Chapter 62: Afterimage

After walking to the shore, there was a memorial arch that looked like a mountain gate and a stone pier erected in the middle of the road. Look at this location, in the past, if the stone pier stone statue was still there, if you want to walk through this archway on the forest road, you must bypass both sides of this stone pier, but I don't know what it turned out to be on it.

Shen Shi's gaze swept over the stone pier, and then landed on the forest road in front of him, he didn't know where he was at the moment, and the surrounding were mysterious and strange blood-devouring forests, and this road in front of him seemed to be the only choice.

He was about to walk forward, but he took two steps forward with his body, and when he stepped next to the stone pier, he suddenly saw out of the corner of his eye that on the ground behind the stone pier, a remnant stone was discarded at random, the crack was old, but there were obvious traces of artificial carving, and it looked like a part of a stone carving.

Shen Shi's heart moved, his footsteps immediately stopped, and after a moment of silence, he walked over and picked up the remnant stone. Take a closer look, and find that this remnant stone is about the size of a human head, the stone quality is quite peculiar, the hidden pattern seems to be born, and the stone thorns are abrupt in several broken places, and it seems that there are still vague traces of sudden fragmentation in the past.

Shen Shi looked at it over and over in his hand for a while, gestured, and then his eyes fell on the stone pier beside him, and unsurprisingly, he found that the stone quality of the stone pier seemed to be very similar to this remnant stone.

He thought about it, and simply took a step closer, and fiddled with the remnant stone on the stone pier, put it here, and swing there, and soon felt that the remnant stone in his hand sank, but it was quietly embedded about two feet behind this stone pier, and the gap butt was just right, as if it should have been in this position.

Shen Shi took a step back and glanced at this stone pier, and there was an extra remnant stone placed on it, which did not seem to change the dilapidated appearance of this stone pier, but it still seemed to be much more comfortable than before, but the surroundings were still empty, as if it was a blank left by the years.

Shen Shi subconsciously glanced at the surrounding ground, but except for this remnant stone, there were no similar stones on the ground, perhaps those remnants of the statue were long gone.

Shen Shi shrugged his shoulders and didn't care, anyway, it was just a casual hand, so he was about to continue walking forward, but at this moment, Xiao Hei suddenly snorted twice beside him.

Shen Shi turned his head to look, only to see that Xiao Hei ran to the side of the road at some point, where there was first a bush of wild grass, about a few feet wide, and then the gray trunk of the Blood Devouring Demon Tree. Shen Shi was nervous for a while, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiao Hei, come here, don't get too close to that tree." ”

Xiao Hei didn't mean to come over, but snorted a few times into the weeds, as if he meant something.

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment, then walked over, stood in Xiao Hei's position and looked into the weeds, and was stunned for a moment, only to see that in the green and green grass, there were seven or eight broken stones lying horizontally and vertically, with strange shapes and sizes, but looking at the material, it seemed to be exactly the same as the stone in the stone pier.

Shen Shi glanced at Xiao Hei at his feet, and Xiao Hei also looked up at him.

The man did not speak, and the pig did not bark.

The atmosphere seemed to suddenly freeze for a moment, and it felt a little strange.

After a while, Shen Shi nodded and said, "Try it." ”

Xiao Hei looked a little happy all of a sudden, snorted twice, and wanted to drill into the grass, but as soon as his body moved, he was grabbed by Shen Shi and thrown aside, glared at it, and said, "Stand still." ”

Xiao Hei mumbled twice in his mouth, and seemed to roll his eyes.

Shen Shi raised his head and looked at the Blood Devouring Demon Tree behind the grass, estimated the distance, and then carefully leaned down, while looking at the remnants of the stones in the grass, he stretched out his hand to grab the nearest stone, and kept an eye on the Demon Tree in front of him out of the corner of his eye, his body tensed, and once there was any change in the Demon Tree over there, he was ready to pull his legs and run.

However, there was no movement in the Blood Devouring Demon Tree over there, Shen Shi successfully got the remnant stone in front of him, this time he compared the stone, it seemed to be a little bigger than the remnant stone just now, and walked back to the stone pier and tried to place it again, and after a while, there was exactly a place where the seams happened to be inserted.

Shen Shi's spirit was lifted, he turned around and went back again, using the same method several times, carefully picking up all the remnants of the stones in the weeds one by one, from beginning to end, even if he was only three or four feet away from those blood-devouring demon trees when he was closer, those demon trees still seemed to be completely unusual. This situation was a little different from the records he had seen from those miscellaneous books in the past, because according to the words of those scrolls, it seemed that the Blood Devouring Demon Tree would often take the initiative to attack living creatures that were close to it at a certain distance, of course, there was no clear record in the so-called certain distance books, so Shen Shi thought to himself that maybe the Blood Devouring Demon Tree was only attacking flesh and blood creatures that were very close to them.

After moving all these damaged stones back to the stone pier, Xiao Hei also followed, bumping around these broken stones here and there, smelling there, and occasionally hitting a few times on a certain piece of residual stone with a pig's trotter, as if he was very interested. Shen Shi, on the other hand, looked left and right, comparing those remnants of stones in the gaps on the stone pier one by one, and tried to put them back on the stone pier one by one.

With his movements, the remnants of the stone gradually returned to their positions on the stone pier, the remnants of the stones bit each other, intertwined with each other, and gradually merged together, an old and broken statue, gradually formed little by little, just those cracks and peeling hollows that can be seen everywhere, as if telling how many years this unknown stone statue has gone through, how many vicissitudes of the world, and then I don't know how many years later, under this quiet and gloomy sky, it is quietly and silently reunited.

The forest was still very quiet, there was no sound of any living thing, it was as quiet as death, and the hazy sky above the woods, at some point, the clouds gradually thickened, making the sky more and more gloomy.

The wind and clouds are rolling, silent but there is a sense of slaughter, invisible and colorless, as if from the sky and the earth, in all directions, slowly condensed.

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All the remnants of the stone returned to their places one by one, and finally only the largest one remained, which looked almost the same size as Xiao Hei's, with prominent edges and corners on it, and looked at the stone statue that had been restored for the most part, only the last half of the skull was missing.

I guess that's it.

Shen Shi picked up the last remnant stone, and for some reason he felt a little struggling, it seemed that this stone was a little heavier than the other remnant stones, but after all, he was the Dao of Ning Yuan Realm, and this weight was not difficult for him, but he was still a little strange in his heart for a while, so at this moment, he didn't notice the strange situation of the clouds gradually gathering in the sky around him, including overhead.

When he made a few last attempts on the stone pier, found the right angle, and put it down, only to hear a faint clattering sound between the cracks in the stones, the stone statue in front of him finally completely reassembled.

Although at first glance, the stone statue is still broken, with visible holes and peeling and desolate traces everywhere, but in general, this stone statue is still the same again, showing the shape it once had in front of Shen Shi's eyes.

Riding the clouds and stepping on the fog, the snake body has dragon horns, and the fangs and huge eyes look at the world, like rebelliousness, like indifference, and the meaning is difficult to understand. Shen Shi took two steps back, carefully looked at the stone statue with traces of damage everywhere, and after a moment, he was suddenly stunned, but found that it was somewhat familiar.

Xiao Hei next to him also walked over, looking a little curious, and raised his two front feet on the stone pier, and put the little pig's head close to the rebuilt stone statue to look left and right.

Shen Shi's gaze swept over Xiao Hei's body, and a strange feeling that couldn't be explained passed through his heart, and after a while, he said:

"It turns out that this stone statue is also a yin dragon. ”

Yes, judging from the appearance and shape of this stone statue, although it is damaged in many places, and even the dragon horns of the head of the stone statue are broken and cannot be found, but on the whole, after this stone statue is restored, it is almost exactly the same as the Yin Dragon stone statue they saw in the valley in the Gaoling Mountain before.

Xiao Hei jumped back with a snap, walked to Shen Shi's side, looked back at the Yin Dragon Stone Statue that had been broken and broken and was now barely restored, and was also silent.

Shen Shi silently stared at the Yin Dragon Stone Statue for a moment, shook his head slightly, exhaled lightly, and said in a low voice, "Okay, let's go." ”

With that, he walked forward with his feet raised, bypassing the broken stone statue of the Yin Dragon, and onto the straight but seemingly somewhat gloomy forest road.

Xiao Hei also followed behind him, but when passing by the stone statue, it seemed to can't help but look up again, but maybe it was because of the light, Xiao Hei suddenly found that under the gradually gloomy sky, on the head of this broken Yin Dragon stone statue, in the position of the two strange dragons, suddenly there seemed to be a faint light flickering.

Xiao Hei was suddenly startled, and his steps were subconsciously paused, but when he looked closely, he found that this stone statue still seemed to be the same as just now, still looking broken and cold, and not angry at all.

Ahead, Shen Shi shouted from afar, Xiao Hei was excited, and hurriedly hummed and agreed, and then after thinking about it, he finally didn't continue to pay attention to the stone statue, and trotted all the way to Shen Shi's side.

The sky was overcast, the dark clouds were getting thicker, and at some point, a slight breeze had begun to blow in the strange blood-eating woods. The terrible blood-eating trees all swayed their branches and leaves slightly in the breeze, swaying gently like a silent tremble.

And in that deepest silence, when the figures of Shen Shi and the little black pig were gradually moving away on the forest road, suddenly a thick fog slowly drifted out from the deepest darkness in the blood-devouring forest.

The gray and cold fog quietly spread, gently obscuring the road, and the fog seemed to be unharmed, but except for those blood-devouring trees, some of the once green weeds were silent, quickly withering and decaying, as if all life was being plundered in an instant.

The fog spread, thicker and thicker, farther and farther away, and gradually even the stone statue was a little blurred, and from the depths of the mist, suddenly there was a strange sound, and by the faint light, you could see that there was an amazing change in the stone statue.

The remnants of the stones, as if they were trembling slightly, the cracks of the stones that had been broken, close to each other, made a gurgling sound, and then just like water melting, it was actually re-fused together.

The cracks in the stone disappeared little by little, and the cracks that once spread all over the body of the stone statue seemed to be erased little by little by an invisible but powerful force, and in the mist, a new stone statue seemed to be slowly reborn, and a strange light, at this time, slowly lit up and extinguished from the stone statue, looking at that direction, it was the place where the dragon eyes of the Yin Dragon Stone Statue were.

The wind seems to be getting stronger.

The fog also seems to be getting thicker.

In the endless and silent blood-devouring woods, there was silence, only countless demon trees trembling and trembling slightly in the dark corners, in the wind and mist.