The bright white ripples zigzagged all the way to the deeper part of the forest, and the trees around it were almost all over the place, and the sunlight was more and more obscured. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is very restrained in the place where it is easy to be passed by tourists and noticed by others, but once it goes to the depths that no one has stepped on, the methods of the two wood demons can also be seen. Generally speaking, it is often impossible for trees to get too close in order to divide nutrients equally, but the dim scenery around Beidou gives Beidou the feeling of coming to the other party's kingdom, and there are trees "knights" everywhere that are next to each other and almost grow together.

"Found it!"

A small exclamation came from the ripples walking in front, and Beidou, who saw it, soon discovered a "foreign object" lying in the dim distance, which seemed out of place with the surrounding environment.

"Big brother, you get closer, it looks like it's home!"

"Good!"

Even a person like Beidou, who doesn't have any "special functions", can feel the atmosphere around him, or the "environment" around him, starting to become even more tense than just now. is like those scenes that often appear in movies and television, the closer you are to the villain's enemy, the stronger you are often stronger, and this is the case now.

After Beidou walked briskly to his side, Ripple pressed his hand heavily on his shoulder, this time his ripple was different from the bright white ripple he had used to search, it was an orange-yellow ripple that made people feel warm and reassuring when they looked at it.

"Ripple Blessing!"

The orange-yellow ripples dispersed in response, quickly enveloping Beidou and the ripples, and began to bounce on the surface of the body, which seemed to be mostly a defensive ripple, after all, there were trees around that looked a little wrong, and it was better to focus on your own safety from the beginning than to waste your energy in a random fight.

"It's a ripple that raises the temperature, converting the surrounding air into heat and covering the surface of the body. Ripples, whose limbs and body were covered, let go of his hand, "Be careful, it should be fine." ”

"Well, thanks. ”

Beidou looked at his own large palm, and quickly followed the pace of the ripples. The careful Beidou soon found that the ripples on his own body were several more than those on the ripples. If Ripple is a mummy now, then he's Iron Man.

He must be concerned about the safety of his companions, and the strong man Ripple is indeed a friend who can hand over his back.

Touched out the mobile phone, turned on the flashlight to illuminate, Beidou immediately confirmed that most of the "foreign objects" not far away were hidden in the hollows of dead trees, which were human bodies, at this time they seemed to have no reaction, but in order to confirm, Beidou still reminded the ripple route, while following him forward little by little. The surrounding trees made a burst of rubbing sounds between branches and leaves, and if you guessed correctly, these trees might have been able to "move", but because of the ripples on the two of them, they instinctively did not make any attacks.

At the same time, a vague smell also reached Beidou's nose, and the closer he got to the tree hole, the stronger the smell became, which also made Beidou a little disappointed.

"These people are all dead. ”

After coming to the tree hole without danger, Ripple did not take a hasty look at the matter, but squatted down and carefully examined the corpses that were obviously dead, "Although the body is still fine, I think the internal organs have long been taken out as fertilizer for the tree to absorb." ”

"How do you tell?"

Beidou frowned, although the stench became more unbearable after reaching the tree hole, but surprisingly, the bodies of the victims were intact.

"It's better to know a little bit about the mess we do, and the internal organs should be taken out. ”

Ripple crouched down and pressed on the stomach of one of the deceased, "As for the bodies of these people, it is estimated that they will not die well, and they will be used as fertilizer when they rot, grass." ”

A foul word, the mood of the ripple at the moment was exposed, and then he kicked the trunk of the tree beside him fiercely, and after venting his emotions a little, the ripple who still felt unfinished felt that he felt a hidden cigarette and lit it with the ripple on his hand. This is also the first time that Beidou does not plan to remind others of the phrase "you can't smoke in the forest".

After all, this is the hometown of the Ermu Demon, and if you can really burn the forest fire, it will save you a lot of trouble. However, this is also the problem of the enforcers, who need to maintain order, and those who are unable can ignore it. Not to mention that it is impossible for the second wood demon to watch her hometown being burned to ashes, and besides, it is impossible for society to set fire to the forest.

In someone else's territory, the longer it drags on, the worse it will be for you. Just as Beidou was about to find an excuse to let Ripple go back first and then discuss a solution, Ripple, who was sullenly holding a cigarette, suddenly took a puff of cigarette, and his eyes became sharp.

"Big brother, let's go quickly. If only the living, the dead...... We won't take it away. ”

After a pause, Ripple put down his cigarette and sighed, "Big brother, you go out first and wait, I'll come over immediately." ”

"No, I'll take a look too. ”

Although it was only a faint guess, Beidou also roughly knew what Ripple was going to do next. Indeed, it is better to be "cleaned up" early than to have the corpses rotten into a pulp and turn into fertilizer.

"It's fine. ”

Ripple nodded, his body no longer had the simple feeling he had before, and was replaced by a solemn solemnity, after gathering all the corpses together with Beidou, Ripple stared at these corpses that looked "shaped" on the outside, but the "inside" was already empty, all kinds of sighs, and the smoke rings that were spit out floated in front of his eyes for a while, and then melted into the air around him that had decayed.

"Counting today's one, that's a total of twelve victims. Although the vast majority of youkai are able to obey the rules and live in harmony with humans, there are also a few youkai who have no knowledge of this at all, or who have been hostile to humans from the beginning, and humans are just "food" in the eyes of these youkai. The principle of innocence of those who do not know is not applicable to youkai, and if you do something wrong, you will be punished and educated. Big brother, you stand far away. ”

"Hmm. ”

The half-smoked cigarette butt was bounced out by the ripples, and if you look closely, you will see that the cigarette butt is mixed with a little red flash.

[Whew]

The moment the cigarette butt touched the corpse, a flame rose from the clothes of one of the corpses, because there were trees around, and there was more or less resin on these corpses, the flames jumped bigger and bigger, and soon all the corpses were wrapped in it, and the rancid smell mixed with thick smoke suddenly drifted towards Beidou and Ripples.

"It's a bit shabby, but it's a bit of dignity for them. Ripple glanced at the "fireballs" in front of him, coughed twice, and then immediately grabbed Beidou's hand and turned to leave. His calloused hands, palms covered with sweat, could be seen...... Ripple isn't so calm right now.

"What's wrong?"

Beidou looked back at the tree hole that was already billowing with smoke, although it was in the forest, but the hollowed out tree hole just now was too spacious, so even if the corpse was burned, it would not cause any fire. Ripple shouldn't be worried about forest fires, could it be......

"The corrugated defense line I set up when I marked the trees along the way has been destroyed, and the two wood demons may have already come this way!"

Ripple smacked his lips, then his eyes lit up, and he reached out and slashed forward.

【Zilazila】

I don't know if it's right, the branch that has been close to the ripple was cut in half, and it fell to the ground and writhed. But if there is only this one, forget it, up and down, left and right, in this forest wrapped in trees, almost all the trees that Beidou can see have quickly stretched out branches or branches towards him and Beidou, and it can no longer be said to be stopped, it is like trying to strangle the two of them in the deep mountains and old forests.

Ermu Demon, has she been able to control the trees in her lair to such an extent!?

【Whoosh ......】

There was the sound of branches flying everywhere, and even Beidou's ears couldn't hear their position clearly in the darkness, only to feel that suddenly his arm tightened, and then a force so huge that it almost made him fall and kept pulling him somewhere else. Summoning the strength of his whole body, Beidou began to stalemate with the branches, but then there was a feeling of tightness in his ankles, waist and abdomen, needless to say...... It must have been entangled in the branches.

The fate of being dragged over is self-evident, Beidou has to keep tearing off the branches with all his strength, but tearing one off, two will be entangled again, surrounded by trees, such a method is not a cure at all.

"Ripple, do me a favor!"

"It's not easy for me to feel over here!" The ripples beside him were more like they were annoyed because of nervousness than panic, "I would have known that I wouldn't have succeeded this hero, grass, I can only do that...... Big brother, bear with me!"

"What!" As soon as Beidou opened his mouth, a branch stabbed directly into his mouth, and hurriedly bit off the branch, and a bitter and astringent feeling mixed with the branch was swallowed into his stomach by Beidou with difficulty. The ripples protected the whole body of the two, but ...... When they open their mouths, they are defenseless in their mouths, do these trees, which usually don't move, already have this level of wisdom?

Although the branch was wrapped up for a while and then retracted due to the corrugated defense, it ...... In this situation, it is very difficult to take a step. What the hell is that guy going to do!?

"Follow me later!

Ripple didn't make Beidou wait for long, and soon the ripples wrapped around his body became more shiny, as if they were about to burn out, and Ripple easily broke free from the entanglement of the branches, ran to Beidou's side and pressed his shoulders tightly.

"Sorry big brother!