At this moment, the golden sky merged into chaos, and the bonfire by the river seemed particularly bright. After the chicken with the divine head was roasted, a strange meaty aroma began to waft out.
Among the meat aromas, there is the caramel aroma of burning fat, the meat aroma of roasting lean meat, and the light seasoning aroma of pepper, cumin, and salt. These flavors blend with each other and continue to escape under the flame roasting. scattered.
As soon as this meaty aroma is inhaled into the nostrils, it immediately seems to have taken root from the tongue to the stomach, and it is so greedy that saliva flows out.
Chickens and geese are delicious, dogs are meat-matched to gods, and everyone is tired from traveling and driving. The most eaten food on the road is dry food that is too hard to bite, and dried meat that has been dried by the sun. These things have been dried out of moisture for the convenience of storage and travel. When eating, it is either grilled or cooked. After several times of tossing, the flavor has long since disappeared. The best tasting game must be freshly killed and eaten.
Here, seeing that the roasted chicken is already cooked, these craftsmen can't wait to eat these roasted chickens. Even Yue Guanchao swallowed his saliva.
One of the craftsmen tore off a large chicken drumstick and took a bite of the meat like a wild wolf. The other craftsmen looked at him eagerly: "How is it?"
The craftsman had a mouth full of oily flowers, shook his head and said: "It's so delicious, better than ordinary domestic chickens, and I wouldn't exchange it for dragon meat in the sky."
"Give me a piece, give me a piece, give me a piece."
With the craftsman's information, the other craftsmen rushed up, tore the freshly roasted chicken into two pieces, and ate it happily. Yue Erpao originally wanted to go up and tear a piece, but Yue Guanchao stopped him: "You Don’t you think the meat is a bit too fragrant?”
Just as Yue Erpao was about to step forward, he grinned and said, "That's not true, my teeth are almost burning."
"I'm not talking about this kind of aroma. This kind of aroma seems to be seductive. If you smell it carefully, you will feel something tickling your heart. This is definitely not a normal aroma."
Yue Guanchao could say this because he had already smelled a strange smell. He and Yue Erpao had often hunted game in the mountains to eat. To say that game was delicious, it was only because the meat was fresh and the roasted flavor was different from that of domesticated meat. There is no difference at all. At most, the smell lingers in your nose and makes you want to eat it.
At this moment, the smell of these divine chickens is completely different from the past game meat and barbecue.
After Yue Guanchao smelled the smell, it was true that he wanted to eat it, but another thought appeared in his mind - that is, to take away the whole roast chicken and not share it with anyone. Even when he thought of sharing the roast chicken with these people, On the contrary, I felt a little angry and wanted to kill them all, or at least give them a beating so that they would not dare to come forward.
This is strange!
He knew in his heart that this strong desire for monopoly was definitely not what he meant. Even if he was greedy for something before, he never had the thought of monopolizing the whole roast chicken. In a place like Danxia Shenji Ridge, he could smell this smell. Extraordinary burnt aroma, it is absolutely unusual to have such thoughts.
Thinking of this, Yue Guanchao became wary of this scent, and quickly held his breath to slow down his breathing. He felt that the unusually violent thoughts disappeared, and then he was sure that his guess was right.
“Isn’t it normal for grilled chicken to smell delicious?”
Ban Shu handed over the roast chicken, but before he could hold it firmly, Yue Guanchao knocked it to the ground. At this moment, the craftsmen who were eating meat around him swarmed up and started to snatch the roast chicken that fell on the ground. Even if it was stained with soil, there was no trace of it. They slap it clean, tear it open and gobble it into their mouths.
Ban Shu was startled by this scene, and immediately understood what Yue Guanchao meant. No matter how greedy these craftsmen were, they would never swarm up and snatch things that fell on the ground. This kind of monopoly desire that was not afraid of getting dirty was obvious. It's not normal.
"No, there's something wrong with this chicken."
Seeing these craftsmen like this, Yue Erpao also realized that something was wrong, and he no longer wanted to eat roast chicken.
At this moment, the three of them turned to look at the craftsmen. They had finished eating the roasted chicken. They were already eyeing the uncooked chickens. They picked up the roasted chicken regardless of the heat. He stuffed it into his mouth until his mouth was full of blood.
"Don't eat it, don't eat it."
Banshu walked up to them and wanted to take away the roasted chicken from them. What came back was a look of terror like wild beasts. They were like wild dogs guarding their food. As long as Banshu dared to come close, they would immediately grin and scream. A warning sound sounded.
This situation is obviously a side effect of eating meat!
The people on the gentle slope could clearly see their situation by the river, and immediately some craftsmen came down and tied up these craftsmen.
At this moment, these craftsmen were all tied to the stone pillars. Even though they were tied, they could still be seen constantly breaking free from the ropes, trying to escape the shackles of the ropes.
Yue Guanchao observed carefully that the appearance of these craftsmen still maintained human skin, but their eyes were so evil that they looked at all living things as if they were looking at something edible!
Their eyes kept turning up and trembling, with only a tiny pupil left. Sanbai's eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and even the grease around their mouths were wet with saliva. Their mouths were crooked and they kept muttering that they were hungry and wanted to eat. He keeps coming and going, but he can never calm down.
Ban Nu walked near them and touched the forehead of one of them. After a moment, his expression turned solemn: "In their minds, there is a consciousness that does not belong to them."
"What does it mean to not belong to their consciousness?"
Song Siyuan finished busy with the situation on the slope and came to the river. Seeing that Ban Nu had noticed the situation, she asked curiously.
Ban Nu became serious: "It's as if someone is controlling their brains, and a voice echoes in their heads, eating all living things, eating all living things, these craftsmen are hypnotized, as long as they are alive, they can They were devoured, but luckily we tied them up, if they haven’t woken up after eating the roast chicken, we living people will be their food.”
"Impossible? Are these roasted chickens so powerful? They can make people suffer from rabies attacks."
Yue Guanchao looked at the remaining bones on the ground. The cooked things had killed even the germs.
Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight and observed these craftsmen: "Can I understand that there are other people's souls in their bodies?"
Ban Nu shook his head: "It's not a soul, it's just a consciousness that makes them unable to control their actions. As for how this consciousness was implanted, it's unknown. I can only say that this god-headed chicken's Meat is not simple.”
After this accident, they had to knock the craftsmen unconscious first, then send them up the slope and tie them to the stone pillars above.
Gui Fangzong checked the situation of these craftsmen and explained: "The old farmers near Shennongjia also said that the divine chicken can summon the mountain gods. They ate these messengers and were probably punished by something."
"Is there really a mountain god?"
Yue Guanchao felt something strange in his heart when he listened to Gui Fangzong's words.
"It doesn't have to be a mountain god, but there must be something that can control these people through the flesh and blood of the god-headed chicken. We can only step up patrols at night to avoid anything strange happening at night."
With the experience of these craftsmen, they were much more cautious at night. After filling their bellies and doing some repairs, they immediately got into the tent, patrolling when they should, and being vigilant when they should.
After such a night, fortunately, nothing unexpected happened, and no wild beasts attacked the camp. When the sky turned green, they each came out of the tent.
"Yue Guanchao, come here quickly, look at these people."
Xu Xiake and the others came out of the tent and took a look around the stone pillars. Just at this glance, their eyes widened.
Yue Guanchao yawned and looked at Xu Xiake's signal. These craftsmen were still tied to the stone pillars, but they were already dead.
He walked up to these craftsmen. Although they could still be seen as humanoid, they had all turned into trees. Their limbs were like branches and trunks of trees, intertwined and gathered together to form a huge crown.
Above the tree crown, there are all kinds of strange hyphae and exotic flowers. These flowers and plants cannot be named at all, only their colors can be seen. The flowers are colorful and beautiful, making the corpse feel like it is buried in the flowers.
It can be seen that these branches grow from their abdomen, and it can be seen that the laceration appears at the position of the stomach. It is probably that something burst out of the stomach, and then continues to grow, becoming what they look like in front of them. Every craftsman is like this, and the branches and vines are intertwined with each other, looking like the crown of a giant tree, extremely lush.
"This kind of death is very similar to Ah Xi's situation."
Ban Nu looked at these corpses and his eyes became serious: "The problem arises here. Axi is from Guifang. We are not surprised that this happened, but these craftsmen are outsiders, why do such fungus trees and flowers appear? The circumstances of the burial.”
Song Siyuan noticed something was wrong and said, "Could it be that they were really punished by the mountain god? Then why are you who kill the chicken with the divine head okay, or are you saying that only the craftsmen who eat the chicken with the divine head will be punished?"
She knew that there was something wrong with the divine chicken that these craftsmen ate, and she thought that these people would be fine if they went crazy for a night, but she didn't expect that they were already dead, and her face immediately became solemn.
At this moment, the last ones to be afraid of are Yue Erpao and Ban Shu. If their chickens had not been knocked off by Yue Guanchao, they would definitely be the ones who turned into mycelium flower trees at this moment. Thinking of this, the two of them looked extremely expressionless. Ugly.
When Gui Fangzong saw this, he could only sigh: "Fortunately, not many people eat these things. I think this Shennongjia is very strange. In the future, whenever it comes to the things in Shennongjia, don't touch them easily, so as not to worry about it again." Such situations occur.”
"We are only halfway through the journey. I think we should hurry up as soon as possible to avoid any complications."
At the moment, Shenji Ridge is mysterious and unpredictable, and they are afraid that something unexpected will happen again, and they won't even have time to eat, so they immediately pack up their things and leave with their carriage.
They didn't dare to stop for a moment. They walked along the road between the river valleys for half a day before leaving the Danxia Basin, where huge peaks began to appear again.
