Xiao Wu turned his head to look at him, with a little confusion in his big eyes, "Cheng Gongzi, what's wrong?"
Why didn't I notice it?
” Cheng Muyou looked at the gray-black swamp in front of him and the perennial white mist on it, and said softly, "Do you think that this swamp is closer to us?"
” Xiao Wu was puzzled, "We are walking in the direction of it, and naturally we are getting closer and closer to it." ” "We are walking around, but because we have to search, we are walking very slowly, how can we be so close to it in less than a stick of incense."
Hearing him say this, Xiao Wu rubbed his eyes and looked ahead, only to find that Cheng Muyou was right, the swamp was only a few dozen steps away from them now, and some of the white mist above had drifted over, entangled between the tree trunks, like an ethereal white veil surrounding the forest.
But not long ago, the swamp was only exposed with a shallow black edge, and the depths could not be seen at all.
He was taken aback, "Cheng Gongzi, you mean that the swamp will move on its own?"
Coming towards us?
” Cheng Muyou nodded at him, and then looked at the rain pillar above his head, "The rain is too big, so the swamp has also spread, I'm afraid" He frowned, his face was embarrassed, and his eyes seemed to be sucked into the rain.
"Cheng Gongzi, what are you worried about?"
Cheng Muyou turned his face to look at him, "The swamp spread will fill in the only road leading to the outside in the village, and then the entire Jingmen Village will become an island, and the people inside will not be able to get out, and the people outside will not be able to enter." ” Xiao Wu still looked naïve, "But this rain will always stop, won't it?"
We're not going to be stuck here for the rest of our lives?
” Cheng Muyou just wanted to say that I was afraid that I would be trapped here for a few days, and you and I would not have the life to go out again, but after thinking about it, he was afraid that he would scare Xiao Wu and affect his morale, so he smiled reluctantly, "You are right, no matter how heavy the rain falls, it will always stop, and when the world is clear, all the dark corners will be illuminated by the sun." ” Xiao Wu didn't understand what he meant, so he grabbed his head and smiled a little embarrassedly, and continued to walk forward, but as soon as he took a few steps, he suddenly said "Huh", stopped, pointed ahead and turned back to Cheng Muyou and said, "Cheng Gongzi, you see there seems to be something standing there." ” Cheng Muyou followed his finger and looked forward, and sure enough, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow behind a tree trunk not far away, the shadow was more than half a person tall, and half of it was hidden from behind the tree, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a person or something else.
He glanced at Xiao Wu, both of them clenched their long swords in their hands, the cat lowered its body and outflanked it left and right, and tiptoed to a place parallel to the big tree, only to find that the thing behind the tree was actually a cowhide bag, a cowhide bag covered with mud and tightly tied with red rope.
"Cheng Gongzi, why is there a pocket in this forest?"
Xiao Wu's tense mood eased a little, he put down the long sword that had been in front of him, and walked towards the bag with Cheng Muyou, and when he reached it, he leaned down and looked at it carefully.
Cheng Muyou looked at the lines on the cowhide bag and muttered, "This bag looks very old, it is covered with thin mud, could it have been dug out of the swamp?"
” As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden "grunt" in the bag, and the body of the bag shook slightly, so startled that the two jumped out half a foot, and pointed their swords at the black bag at the same time.
"What's in there?
Is there a living creature?
Xiao Wu stared at it intently, and most of Fang Cai's enthusiasm and fighting spirit were extinguished.
"I don't know," Cheng Muyou's eyes locked on the bag, and he didn't dare to deviate at all, "You must be careful, don't get too close to it." ” As soon as he finished speaking, there was another "grunt" in the bag, and then, one corner collapsed, and the other side suddenly bulged, tearing the bag into a strange shape.
"Cheng Gongzi, could this be the family we are looking for, they may have been kidnapped by thieves and put in a bag?"
Xiao Wu had a look of sudden realization, and shouted loudly at Cheng Muyou.
What he said was not unreasonable, but for some reason, Cheng Muyou's heart seemed to beat a drum, his heart was beating non-stop, he looked at the pocket in front of him, and his thoughts were crumpled in his mind, and he couldn't find an exit.
"Cheng Gongzi, if you don't open the bag again, I'm afraid the people inside will be suffocated to death, he hasn't made a sound, I'm afraid that he can't breathe well, and his life is hanging by a thread."
Xiao Wu looked at Cheng Muyou anxiously, and saw that he was still standing dumbfounded, without reacting, so he simply stopped asking for his opinion, and the long sword was raised forward, and he drew a slender hole in the cowhide bag.
"Hula" The contents rolled out of the gap and overturned Xiao Wu's feet, and at the same time, a strange smell also gushed out of the cowhide bag, so that the two of them hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and retreated a few steps back.
"Cheng Gongzi, what is this?"
Xiao Wuqiang held back his nausea, leaned down to look at the black and slimy thing, and muttered, "It looks like it's a person." ” Cheng Muyou had already discovered that the thing curled up in a ball, with its head and feet tied together, was a human, but now, his eyes were attracted by the two hands that the man had slid down: the man's hands were meatless, resembling chicken claws, with crooked knuckles, and some fingers were abnormally swollen, which did not look like normal human fingers at all.
Looking up further, he saw that the man's whole body was covered with large and small patches and nodules, and there was a huge ulcer on his back, and the flesh was turned out, emitting a foul smell.
He was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly yelled at Xiao Wu, "Don't get too close to him, he has" Before he finished speaking, he heard Xiao Wu let out a terrible shout, his hands were on his waist, his eyes widened, and his body smashed to the ground with a "bang".
What's even more strange is that the person who was curled up on the ground just now has disappeared, and now in front of Cheng Muyou's eyes, only the little official who fell to the ground and an empty cowhide bag are left.
Cheng Muyou was horrified in his heart, he didn't know what was going on, he hurriedly rushed towards Xiao Wu, kept shaking his soft body, slapped his palm on his face a few times, and called out urgently, "Little brother, wake up, what's wrong with you?"
” But after shaking it a few times, he suddenly stopped moving, dropped Xiao Wu and took two steps back with his hands, and was terrified in his heart: Isn't this little servant exactly the same as Yan Niang?
Looks unharmed on the outside, but falls asleep.
He looked at the cowhide bag beside him again, and fear suddenly rolled up from the bottom of his heart like a tidal wave, wave after wave, completely annihilating his whole being.