Chapter 76: A Tree Full of Corpses
This corpse is not good to stay in the sea of corpses in the valley, and stay with its kind, how can it be hung here?
Could it be that any adventurer who passed by here, with great artistic energy, brought a corpse out of the Valley of Corpses and hung it on this branch?
Then this brother's heart is really big.
Except for a few pieces of dried meat that had already grown black hair, Lu Lie couldn't find anything on the male corpse. He went around behind the man's corpse again, trying to free him from the branch.
In Lu Lie's hometown, there is a custom of the deceased being buried in the ground. Although it is impossible to help him dig a pit here and bury it, how many corpses are there in the valley, bury them one by one and bury them here. At least the only thing Lu Lie could do was to put him down, and it was not a matter to keep swinging on it.
It's just that he pulled slightly, but thoughtfully, and slowly stopped.
Lu Lie tore off the wood on the back of the male corpse, and was surprised to find that the top of the branch had already merged with the back of the male corpse. Wood is wood, meat is meat, and meat and wood are you and me, and I have you.
This male corpse ...... It's like a product of a tree.
Lu Lie only heard that there were apples on the trees and peaches on the trees, and that there were clever mystics who could use secret techniques to make the trees produce watermelons, potatoes, and rice. But a corpse on the tree for you? such a ridiculous thing he never dreamed of.
How does this work?
Lu Lie thought about it, stretched out his hand, and forcefully broke the branch connected to the man's corpse.
Hearing only a heavy click, the feeling of breaking a branch is like breaking a human rib. The man's corpse didn't say a word, and just fell straight to the ground. A wound opened on his back where the branch had been attached, and in a few moments blood flowed profusely, and a strange bright red flowed all over the earth.
Lu Lie was a little confused: Why, you have been dead here for so long, even if you don't decay, you can still bleed?
This is going to become a demon.
He raised his head, and a gust of mountain wind blew through the huge cave, rustling in the distance, and countless corpses hung on the mountain wall with tree branches, dancing for a while.
This...... What the hell is this?
That can't be a tree here, can it really produce human corpses on the branches?
An instinctive chill rushed straight to Lu Lie's back, and he couldn't say the reason, he took two steps back, didn't even want the bone crutches in his hand, and ran back to the bottom of the valley when he lost it.
"Stay with me......"
"Stay with me...... Stay...... Stay with me ......"
"We were lonely...... Stay...... Please...... Over here...... Be with us forever......"
Those terrifying demonic sounds rang out again, and countless branches with corpses twisted and twisted, like human arms, reaching out to block Lu Lie's way.
"I'll accompany you grandma!"
Lu Lie opened his mouth and spat out a fireball. The fireball landed on the nearest branch, and the branch twitched in pain, slapping against the mountain wall as if a human were rolling in pain.
Two more branches handed their hanging corpses to Lu Lie. The corpse spread its arms, as if welcoming Lu Lie's joining.
"Come on...... Join us...... Strange traveler ......"
"Join us...... Join us...... Join us ......"
Lu Lie tried to spit out a fireball again, but as soon as he exerted his strength, not only did no flames erupt, but he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he was about to fall to the ground.
His physical condition no longer allowed him to use the power of Shikikami.
Several branches flapped at each other, and the strange force was amazing. Like a huge wave overturning a shell, it knocked Lu Lie to the mountain wall.
His stomach churned, and he was so sick that he wanted to vomit. But everything in front of him darkened uncontrollably, and the whole world rolled in Lu Lie's mind.
"I'm going to die. ”
This was the only thought in Lu Lie's mind.
More and more branches gathered around, like wolves smelling blood, and like a carnival. Lu Lie was always brave, and even in this desperate situation, he still managed to get up from the ground, holding the machete in his hand, trying to repel the next branch sweep.
"What the...... What the hell is it. ”
Lu Lie began to stagger, and even standing like this, he had exhausted all his strength.
Next time, as long as the next wave of attacks from the surrounding branches is coming, it will completely crush him.
Countless branches surrounded Lu Lie in all directions, dancing like vultures flying above the heads of dying people.
"Wait. Stand down first. ”
Suddenly, in the empty cave, an old female voice said slowly.
As if hearing a silent command, the dancing branches immediately shrank back from all directions. They dangled on the mountain wall, motionless, and returned to their normal appearance.
Lu Lie used his leg bones to support his bruised body. He struggled to look up, trying to make out where the voice that had saved him was coming from.
"I'm in the depths of a cave. The old female voice seemed to see that Lu Lie was looking for herself, and instructed, "Come in a little further." ”
Lu Lie secretly bit his bleeding teeth. According to his intuition, this female voice made countless strange branches stop the commotion with one sentence, which is probably a bit weird. But now that he was seriously injured, if he chose to turn around and run back to the valley, he would not be able to escape a few steps and would be easily caught by those strange branches.
He calculated in his heart that the lesser of two evils would be the lesser of two evils. Listening to this female voice, it seems that she has no intention of killing herself for the time being, so it is better to walk over and take a look at the situation so generously. If something happens, it's never too late to respond.
Lu Lie immediately supported his leg bones and walked towards the depths of the cave.
"Here. Young man, I'm here. ”
"Turn your head and I'll be right behind you. ”
"No, you've gone over the beaten track now, come back a bit. ”
Lu Lie walked in the depths of the cave for a long time, but he never found the origin of the female voice. He had the impression that the person who could make such a sound should be a gray-haired old woman. But around him, apart from the mountain wall, is a strange tree with corpses, not to mention the old woman, and even a person can't see it.
Lu Lie suspected that the other party was playing tricks on himself: "Hey, old woman, where are you hiding?"
"What a boy who doesn't know the height of the sky. Old lady...... It's been a long time since anyone dared to say those three words to me. ”
This time, Lu Lie heard the voice coming from the rear. He turned around the sound source, only to see a huge tree standing behind him. Not only was the giant tree much thinner than its kind, but its long, unbridled branches spread in all directions, overwhelming the space for many other strange trees to grow. The other strange trees in its vicinity did not seem to dare to complain, and all huddled in the corners, as if trying to avoid it.
Like all the strange trees in this cave, this giant tree had a corpse hanging from each of its extraordinarily thick branches.