Chapter 32: The Danger of the Jungle
It was still a sunny day, and the blazing red sun hung in the sky, shedding bursts of warmth and giving the creatures on the earth a barrier against the cold.
No's right hand was raised to cover his forehead, his eyes half-narrowed, and he looked up at the sky.
Ty came out behind him, looking in the direction of No's gaze, and the cloudless sky was only the burning sun.
Nuo didn't stop in place for a long time, and after looking at it for a while, he motioned for Ty behind him to come forward, he didn't know where Captain Anna was in Ty's mouth, and the grass full of small tents was no longer in line with the empty environment in his impression, so he didn't choose to act rashly.
In fact, Nuo woke up when the sun just rose in the morning, and he was a little panicked when he first found himself in an unfamiliar tent, but the next second he saw a familiar figure lying beside him, and after a little observation, he found that Ti was just sleeping normally, not a special situation, and the big stone in his heart also fell to the ground slightly, but the tension still remained.
So Noor crept over to Ti, opened a small gap in the tent opening, looked around, and found nothing but a number of tents that looked the same, so he turned around, lay down again, and waited quietly for Ti to wake up.
When faced with situations that he is not familiar with, Nou will try to act as safely as possible, which can sometimes slow down efficiency, but can ensure that unforeseen accidents occur, a habit that he has slowly adapted to when he was a child, and he needs to think about reducing his damage at all times in the face of moody deans and abusive employees.
Ti also understands No's strangeness, and takes the initiative to take the lead in looking for Anna everywhere.
The tents on the grass were regularly arranged, but there didn't seem to be a single figure, and it looked like the members of the Order had left.
There was a fire in the center, and some ashes were burned, and Nuo stretched out his hand and rubbed a handful of ashes with his fingers, feeling the residual warmth, and knowing it.
Ti looked around and remembered that Anna had told her last night that she had a routine mission to complete in the forest, and she guessed that the team members were going to the depths of the jungle to carry out their mission.
Back in the middle of the flat, Timino was standing near the fire, and told No, "Little No, there is no one in the tent or nearby, the members of the Knights must have gone out, Anna told me yesterday that they came here for a mission." ”
Nuo nodded approvingly, pointing to the fire: "It should be so, I tried the temperature of these ashes just now, it is still warm, the temperature in the forest is not low, they may have just left on their front feet, let's go around the neighborhood first to see if we can find something to eat, and wait for those members of the knights to come back and consider it." ”
Ti "uh-huh" two words of approval, in fact, she was woken up by hunger, what she ate yesterday was just barely paddled her stomach, and she usually exercised in order to be able to better control the next-generation armor, and the amount of food was not small, but she was embarrassed to say it because of her meager face, and now she heard Nuo's proposal, and nodded like a kitten.
The two of them gradually walked deeper into the forest.
The dense forest has a slight taste of primeval forest, because Hesse is the least controlling of all the regions in the Papal States, and the Papal States has very little influence here, and does not even have the power to develop the dense forest.
Hesse became the front line of the rebels, but the rebels did not need to exploit the dense forests, but kept them to the best of their ability.
Hesse is located in the center of the Papal States, located in the southeast of the city of Constantine, the center of armor manufacturing, separated from the capital Konjin by the largest freshwater lake in the West, rich in products, rich in mineral resources, before being "occupied" by armed groups, it is the largest source of steel alloy input in the Constantine armor manufacturing center, and several small towns near it are the grain producing areas of the Papal States. The economy is growing like a rocket; However, after being controlled by armed groups, the field of commercial services is declining day by day, after all, most of the small armed groups are keen to take by force, like bandits in troubled times, and there are naturally fewer businessmen who come here to trade, so it is also affected by the whole body.
Straight to the point.
Noodle walked on the dirt covered with withered foliage, his wooden shoes stepping on them, making a crunching sound, and occasionally "crunching", as if he had stepped on the body of some creature.
The yellow leaves provide a gap for many insects to hide, but at a glance, you can still see that many insects of similar color to the dead leaves are scurrying.
On the winding road, there was the sound of branches and leaves shaking from time to time on the towering trees on both sides and even around it, but no attention was cast, and he only heard the sound and saw nothing, as if the leaves were shaken by the blowing wind.
"Ti, be careful, there should be many dangerous creatures in this dense forest, and they are going around a lot, if you don't find anything to eat, go back quickly, if you get lost, it will be very dangerous."
Noh admonished, and his long-standing perception of danger made him a little uneasy.
Ti nodded, understanding.
Although it was a sunny and sunny day, the leaves of the dense forest blocked too much light, and only the slightest wisp of light could penetrate the layers of barriers, and the whole dense forest was in a low and oppressive atmosphere, and there was always something bad going on.
The two of them were close together, their eyes were around at any time, Nuo also looked back from time to time, and carefully observed a few times, the area available for walking was not small, but the two of them had a feeling of rubbing shoulders.
After walking for a short time, just as the two of them decided to give up looking for food and return the way they came, at a corner intersection, through a sparse bush, you could see that not far away there was a fruit forest that seemed to have been carved out separately, even in the cold winter, but still bearing fruit, but it was relatively small.
Ti took a few steps forward, squinted his eyes slightly, and said to Nuo: "Last night, the members of the knights picked some wild fruits and came back, it should be this kind, I ate a few, although it is not too sweet, it has no taste, and the flesh is less, but there is no problem with the taste, those teammates also have it, and it is still very good to cushion the stomach." ”
The teammates of the Knights had already tried this fruit, and they were relieved, and it was some time since they came out, and they had almost forgotten the way back, and it was not in vain.
Nou kept up with Ti, ready to walk through the tiny bushes in front of him.
The two stepped side by side.
But as soon as he walked over, Ty stepped on a hard object, and the center of gravity of his body was unstable for a while.
At this moment of lightning, a thin green snake with the length of an arm shot out from the shadows hidden behind the leaves like a powerful bow and arrow, and happened to pass by No, who was retreating.
Nuo didn't pay attention for a while, only saw a green shadow in the afterglow quickly passing in front of him, but even if he didn't see it with his own eyes, No's muscles tensed up at that moment, and a sense of crisis came to his heart.
Nou immediately picked up Ti Ban with more strength and jumped in the opposite direction where the shadow flew out.
Before Ti could figure out the situation, he was suddenly hugged by Nuoyi, and was about to turn his head to ask, but inadvertently aimed at the hard object he had just stepped on.
"Ah!!h
Ti subconsciously let out a scream, and a very frightened expression appeared on his face.
That's a man's skull!
The shape of the skull is still very intact, it seems that the owner of the skull has not been dead for a long time, and the winter is cold and dry, and the speed of decomposition is relatively slow, so Peddy recognized it as a human skull at a glance.
Nuo followed Ty's gaze, and was also shocked, if he hadn't retreated, maybe he would have been bitten by some kind of creature that flew in, and Ty's might not be able to live, and the skulls left here might have two more.
No's attention instantly focused, his gaze swept over the area, but he still didn't find anything out of the ordinary.