I picked out an elixir with my dagger and turned around: "Who comes here to try it?"
At this moment, everyone lowered their heads, and someone even whispered: "Didn't you promise to protect us?"
I said solemnly: "I am just protecting you. The only edible thing on this island now is pills. You have only two choices, one is to test the pills, and the other is to starve to death on the island. Of course, You can choose the latter."
Someone pointed at the big tree and said, "There are leaves on that tree. They should be edible, right?"
I pointed to the water: "Trees grow in water. If the water cannot be drunk, the leaves on the trees cannot be eaten either. If you insist on trying the leaves, I won't stop you. However, I have to remind you that eating leaves is actually It’s no different than a test drug.”
I've explained the truth, and it's not like no one understands it, but no one is willing to talk to me.
I raised my hand and pointed at the student who pushed the person into the water: "Catch him and test the medicine."
"Why me?" The other party's expression suddenly changed.
I said coldly: "You owe someone else your life, so it's up to you to test the medicine."
"No, no, no... I won't go..." The man pulled Ruan Dalong desperately and said, "Brother Ruan, please save me, save me!"
Ruan Dalong was about to speak, but Tao Xiaoyao said first: "Let him go! This kind of thing may not happen many times in the future. Someone has to go. Next time we will draw lots."
"Yes, yes..." Several people agreed with Tao Xiaoyao's statement at the same time and pushed the man out.
Two Tang army soldiers put him on the stage and pried open his mouth. I picked up the pill with the tip of the knife and put it into his mouth: "You'd better not struggle, otherwise you will die faster."
After the man's tongue was suppressed by the blade, he immediately did not dare to move and allowed me to send the elixir into his throat. Just a moment later, the man shuddered and fell to the ground with his hands covering his stomach: "My stomach hurts... I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."
"Hold him down!" As I waved my hand, two Tang soldiers immediately held down each other's limbs. The man screamed and writhed on the ground like a bug for a while before he calmed down. His face, which was as pale as paper a moment ago, gradually regained its color.
I stared into that person's eyes and said, "How do you feel now?"
The man trembled: "Okay... much better... I'm not thirsty or hungry anymore... I'm just a little cold."
I squatted next to that person and looked at him for nearly half an hour before saying, "The pill is fine, it's just a little cold, which will cause discomfort. Take it!"
I first picked up an elixir and ate it. The elixir was like eating a hockey puck. The chill that penetrated my body was enough to make my stomach cramp. I couldn't help but hold my stomach and bend over. Go to the waist. However, I recovered quickly, and the burning thirst I had felt was gone.
Seeing that I was fine, the others took the elixir one after another, but Taoist Li couldn't help but sigh: "If only we had discovered this elixir earlier, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today. Rest, It’s getting late and we can’t go any further.”
I looked up at the darkening sky and said, "Let's all rest in the trees and we'll leave again tomorrow."
Sleeping in a tree is fine for us martial arts practitioners, but it is very difficult for ordinary people. Some people tried several times before they managed to lie down. Soon after, snoring gradually began to sound in the woods.
I had just closed my eyes for a while when I heard a "rustling" sound coming from beside me. When I opened my eyes to look, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
A girl not far from me, I don’t know when she was as weak and boneless as a snake, tightly wrapped around the branch. Her body was wrapped around the tree four times. Unless all the bones in her body had been broken, it would never be like this.
As soon as I leaned up, there was a sound like leather tearing from the top of the girl's head. I watched as a bloody gash opened on the back of her head, and then the wound extended along her neck to her back.
After a while, a head covered in black scales like a snake's head emerged from her human skin. The clothes she was originally wearing also broke apart and fell from the tree under the other party's struggle. The girl was like a python that shed its skin, slowly emerging from its human skin, and lying on the tree holding its bloody human skin.
When I subconsciously looked at her legs, I found that her legs had turned into snake tails, and the tip of the tail wrapped around the tree was still trembling in the air. What's even more terrifying is that only one of her legs has turned into a snake's tail, while the other leg is hanging on the treetop and swaying in the wind, pulled by human skin.
The scene in front of me was indescribably weird, but no one near me noticed anything unusual. Even the Tang soldiers standing guard under the tree seemed motionless as if they were all asleep.
The girl who turned into a snake man only lay on the tree for a while, then jumped into the water, leaving only an empty human skin on the tree.
The place where the snake man fell into the water happened to be between the two Tang soldiers, but neither of them had any reaction until the water splashed by the snake man hit their faces. My eyes followed him as he fell into the water, and then a herringbone ripple appeared on the water.
Are all the snakes who ambushed us during the day
I couldn't help but feel something in my heart. I quickly stood up, grabbed a rattan and swung it in the direction of the water waves. When I jumped back and forth between several trees to catch up with the water waves, the water waves began to move away faster and faster. I almost couldn't catch up several times. Fortunately, the trees in the water grew densely, and the opponent had to go around when encountering trees. I just barely kept up with the opponent's speed.
After I chased for a certain distance, the water wave stopped in front of a tree big enough for several people to hug. After the opponent circled the trunk a few times, he tentatively stretched out his hands from the water to grab the bare tree. The tree trunk climbed up.
I saw that the other party suddenly disappeared when he climbed to a height of about two or three meters away from the tree.
Where are people
I was suddenly startled, and suddenly I felt a cold feeling on my back. The horizontal scales on the python's abdomen were close to my back, and it crawled towards my shoulders from bottom to top.
The moment I quickly grasped the handle of the knife, I suddenly felt a sharp pain on my shoulder, as if the flesh had been ripped apart by sharp claws. My whole arm went numb, and I couldn't lift the arm holding the knife even if I wanted to.
When I turned my head slightly in fear, a face covered with snake scales suddenly turned in front of me. As the forked snake letter in the other person's mouth swept past the tip of my nose, the snake man also opened his mouth and moved towards my mouth.
I suddenly opened my eyes in shock and sat up from the tree trunk - it turned out that everything just happened was just a nightmare.
I wiped the cold sweat from my head and took two deep breaths to calm down. Everything that happened just now was very similar to what I experienced in Fuxian Lake. It was probably because the experience in Fuxian Lake left such a deep impression on me that I would think of the scene at that time and do what I did after I encountered the water. A nightmare.
I turned to look at Si Ruo on the branch next to me, and was relieved when I saw that she was still sleeping. When I turned my head to look at the tree branch in my dream, I saw the girl in my dream standing lightly on the tree branch, trembling up and down in the air with the undulating branches.
what happened
When I looked up, I saw a tree vine wrapped around the girl's neck - she was hung in the air by the tree vine, and her feet were not resting on the treetops at all.
Before I had time to see whether the other person was alive or dead, the girl's closed eyes popped open and she looked at me with bloodshot eyes. A sneer burst out from his mouth.
Her laughter was like a thunder in the night sky, waking everyone up. Suddenly there was a scream around me. Someone couldn't hold on to the tree trunk and fell directly into the water.
I didn't bother to see what that person was like, so I simply raised my head and looked at the girl's face. When the other party opened his mouth, a line of blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth before he could say anything: "Li Qingyang, don't you remember what I told you? The fairy island is unattainable and immortality is elusive. Do you want life to be worse than death? ?”
Daochang Li said calmly: "I am already worse than dead, do you still care about getting worse? You deliberately stopped me just to tell me this?"
The other party said: "I am here to take people away. Since you have sent me blood food, how can I be embarrassed not to refuse it?"
As soon as the other party finished speaking, the rattan wrapped around her neck suddenly broke into two pieces, and the girl's body fell straight into the water between the two Tang soldiers. The two Tang army soldiers were in the same situation as what I saw in my dream. They were completely unaware of the people falling into the water around them. The only difference is that after falling into the water, the girl waded into the waist-deep sewage and walked away. She didn't turn around until she walked a certain distance and said: "Li Qingyang, you'd better sit on the tree all the time. When you get into the water, just follow me." They can't move anymore."
After the girl's cold eyes swept down the faces of us one by one, she spoke again: "Do you know what the pills you are taking are? Its only function is to ensure that you don't die. I don't like eating dead ones. Things are only fresh if they are alive. You can't die, but you can't leave either. When I finish eating this person, I will come back to you."
After the girl finished speaking, she slapped a few palms on the nearby tree: "These blood foods are all mine. If you dare to steal my things next time, be careful I will break your foundation."
The tree she photographed actually trembled as if in fear, and the green leaves on the tree fell one by one. The girl then smiled and said: "That's right. The one that fell is for you. I don’t like eating things that have been soaked in water.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a scream came from the water. The person who fell into the water just now was grabbed by his feet and dragged into the water by something unknown. Then, the sewage under several nearby trees seemed to be boiling. Blisters appeared, and it looked like something was about to burst out of the water.