Chapter Forty-Nine: Shocking
Warren was so angry that he took off his coarse cloth clothes and tried to wipe away the filth from his kindred, and then in a fit of rage, he drew his sword and cut off the last tentacle.
Then, in resentment, he raised his foot and stomped on the tentacle fiercely, intending to step on it until it was pulp.
"Don't! don't touch it. ”
Seeing Warren's movements, Ruby was shocked to stop it.
But it was too late, and the tip of the tentacle was originally gray-brown, but after being trampled on, it seemed to radiate all the venom inside, and in a moment it turned transparent.
Warren's eyes widened as he saw his lower limbs twitch violently.
Then some black reticulation lines appeared on the skin, which spread to the neck, and all the capillaries and nerves were infected, and the black reticulated lines quickly covered his entire face, until the entire whites of his eyes turned black, and then he completely lost his life.
Warren also died, in the stinger of the tentacles of the dissolved sunflower.
"Human, why don't you listen to me. Ruby sighed a little weakly, and the weapons in her hands fell to the ground.
The jungle is already full of dangers, not to mention this forest of secret words that even those who are familiar with the jungle dare not step into, and a small mistake can cost a life.
The half-orc turned his head with his teeth crossed, and stepped forward to teach the half-elf a lesson against the wind, while scolding, "Fool, if it weren't for you, you wouldn't be dead, damn half-elf." ”
Headwind stepped back in some fear, and actually hid behind Loki, who shrugged his shoulders as if he hadn't heard anything, and turned sideways to get out of the way.
Aina stepped forward and stopped, "Enough, no one wants to cause such consequences, what we need now is to get out." ”
"It's probably going to be hard for us to get out of here. Ruby the Cat orc's voice trembled.
She pointed to the trunks in front of her and said, "I've never heard of such a big sunflower, and it doesn't look like there's only one here, you look at it." ”
Following the direction pointed by Ruby the cat orc, I saw that above the densely twisted trees, there were gray-brown shadows clinging to the trunks, similar to the color of the trunks.
But the different shapes of the clumps still made people distinguish that each twisted strange tree had the deadly giant dissolved sunflower just now.
The half-elf scolded with a faint cry against the wind, "Damn Littlefinger, you idiot led the way and led us to where you came?"
Loki stared at him with a pair of cold gray eyes, and said in a low voice, "Shut up, or I'll kill you!"
The cat orc suddenly shouted, "You don't know why, this is the Forest of Secret Words, the cursed land infested by evil witches. ”
"We've been driven in by the bugs, we've been used as food for this cursed jungle, and we'll have to think of something else. ”
Aina stopped everyone's panic and said, "We can't continue from here, this kind of dissolved sunflower is too dangerous for us, and we must retreat and change the way." ”
In this strange and oppressive dense forest, no one dared to venture forward any further, so everyone rested for a while, intending to return the same way as they came, looking for the jungle path that rushed out, but before they could travel for a while, Ruby suddenly stopped.
She stopped everyone at the front, and pointed to the trunks of a few vegetation trees not far away, and some people tried to look over for unknown reasons, but they could only see that the bark seemed to be writhing slightly.
Loki could clearly see that on the dozens of plants and trees in front of him, especially on the gray-brown bark, there were dense insects the size of wheat grains.
The whole piece covered the trunk of the tree, and all the small insects wriggled as if the bark was writhing, making the scalp tingle.
"Don't go over, those are all small insects that have eaten the skin before, and even if you don't get submerged and eat them together, you will die of pain if you don't eat them. ”
After everyone saw the situation clearly, the orc only felt that his skin was really uncomfortable, and said: "What can I do, I can't move forward, and there is no way back." ”
Unable to retreat, Ruby and Aina looked at the only half-elf boy who could still recognize the direction, hoping that he would find a way out.
Loki pulled out a well-preserved map from his bosom, the one he had obtained from the Circus of Otsuki, some of the city's routes were clearly marked, but only a general extent was marked in the dense forest, and a few well-known adventure paths and trade routes.
Comm looked at us disdainfully and said, "You want to take us out with this kind of thing, half-elf cub, it doesn't even have the name of this forest on it." ”
The half-elf clan headwinded, and after looking at the map, he was also very dissatisfied and said: "Littlefinger, you ignorant fool will kill us." ”
Loki pulled out his sharp dogleg knife and slashed into the rough trunk next to him, and said in a low voice: "Don't test my patience, or the next moment, it will split your skull, don't think that I will treat the half-elf clan differently!"
After speaking, he pulled out the dog-legged knife, pointed at a place on the map with the tip of the knife, and said: "Starting from the river bank, all the areas in this place are the Secret Whisper Forest, but the degree of danger in it is obviously different, the more it resembles the northwest center, the more dangerous it is. To the northwest is where the giant dissolved sunflower is distributed, and the entire retreat behind it is blocked by this strange worm. ”
Loki then instructed, "Let's go around the center of the Forest of Secret Words, around the range of these dissolute sunflowers, and be careful when we see those twisted dead trees. ”
The half-elf's face was cloudy, he didn't want to listen to Loki's instructions, his face was a mixture of disdain and fear, and his facial muscles were twisted a little strangely.
Eventually, though, the others agreed to the route, and even Kom didn't complain.
In this strange dense forest, the footsteps of the fleeing team continued to move forward, this time the orcs were at the forefront, and now that the crowd had been hungry for so long, only he had some strength to overcome the thorns.
Loki and Ruby are in the middle and back of the line, respectively, and are responsible for keeping an eye out for what might happen around them.
This time, everyone was cautious, which also caused the speed of the march to be slow, and from time to time they had to make sure that they were in the right direction, and they must not step into the range of the swarm and the swarm.
Before the sun had set, the environment in the dense forest had become dark, and although the danger had diminished a little, the people were not only hungry and tired, but now they had to think about resting at night.
Ruby, the most experienced cat orc in the forest, took a few people to find some dry branches and dry firewood nearby, and planned to build some bonfires here at night to drive away insects and beasts.
The bonfire was raised with difficulty, and the light of the fire in the dark forest illuminated a small space, and the cats and orcs picked a little edible fruit near that place, and each of them could not share one, barely giving some comfort to the hungry fleeing party.
Everyone sat around the campfire, there was not much else in this strange forest, there were a lot of dead wood and branches, and there was no need to worry about the campfire going out.