Volume 1: Winds Rising From the Mountains and Swamps Chapter 8: Trouble Comes From the Mouth
Xiaoyi turned around and looked back, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Did you see the tail of the snake? Yes, Xiaoyi's eyes skipped over the several feet long snake behind him, and he saw a hole as high as a person appeared in front of him under the shade of the palm-shaped tree canopy.
Tsk tsk! This snake has a hole! So big! Xiaoyi imagined so. He listened carefully, and there was only the sound of birds and insects in the valley, and there was no movement in the cave.
His nose moved, and he sniffed, and there was a faint fragrance coming from somewhere.
It would be better to carry a small crossbow with you, and there would be an extra weapon for self-defense. There shouldn't be many snakes in the cave! Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and used his hands and feet to jump up and jump to the cave entrance.
The stone cave seemed to be naturally formed, more than two feet deep, and it was at the end in a few steps. Looking around, there was another hole on the right. Xiaoyi walked over gently and looked inside first. As far as the eye can see, there is a ten-foot-sized stone room with obvious traces of carving and dim light inside. The one foot higher than the foot seems to be a stone bed, occupying half of the stone room.
There are a bunch of bulges on the flat stone bed, as if there is something? Looking back and looking around, there is nothing unusual around. Xiaoyi couldn't help but approach the stone bed.
Bending down to take a closer look, Xiaoyi was startled and jumped back a step. He patted his chest and shook his head, it was a false alarm.
Looking again, Xiaoyi couldn't help but widen his eyes in horror. On the stone bed, there was a decayed skeleton. The clothes and part of the skeleton had turned into dust. It seems that the owner of the skeleton has been dead for a long time, Xiaoyi thought to himself. I don't know who this is, and how he appeared in such a hidden cave. Did he come up like me at the beginning? But how could he die here? This is a secluded place, whether dead or alive, no one really knows!
Xiaoyi was no longer timid, and he began to think wildly again.
"Is there something else?" There was a small brocade bag next to the skeleton.
Xiaoyi reached out his hand, took it gently in his hand, and looked around carefully for a while. There was nothing else in the stone room except the skeleton, so he left the stone room and returned to the cave outside. With the light from the cave entrance, he held the brocade bag in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
The brocade bag, as big as a palm, was made of unknown fabric. There were dense golden threads on the black bottom, and when the brocade bag was turned, there was a faint luster like a talisman flashing on it.
The opening of the brocade bag was bound by a thin golden ribbon. Xiaoyi tried it, but the ribbon was like a knot and could not be opened at all. He touched it with his hand, and it was as soft as silk, light and thin, and it didn't seem to be filled with anything.
Xiaoyi pondered for a while, but couldn't figure it out. He felt that this delicate thing must be good, so he put it in his arms.
This man is so strange. I don't know why he fell into trouble here. He has nothing else with him. He only left behind such a small brocade bag, which can't hold anything. Interesting! Forget it, let's think about how to get down after collecting the arrows! I am not as agile as a squirrel, which can fly over the treetops, which are seven or eight feet high! Unless he doesn't want to live.
Xiaoyi came to the cave entrance and took a look at the big green snake. It was as thick as a bowl and about ten feet long. It was covered with fine scales and hung on the tree trunk. He rode on the tree trunk that stretched out of the cave again, bent down and reached out his hand, grabbed the arrow, pulled it out with force, threw it into the cave, then untied the snake from the tree trunk, and let the snake slide down by itself. In a moment, a muffled "puff" sound came from his ears.
Clapping his hands, Xiaoyi jumped to the cave entrance, sat down, holding his cheek, and his expression changed.
How to get down! He only knew to use thinner vines, but he should have used stronger ones! Alas! It's all because of my carelessness!
Xiaoyi, with a worried look on his face, complained to himself. He had not been idle for a while. Once he stopped, he felt tired, his mouth was dry, and his stomach was rumbling.
If he could go down, he should go back to the top of the mountain and stew the wild goats given by Uncle Lu! Thinking of the aroma of mutton, Xiaoyi's stomach was rumbling again.
A strange fragrance floated to the tip of his nose. Is it the aroma of mutton? No, this fragrance is a bit familiar.
Xiaoyi shook his head and suddenly remembered the fragrance he smelled when he came up. Yes, it was this fragrance, which became stronger. He couldn't help but take a deep breath. After the fragrance entered his body, his limbs felt comfortable, and even the feeling of fatigue in his body seemed to be gone.
Xiaoyi couldn't help but move his nose to find the source of the fragrance. The fragrance seemed to be nearby. Could it be coming from the tree in front of him? He climbed up, and for the first time he looked at the palm-shaped tree.
The leg-thick trunk stretched out deeply and firmly from the crack of the cliff cave, and the branches were twisted like palms to cover the cave entrance, and the dense leaves were green as emerald. Waves of increasingly strong fragrance were drifting towards Xiaoyi from the branches and leaves.
He hurriedly climbed up the trunk carefully, stood firmly, and pulled the branches and leaves apart with his hands, looking for the place with strong fragrance near the crown of the tree. A thumb-sized, purple-red fruit that he had never seen before appeared in front of him.
Before, under the cover of the dense branches and leaves of this tree, Xiaoyi really didn't notice what kind of fruit there was!
Attracted by the fragrance, Xiaoyi couldn't help licking his dry lips, with the temperament of a greedy child.
Reaching out to pick the fruit and holding it in his hand, Xiaoyi continued to search up and down among the branches greedily, and found six more fruits of the same size, all of which were green. Thinking of the red fruit in his hand, he temporarily lost interest in the green fruit and couldn't wait to go back to the cave and sit down.
He pinched the fruit lightly with his fingers and held it up to his eyes. The fruit was purple and round. Facing the light, it was more crystal clear like a gem. There was also a layer of white halo that Xiaoyi could not detect flashing on the fruit. A strong and strange fragrance came to his nose and penetrated his lungs.
Such a fragrant fruit must be delicious. No matter what, try it first. Xiaoyi thought so in his heart. He stretched out his tongue and licked the fruit lightly.
"Hehe!"
Xiaoyi was amused by his own caution. He put the fruit to his mouth and tapped it with his teeth. Unexpectedly, the fruit melted in his mouth. Before he could distinguish the taste, he was stunned for a moment, and a cool and fragrant smell instantly slid down his throat into his stomach.
He rubbed his stomach in surprise, and Xiaoyi thought to himself, this fruit is so strange! But in a blink of an eye, a warm current rose in his stomach, and then the warm current turned into a ball of fire burning and colliding in his chest and abdomen. The fierce flames were like a fire dragon biting everywhere, trying to break through his body.
Then a thunder exploded behind his ears.
"Ah... It's bad... This damn fruit! It's all my fault for being greedy!"
He cried out miserably, and then the tearing pain in his chest and abdomen made Xiaoyi groan and go crazy. His face was distorted and sweat was pouring down.
Xiaoyi trembled all over, gritted his teeth, and the surging fire in his abdomen rushed more fiercely, chewing and biting his internal organs and every meridian, burning every inch of his bones.
The unbearable pain made Xiaoyi dizzy and his mind gradually became confused.
Am I going to die? Will the master know if I die here? Will I become a pile of dust? Will I never practice Xuanyuan formula again? Xuanyuan formula...Xuanyuan formula...Wood nature and gold emotion are combined, water rises and fire tends to rest...In a daze, muttering the familiar formula, Xiaoyi gradually fainted.
...In a trance, Xiaoyi felt that he had left his body, and the unspeakable pain gradually faded away...
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