Small wood

After driving for several days, going out of the small road into the forest, out of the forest to the small road, almost all of them are very remote places, uninhabited, and occasionally Qian Sheng will leave occasionally to buy dry food, but most of them will not leave for half a day. It seems to know the distance traveled very well, and it is clear where to stop or where to go.

At night, there will be crows falling beside them, like a shadow blending into the night, falling silently.At first, there was only one every two days, and later, there was one almost every day.

Those crows had never made a sound, and their pitch-black wings flapped almost silently, and sometimes they flew without anyone even noticing it until they felt the sight of the pair of bean eyes.

However, the crow hadn't been to the crow in the past few days, and even Amu noticed something unusual among them, which made him nervous for no reason.

Yun Duo scratched his hooves below him and snorted from time to time.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and there was no wind in the forest, so the horses were restless from time to time.

Amu forgot to look at the sky, it was noon, the sun was hanging yellow and orange in the sky, and it was completely covered by the lush leaves.The clusters of leaves were very green, which made Amu feel at ease. After all, he grew up in the mountains and forests and was close to trees.

"There is a stream nearby. I'll go get some water." Zhou Xingping was tall and strong, and he was prone to heat. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, got off his horse, and tied the horse to a tree.

Several people got off their horses and waited for Zhou Xingping.Qian Sheng was also a little hot, sitting lazily among the grass and leaning against a tree, with his eyes closed, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his face, his expression was very relaxed, he couldn't tell how hot it was.

Amu wiped his forehead. In fact, he thought it was okay, but he kept riding the horse, and the horse sweat stuck to his body, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. He thought about seeing a bigger lake next time and throwing himself and the clouds away. Go in and have a good wash.

He knelt down and fanned the wind with his hands next to Gu Lin: "My lord, is it hot?"

Gu Lin grabbed his hand and shook his head.

There was not even a trace of sweat on his face, and his palms were dry and warm, not as hot and damp as Amu's.

Zhou Xingping came back after a while, and threw the water bottle he had packed to Qian Sheng.He looked at the hands held by Amu and Gu Lin, his tiger-like eyes were a little scary, his brows were slightly frowned, and he threw the kettle to Amu without saying a word.Amu quickly picked it up and put it beside the saddle.

Zhou Xingping is also really strange this time. When we first met, he was still such a bold man, but now he looks more and more impatient. Sometimes when Amu looks into his eyes, he always feels that there is something...something, Amu can't tell. He had never seen that kind of look before, so he couldn't tell what it meant, but he had an intuition that it was not a good look.Sometimes Gu Lin would glance at Zhou Xingping indifferently, but Zhou Xingping always lowered his eyes respectfully.But when Gu Lin didn't notice, he would look at Amu again, looking more and more dissatisfied.

Amu didn't know where he had offended him, so he didn't say much.

As soon as he patted Yun Duo's buttocks and fed him a few sips of water, Amu heard the chirping of birds. He was overjoyed and looked up quickly, and happened to see a big bird's nest hanging on a branch, and a bird was in the nest Jumping up and down, screaming non-stop.

Now is the day for the birds to hatch their eggs, and Amu remembered that he had missed several bird's nests, and he happened to bump into one today, and it was still on top of his head.

He stretched out his fingers, jumped for joy, and said to Gu Lin, "Master, there must be eggs in the nest, I'll go and get them."

Gu Lin looked at the place Amu was pointing at, and when he saw the bird's nest, he nodded, with a smile in his eyes.

Qian Sheng also looked at it, and laughed: "The bird's egg can be as big as it is, and it's not enough to fit between the teeth."

Amu snorted at him: "You'll know when you see it, it's enough for two meals for us." After speaking, he was about to climb up the tree.

Qian Sheng said again: "No one will follow you at such a high height, be careful of your butt blooming."

Amuli ignored him, Gu Lin just looked at him, not worried, Amu grew up in the mountains and forests, climbing a tree is really nothing.

The three men watched as Amu climbed up the tree like a monkey in a few steps. When the young man pulled up his body, it was fine that his pants didn't move, but they looked a little short when he moved, revealing two sections of white and slender ankles. , obviously very delicate, but it doesn't make people feel feminine at all, but has the restless vigor unique to teenagers.

Amu climbed proficiently, and the familiar feeling made him very happy. He climbed between the branches of the tree, sat on his buttocks, and found a good place to stand with his feet. With a hard effort, he stood up on the tree. After picking up a branch, the body became stable. When I looked down, my sight was blocked by dense leaves, and I couldn't see clearly.

The female bird was still chirping, with its wings spread out, as if it was very wary of him as an uninvited guest, and its sharp beak was about to poke him.

Amu avoided it with a smile, grabbed the bird quickly, and threw it down. Anyway, the bird has wings, so it is impossible to fall to death, but it still takes some effort to get up.

Looking at the bird's nest, there are six round eggs lying there, similar to those eggs, flesh-colored, and they look delicious.

Amu took two steps forward, stood on the branch of the tree, reached out to grab the egg, and was about to put it in his pocket when he suddenly noticed an unusual breathing sound.

Very light, very light, almost deliberately held, very flat, very slow, well hidden.

But Amu knew that he could hear correctly. In the mountains and forests, his ears were always more sensitive.

He is not the only one on this tree.

I was in a panic, but Amu didn't yell.He pretended to be slippery, and several eggs fell.When he went to get the eggs again, he pretended to be sorry and was about to put the eggs in his back pocket.Because of A-Niang's special instructions, A-Mu kept Dad's knife with him all the time.With luck, he'd be able to get the knife out before the people in the tree sensed his intentions.

But he was not very lucky.Just when his hand was about to touch the knife, a small silver knife stabbed towards him suddenly. The knife was sharpened like a needle, with unbelievably many edges and corners, and each side shone with a sharp luster.

But Amu was not slow, he suddenly turned his head and lay down on the tree trunk, directly avoiding it.

He looked towards the place where the knife came out, but he saw a person almost hanging upside down on a slender branch, but the branch didn't move at all. He covered his face, and his eyes were colder than the knife in his hand. Seeing Amu He ran away without any surprise, turned his wrist and stabbed him again.

Amu did not dodge, turned around with his strength, the knife directly pierced into the trunk behind him, and sank more than half of the blade at once, but there was no sound at all, just like the rough and thick trunk block tofu.

Taking advantage of this moment, Amu shouted under the tree: "There are..." Before he could finish his words, the masked man's knife had already been pulled out and stabbed towards his temple.

Amu was surrounded by tree trunks and branches, there was no way to hide, he gritted his teeth, and was about to raise his hand to block it, but in a second, he was pushed away by the person who suddenly appeared in front of him.

After all, he was standing on a branch, and he had nowhere to rely on his strength, so he fell back and fell down all at once.

He clearly saw that the person who was standing in his position just now was cut on the arm by the knife, but it was only cut, but it was cut open by a whole piece, and the blood spurted out all at once, splashing Amu's face.

He had nothing to hold on to, and fell on his back. The feeling of weightlessness almost tore his heart, and the fear made his vision clear.He saw the leaves that turned into straight colors due to the rapid fall, he saw the person who pushed him fall from the branch without making a sound, he saw many people suddenly jumping out from the dense branches and leaves around him , silently and so fast that it almost became a swooping swallow.

The sun's light slipped past Amu's eyes, making him white, and he closed his eyes. He thought he would fall to the ground soon, but no, the time in the mid-air was longer than he expected, and he couldn't even cry out. He couldn't get it out, he flipped over and fell, his arms were flailing around but he couldn't grab anything, he curled up in pain because of his fear, and just when he thought he was about to fall to the ground, his back was caught by a pair of hands.The momentum knocked the man next to him to the ground with him.

He heard a familiar muffled snort, and he knew it was Gu Lin's, but he was so dizzy from the fall that he couldn't control his body for a long time.

"Amu? Amu?" Gu Lin hugged him, calling his name, wiping his face with his fingers, his voice shaking violently.Maybe it was because he realized that the blood on his face was not his, so he relaxed a little, and the hand holding him was still very tight.

Amu opened his eyes, but still couldn't say anything, his ears were buzzing.As he landed, he heard a thud a few seconds behind him.He was scared in his heart, but he still turned his head to look at that place, but Gu Lin covered his eyes: "Don't look."

The sound seemed to be across the lake, far away from Amu, Amu pretended not to hear it, and forced Gu Linshou to look at it.

Sure enough, there was a person lying not far from him. His head hit the rock, and it broke like an egg shell. Blood was left all over the ground, and half of his left hand was missing.

Amu had never seen anyone die beside him, so he was almost stunned.

"Let's go!" Qian Sheng came to them at some point, holding their horses in his hands. He was bent over so he couldn't see, and the arrows behind him shot towards them like silver needles.

Maybe it was because Amu's face was a little scary, Qian Sheng felt something, turned around and shook his sleeves, and the arrow was rolled off by him.

At the same time, Amu could clearly hear the sound of the knives intersecting, the piercing of the flesh, and the groaning of pain.He reacted almost immediately and struggled to get up.

After standing up, Amu could see the surroundings clearly. It was like a Shura field. The two teams fought desperately, the masked one rushed over regardless of life and death, and the other pair ignored the obstruction of life and death, so much blood that it could rise to red mist.