37. Old trees by the stream
Mo Dao looked at Bai Jie's appearance, and couldn't help but smile slightly, after all, in the past few days with Bai Jie, it was the first time he had seen Bai Jie eat like this, and Bai Jie had always given him the feeling that he was very cold, and now when he saw Bai Jie eating like a child, he would naturally feel funny.
Bai Jie ignored the gazes of others, ate the rabbit meat on his hands, and grabbed Mo Dao's hand again, "Senior sister, eat slowly, don't choke." Mo Dao smiled at Bai Jie, and Bai Jie glared at him: "I'm afraid I'll choke, so don't hurry up and find me water." ”
"Senior sister, where am I going to find water for you?" Mo Dao said with a look of embarrassment, "Find a way to go by yourself." Bai Jie snorted coldly at Mo Dao, and began to continue to fight against the rabbit meat in his hand, Mo Dao shook his head helplessly, handed the roast rabbit in his hand to Bai Jie, and then went to find water for Bai Jie.
Mo Dao entered the forest, the surroundings were dark, he sensed the surroundings with his divine sense, and did not find any streams or the like, he could only walk towards the distance again, in order to prevent getting lost, Mo Dao would take a look at the road he came from every time he walked, and at the same time use his divine sense to remember the previous road.
Little by little, gradually walking farther and farther, Mo Dao walked aimlessly in this forest, although he knew that there was a sea nearby, but now let him find the sea, but it was a little difficult, he didn't know how far away he was from the sea, and he could only occasionally hear a few owl calls in this forest.
There are still a few bones on the ground from time to time, and I don't know who left them, the shadows that are erratic during the day seem even more terrible at night, although Mo Dao has a divine sense to sense the surroundings, but he still feels a little hairy in his heart, this is not to blame him for being timid, normal people in this kind of place will also be a little uneasy.
At this time, there are still a few points of starlight in the night sky, and a bright moon falls from the branches of the trees to dappled moonlight, making this forest look extraordinarily quiet, Mo Dao just walked on this quiet road, but his heart was always up and down, quite not quiet, and always felt that something was going to happen.
Just walked for a while, Mo Dao suddenly sensed that there seemed to be a stream in front of him, Mo Dao hurriedly walked towards the stream, the stream seemed particularly quiet in this night, and there was a small wooden bridge on it, Mo Dao didn't expect to see a stream in this forest, and couldn't help but be a little happy.
Mo Dao suddenly thought, even if he found water, there was no way to bring this stream back, he couldn't scoop it with his hands, then it was estimated that after going back, there would not be much water left, thinking of this, Mo Dao began to worry, he began to look for it by the stream, wanting to see if there was anything that could hold water nearby.
In addition to some trees nearby, there was only one bridge left, Mo Dao walked to the bridge, thought about it for a while, and finally gave up the idea of demolishing the bridge, after all, it was a bit too much to destroy a bridge in order to drink a sip of water, but what else could he do?
Mo Dao began to worry again, he sat on the edge of a tree, and began to start worrying, at this time, a palm-sized leaf floated down from the tree and fell on Mo Dao's shoulder, Mo Dao suddenly had an idea, or simply cut down the tree, and then make a wooden cup out.
Thinking of this, Mo Dao said just do it, waved the spirit sword in his hand, and slashed towards the big tree, "Wait a minute!" A hurried shout stopped Mo Dao, and also startled him, what is the situation, obviously with his divine sense, he didn't sense anything around, how could there still be a sound of talking?
"Who is talking?" Mo Dao stopped the sword in his hand, and then listened to the surrounding movements with bated breath, and then the voice came out again: "Young man, don't worry, I am the tree spirit in front of you." "Tree Spirit? Mo Dao feels that this name is so familiar, by the way, the people of the Jade Void Palace call the otter the tree spirit.
"Can you speak?" Mo Dao asked a little incredulously, he really couldn't believe that this tree could actually speak, "Ahem, although I don't have the height that a thousand-year-old tree should have, but I don't know how many thousand years I have been here, and I should be able to say something." The old tree said in an old voice.
Mo Dao was a little speechless, other people's thousand-year-old trees are all honestly used as firewood, how can there be so many words, Mo Dao walked around the old tree, and asked a little puzzled: "Since you can speak, where is your mouth?" ”
The old tree was a little speechless by Mo Dao's question, and it said to Mo Dao: "I can just speak, if I have a long mouth, then it will be the transformation period, and I am not an old monster, just an old tree." Mo Dao thought a little helplessly, can't a talking tree be called a monster?
"Forget it, I won't talk to you so much, it's like it's so hard to find something to hold water?" Mo Dao was about to walk away helplessly, but at this time, Lao Shu suddenly stopped him: "You want to cut me just to make something to drink water?" That's right, why else would I cut you, you have to build a house at night?" Mo Dao said a little speechlessly.
He didn't have that idle time, Mo Dao felt speechless, Lao Shu felt even more aggrieved, he was sleeping quietly here, someone actually wanted to cut it, and it was because of such a boring reason, Lao Shu sighed and said: "If you are just for this, you can't come and cut me, stretch out your hand." ”
Mo Dao listened to the words of the old tree and hurriedly stretched out his hand, at this time the old tree shook the branch, and a cup made of leaves and branches fell from the tree, Mo Dao took the cup made of leaves, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised, "This cup made of leaves can only hold water, you go quickly." ”
Listening to Lao Shu's words, Mo Dao thanked him and was about to leave, but he suddenly thought of something, turned around and walked back, Lao Shu saw Mo Dao going and returning, he couldn't help but wonder a little, and thought that Mo Dao was going to turn around and cut it, so frightened that Lao Shu shrank his neck, and then said to Mo Dao: "Didn't you give you a cup, why did you come back again?"
Mo Dao smiled at the old tree: "Don't be nervous, I'm not here to cut you, I just want to ask you a question by the way." Hearing Mo Dao's words, the old tree hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief, it didn't want to be cut down like this, although he had lived for thousands of years, but he hadn't lived enough.
"I just want to ask you, do you know how to walk in this forest and get out?" Mo Dao thought about it and said to Lao Shu, Lao Shu heard Mo Dao's words, and his heart was suddenly speechless, and he said to Mo Dao: "You ask me a long-legged one who doesn't have long legs, how do you let me answer you?"
Mo Dao felt that what Lao Shu said also made sense, but he blamed the book he usually peeked at, there was this kind of plot of asking Lao Shulu, so he would ask Lao Shulu, now think about the plot of asking Shulu, it is really idiotic to the extreme, thinking of this, Mo Dao is ready to go to the stream to get water.
Just as Mo Dao turned around, Lao Shu stopped him: "Young man, wait a minute." Mo Dao turned his head a little speechlessly, but he heard Lao Shu muttering something, as if the young people nowadays are really anxious, and they will leave if they don't finish listening.
"What's the matter, do you know the way here?" Mo Dao asked with some expectation, who knew that the old tree replied It doesn't know, I don't know why you called me back, Mo Dao cursed the old tree in his heart, but heard the old tree let out a hehehehe.
The laughter from the old tree made Mo Dao furious, he glanced at the old tree, and he didn't know if the old tree could see it, but the old tree smiled at Mo Dao and said, "Young man, get closer, yes, and then stretch out your hand." Mo Dao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the old tree gourd, but he still stretched out his hand as he said.
With a click, a bundle of parchment-like things fell from the tree into Mo Dao's hand, and Mo Dao couldn't help but be a little puzzled: "What is this?" Lao Shu smiled again and said to Mo Dao: "Although I don't know the way out, but I picked up a map before, and it's useless for me to keep it, so I'll just give it to you." ”
This is the map? Mo Dao suddenly felt that the surprise came too suddenly, and hurriedly thanked the old tree, and then walked towards the forest, after all, he must be the first to tell Bai Jie about this kind of good news, but this matter must not be known to Guan Zhuo, otherwise, he will not be able to escape.
Thinking of this, Mo Dao planned to plan carefully, how to use this map to escape, whether to directly write down the map and then wait for the opportunity to escape, or use this map to make some articles and calculate the situation, Mo Dao couldn't help but be a little entangled.
Just when Mo Dao was entangled, Lao Shu's voice sounded behind Mo Dao again, Mo Dao turned back a little impatiently, but before he could speak, Lao Shu spoke: "Young man, why are you so anxious every time, isn't the water beating?"
After listening to the old tree's reminder, Mo Dao found that he was a little carried away, and almost forgot about fetching water for Bai Jie, Mo Dao thanked the old tree, and then went to the creek to scoop up the water, and after scooping up the water, Mo Dao hurriedly walked back.
Along the way, the originally somewhat crazy path, in Mo Dao's opinion, also became happy, he thought about it and decided to burn this map, and then improvise, and then improvise, and don't talk to Bai Jie when he goes back, so as to save the wall and have ears, in case it is heard by Guan Zhi, it will not be good.
Thinking of this, Mo Dao took out the map, and after reading it, he used the flames of the fire attribute aura to burn it to ashes, and after doing all this, he walked back as if nothing had happened, this forest is especially easy to get lost at night, but fortunately, Mo Dao paid special attention to it before, so he didn't get lost now.