With an exclamation, everyone stopped. Tang Chuxue immediately stood in front of Jiang Xingchen and asked, "What's going on?"
"A lot of snakes, and... very strange." The private soldier in front said with a trembling voice, and there was a hint of fear in his tone.
Jiang Xingchen and Tang Chuxue frowned. These private soldiers were all old men who had followed Jiang Xingchen for many years. Each one of them had seen blood and killed people. Moreover, they were carrying repeating crossbows, machetes, and Jiang Xingchen was cursing
The grenades specially made in this place, what situation makes them so scared.
"I'll go take a look, don't move," Tang Chuxue said.
"Let's go together." Jiang Xingchen grabbed Tang Chuxue's hand and whispered: "It's safer for you to be by my side."
Tang Chuxue's heart trembled. She was clearly protecting Jiang Xingchen, but listening to his tone, it seemed that he was protecting herself, which made her feel very at ease.
"Okay." Tang Chuxue smiled, and the two held hands and walked quickly to the front. The ten private soldiers had already taken out grenades, and their whole bodies were tense as if they were facing a powerful enemy.
When the two people stepped forward to take a look, they suddenly got goosebumps and their scalps were a little numb. They saw a small pond in front of them. There were snakes on the surrounding trees, on the shore, and even in the water. They were so densely packed that they felt like they were there.
Horrible. What's even more terrifying is that these snakes seemed to be in great pain, twisting violently. The scene made Jiang Xingchen feel sick to his stomach.
The forest originally looked vibrant under the sunlight, but at this moment, everyone felt a bit eerie and terrifying.
"What's going on?" Tang Chuxue frowned. She had never seen such a strange scene. Not to mention Jiang Xingchen, there were very few snakes in the Star Territory, and they had only seen them in the vast depths, but
Those giant pythons were monsters. Although scary, they were far less weird than the current snakes.
"There are many venomous snakes in the south, let's go around them," Jiang Xingchen said.
"Okay, let's go around." Although Tang Chuxue was extremely skilled in martial arts, she was very reluctant to touch these disgusting things.
But just as they were calling the private soldiers to prepare to retreat, another more frightening change occurred. The snakes that were twisting violently suddenly went into spasm and stopped twisting. The snake's body stretched straight.
.The snakes on the trees fell down like rain. The snakes in the water also turned white and floated on the water...
"I'm going to die." There were a lot of swear words. This scene was really shocking. It was as if there was a force in the dark that forcibly absorbed the lives of those snakes. Jiang Xingchen was not a timid person at first, but at this time, the clothes on his back were all wet.
Soaked in cold sweat.
Finally, all movement disappeared, the trees were still trees, the sun was still sunshine, and from time to time there were a few bird calls that broke the silence. If it weren't for the shriveled corpses of the snakes, everyone would have thought that they had just hallucinated.
After a while, a private soldier let out a sigh of relief, jumped out, and soon came back carrying a snake corpse.
Jiang Xingchen and Tang Chuxue couldn't help but gasped again after seeing it. Only then did they see clearly that the snake's body was almost skin and bones, with not much meat at all.
"Why are these snakes so thin? Why did they die here at the same time? How did they die?" These questions came up one after another, and the more I thought about it, the more terrifying I felt.
"This island is too weird." Jiang Xingchen previously wanted to develop tourism on this island. Now he would never have such an idea again. Not only that, he couldn't even feel the heat anymore.
"Sir, do we still want to leave?" A private soldier swallowed his saliva and asked in a low voice.
"Ah" Jiang Xingchen woke up from his deep thoughts and nodded: "Let's go, of course we have to find an open place to camp before the sun goes down."
"Yes" the private soldier responded and moved forward.
"Change the direction and go around," Tang Chuxue said. She was worried that not all of the snakes were dead, in case they were accidentally bitten.
Bypassing this place. It was approaching evening, and both Jiang Xingchen and Tang Chuxue calmed down.
"What happened just now, do you think the man in black robe will know the reason?" Tang Chuxue asked in a low voice.
Jiang Xingchen thought for a while and said: "We should know, or maybe that's why they brought us here... But it's useless to ask them. They won't tell."
"Well, then we can only ask everyone to be more careful." Tang Chuxue nodded.
As they continued to move forward, their expressions became more and more solemn, and various corpses were constantly found in the primeval rainforest. Some looked like wild beasts, while others looked more like domestic animals.
"Humans are human beings!" Suddenly the private soldiers screamed again.
Jiang Xingchen and Tang Chuxue ran over to take a look, and sure enough they saw a mummy. It seemed that it had not been dead for a long time. The skin was still there, but it was just wrapped around the bones, and it was no different from a skeleton.
"There are actually dead people here." Tang Chuxue squinted her eyes and whispered: "Xingchen, do you feel that it is similar to the snake corpse from before?"
"It's all skin and bones, but it's so thin... But with such high temperature and humidity here, it's incredible that the body can still remain intact. Normally maggots would have grown there," Jiang Xingchen said, suppressing the discomfort in his stomach.
Tang Chuxue looked around and frowned: "Have you noticed that there are not many mosquitoes and flies in this tropical jungle?"
"It seems so." After Tang Chuxue reminded him, Jiang Xingchen noticed that there were indeed not many mosquitoes and flies in the forest.
"This primeval rainforest, or the entire island, is full of weirdness... Huh?" Tang Chuxue was about to drag Jiang Xingchen away from here when she spoke, when her eyes suddenly focused on one place.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Xingchen immediately followed Tang Chuxue's gaze and exclaimed: "Black Widow"
There was an open space twenty or thirty meters to their right, without any trees growing, and among the weeds and shrubs there were dozens of black flowers, which were black widows.
"Sure enough, there are many black widows growing on this island. There are dozens of them here." Jiang Xingchen looked back at the black-robed people in the distance and Master Sang. They were not lying about this.
The private soldiers also saw it and ran over to pick the black widow without waiting for Jiang Xingchen's instructions.
But when they ran up to it, they seemed to have stepped on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
The two of them didn't pay attention, and started picking the flowers after scanning them casually. Jiang Xingchen frowned behind him, always feeling that something was wrong.
Soon the private soldiers picked all the black widows back, took out a bag and put them in, and then everyone set off again...
The sun gradually turned westward, and the sky gradually darkened. At this time, the advancing team finally found a place to stay. There was a huge rock on the top of the mountain. There were no trees around it, only weeds, and there were
A stream formed by an underground spring.
"Let's camp here tonight," Tang Chuxue said to Jiang Xingchen.
"Okay." Jiang Xingchen nodded and asked the private soldiers to set up camp and prepare to eat.
The black-robed man and Master Sang were suppressed by private soldiers and sat under the rock. They looked around, then lowered their heads with a sneer on their lips. To be continued.