After looking carefully, I saw that this time it was not the wooden figure corresponding to them.
"Damn, I'm scared to death."
Duan Jiang cursed and kicked the wooden man asking for help back into the grass.
But he only felt more and more tired as he walked on the road that followed, and he gradually couldn't keep up with the pace of a few people.
The middle-aged uncle was the first to notice that Duan Jiang was lagging behind and stopped everyone, asking a few people to go back and have a look, but Li Huixi and the little girl ignored him at all, and the fox didn't say a word from beginning to end.
In fact, Li Huixi had already discovered Duan Jiang's abnormality, but was too lazy to care about him.
However, in order to prevent any changes from happening, Li Huixi still gave the fox a look and asked her to disappear and take a look at the situation.
The fox was also unambiguous and disappeared into the black night in an instant.
I saw the middle-aged uncle running back, but Duan Jiang was sitting on the ground blankly. The uncle ran over and found that his ankle was entangled in a branch, so he took the initiative to help him dismantle it.
But Duan Jiang never responded, he just sat there motionless. The middle-aged uncle also felt that something was wrong. He looked up and saw that Duan Jiang's face had turned into wood, and his whole person had been transformed into a wooden man.
"ah!"
The middle-aged uncle screamed in surprise, but the two people who were walking away could no longer hear his screams. Only the fox was watching all this quietly.
The wooden man Duan Jiang suddenly hugged the middle-aged uncle tightly, like a puppet on strings, wrapped his head around the uncle's neck at an extremely twisted angle, and then bit his artery fiercely.
The middle-aged uncle collapsed on the ground in pain, twitching all over and foaming at the mouth.
The fox could tell at a glance that he was poisoned.
Duan Jiang, who had just been turned into wood, slowly returned to his normal human appearance. He patted the ashes on his body, wiped his cold sweat, and repeated in a low voice:
"You sent this yourself, you can't blame me, you can't blame me..."
After saying that, he ran away without looking back. When he was looking for the people in front of him, he almost tripped over a stone.
After a while, Li Huixi, who was at the front, heard footsteps coming from behind. It seemed that he had been running all the way, and his speed was very fast, but it was not as fast as a fox.
The fox had informed Li Huixi of everything just now. The reason why he didn't tell the little girl was that Li Huixi also wanted to know what was special about this child.
The further we walked, the denser the trees became, and their appearance also changed, from emerald green branches and brown-gray branches to trunks filled with blood, and the leaves also turned black.
If those trees were originally transformed from human skin, then these are more like internal organs or flesh.
The smell in the woods also changed from fresh to fishy. There seemed to be a heart beating in each tree, and their resonant sounds could be vaguely heard.
The path of several people was blocked by a towering ancient tree. Different from other blood trees, this one was not only very ancient and huge, but also had many beating hearts, and there was plant gum flowing out from between the flesh and blood. , slippery, sticky, and very disgusting.
"Is it the source of a strange disease?"
The little girl finally spoke. Li Huixi knew that she was asking herself, so she replied:
"Probably not. Look, there are limb-shaped branches around it. I think this should be a plant that grew out of the fusion of many dead people. This may be a mass grave of villagers when the strange disease first broke out."
The little girl nodded and took off the earphones. While taking them off, she said to Li Huixi:
"My name is Qin Ling..."
But the moment the headphones were completely taken off, her expression changed and she stopped mid-sentence.
Qin Ling suddenly looked back with a serious expression. Behind him, Li Huixi and Fox were standing in a line. Behind him was Duan Jiang. He had not said a word since he returned to the team and kept his head down at the end of the team. , the movements were a little stiff, but no one cared at the time.
Qin Ling suddenly raised her hand towards Li Huixi. Li Huixi recognized that gesture at a glance. It was the gesture she used when she first stopped Duan Jiang. Li Huixi didn't understand why she used it on herself, so He was also ready to fight, and his hand touched the short knife in his arms.
But Qin Ling's target was not her. Li Huixi was stunned for a second and realized that she was not controlled. However, she took out the short knife and subconsciously glanced back.
At some point, the middle-aged uncle had already caught up with several people. Duan Jiang had gone somewhere long ago, but this middle-aged uncle was not the one they remembered. He looked like a complete fool, and he was not able to attack at first. Compared with the previous batch, the workmanship of this one is extremely fine, and its aggressiveness is much stronger.
Fortunately, Qin Ling restrained him, otherwise his fangs would have bitten Li Huixi's neck.
Because the other party was not a living thing, Li Huixi didn't feel that there was something behind her. Fortunately, Qin Ling found it in time and saved her life.
After calming down, Li Huixi not only felt grateful to the child in her heart, but also sounded in her heart:
"She noticed something moving behind her when she just took off her headphones?"
"Probably, maybe this headset is just to help her stay calm."
"What a terrible hearing."
"Don't you think her invisible power makes people more fearful?"
"How did she do it..."
"Just ask her yourself."
"That's not my character."
"Then you just keep guessing."
"By the way, do you feel a little uncomfortable today?"
“It’s definitely a little less powerful than usual.”
"Maybe it's because the injury from last time hasn't fully recovered yet."
After talking to herself, Li Huixi also finished observing the wooden man, and could feel that he was different from the group of people he met at the beginning. He seemed to be alive, not just a fake.
Li Huixi was about to touch and learn more about him, but was stopped by Qin Ling.
"What do you want to do?"
Li Huixi found that just when she was about to touch the wooden man's hand, there was resistance suddenly. This situation appeared together with Qin Ling's words, but her mouth could still move:
"Let me go...I don't want to repeat it a second time."
"Don't touch it, and I won't do it again. There's a curse on him."
Li Huixi put down her hand, listened to Qin Ling's suggestion, walked to her side and asked her:
"curse?"
Qin Ling didn't waste any time and stretched out her right hand. Her palm also showed signs of woodiness.
Li Huixi felt a little strange, but before she could ask the question, Qin Ling gave her the answer:
"I have been able to absorb various attributes of living creatures around me since I was a child, such as hearing, vision, strength, and even diseases. Although I cannot actively cancel this strange absorption ability, I later discovered that I can control its extent."
"So what does this have to do with the curse you're talking about?"
"Later I discovered that I was not absorbing the attributes of other people, but the curses on them. The reason why my hearing would grow was because I would automatically curse the people around me and steal something from them. On the contrary , the curses on them will also be synchronized on me, I think you must have noticed that my condition today is a bit bad."
Li Huixi nodded, and then she understood why Qin Ling could stop other people's actions. It turned out that it was just to increase the degree of the curse.
As for this strange disease, maybe it was just like what she said, it was a curse. In a sense, she saved her life again.
As for the wooden man in front of him, if nothing unexpected happened, it was the middle-aged uncle himself. He had the same words as the fox conveyed, but he didn't expect that he could actually catch up to him.
In return, Li Huixi informed Qin Ling of this information and briefly introduced herself to her.
