Chapter 25: Dia's Winter (8)

"Look here!" Tanan said, pointing to the marks on the grass, "here are the flowers and berries they gathered!

They were still here, but where had they gone, and was there something so appealing to them that they had discarded the berries they had been picking for a long time?

Abigail and his wife shouted in all directions, their voices full of crying and anxiety.

Tanan straightened up with a solemn face.

Both Gu Shiyu and York have lived in the jungle for a long time, and they have long become excellent jungle hunters. Without Tanan's warning, they had already spotted the dry grass lying on either side, the trail extending into the forest......

It's not like two kids of a few years old!

It was already clear that there must be some mysterious force in the forest that took the two children.

"We have to go into the forest!" Gu Shiyu took a deep breath and said, "No matter what is in the forest, we have to go and take a look!"

Tanan nodded, looking at York.

York sighed, "Don't look at me! I don't want anything to happen to my two lovely children." I'll go in with you to find out, and I'm sure the three of us can handle enough trouble together!"

The crowd followed the trails in the grass to the edge of the forest.

The wind rustled through the leaves.

Tanan stopped abruptly and listened.

"What's wrong?" Gu Shiyu couldn't help but ask.

"They're talking......"

"What are they?" Gu Shiyu was startled: "You mean these trees?"

"Yes, you should know that there are treemen living in this world. Some people call them Treebeard, or Deadwood Warriors!"

Everyone looked at the trees in front of them in horror.

These trees have almost all the waist circumferences and look very old. Some of the trees are still luxuriant, while others are still green. It was patches of moss that crept up the mottled trunk with its slender steps.

Without a moment's hesitation, Abigail and Mrs. took each other's hands and walked into the forest first.

"You have to be careful!" Gu Shiyu whispered to Gabriel and Lucifer who were standing beside him, "This forest looks unusual!"

As soon as they entered the forest, they felt a chill on their bodies, even cold. It is difficult for sunlight to reach the ground through the dense foliage overhead, and there are few shrubs and weeds on the ground, and the traces have disappeared by now.

"Raphael! Elmadi ......"

There was no answer in the forest, and the slight wind was still blowing. Everyone kept walking towards the depths of the dense forest, and I don't know how long they walked, Tanan suddenly stopped, and there was a surprised look on his face!

"What's wrong?"

"Look at that!" Tanan pointed to the side of the forest, his fingertips trembling slightly.

It was one of the edges of the forest, and the sun was shining outside the forest.

Could it be that they have unknowingly walked out of such a large forest?

Gu Shiyu didn't think so at first, but after looking at it a few more times, his face suddenly changed!

Oh my God, isn't that where they just walked in?

Could it be that we have been going around in the forest for so long, and then we have turned back to where we were?

Tanan, Gu Shiyu, and York are all very good jungle hunters, and even Gabriel and Lucifer have learned a lot of knowledge about survival in the wild. It's unbelievable that there is such a low-level mistake that can't find a direction now!

"Walk again! Everywhere we pass, mark the trunks of trees!"

They went straight into the forest again, only to be back where they were......

It's just that...... The mark they had on the trunk was gone!

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other!

Didn't we just mark the trees? Why are they suddenly gone? Are these trees so regenerating?

"The trees in the forest are moving!" Tanan finally found out. He found that although they had returned to their original places, the trees around them had changed!

"Who's playing tricks?" shouted York.

After shouting, it seemed to dispel the cold on the body and the fear in the heart, and everyone felt much better. It's no wonder that when walking in the wilderness or in the dark, many people like to whistle or talk loudly, which is to give themselves courage!

There was still no answer in the forest.

The wind seems to be a little stronger. The leaves hanging from the branches rustled and fluttered, one, two, three, several times...... In the end, there are bursts of pine waves, which are endless......

Are the trees laughing at them?

York shouted, "If anyone continues to play tricks on us, we will cut down every tree that stands in our way, until we destroy the entire forest until we find you!"

The wind spread the sound far away.

After a long time, a terrible and hoarse voice came from the depths of the forest: "Who dares to break into my forest? You are so bold that you want to cut down my tree?!"

I don't see people in the empty mountains, but I hear people's voices. Although several people were standing in different directions, they couldn't tell which direction the sound came from!

"We don't want to trespass on your forest!" Tanan said loudly, clasping his hands to his lips, "We're just passing through here...... Two kids got lost in the forest, we have to find them and go!"

"Huh...... Hey...... Why is your voice so familiar? ...... Aren't you Quinn?"

"My name is Quinn, my name is Tanan!"

"You're Quinn, how can you change your name to Tanan?!" the voice was angry!

"My name is indeed Tanan! If you don't change your name, how can you change someone's name arbitrarily?!"

"I can do whatever I want, no one can care!" The tone of the voice became sharper and sharper: "You must immediately admit that your name is Quinn, or I will kill everyone, including those two children!"

Two children? Could it be that Raphael and Al Maty were in her hands? Everyone was surprised and delighted, but sad and sad!

"Okay, okay, my name is Quinn, please give us back the two children!"

"Your name is really Quinn?" the voice sounded incredulous.

"Didn't you say my name was Quinn, then I had to be, though I wanted to know why!"

"Alas~~~~" There was a long sigh from the forest, which sounded like a thousand-year-old resentful woman, and it made people get goosebumps all over their bodies. The voice drifted away in the wind until it was gone.

After a while, the voice came again: "I'm too old to see clearly......! Come here, let me take a good look......"

Suddenly, a sharp whistle sounded in the forest, making people want to cover their ears when they heard it.

After the whistle, the big trees in the forest slowly receded, and a large avenue flashed in the middle.

Tanan, Gu Shiyu, York and others gestured to each other with their eyes. Everyone's hands quietly rested on the hilt of their swords, and they were on full alert.

At the end of the avenue is a mushroom hut. A white-robed ghost stood by the magic fountain in front of the house, and then floated in the open space in front of the house, muttering to himself, "Is he really ...... What should I do? What should I do?"

She curled up in front of a mushroom patch in the corner of the clearing, her hands on her shoulders, shivering.

"Don't you want to see me?

The crowd stood quietly behind her, and she didn't turn around, only her shoulders were still shaking.

This is a great opportunity! With just one sword, you can cut off her head!

But no one wanted to do anything, and their hands even gradually moved away from the hilt of the sword......

This witch doesn't look as scary as everyone thinks. On the contrary, she even looks pitiful like this!

What was she afraid of?

"Quinn, you...... I...... I'm very old, would you still like to see me?"

Everyone looked at Tanan. Tanan had no choice but to say, "You'd better take a look, but ...... I'm not called Quinn!"

"Liar, don't you want to see me when you see that I'm old?!" the witch cried out, and turned suddenly!

Oh my!

Although everyone knew that she was a witch, everyone was shocked when they saw her like that!

Her hair was silvery-white and almost old enough to fall out. There were no muscles on her face at all, all the wrinkles were piled together, and they were very deep! There were only two front teeth left in her mouth, and it was so shaky that it seemed that the wind could blow it off. On her face, almost all the suffering in the world is inscribed.

It's just a dried walnut! And it's full of cracks, and the slightest collision could crack and scatter all over the place!

As soon as she saw the expressions of the people, the witch immediately turned her back and sobbed, "I knew that you would show such an expression when you saw me......!" I shouldn't have seen you, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

She suddenly hid in the woods, and she couldn't even find a shadow.

Could it be that this witch was waiting for someone named Quinn? and how long had she been waiting? a year, a decade, a hundred years, or ...... Millennium?!

Tanan couldn't bear to say, "I'm really not called Quinn! If I were Quinn, I'd be happy to see you!"

A sharp and rapid voice came from the forest: "Nonsense! You still say you're not Quinn? There's a red birthmark at the base of your thigh, right?! There are nine cuts on your left wrist, right?!"

"How do you know?" Tanan was taken aback!

"How did I not know? Huh...... I'm your wife, how could I not know?"

Ahh

Not only him, but even Gu Shiyu, York, Abigail and others also opened their mouths widely!

"Oh my God, I knew it was like this again! 100 years, another 100 years have passed!!, have you really forgotten everything?!" came a suppressed cry from the woodland.

"To press your ...... With the level of knowledge I know, it seems that I should indeed be Quinn. Tanan scratched his head and said, "But I'm not yet fifty years old, and you should at least have ...... It's huge, isn't it? I really can't figure out how I could have such a ...... from you A wife!"

"Every 100 years, we meet like this!I'm not dead yet, I'm just looking forward to seeing you next!" came a faint sigh from the woodland.

"Can you come out and talk? I think we'll have to talk!"

"You...... You must not look at me like that again!"

"I promise!"

The witch finally floated out, but her head was bowed.

"Can you tell me what the hell is going on?" asked Tanan.

"Alright!" the witch muttered, "It was a thousand years ago, your name was Quinn and I was Helena, and we were the guardians of the Tytalia Marshes......"

Helena: What a beautiful name, is that your name?

Everyone did not make a sound, but listened quietly to the witch's story of the sad past.