Late at night, ugly.

In Yueyang City, firecrackers are all over the sky, and they continue to sound.

Yueyang Lou, drunk, talking crazy.

Leaning on the railing, two hours ago, Xia Xun and a few people did it. At this time, there were nine people sitting in unison, eight of whom were Confucian. Everyone has a vat of "yellow flower drunk", all smoked wine, red face, looking at the sky.

"He's only known each other for a few days... That's it. Huh... The second child is right, youth is frivolous capital... Today's young people are much more ruthless than our generation. Chen casually looked at the night sky in the distance, the cyan meteor that slowly crossed from east to west, and sighed deeply.

"Yes, at a young age, we dare to fight in the barren forest at night, but we can't compare to this ruthlessness..."Lu Suifeng also looked at the meteor and sighed.

"** On the head, I don't even bring a doll. This is a unconscionable thing, and only these young people dare to do it. Dean Tianshu poured a sip of liquor and continued to say loudly: "I think back then, we were a few years older than them, so we only dared to go to the present day to get drunk and rob the oiran... Hey..."

"As a result, I'm still alone... Haha," Lord Cao laughed.

"Haha..."

"Haha...", the nine people laughed in unison.

The laughter echoed in the corridor for a long time...

Distance

On the back of the cyan meteor, the watermelon was wrapped in two red robes, sleeping soundly. There was a small note between his collar, and the words "take care of it" could be faintly seen...

Farther away,

After the meteor, hundreds of miles away, in a dark and dense thicket of bushes.

There are two figures walking cautiously...

The forests are very humid in early spring. The wet shrub leaves, as long as they are gently flicked, will sprinkle a mist and gradually make a salsa sound. Let the infiltrating darkness be less terrifying.

But, even so, the night road in the forest is not easy to walk.

The rugged path is wide and overgrown with wild grass and shrubs. In some sections, shrub branches have even grown into paths, which are connected to the left and right, and need to be pushed through by hand. The ground is damp and muddy, sticking to the pulp, slippery. The two pairs of cloth shoes in the slow walk have deep feet and shallow feet, and a lot of cement is glued, which is very uncomfortable.

The shade is deep, wet, and the moonlight can't penetrate the trees,

The only firelight flickered, accompanied by a soft chatter...

"When my grandfather took me to the mountains behind the village to hunt wild boars, he said that the reflection of the fire at night is soft mud ......"

"That wild boar is big, as big as the small bamboo house you and Grandpa Zhi's bamboo ......"

"Later, we still went back to the village and called out to the big fat father and a group of people......"

"Again..."

Xia Xun held a rough torch made of a stick in one hand, and beat the grass with a stick in the other, looking for the small footprints that disappeared into the depths of the trail, and opened the way. At the same time, his mouth was chattering, and he whispered interesting things that happened in Xia Village in the past few years.

Peony Yao grabbed a corner of Xia Xun's green shirt, cowered, and followed closely. Xia Xun's nagging is to dispel the loneliness here, and also to help her get rid of some fear. Now, the fear on Peony's face has faded a little more than before, and from time to time she can still echo it and say a few words and chat.

However, how can the girl's fear of the darkness be said to be gone?, inadvertently, some frightened snakes and rats burst out of the darkness, and they can frighten her to the point of discoloration.

This is really difficult for her. In the middle of the night, I still have to hang out in the dense forest where it is difficult to see my fingers. It is estimated that she has never suffered such hardships before.

The night is lonely and cold, and the shadows are bleak.

Nagging gossip, faint fireflies.

Following the footprints left by the thief doll, the two slowly went deeper into the jungle.

The surrounding bushes became denser and thicker, and the wide path gradually shrank into a muddy path, making it more and more difficult to walk. It was dark and dark, and the crickets and insects in the forest were singing in a low voice, as if they were afraid of something...

"Sha~"

Xia Xun, who was moving forward, suddenly felt the little hand behind him tugging at the corner of his clothes. He couldn't help but stop, hesitating to look back.

But see, under the reflection of the firelight, Peony's eyebrows are curved and condensed, and her small nose is slightly upturned, accompanied by a sniff and a retraction of her small mouth.

"What's wrong?" Xia Xun asked.

"The medicine smells a lot stronger, and there seems to be something else. But I can't say what it smells like, it's weird. Peony sniffed and replied uncertainly.

Xia Xun had already understood the smell of peony, so he didn't ask much. He lowered his head to inspect the muddy marks on the ground: "The distance between his steps was a few minutes wider than the previous one, and he was a little deeper, and when he should have walked, he quickened his pace, very quickly. I guess he's almost at his destination..."

Xia Xun raised his head again and looked at Peony guiltily: "Why don't we walk a little longer to see the situation?"

Peony nodded, not showing much emotion, faintly. It seems that the reason why she said it was just to remind, not to hinder Xia Xun's thoughts to go deeper into the forest.

After stopping and communicating for a while, the two raised their steps one after another and continued to move forward...

The lonely two little figures disappeared into the depths of the jungle with the firelight.

The silence grows, and the fear grows.

The next part of the road seems to be caught in the light language of peony.

After more than three miles, the crickets and insects in the forest had disappeared, and there was no movement except for the chirping of the two people's footsteps and the grass. The bushes along the way are gradually sparse, with bare branches and few new leaves. Like countless old people who have died, they grow there one by one. The crisp shrubs don't take much effort from Xia Xun, and they will fall off with a casual flick.

It's dead silence...

A heavy and rich air of dead silence.

At this time, the bright moon in the sky can already shine through the dead branches on the clothes of the two.

The forest turned into a strange atmosphere, and the two of them had already felt it, but they didn't say much. After all, we have come so far, and if we don't continue to go down, it is not a statement.

Peony's body unconsciously moved closer to her. The rapid breathing was mixed with the girl's fragrance, and inadvertently, it was wrapped around the back of Xia Xun's neck. It made his heart jump and his mouth dry...

"The shrubs in this forest have been withering for some time, probably from a great epidemic here. Do you recognize that kind of epidemic?" Since the surrounding environment changed, Xia Xun's eyebrows have been furrowed. It can be seen that the strange atmosphere has made him start to have doubts. He asked, looking straight ahead as he tapped the dead branches on the road.

"Horn~"

The peony breaks a crunchy shrub branch with his hand, easily pinched it in the palm of his hand, and the dead branch instantly turns into powder. She sniffed her nose and scattered the powder away.

"Even Mu Xin has been infected, I'm afraid it must be a natural disaster. If it is only a general animal disease or water epidemic, at most it can only infect some domestic animals, fish and birds. However, there should only be a few rare natural disasters that can infect and decay all the plants and trees..."

Peony pondered heavily for a while, and then continued to be confused: "However, if it is a natural disaster, then there should have been rumors in Yueyang City a long time ago..."

As they spoke, Xia Xun and Peony's faces gradually became solemn. Some unspeakable thoughts came to mind...

"Is there a kind of plague in this world that spreads only in one corner or is so ferocious that as long as it is infected, it will instantly seal the throat?" Xia Xun knew that his knowledge in the apricot forest was not as good as that of peony, so he had to ask more.

“......”

Peony pondered for a moment before shaking her head affirmatively.

"Probably not..."

Dignified, deep.

Weird, obsessed.

Since there is no epidemic in the world that can instantly lock down a corner of the world, the situation in this forest has become confusing. It is not far from Yueyang City, only more than 200 miles away. Before this, there had never been rumors of an epidemic in Yueyang. That only says one thing...

The epidemic is just starting to spread here, and it is extremely violent. So much so that no one will have time to escape from this!

The two of them walked for a long time.

The surrounding shrubs began to become noticeably thinner. The trail became a trail and became wider and wider. Under the moonlight and firelight, the two of them could faintly see the broken and withered branches in the bushes. And the weeds that have been drained of water, laid lifeless on the muddy ground...

suddenly

"Boom~"

Peony, who had been buried all the way, suddenly bumped into Xia Xun in front of him. Because, at this moment, Xia Xun stopped for no reason, moving forward.

looked at Xia Xun's stunned and motionless back. Peony pursed her lips strangely, and asked Youyou, "What's wrong?"

The faint whisper can't pierce the dead silence here.

Xia Xun didn't move, didn't look back. As if under a spell, he stood there stunned, looking ahead...

His green silk was blown by the night wind, playing with the delicate face and sackcloth of the girl behind him. The sound of heavy breathing, with a strange atmosphere, made the girl behind her have a bad premonition.

After a long time,

Xia Xuncai trembled his throat and exhaled a few wisps of cool air: "Is it really a natural disaster?"

“......”

A question with no beginning and no end, I heard that the peony behind Xia Xun was a little inexplicable. She blinked, poked her head out of Xia Xun's shoulder curiously, and looked ahead through Xia Xun's side face...

"Silk..."

A deep gasp of cool air.

The moment Peony poked her head out, her eyes widened instantly, and a miserable white color of fear instantly flooded her face, and her breathing and heartbeat stopped almost simultaneously. The moist little mouth trembled slightly...

"I'm afraid... It's not just a natural disaster..."

“......”

Yes, frightened.

Following the frightened gaze of the two, the road was flat.

A few miles away, there is a small village nestled at the foot of the mountain, with more than 1,000 households. There was no smoke from the lights, no chickens and dogs, just a dull and dead atmosphere.

A mile-long path connects the village from under the feet of the two men. On both sides of the trail, the rice fields that were originally planted in spring have died completely. The carcasses of cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals are scattered between the rice fields and the trails, and can be seen everywhere. Some have begun to decay and grow maggots and flies. The stench in it, even if it is miles apart, can be faintly smelled by both of them...

There are no living creatures...

Dead silence is the real dead silence.