Wen Liang leaned on his backpack, and out of the corner of his eye, he could see He Nian's two intertwined legs dangling. The two in the tent had already fallen asleep, so this night seemed extraordinarily quiet.

He lit the tobacco, called out Tongtong Yuyu, and asked the two children to squat beside him and use branches to draw on the ground the appearance of the snake-like man he saw during the day.

The sand and soil are rough, even if Tongtong Yuyu has great skills, he can't avoid it, so the things they draw are naturally different, either they look like people but not snakes, or they can't even see the shadow of snakes.

"What are these things? Are you drawing earthworms?" Wen Liang looked at the strange creatures drawn with branches on the ground, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching, "It was they who claimed that they were proficient in everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting ? Now not only are you screaming like ghosts and wolves, but even your portraits are so abstract?"

"That's because the tools are not good enough." Tong Tong refused to admit defeat, he wrote Wen Liang's name on the ground while Wen Liang was not paying attention, and then crossed it out.

When Tong Tong turned around again, he suddenly found that there was someone behind him. He Nian didn't know when he got down from the tree, and was squatting quietly behind him, watching Tongtong's blind drawing on the ground curiously.

Tong Tong was stunned for a moment, how could an ordinary person approach him without any breath, and he hadn't noticed yet?

"He asked what you were painting." Wen Liang looked at He Nian's hand gesture and explained. He saw clearly just now how He Nian jumped down from a tree like a silent cat walking, and then came to Behind Tong Tong.

The fire was flickering, and the firewood was crackling, but thanks to the bonfire, the damp feeling in the deep mountains and old forests was not so serious.

Wen Liang turned over in the position of holding the cigarette pole, walked to He Nian and squatted down, looked at the writing on the ground and said, "I heard from the hotel aunt that you have been to school, so you should be able to read?"

He watched the little guy still staring at his name on the ground, and after a while he shook his head silently, He Nian gestured to Wen Liang: "I don't know, I don't like school."

"It seems that you must have played truant a lot back then?" Wen Liang grinned, Tong Tong wrote on the ground in seal script, although careful observation can roughly identify it from the shape, but it will be very difficult.

"He Nian, He Nian..." He muttered the name of the little guy, took a branch from Tong Tong, and wrote the name on the ground. His handwriting was very regular, not as complicated and difficult as Tong Tong, why? When he thought about it, he picked up a branch and followed suit.

Wen Liang could imagine how He Nian was bound to the desk and chair when he was studying. He looked at the serious profile of the little guy and thought it was a little funny.

If he is a bird that wanders in the world and has no place to rest, then He Nian may be a leaf in this mountain, or it may be something else that can't speak. The school's set can't restrain this little guy. A heart longing for freedom, and a soul that seems to belong to this nature.

Wen Liang doesn't think that He Nian is the same kind of person as himself, but the two of them are surprisingly alike in one aspect, those indifferent eyes don't know whether it's ignorance or confusion after seeing through the world.

He retracted the cigarette rod into his sleeve, and was about to start a conversation when he suddenly noticed a strange smell. He and He Nian both looked up at the forest on the left. There are a few more figures.

"What's the matter?" Tong Tong was fascinated by writing with his head down, but Wen Liang beside him suddenly stopped talking. He realized that something was wrong, and following Wen Liang's line of sight, he saw a figure in the dark woods stand still.

"Ghost? No, is it a human?" Tong Tong looked at the figure that was nearly half a tree tall, and subconsciously hid beside Wen Liang. It's no wonder that he was afraid as a ghost. Several of them seemed to be twisting like snakes. They were bright and dark, and the invisible urgency made people feel that the air was a little suffocating.

"It seems that the person who came was not kind." Wen Liang quickly glanced at the figure, who was as motionless as a statue, and suddenly appeared here, the purpose is obvious.

He turned his head to look at He Nian, the little guy was a little confused, as if he couldn't understand why those figures in the forest were hostile to him.

Does it look like you know each other?

Wen Liang thought to himself, the moon above the forest over there appeared from the clouds again, the pale moonlight penetrated the dense and thick branches and leaves, and the appearance of those people in the forest was also exposed to Wen Liang's sight.

Now he knew exactly what the snake-like man Tong Tong was talking about looked like.

The shoulders of the person closest to him collapsed unnaturally, and the whole body was twisting together in an S shape. The bones and internal organs seemed to be non-existent obstacles. The person was like a standing giant snake, looking at it coldly. to here.

"What happened?" The zipper of the tent was pulled open from the inside, Ji Duan poked his head out from inside, and just glanced in the direction of the forest, his eyes were completely sleepy, and his sleepy eyes turned into vigilance in an instant.

He quietly opened the door of the tent wider, and got out to block the front. Ji Duan looked at Wen Liang not far away from him, and asked in a low voice, "What's the situation now?"

"Don't come here, wake up Xie Jin and stay there." Wen Liang quickly instructed Ji Duan, and said directly to the forest, "Friend, anyone who comes to my place is a guest, since you are here, you might as well come out Let's meet, we have no malicious intentions."

Half a minute after Wen Liang spoke, a mollusk crawling on the ground came from the woods, and the dry leaves under the ground made a crisp sound, but the source of the sound made one's scalp tingle.

Tong Tong felt that the non-existent veins on his forehead were twitching violently. Damn it, what a hell, he actually saw that snake-like guy crawling on the ground just now!

Also different from normal human limbs and with limp arms that seemed to be any useless hanging on the sides of the body, the man was like a crawling snake, slowly crawling towards them.

"Wen Liang, what should I do...?"

Tong Tong turned his head and wanted to ask Wen Liang for help, but saw that the heartless and stupid Taoist priest was still talking to the little mute, "He Nian, do you know them? They are villagers from Badong Village?"

He Nian didn't pay attention to him, but opened his arms and waved to the snake man closest to them. The encircling circle that was gradually approaching came to an abrupt end. What's more, he showed a puzzled look.

"They are, Empress Liu's worshipers?" Wen Liang saw the meaning of He Nian's gesture, and then looked at the few people who were standing there not far away, and he whispered, "It is impossible to worship the snake fairy to such an extent. It's almost gone."

The group of people had already appeared in the light circle of the bonfire, and their appearance was clearly illuminated by the flickering fire. There were faint scales all over their bluish-blue faces. Their eyes did not know whether it was the reflection of the bonfire or something else. The reason is that they are all glowing red.

"Badong Mountain is a forbidden place for strangers, you don't know it?" the leader with slumped shoulders suddenly said, he looked in the direction of He Nian, his eyes were so cold that it penetrated.

For some reason, Wen Liang suddenly remembered that Tong Tong had told him that Qu Wan's head had been swallowed by someone who acted like a snake. He turned his head slightly and found that Tong Tong was tugging at the corner of his clothes, wishing he could stick his whole body on him .

Anyway, he is also a ghost, how could he be afraid of that kind of thing, Wen Liangxin said, but he didn't go to take care of Tong Tong, and letting the little boy out at this time is purely courting death.

"Is there anyone here who took Qu Wan away?" Wen Liang asked Tong Tong, and got an affirmative answer from the child.

"Yes, the guy closest to us is the one who swallowed Qu Wan's head."

Wen Liang looked at the leader with slumped shoulders again. If he didn't look at him, he was startled. The guy with an obviously abnormal shape had approached him at some point, and the scaled face was separated from Wen Liang by only a few inches. a few centimeters away.

The stench came to his face, and Wen Liang clearly saw the long tongue protruding from the man's mouth like a snake letter, sticking to his face.

Just as Wen Liang stretched out his hand to block it, he saw that the man had already opened his bloody mouth, biting towards his head——

Tick, tick.

"?!" Wen Liang opened his eyes suddenly, those gray-blue eyes were no longer lazy as before, but became sharper very rarely, he turned from the position just now and looked around, without giving up any darkness.

"That was just...a dream?" Wen Liang pinched his arm, feeling the real pain, and then looked at He Nian on the tree, the little guy was looking at him without any expression.

No, definitely not a dream.

There is no sign of falling asleep, and he will not fall asleep easily in this kind of place, and Tong Tong is not around when he wakes up, so there is only one possibility left.

Wen Liang walked quickly to the tent, woke up Xie Jin and Ji Duan who were sleeping soundly, and then let He Nian jump down from the tree. The four of them sat around the campfire and listened to Wen Liang's story of what happened just now. Behind them was the endless night.

"It's never as simple as dreaming. After all, there is a formation not far from us, and the magnetic field of this mountain is also very evil." Wen Liang touched his face, he remembered that he heard water dripping when he just woke up Sound, he put his hand in front of the firelight, and there was some sticky liquid dyed red on it.

Is it blood? No, it seems that there are secretions similar to reptiles.

Wen Liang suddenly sneered, lowered his head and began to meditate in his heart, "Xuanzong of Heaven and Earth, the root of ten thousand qi. Cultivate extensively for billions of kalpas, and prove my supernatural powers. Inside and outside the Three Realms, only Tao is the only one..."

A golden lotus bloomed from his chest, and the golden light flowed along the veins of the petals to his fingertips, and finally solidified into several small golden beads.

"go!"

Following Wen Liang's order, those golden beads hit the surroundings at an extremely fast speed. The density of the golden beads was like an endless golden rain. A shattered canvas until peace returns again.

It was still the familiar dark night, but this time the difference was that there were a few more voices calling his name. Wen Liang opened his eyes again and found that his hand was actually choking a person's neck.

The man was nearly suffocated by his subconscious strength, and the scarlet letter changed back to a normal tongue as the suffocation spread.

"What's the matter, what happened to you just now?" Ji Duan's voice came from his ear, Wen Liang turned his head to look, and found that he and Xie Jin were also awake, Ji Duan even grabbed his wrist and tried to make him let go.

Behind them, in the flickering halo of the flames, there was a large group of plainly dressed people, Wen Liang suddenly let go of his grip, and the man who had been strangled by him fell to the ground without warning, coughing hard.

Wen Liang twitched the corners of his brows fiercely. He stared at those people and asked, "Now, what's the situation?"

What are you provoking him!