Chapter 37 Blood and Roses (Part 3)
He Yu gritted his teeth and clenched his hands: "Who wants to follow you!"
After he finished speaking, he pushed through the crowd and headed straight for the tunnel road on the upper left. It was a dark night with no moon and only the lights in the village could barely illuminate the surroundings. He Yu's figure gradually disappeared into the night.
Jiang Cangshu did not try to persuade them to stay. After He Yu left, the team began to waver before separating. After a while, only six players were willing to form a team, and the remaining three players acted alone.
Doctor Wu Yun stood at the back of the team, looking at the backs of the four players who had gone ahead, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The core of the A-level world is teamwork. Unless the players who are alone are very strong or have powerful permanent props, they are just moving targets and are forced to become the playthings of NPCs.
What's more, there is an NPC in this world known as the "Heart Eater", and acting alone is undoubtedly seeking death.
After Jiang Cangshu recognized the faces of his teammates, he said, "Let's go. Remember not to fall behind."
Zuo Lie walked up to Jiang Cangshu and said, "Don't worry, sister. I will definitely stay with you all the time."
Cui Daoping grabbed his collar and pushed him back: "Why don't you just let her hold you."
Zuo Lie touched his muscles and laughed, "Aren't you afraid that I can't hold you?"
Cui Daoping: "..."
Following the path into the village, the low houses were brightly lit, and the residual light was reflected outside the houses, casting patches of light and shadows. But the strange thing was that no one in the village was walking outside, and there was no sound even inside the houses.
Although it is night time now, it is definitely not time to go to bed.
The team was led by Jiang Cangshu. They walked on the path between the houses and could only hear their own footsteps and breathing.
In a house that passed by them, Xiang Liangyu was waving her wings with her feathers in disarray, pecking at Lu Jifeng with her beak open: "Are you sick? I told you to touch my hair in a smooth way! Who told you to touch my hair against my hair? Who told you to touch my hair against my hair? Who told you to touch my hair against my hair?"
Lu Jifeng sat as still as a bell, even though she had bitten off a lot of his hair.
After she gave the order to comb her hair, she heard Lu Jifeng's sneer. By the time she realized something was wrong, Xiang Liangyu had already been grabbed by the wings by this man. She endured Lu Jifeng's torture of having her hair combed in anger and annoyance.
Xiang Liangyu then realized why furry animals hate humans touching the back of their fur so much, because it is really annoying!
She combed his fur and pecked him fiercely until she saw the players through the window.
Perhaps it was because of this body that she had no hunger for humans before, but now, just by looking at them, she felt hungry again.
Lu Jifeng straightened his hair that was messed up by her pecks, and covered his eyes with his hair: "Are you hungry?"
Xiang Liangyu: "I'm hungry."
Lu Jifeng grabbed Xiang Liangyu's head with one hand and asked her to look at the group of players outside the window: "Choose one from among them. You can still have a good meal before the village chief comes back."
Xiang Liangyu kept his eyes on Zuo Lie. He was the most delicious one in the team, but he always walked with Jiang Cangshu, so there was no chance for him to make a move.
Lu Jifeng followed her gaze and said, "That bald guy? Okay."
Xiang Liangyu held him down and pointed at the figure in the spine forest with the tip of his wing: "No, I want to eat him."
From their perspective, they could clearly see a player walking along the spine-like forest path. Xiang Liangyu said, "I'll go by myself. Didn't you complete your mission?"
Lu Jifeng did not refuse and agreed with her: "Okay."
Spine Forest
He Yu was walking on the forest path, holding a glass bottle, and he gradually began to hesitate.
It wasn't that he didn't want to go, but when he stepped into the Spine Forest, the system automatically issued a personal mission: [Player He Yu has triggered the single-player mission [Call for Help in the Spine Forest]. Every night, the villagers can always hear a faint cry for help.]
[This is a magical road. During the day, it is full of greenery and fragrance, and walking on it is like being in a dream. At night, the vines of the side branches entwine above your head, like a gradually shrinking esophagus, gradually tempting you to go deeper.]
[Player He Yu's mission has been released: Find the truth behind the call for help from the Spine Forest, progress (0/10). ]
Now he couldn't leave even if he wanted to.
He Yu used his points to buy a three-color flashlight that can detect. White light means safety, green light means danger is approaching, and red light means danger is approaching.
[You have spent 15 points to successfully purchase [Three-color flashlight], and the remaining personal points are 56. ]
Character information:
【Name: He Yu
Identity: Wolf Hunter
Health: 100%
Usable props: (C-level) soda bottle (cannot be broken or smashed)]
The Ridge Forest Road does not look long or narrow from the outside, but when you actually walk on it, you will find that what is truly daunting about this road is not its length, but the trees.
The trees, darker than the night sky , grew wildly, their branches slanting out like ghosts baring their fangs and claws, enough to scare people at a glance. The Spine Forest was not far from the village, but it was not so close that the light from the village could seep in, so that the forest path was pitch dark.
As soon as He Yu turned on the flashlight, a beam of green light illuminated the surroundings. He Yu's hands trembled and he didn't dare to look back.
He moved the flashlight carefully, moving it from the tree next to him all the way up. The branches and vines above his head were intertwined, blocking out the sun. Under the green light, the trees above his head revealed their true color - black.
He Yu's palms were sweating and the soda bottle kept slipping. He rubbed his palms on his clothes in annoyance. Just as he was about to hold it again, the flashlight suddenly shone on a place, and then the sound of leaves rustling suddenly sounded in the silence.
"Save me, save...save me..."
Faint calls surrounded him. He Yu lost his grip on the glass bottle in his hand and it fell to the ground with a dull sound.
He picked up the glass bottle, held the narrow mouth tightly and walked towards the source of the sound closest to him. The dark green light shone on a tree. Every tree trunk here was surrounded by bushes and weeds, and the sound came from those obscured tree trunks.
Cold sweat broke out on He Yu's forehead, his heart beat faster and faster, and he could hardly hear his own breathing.
He touched the weeds with trembling hands and did not dare to savor the touch carefully. He made up his mind and pushed the weeds aside violently.
The flashlight turned red in an instant, and a crimson human face appeared in his wide-open eyes. On the head of the human face stood a pair of furry wolf ears.
A small breeze blew by his ears, and He Yu trembled uncontrollably, as if an electric current was running from the soles of his feet to his head. He did not dare to look back.
The red light of the flashlight became stronger and stronger. He Yu looked at the face illuminated by the red light. Before this, he had never had such observation ability at this moment.
This is a combination of a wolf face and a human face .
The wolf's mouth opened and closed, revealing its fangs: "Hungry...hungry..."
A cold voice sounded in my ears: "I'm hungry."
He Yu shook his head in fear. He saw a huge black shadow behind him from the corner of his eye and said weakly, “No… No—!”
The red light flickered for a moment, and the flashlight could not withstand the strong smell of danger and completely stopped working.
The surroundings fell into darkness again.
Xiang Liangyu swallowed He Yu in one gulp, and his hungry stomach finally swelled up.
[Congratulations to the Forest Guardian for killing the Wolf Hunters (2/5). Player items have been randomly looted. ]
[NPC can use props: soda bottle (C level)
Uses: Cannot be broken or smashed. 】
Xiang Liangyu looked at the soda bottle on the ground and twitched his lips: "What weird props these are."
She confiscated it, picked it up and stuffed it into a wolf-faced mouth, blocking his cry for help: "It's too noisy, wait until the players come before shouting."
Countless wolf faces shut up completely.
[The mission [Spine Forest's Call for Help] has failed.]
[The player He Yu's health has reached zero, and he is dead. ]
Hearing this announcement, the team walking in the village stopped. Jiang Cangshu turned his head to look at the spine road, pursed his lips and said nothing.
Zuo Lie patted his chest in fear and said, "If you ask me, that guy is looking for death. Wouldn't it be better to act together? He had to show off alone. Now he's dead. He'd better have the immortal gold medal to be reborn. Otherwise, he's really unworthy of his status as a high-level player by looking for death like this."
Jiang Cangshu glanced at him and made a gesture to keep quiet.
They had reached the end of the village, and only then did they realize that the village was actually in a ring shape, with a row of mounds at the end and a circle of small lakes outside the mounds. There were huge lotus leaves planted in the water, and the lake water hidden under the lotus leaves was actually red in the night.
Zuo Lie didn't dare to look directly at it, and couldn't help but muttered quietly: "Based on my many years of experience, the bottom of the lake must be full of corpses."
Jiang Cangshu stared at the lake, and suddenly saw a white half-moon under a leaf, but when she looked up at the sky, it was pitch black without even a star.
Where is the moon in the lake?
Jiang Cangshu held the mobile phone in his hand and turned around calmly: "The villagers said that the village chief is still outside hunting wolves. Let's go to the village and wait for him first."
Zuo Lie was puzzled: "Why? Don't you think it's strange? Since we entered the village, no, since we entered the forest, we didn't seem to hear a single wolf howl."
"Since the village chief went to hunt wolves, how is it possible that there was no wolf howling? And in the village, except for Lu, the villager has not seen anyone else. How strange. Could it be that the wolf slaves here are also dead?"
His analysis was very clear until he asked Jiang Cangshu the last question.
Cui Daoping: " Bald people are smart."
Zuo Lie: “What do you mean?”
Jiang Cangshu stopped walking suddenly, and Zuo Lie bumped into her without noticing: "What are you doing, sister? Why did you stop so suddenly..."
He touched his head and grimaced, but when he saw the person in front of Jiang Cangshu, he instantly fell silent. At the same time, he felt that his headache was gone, and he felt heartache.
In front of the team, a gray-blue figure stood in the middle of the road. His hair seemed to have grown a little longer, completely covering his eyes, making it impossible to see the emotions in his eyes.
He was already pale, lacking a trace of life, and with the blindfold on, he looked even more lifeless. At this moment, he stood motionless blocking the players' way, looking like a ghost blocking the way, extremely eerie.
Zuo Lie's legs went limp, and he fell in front of the person behind him. The player Jiang Mingxian held his shoulders and pulled him away from him: "Stay away from me."
Jiang Cangshu looked straight ahead, and her hands were quickly dialing on the buttons of the mobile phone. With a "beep", she put the mobile phone to her ear: "I am Jiang Cangshu, your best friend. You promised to take me to see the village chief before. Where is the village chief now?"
Lu Jifeng's voice came slowly: "The village chief is dead."
