Ren Heming was about to rush up, but Dong Zheng stopped him and said in a low voice, "Senior brother, she has the plague."
Following Dong Zheng's prompt, Ren Heming also saw the festering on the girl's arm, he breathed stagnantly, and said in a low voice, "But we can't just die like this!"
"I didn't say that I would die." Dong Zheng said, "Don't we have a talisman? Just make a little noise and drive the bear away."
"Right, right." Ren Heming slapped his head and remembered it. He took out the fire talisman paper from his pocket and threw it to the open space in front of him after making a gesture.
A few seconds later, a small explosion made a loud noise, which startled both the brown bear and the girl. The girl took two steps back, almost fell off the cliff, and sat on the ground, while the brown bear was afraid of the firelight. The natural fear of fire made it turn his head in a panic and fled into the woods.
"That's it." Dong Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. Although he knew that such a young child had a very small chance of surviving alone in the forest, they somehow saved her while ensuring their own safety.
The girl stared blankly at the fire that ignited without warning not far away. She seemed to notice something and looked behind the tree where Dong Zheng and Ren Heming were hiding.
Ren Heming was relieved: "Let's go back too."
They returned to their original places and led their horses to continue their journey. It was almost night. The forest at night was extremely dangerous and they needed to find a place to live as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the two of them were lucky. Before the sun completely sank into the horizon, they rode the burning clouds under the setting sun and found an abandoned temple.
This temple has been abandoned for a long time. The thick ash on the statue can hardly see the appearance of the statue. The candles on the tribute platform are scattered, and Ren Heming tried to light a few to provide them with a faint light.
The four walls of the temple were broken and the air leaked, but it was better to have a roof than to sleep in the wild. Dong Zheng brought some hay and threw it on the ground, and sat on it with Ren Heming, resting against the pillar.
The last ray of light was completely engulfed by darkness.
The mist spreads quietly.
Dong Zheng leaned against the pillar with his arms folded and closed his eyes. He and Ren Heming made an appointment to take turns to watch the night. Ren Heming beside him soon fell asleep and snored tiredly.
I don't know how long it took, Dong Zheng suddenly heard an unusual sound, as if something was crawling on the ground quickly, his hard feet swept across the ground, making a rustling sound.
Dong Zheng opened his eyes, he propped himself up and looked out, the visibility in the fog was poor, but the sound was still there, the rustling sounded quickly, moving from one place to another.
It seemed to herald some unknown danger.
Dong Zheng poked Ren Heming with his arm to wake him up and lowered his voice: "Listen."
Ren Heming, who woke up from his sleep, squinted his eyes in confusion and heard the strange sound. He and Dong Zheng looked at each other. They both stood up at the same time in tacit understanding. near.
The voice became clearer as they approached, Dong Zheng quietly drew out the knife, but at this moment, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
It's as if someone pressed the mute button.
Found out
Dong Zheng lowered his head and saw a string of strange marks on the soles of his feet, like some kind of large multi-legged animal crawling with claws, but it was very huge. If it was really left by a crab, then the crab might be bigger than humans. Big.
The thin crawling marks lead all the way into the thick fog ahead, with no end in sight. Ren Heming took a deep breath and said softly, "It's that evil spirit."
Is this the trace left by the evil spirits they hunted down? Dong Zheng was a little surprised. For some reason, he always felt that the so-called evil spirits should have no entity.
Looking at this trace, the evil spirit must look very strange.
Dong Zheng asked, "Do you want to catch up?"
Ren Heming pondered for a while, and said, "The fog is so heavy, it's too dangerous now, let's go back to the temple and wait. Since it's approaching, it must want to do something."
Dong Zheng snorted, they turned their heads and were about to go back, but the temple they had just lived in disappeared.
Only the endless fog filled every inch of space behind him, as if the broken temple just now was just an illusion.
"… gone?"
The fear is stronger than ever before, and the thick fog is likely to contain evil spirits that can take people's lives at all times, and it is necessary to hide as soon as possible.
Walking aimlessly through the fog, they found a toppled stele and a cave hidden behind it.
"Let's go in and avoid it for a while."
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