When the sun came to the west, the surrounding scenery finally changed from the barrenness and barrenness. Slowly, green grass and shrubs began to appear, and the sound of gurgling water could still be faintly heard in my ears.
They were so exhausted after walking all day in the sun. Yan Dan insisted on supporting herself without complaining a word. After all, she was the least capable of the four. She pursed her lips, and after hearing the faint sound of water, her mouth became even more dry. She carefully discerned all the subtle sounds in her ears, but the faint murmuring of water became clearer and clearer.
Yan Dan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: Fortunately, she wasn't so thirsty that she hallucinated...
But when she ran to the water with joy, she was dumbfounded. Although this creek is living water, it is just that there are some sticky, miserable green lumps floating down along the terrain. Before she lowered her body, a strong stench hit her face.
Yu Mo looked into the water and said in a flat tone, "I don't know what's floating in this water?"
Yan Dan wanted to cry but had no tears. She didn't care what disgusting things were in the water. An ancient echo resounded in her heart: There is no water, no water... If there is no water to drink, she will die of thirst...
Tang Zhou lowered his body and looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head: "I can't see what it is, but it's a bit like—" Yan Danzheng felt his heart slump, reached into the stream with trembling hands, and immediately said, "Don't say it!" But it was too late, Tang Zhou put down two words loudly: "... worm eggs."
Yan Dan collapsed and pulled Tang Zhou's shirt: "Dare you not thirsty or tired? I told you not to say it, you still said..."
I saw Liu Weiyang walking forward, kneeling on one knee by the stream, slowly reaching out to pick up a sip of water, pouring it on his face silently, then scooping up some more and taking a sip with a blank face.
Yan Dan was stunned, only one sentence reverberated in his heart: he drank, he drank, he really drank... Before she could reply from the shock, Yu Mo also lowered her body and slowly picked it up A stream of water came. She naturally knew that, based on their current situation, if they didn't drink water, I'm afraid they won't be able to find the next source of water, and they just let her drink such dirty water, whether it's her heart or the past few years. The body can't stand it.
She grabbed Tang Zhou's sleeve and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you going to drink this kind of stream water?"
Tang Zhou looked at her and said in a statement tone, "You dare not drink."
"Of course I don't dare to drink it, this is not something to be ashamed of! You smell the stench and look at these green insect eggs. If you squeeze it with your hands, a pool of green dirty water will burst out..."
Yu Mo turned his head to look at her with a very bad tone: "Yan Dan!" He took out a piece of silk handkerchief, soaked it in the water without wringing it dry, and handed it to her.
Yan Dan silently took the thing in his hand, wiped his face reluctantly, and moistened his dry white lips, then took a look at the silk handkerchief with two fingers, and said oddly, "Yu Mo, Why do you still carry a silk handkerchief with you?" She unfolded the silk handkerchief, and looked carefully at the picture of a hundred birds competing for spring from top to bottom: "Looking at this needlework method is still handmade by Bailing Embroidery, it is unexpectedly You've been spoiled for so long."
Seeing that they had all drank water, Liu Weiyang said unhurriedly: "This is not an ordinary insect egg, it is a corpse."
Yan Dan covered her lips with her hands, and said in a lost voice, "Corpse..." She knew that corpses were bugs that only eat corpses. She remembered that she had teased a local in that small restaurant in Qingshi Town. After all, it's one thing to talk about it, and it's another to actually swallow it.
"Look at these worm eggs, I don't know how many corpses are around here. The road ahead should not be easy, and you need to be careful."
Yan Dan was terribly disgusted, only to feel that her face was itchy, and hurriedly threw the silk handkerchief she was holding aside. Although Bailing's embroidery is exquisite, it is better to throw it away if it has been stained with that kind of thing.
Wherever the group passed by, the grass and trees were raised, and forests began to appear. Against the faint setting sun on the horizon, a group of wild wolf-sized beasts were lying on the ground, stretching their claws and combing their fur, looking very docile and harmless.
When Yan Dan walked over, they didn't move either. She couldn't help but glance at it, only to see one of them suddenly stood up and shook her body. With a thud in her heart, she saw that on the body of the beast there was a face that was a few points longer than ordinary people. His eyes were sluggish, but a few red bloodshots burst out in an instant.
A full six human-faced badgers, even before she could blink, rushed up with a roar. There was only one that made her in a hurry before, but now there are six, and she can't think of any other way but to escape. I saw Liu Weiyang pulled out the short sword in the jade flute to fend off a human-faced badger, and said in a serious tone: "Go along the winding path!"
The human-faced badgers attack very fast, and if they go straight, they can easily catch them straight.
Yan Dan just ran away a few steps, only to hear the cold wind blowing behind him, and hurriedly lowered his body and rolled forward, avoiding a human-faced badger that was flying at him. She didn't even have time to stand up, and the second paw rushed over from the oblique direction. Yan Dan had no choice but to crawl away two steps in embarrassment, dodging away, just in time to meet another human-faced badger. I saw that the weird face was already close at hand, almost sticking the tip of her nose to her face.
Yan Dan's face was pale and his whole body was stiff.
I saw Aomori's cold light flashed, and a string of blood beads splashed out. The human-faced badger raised his head angrily and roared, rushing towards the Sensen Sword Qi. Yan Dan immediately stepped aside when he saw the machine, and out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of Yu Mo who drew the sword. The moment he slashed the sword, a blue light and shadow rippled across the spine of the sword, like a dragon but not a dragon, like a fish but not a fish, piercing straight out from the belly of the human-faced badger.
For a while, Yan Dan only saw blood dripping, and something wet and white fell to the ground. The remaining few human-faced badgers were shocked by such a scene, and snarled in their throats, but did not dare to go forward.
Yu Mo stretched out his hand to grab her wrist and strode forward. Being held by him, Yan Dan couldn't help thinking, couldn't Yu Mo practice more beautiful and less lethal sorcery? Every time this is not a violent storm, or it is cut open, it is too bloody...
She was thinking like this when she suddenly felt the strength of her wrist tighten, and Yu Mo's steady footsteps suddenly staggered. Yan Dan suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly approached to see, only to see the other half of his face, the corners of his eyes were still swollen with blood. His eyes were so hurt that he struggled even to open them, let alone to see the road. No wonder he was unsteady just now.
Yu Mo turned his face away and smiled indifferently: "It's okay, just look at the road."
Yan Dan replied obediently, holding his arm and trying to walk on a flatter road: "Your eyes..."
"A little skin injury, it's fine."
"Really, you were seriously injured last time and you said it was fine."
"...Don't look at me, look at the road."
Yan Dan had no choice but to look straight ahead, not knowing if it was an illusion. He was clearly walking on the flat ground, but he felt that the ground seemed to tremble slightly. She could only think to herself, this should be her illusion, it's good, how can the flat ground vibrate? This is not the mortal world, how can there be such a thing as an earthquake
Only Liu Weiyang's calm voice as always came from behind: "Go west!"
Yan Dan did what he said subconsciously. After all, he has been the most reliable companion since he entered the demon phase. She climbed all the way up the mountain road in the west, and when she looked up, her heart was half cold: there was no way to go, only an empty cliff.
For a moment before she could fully react, she felt someone push her hard from behind. Yan Dan stood unsteady and fell straight down the cliff. With quick eyes and quick hands, she immediately released Yu Mo's arm and reached out to grab the vines growing on the sloping wall. It doesn't matter if she falls by herself, can't she still drag Yu Mo down with her? His eyes were also hurt...
Fortunately, Yan Dan's luck was not bad, and he even managed to find those vines by scratching like this. She turned her head laboriously, only glimpsed Sen Leng's sword energy from the corner of her eyes, and the life-saving vines she held tightly were immediately broken into several pieces.
After the sword qi, there were pale white sleeves blowing in the wind, and that person's indifferent, unwavering eyes.
Yan Dan didn't know if it was because he had a great life. If he fell from such a high place, he would lose half of his life even if he had demonic energy to protect him. But now, she is lying safely in a soft swamp, with her hands and feet in good condition.
When she first fell into the swamp, she struggled a few times in shock, but soon found that the harder she struggled, the faster her body sank, so she lay there honestly and didn't move. After a while, she found that the swamp was still flowing slowly, pushing her slowly towards the shore.
Yan Dan looked at the sky above his head and thought a little annoyed that Liu Weiyang had always been opposed to them, because they entered the demon phase together and became their companions. And she was so stupid that she was no longer wary of him. She was pushed off the cliff this time, and she asked for it completely.
After only about half a cup of tea, she felt her back hit the ground, and she tried her best to climb up. The feet had just landed on the ground, only to hear a loud rumbling from a distance, like thunder, echoing continuously in the valley. Yan Dan calmed down to identify the direction of the voice, which seemed to come from the cliff she fell off from, so what happened after she fell
She didn't care that her clothes were soiled by the swamp, and hurried to follow the sound.
She clearly remembered that she fell off the cliff and fell into the swamp. The stone wall under the cliff was slightly inclined, the tentacles were smooth, and there was absolutely no place to climb. But in front of him, there are no cliffs and cliffs, only large tracts of small hills, and even mortals who are completely incompetent in martial arts can climb up depending on the terrain.
Yan Dan was shocked, what went wrong? Could it be because she fell off a cliff and went to another completely unfamiliar place in the magical image of the divine weapon Chumo? Right now, she is the only one left.
Yan Dan stood there in a trance for a moment, but finally discerned the direction and walked forward alone.
If the demon is really as Liu Weiyang said, at least half of them have seen the things that appear in it. Then Yu Mo and Tang Zhou should be able to deal with the danger ahead, but she and Liu Weiyang are really worrying. Liu Weiyang is dead or alive, she doesn't care. Most importantly, she must save her life.
Yan Dan walked a long road in the forest, and the road under his feet gradually opened up. In the distance, he could see the blue smoke rising in the air. She couldn't help but startled for a moment. The smoke that curled up in the distance was probably the smoke from ordinary people's cooking and boiling water. Do people still live here
She took a few steps closer, and the village wooden house in the distance gradually became clear in her eyes. The smoke, the sunset, and the noise always give people a sense of stability when they are not stable.
Yan Dan couldn't help speeding up her steps, and when she was walking under the leafy old tree, there was a sudden clatter on the top of her head, the branches and leaves swayed, and the broken leaves fell one after another, but a face suddenly appeared in front of her.
The muscles on the man's face were twitching and stiff, his complexion was pale, and his eyes were wide open, staring at her.
This was too sudden, Yan Dan hurriedly took three steps back and took a closer look. He took a long breath and murmured: "It turned out to be a dead person, I thought it was something strange again..."
Yan Dan raised his head and looked carefully at the corpse that was hanging upside down on the tree. The corpse was wearing a plain white shirt with no hair tied up casually with a white rope.
In this situation, no matter how you look at it, this person is a human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice is the offering of a living person as a sacrifice to a god. This is a common sacrificial method in ancient times, and the more remote the wilderness is, the more common it is. Most of the human sacrifices are chosen when the person is still a minor, or even just born, and when he becomes an adult, he puts on white clothes and presents it to the gods to be sacrificed. Sometimes, in the event of flooding, there are places where people who are selected and sacrifices are placed on the raft together by drawing lots to offer sacrifices to the river god.
Yan Dan suddenly recalled that Liu Weiyang was wearing a pale white robe. He said that he was being approached by Tao Ziqi, but she didn't believe it much. Thinking of this, he should have wanted to treat himself as a human being. Are you going to send it in? She looked around carefully, there was a forest, and there seemed to be no ferocious beasts around, so who was this human sacrifice to be sacrificed to, why did she have such a painful and stiff expression on her face
Yan Dan became curious for a while, reached out and pulled out the hairpin, turning it into a long jade sword, and gently swiping the collar of the sacrifice. I saw that the skin under the neckline was all blue-black dots, big and small, the small one was slightly smaller than a copper coin, and the big one was as big as the palm of a hand.
She was uneasy, looking at the village in front of her from a distance, and there was still the peaceful scene of the smoke curling up in front of her. Yan Dan stood there, thinking about whether to take the road to the village, or whether he would rather walk around the village.
Often times, the unknowable is far more frightening than the known danger. You don't know what's going to happen ahead, and you don't know what it will bring you.
Yan Dan pondered for a moment, but decided to borrow directly from the village. If he was lucky, he might be able to spend the night there.
She was about to lift her foot to walk forward, only to hear a click, a branch above her head broke, and the corpse suddenly sank two feet. Yan Dan looked straight ahead, just facing the belly of the corpse. The top and bottom of the corpse had been completely broken, revealing the tattered belly. I saw that the lower abdomen of the corpse was full of black corpses, as if the corpse was regarded as a nest, with layers of green worm eggs stuck to it. These worm eggs were exactly the same as the ones she saw by the stream before. .
Yan Dan only felt a nauseating feeling rushed down his throat, his feet were soft, and he almost fell to the ground. A cold hand suddenly reached out from behind and gently covered her mouth. Yan Dan immediately smelled a faint, faint scent of sandalwood, but this sandalwood scent was also a little bloody.
She only heard Liu Weiyang's voice whispering in her ear: "Silence."