There are three people - if we judge by living as a criterion. They were all dragging a huge bag with something heavy inside. Soon, they poured out the contents. As they thought, it was a human corpse.
Bai Ya suddenly rushed forward, and the other two people didn't even have time to catch him. He quickly knocked one of them unconscious with the back of his knife, and the man collapsed easily without having time to make any resistance. Then he adjusted the blade and pointed it at the two men, as if it was some kind of demonstration or warning. If they were sensible enough...
Surprisingly, the two people didn't react at all. The man and woman just stared at him blankly, without any luster in their eyes. They didn't speak, didn't even look at each other and make eye contact. They just glanced at their companions who fell on the ground, and then at Bai Ya, without saying a word as if they were wooden. Just like two children, once something happens that their parents haven't taught them, they just stand here, motionless.
Bai Ya and the two people who were still hiding behind the big tree felt a little strange.
There is something creepy about this scene. So Bai Ya turned his sword sideways and decided to strike first.
"Where do you come from? What are you doing here? Who ordered you?"
The woman and the man blinked dryly, as if they didn't understand. Seeing this, Liu Shenghan seemed to understand something and suddenly walked out from behind the tree. Ao Yan was a little worried, but she followed immediately, fearing that something would go wrong. Just when Bai Ya was confused, Shenghan patted him on the shoulder and said:
"They won't attack us, don't hurt them."
"Hard to say."
"No, they no longer have their own thoughts - they are just two puppets, unconscious puppets."
"you sure?"
Although he still remained skeptical, Bai Ya lowered his blade slightly. Liu Shenghan added:
"If the puppet doesn't take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid it will trigger some mechanism or spell when it is attacked, which will make the attacker angry. I have seen many, so don't destroy them."
Jun Aoyan frowned slightly, looking at the still soft body on the ground, and then at the fainted person. She asked in a cold voice:
"What to do next?"
"Leave it alone, they should go back on their own before long. However, I don't know when the other person will wake up. If they don't go back together, they might get us into trouble."
After saying that, she squatted down and checked the condition of the fainted person. Bai Ya took two steps back, still staring at the man and woman.
"You're too cruel," she commented. Immediately afterwards, Liu Shenghan froze briefly.
"What's wrong?" Aoyan looked over.
"..." Liu Shenghan sighed softly, "He only has one eye."
Bai Ya's mood was very complicated, and he began to draft a letter to Matsukawa Yang in his mind. It's a shame that a brother is dead, but Cyclops is still alive, but might as well be dead. He couldn't even ask him about the whereabouts of other people. It's too bad. This is not the way to write this letter.
Liu Shenghan called Aoyan for help, turned the little brother's body over, stretched out two fingers, and quickly pressed several acupuncture points. Immediately afterwards, the one-eyed dragon suddenly seemed to be fished out like a drowning person, and the blood in his lungs was emptied.
The water let out a long roar, neighing like it was being saved. After a brief breather, he seemed to regain his mobility and stumbled to his feet. During the whole process, Bai Ya was monitoring the other two people to prevent any unexpected events. After the man's pace completely stabilized, the three of them slowly backed away and left this small area. After seeing their companion "reborn", the man and woman did not have any emotional ups and downs.
The three of them moved again, flattened the body and put it aside. During this process, bees not far away gradually came to hunt and try to expand the nest. The black swarms of insects began to appear again before my eyes, and just looking at them made me breathless. After the three people sorted everything out, they left together. They didn't say a word during the whole process, and they acted as if Bai Ya and the others didn't exist.
"Follow me."
So, there were three people walking on the path ahead. Less than five or six feet behind, there were three other people following. This road cannot be considered a road, it is very narrow. It seems that the plants happen to be relatively sparse here. It is impossible to detect it without looking carefully. However, the grass here isn't too tall, so it's not terribly inconspicuous. Liu Shenghan said that they probably followed the order and kept walking on this road, and the bag containing the body broke the tall grass branches.
"How...are they so obedient? Are they drugged?"
Liu Shenghan was unable to answer Jun Aoyan's question for the time being. Everything will be revealed until you reach your destination.
They walked for a while, through winding paths, through caves thick with vines, and across shallow murmuring streams. I have to say that this forest is really big. If you are not careful, you will not know where it will lead. Ordinary people can easily get lost.
Until the afternoon, when the forest was no longer so cold due to the sun, they still could not find a place. The three people who came out to dump the body must have been on the road in the middle of the night. This area has entered the most primitive part of the forest. The trees are so tall that they block out the sky and the sun. If one or two of them are hollowed out, they can be used as small buildings. The environment here is very close to the scene they saw when they mistakenly entered the territory of the python god, but it is not the same, perhaps because the view there is wider and there are more wetlands.
Without paying attention, the three of them lost the person at the same time.
We can't blame them. We have been highly concentrated all the way and it is inevitable that we feel tired by now. There are only three pairs of eyes, and there will be times when they fail to see the same thing. The target just disappeared out of thin air. When they came back to their senses, there was no shadow at all. This is making people anxious. After all, it’s not as easy as when they came here to leave.
"Don't panic." Liu Shenghan stabilized his position, "The flow of spiritual power here is very obvious... and there are obvious traces of human modification."
"I can tell something is wrong, but how do you know someone intervened?"
Bai Ya really wants to understand. Not only this time, but many times, he found that Liu Shenghan had an almost bizarre perception ability. Could it be the intuition of the impermanence of six paths? It was indeed true, and Liu Shenghan didn't explain much because she seemed to have discovered something else.
She walked to a stone wall. This stone wall is covered with moss marks, and there are many scratches that have become rounded. They are very shallow, perhaps washed away by years of rain. It was about three people tall and blocked the edge of a trickling stream. But look carefully, the water below does not bypass it, but directly
Passing from below, it is as if the stone is suspended.
Liu Shenghan stretched out his hand and his fingers passed directly through the stone.
"This was a spiritual vein before." She was very sure, "But where it led to at that time, we no longer know. We only know that what is hidden behind it now may be..."
"They destroyed this spiritual vein." Bai Ya could see it, "but they left this facade to cover up something."
It's around the time of the end of time, and it can't be regarded as a time when yin energy gathers. Even so, several people were somewhat murmuring in their hearts. Maybe this place is too far away from where people live, and this facade is not willing to cover it up. But just rushing in like that... no one knew what they would face.
Even Liu Shenghan didn't make any mental assumptions, Bai Ya walked in directly again. His figure was immediately swallowed up by this ancient rock, without even a single ripple appearing.
He didn't have the patience, and they didn't have the time.
Both girls didn't think much about it. Jun Aoyan held Mo Dao tightly with one hand, and Liu Shenghan's wrist with the other hand. They both held their breath and headed towards the huge stone.
They saw...
The scene they saw didn't seem to have changed much.
Bai Ya turned around and saw the two people following him, with a little doubt in his eyes. What is certain is that they did come to another space, because the layout of the vegetation, water, and rocks here is different from that over there. Moreover, the rock that served as the entrance was gone, and there was nothing behind them. How to get out of this? But now is not the time to ponder this. The sky was still bright, and there was no change in time, as if the three of them had traveled to another part of the forest at the same time.
"I understand." Liu Shenghan frowned slightly, "They did not completely destroy the spiritual veins - this is a large six-path spiritual vein. Even if they want to destroy it, they cannot completely destroy it. So this is a... fragment."
Ao Yan was confused when she heard: "Fragments?"
"To put it simply... it is a corner of the tunnel, but it is shown in the form of two realms. It is disconnected from the real world, just like a road that turns a corner and ends up in a dead end. Hmm. , indeed brilliant.”
"But, where is the pharmaceutical refinery hidden?"
"There."
Bai Ya pointed in a direction, which was not far from the forest. There was a weird blue-gray smoke floating up from below. Perhaps there was no wind - not even a bit of wind, so the plume of smoke was so straight that it was impossible to think of it as smoke at first. After confirming that the "pillars" reaching the sky were not real pillars, the three of them walked towards that direction.
The path was strewn with strange flowers, more so than when we came. They are scattered and neatly arranged, and they should be planted here deliberately. The grass here is bare, probably because people often trample on it. Just when they thought of this, they noticed someone carrying things walking nearby. They were not one of the three people before, and no one looked at Bai Ya and the others. These are the same as before, they are unconscious puppets.
But this makes people a little worried. After all, there are people in charge everywhere. Those people...should have their own consciousness, right? If this happens, it won't be that easy to deal with.
It's better to be careful.
