Volume 1 In the Human World 011 - Demon Forest
The Demon Forest is located on the border of the Southern Chu Kingdom and the Qingqiu Kingdom, with a radius of thousands of miles full of tall and lush towering ancient trees, where there are the most exotic flowers and plants and rare birds and spirit beasts in the entire Great Wilderness, but it is also the most mysterious and dangerous place in the entire Great Wilderness.
Some people say that the world thinks that Lingqiu Mountain is the most spiritual place in the Great Wilderness, that is because no one has ever been to the center of the Demon Forest, and it is said that there is the place where the spiritual energy of the Great Wilderness gathers the most, but all the heroes and heroes who went to visit have not returned, and it seems to be a forbidden place for thousands of years.
As for the origin of the name "Demon Forest", no one seems to have ever mentioned it.
The only thing that can be called related to it is a strange organization that suddenly appeared on the rivers and lakes thirty years ago.
They call themselves "demon cults", they are selfish, vicious, and believe in extreme desires, and the doctrine is to do anything to satisfy their selfish desires.
Unlike ordinary martial arts sects, this organization only attracts those martial arts masters who practice evil martial arts to join, and promises to give these people considerable benefits.
Although both have the word "demon", the name "Demon Forest" predates the appearance of the Demon Sect by thousands of years, and no one has ever been able to explain where the word "Demon Realm" comes from and what it means.
Some people guess that the Demon Realm refers to the place where the Demon Lord was located during the Great War of the Ancient Gods and Demons. However, no one knows whether the legendary war between gods and demons really took place, let alone verify, and people only regard it as an ethereal myth.
Lin Qianyuan didn't know at first, she didn't even think about the question of "where did the name Demon Forest come from", until one day a year ago, Lin Yuebai was injured when she personally led people to exterminate a branch of the Thousand Bat Cave, she heard that there was a plant called "Wet Grass Flower" in the Demon Forest that was an elixir for external injuries, so she sneaked there to find medicine.
Wet grass flowers have a unique fragrance, and they are a relatively common flower and plant in the depths of the Demon Realm Forest, but it is difficult for ordinary people to walk here.
Lin Qianyuan thinks that she has a father and several masters to teach martial arts since she was a child, and her strength is already the leader of the young generation, coupled with the eagerness to save her father, she is not afraid of tigers, and she broke into this big forest alone that discouraged countless heroes.
It's just that she doesn't know that the most terrifying thing in the Demon Forest is not the fierce and brutal beasts in it, but the poisonous insects and miasma that can't be prevented and can inadvertently kill people.
After entering the forest for only ten miles, Lin Qianyuan suddenly felt a tingling pain in his neck, and then he felt that the world was spinning, his limbs were paralyzed, and he soon collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
I don't know how long it took, Lin Qianyuan, who had been in a coma, gradually regained consciousness, and in a hazy sense, she felt that someone was tearing her clothes, and she opened her eyes in shock, and sure enough, she saw a handsome young man reaching out and tearing open his collar.
The panicked Lin Qianyuan almost subconsciously shook his hand and slapped him, this slap was as fast as the wind, and he was caught off guard, and the young man didn't have time to dodge at all, and he was knocked to the ground in a blink of an eye.
Lin Qianyuan couldn't care about a lot, so he quickly covered his neckline and scolded: "Adulter, you dare to touch me!"
The young man seemed to be stunned, and after a while he turned over, covered half of his face and said, "Auntie, you are also ruthless! Is this how you repay your life-saving benefactor?"
"Help?" Lin Qianyuan recalled that he had just fainted as soon as his neck hurt, and then looked at the young man's eyes staring at him, and there seemed to be a hint of a smile on his face, like the cunning and cunning little white-faced lewd thief in the rumors of the rivers and lakes, so he still said viciously: "How do I know, did you sneak attack me first, and then pretend to be a good person to save me?"
Who knew that the young man stood up suddenly, pointed at her and shouted: "Hey, I am taking care of the face of a girl of yours, I am embarrassed to talk about you, and you don't look in the mirror, you look so safe, and dare to say that others are insulting you!"
"You!" Lin Qianyuan didn't expect the other party to say such insulting words, she was speechless with anger, for a girl, being belittled by others has always been the most intolerable thing, so she subconsciously touched her face with one hand.
As soon as his fingers touched his face, Lin Qianyuan realized that something was wrong, and his originally smooth and tender skin was actually pimples to the touch at this time, and there was even a little awkwardness.
"Oh my God! my face!" Lin Qianyuan stood on the spot for an instant, his mind blank.
A deafening scream erupted in the woods, startling a crowd of colorful birds.
Lin Qian covered his face, turned his back to the young man, and cried in horror. The young man looked at her delicate and trembling back, approached resignedly, and comforted: "Don't cry, you ......"
"You go away!" Lin Qianyuan knew that he had broken his appearance, he was full of grief and anger, and he didn't want to be seen by others, so he covered his face and cried.
The young man didn't seem to see the girl's tears, and wanted to reach out and pat her on the shoulder, but for fear of being scolded and take advantage, he stretched out into the air and retracted, and could only say, "Hey, girl, don't ...... you."
Lin Qianyuan ignored him, squatted down and buried his head in his knees, crying even louder.
"Girl, you have the toxin that has spread to your face and has not subsided, I have already given you medicine, and it will be fine in a while. The young man said again.
These words seemed to be very useful, and the crying stopped suddenly, but Lin Qianyuan was afraid that the other party was the other party who lied to her in order to comfort her, so she turned her face a little, her fingers showed a slit, looked at the expression on the other party's face through the gap, and choked up and asked, "Really?"
The young man nodded quickly with a sincere expression.
At this point, most of the doubts in Lin Qianyuan's heart finally disappeared, but when he thought of this person scolding him for being ugly just now, he felt angry. She turned to her feet and tried to slap the other man again, but her hands were still covering her face, so she raised her leg and kicked him hard.
Unexpectedly, the man screamed and lay on the ground, rolling around with his hands covering the "vital point".
Lin Qianyuan was shocked, his face was slightly hot, the kick just now was not heavy, it was not light, and he didn't pay much attention to where the kick was going to be while covering his face with both hands, thinking that if he kicked the life-saving benefactor badly, he was a little unhappy in his heart.
She approached awkwardly, and stammered apologetically, "You, you, are you okay?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I ......" Lin Qianyuan felt nervous and guilty in her heart, and felt that the hard pimple on her face had really begun to subside, which made her happy, but it also deepened her guilt.
The young man suddenly stopped moaning or rolling, but lay on the ground and grimaced at her.
"You! you lie to me again!" Lin Qianyuan kicked over again in a fit of rage, but this time one of the other party's carps stood up and flexibly dodged her sudden attack.
"Hey, I'm glad I was able to hide quickly this time. The young man pretended to pat his heart, glanced at Lin Qianyuan, and said, "Hey, I'm still holding on, the poison has subsided." ”
"Oh. Lin Qianyuan did feel that all the pimples on her face had subsided, so she let go of her hand. Seeing that the other party was still staring at his face, he couldn't help but reach out and touch it: "Is there anything wrong?"
After touching it carefully, it didn't seem to be anything unusual, and then I heard the man muttering as if to himself: "It's really beautiful." ”
Lin Qianyuan had a kind of little joy that his vanity was satisfied, and said proudly: "I don't know who just opened his eyes and said nonsense, and scolded this girl for being ugly, what kind of person is coming?
The young man smiled awkwardly, "I offended the girl by making insulting remarks just now, and I ask the girl for forgiveness." After a pause, he said: "But the girl's situation is really not safe now, not to mention that the girl is so beautiful, just an ordinary person comes to this kind of place alone, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get out of the whole body." ”
After planting a heel, Lin Qianyuan already understood that this Demon Realm Forest was much more sinister than it seemed, and asked a little embarrassedly, "I just ...... What's wrong?"
The young man said, "It's a poisonous hummingbird, a flying bird the size of a fingertip, flying extremely fast, with a poisonous stinging barb under its beak." ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the side of his neck and said, "Na, this is this place, you touch it yourself, just now I was cleaning your wound and applying medicine, who knew that suddenly a big ear scraper came over." ”
Lin Qianyuan blushed slightly, she touched her neck, and sure enough, there was a small wound, and she was still unconscious, it seems that this poison still has a certain paralyzing effect.
"Then why, my face ......"
"This poison is very smart, it will drill into the human brain by itself, you are bitten in the neck, the toxin spreads in the direction of the brain, it will naturally pass through the face, once it invades the brain, even the gods can't save it." The young man made an exaggerated grimace of death.
"You're lucky, you met me, because you often come to the Demon Forest, I have all kinds of antidotes of strange poisons, and when I see you lying on the ground, your face is full of poisonous spots, you know that you have been stung by a poisonous hummingbird, and this little thief bird likes to bite you the most is your kind of fine skin and tender meat, and the girl who looks white is home. You know, in this kind of place, you can only bite some rough men who are five big and three thick, and the best luck is that there are some little white faces who don't know the height of the sky to send them to death, you are a beautiful girl who came here alone, and they don't rush to find you!"
Hearing this, Lin Qianyuan was frightened for a while, and even his face turned a little pale with fright, and he originally wanted to apologize and thank this life-saving benefactor, but now he was so frightened that he forgot about it.
Fortunately, the other party didn't seem to care about these things, and just asked her: "You are a young girl, what are you doing in such a dangerous place alone?"
Lin Qianyuan was shocked, and then remembered what he was here for, and replied: "My father is Lin Yuebai, the hall master of Mingfeng Hall, he was injured when he exterminated the Demon Sect, I came to pick some wet grass and flowers, and went back to treat his injuries." ”
As soon as he heard this, the expression of this little white face, who had always been a little cynical, suddenly became serious, and he was completely different from the two just now, and he said with a straight face: "Hall Master Lin is injured?"
Lin Qianyuan was a little surprised, "You...... Know my dad?"
Unexpectedly, the other party actually gave a respectful salute like a young man with a righteous path in the rivers and lakes, and apologized: "It turned out to be the daughter of the old man, and where I spoke lightly, I still hope that Miss Lin Haihan." ”
Lin Qianyuan only felt goosebumps all over her body when she heard this: "Why do you seem to have changed into a different person, I'm a little unaccustomed to it." ”
She suddenly thought that her father was very happy to come home a few days ago, saying that she had made friends with a young talent named Ah Fei, and at this time, she looked carefully at his appearance and demeanor similar to what her father described, and said secretly in her heart: "Could the person my father said be him......?"
"You won't be called Ah Fei, will you? Lin Qianyuan asked tentatively.
The other party nodded: "It seems that Miss should have heard the name of Zai Xia from Ling Zun." Seeing that Lin Qianyuan's expression was still a little unnatural, his attitude was a little less respectful, and he said more casually: "Hall Master Lin, the injury is okay." ”
Lin Qianyuan shook his head: "There is no danger of life for the time being, but it is still very seriously injured." ”
Ah Fei nodded solemnly: "When I first came over there, I had already picked a lot of wet grass flowers, since the Lin Hall Master was seriously injured, let's not delay, let's go back quickly." ”
In the middle of the moon, Lin Yuebai had already returned to the meeting hall, leaving Lin Qianyuan still looking at the moon alone, recalling scenes of the past.
The young man who called himself Ah Fei at the beginning was naturally Gao Fei. Recalling the scene of their first encounter, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Lin Qian's lips.
The first time they met, she slapped him and kicked him, and he teased her like a playful little scoundrel...... That was the first and only time, and since then, Goofy hasn't spoken to her in that way.
Sometimes she thinks that such a childish Goofy is the real Goofy, the so-called "Wangcheng genius boy" is just a mask, and the complex and cruel reality of the royal family forces him to never have the opportunity to face the world with such a real face.
That night, Lin Yuebai, who had used wet grass flowers, recovered quickly, and took advantage of the excitement to drink a few glasses with Gao Fei, and the slightly drunk Gao Fei seemed to inadvertently tell her a secret.
"Do you know, the Demon Forest, why is it called the Demon Forest?" That night, it was also such a clear night sky, Gao Fei and her sat side by side in the moonlight, they looked at the bamboo forest in the mountains, and listened to the whistling mountain wind.
"Why?"
"Originally, there were only a few bad old men who knew the secret, but they were all locked up in a small room, and they could never leave that room, so no one in the world knew the truth. Later, my brother-in-law and I went to the room and learned the secret, but we could leave the room...... My brother-in-law and I are very conscious of keeping secrets, and we haven't told anyone else so far...... But I'm going to tell you now. Goofy's eyes were a little misty, he was drunk.
"Why did you tell me?" she asked.
"Because I hope that from now on you will not go there again. I don't want anything to happen to you. ”
She heard a throbbing voice in her heart, "Are you worried about me?"
Goofy stared into her eyes for a long, long time, she couldn't tell whether it was an affectionate gaze or a drunken dull look, he put his hands around her shoulders and said, "I'm worried to death." ”
Lin Qianyuan looked at his drunken appearance and couldn't laugh a little: "Then you can say it." ”
Gao Fei took a deep breath, exhaled a long breath, seemed to drive away a trace of drunkenness, and said seriously: "The Demon Realm, that is the world where the people of the Ancient Demon Lord live, after the Great War of Gods and Demons, they were imprisoned there by the Emperor of Heaven, there is an eternal long night, even the moon in the sky is different from ours, the moon in the Demon Realm is so big that it almost obscures the sky, and it is blue, a cold and desperate blue ......"
"For 10,000 years, they have been trying to break through the seal, and the entrance to the Demon Realm to the human world is in the center of the Demon Realm Forest. ”