Chapter 18: Strange Things in the Woods
After walking for a while, An Xiaoqi suddenly felt that his steps were a little floating, he thought it was caused by fatigue, but he suddenly felt a palpitation, as if something terrifying was about to appear.
Walking forward cautiously, An Xiaoqi felt waves of vibration coming from under his feet, and the leaves and mushrooms were all fluctuating together, and they were shaken and fell by them, and the spore fog was much thicker. Only then did he realize that it was not that he was not steady, but that the ground was really shaking.
The vibrations are very regular, and the frequency is very similar to the way a certain creature walks, but it can cause the effect of ground movement, and the body shape makes people feel chilling when they think about it. The tremors were getting closer, and the squeak of the trees tearing was imminent. An Xiaoqi instinctively dodged, and flashed to a dense mushroom forest in three or two steps to lie down, and at this moment, the sky suddenly brightened.
The sudden bright daylight made An Xiaoqi's eyes narrow. From the gaps, the intense sunlight penetrated the thick spore powder mist, sprinkling on the humus soil that had not been bathed in sunlight for a long time, reflecting a golden glow. An Xiaoqi walked all the way through the dense forest, always thinking that it was at dusk or at night, but now looking at this sunshine, it is like the noon sun, and he suddenly feels that life in the dense forest is not easy.
Before he could express his thoughts, he was amazed. Where the sun appeared, the towering trees were swept away in waves, and a huge black shadow swept in from the other side of the dense forest.
Its huge body, which was level with the canopy of the tree, emerged from the jungle with a terrifying majesty! It was it that it rampaged and broke down the trees, making a great path for the sun to shine on the earth.
Looking up with all his might, he saw a huge monster in front of him. It is dark all over, and it looks very much like an earth-like pangolin, but it has expanded a thousand times. The monster was clad in scales, with long lips and a long tail like an anchor looming behind it, and as it walked, its pillar-like thick legs slammed into the ground with a loud sound, shattering all mushrooms in its path and sending hammer-like vibrations around it.
The giant monster walked a few steps, then suddenly stopped, and its right front paw reached to the side, and its four-fingered giant claws showed the agility of human hands, and immediately grabbed a large handful of mushrooms with dirt. These mushrooms belong to a relatively large category in the forest, each of which is much larger than An Xiaoqi, but the giant monster is like eating beans, throwing it into its mouth, eating it with a bang, and the falling saliva white pulp is sprinkled on the ground, which looks very disgusting.
Along the way, An Xiaoqi was not idle, and he did a lot of research on walking around and picking, and knew that there were many differences between mushrooms that looked similar. Especially large mushrooms, some of them are soft and soft, while others are as hard as hardwood, and people can step on them finely. This troll obviously likes to eat the hard one, and if it's a colored mushroom, it's even better! The small eyes that don't match the body shape will show an obvious intoxicated look when they click and gnaw hard poisonous mushrooms, and An Xiaoqi can see it straight.
After eating for a while, the troll burped like a human, and a gust of wind suddenly broke out in the forest. After a few hiccups in a row, the troll gurgled and took a few more crooked steps, its limbs looking extremely uncoordinated, and its head began to shake as if it were drunk. This situation inevitably makes people guess that it is poisoned by mushrooms! Unexpectedly, the troll is not in a hurry, swaying a few times, trying to stand still. The heavy bone armor on its back stood up, and two half-bony tubes protruded from the middle! Gray, with a slight reddish soot immediately expelled from the tube, and with the smoke and dust, the troll became energetic again.
Gray-red smoke floated around the troll, and the trees it touched immediately made a sizzling sound, and the mushrooms and flowers on the ground instantly withered, withered and turned black. An Xiaoqi hid not far away, facing the troll, but he couldn't see the abnormality behind the troll. When he came back to his senses, he saw that the flowers and mushrooms in front of him had died, and a fishy sweet smell came to his nose, and he reflexively wanted to hold his breath. After holding it for a while, I couldn't help it, and took a sip, this kid was worried about something, but after a while, he didn't react, so he simply didn't care about it. Until the ground was corroded, he still didn't have a.
This monster is powerful! If it is slaughtered, it will be able to top a share of life energy, right? Such a big man should have more than one top, right? An Xiaoqi couldn't help but think about it. As he looked forward, he saw that the giant beast had stopped eating, and showed a puzzled expression, looking around, its nose twitching around, as if it had smelled something, and saliva gushed out and dripped to the ground.
Seeing the giant beast probing this way, An Xiaoqi secretly exclaimed in his heart that it was terrible! Hurriedly grabbed something from the ground, whether it was withered flowers and plants, or rotten mud, he was messed up. Fortunately, the disparity in size was too great, and the ten-story giant monster didn't find the small figure lying in the mushroom forest, smelled it in confusion for a long time, looked for a while, and finally turned around and went in the direction where An Xiaoqi came. The momentum when he left can only be described as overwhelming.
An Xiaoqi, who didn't earn a piece of life energy and almost became an energy, completely stopped: this mighty and majestic monster doesn't look like a vegetarian, and it's acceptable to add some meat and vegetables to the recipe. From this first seen creature in the other world, this forest should be quite dangerous, so what about expanding to this entire other world? Rao is An Xiaoqi boasts that he can see it and has a strong receptivity, and he can't help but put a question mark on it at this moment, and secretly laments: If only that divine power was still on his body, he would definitely be able to destroy it, and barbecued meat would definitely be much better than roasted mushrooms.
As it turned out, he was overthinking again. The humidity in the forest is extremely heavy, and everywhere is wet and sticky, with such heavy moisture, where can the fire rise, and you can only think about baking things.
After walking for a while, An Xiaoqi's hair was already completely wet, clinging to his scalp, and the crotch of his pants and the place where the mushrooms were wrapped under his feet were even more wet and hot, and he couldn't tell whether it was sweat or dampness.
After a few miles of progress towards the path opened up by the monster when it came, the humidity grew heavier. After walking for a while, a stream suddenly appeared.
In the misty smoke and dust, a mountain stream in the forest stretched out in front of him, splitting the path opened by the monster in two. The stream is murmuring, the water is clear, and the small fish in the stream shuttle between the pebbles at the bottom of the stream, scrambling to peck at the mycelial fragments that fall to the surface of the stream, like a picture of a pastoral trickle. There was no time to enjoy the beautiful scenery, and thirst was rising, An Xiaoqi ran into the stream, brushed aside the floating debris, and plunged into the water.
The stream is sweet and cold, and it is a heavy drink.
The stream is not wide, the distance between the two banks is only five or six meters, and the water is not deep, only to An Xiaoqi's waist. The bottom of the water is clear, with more pebbles and less sediment. The small fish and shrimp are not afraid of people, and they circle around An Xiaoqi in twos and threes, and come up to peck from time to time.
Even drinking water and taking a bath, a long toss, refreshing, but also looking down at the little life in the stream. Although this small fish looks like it has a few more horizontal fins around its waist, it can be considered a fish. The little shrimp, although it is a little bigger, has ant-like pincers between its mouths, which is more suitable for calling water ants, but it can also be regarded as shrimp.
Except for the strange ones, at first glance they are not strange species of earth creatures. There are also creatures similar to the earth swimming in it, such as the common small whiskered shrimp, small crucian carp and so on. An Xiaoqi looked at this paradoxical scene, not only puzzled that creatures from different planes could live here, but also secretly speculated: Could it be that this world also happened to evolve similar creatures?
Whether it was a coincidence or another reason, An Xiaoqi did not know. The immediate priority is to find intelligent life, and even if it is not, the secondary goal is to find shelter from the elements. Now that he has just come to the other world, his eyes are black, and since he wants to settle down here, he naturally has to make long-term preparations.
From the icy and snowy mountaintops, to the mysterious space, to the deep and hot jungle streams, it happened in just a few hours, and An Xiaoqi's identity has also evolved from a small farmhouse owner, to an immortal cultivator, and finally upgraded to a modern primitive.
Fortunately, An Xiaoqi is good at adjusting his mentality, and this little thing naturally can't affect his mood - forget it, in fact, the mood is already terrible, but the cultivation immortal he chooses has to be finished with tears, so he must persevere!
Bell said, seeing whether the water was going up or downstream, it seemed to be upstream, and he made a decision.
The stream is gentle and clear, and the weeping willow-like mycelium on both sides is covered, with a bit of beautiful scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. In this beautiful picture, a thin boy drenched in water, looking at the direction of the current, went upstream along the shore.
An Xiaoqi considered the pros and cons, and one of the great advantages of following the stream was that he could deduce time from the unobstructed line of skylight. Unfortunately, this calculation is clearly wrong. He had just crossed over, and his biological clock was not yet disordered, and according to his own estimates, he was in the middle of the day when he saw the monster, and it was noon according to common sense, and until now, he should have walked for six to eight hours. If it were time on Earth, it would have been dusk, or even night. But here, the sky is still bright, and the sun has only shifted a little, and if the sun is in this position on Earth, it should be the hottest afternoon.
Such a change can only mean one thing, the day here should be long, at least the day is long.
An Xiaoqi, who knew that he couldn't use common sense, had to give up his inherent concepts, and the old idea of doing things at sunrise and resting at sunset was no longer appropriate. With no more information for the time being, he decided to drink when he was thirsty, eat when he was hungry, and find a place to sleep when he was tired.
When you are thirsty, there is a stream of water, and when you are hungry, the land is full of mushrooms. It's a pity that there is no fire, mushrooms can only be eaten raw, An Xiaoqi tries to choose those mushrooms that don't smell and don't smell to eat. The taste of raw mushrooms is similar, almost tasteless, very light, but An Xiaoqi still eats juicy and dripping with residues everywhere.
After eating, he felt a wave of fatigue, after all, he had walked for a day. From a safety point of view, it would be a good choice to retract the Iron Heart to sleep, but unfortunately he couldn't think of it after a tiring day.
An Xiaoqi left the vicinity of the stream and found a big tree, under which was a large cluster of half-human-tall mushrooms, and there were all kinds of insects and butterflies flying in the mushroom bush. Half-dried leaves and moss spread on the ground to form a natural carpet, which is a rare and good place. Xiao Qi shrank himself into the mushroom bush with satisfaction, and the thick and overlapping mushroom umbrella was like a cover, covering his figure. Then he stretched out his hand to pull a mushroom noodle to block the sunlight above his head through the jungle, An Xiaoqi looked out from the gap half an eye wide, and the mycelium silk hanging down from the branches swayed with the flying insects. This leisurely scene made him drowsy.
With a tilt of his head, An Xiaoqi fell asleep. He was so tired, he slept deeply, and in a daze, it was as if he had a dream, in which he traveled back to the afterlife. There are no immortal cultivators there, and there is no master, and ordinary life weighs on him like a mountain. One day, while he was at work, the director and deputy director came to his office, got into a fight over a work dispute, and asked him to comment on it. Before he could react, the director and the deputy director stopped arguing again, hugged each other and cried, and scrambled to admit their mistakes, and finally walked out hand in hand, making An Xiaoqi laugh.
I don't know how long I slept, An Xiaoqi opened his eyes slowly, and a hangover-like headache hit, which is a common physiological reaction of people who don't have enough rest. yawned silently, and An Xiaoqi leisurely looked out of the gap again. Outside, the sky hadn't changed much, and the silk silks and flying insects that had fallen from the branches were still dangling there.
An Xiaoqi's eyes widened, and as soon as he jumped up from the mushroom bed, he saw a man and a woman, their necks hanging in two red ribbons, hanging in the air, and shaking slightly.
didn't have time to take a closer look, An Xiaoqi jumped up to save people, but fortunately, the hanging place was only about two meters above the ground, and he could get there by stepping on the mushroom. Who knows, the light is enough to get it, but it is useless - the knot of the hanging man is tied too tightly, and An Xiaoqi can't open it at all in the chaos. Looking around left and right for a while, he saw a sword hanging from the waist of the hanged woman, hurriedly pulled it out, and laboriously cut the ribbon, and the two fell to the ground.
As soon as they were saved, there were two, An Xiaoqi threw the sword aside, and explored his neck with both hands - both of them could no longer feel a pulse in their necks. An Xiaoqi also knew some first aid methods, a burst of hammer pressure and artificial respiration, tossed for a full hour, he was tired and sweaty, and the two finally failed to save themselves.