Chapter 25: The Bamboo Forest

The next morning, when the sun was still not bright and the afterglow of the stars and moon was still in the sky, Yalei said goodbye to Charlene, who was holding a few aether theories, and set out on a journey to find the Dead Fountain alone.

Due to the experience of almost rushing out of the Dryad Forest, he learned to be obedient this time, not only brought the orienteering scroll, but also carried Sebastian who knew the way, because the rabbit was dead, so it was a pity that he couldn't take another one.

"Dear master, the Dead Fountain is just to the far east of Glamorgan, and you can reach it all the way on, there should be no danger on the way, and the will of Goreeves should still be asleep, if you don't go to disturb it. ”

The stone beast's head was wrapped in a net bag and hung from the black-haired knight's waist, recounting his memories with empty eyes, sorting out fragments from time to time, and recounting them intermittently.

The weather seemed to be very bad today, and Yare had been running on the road for more than an hour since he left the Earl's Court, but the sky was still gray, and there was no sunlight in sight.

Unlike the fertile western soil near the Dryad Forest, the eastern land is much more sparsely planted, and the black earth is large and bare on the surface, but the quality of the soil looks good, and it shouldn't be so barren.

He carefully observed the dirt beneath his feet, it was soft, fresh, and smelled of damp decay, and according to common sense, this place was definitely a fertile place.

"Sebastian, the old earl, has anyone ever grown crops in the east?" Areh dried the mud from his hands with fire, and with his palms together, the dry clods of dirt fell to the ground.

"Of course there is. But the land here is not suitable for growing crops. That's what you see. Not even weeds can survive here. The stone beast head replied with a smile.

"There is no problem with the land, the problem should be with the Dead Spring. Yalei looked at the barren and fertile land, and took another step, moving quickly towards the extreme east of the territory.

The more you move towards the east, the greater the undulations of the ground, and the black and oppressive hills are coming, and the road becomes narrower and narrower. The light is getting dimmer.

Eventually, the hills were spaced out more and more densely, and the pitch-black winding flat paths had completely disappeared, and the black-haired knight had to climb over large and small mounds to continue his progress.

Tick...... Tick......

Bundles of icy water drifted from the gloomy mist, gradually wetting his clothes, and the distant terrain was flat again. At the end of the eye is a bamboo forest, which seems to be swaying from side to side in the drizzle, if it were not for the dark sky and the lack of wind around. It's a harmonious beauty.

"Master, I think we're almost there!" Sebastian seemed to sense something. He shouted abruptly

"Yes. ”

Looking at the windless swaying bamboo forest, Yalei narrowed his eyes vigilantly, gradually slowed down, and spread his perception to the limit before striding into the bamboo forest.

The moment he approached the bamboo forest, the whole world suddenly became dark, and the air was filled with the smell of rotten earth, which made him feel as if he was approaching a swamp.

Through the faint light, Yalei squeezed through the dense bamboo forest, walking through the bamboo forest little by little, and he vaguely noticed that there seemed to be an eye peeking at him in the darkness, which was very uncomfortable.

People lose their sense of time in the silence, he doesn't know how long he has been advancing, he only knows that the bamboo forest around him is shaking more and more violently, and the stone beast head in the net bag suddenly whispers:

"Something appeared. ”

"......" Yalei sadly found that his perception range was so weak that it was no better than a stone head.

At Sebastian's prompting, the black-haired knight stopped, waiting for the unknown being to approach him, and before long, he also felt a cold aura approaching.

Through the faint light of the cracks in the bamboo forest, the silhouette of a humanoid figure soon appeared in the depths of the bamboo forest, he walked a little stiffly, as if he didn't know how to avoid, and knocked the bamboo on his side to the ground, and his skin showed a pale green color against the background of the nearby bamboo forest.

"Dear master, that ......" The stone beast head was about to say something, but suddenly closed its mouth in fright.

Originally, they were far away from each other, but the moment Sebastian spoke, time seemed to be cut off by some force, and he walked in front of Yalei in a flash.

The temperature around him dropped by a few degrees in an instant, and in front of him was a lifeless face, with a pale green face that was empty and wooden, no breathing movements on the mouth and nose, and a layer of cocoon-like weaving wrapped in the body, like the mummy of the nobles of Makmuk.

"Who are you?" asked the black-haired knight tentatively.

“......”

The other party didn't answer, and his figure flashed again, and soon appeared behind them, and continued to move forward with the stiff pace before, knocking the bamboo forest to the ground.

Sebastian breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time realized that what it had just behaved was too cowardly, and in order to save his own image in the eyes of his master, he hurriedly shouted:

"Dear master, this guy is so rude to you, please don't hesitate to teach him a fair lesson!"

"Makes sense!" Yalei also wanted to grab the other party and study it, so he immediately pounced.

As soon as he swept behind the man, the bamboo forest suddenly shook, and one after another pale green humanoid figures squeezed through the gaps between the bamboos.

"Master, he's going to call people!" the stone beast head screamed in fright.

"I saw it!"

Yalei looked at them vigilantly, and the hot black flame ignited in his hands, and when this group of strange things got closer, he would be wiped out.

Unexpectedly, this group of strange people passed by them as if they hadn't seen the black-haired knight, and their figures flashed forward, as if something was calling them, knocking the entire bamboo forest into a wave of swaying from side to side.

"What are they?" he said, lifting the mesh pocket around his waist.

"My gut tells me they must have something to do with the Fountain of Death!" replied Sebastian stiffly.

"Nonsense!"

The black-haired knight glared at the other party, put down the net bag, and no longer restrained his breath, and directly broke all the bamboos that were in the way, following the group of green weirdos.

Following behind this group of weirdos, he soon found that every minute there were green weirdos emerging from the bamboo sea, constantly joining the large army, and the more they entered the interior of the bamboo forest, the more these weirdos gathered.

The green monsters around have broken through the triple digits, and at a glance, they are all expressionless people, and even the temperature in the vicinity has dropped below freezing, and the bamboo forests everywhere they pass are stained with a layer of frost. (To be continued......)