Volume 2: The Storm Falls 21 Swamp of Sorrows

The feeling of tightness in their chests was getting heavier and heavier, and several of them simply lay down, but after lying down for a while, they couldn't lie down, and it seemed that they had to sit up to catch their breath.

It's a problem, I didn't find the news, and I got a few of us in......

I glanced at the horses, which were wandering near the water's edge. It is said that the old horse knows the way, and it is too late to go back and report the news.

Horses gnawing on plants near the water. The other horses were also looking around for food. How are these horses all right?

"Easton, what are you going to see what the horses are eating?" I patted him, and I don't want to move at all now.

He snatched some grass from the horse's mouth and brought it back to me. "I've never seen anything like it." He said. "The horses in the south eat differently than we eat in the north."

The small leaves are connected in a bunch, and the pale yellow leaves have some white spots on them. I put my nose up and sniffed it, and there was a strong fishy smell.

"It's called living roots." I say. "Eating it can replenish your strength, and there is no harm."

"I didn't feel tired, I just was a little panicked." He sat down next to me.

By night, seven or eight people had already begun to have a fever. That's a problem......

My head started to hurt too, and every pain hit me like a drill in my head was doing a renovation in it.

Uncomfortable, I leaned against the tree and opened one eye to look at the darkness. I didn't let them make a fire, I couldn't make it, and I didn't have the strength to make it.

Some of them were breathing rapidly, and I raised my eyelids to look around, and I saw that our horses were still wandering around...... Still eating......

An idea came to my head, and I got up from the ground and walked over to the horse. The horses were still gnawing on the plants near the water, and I squatted down to take a closer look, isn't this just a living root grass? The horses here live on live roots? Still is...... These horses ate this thing so they didn't get poisoned by the miasma?

I snatched a little of the leaf from the horse's mouth and stuffed it into my mouth. As soon as my tongue, which had no taste, met the fishy juice, I instantly turned into a nausea, and I knelt on the ground and vomited.

I scraped my tongue with my teeth, but the fishy smell didn't seem to get rid of it. Every time I breathe in that fishy smell and into my trachea and nasal passages, I want to vomit! As a result, I kept throwing up. That heart-wrenching vomiting feeling of wanting to vomit all the organs in my stomach!

After throwing up for a while, I sat on the floor, but my head felt much more comfortable.

Is this a blessing in disguise? Maybe it works?

At least my head doesn't hurt that much!

I stuffed a handful of live roots into my mouth again, and the amazing thing was that it didn't taste so bad when chewing, and the fishy smell reached the nasopharynx, and the feeling of coming out of the nose was a little ...... Good!

Keep chewing, and your mouth feels a little sticky and a little sweet.

I've never eaten fresh live roots, I've only seen dried samples in Ravenhead, and I've seen them in Lordaeron. It's just a matter of using it with some vitality potions.

I can't care so much now......

After chewing for a while, the more you chew, the sweeter it becomes. After eating some, I feel less uncomfortable in my stomach and less painful in my head. Is it psychological......

Gather some live roots at the water's edge and hand them to Easton. He lifted his eyelids and looked at me.

"Eat." I say.

He took a bite and threw up. "What a smell!"

"Keep eating, just finish eating." I say.

I continued to eat, but as soon as he finished eating, he vomited all over the ground, and he looked at me pitifully.

"Eat again, when you chew and feel sweet, you'll be fine." I said, I'm not sure if it's the effect of this thing.

He chose to believe me.

In the middle of the night, everyone vomited a few times and then all eased and the fever subsided. Slept until dawn and everyone was much better! After a hurried meal, I asked each of them to fill their pockets with live roots.

Largely healed by the living roots, we continued to explore deep into the forest. Is this knowledge changing fate or is it luck at all?

After two days of searching, we finally found a branch that had broken off in an unnatural condition. And found some footprints near the branches.

Judging by the footprints, there must have been only four or five orcs, without mounts, and they had been walking here for some time.

The news made us nervous, and there were orcs nearby, which meant that we shouldn't be far from their camp.

What was originally a flat forest swamp has been transformed into rolling hills and hills. While searching here, I also found traces of the path formed by the orcs after trampling it.

The dense woods and the plants under the trees made me feel extremely depressed, especially the occasional spider webs and colorful spiders.

Suddenly, Easton pulled me.

As I pushed through the grass, the hairs on my back stood on end.

Gage flicked the rotting corpse with his sword. But the appearance of this corpse is very strange, it is not large, and it is probably judged to be humanoid. The already blackened skin was crawling with maggots.

Its head...... Seem...... Is this a sheep's head?

This is...... Horns? I covered my nose and took a closer look. It's not like it...... The sheep's head, although rotten, can also be seen to be a humanoid skull.

"It's ...... Orc ...... Female? Gage asked.

It looks like a woman in dress...... It had a large, open wound on its stomach. Its legs caught my attention! The thighs are fine, but below the knees are simply ...... Hoof!

My mind was stunned, and I didn't know what it was.

"Demons?" I whispered.

"What?" Carlson leaned in again.

"I'm not sure, but it's certainly not this world's thing!" I say. "We'd better be careful." I said, looking up, looking around.

"Which direction are we heading now?" I asked Gage.

"East, it should be East." He said.

"Now let's head south and see what we find." I pointed to the corpse on the ground. The head of the corpse is facing north.

After adjusting the direction, I did make a lot of discoveries, but the further south I went, the more scared I became, because what I found along the way were not the footprints left by the orcs!

What kind of forest is this!

I was thinking about the possible name of this forest, and I remember a place that posterity called the Swamp of Sorrow, was this it? Swamp of Sorrow...... Why is it called the Swamp of Sorrow?

The horses are getting in the way now. It was still muddy underfoot, and the vegetation in this forest was so lush that I wanted to cut it all down.

I finally got out of the woods, and finally I had a wide view in front of me, but a piece of water in front of me told me to retreat.

It doesn't seem deep, but who can guarantee that if you step into it...... So I led them along the edge of the swamp. This kind of groping, which is almost like opening my eyes and blind, makes me very impatient, and the feeling of not being able to get rid of it is very annoying.

Sometimes the more afraid you are, the more you will come, I don't know who said this, but it's accurate. Two minutes ago I wondered if there would be crocodiles or anything like that in this swamp, but a few minutes later a big creature suddenly emerged from the water!

Thankfully, my men reacted quickly and no one was injured except for a poor horse that was dragged into the water. The thing that jumped out of the water...... That's not a savage! Not orcs! No...... I can't figure out what it is!

It was a huge human creature covered in green hairs and even some plants! I couldn't see where its face was, where its neck was, it was just a big clump of aquatic grass with hands and feet.

My men exclaimed, "Water Ghost! Then it quickly dodged to the side, and after the thing dragged the horse into the water, several similar monsters appeared from the side. They pushed the struggling horses into the water.

None of us dared to move...... After all, no one fell into it. We didn't dare to provoke this group of monsters that we had never seen before.

The surface of the water fell silent after a while, and four or five vegetative monsters lay on top of the horse and tore it apart. That's a lot of power!

We watched quietly as the water in front of us was stained red with the blood of the horses, and then we quietly left.

Everyone was silent along the way, and I didn't know how to comfort them.

What a strange forest!

While chewing live roots, carefully walk through the trees. The scene just now really opened our eyes.

Maybe wait for us...... There will be a lot of talk and stories when I get back alive, but for now, at least me, I don't have any more mind to tell others about what happened here.

After all...... Whether he will be able to return alive is still unknown.

When the ground under my feet slowly hardened, I finally felt more steady, and the gradually widening vision made me feel no more worried.

The swamp not far away turned into an endless surface of water, and as you walked on the shore, the waves gently caressed the aquatic plants on the shore. It's not a swamp anymore, it looks like it's a lake!

I took out my binoculars and looked around, and in the middle of the lake, there seemed to be an island in the distance, so I marked it on the map. After walking along the lake for so long without seeing any signs of orcs, it seems that we have walked through.

And when I looked around after looking at the lake, a strange figure appeared in the camera. I thought I was reading it wrong! But it wasn't an orc.

Put down the binoculars and try to adjust your eyes to look in that direction, you can't see clearly! When I looked through the binoculars again, I saw that small-headed, green-skinned thing was staring at me. It sees me!

That's not an orc! Orcs have small heads, but they have fangs. Aside from the fact that the thing didn't have fangs, its face was ...... Like a lizard! But it's wearing armor!

"Prepare for battle!" I shouted.

The thing in the telescope didn't move, just stared at us motionless. I don't like to be stared at like that! When I looked over to it and turned back, it was gone!

I was stunned for a moment, and Easton asked, "What's wrong, Bill?" What did you find? ”

"Maybe it's a mistake!" I say. I don't want to say I'm seeing monsters again!

Do you want to keep going? We came to find the orcs, and now it looks like we're on an expedition. But go back...... It's not a little far!

"Watch out for brothers!" I say. "This forest is much more interesting than any forest in Alterac."

"I'd like to take a shower when I get back." Carlson said.

Walking to the spot I had just observed, I raised my hand to slow them down, then pointed to the footprints on the ground.

Instantly, they tensed.

I clutched my bow and arrows in my hand and looked at the trees around me, the footprints on the ground would not deceive us. There must be something strange here, but I don't have the heart to find out what it is.

We could only follow the footprints left by that thing, but as we walked, we were surprised to find that this place ...... There is a way!

This discovery made my head blow up. Where there is a road, there are people! Or...... Orcs.

The setting sun was staining the lake red, and we were indeed heading south now, and I had a feeling that something was going to happen next.

Before it was dark, we hurried to eat something. When night fell, I took them away from the shore, as far away as I could. Everyone sat quietly under the tree, listening to the frogs and insects around them.

The moon is still good tonight, the half moon hangs in the sky, and the surrounding environment can barely be seen clearly.

I thought that danger would only appear in the second half of the night, but this time it was not......

When a brother shouted nervously, a pair of pale green eyes appeared in the darkness not far away. That thing is much bigger than a horse! It's so dark that you can't see clearly, only one pair of eyes glowing green, it's very scary!

And I'm more worried about it!