Just a moment later, corpses emerged from the water clinging to tree trunks. The corpses seemed to be tied to the tree trunks, standing upright with their backs against the trees. It can still be seen from their tattered clothes that they were tourists who were dragged into the water during the day, but their appearance has been completely changed, especially their faces, as if they had been eaten by wolves, leaving only White bones covered with tooth marks.
But what frightened me was not the bodies emerging from the water, but the silence of the woods. Those people were still screaming in fear just now, but now the scene in front of them was ten times more terrifying than before. Why didn't anyone say anything? Could it be that they were all too frightened to speak
I slowly turned my head and looked at the crowd, and my heart suddenly sank - everyone, including Ruan Dalong and Tao Xiaoyao, remained in the same position as when they just stood up like puppets, stopping motionless on the tree trunk.
"Si Ruo... Ruan Dalong..." I shouted twice, but the other person couldn't even speak except that he could move his eyes.
Taoist priest Li Qingyang said at this moment: "No need to shout. Didn't that woman say that? She only eats fresh food. These people are the food she hoarded. She won't let people die, but she won't let them run away, etc. When she’s hungry, she looks for something to eat.”
Li Qingyang raised his head and said, "Have you ever seen a weasel hoarding food? Isn't that what that woman did?"
I've heard people say before that weasels will get into rat nests and bite off the limbs of mountain rats, then keep them near the grain pile in the rat's nest, and then come back and drag away the live rats when they're hungry. What's the difference between those people now and the rats raised by weasels
I suddenly thought: "Why am I okay?"
Li Qingyang shook his head and said: "I'm also wondering why you're okay. You must have taken pills before, or in other words, your body is not afraid of poisonous substances."
I don't believe that I am invulnerable to all poisons, otherwise, I would not be controlled by the Heart Corrosion Powder. If I had taken pills before, there was still a slight possibility. I've taken a lot of water god's blood, witch's medicine, bear's blood, and other random things. God knows which of them has the effect of restraining elixirs.
I lowered my head in thought and looked at Li Qingyang again: "Why are you okay?"
Li Qingyang sneered and said: "I think I still have some abilities, but that woman doesn't dare to touch me easily."
I stared at Li Qingyang and asked word by word: "Who is she?"
"I don't know." Li Qingyang shook his head and said, "Except for warning me once, she has never appeared again. I only know that she is the overlord of the second floor of Immortal Island, and I know nothing about the rest."
I was silent for a moment and then said: "You watch them here, I'll come as soon as I can."
I didn't wait for Li Qingyang to answer, and immediately jumped up, grabbed the vine hanging from the tree branch, and swung towards the direction where the woman disappeared. It was only after I chased for a certain distance that I realized something was wrong - why were the scenery along the way so similar to everything in my dream? This was obviously the route I took to chase the snake man in my dream.
I subconsciously looked up at the vine closest to me. I remember seeing two vines side by side in my dream. When I grabbed one of them, I almost broke the vine and fell into the water...
When my eyes fell on the vine, I couldn't help but feel a little shocked - half of the vine had been pulled off. Isn't that what I saw when I turned around after jumping to the treetops in the distance
Could it be that the dream just now was true
Although I felt chills in my heart, I couldn't stand still. After a while, I gritted my teeth and jumped up, grabbed the tree vine and jumped far away. When the towering tree that once appeared in my dream gradually appeared in front of my eyes, I also landed on a branch.
I had just squatted on the tree when a chill hit me - I was squatting on the same branch in the same position in the dream.
I couldn't help but look to my left.
In my memory, when I used my right hand to hold the knife, I pressed my left hand against the tree to stabilize my body. When I was entangled by the snake man from behind, my left hand unconsciously grabbed the tree trunk. With the strength of my fingers, I should be able to hold it on the tree. Leave a trace.
When I turned around, I saw four fingerprints on the tree.
When I was shocked, I saw a strand of black hair hanging down from the tree, and the thick hair fell just on my wrist. When I suddenly looked up, I saw a woman hanging upside down sliding down to me slowly against the trunk of the tree.
After a breath, the other person's face without facial features was right next to mine. When I subconsciously wanted to draw my sword, the other party let out a faint sigh: "Why doesn't anyone believe that I have no ill intentions?"
Si Ruo's voice
I suddenly became furious: "Who are you?"
"The person who warned you before." The woman's limbs did not move, but like the rotating hour hand on a clock, her body stood straight against the tree, turned around, stepped on the trunk of the tree with her feet and said: "Do you have the guts to follow me? Want to take a trip?"
I glanced at the other party: "What are you afraid of?"
"Okay, follow me." The woman suddenly stretched her arms and flew up from the tree, flapped the two wing membranes attached to her clothes, and glided toward the giant tree like a bat.
Just as the opponent's body was about to get close to the water, the water on the ground suddenly split to both sides, making way for her. After the woman landed, she turned around and shouted: "Come down!"
When I stepped on the tree trunk and fell in front of him, the water that had been separated in half split again, extending the road to my feet before stopping. When my feet landed squarely in the middle of the road, I deliberately twisted my toes twice.
The ground beneath my feet was not muddy at all, as if it had never been flooded.
Naturally, my action could not escape the other party's eyes. The faceless woman smiled softly and said: "Everything on the Immortal Island is half true and half false, both illusion and reality. Everything you see is like this. You can look back now."
At this time, I had already walked to the woman's side. When I turned around, the water on the ground had returned to its original state. It was still extremely turbid and calm.
The faceless woman gently clapped her palms twice, and a stone platform shaped like an avenue slowly rose from the bottom of the water amidst her applause, extending all the way to the treetops where I had just settled.
I looked at the water pouring down both sides of the stone platform, and I couldn't help but feel slightly shocked: What caught me just now was not a dirt road, but a stone platform? If that were the case, it would explain why I couldn't leave any footprints on the road.
But why did the faceless woman let me see these things
The faceless woman turned around and said, "Come with me! I have something to show you."
As the faceless woman spoke, she raised her hand and pressed it against the tree trunk. To the naked eye, it looked like a big tree that was hard to be damaged by a sword. Under the touch of the opponent's slender hand, the ice and snow melted quickly as if it had been hit by a soldering iron. In the blink of an eye, a stone step leading straight to the ground was revealed.
"Follow me." The faceless woman took out a palm-sized bead from her body and held it in her hand before walking up the stone steps.
I followed him down the steps, and the moonlight coming from the tree hole behind me suddenly disappeared - the tree hole that had just been opened closed again in an instant.
Every time I took a step, the stone steps behind me disappeared. There was nothing around me except the endless darkness and the infinite space extending to both sides of the steps. The two of us seemed to be walking towards the netherworld step by step on a staircase standing in the void.
The faceless woman walked forward and said, "Are you scared?"
"Afraid." My hand kept grabbing the handle of the knife.
The faceless woman smiled lightly and said, "Actually, I'm scared too. Silence and vast darkness are the scariest things. It's no less frightening than a living ghost appearing in front of you."
"A ghost stands in front of you. At least you know what it is, but the endless darkness can bring you countless terrifying associations, because you don't know what will appear behind the black shadow in the next moment."
The faceless woman said in a deep voice: "What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will look back? The only thing you can see in this secret passage is me. You are afraid, I am wearing a familiar human skin, right? ?”
"When you see my face, you will definitely feel that the person you are familiar with is dead, and I am just an evil ghost in human skin. Whose face are you most afraid of seeing? Is it your Xiao Si? like?"
"Shut up!" I roared and pulled out half of the long knife. But I knew in my heart that my roar was just to cover up the fear in my heart.
But the faceless woman smiled softly and said: "I will turn back if I take two steps. If you stand where you are, there is exactly a knife's distance between us, and you can split me in half with just one move."
While the other party was speaking, he had already stepped down a level, but I instinctively stopped.
"I turned back!" After the faceless woman stepped down the next step again, she slowly turned her head. Her face, which was originally covered with a layer of white cloth, turned fleshy color the moment she turned her head. It seemed as if a piece of human skin was covering her face along one side of her face.
As half of her face became clearer in my eyes, the faceless woman pressed the luminous pearl in her hand to her face, and her face was instantly covered with a hazy light and shadow by the luminous pearl.
I could see her face, but I couldn't tell whose appearance she was. The only thing I was sure of was that her face was extremely familiar, like someone I had been with day and night.
The woman suddenly closed her hands, covering up most of the light of the night pearl, and her face appeared clearly in front of my eyes—it was me.
"Kill-" I roared and slashed down with my knife.