Chapter 5: Drotti

Nomu pushed open the door of the hotel and pricked a roasted cricket from a small bucket with a bamboo skewer and put it in his mouth. The contrast between the curious appearance of the cricket and the crispy taste on the outside and tender on the inside made him smile with satisfaction. He walked up the stairs and pushed open the first door on the second floor.

The interior of the house is divided into an inner and outer room, the outer room is a living room with a couch, a coffee table and two small beds. The interior of the house is simple, with light-colored wallpaper lined with several large dark brown imitation wood tiles, small beds placed side by side by the window, and fresh fruit on the shelves next to the coffee table.

Nomu pushed aside the trench coat stacked on the sofa and sat down on the open space he had vacated. He took a bite from a roasted spider from a small bucket and looked at the hideous objects that covered the coffee table.

It was one knife after another of different shapes and shapes. There is a long knife in the left hand, which is particularly conspicuous, the knife is about a meter long, without a blade, it looks like a long steel bar, and it glows with a faint blue light. To the right of the long knife is a square blade, and blood grooves spread all over the blade from the blade, like hideous patterns. Further to the right, the length of the blade decreases again, but some are wide, some are narrow, and a few are even strange and I don't know whether they should be called knives, and on the far right is a set of scalpel-like knives, the end of which is delicately wrapped in cotton cloth and inserted into the matching bracers.

Nomu looked at the half-half whetstone on the ground, stuffed the remaining half of the spider into his mouth, and shook his head slightly.

"Is it necessary to bring such a completeness? You look like you're going to war. ”

He looked up and spoke to the man on the ceiling.

Jue was holding the window frame on the ceiling with one hand in a very strange posture, and his body was still shaking gently, as if he was doing some kind of exercise. After finishing with her left hand, she switched to her right hand and supported it for a while, jumping lightly from above.

"I take these things with me every time I go out, and I put some of them in the tavern that I don't need. Jue said as he put the wristguard full of knives in his hand, and went to take down a knife, "Just now, where did you go?"

"I really didn't touch anything, I bought this food myself, can you two not put on this appearance like a great enemy every time I go out?" Ye Meng took out a roasted centipede smeared with spices from the bucket and handed it to Jue, "Do you want to eat?"

"First, I won't eat this strange thing, thank you;Second, you want Mo Xiao's heavy insect phobia to see that he can eat you;" Jue picked up a scimitar on the table and stuffed it into the hidden button of his waist clothes, and adjusted it a few times, "Third, where did you get the money to buy things?"

"Hmm...... I, I borrowed. Ye Meng ate a bee and waved his hand, "Don't talk about it all the time, you two are workaholics, no one goes out with me, I have to be taught a lesson for a long time when I go out and come back,." ”

"If I think we're in that woods now, not sitting here. We're not here to play this time, you know the urgency of the matter. Jue picked up two more knives and stuffed them into the clip on the inside of his trouser leg, "We've been here for two days, if he doesn't come out again, I'll go by myself." ”

She turned her head to look out the window, it was dusk, and the dense forest was faintly visible in the distance. The dim sunset makes it look like an inky ocean.

This is Denotti, the middle of the country. The word "Denoti" symbolizes leaves in the ancient local language, and the city was founded on the outskirts of the Brown Forest. The Brown Forest is the third largest forest area in the world, and the tall and dense broad-leaved forests that stretch across the surface of the Brown Mountains cover the sky and the sun, making the depths of the jungle a mysterious off-limits area for humans. The Brown Forest is rich in species and minerals, but at the same time the terrain is so complex that the interior of the forest is almost inaccessible. And Mo Xiao's piece of purple jade came from here.

According to the merchant who sold goods in the imperial capital, he bought the purple jade from a madman in Denotti. The madman, who seemed to have been part of a caravan, went into the forest with the caravan, and a few days later fell into madness when he was rescued from a fainting death on the outskirts of the forest. Every day, he said nonsense to the people around him that people couldn't understand, and kept stuffing Ziyu into the hands of others, which annoyed people and finally ended up on the streets. Seeing that the purple jade was of good quality, the footman thought it was a precious ore, so he put it in his bag and left a few silver coins for the madman. But when he packed his bags and prepared to leave the next day, he heard the residents talking about the madman who had disappeared and never been seen again.

After the sweet potato fainted that day, Jue guessed the reason for her coma after seeing Ziyu, and Mo Xiao later discovered several symptoms of their first curse. Jue immediately packed his luggage, took Ye Meng with him, and followed Mo Xiao all the way to Denotti, the place where Ziyu was discovered. The three of them walked through the town to the forest. Looking at the endless forest leaves, I felt a little at a loss for a while. Mo Xiao pulled Jue, who was about to rush into the forest, rented a hotel, locked himself in the house, summarized the information, and made a plan. And once this door is closed, it is two days and one night.

Jue inserted the long knife on the table into the scabbard at his waist and straightened the hilt. At this time, the table was empty, Jue bent down a few times and stood up straight.

"No matter how many times I look at it, I still think it's amazing enough, and I don't know how your small body can fit so many knives. Ye Meng wiped his mouth with a tissue on the side, "You have become a ...... now." It's like this, and those previous techniques are no problem with them?"

"I've been training for a while and it's getting better. Jue took the hairband on the side, combed her long hair back according to the method Moya taught her, and tied it into a ponytail, "I'll go see him." ”

"Don't go, he's in this state now, it's best not to disturb him. ”

"Then I'll go by myself, the sweet potatoes are still waiting for me in the tavern. ”

"What's the use of you going in like this?"

A voice suddenly sounded, and the two of them couldn't help but look at the small door. The door was pushed open, and puffs of smoke rose, and soot rolled out with the door. Mo Xiao closed the notebook in his hand, walked out of the back room, and sat down next to the sofa. His face was a little pale, his eyes were drooping, his eyes were blank, and his brow was slightly furrowed.

"This time there is little information and time is relatively urgent, so I can only prepare so much. When the time comes, there are situations that have to be improvised. As for you-" Mo Xiao raised his head and looked into Jue's eyes, "I know you're worried about sweet potatoes, and we're in the same mood as you." The curse was a while before it began, as evidenced by the two of us, and this time it was more complicated, and I didn't even know what the caravan had been through in the forest. The situation is urgent, but we still have time, and once we go in, we can't just take things personally, we have to think about everything in the long term, understand?"

Jue listened to these words and looked a little impatient. But when she was about to stand up, she was pulled by Mo Xiao. She turned her head and saw that the casual smile on Mo Xiao's face had completely disappeared, staring at her silently. After a few seconds, she glanced away and nodded slightly.

"Alright, let's go. Mo Xiao let go of Jue's hand and showed that smile again. He stood up, picked up the cloth bag on his back, and went to the front desk to exit the room. The three of them walked through the brightly lit streets in the darkness of the night, in the direction of the dense forest.