Wilderness Age

Hearing the words, everyone looked over.

Xiao Nineteen listened carefully, and added: "Xiao Hei also said, don't get close to him, it will become the same."

Suo Tianyou looked at Xiao Jiujiu and his little pets thoughtfully, Zhou Xiaotong realized belatedly that the "little black" in the child's mouth was referring to the ant, her mouth opened slightly, and finally Still closed.

"It will be the same, does it mean that if we get close, we will also be controlled?" Wu Wei raised his hands and feet and made a puppet show.

"Yes." Xiao Nineteen nodded affirmatively.

For a moment, everyone's footsteps were frozen, and they didn't dare to take half a step forward.

After observing for 5 minutes from a distance of [-] meters, Ma Yelin still looked like that, and he couldn't see what caused it.

Yu Ze had some guesses in his heart, but he couldn't be sure. He looked at Chu Xingzhou, who shook his head, and Yu Ze understood that the wood spirit couldn't find any valuable clues. He turned to the child and said, "Little Nineteen, You said that Xiao Hei has seen this before, when and under what circumstances?"

Xiao Nineteen carefully recounted the story told by Ant Xiao Hei, without missing any small details. Xiao Hei's brain capacity is limited, he can't remember the date, and the description of the object's appearance and movements is also vague. Xiao Nineteen repeatedly talked to it After confirming it several times, it was finally restored that the event that the little ant saw should have happened at least four or five days ago. The place was by a small river on the edge of the willow forest. What it saw were not people, but a group of small animals.

Limited by the difficult language ability of the ant Xiaohei, they can't know what kind of animal it is. They can only know that they belong to the same ethnic group and act collectively. Their body size ranges from ordinary cats to large dogs. Short tail, different body colors, brown, black, gray and white flowers.

At that time, the group was resting and drinking by the river, and one of the small cubs was the first to show a strange appearance. It dawdled in place, spun around with its legs crooked, and made strange movements. A big cub came over to push it. , failed to get it back to normal.After a while, the group was about to leave, but the cub's dawdling aroused the dissatisfaction of several adult beasts. They pushed the cub from the left and right sides, urging it to keep up with the group.

The cub's limbs were extremely uncoordinated, and it fell to the ground with a slap when it was squeezed. The adult beasts were very puzzled and made small noises around it.At this time, a male beast turned around and roared, walked back from the front of the group, and arched the cub with its hard nose, the whole group also stopped, some came to watch, and some stopped and waited in place.

Several adult beasts worked hard for a long time but failed to bring the cub back to normal, and gradually became agitated. The male beast suspected of being the leader snorted and walked around the cub three times to the left and three times to the right. The beast lowered its head and huddled next to the cub, whining.

Suddenly, the female beast stopped crying, its legs trembled, its chubby body twitched twice, and then it started acting strangely like a cub.

The leader roared angrily, rushed over and knocked the female beast into the air, this action startled the whole group, the roars of panic followed one after another, but the female beast remained unmoved, struggled to get up, and continued to act as a beast on the spot. Behavior that the crowd cannot understand.

What's more frightening is that this strange phenomenon gradually spread in the group, more and more individuals joined in, and began to twist, jump, and kick meaninglessly, as if they even forgot who they were, ignoring The call of the ethnic group, immersed in the frantic "dance" ceremony.

Ant Xiaohei watched this weird carnival, because he was unwilling to abandon the group, none of the leader of the male beast and the beasts he led left. The final result was that every individual in the group was infected by the strange disease, Losing themselves, they danced tirelessly day and night, as if being pulled by some strange force, making them unable to stop even if they didn't eat or drink.

Two days later, a beast that danced to the edge stumbled and fell into the river. Its bulky body slowly sank to the bottom of the water, where it found eternal peace.Then the herd, inspired, fell in line into the water, and when the splash of the last beast subsided, the grotesque drama came to an end.

The story made everyone present fall into silence.

"Did they commit suicide consciously? Can Brother Ma still understand what we're saying now?" Zhou Xiaotong and Xi Wei exchanged glances. This always optimistic girl's eyes were filled with bewilderment and hesitation. She turned to Suo Tianyou, "Boss, what should we do?"

Yu Ze was also looking at them, Ma Yelin was not one of them, so they didn't interrupt, but the answer was already in everyone's mind.

When the atmosphere of silence lingered among the crowd, Ma Yelin suddenly twisted, and then fell to the ground with a bang.

Everyone looked over. The heavy fall on his face not only made the bridge of his nose and the corners of his mouth crooked, but also a bright red blood flowed out from under his nose.

After a normal person falls, they often stand up with their hands on the ground, knees and calves. This is a movement that even a two- or three-year-old child can do, but the thing controlling Ma Yelin doesn't seem to know how to act as a child. How a person should act, his hands and feet twisted at strange angles, and even his head rubbed against the ground, like a fish out of water bouncing weakly when it is dying.

Little Nineteen looked at him with trepidation in his heart, he looked at the two adults he trusted the most - Chu Xingzhou and Yu Ze, with great confusion written on his little face: "What's wrong with him?"

Yu Ze was also not sure what happened to Ma Yelin.

He looked at Chu Xingzhou, and what puzzled him was that such an accident happened in the willow forest, and there were quite a few individuals involved in the group, and the wood spirit, whose control ability was enough to cover the entire forest, didn't know about it?

Lutuanzi floated beside Chu Xingzhou, the light flickered, while Chu Xingzhou looked solemn.

Yu Ze felt something was wrong, he suddenly realized that Chu Xingzhou had been silent for a long time?

His thoughts flipped forward, back to when Chu Xingzhou found him, the two had nineteen bouts with Wu Wei, and then found Suo Tianyou, Chu Xingzhou explained to the other party and led the way, and then came all the way until now, In the middle, Chu Xingzhou hardly said anything unless necessary, and he didn't express his views or opinions on the strange appearance in front of him.Is there really no clue to explore, or is there something inconvenient to say?

It's a bit strange.

Just as a trace of suspicion flashed across his mind, Suo Tianyou interrupted his thoughts and attracted his attention.

"We can't save him."

Suo Tianyou said, this means giving up on Ma Yelin. It doesn't sound good to say it. After all, anyone can be the one who is given up, and no one wants to be the one who is given up. But when this choice is really made , but there is no way to blame.

Xi Wei bit her lower lip, her sadness overflowing in her words: "Can't we do something? We can only let him go like this..."

Suo Tianyou laughed at himself. A few days ago, they boasted that they were the number one team of supernatural beings in Ningcheng. Now their team is in disarray. He didn't mean to persuade Xi Wei to say that his death was unclear. There are many of them, though this is the new reality of this world.

It has been more than a month since the catastrophe happened, and everyone is forced to get used to and adapt to the sudden death and various unimaginable dangers.The world is covered with a veil, the previous cognition has been subverted, and everything people face is mysterious and unknown.

In such a world, people are powerless. They can't save everyone, and they can't even guarantee that they can continue to breathe and see the new rising sun tomorrow. There is no other way than to make themselves stronger and adapt to live. a better way.

It was getting late and everyone was not in a hurry. Suo Tianyou's team and Wu Wei had narrowly escaped death. Their superficial injuries were healed, and they also needed to rest mentally, so they continued to stay in the willow forest for this night. Recharge your batteries.

The location they chose was on the edge of the willow forest, close to the river mentioned by Ant Xiaohei, keeping a safe distance of more than 50 meters.

Yu Ze wanted to see the place where the herd of beasts fell into the river a few days ago, and after asking Xiao Nineteen for directions, he dragged Chu Xingzhou along.

They walked upstream along the river bank, where the sparse yellow grass grew and scattered stones were crushed on it.

Yu Ze pulled Chu Xingzhou out alone to ask him if he had discovered anything else, but until he left the crowd and made sure that there was no one else around, Chu Xingzhou still walked quietly with his eyes down.

"Xiaozhou, is the wood spirit still by your side?"

"Huh?" Chu Xingzhou was stunned for a few seconds before he realized, and when he saw Yu Ze's concerned eyes, he returned to his nonchalant look.

Yu Ze frowned, and began to feel a little worried. Could it be that the previous battle was too traumatic, and the continued mental suppression of the wood spirit in the future made Chu Xingzhou consume too much?

"Do you have anything to ask it?" Chu Xingzhou called out the wood spirit, and a green light cluster floated in front of the two of them.

Yu Ze shook his head: "I just find it strange, if it is the incarnation of this forest and the collection of all consciousness in the forest, why doesn't it know anything about that strange phenomenon?"

"This guy is not honest either. Whether you believe it or not is up to us, so don't pay too much attention to it."

The light group in front trembled, because the spiritual link that maintained the communication between him and the wood spirit had been cut off, Yu Ze didn't know if it said something.

They walked to the place where the herd of beasts had an accident, and there was no trace of it.

Chu Xingzhou suddenly said: "The wood spirit said that it can look back on what happened here within a certain period of time, would you like to take a look together?"

Yu Ze couldn't help looking at the wood spirit: "It still has such abilities?"

Chu Xingzhou explained: "Yes, it's just limited to this willow forest. All the leaves here are equivalent to one of its nerve endings. What the leaves see and hear is what the wood spirit sees and hears. Coupled with its ability to control the mind, it can reinterpret what happened in the past in the human mind."

In this way, Yu Ze can understand that this is not the ability to truly go back in time, but just an omniscient and omnipotent ability that is manifested in a certain time and space by the wood spirit's racial characteristics combined with its special abilities.

Yu Ze thought of the discomfort he felt when the wood spirit reminded him of his past life memories, he shook his head, raised his eyebrows and said: "So, he knew about this strange incident, and he said earlier that he didn't know that it had nothing to do with it, but just Shake the pot?"

"I can't say that. Although it can know everything that happened in the woods, it doesn't mean that it will always care about everything that happens in the woods. At least some things that seem uninteresting to it, It won’t take it to heart.” In fact, to put it bluntly, it’s the nature of a child, who only sees fun things, and only pays attention to things that interest him, and all the criteria for judging “fun” and “interesting” are in Mu Ling himself.

Yu Ze understood.

Let's get back to the business, whether to let the wood spirit project in his mind, Yu Ze himself has lingering fears about the mental influence exerted by the wood spirit, and since he needs to use the ability of thought control, he has to stay alert, in case During the process, the wood spirit turned against the water, and it would not be fun for two people to be controlled by it together.

Yu Ze said: "Come and see, I will guard for you."

There is no need to argue about this point, Chu Xingzhou nodded and said yes, and then started.

The whole process lasted about 5 minutes.

Chu Xingzhou remained standing, with the wood spirits flickering in front of him.

Yu Ze guarded carefully, not only to prevent the wood spirit from breaking his mind, but also to prevent other accidents.

At the end, the wood spirit returned to normal, and Chu Xingzhou did not move.

"How?" Yu Ze asked.

The sky was dim, and he couldn't see the dim light in Xingzhou's eyes clearly.