Accompanied by Yuan Kejie's exclamation, Lu Chu immediately felt the tightness and pressure on his legs that seemed to crush his leg bones.
Even though two fires were lit, except for Luo Qi and 7, the torches in the hands of the other torch holders have not been extinguished. At this time, Lu Chu held up the torch, and by the light of the fire, he lowered his head to look at the leg he was caught in. He saw a skeleton arm that looked like an adult protruding from the ground. The white hand bones were covered with mud. Buckled one of his legs.
The grip of the skeleton's arm was so strong that Lu Chu felt as if his leg bone had been broken, and there was a burst of uncontrollable pain. Lu Chu's forehead was sweating immediately, and just about to break free, the next second, another skeleton arm broke out from the ground and grabbed his other leg.
Seeing this, 7 raised Ling Lie's eyebrows, and immediately stepped forward and swung the knife fiercely, chopping off the two skeleton arms holding Lu Chu's legs in two strokes. After breaking off the skeleton's arm, 7 gently wrapped Lu Chu into his arms and pulled him away from where he was.
At this moment, Yuan Kejie suddenly shouted: "Wow, many of them have come out!"
Lu Chu immediately looked at his feet. The solid ground became extremely soft at some point. The soil, the half-rotted dead leaves buried in the ground, and the corpses of animals turned upside down. Skeleton arms broke out one after another, wantonly Waving, it looks extraordinarily eerie and weird under the night and firelight.
After Luo Qi reacted, she immediately picked up the backpack closest to her, and quickly jumped onto the giant tree beside her with her dexterous figure. While climbing, she shouted at several people: "Run, what are you doing standing there!"
Everyone else evacuated after hearing the words, Qian Zhen and the others followed Luo Qi up the giant log.
Lu Chu's legs had just been grabbed by those skeleton arms, and after he lifted his feet, his movements froze for a moment of inertia. Qi, who had been watching him all the time, immediately realized that something was wrong with him, and immediately hugged him by the waist, Lu Chu subconsciously wrapped his arms around Qi's neck. 7 has excellent physical strength, holding him without a trace of disordered breathing, and without any slowness in his movements, he quickly ran under the giant tree.
Standing under the giant tree, 7 kicked off a few skeleton arms that only wanted to touch the two of them, and then lifted Lu Chu's hips with his hands, and said softly, "Climb up by stepping on my shoulders."
Lu Chu knew that his calf had not been relieved of the pain after being grabbed by the skeleton. He wondered if it was broken, and his movements were slow and inconvenient. Too much fussing at this time would only slow down the team's progress, so he didn't say much. , stepping on 7's shoulders to climb up.
Lu Chu climbed up, and 7 followed his rhythm closely, so that he could have a strong point on his feet at any time.
In this way, with the help of 7, Lu Chu climbed to the lowest branch of the giant tree with a height of five meters.
Although this branch is the lowest, it is not the thickest and most stable, as if it grew out later.
Lu Chu stood here and looked down.
Because of the need to climb, the torches of several people were thrown into the fire, and they climbed up the giant log with the backpacks of the nearest supplies on their backs. At this time, Lu Chu could only see the changes on the ground of the forest by the light of the fire. As far as he could see, the ground became soft, the soil turned upside down, and countless dead bones sprang out from the ground. The dwarf trees and weeds that had grown were all stirred up and sank into the ground, leaving only a patch of The earth-brown white ocean waved and swayed, making the sound of "crack, crack, crack" that the joints collided.
Yuan Kejie, who was on a branch of a tree above Lu Chu's head, couldn't help exclaiming: "Amazing, spectacular..."
Song Gui and Yuan Kejie stood on the same tree branch.
When Lu Chu's leg was caught by a skeleton that suddenly appeared, Song Gui wanted to step forward to rescue him, but found that Qi Li was one step ahead of Lu Chu and stood by Lu Chu's side. He froze for a moment, and followed Luo Qi and Qian Zhen to protect him. Follow Yuan Kejie up the tree. Seeing Lu Chu climbing up the tree with difficulty, he was a little worried and said, "Lu Xiaochu, are you injured?"
Lu Chu looked up and saw Song Gui's protruding head. He shook his head and said, "It's nothing serious, it will be fine in a while."
Qi on the side looked up at Song Gui.
Song Gui rubbed his arms: "It's a bit cold on the tree, but it's extremely cold up there."
"What's going on next?" Luo Qi, who was standing above Song Gui, asked.
Song Gui shook his head: "Nothing."
Several people observed the situation below, and more and more hands emerged from the ground, one after another sticking out of the ground, setting off a white wave.
"I can't do it anymore," Yuan Kejie trembled, "I'm afraid I'm about to have a seizure."
Lu Chu stared at the surging arms under his feet, frowned and said, "They are not afraid of fire."
Countless white skeleton arms protruded from the middle of their two fire piles below. Because of the large number, they had pushed away the firewood under the fire pile and scattered in all directions. Even the flames of the scattered burning firewood were still strong, and soon burned the nearby white skeletons to black, and those arms that were burned to black were still surging, unaffected by the high temperature of the fire. .
Seeing this, several people fell into deep thought.
Yuan Kejie said: "This is not easy to handle. I wanted to ask you if they avoided the fire, but luckily they stick out of the ground and won't crawl out."
The rest of the people were also terrified.
At this moment, a monster came running not far away. When it approached the white ocean, the monster obviously paused, then turned around suddenly, and made a panicky cry, obviously afraid of something and wanted to escape from here . However, the moment it ran forward, its hind limbs were grabbed by a skeleton arm. The grip of this arm was so strong that the monster couldn't break free. The skeleton arm squeezed the monster's hind limbs again. The monster only had time to let out a scream before being grabbed by other hands that broke through the ground. In an instant, the monster's jet-black body was covered in white, and black and rotten blood overflowed through layers of white hand bones.
The next second, something even more surprising happened. They saw that the arm they thought would not leave the ground continued to grow upwards, and finally crawled out of the ground slowly.
After Lu Chu saw the whole picture of the skeleton army clearly with the light of the fire and the moonlight, he narrowed his eyes in surprise.
After those arms protruded from the ground, they did not look like a normal human at all, not to say that they were the bodies of other monsters, on the contrary, judging from the torso bones, these skeletons were indeed human, but their appearance was too much Strange.
After thinking for a long time, Lu Chu chose a suitable adjective from his mind—random.
Yes, the skeletons look too casual, especially their arms.
Most of them basically maintained the original shape of the human skull, spine and leg bones, but the position and number of arms were not fixed at all. Some of these skeleton armies have three-day-long arms on their legs. When walking, the hand bones and foot bones support the ground at an extremely fast speed; Some have an extra arm, and they are within its attack range. Looking down from the top of the head, this kind of skeleton has a strange sense of symmetry; It is full of arms, densely packed, crawling on the ground like a centipede; what's more, the arms of some skeletons have submerged the torso of the human body itself, and only countless hand bones sticking out can be seen, intertwined and tangled, looking terrifying And bulky, but extremely light.
At this moment, the army of skeletons is crowded together, and the "click" sound of bones colliding can be heard endlessly.
Song Gui and the others also looked down, and after seeing the situation below, they all gasped.
Yuan Kejie took a deep breath: "God..."
Luo Qi, who always looked relaxed, also said with a serious face: "It's the first time I've seen this kind of monster in so many rounds, it's very tricky."
Qian Zhen had tensed his nerves, picked up his weapon, and was ready to fight at any time.
Lu Chu supported the trunk of the giant tree with his hands, and tapped his fingers involuntarily. After a while, he said to himself, "I don't know what these guys looked like when they were alive."
Song Gui has been paying attention to Lu Chu, and after hearing him talking to himself, he replied: "They still have a life? I thought they would look like this when they were born."
Yuan Kejie looked at the monsters below and trembled all over: "Wow, don't talk about it, I feel a chill when I think that they really look like flesh and blood wrapped in white bones in life, I'm overwhelmed, I actually feel the following The shape of the skeleton is a bit cute... It can't be saved, it can't be saved... "
Lu Chu agrees with this point. Instead of looking at the skeleton army with flesh and blood and such a weird appearance with arms all over their bodies, he is more willing to face their current form.
After all, moving skeletons and living people are not the same kind of things, no matter how weird they are, they are just "monsters", and the premise of a person with full arms is "human", which is more exciting than the monster itself. Creepy.
Everyone fell into an eerie silence.
After a while, Song Gui suddenly asked: "You guys say, what happened to the monster just now by these skeletons?"
Luo Qi said: "Eat."
Song Gui shook his head: "Have you eaten? No tongue, no esophagus, no stomach, how to eat, I don't think so."
Yuan Kejie looked at him: "If you want to know, go down and see for yourself."
"I'm afraid it's not me looking at them, it's them looking at me," Song Gui said with a smile, "Fortunately, these things just crawled out of the ground, and they don't know how to climb trees."
Lu Chu, who had been observing the situation below, was taken aback for a moment, and then said bitterly, "Do we have to set up a flag for each of us?"
Song Gui heard the words and was very puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Lu Chu pointed to the bottom of the giant tree and sighed, "They are starting to climb the tree."