spell in his mouth, and placed his right hand on top of the candle, causing the firing line to burn on its own.

"It's ...... What kind of witchcraft is this!" Wright's eyes straightened.

Nerfi gave the guide a strange look. "It's not witchcraft, it's magic, I'm a mage. ”

"Mage, will you summon thunder and lightning, and meteorites, and floods!" Wright was obviously seeing the mage for the first time, and his excitement was incoherent.

"No!" replied Nerfi succinctly, and mounted his mount.

"I'm sorry, 'woman', I forgot to say that we can't ride over, we have to lead the horses over. Wright looked at Nerfi's face with adoration written all over it.

"What!?" even Magill shouted with Nerfi this time, and the knight captain held the candle and waved his arm, almost extinguishing the flames, and quickly slowed down. "Didn't you let us bite those leeches?"

"So we'd better tie up our clothes and need these candles, the leeches will also suck the blood of the horses, these horses have no protection, they will be attached to the body by many leeches, and if you ride on the back of the horse, then the leeches will crawl all over your body along your big 'legs' and buttocks. Wright said earnestly, not at all like a joke.

Magill's eyes widened and she swallowed, and Nerfi nearly fell off her horse, but Stan was able to hold her up. "Stan, isn't there another way to get through this puddle?" Nerfi cried.

"It's okay, Nerfi, it'll be fine in a moment. Stan gently squeezed the girl's hand, sweat dripping from their foreheads.

The march through the puddle had finally begun, and Wright was still leading the way, holding a candle in his left hand and a stick in his right hand to poke through the puddle, moving at a noticeably faster speed than before, and it was clear that he wanted to pass here as soon as possible.

Magill walked in second, and at the moment of entering the water, the knight captain's whole body trembled, and after a few steps, he realized that there was nothing special, so he became bold, took a step, and led the horse to follow Wright. Stan walks beside Nalfi, the puddle reaches Stan's little 'leg', and Nerfi is submerged below the knee, and the mage carefully walks step by step, holding the reins in one hand and holding Stan's arm tightly with the other.

After walking for almost half an hour, they were all accustomed to this way of marching, and Magill relaxed, and the captain of the knights lowered the collar that surrounded his head and neck. "We seem to be making too much of a fuss and being scared ...... this damn leech. ”

Before he could finish speaking, a knight behind the captain shouted. "Magill, what's on your neck?!"

"What? Ulf, what's it?" Magill tensed as well, and raised his hand to wipe it towards the back of his neck.

"Don't move! don't erase it!" Wright stopped Magill in time, and ran behind him in a few steps, only to see that on the back of the knight captain's neck, a leech was greedily sucking blood, and the originally slender body had swelled, and the whole body was blood-red. "It's leeches. Stan and Nerfi walk behind Magill and see the disgusting scene, and Nerfi buries her face in Stan's arm.

"It's okay, just use this. Wright slowly brought the candle to the blood-red bulge, and the flame skewered into the leech, which immediately fell off Magill's neck and fell into the water, leaving a few drops of blood on the knight captain's neck.

"It's disgusting...... "The knight who first noticed it frowned.

"Hell, Ulf, you said it easily...... Wait, what's on your forehead?" Magill noticed that Ulf also had a black 'colored' object crawling on his forehead.

The cries of the knights behind him kept coming, and the horses were all aware of the leeches on their bodies, shaking their bodies uneasily, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into 'chaos' and 'chaos'.

"No, there are too many leeches, we can't stay here any longer, leave it alone, get over here and deal with the leeches on our body, quick! follow me!" Wright shouted, picking up his pace and trotting forward.

"Damn it!" Magill cursed, cocking his collar again, and quickly followed.

Nerfi felt something crawling above his head and cried out in fright, Stan 'snooze' the candle in his hand, stuffed it into his pannier, and grabbed Nerfi. "Don't look at anything, follow me!"

But Nerfi still subconsciously glanced at her mount, which almost frightened her into sitting in a puddle, and saw that the body of the chestnut 'colored' horse was densely crawled with tiny leeches, some of which had been full of blood, and their bodies were as big as a thumb. The 'girl' felt dizzy and her body went limp, and Stan quickly held her up and hugged her. "The horses are handed over to you!" Stan shouted behind him, holding Nalfi in front of his chest with both hands and running forward quickly.