Chapter 7: Don't Leave Me Alone
Looking at the back of the manager and Fu Yi walking in front, Zheng Qingsong was thoughtful, and then said, "Let's go too." ”
"Your manager is a reliable man," the old man said quietly.
Zheng Qingsong glanced back at him, didn't say anything, and supported a young man's leg in the back, which could save Wang Peng some strength.
The old man was about to hold his other leg, but the flight attendant named Li Xiaoman ran over, held it up, and said, "I'll help you." ”
The old man spread his hands and said with a cheap smile: "Boy, your Taohua has arrived." ”
Zheng Qingsong glanced at Li Xiaoman and asked, "Why are you here?"
At this time, Li Xiaoman's face was a little red, which should be the reason for hearing the old man's ridicule.
I heard her whisper back: "I just want to be in danger again, you don't leave me." ”
Zheng Qingsong didn't reply, and just followed the team in front of him.
At the front were the manager and Fu Yi, followed by Shirley, and then the middle-aged man and the injured man on his back, but at this time, the injured man could already walk on his own, but he still needed someone to support him.
The middle-aged man walked with another person, holding his arm, and then behind was the middle-aged woman, next to him was a somewhat bald man, and a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, and at the back were the five of us.
Along the way, everyone stopped talking, they all walked silently, and they walked for about another hour or so, and there were fewer and fewer big trees around them, and there were some trees that were not very tall, and this kind of tree was even more strange, saying that it was a tree, but there were no leaves on the tree, and the crown of the tree was all dense, some dense branches like vines.
The branches have reddish barbs on them, and they look more like vines and other plants, which have grown for hundreds or thousands of years.
In front of these vine-like trees, there is a sea of flowers, which are very colorful and beautiful, and further on, there is a palace-like building, standing at the end of the sea of flowers.
"Do you see? The palace is just ahead, let's go faster, we'll be there soon." Fu Yi said happily.
After Fu Yi finished speaking, he didn't walk forward, but took a few steps back, and the people behind quickly caught up and walked in front, and when Zheng Qingsong and them arrived, the middle-aged woman had already walked into this vine forest for dozens of meters.
"Why don't you leave?" the old man asked, looking at Fu Yi and the bald manager.
"I'm a little tired, take a break and then go. Fu Yi looked at the person in front of him and said.
After speaking, he glanced at the bald manager and said, "Let's go quickly." ”
The old man turned back to Zheng Qingsong and whispered, "You, the manager, and Fu Yi are letting them explore the way." ”
Zheng Qingsong didn't speak, and continued to walk forward, at this time, the three of them were middle-aged women, followed by Fu Yi and the bald manager, in the time of this meeting, the two of them had already surpassed the middle-aged man, and they were close behind the middle-aged woman, a few steps away, and they were about to overtake.
The middle-aged man and the two of them supported the injured man, and they didn't walk fast, and as they walked slowly, a drop of blood dripped from the wounded man's trouser leg, and this drop of blood happened to drop onto a branch that fell to the ground.
The weird thing is that the blood disappeared in an instant, as if it had been absorbed, Zheng Qingsong rubbed his eyes, and thought in his heart, could it be his own delusion?
"What's wrong, are you tired?" asked Li Xiaoman.
"It's fine. ”
As soon as Zheng Qingsong finished saying the word okay, an exclamation and a cry for help rang out.
Everyone followed the sound and saw that the injured man, one foot was entangled in a vine-like branch, and the branch was quickly pulling the man towards the tree, and his two arms were being dragged by the middle-aged man and another person to prevent him from being pulled away.
But the strength of the two people is obviously not as great as the strength of the branch, at this time the branch is dragging the three of them, sliding in the direction of the tree body together, when sliding, the arm of the other person is also cut by the barb on the branch, only to see that the blood was instantly absorbed by the branch, and then the branch quickly wrapped around the man's arm.
"Let go! Don't let the blood drip onto the branches. Zheng Qingsong shouted loudly.
When the middle-aged man heard this, he hurriedly let go of his arm and watched as the two people were swept away by the branches.
After the two people were taken away, they were dragged to the canopy of the tree, and the dense branches wrapped the two of them, and at first, the screams and cries for help could be heard, and after a while, there was no more sound.
It didn't take long for the two shriveled corpses to be revealed, the blood had already been sucked dry by the branches, and the branches shook for a while, and everyone saw that a long crack had opened in the middle of the trunk, and the branches sent the two shriveled corpses into the crack, and then there was a sound of human eating chewing from the crack.
After a while, the tree regained its calm and stopped moving.
A scream woke everyone up, and the middle-aged woman ran forward frantically, shouting as she ran: "Youkai, youkai!"
Seeing her running desperately, the people behind her also quickly followed, Fu Yi's speed was undoubtedly the fastest, and her long legs of more than one meter and two surpassed the middle-aged woman in a few steps.
Seeing that Wang Peng and the old man were about to flee for their lives, Zheng Qingsong shouted: "Don't move! Walk slowly! Do you see a lot of falling branches on the ground? You must not be cut by the barbs on the branches, let alone let your blood drip onto the branches." ”
Hearing Zheng Qingsong's words, several people paused, and the old man asked, "What's going on, stinky boy? Do you know what they are?"
"I don't know, I just saw that the two people had their own blood, and they were swept away by the branches after being absorbed by the branches, and the middle-aged man didn't let the blood get on these branches, and those branches didn't entangle him," Zheng Qingsong said quickly.
When several people heard Zheng Qingsong say this, they all slowed down their movements, looked carefully at the branches under their feet, carefully dodged, and walked forward slowly.
The middle-aged man also heard Zheng Qingsong's words, stood still and didn't move, and waited for a while, Zheng Qingsong and the others.
When a few people arrived at the side, they said, "Thank you for reminding me, my name is Lei Mingshan." ”
"It's okay," Zheng Qingsong replied, paying attention to the branches under his feet.
A few people walked cautiously forward.
Two more screams came, Zheng Qingsong looked up, and the two people next to the middle-aged woman were also entangled in the branches at this time, and they were getting closer to the tree little by little.
They struggled desperately, screaming and calling for help, but it was obviously useless, and at this time the middle-aged woman, whose face was already bloodless with fright, ran forward screaming.
When Zheng Qingsong was looking into the distance, there was an exclamation from beside him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Li Xiaoman, whose left foot was entwined by a branch.
Just now, when Li Xiaoman heard the screams of the two people in front of her, she was nervous, and accidentally cut her ankle by a branch on the ground.
At this moment, he was desperately pulling towards the tree: "Save me, don't leave me alone." ”
Zheng Qingsong saw a branch wrapped around Li Xiaoman, didn't think much about it, grabbed the branch wrapped around Li Xiaoman's ankle, and suddenly, Zheng Qingsong's hand was punctured by the barb on the branch, and before Zheng Qingsong could react, the branch quickly stretched out, and also wrapped Zheng Qingsong's wrist and pulled it in the direction of the tree together.
"Ahh
"Damn!" Zheng Qingsong burst into a foul mouth.
Just as the branches of the tree were pulling the two of them to slide, a lot of the blood on Zheng Qingsong's hands also dripped onto the bracelet on his left hand, and the blood dripped down the bracelet and reached the bottom bead.
Just when the blood dripped to the earthy yellow rosary, a slight green glow flashed from the bead, and no one noticed! But when the branch touched the blue light, it was like a man who had drunk too much and spit something out, and there was a convulsion, a few shakings, and with a whoosh, the branch let go of the two and withdrew to the canopy.
The sudden release of the branch caused the two of them to fall to the ground with a thud, and only then did everyone react.
The old man shouted loudly: "Stinky boy, everyone is a hero to save the beauty, you are sacrificing your life to save the beauty!"
"Get out, come and help me quickly!" Zheng Qingsong said angrily.
The old man hurriedly came over to support Zheng Qingsong: "Why did the branch withdraw just now?"
"I don't know, I guess I'm full!"
Listening to Zheng Qingsong's answer, the old man rolled his eyes.
"Thank you, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have died just now. Li Xiaoman said gratefully.
"It's okay. ”
At this time, Wang Peng and Lei Mingshan also came over and asked with concern: "Are you okay, can you still go?"
"Yes. ”
At this time, the middle-aged woman, the manager, Shirley, Fu Yi, and others had already arrived at the place of the sea of flowers, and several people were tired and lying on the ground gasping for breath, Fu Yi saw that Zheng Qingsong and Li Xiaoman were entangled in the branches and were saved.
After a while, Zheng Qingsong and the others also came over, and several people fell to the ground and rested.
"It's a big fate to not die like this. Fu Yi said angrily.
"You're dead, we can't die, I see that your Yin Tang is black, there should be a bloody disaster soon, you have to be careful, boy!" the old man glared at Fu Yi and said.
"Hmph!" Fu Yi snorted coldly.
"Don't make any noise, we're going to the palace soon, let's go quickly."
"Go, you know, go, go, walk fart, is it safe to walk to the palace? Don't you see that trees can eat people? If you look at these flowers, you know that they can't eat people?"
Before the manager could finish speaking, the middle-aged woman yelled loudly.
"Do you want people to live? This place is a place where anything can kill people!"
Everyone saw that the middle-aged woman's emotions were a little out of control, and everyone fell silent.
After roaring for a while, maybe she was tired of roaring, the middle-aged woman stopped talking, and there was silence around her, and only the gasps of people could be heard.
"Old Zheng, are you hungry?" A voice sounded, Zheng Qingsong turned his head tiredly, and looked at the place where the voice came from.
It turned out to be Wang Peng, Wang Peng didn't say anything along the way, he was always expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking, if he hadn't known Wang Peng before, Zheng Qingsong thought that this guy was facial paralysis.
"I'm hungry! I've been hungry for a long time, but what are you eating? There's nothing around, do you eat the roots? I think if we go and dig up the roots, we don't eat it, it will eat us first. Zheng Qingsong teased.
"Why don't we go around the neighborhood and see if we can find anything to eat, even if we get to the palace in front, if we don't have anything to eat, we still have to come out to find something to eat, so it's better to walk around the neighborhood now." After speaking, Zheng Qingsong struggled to get up from the ground.
"Big brother...."The young man, seeing that Wang Peng was leaving, shouted a word of big brother, but did not say anything down, but the fear in his eyes was revealed, and anyone could see it.
Wang Peng didn't look back, and he didn't reply to the young man's words.
"Don't worry, we won't go far, just walk around the neighborhood. Zheng Qingsong said with a sigh.
"I'll go with you, I'm hungry too. Li Xiaoman stood up and looked at Zheng Qingsong and said.
"If you can still walk, just follow!" Zheng Qingsong finished speaking, and followed in the direction of Wang Peng.
Li Xiaoman saw that Zheng Qingsong agreed, and hurriedly chased after him.
"Stinky boy, if you find something to eat, you must bring some back to my old man, otherwise, before I get to the palace, the old man will die in a foreign country."
The old man's voice could be heard in the distance.
After walking for a while, until he couldn't see the people behind him, Wang Peng didn't leave, stopped in place, waited for Zheng Qingsong to catch up, and then said, "Old Zheng, do you feel that this is the earth?"
Zheng Qingsong was stunned.
Wang Peng continued: "Along the way, have you noticed that the grass on the ground, the trees around you, and the butterflies, the trees that can eat people, do you know anyone?"
Wang Peng didn't continue, just stared at Zheng Qingsong, as if waiting for his answer.
There was silence for a while.
"It's like this isn't really the Earth. Zheng Qingsong said hesitantly.
"If I get to the palace and still can't find a way out, I want to go alone! I don't want to go with everyone!" Wang Peng said with no expression.
"Are you crazy? There are dangers everywhere here, maybe a little grass can kill you, and if you encounter any danger alone, you don't even have a personal help. ”
"What can we do together? Look at the things we see along the way, is there one thing we can deal with? When we encounter danger, many people just die a few more. ”
There was another silence.
After listening to Wang Peng's words, Zheng Qingsong didn't know what to say.
What if there are too many people? It's just a few more deaths.
"Let's wait until we get to the palace, maybe there are people there, as long as there are people, we can know what this place is, as long as we know what kind of place this is, we can hope to get out." When he said this, Zheng Qingsong himself was a little unconfident.
In his heart, he also felt that this was no longer the earth, they seemed to be taken to another world by a door, a butterfly in this world, a tree, could kill them, could these people really walk this forest?