The half-elf was very dissatisfied, and called out to Loki, "Littlefinger, you coward, you must wake everyone up because you are afraid of the dark." ”

Comm rubbed his eyes and cursed in a low voice, "Idiot, half-elf idiot." ”

Aina frowned, looked at Loki strangely, and said, "Littlefinger, what did you find?"

Ruby the cat orc has a natural vision of darkness, and without Loki's explanation, she obviously noticed that something was wrong, and raised her hand to point at the orc who had been silent.

During this period of time when everyone was sober, the orcs kept their backs to everyone, sitting by the bonfire and not making any movement, which looked very weird.

After realizing it, several people immediately surrounded it, lit the torch and took a closer look, but immediately discovered a scene that frightened everyone.

The orc's figure seemed to have suddenly lost a lot of weight, and under the thick hair, the originally thick neck became like dry firewood.

Turning the angle of the torch slightly, and then looking at the face of the cross-legged teeth, it turned out that a vicious face full of flesh became like a dried corpse dehydrated, and two large protruding eyeballs were constantly turning in horror, indicating that he still had some vital signs.

Contrary Wind said with some horror: "Half, half orc, what's wrong with you?"

There was not a trace of blood on the orc's face, or rather, there was no blood or water in his body, and he could not speak at all, except that the Adam's apple in his dry neck trembled twice, making a few strange 'cluck, cluck' sounds.

Then the two big eyeballs of the crossed teeth stopped, and they looked straight ahead, and their eyes gradually lost focus.

The crowd didn't have time to check, and in less than a moment, the orc remained in a sitting position and died.

Everyone's eyes widened in astonishment, not daring to imagine what a strong and vicious orc had gone through, how did he become like this, could it be that there was a legendary vampire in the Forest of Secret Words, and the night sucked him dry?

"What's going on, how the hell did he die, Littlefinger, you must have seen something?"

Human Comm growled nervously, as if he had forgotten his fear, and reached for the collar of the half-elf boy.

Loki flashed back, easily dodged, and quickly attached the crossbow string to the short-arm crossbow, and the bolt pointed at Combe and said, "Don't move again, move again, I'll use this to make you sober." ”

Aina quickly grabbed Comm, stopped the impending dispute, and asked the half-elf boy at the same time.

"Loki, did you find something? or you wouldn't be in a hurry to wake everyone up. ”

Loki put down the crossbow, nodded and said, "Obviously, the pan tooth was sucked dry of blood by something, and I only saw a little shadow of that thing, which should be a huge worm, looking a bit like a snail without a shell. ”

"Moreover, this worm is not easy to detect by its prey, and it should have the means to anesthetize its prey. ”

The half-elf was a little frightened, and whispered angrily: "Damn, what kind of worm will suck people into dry corpses, say!What the hell is it?"

The cat orc suddenly remembered something, and said: "I seem to have heard some legends, the secret word forest, the secret word is that when you are alone, don't speak, you will be sucked dry of blood." ”

With that, Ruby used her guard sword to pick open the clothes on the orc corpse, but saw that the dry and terrifying corpse had become dry, and there were strange depressions on the body, but there was not a single bleeding wound in sight.

She then sliced the corpse's arm with force, the section of which was the same as that of a dried corpse, and the red blood was no longer visible.

Loki also stepped forward, and with the Gurkha scimitar in his hand, he cut open the abdominal cavity of the dried corpse, and saw several large gray-brown worms lying on several dry organs, and this large worm had a few yellow markings on its body.

Ruby, the cat orc, changed his face and said, "This is a three-ring leech, strange, how could this kind of thing get into his body?"

Ruby picked up a three-ringed leech with her guard sword, and the worm squirmed twice as if it had sucked its fill of blood, and then as if sensing something, it twisted its body and crawled towards the wrist of the sword.

The cat orc's hand shook quickly, the worm fell to the ground, and she was trampled to death quickly, and the palm-sized three-ring leech turned into a large pool of red and white blood and fat.

A bloody smell came, as if smelling this unique breath, and several other worms in the abdominal cavity of the dried corpse also crawled out quickly with a twist, and all of them gathered into the blood stain and sucked it up.

Ruby lit a torch and brought the flame up, as if feeling an astonishing scorching, and several of the three-ringed leeches stopped sucking, twisted and twisted and crawled quickly, and soon disappeared into the dark dense forest around them.

"I've heard hunters say before," said Kom, "This is a leech, which usually stays in trees, and when ordinary animals or people pass by, it will fall from the trees and suck blood, but it is unlikely to suck people into dry corpses. ”

Ruby's eyes were solemn and said, "Moreover, the three-ring leech will not climb so fast, fortunately, it should be afraid of flames." ”

Hearing these words, the crowd hurriedly added firewood to the bonfire, and several bonfires were added around the campsite to prevent the reappearance of this terrifying three-ring leech.

There was still some time before dawn, but this time no one dared to sleep directly, and they all fought hard and supported until dawn.

It wasn't until a little sunlight shone through the dense forest overhead that everyone's spirits relaxed, at least during the day, they could use their eyes to detect some dangers in advance, so that they would not be sucked into dry corpses like orcs in the dark, and their deaths would not be clear.

There was no breakfast, and everyone had to go on hungry, keeping a sense of vigilance, while being careful to be aware of the dangers that might arise around them, and at the same time to pay attention to whether there was any fruit that could be used.

The road ahead is full of dense trees, the strongest orc has died, this time everyone took turns to open the way in front, with the tip of the knife to cut through the thorns, during the dense forest will not appear some strange insects or small beasts, most of them are more afraid that people will disappear soon.

Occasionally, worms such as the three-ringed leech will fall on the tree, and even if you are careful, there will be some omissions in them.

The half-elf Headwind, who was walking in the procession, was telling his story when suddenly a three-ringed leech landed on his shoulder, and the finger-length worm was so fast that it immediately burrowed into his clothes.

Loki's eyes were quick, and the tactical claw knife in his hand cut through the clothes of the half-elf against the wind, only to see that the three-ring leech was sticking to his back, sucking blood vigorously, and at the same time, the size of the worm was also slightly larger with the naked eye.

The half-elf was unaware of the headwind, and only felt that his clothes were being torn by the people behind him.

He turned his head back in anger, only to see the little finger of his own clan holding a sharp short blade, and he didn't know whether to be angry or afraid.