Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Shadow of the Serpent
Seven days later, Wang Lung finally passed through a forest shrouded in red mist, stood at the edge of the forest, and took another step to the cliff.
After passing through the forest, Wang Lung almost walked towards the cliff before he could breathe a sigh of relief, if he hadn't reacted quickly enough, braked the momentum of his body in time, and pulled the trunk of the red flame tree on the side, it was very likely that he would have fallen.
Looking down at the bottomless cliff under his feet, Wang Lung was frightened into a cold sweat, and then looked back at the forest he had passed through, he felt that he had come to bad luck.
Seven days ago, he decided to continue his search for the serpent, leaving the place where the light curtain had once appeared, this time he did not continue to run after the mountain, but went in the opposite direction, and it didn't take long for him to see the forest behind him.
The size of the forest was far beyond Wang Lung's imagination, and before entering it, he couldn't see where the two sides of the forest extended from a distance of ten miles, and since he didn't know where the strange snake was, Wang Lung plunged into the forest.
In fact, from a distance, it is indeed a forest, but when he got closer, Wang Lung found that all the trees in this forest are one species, that is, the red flame tree, tens of millions of red flame trees are not dense, and the distance between the two is ten zhang, even so, something unexpected happened to Wang Long.
On the second day after Wang Lung entered the forest, a pale red mist suddenly appeared in the forest, at first, the fog was not very thick, with his eyesight, he could see clearly within a hundred zhang, but as time went by, the fog became thicker and thicker, and in the end, he couldn't even see it ten meters away, at most it was just to see an outline, standing next to a red flame tree, he couldn't see other red flame trees, this fog made Wang Lung lose his way.
After entering the forest, Wang Lung completely lost his sense of direction. And in the space he is in, there is no so-called sun and moon, there is no night only day, and the so-called day is still light red, and there is no means to discern the direction, after one or two turns. Where the original direction was, Wang Lung couldn't tell.
After losing his direction, Wang Lung could only wander around like a blind cat, during which he was attacked by a monster lying on a tree and dozing, the reason why it is a monster is that Wang Lung does not know the monster at all, the size is not large, but it has four fleshy wings and six legs. The toad-like head and crocodile-like tail are all fiery red, and if you don't look closely at the red flame tree, you can't tell the difference.
At that time, Wang Lung was standing under the tree to distinguish the direction, and the monster was lying on the red flame tree where he was standing, because the color of the other party's body was similar to the red flame tree, Wang Lung didn't notice anything unusual above his head at all. When he felt as if his neck was wrapped around something, he realized that the monster was not far above his head, and the thing wrapped around his neck was the yellow tongue of the other party that was almost three feet long.
At first, Wang Lung was scared enough. In a fit of anger, I wanted to kill the other party to vent my anger, but I didn't expect that the other party's tongue was very flexible, it shouldn't be described as flexible, the speed could reach teleportation, how the other party swallowed the tongue Wang Long couldn't find it, and the tongue could be stretched more than ten zhang after it was spit out. It is also very sharp, and can easily pierce through the trunk of the Red Flame Tree.
In the process of fighting with Wang Lung, the monster did not walk down the tree at all, and its long tongue was not afraid of Wang Lung's war knife, and it could sneak up on Wang Long from time to time. This made Wang Lung tired of coping, and there was no way to deal with the other party.
In desperation, Wang Lung had no choice but to turn around and leave, it was not that he couldn't beat the other party, but it took too long, an unknown monster was not the target he was looking for, and it was pointless to fight with the other party.
After Wang Lung left, for some reason, the monster did not pursue him, and later Wang Lung realized that he may have invaded the other party's territory, which provoked the other party to attack him.
I thought that I could get rid of a trouble and be relieved, but another trouble came, the trouble just now came from the tree, so that Wang Lung ran away, and the second trouble came from the ground, when he just ran out of the distance of a hundred feet, seeing that the monster behind did not chase him, he stopped to find the direction.
I don't know that Wang Lung stopped and stood in the wrong place, it happened to be a small dirt slope, just half a meter high, at that time Wang Lung didn't care at all, but he didn't expect to step on the mouth of the unknown beetle's old nest with a kick, and when he was to distinguish the direction, he felt something squirming under his feet, and he was slightly surprised at the time, and he raised his leg to see that it was a fist-sized beetle, and it was black.
Since Wang Lung entered this space, everything he saw was two colors, yellow and red, and the black beetle was the first time he saw it, seeing that the other party was only the size of a fist, and it was a new black, Wang Lung couldn't help but look at it twice.
The beetle was black and shiny, with two tentacles on the top of its head, more than twenty pairs of short legs under its body, a hard black shell on its back, thin wings hidden in its back shell, and its head was like a ladybug, and its mouth was open to make a squeaky chirping sound.
Seeing this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Wang Lung's mouth, but as soon as his smile appeared, the beetle attacked him, jumped on his cheek in the blink of an eye, and took a bite unceremoniously.
Seeing that the other party's small body actually attacked him, Wang Lung didn't care at first, but after being bitten by the other party, he was surprised to find that his cheeks hurt, and he reached out and touched his cheeks, and there were blood stains oozing, this discovery surprised Wang Lung, how strong his body was, no one knew better than him, his face could not be said to be as thick as a city wall, even if the knife cut his face, he might not be able to cut it, a beetle just bit and bled out.
After seeing the blood, Wang Lung immediately woke up, although the beetle was small, but it was very terrifying, and the more terrifying thing was still to come, he wanted to grab the beetle in his hand and crush it, but unfortunately he failed to do so, the beetle was caught, but the hand was just strong, and it was not the beetle that was crushed, but poked countless small holes in his palm.
Spread the beetle in the palm of his hand and took a closer look, Wang Lung found that the black and shiny hard shell of the other party had a dense spike at some point, Wang Lung was startled when he saw this, and quickly threw the other party to the ground, wanting to hack him to death with a war knife, but before his knife was raised, there was a buzzing sound in his ears.
Wang Lung looked up, hundreds of beetles appeared in front of him, and there were beetles flying out of the hole he had just stepped on, Wang Lung saw this. Knowing that his trouble is coming, he may not care about one or two beetles, but so many beetles attack together, and they can bite through their own skin, and if they are not careful, they will turn into a pile of dry bones.
In this regard, Wang Lung will not be stupid and fight with a group of bugs. He no longer paid attention to the beetle on the ground, the war knife in his hand changed to a sweep, and after a knife, he turned around and ran, in the process of escaping, Wang Lung turned his direction from time to time, and the beetle behind him seemed to chase after him vigorously.
Fortunately, the beetles were not flying fast, and there was a fog in the forest blocking the view, so Wang Lung ran for a full hour to shake the beetles away, and waited until he was sure that there was no more danger around. But he discovered a very important reality, and he was completely lost.
It turned out that before he met the beetle, he still knew the route and direction he had walked, but during the time he was chased by the beetle for an hour, he didn't know how many times he changed direction, and he didn't remember where he was at that time just to escape for his life.
After getting lost, Wang Lung was very straightforward and no longer knew the direction. Choose a direction and plan to walk straight out of the forest.
Perhaps because Lady Luck went home to sleep, Wang Lung didn't go far. He found himself surrounded, because the fog blocked the view, there were some vague shadows ten meters away, but he couldn't see clearly, and when he saw a few phantoms appear in front of him only about three feet, several pairs of red eyes stared at him.
Before you know who the other person is. Wang Lung was about to turn around and run away, but he didn't expect that there were phantoms all around his body, and he roughly counted them, at least twenty of them, and watched the other party slowly walk towards him. Wang Lung's brows couldn't help frowning, and after seeing the other party's appearance clearly, Wang Lung realized that it was actually several fire wolves.
Although there are a large number of fire wolves, their strength is not very good, in Wang Long's estimation, it is just the strength that has just entered the foundation building period, with his strong body, even if he stands still, the more than twenty fire wolves have nothing to do with him.
Wang Lung did not miscalculate this time, those fire wolves are indeed not strong, through the anger of being inexplicably chased and killed in the first two times, Wang Lung vented all his anger on the fire wolf, it took more than ten minutes, more than 20 fire wolves were not spared, all were slaughtered by Wang Lung, and after Wang Lung put away the war knife, he found more than 20 crystal nuclei from the ground, which were the crystal nuclei left by the fire wolf after his death.
Wang Lung did not rush forward after putting away the crystal nucleus, but stood in place and pondered, in his opinion, the demon beast of the fire wolf should not appear in the forest, to say that the mountains or grasslands are still possible, the forest is not suitable for the fire wolf to live.
But after thinking about it, this space is full of weirdness, all kinds of demon beasts are transformed into crystal nuclei, it doesn't matter where they appear, Wang Lung didn't waste time on this issue.
After three days, Wang Lung couldn't remember how long he had walked, because he was in the forest, his speed was not fast, even so, he could probably guess how many miles he had walked, if he counted according to the earth, at least walk around the equator, such a long distance has not even walked out of this forest, Wang Lung regretted entering it.
Now in the forest, Wang Lung can only walk aimlessly, he doesn't know where the edge of the forest is, let alone how big this forest is, and walked for two days, during which he also encountered monsters similar to mice and vultures, and he had no way to kill the other party, as for those demon beasts that can't catch up with him at speed, unlike the demon beasts besieged by fire wolves, Wang Lung can avoid it, and never entangle with the other party.
The day before he walked to the edge of the forest, Wang Lung was walking in a straight line, in his opinion, no matter which direction he went, this forest had an end, he was walking, five feet in front of him, a vague figure entered his line of sight.
The figure was very large, ten zhang long, as thick as a bucket, and the specific appearance was not clear at all, Wang Lung thought that he had found a strange snake, after all, judging from the figure alone, the other party was very similar to the strange snake.
The distance between five zhang is not far, in order to confirm what he thinks in his heart, Wang Lung slowed down his pace and walked slowly towards the other party, he only needs to walk five or six meters to see the other party's appearance clearly, but what he didn't expect happened, his steps have not taken a meter, the other party seems to have discovered his existence, and he does not look at him at all, and his body is lost in a flash.
Wang Lung was willing to give up when he saw this, and chased after the other party in the direction where he disappeared, at first he was only five zhang away from the other party, but under the chase Wang Lung found that the other party's speed was not worse than his own, and the other party was accelerating at the same time as he accelerated, and the distance was always kept at about five zhang, and he could only see the blurred outline of the other party, but he couldn't see the whole picture.
This chase, a full day passed, Wang Lung recognized that the other party was the strange snake, desperately chased forward, during which he also shouted to the other party to stop, made a lot of promises, but the other party was unmoved, and his long body swayed forward.
Wang Lung saw that the other party didn't pay attention to himself at all, and felt that it was not a way to chase down like this, and it was impossible to catch up with the other party, unless the crystal nucleus energy on the other party's body dissipated, but it was a strange snake composed of tens of thousands of crystal nuclei, and it was estimated that he didn't wait for the other party's energy to run out, and he was tired first, and finally, Wang Lung reluctantly chose a rule that he didn't want to use, that is, time acceleration.
After chasing the other party for more than a day, Wang Lung remembered very well that the other party's escape route had always been a straight line, except for bypassing the red flame tree that was blocking the road, the route had always been straight, in order to stop the other party, he eased his mind and used up the time that had not been used for a long time, temporarily achieving the purpose of teleportation.
Use time acceleration to teleport, the old ghost has seriously warned him, if you can, you don't need it, this is a kind of pseudo-teleportation, with Wang Lung's current strength, if it is used many times, there will be a great trouble, and now Wang Lung has to use it, otherwise if he chases down, it is impossible to catch up with the other party.
I don't know if it's Wang Lung who clicks his back or the snake shadow is cunning, after Wang Lung uses the teleportation formed by time acceleration, within the range of his control, he wanted to jump in front of the other party for a long time or so, and stop the vague snake shadow, but he didn't expect the other party to change direction in an instant and run to the left.
It can't be said that Wang Lung's teleportation didn't have any effect, at the moment when the snake shadow turned, the distance between Wang Lung and the other party was closer, and the other party's body didn't see clearly, but the other party's tail fell into Wang Lung's eyes.
The scales that shone with silver light, some pale yellow, and the end of the snake's tail was about the thickness of the mouth of a bowl, which was all Wang Lung could see, and when he reacted, the other party had disappeared from his sight.
Seeing that the other party ran away again, and then thinking back to everything he had just seen, Wang Lung was ninety percent sure, sure that the other party was the strange snake, although there was no trace of the other party now, but the other party ran and there was a rustling sound in his ears, and along with the sound, Wang Lung chased after him.
This chase lasted for most of the day, and when he stopped, it was the moment when Wang Lung almost fell off the cliff, and at this time he walked out of the forest, but encountered new trouble. (To be continued......)