Jun Aoyan turned Mo Dao over with one hand and grasped the metal handle as if holding a stick. Bai Ya was about to raise his hand when Qi Huan grabbed his wrist from behind and covered his mouth with his other hand. The old man's movements were slow, but he was getting closer. It was easy to throw Qi Huan away, but the movement must have been loud. The three of them were in a stalemate, motionless.
The old man appeared in their field of vision, but there was no reaction, as if he was blind. No wonder, he looks very old, and his whole body is as thin and dry as a date stone. His teeth were gone, as was his hair, his mouth was pursed, and a long, sparse white beard hung on his chin, with some sand stuck to it. His eyes were narrowed to a slit, fearing that it would not work well.
No one dared to take action until the old man discovered something.
"A quarter of the hour."
The old man said this suddenly, and they were all stunned.
The old man didn't look over or even turn his head. He just said this sentence lightly, and even though he was so close, it was hard for the young people to listen. He slowly turned around and wandered back again. After a long time, no monster came, let alone any other changes. The voices of young people can be heard one after another, and I am afraid they are all back. It was not a good place to stay for a long time, so the three of them took the opportunity and left quietly. The whole process was really scary, and I was extremely cautious in breathing.
Even the dense forest is no longer safe, and the villagers' search has penetrated here. They were hiding and hiding, like they were hiding. There were several times when Bai Ya was so irritable that he couldn't hold it in anymore, so Qi Huan just pulled him back to avoid exposing him. He said that since no one has used props to divine their location yet, it is probably because they are lucky and the monsters have not picked out what originally belonged to Qi Huan. It can be hidden for as long as it lasts, and the sooner it is exposed, the more dangerous it will be. It wasn't until they got deeper into the forest that the villagers didn't come looking for them.
At that time, they were hiding behind a huge old tree. Bai Ya exposed half of his head from the dense bushes and observed the situation on the other side through the gap. There was a young man who was about to walk this way when another older woman grabbed her shoulder and shook her head to signal him not to go, so the young man gave up. This is probably the most critical time besides meeting the old man. After they left, several people slumped under the tree and breathed a long sigh of relief.
It was past noon and they were all a little hungry. Qi Huan stood up, dusted himself off, and pointed deep into the forest.
"Shall I go find something to eat?"
"Don't go there yet." Bai Ya said cautiously. "I don't think it's because they gave up searching here because they didn't have enough time. There may be something more dangerous deep in the forest that even the locals can't deal with."
"Hiss... what you said seems to make sense." Qi Huan sat back helplessly, crossed his legs and propped up his knees, "What should I do? I can't be hungry all the time, right? I feel like since I landed on the island, The food is not as good as before.”
Jun Aoyan kept pacing behind the ancient tree. She looked very uneasy, like an anxious beast, and glanced in the direction the villagers were leaving from time to time. While they were discussing, she suddenly stopped and stood on one side between the two of them.
"Wait a minute, I think we have something very important to discuss clearly. What exactly does the old man mean by 'the quarter of the hour'?"
"Obviously, it's time." Bai Ya responded lazily.
"Of course I know. But what exactly do we need to do? Does it mean waiting for him at eleven o'clock? Does he have anything to say?"
Qi Huan said: "I also think he is a little weird. Unlike other villagers, he did not report to the monsters at the first time. Everyone obeyed the instructions of those monsters, only he let us go. He clearly saw We haven’t betrayed the whereabouts of us foreigners, so are you planning to help us?”
“You might even be able to catch a big fish if you put your long-term approach to it.”
"Miss Jun, you are too sensitive. What is he trying to do?"
"I don't know either. I'm just worried instinctively. Ever since we got off the ship, nothing that seems logical has happened. It's full of surprises all the time."
"We are already so unlucky, should something good happen?"
Jun Aoyan was still hesitating, but Bai Ya also stood up and made his position clear.
"What good can he do by helping us? Helping us means fighting against monsters."
"Why do you think so? Then tell me, what else can you do?"
"At eleven o'clock, go to the place where you were just now to meet him."
"Aren't you worried?"
"There is no other way."
"cut."
Bai Ya is like this. On the one hand, I always object to something, but in the end I just do what I do and don’t have any new ideas. But he would choke you so hard to make you uncomfortable, and he looked innocent without intending to do so, which was really annoying. There was no other way, so they decided on it first. Just after being quiet for a while, Qi Huan's stomach began to growl again.
"Can you be quiet?"
"Aren't you hungry? Why don't you just tell me to be quiet? Come here and let me ask it for you." Qi Huan was so angry that he put his hands on his hips, lowered his head and said to his almost sunken belly, "Brother, can you be quiet? ?”
The only answer they received was a succession of cooing sounds.
Bai Ya muttered: "Is there a pigeon living inside you?"
"I wish there was a pigeon in there!"
Jun Aoyan responded with some embarrassment: "Indeed, I am also a little hungry. I haven't eaten for so long."
Also, there are too many things that consume my energy, especially fighting. It's not that Bai Ya isn't hungry, it's just that when he was a child, he was always hungry and he was used to it. The more others said they were hungry, the easier it was for him to think of it, so he asked Qi Huan to control it. How could Keren's yearning for food be easily suppressed? After careful consideration, they decided to go a little deeper into the forest.
"It's really dangerous." Bai Ya emphasized as he walked, "I personally saw a chipmunk being eaten by flowers."
"No, brother, don't hallucinate because of hunger."
Qi Huan disagreed. Only Jun Aoyan said slightly cautiously that it was better to be careful. They walked not fast, and their eyes did not miss any tree or inch of grass. But after walking for a long time, I haven't seen any fruits or familiar weeds. I saw a lot of mushrooms along the way, but the colors were intimidating and I didn’t dare to take risks easily. Qi Huan saw a bird's nest, and finally asked Bai Ya to put it up. When he touched it, he found that it was empty.
Moreover, the further they walked, the more they felt that this dense forest was indescribably weird.
In addition to a large number of unknown plants, there is also a very intuitive feeling - beauty. Yes, it is real beauty, and it is also an indescribable, indescribable beauty with a hint of indescribable awe and danger. This kind of beauty is being cracked step by step with the unknown, and the edge of the unknown is spreading at a faster speed, the less time you have to catch up with it. Whenever new information is learned, more questions arise and the desire to clarify the principles becomes stronger. Even the parts they have explored and understood far exceed human cognition. Experience is completely inapplicable to the ecology of this island.
For example, flowers. There is a very beautiful flower. Its shape is similar to that of a lily, but smaller, but it grows in a bunch on the vine. And if you look along the vines, you can find many colors. White, yellow, red, cyan, and even green. What's even more surprising is that they actually grow on the same vine.
"I know that honeysuckle is yellow and white and grows on the same tree... There are also some other common flowers that can grow two colors on the same body. Such a large number of heterochromatic flowers is really rare. Even so. What I know is that there are also magical flowers with quite a lot of spiritual power or demonic power. But these flowers are very ordinary, and it is difficult for me to feel its power."
"Me too." Bai Ya rarely nodded, "It's just that I can still feel a very powerful spirit here, and I can't tell what it is. It's like we are in a powerful magic circle or field, and we can't figure out the ingredients. "
Jun Aoyan didn't understand a word. She just thought it was beautiful, extremely beautiful, and soul-stirring. She unconsciously stretched out her hand to hold a flower, ready to get closer and smell its scent.
"Wait!"
Bai Ya suddenly drew a knife and stopped it at her chin, the back of the knife touching her skin. When she came to her senses, she felt that she had been a little reckless.
Qi Huan also accused her anxiously: "It's too reckless. What if the fragrance of the flowers is poisonous?"
"No way...it's so beautiful."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Jun Aoyan realized that she had said the wrong thing. This is indeed a bit brainless.
"I haven't seen you pick and eat so many beautiful mushrooms before!"
"...Yes, yes." She responded repeatedly.
This situation is not uncommon. They also saw many incredible parts, such as watermelon-sized fruits growing on the trees. They thought the fruit was as heavy as a watermelon, but it felt light when they picked it up. When you try to pick it off, blue liquid comes out from the joint, which is as viscous as blood and exudes a clearly audible bitter taste, making people wonder whether such a fruit can be eaten. In the end, Qi Huan persuaded them to give up. After all, if it was really edible, it might have been eaten by animals long ago, and no one would have their turn.
Speaking of which, they haven't seen any animals yet. The only shadow I saw in the bushes was a shadow with a body like a sheep, but with crooked horns like a deer on its head. The "antlers" were different from any kind of deer they knew. If it hadn't run away alertly, they would have thought it was actually a tree branch. Jun Aoyan said in surprise that she saw two sharp fangs sticking out of the strange sheep's mouth. The other two people didn't believe it and thought she had seen it wrong.
"If you really have those teeth, there is no need to run."
"I mean it!"
The sincerity doesn't look like he's lying, and it's not necessary. Jun Aoyan wanted to chase after him, but finally chose to give up. Because the antlered and fang-toothed sheep headed deep into the jungle at a very fast speed.
In the homeland they know well, almost every area has one, two, three or four things that they have never seen or heard of. It might be biology, or it might be some kind of technology. And in this weird place, almost all the unknowns are condensed, making common things seem rare. After walking for so long, even the ordinary green grass looked touching.
What really stopped them from going forward was a pool of psychedelic moss.
The moss may be a whole, with colors ranging from dark green to dark blue to dark purple to dark yellow to dark green. They are clustered together at varying heights, with different colors also appearing high and low. They didn't dare to get too close, so they stood there and tried their best to observe. They could see that some of the mosses were pointed, some were curled up, and some were as thin and sticky as ordinary moss.
The scary thing is that it is the outline of a person - standing. A bare white patch appeared above, resembling a skull.
"Go back." Bai Ya said simply, turned around and left.
No one had any objections.
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