Why don't I leave?
Of course it was because the person in front of me stopped.
"Hearn?"
"Shh-" He raised his gloved index finger.
There was a dead silence.
It was at this moment that I heard a thin swishing sound, as if... there were countless snakes swimming towards us from all directions! That sound made my back become extremely stiff!
"Little Flame," he slowly hooked the protruding tree root with his left elbow, put his right hand on his back, took off the long bow, and lowered his voice to the lowest level, "...you can't Look forward.”
How good would it be if he didn't speak? !
If he hadn't said that, I wouldn't have looked over his shoulder and looked deep into the dim rock crevice. Then, I wouldn't have seen a bunch of entangled black snakes hanging on the stalactites in front of me!
Oh My God!
I've never seen anything so disgusting!
Those big worms just cuddled up in a ball, with their heads and tails stretching, knotting, swaying, and folding in the air like seaweed!
For a moment, I felt like my mind was frozen by the cold air!
Whoosh--
Hearne's shoulders and arms relaxed, and the arrows flew through the air with a whistling sound!
At this moment, I realized that he had more than one arrow.
Four or five arrows drew silver straight lines, nailing straight into the twisted pile of snakes, and some even burst out sparks.
"Hiss, hiss -" In an instant, the viper's cry made my scalp numb!
They twist crazily and struggle violently, but there is always a bloody part of the body that is integrated with the rock and cannot move!
This made them tumbling more violently, and in just a few seconds, the originally cold air was filled with a strong smell of blood!
Tick-tock-tick-
Blood splattered everywhere like a violent storm.
Without any hesitation, Hearn set up another feather arrow.
Full bow, loose string!
The arrows are all in vain!
"Uh-oh!" Sari clapped his hands behind me, "What a beautiful shot! The most experienced hunter is no more than that, Neville Edinger." However, he bit Hearn's real name a little bit. Heavy.
This made Hern sneer and look back at him with a hint of warning, "I came to Agamand on the road and pierced the pursuer's eye with an arrow."
"Poor pursuer, he should be drinking in the hotel as usual." Sari laughed.
"Hmph. Yes, if he had any sense of self-awareness, he shouldn't have picked on me." Hearne said, pulling the root of the tree and walking towards the stalactite hanging upside down in front of him.
In that hellish place, dead snakes hung like door curtains, and dark, sticky liquid flowed down, accumulating a thick layer on the ground.
*
I knew that I should go up and help, help them pull out their fangs or something, but at this moment, my legs didn't obey me at all, and the dark things in front of me made my curly hair explode.
"...Messiah?" Unexpectedly, Sari called me softly. When his thick palm touched my shoulder, I felt a jolt and leaned sideways against the wall.
A hint of coldness penetrated my cotton-padded clothes, making my legs tremble even more.
"Hiss, hiss -" the still-dead snake was still screaming, or maybe it was just my auditory hallucination. Anyway, I just felt that the cold and high-pitched sounds turned into snakes, and they swam into my ears. , gnawing at my brain, everything is bloody!
I dug at the rock wall behind me tightly and almost cried!
"What's wrong with you?" Sari finally realized what was wrong with me, and he gently held my shoulders, "It's okay, girl. Hey! It's okay! Breathe, yes, relax. Listen to me, they will be there soon It will lead to death, and when the time comes, let’s throw down those...those ropes together, okay?”
I stared at his bright eyes, sucked in big breaths, and tried my best to calm down my frantically beating heart, but at that moment, there was another overwhelming and thin squeaking sound coming from the depths of the rock crevice.
That sound completely turned on the fear switch in my whole body!
"Hiss, hiss -" I clearly heard the sound of the poisonous snake spitting a message.
"Hiss, hiss -" I clearly saw a dark snake sticking its head out from behind Sari.
"Hiss, hiss -" I clearly felt the cold and dark snakes crawling towards me along the cliff, twisting their heads and tails!
I'm going to be scared out of my mind!
I want to scream!
However, one breath choked in my throat and I couldn't make any sound!
call--
My vision went dark, and Sari, who looked terrible, raised his hand to cover my head with his cloak.
Almost at the same moment, I heard the sound of a sharp blade coming out of its sheath.
He seemed to be walking on the rock wall, and the sound of the dagger cutting through the air echoed all around me.
Soon, something fell on my shoulder. It was so flexible that it even jumped from my shoulder to my fingertips!
"Hiss, hiss -" It finally fell at my feet, jumping and screaming!
I couldn't imagine what it was, maybe because I couldn't think anymore.
One piece.
Another one.
There are countless things jumping around me, screaming!
My stiff legs could no longer support my body, and I fell to my knees with a bang.
Oh my god...
There were soft snakes all over the ground. When my knees touched them, they even struggled a few times. The touch made me almost faint!
Arrows and sharp blades kept sweeping around, and streams of fishy blood sprinkled on the cloak like rain. In the blink of an eye, it was soaked through, but the hissing snakes outside had no intention of stopping!
In the darkness, my hearing and senses became extremely sharp.
The neighing of the venomous snake circled my ears one after another, amplified, and in the end, it was like a sharp awl, piercing my eardrum!
I don't know how long it took, but I could only listen to Sarri and Hearn's breathing becoming more and more rapid. They kept getting closer to me, so close that I could clearly feel the steam steaming from their bodies.
I heard them passing antidote and healing potions to each other until all the potions were gone.
"What's going on?!" Hearn asked breathlessly above my head, "Why are there so many?!"
"We can't retreat!" Surrey's situation didn't seem to be much better. "The back is blocked by snakes! Damn it!" He seemed to wave the dagger fiercely, and suddenly, two snakes were still swinging. The body fell next to my knees, which made my back a little stiffer.
"The last time I came here, there weren't so many snakes!" Pedgast shouted.
"So, someone knew we were coming and sent all the guardians?!"
"Who knew we were coming?! Xiao Sa, sprinkle snake repelling powder here..."
"No more!" Sari gritted his teeth and roared while waving the sharp blade.
"They're coming!"
"Hiss--"
I was horrified as I listened to the tsunami-like roar of snakes from far to near, and my body was shaking like a war drum!
"Supreme Holy Light, I want to pray in the mud," Pedgast recited the incantation quickly, "Using my heart as the carrier, please give me the power to heal others and the courage to spur the enemy..." Time and space It seemed to start to vibrate slightly. Through the thick cloak, I noticed that the outside had become bright and clear, "Holy Nova--"
call--
A gust of hot wind penetrated the cloak, instantly making me sweat profusely.
"They stopped!" It was Hearn's voice with joy. He grabbed my arm and put me on his shoulder. "Pedgast, do it again! Let's get out of here first!"
"...I...I can't do it..." Pedgast squeezed out those words from his throat, looking extremely weak, "My bearded god...casting spells with his spiritual body really killed me. Old fate... hurry up... think about what's going on, light and heat can't scare them for long..."
Sari took two steps closer to me. "I think there are only two possibilities for being attacked by a group of snakes. Either someone drove these beasts---but I didn't feel anyone nearby. Or...you are carrying something with you. Something that would attract snakes?”
"How could we bring something like that!" Hearn flatly denied.
"Open your bag! Hurry!" Sari shouted, and as he spoke, he touched my waist again, "I'm sorry, girl." He snatched mine away, "Naville Edinger! Let the girl Sit there, we have to find the reason quickly!”
*
There was only a clanking sound, and Sari seemed to roughly dump all our things on the ground, "...These are bandages, these are healing potions, these are clothes, coins... What is this? Rotten shells ?”
"This is a snail!" Hearn gritted his teeth and said, "In my hometown, this can keep people safe! But what is in this bottle?! This evil purple-black color may attract snakes and insects! "
"No, this is deadly poison. Use the spider demon's venom sac to grind it into powder and apply it on the dagger to shut up people completely."
"...What is that?" Unexpectedly, Pedgast asked.
"this?"
"The one on the side, the one on the other side, with the white bandage."
"...A rotten bottle?" Sari seemed to look at it carefully and said with a hint of mockery, "Maybe this bottle with the bottom open is used to contain happiness?"
"We picked it up on the road!" Hearn replied coldly, "It originally contained a kind of paint."
"Bring it closer and let me see!" Pedgast said. After a second of silence, he shouted, "God of Beards! It's really my bottle! I filled it with 'Ai' Tears of Loen, this paint will corrode lead bottles and leave marks. The Muds must have followed it to find us, right?!"
I guess Hearne must have given him an affirmative answer, otherwise, he would not have hissed with a sore tooth, "There are snakeberries in the Tears of Elune, which are snakes' favorite."
*
The broken bottles were thrown into the deep cracks in the ground, and the thin, swishing sounds of snakes and insects disappearing like the ebbing tide in the evening.
I sat far away until they pulled out the teeth of all the poisonous snakes in Surrey, and then kicked all the worms into the abyss, and my heart slowly calmed down.
Another ball of holy light rose slowly, and as far as the golden light could reach, only rocks, tree roots, and smelly blood stains were left in the field of vision.
"Little Flame, do you want to stay here?" Hearn gave me a hand and asked.
I listened to the faint hissing sound under the seams in the ground and shook my head decisively.
"Then let's just keep going up, okay?"
*
This time, I was left at the end.
We walked forward in silence for a while, and then the road curved behind the boulder ahead.
After a pause, we carefully grabbed the roots of the tree and turned the corner. In an instant, a cold air rushed towards us, making me shiver.
Suddenly looking up, I discovered that there was a small platform in front of us, and at the end of the platform, the path had been replaced by stone stairs step by step.
As we continued to approach, golden light finally fell on the rough stone stairs.
I found that those stone stairs were no longer narrow and could allow two or three people to walk side by side. However, each level was half as high as my legs, making it difficult to climb at all.
Where the light reached, I saw some huge yellow-brown earthen pots on some steps. Their shapes are very crude, with some densely engraved magic patterns on them, and from time to time, ice blue light flows through the magic patterns.
"What is that?" In this place, I subconsciously lowered my voice.
"That's a requiem bottle." Sari replied softly, "Before the trolls are buried, their tribesmen will cut out the deceased's internal organs and place them inside."
"Oh..." My eyes instantly turned disgusting when I looked at those things, "Why?"
I saw Sari walking slowly over, looking up at the jars embedded in the stone wall, "It is said that they believe that rou= can wrap around all the dirt in life, and after death, the innocent soul will fly out to find a pure container. .”
"...Those jars are clean?" I walked quickly through them sideways. I quickly climbed up several steps and got closer to the requiem bottles. Suddenly, the dust and cobwebs on them were lifted up by my breath. , causing me to sneeze heavily.
"Ah Sneeze! Oh...it's really dry here, there's not even a trace of moss on the stairs! Ah Sneeze! Ah Sneeze!"
"It's the stuff in the jar that absorbs water," Pedgast replied. "There's a lot of mountain sage in it, and the smell is strong and pungent."
I sniffed and finally realized that the unpleasant smell in the air did not come from them.
"Speaking of which, Sister Liang, what's Ni's name?" Pedgast was heard asking, "Yannis always calls Ni Xiaoyan Xiaoyan, but this is definitely not Ni's name! Well, although it does look similar. "
I held the heavy jar, bowed my head and said to the bottle on Hearn's waist, "I am the Messiah, Messiah Rubio, Mr. Pedgast."
"Well, Messiah, that sounds really nice..." He said with a smile, but at the end of the sentence, his voice suddenly changed, "Messiah Rubio? The sister-in-law Liang that Grigoro misses so much?"
That sentence made my cheeks heat up, "Stop talking nonsense!"
brush--
The bottle actually lit up like a magic lamp. Through the dazzling light, I saw the bearded man inside stared, "Gligo is a good young man, I will cure his leg!"
"These are two things! Moreover, Gregor and I swore, he said he would..." As I said that, I covered my mouth. Yes, Gregor swore to me that he would break off the engagement, but I He also swore that no one would know until his Aunt Nysa embraced the Holy Light!
"What must he know?" The dwarf in the bottle opened his wide eyes unblinkingly, the fire of gossip burning in his pupils.
I turned my head away angrily, and as soon as I took a step forward, I saw Sarri and Hearn also pricking up their ears, with "hurry up" written all over their faces.
"You are just like those tenants in my family. Your clothes are in tatters and you can't even cover your buttocks. You are still in the mood to talk about whether the eldest lady of the Baron's family was divorced by the Viscount because of insufficient dowry!"
"Oh, don't be so mean, Little Flame."
"I have something even meaner, do you want to hear it?"
"Well……"
"Xiao Guliang, I told Ni that those young men in Lordaeron's Royal City only have nice words to say. Ni can't believe them... Hey, don't run so fast! Hearne, hurry up and follow! Ni is just Too young! Those young men may be rich, have handsome faces, and can talk sweetly... Glico is also rich, and he is very handsome. The important thing is that he has qualities that those people don't have, sincerity! Don't look at him sitting in a wheelchair now. When he stands up, you will find that he is an upright man. In addition, he is also very smart. He can manage such a large manor in an orderly manner by himself. Almost everyone believes in him. You should know more about him... …”
“Can’t you just be quiet for a while?!” I panted and climbed up the steps in front of me, “Hearn!” Turning around, I put my hands on my hips and pointed at the nose of the young man behind me, “You owe me a favor! I want you to hang that bottle on the root of the tree over there!”
"Yannis! Ni owes me a favor! I rescued both Ni and Ni's wolves! I want Ni to follow her! I will whisper in her ear! Grego is a good boy!"
"Oh..." Hearn breathed angrily and funny, and threw the bottle on his waist to me with his backhand, "If I were you, I would throw that broken bottle into the 'pure' requiem bottle, and then press it Get on a rock.”
"Yannis, whose side is Mud on?"
"Don't you know? Mr. Pedgast?" Unexpectedly, Sari, who had been hanging slowly at the end, raised his voice. He looked up at us, the smile on his face was pure and sunny, but what he said was... It made people furious, "Young Master Mograine has a soft spot for the little Messiah..."
"Oh!" I held the bottle tightly, almost jumping up in anger, "Shut up! Sally!"
The young man gave a graceful push and jumped up to the next step, "Okay, I swear, I won't tell."
"Young Master Mograine?! Is that Young Master Mograine?!" After a moment of silence, the dwarf shouted, causing the holy light ball above our heads to flash and almost go out, "Mograine Duke Ni’s youngest son!? He...he...he can’t be trusted either!"
"Oh! That's enough!" I gritted my teeth and slammed the requiem bottle next to me. I was about to say something more, but a sudden sound made my back stiffen!
"Hiss--" That voice seemed to be right next to my ears!
Hearne must have noticed it, because I saw his smile instantly solidify on his face, "Don't... move... Little Flame..." He squeezed out those words through his teeth, and slowly held his hand. The long bow behind the back.
"Hiss--" The fishy smell spread into my nose.
I held my breath and mechanically looked to the right.
Oh my God!
Just at the mouth of the requiem bottle, a green cobra stuck out its huge head.
It is different from other snakes. There are sharp bone spurs that are half a palm long on the side of its head!
"Hiss---" When it saw me looking at it, it began to sway its upper body non-stop, and the bloody snake letter stretched and contracted between its fangs like a spring!
Suddenly, my eyes were dazzled, and the fierce thing actually rushed straight towards my cheek!
The fishy wind hits your face!
Oh my God!
If it were normal, I would definitely be able to avoid it!
However, at this time, I felt like I was in the fearful aura of a lich, and I was too scared to move!
Almost at the same moment, another flower appeared before my eyes!
Sari stood in front of me like a gust of wind, stretched out his hand and pinched out the cobra's head. His movements were fast and accurate. However, the sharp bone spurs pierced his gloves, causing him to hiss. The next second, Throw the snake out hard!
boom--
Before anyone could react, the flexible ghost thing hit the rock wall and bounced back to my neck in an instant, and bit it down!
Stinging!
A bloody sting!
"ah!!"
