They both jumped up almost at the same time, took a step to the side, and stood together with the Son of Light.
The Son of Light screamed desperately towards the big tree they had been leaning on just now.
Baomu first looked at where he was just standing.
About one meter high on the tree, a branch as thick as a forearm actually grew. The branches were trembling slightly and seemed to be squirming.
It must have been this thing that touched me just now.
The Son of Light blocked the two men behind him, and his roar became more ferocious.
Click... click, click...
The strange noises in the woods gradually became more intensive, and suddenly, Baomu smelled a familiar smell.
As soon as his head turned to the source of the smell, Ah Zhen shouted, "It's moving!"
The old tree in front of me no longer swayed in the wind, but moved entirely.
The branches of the old tree extended in all directions, and Baomu saw that the protruding branch had grown much longer.
Is it growing?
No, it's not.
The tree turned around little by little, and there was a herringbone-shaped tree hole on the trunk on the side. The tree hole was so dark that it was difficult to see what was inside.
The two of them looked at the tree hole quietly.
A withered yellow hand suddenly appeared at the edge of the tree hole and grabbed the trunk. Soon, another hand appeared and grabbed the other end of the trunk...
No, this is not a hand.
Baomu felt sick in his stomach.
They were branches that had just protruded from the trunk of the tree. The two branches had grown into the shape of human hands, and even contained a strange dark mucus.
The two hand-shaped branches each grabbed one side of the tree hole, as if they were trying to tear the tree hole open.
In the tree hole, the outline of a human face gradually emerged.
Along with it comes that familiar smell.
Bao Mu was shocked and grabbed A Zhen's arm, "Be careful! This is the smell of one of the catfishes!"
Ah Zhen hadn't realized what Bao Mu meant by what he said. He just heard a swish sound and the figure popped out of the hole in the tree.
The two men retreated suddenly.
The upper body of a man in black leaned out of the tree hole and lay face down on the ground. He shook his arms and raised his head. His tearful eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes.
Exactly one of those catfish!
"Help..." The man stretched out his hand towards the two of them, his voice hoarse and weak, "Please... please..."
Ah Zhen turned his head and looked at Bao Mu unclearly.
"You...you are a catfish." Baomu calmed down and asked.
A trace of surprise flashed in the man's eyes, "Why do you..."
Baomu basically understood the current situation.
Except for this man, there was no other catfish smell around. It seemed that when they were looking for themselves and Ah Zhen, they were captured by the strange creature in the woods. The remaining three people decisively abandoned him and ran away alone.
"You were the one who killed that person last night, right?" Baomu raised his voice and asked in a tone he thought was very intimidating, "You still want to kill us!"
Tears welled up in the man's eyes, but they could see that this was not out of regret, but out of pain.
"We can't help it... This is our mission..." The man clenched his fists and tried his best to climb out, but his lower body was still fixed in the tree hole. "Now... the remaining players are already very small."
Less...the game is almost over...please help me..."
The game is almost over.
Ah Zhen sneered, "End? Do you think we don't know how the game will end? You and we are from two camps..."
"I know, I know," the man's fingertips sunk deeply into the ground, "or all the catfish will be wiped out... the game will be over... now... there are only a few of us catfish left in the game... so
I beg you...please kill me..."
He was not begging for their rescue, but for death.
Ah Zhen and Bao Mu looked at each other.
The man's face was stained with tears and sweat, but he looked somewhat sincere.
"Kill me... don't let me... don't let me become like that..."
The man looked to the right of the two of them.
In the darkness on the right, a vague figure emerged.
"What is that?"
"After being completely swallowed by the night tree... he will become such a tree person..." the man sobbed, "the tree person has no thoughts of his own... and will be judged to be dead... but in fact he is not dead... and every time
Every moment, you can feel the corrosion of the tree sap...it's so painful..."
While he was talking, the man's waist was also swallowed up by the tree hole.
Baomu straightened his back and took a clear look at the tree man.
It was not a human being, nor was it like a tree. It was more like a tree crown growing out of a normal human body. The tree man was swaying in the wind, and the tree roots growing under his feet were moving here with his body.
The tree man had no clothes on his body, and his skin glowed a bright fluorescent green, just like an insect sealed in amber.
Surprisingly, I can still feel the pain.
Baomu swallowed and said firmly, "Answer me another question. If you answer it honestly, I will definitely help you."
The man nodded wildly, and Baomu felt that his fragile joints could no longer bear such violent movements.
"Who among you killed the player last night?"
A stinging pain suddenly swept through Baomu's forehead. Baomu took a breath of cold air and quickly held his forehead to steady his body.
The man was stunned. He opened and closed his mouth and muttered, "I killed that man..."
"You're lying!" Baomu pressed his temple hard with one hand and pointed at the man with the other, "I saw it! It was the fourth catfish who did it!"
The stinging became more severe, and Baomu couldn't hold it back and groaned in pain.
"You saw..." The man's already pale face was covered with a layer of deathly gray, "You really..."
"Tell me, who is that person?" Baomu was supported by Ah Zhen and could barely stay upright. He faced the man and said through gritted teeth.
The man's tears seemed to have dried up, and a look of despair appeared on his face. The man shook his head, "I can't possibly tell you."
The world in front of Baomu has become blurry because of the pain.
"Then you can only become a tree man!" Ah Zhen shouted threateningly.
"If I told you..." The man sneered, "You and I, we will both die... not just in the game, but..."
When the word "death" penetrated into Baomu's ear, the overwhelming pain hit him violently. Baomu shouted loudly and fell to his knees directly on the ground.
At the same time, the man's body quickly slid into the tree hole. The man let out one last heart-rending cry, shook his head, and disappeared into the depths of the tree hole.