Demon King and Concubine

Chapter 408 Going Further (2)
She walked over, put her arms around his waist, and nestled into his arms.

He looked down at her, slightly surprised, and then embraced her with his backhand, his eyes fell on her bandaged shoulder, he stretched out his hand to stroke it carefully, and said, "But there is still something uncomfortable? Let me re-bandage the wound for you."

"No, all the poisonous blood has been forced out, it's not a serious problem."

He frowned, and she continued: "It's just a bite, the wound is just two teeth marks, the bigger wound was made by myself, it really doesn't matter."

Only then did he relax a little bit, stretched out his hand to touch her face, then touched her shoulder, and then put it on her wrist to examine her carefully for a while. After finding no major problems, he pulled her together on the cleaned stone sat down.

Today, the first day he entered the jungle, he was already injured. This is really not something that can make people optimistic.

Duanmutian continued the previous topic, telling him all the things she knew about the existence in this jungle, and he listened very carefully, with glints in his eyes flickering from time to time.

It was getting dark soon, and the wind passed through the forest, the river, and the two of them. It was a little cold, accompanied by various sounds that could not tell where they came from, and the shadows of trees were seen in the dark Zhongzhong looked like a ghost, and the entire jungle was shrouded in a layer of gloomy atmosphere.

As the night fell, many things that had been hidden in the nest also crawled out, and the darker the night, the more active they became.

On the originally quiet grassland, it seemed that there were suddenly many more insects. They crawled around. If they encountered other ethnic groups, some would live in peace, while others would inevitably fight abnormally.

They would also approach that boulder, but they detoured one after another after approaching a foot away, as if they encountered something that they were afraid to avoid.

On the rock, Jun Xiuran was sitting cross-legged, as if practicing kung fu, while Duanmu Tian was lying beside him, with his head resting on his lap, already asleep.

These two people, on this night, were as quiet as human statues growing on the rock.

After midnight, the head resting on his lap suddenly moved, and then she sat up slowly, and said with a light smile, "Is there a hundred insects meeting?"

"I think it should be a big battle."

Although the surroundings were dark at the moment, the two of them still seemed to be able to see the surrounding environment clearly, she sat up and stretched her body, then turned to look at the people around her, and said, "In the middle of the night, it's your turn to rest. "

But he looked at the front, seemed to be thinking about something, and then said: "When I was exercising the inner breath just now, I seemed to have realized something, but I didn't dare to settle down. Now please ask Tian Tian to protect me."

"Oh? That's good!" She was a little pleasantly surprised. The improvement of his internal strength is good in every way.

With such a Dharma protector, Jun Xiuran stopped dawdling immediately, and began to calm down and practice kung fu boldly.

However, no one thought that it would take so long for him to settle down.

Duanmutian originally thought that he would wake up almost at dawn, but he didn't expect that the sun had already reached the top of the river, that is to say, it was already noon, and he was still sitting there cross-legged, not at all. It means to wake up.

She was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised, and continued to stay quietly beside him to prevent anything from disturbing him. She also went to check around where she could see, and came back after finding something edible.

Although they brought dry food with them, it was obviously impossible to live on that little dry food.

And when she looked around, she saw a place where a large number of unknown bugs gathered. Following the direction they were walking, she saw a person, or she could no longer call it a person, because it was not complete, and the skeleton had Pieces of torn rags gave off a stench.

She held her breath, then stepped back quickly.

I didn't expect to see such a dead body here, and according to the environment and climate here, the time of this person's death here will not exceed seven days.

She immediately became nervous, not about the strange creatures that appeared here, but about people.

Although he still doesn't know the origin and purpose of those people, and thinks that even if those people are really still in the jungle at this moment, they should be a little far away from her, but she still strengthens her guard, only within the range that Jun Xiuran can see. Wander around.

Night fell again, and the second day they entered the forest passed smoothly. Duanmu Tian followed the traces of yesterday, and took the rock where Jun Xiuran was at the center of the circle, and sprinkled a circle of insect repellent powder , then sat next to it, took out a white lump that looked a bit like a sweet potato, and quietly chewed on it.

This is something she dug up in the grass during the day. It doesn't taste very good, but it's not bad.

Jun Xiuran was still sitting there cross-legged in meditation, without any extra movement, but at some point, wisps of white mist began to emerge above his head, curling around him, and it took a long time to dissipate.

"Crack!" Duanmu Tian bit off a large piece of white rhizome, chewed and chewed, and then swallowed it in one gulp, staring at the sparkling river in the night ahead, wondering what he was thinking.

"What are you eating, so delicious?"

The sudden sound from the side made her gnawing movement stop, the white root was still on her mouth, her mouth was still slightly open, but she just stopped, and then turned her head to look over.

This movement, this expression is really a bit silly, even though the night is dark at the moment, a certain highness who is so close to her still clearly sees her reaction in his eyes, can't help but move in his heart, his eyes soften, he leans over, and She opened her hand and took a bite out of the thing.

"Crack!"

She froze for another moment, then twitched the corner of her mouth, stretched out her hand and stuffed the whole piece of the stem into his mouth, forcefully and fiercely, almost smashing his teeth.

He smiled lightly, and even his eyes were shining with soft light in the dark night. He bit the stem and ate it with a "knock-knack" and seemed to think it tasted good. Better yet, if I know I'm hungry, I'll deliver food in time."

She looked at him and asked, "Do you know how long you have been practicing?"

He looked up at the sky and said: "Looking at the sky, it shouldn't be the same night. Could it be that I have been in meditation all day?"

"It's not one o'clock in the whole day, and it's still one or two hours away."

He suddenly approached, grabbed her hand, put it to his lips and kissed her, then took her into his arms and kissed her on the face, and whispered next to her ear, "Thank you, Tian Tian, ​​for protecting me and allowing me to It’s hard work to be able to get this opportunity to settle down in peace of mind and go one step further.”

With such solemn words, if his arms around her waist could be a little calmer, instead of touching, kneading and pinching, Duanmu Tian might be a little bit moved.

Squeezing the restless hand on her waist, she asked: "After your skill improves, won't there be any sequelae?"

He couldn't help chuckling, as if he understood the meaning of her words in an instant, Guigui Chongchong looked around and said: "There are originally, but unfortunately this place is really not very beautiful, I think Tiantian probably won't like it, so I have to bear it for now."

"That's really hard work for you."

"Well, as long as you compensate me twice in the future."

"Compensate you?" She raised her eyebrows and said, "Then I worked hard to protect the law for you all day, is it all in vain?"

"I said the wrong thing in a moment of excitement. I should be the one who compensates Tian Tian for his hard work today."

"..."

This really depends on his mouth, the same thing can be repeated over and over again, as if he has been wronged.

She resisted the impulse, but in the end she couldn't hold back and rolled her eyes, not wanting to continue entangled with him on this issue, and instead said: "Today during the day, I checked around again, and I accidentally found something thing."

"what?"

"A dead person will not be dead for more than seven days, but there are only skeletons and some minced meat left, and the specific identity cannot be distinguished."

"You mean, in the last seven days, someone has passed by here?"

"Well, and I looked around again, and found that the man was buried in the soil, but he was found out by some wild beasts in the forest, and some insects were also attracted."

Buried in the soil?

That night, Duanmutian slept peacefully in his arms until dawn. After dawn, Jun Xiuran also ran to the place where the body was found to have a look. He didn't find anything, so he didn't pay much attention. Go upstream.

This time, they didn't go very far, but just turned a corner along the river, and saw the scene ahead of them covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

There is no longer the place where they are now. There is no open grassland on both sides of the river bank. The towering trees that block out the sun grow all the way to the river bank. The wide canopy directly covers the sky above the river. Looking into the depths, one can only see a dense darkness, which makes people afraid to approach.

Both of them stopped, looking at the sky covering the sun on the river in front of them, he said softly: "Mother and concubine told me thousands of times, after talking about this, I have to turn south and walk, I can't go in there to continue. Going up along the river, I don’t know what kind of danger there is.”

But Duanmu Tian turned around and looked behind them, where they came from, and said: "We have encountered so many things along the route designated by the concubine mother, and there must be more and more dangerous things in the denser depths. "

She didn't understand why the concubine mother knew so clearly, nor did she know what she had experienced many years ago, but she always believed that she would never do anything to hurt Jun Xiuran. It must be the safest route she knows.

As for whether there are other safer routes, and what the jungle looks like outside this route, Duanmu Tian is not interested in finding out.

(End of this chapter)