"Zhang Xu, where are you?"
The empty voices of the few of us echoed here, but there was no response.
"Cui Hao, come to me, Zhang Xu must be in danger."
I stared at the golden thread. At this time, the golden thread was swaying slightly in the water ripples, and the bubbles in the center of the pool that kept rising were floating toward the shore.
"Something is coming. Follow me and don't get lost."
Time was running out and there was no time to find Zhang Xu.
Just as I stared at the surface of the river, alert to the approach of the bubbles.
Suddenly, there was a cry from behind me.
"What is that thing in the forest?"
I immediately turned around and followed Cui Hao's voice.
However, the moment I turned back, there was a sound of water splashing behind me, the water surface was flying, and a black shadow emerged from the water.
Fortunately, I turned back in time and was always alert to what was happening behind me.
The moment the thing jumped out, I immediately threw out Shang Fang's sword and struck it in the direction of the shadow.
Puff.
This thing was instantly cut across its body by my long sword, and a thick black liquid spurted out, splashing on the ground and instantly burning a long crack.
Thick white smoke floated into the sky, and several large holes were burned into the ground.
Plop.
Before any of us could clearly see the thing that jumped out of the water, it fell back under the water and quickly disappeared in front of me.
Cui Hao squeezed my arm tightly.
"What was that question just now?"
Although I swung my sword quickly, I couldn't clearly see what the thing that stuck out of the water looked like.
I shook my head and quickly led them away from the river bank.
The golden threads were still floating on the edge of the river, but I didn't dare to get close to them easily.
"What did you just see in the woods back there?"
Maybe that dark figure is Zhang Xu who disappeared.
Cui Hao once again showed some fear in his eyes. He pointed at the dense forest ahead and shook his head at me.
"A black shadow about two meters high, and it was vague. I felt like the shadow had two heads, but I couldn't see clearly."
The two heads looked like ghosts.
Maybe it was this thing that kidnapped Zhang Xu while we were not paying attention.
"Follow me, let's go find him."
I called Cui Hao and Wang Wangyang and asked them to follow me into the dense forest.
The golden thread has stopped moving. I am sure that the body I want to find is in the river. The body that falls to the bottom is the water corpse, and he can't run away.
For the current plan, the most important thing is to find Zhang Xu quickly. This dense forest is deep and there are ghosts and ghosts floating around in it.
If we don't care about him, he's probably going to be in trouble.
I followed Cui Hao and came to the place where the black shadow he just pointed out appeared.
As soon as I entered the dense forest, I saw a row of huge footprints under my feet.
The footprints were actually about half a meter long, several times larger than the average person's feet.
"Such a big footprint?"
Wang Wangyang moved closer to the footprints and placed his soles next to them.
His footprints were only half a knuckle thick on the soil, but the wide soles of his feet sank nearly ten centimeters.
It is also enough to prove the huge weight of this thing.
"If it can leave footprints, this thing shouldn't be a soul. It must have an entity, maybe a special giant carrion."
Wang Wangyang stood up and walked forward a few meters following the footprints.
"Come on, let's go find this thing."
But I'm not sure whether I should search for this weird corpse.
To be precise, carrion does not feed on human bodies. What they love most is rotting bodies and animal internal organs.
They have no interest in living people.
If it's really this kind of giant rotting corpse, I can't figure out the reason why they kidnapped Zhang Xu.
But before I could figure it out.
Suddenly, a scream came from the dense forest ahead.
"Zhang Xu, it must be him."
The voice is very familiar to us, and it is undoubtedly Zhang Xu’s voice.
I immediately grabbed the two of them and rushed out, running towards the source of the sound.
The screams continued, and they also provided us with the direction of tracking in disguise.
Just as we were chasing the source of the sound, a bright light suddenly flashed in the forest.
Several of us were forced to close our eyes.
Zhang Xu's voice was mixed with despair, followed by a roar.
"Zhang Ji, I hate you!"
The next second, the voice weakened.
I felt bad, shook my head, blinked my eyes to relieve the stimulation of the bright light on my eyes, touched the surrounding trees and rushed towards the direction of the last roar.
When I arrive at my destination.
Only to find Zhang Xu sitting on the ground in a daze, his whole face turned tragically pale.
Cui Hao rushed over one step ahead of me and helped the person up from the ground.
"Zhang Xu, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Xu looked back in a daze, and when he looked at us, he could no longer hold back his emotions, and fell on Cui Hao's body in a flash.
"Zhang Ji, who is that guy? He just came to see me."
Cui Hao frowned and stared at the surrounding dense forest cautiously.
"We didn't see anyone when we came. We only saw a burst of white light. Did Zhang Ji run away before we rushed over?"
Zhang Xu looked dazed and nodded along with Cui Hao's words.
"I don't know, but he wanted to kill me."
Zhang Xu lifted up his shirt and saw that his arms and chest were densely covered with fresh wounds.
He was wearing dark black clothes. If you weren't paying attention, you wouldn't have noticed the existence of these wounds.
Looking again at this time, it turned out that his wet shirt was not stained with water, but was stained with blood.
"Where did he run to? We will definitely catch him for you."
Wang Wangyang was also furious, and immediately circled the surrounding woods, trying to find a way for the guy to escape.
Zhang Xu shook his head helplessly at us, the corners of his mouth full of bitterness.
"I didn't see it. In fact, I couldn't figure it out. Why did he kill me? When I questioned him, he didn't say anything. He just asked me to ask the King of Hell."
Zhang Xu raised his head and looked at us gratefully.
"If it weren't for you, I might have died here by now."
I waved my hand at him and pointed to the way we came.
"What happened just now? Why did the rope break? Did this guy Zhang Ji do it too?"
Zhang Xu nodded and confirmed my guess.
"Yes, I followed you guys forward and everything went smoothly, but when I was about to reach the shore of the lake, I suddenly felt a pain in the back of my neck. When I looked back, Zhang Ji was standing behind me , then my eyes blurred and I fainted."
How to shoot flowers.
I immediately stepped forward and lifted the back collar of Zhang Xu's clothes. As expected, there was clearly a handprint on the back of his neck.
There was still some white powder scattered on the top of the collar. It seemed that Zhang Ji had knocked him out.
"It's okay, we are here. This guy doesn't dare to show up again."
Zhang Ji probably saw Zhang Xu falling last among us, so he took the risk and took the opportunity to snatch him away.
Maybe he wanted to follow the same pattern and launch sneak attacks on us one by one, but he didn't expect that when I counted the number of people halfway, I discovered Zhang Xu's disappearance.
Zhang Xu stood up and reluctantly supported Cui Hao to move forward a few steps.
"My body hurts too much. Do you have any medicine? Can you bandage it for me?"
I gave this job to Cui Hao.
At the same time, he was wary of the dense forest around him, for fear that the two-meter-tall rotting corpse would appear.
Wang Wangyang leaned close to my ear.
"Tell me, is the so-called rotten corpse controlled by Zhang Ji, so he suddenly led me here. But it doesn't make sense. If Zhang Ji is determined to kill Zhang Xu, why would he let a rotten corpse be killed? Why don't you lead the way for us? Wouldn't it be easier to do it quietly?"
I shook my head, this was also the question in my mind.
If I have to explain it clearly, there is only one seemingly reasonable reason.
"Maybe it was because he had estimated the time and wanted us to find Zhang Xu's body, so he sent the rotting corpse. But he didn't expect that Zhang Xu still had the ability to resist. It was delayed for a while, but in the end, we found it instead. return."
Although this reason seems reasonable, in fact, I don't believe it is the reason.
The two of us looked at each other, and after looking at each other, we both looked away.
We all know that this reason sounds weird and does not make people think it is reasonable.
"It's bandaged, we can go."
Cui Hao's shout came from behind us.
When he looked back, Zhang Xu was already covered with a thick layer of bandages and his wounds had been bandaged.
I nodded and waved to both of them.
"We are exploring the road ahead. Cui Hao, support Zhang Xu and walk behind us. Don't stay too far away. If you encounter danger, shout out as soon as possible, and the two of us can come to support immediately."
We don't have enough manpower, so we can only arrange it this way.
Cui Hao nodded in agreement, tied the rope to his wrist, and carefully tied a knot in Zhang Xu's hand.
We continued to wear a string, moving forward two by two.
We came to the lake again.
My golden thread is still floating above the lake, and the bubbles in the center of the lake are still swelling and bursting.
Everything is exactly as it was when we first arrived.
I waved Shang Fang's sword and struck it hard on the lake.
Ripples on the water surface exploded, and black water droplets sprayed in all directions.
As the calmness of the lake surface was broken, the bubble in the center suddenly retreated a few inches as if it was frightened.
The next second, the water bubbles suddenly penetrated the lake surface and struck towards the river bank at an extremely fierce speed.
"Be careful, don't get caught."
I shouted behind me to tell Cui Hao to keep an eye on Zhang Xu. I was going to take Wang Wangyang to see what was under the lake.
However, the moment I raised Shang Fang's sword again, a huge force suddenly came from behind me and pushed me forward violently.
The next second my feet became unstable and I fell directly into the black pool.
