Chapter 750 Silent Forest

More than two months later, in the southern forest of Rongshan.

A bat flew down from the sky and landed on Dong Rui's shoulder. He listened carefully and was greatly encouraged: "The town is five miles ahead, only five miles left!"

The snow had melted, and the ground was often damp.

But they couldn't ride the snail toad, because Dong Rui performed two more operations on the snail toad, and the latter entered a state of sleep and recuperation, not moving or consuming, and even didn't need to eat summer cypress. Dong Rui hid it in his backpack.

Previously, the snail toad carried people, and now people carried the snail toad.

Dong Rui himself was also exhausted, so he wanted to find a place to hide and have a good sleep.

He looked at He Lingchuan and Aunt Zhu, like two tireless monsters.

Especially Aunt Zhu, since she separated from her sisters and got a relic, she has been full of energy. No matter how bad the mountain forest environment is, she is happy.

In Aunt Zhu's own words, it has slept enough in the past three thousand years and should move more.

It has adapted well to its new body.

Zhu Erniang filled the remains with flesh and blood and gave it to it, which was equivalent to letting it take over a blank body without a soul. The difficulty was almost zero, except for the possibility of losing some memory.

According to the observation of the soul-capturing mirror, the recent two arrivals of the Emperor's sap made the spiritual energy of heaven and earth active again, which happened to be beneficial for Zhu Erniang to control this body.

However, it is now the second player on the Lingxu City Wanted List. In order not to cause trouble, Zhu Erniang made a little disguise on her appearance. First, she put away the iconic abdominal star map and changed it into the red and black poisonous spider color. The body is also square with spikes on the edge, which is two sizes smaller overall.

This is completely different from a burrow spider. He Lingchuan gave it a thumbs up: "It looks like a big crab."

Crabs also have eight claws, square shells, and serrations on the edge of the shell...

There is also crab paste.

Dong Rui yawned again: "Where did this kid go in the past two months, aren't you curious at all, Zhu Erniang?"

"No."

"..." After spending a long time together, he can easily tell the two spider queen sisters apart.

Aunt Zhu is very straightforward and doesn't like those many twists and turns, while Aunt Zhu Er is smart and can think like humans.

Dong Rui rubbed the mud off the soles of his shoes on the tree trunk, and suddenly pointed to the sky: "Tianluo Star has not been bright for a long time, you know it?"

"Hmm."

"I don't know when it started, it dimmed and never lit up again."

He Lingchuan stroked his chin: "Now that you put it that way, it's true."

Dong Rui turned around and stared at him fiercely: "Is it related to the things you stole from the Tiangong Zhaixing Tower?"

He looked up at the starry sky recently and found that Tianluo Star was gone!

Is Tianluo Star important? Of course!

If there is no Tianluo Star in the sky, there will be no Xushan plan for He Lingchuan!

"Yes, of course." He Lingchuan smiled, "This is top secret. Those who know it are in extreme danger. It is more dangerous than escaping from the pursuit of the Heavenly Palace. Do you want to hear it?"

Dong Rui sneered: "Are we not in danger now?"

Seeing He Lingchuan opening his mouth to speak, he said first: "Forget it, later."

He was not mentally prepared yet.

After walking two miles, the forest was dense and the evening wind was howling.

They found the road again, and it was repaired by humans, and the ground was quite flat.

"Hurry up!" Dong Rui urged, but He Lingchuan and Aunt Zhu slowed down their pace and looked around.

"What's wrong?"

"The forest is too quiet." Even in winter, when tired birds return to the forest in the evening, it will be noisy. But here there is no sound at all.

Not to mention that Aunt Zhu's eight claws have extraordinary touch, even if there are voles digging holes or walking under the snow, it can't be hidden from it.

But now it said: "I can't sense any life, look at these trees again."

Trees?

Dong Rui looked up and observed carefully.

In autumn and winter, the leaves of trees have basically fallen off, leaving only bare branches and dead branches, covered with thick snow. It is impossible to be as lush as in spring and summer.

But Dong Rui still found round holes on the tree, with a diameter of about the thickness of the little finger.

What caused it? Did someone drive nails into the tree?

With such attention, he found that there were at least seventeen or eighteen round holes on the tree.

This tree has it, and that tree has it too... Dong Rui checked more than a dozen trees in a row, no matter how big or small, they were all covered with round holes!

Aunt Zhu suddenly said: "This is caused by the mouthparts."

He Lingchuan slapped the tree with one palm.

The big tree that two people hugged together broke into two with a snap, and the sound was too crisp.

A large piece of broken wood on top fell down with a bang.

Even so, it did not scare the roosting birds.

The forest was still terribly quiet.

"Look." He Lingchuan pointed at the cross section of the tree, "It's completely dead inside."

Dong Rui leaned over to take a look. The cross section he broke was gray-black with countless radial cracks.

From the inside to the outside, the tree had no moisture or activity at all.

He Lingchuan randomly broke a few more trees. No matter what species, no matter how thick or thin, they were all in this situation.

Dong Rui's bat demon puppet also found a dead hare in the crack of the rock.

It was not rotten, but shriveled.

"It was sucked dry." Dong Rui looked at Aunt Zhu when he said this, "Is this your kind?"

He has studied burrow spiders and has seen how the queen spider eats people. It is indeed to inject venom first, then extend the mouthparts to the bottom, and suck the dissolved blood and flesh essence.

He also pointed with his hand: "Look, there is still a spider web there."

White silk was floating in the deep forest, wisping with the wind. He Lingchuan stretched out his knife and stirred a few pieces of white silk for careful observation. It was very sticky and tough.

"Nonsense." Aunt Zhu would not take the blame, and she couldn't let her kind take the blame.

He Lingchuan also said: "This is not a spider web."

Mrs. Zhu's spider silk has a wide range of uses, and he knows every type. This white silk looks a bit like spider silk at first glance, but in fact, its strength and weaving method are completely different from those of burrow spiders.

Dong Rui yawned: "Standing here, I can't draw any conclusions."

The two people and the spider temporarily suppressed their doubts and continued to move towards the town.

Soon, pieces of farmland appeared. But the fields were covered with white silk webs.

They ignored it and continued to move forward.

Finally, the town arrived.

The town in the forest was unusually quiet, with no voices and no lights.

Dong Rui sighed.

After two months of living in the open air, he still thought that he could eat hot meals and take a hot bath when he arrived in the town, and live the life that humans should have.

In the end, all these little wishes were in vain.

Dozens of houses in the town were eerily quiet, and some doors were wide open, creaking in the north wind.

He Lingchuan looked at the street: "Look at the footprints on the ground, no one has been walking for at least half a day."

The rain started last night, and the ground was a little muddy, but there were no new footprints.

The permanent population of this town must be at least three to five hundred? No one is walking around?