Chapter 11 Eyes
We gradually went deeper into the forest area, and the ancient and strange trees of various shapes began to come into view. The towering sky trees, the trunks and the aerial roots from the branches were planted from the air to the ground, and the single trees formed a forest. Some aerial roots were entangled on other trees, hanging the attached trees, and the roots on the ground were crisscrossed, and ferns, lichens, moss, orchids and other creatures were attached.
The trees blocked most of the sunlight, and only the mottled and sparse light shone in through the branches and leaves of the trees. The forest was extremely quiet, and even the summer insects seemed to be silent, as if all living things had never entered this place, making the forest more mysterious and strange.
Under the wet leaves on the ground, there was slippery and soft mud and rotten wood, the clumps of vines and messy creeping plants made walking more difficult, and the sultry forests were extremely hot, almost every one of us was sweating profusely.
"Look, the long-tailed silkworm moth!" Xiangyu suddenly ran forward a few steps and stopped in front of a vine plant.
We walked forward and found a butterfly with a mint green body, which was several times larger than an ordinary butterfly. It felt like a peony parrot with spreading its wings. Its tentacles are yellow and its feet are brown. The biggest difference between it and ordinary butterflies is that the tails of the two wings are particularly long.
"It's so incredible. The long-tailed Silkworm Moth has such a big individual." Xiang Yu'an couldn't help but like it, and took out his mobile phone and kept taking pictures from all angles.
"Go away quickly, it looks like it will be foggy this day." The old man began to urge.
But Xiangyu was a little reluctant to leave, and girls always liked these.
"Xiangyu, let's go. When it gets foggy, we will really get lost in this marvel pool." Jisheng also said.
Xiangyu had no choice but to say goodbye to Butterfly reluctantly.
Not long after leaving, the old man suddenly stopped.
In the jungle, two big chickens, one male and one female, were seen foraging in the forest with six chickens.
The group of chickens are all blue and gray, with white hairs in their ears and crimson on their heads, as if they were wearing gentlemen's hats, with special tail feathers in the center and raised up, with a proud and dignified figure. They walked by us calmly.
Xiangyu wanted to pick up her phone to take a picture again, but the old man pressed her wrist and shook her head.
Just as we were watching the Blue Chicken family, the fog began to fog in the jungle.
The mist seemed to spew out of the earth's crust, surging and rising from the bottom of the valley. The dense crown-shaped trees around it covered most of the sunlight. I felt like the whole person was instantly embedded in the small floating water droplets, sticky and stained, making people feel particularly uncomfortable.
"Why is it suddenly so fog? Sir, what should I do?" Zhang Jisheng frowned and looked at the old man.
"We have arrived at the Misty District of Misty Pond." The old man looked ahead expressionlessly.
"Then we will wait until the fog dissipates before moving forward. With such a large fog, it is difficult for us to judge the direction." Wang Zhishui said.
The old man sighed softly, "Everyone, there is a situation here. I want to explain it to you a few years ago. I accompanied Professor Chen into the Mihunting Pond, which was also used the method just now. I waited until the fog dissipated before entering, but I didn't find the ancient temple. I had the fate to see an ancient temple that year because in order to dig precious medicinal materials into the mountain, I braved the fog and entered the Mihunting Pond in Wawu Mountain and got lost. After that, I accidentally hit and entered the depths of Wawu Mountain and looked at the ancient temple from a distance."
"What do you mean is that there will be a greater chance of catching the heavy fog?" Zhang Jisheng asked a little puzzled.
"You can discuss it yourself. Anyway, I am working with money. If you want to enter, I will lead the way. If the fog is gone, it is your freedom. But don't blame me, the old man for lying to you all the time." The old man said, pushing the problem back to us.
Zhang Jisheng looked at us with embarrassment.
Xiangyu looked at me without opening her mouth.
Wang Zhishui seemed to ponder for a moment, and then said, "Is this good? We use a knife to leave marks on the tree while walking. If we really get lost, we can also search for traces and return here, and we will not go further and further."
"This is a good way." Zhang Jisheng nodded.
After everyone agreed, we entered the Mihuntang Misty Area as we walked and made marks.
The fog is particularly heavy, and we can only see a blurry outline of things ten meters away. The jungle is already stuffy, and the gas produced by a large number of plants on the ground is mixed in the heavy fog. The air quality is very bad. After walking for a while, I feel a little dizzy.
Deep in the Misty Pond, in addition to the primeval forest that covers the sky and the sun, there are also chaotic arrow bamboos. We have been struggling along the way.
After walking for about an hour, Xiangyu suddenly stopped. We all thought she was too tired and wanted to take a break, but her eyes were straight ahead, and her expression was a little abnormal.
"Xiangyu," I patted her arm with my hand, "What's wrong?"
"Zhou Cang, look, the long-tailed silkworm moth just now." Her eyes were still staring in front of her, just showing us with her fingers.
We took a step forward, and the angel long-tailed celestial silkworm moth seemed to be frightened and flew away with its wings and dancing.
Have we walked back to where we were?
Xiangyu took out her cell phone, opened the photo she had just taken with trembling hands, and compared it with the surrounding scenery, which proved to verify this idea.
"This is impossible. We have been walking towards the West and have marked the marks all the way. Why did we return to this place?" Wang Zhishui took Xiangyu's cell phone a little disbelief and compared it carefully.
"The fog spreads, and the place where there was no fog just now was also covered by heavy fog." The old man said.
"Then the marks we made along the way are useless." Zhang Jisheng said a little discouraged.
"Zhou Cang, Jisheng, come and see, why do I feel like there is an eye in this photo?"
Xiangyu's words made the atmosphere around him suddenly become tense.
"Xiangyu, don't scare people. There are only a few of us along the way, so where did we get our eyes?"
Zhang Jisheng said, took Xiangyu's cell phone, took a look, expanded the photo, and stood there.
I hurriedly went up and took a look, and saw that behind the crisscrossing vines, there was really an eye staring straight at us through the screen of my phone.
Wang Zhishui's face looked a little strange, "Is this the eyes of us, and where are we just standing?"
The set of photos that Xiang Yu just took was a close-up photo of the long-tailed celestial silkworm moth, so the range of the shooting was actually very small, and there is little chance that we were taken in.
Despite this, we still held a glimmer of hope and began to recall where we were standing. As a result, no one, including the old man, was within Xiangyu's shooting range.
So, the eyes in this photo belong to the sixth person besides the five of us.
Who else will appear in this jungle? Are you still watching our every move in a corner that we cannot see?
"You said, will this eye be an animal? There may be many creatures in the primeval forest that are beyond our cognition." Xiang Yu's voice was a little trembling.
"This should be human eyes." Wang Zhishui's tone was a little low, and he told the truth that no one wanted to hear.
"Can it be a savage?" Xiang Yu asked.
"There has never been any academic reports or news about savages in this area. We are not the first people to enter the Misty Pond. If there are savages, we will definitely not only meet them." Wang Zhishui said, looking around.
"Okay, stop studying the eyes. Whether it is a human or a ghost, he dares not appear in the open, which proves that he is still afraid of us. Now take a break first and then study how to get out of this fog." The old man stopped us.
Chapter completed!