Blue Star

In the rain and fog more than ten meters away, five figures with green lights lined up, slowly approaching the third town from outside the town.

Gu Li squatted close to the broken wall, watching the direction of these figures through the cracks.They sometimes stagnate in place, and sometimes float in the air. They really look like the will-o'-the-wisps that Mimir said.

But it seems a bit far-fetched to say that it looks like a human being.Except for the lifeless facial features exposed in the will-o'-the-wisp, the body can't be seen at all when it rises and falls, as if only a head is floating in the whole body.

Dao Porling squatted down next to Gu Li, put on the glasses again and adjusted the mechanical screw, so that the lenses protruded a few centimeters, and it became a pair of low-end binoculars.

"It's raining too much, so I can't see clearly. But don't the facial features of these things look a little too strange? They look like a fox demon, or they were frightened to death after becoming spirits."

As he spoke, he imitated those faces and opened his mouth wide.

Mi Mier squatted behind the two of them and couldn't look at them, so he could only see the porphyrin making strange faces, and said, "I think their jaws must be dislocated, otherwise how could they open their mouths so wide."

Gu Li, who really couldn't see clearly, turned around helplessly, leaning his back against the wall, and said, "It's not a will-o'-the-wisp, and the face I see is not a real human face either."

Daoporing rested his elbows on both sides of the crack in the wall, and adjusted the lens with his fingers, "I look quite similar, especially like the ghost mentioned in the book."

Mimir retorted, "Ghost messengers can stick out their tongues, but they don't have tongues."

Gu Li shook his head, "Don't you find it strange? You can't see anything clearly from such a long distance, but you can only see their facial features clearly."

"That's right." Dao Porling finally came to his senses, turned his head and said, "Looking at people from this distance, logically, the five senses are all a little bit. If you can see clearly, then this face should be at least one meter wide at close range, one meter wide. s face……"

"Ahhhhh!!"

Mimir suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, scaring Dao Porling who was thinking so much that he almost lost his glasses.

"It's called a soul!" Dao Porling cursed casually, and just turned his head to meet a magnified "ghost face" approaching them from the gap.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Shouting even louder, before the body reacted through the brain, Dao Porling kicked sharply, kicking the lifeless face hard.

Gu Li quickly pulled Dao Porling back, and quickly opened the defensive magnetic field to repel the "ghost face".

The so-called facial features are really not real, but a mutated insect with a pitch-black body.The human face is the pattern spread all over the abdomen of insects. Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a frightened and distorted expression.

The insects scared off by him flew to other places, and did not attack because of the sudden magnetic field stimulation.

The body of the insect is about one meter long, and the pitch-black shell separated from the back is faintly covered with dark green. The transparent soft wings under the hard shell beat the rainstorm around the body in a circular arc.The trapping "light" under the abdomen is turned off from time to time, and it will be turned on again after flying back to the team.

"Huo Jingu, but it has mutated, so I can't tell what kind it was." Gu Li said calmly.

Daoporing was scared out of his wits, "Are you still in the mood to study what kind of thing this is?"

Gu Li smiled and said: "Although Huo Jingu is a carnivorous creature, what they eat are snails, slugs or earthworms, and they are not interested in people like us. Probably because of the rain, the food hidden in the ground crawled out That's why Huo Jingu came out to look for food." He glanced at Iris, who was sitting behind a few people, who only cared about the small fish in the pot, and said reassuringly: "Don't worry, if there is any danger, Iris will be more serious than us. Be the first to react."

Mimir's heartbeat has not returned to normal, but she still couldn't help asking: "What is Huojingu?"

Dao Porling rolled his eyes, "It's just a firefly, just another name."

Gu Li sat next to Iris, took the chopsticks that had been sharpened in advance, picked up a cooked fish, blew it, and stuffed it into his mouth.After confirming that it was fully cooked, he reminded several people: "You can eat it."

Iris licked his lips, and reached into the pot to grab the fish without being afraid of the heat.

Before Gu Li could stop it, he saw Iris holding the fish's tail and swallowing the fish with his head up.

"Open your mouth." Gu Li pinched Iris' chin and ordered.

Although Iris is not afraid of being hot since he mutated, it is freshly boiled food after all.The internal organs of the body, the esophagus, may not be as resistant to high temperatures as the skin.

Iris looked at him, and obediently opened his mouth for him to check.But apart from the redness of the mucous membrane, the mouth was not affected by the high temperature.

Gu Li frowned and closed his hands, teaching: "Chew a few times before swallowing, you can't swallow it in one gulp."

The fish is a bit small, and the bones are almost soft, but there is no guarantee that it will not get stuck in the throat when swallowing.

Iris didn't dare to take any more, and waited for him to indicate when he could eat the next one with a slightly wronged look in his eyes.

Gu Li thought it was funny, and stretched out his hand to rub Iris' lips twice.

Iris stuck out his tongue and licked Gu Li's fingers.

"What are you doing!" Dao Porling put away his glasses, and his newly recovered emotions suddenly reached the breaking point again.Opened Gu Li's hand, forced to sit between the two of them, and said angrily: "What are you groping for, you mess around as soon as I don't see you. Let me tell you, Iris is an infected person, you can't..."

Gu Li interrupted: "A few of Huo Jingu's feet are stained with nectar, but there are no flowering plants near this town, and they are probably brought from the canyon we are going to go later."

"Don't change the subject for me." Dao Porling snatched the chopsticks from Gu Li's hand, picked up a fish in the pot and chewed angrily: "If you touch this fish again while I'm not paying attention, it will be in the pot after a while." It's what's cooked."

Gu Li didn't answer Porling's words, pretending to be serious and continued: "Just now that Huo Jingu broke a leg, maybe it encountered a natural enemy in the canyon? Maybe it's a large mutant creature like a toad."

"Ke Erqi Gu Li!" Dao porphy spit Shui Xingzi, pointing to Iris on the right, ready to curse.

However, as soon as he raised his finger, Iris looked not to be provoked, and he didn't have the bullying posture when he faced Gu Li just now.

Immediately, he turned his hand around and pointed at Mimir who was squatting on the opposite side watching the show, "You know how to eat, you've eaten up the whole pot of fish. Why don't you eat the mermaid too!"

Mimir was very wronged, "I only ate three."

"There are only a few pieces in total. If you eat three pieces by yourself, we will share them. You are not allowed to eat them." Dao Porling took the iron pot, and made a gesture of wanting to eat it all by himself.

Mi Mier hurried forward to grab the blame, "There are still a few more, give me some left over! Old man, you know how to bully me."

"Gone."

"I'm not full yet..."

"That's gone!"

In the afternoon, it rained cats and dogs.

Gu Li glanced at his pocket watch, and planned to set off before the rain stopped.There are already too many low-lying places in this town, and if the heavy rain lasts for several days, it will only become more difficult to walk afterward.

There are still two hours left before dark, and if the speed is fast, they should be able to find a place to camp after reaching the canyon.

The road after the rain is not very recognizable, and he plans to follow Huo Jingu who has finished foraging.Looking at the direction, the old nest of these insects should be near the Fifth Goddess Pillar.

Gu Li turned the ring to narrow the range of the magnetic field that blocks the rain as much as possible, so as not to scare away Huo Jingu who is leading the way.But in this way, the visible range under the rain curtain becomes limited, and the speed of walking forward can only be slowed down.

The road leading to the Fifth Goddess Pillar is not blocked by so many rocks, but the bushes are denser than before.Most of the vegetation is a mutant variety, either too large, or deformed and decayed.

The ground is mostly covered with layers of fungi and moss, crowded and competing for a place among the bushes.Ferns wrap around tree trunks, absorbing the life of other plants to nourish themselves.

Young shoots are interspersed with old plants, and the stems of the broken leaves are parasitic on the stronger ones.And those old plants that seem to be eliminated, in order to survive, have mutated spikes and venom that shouldn't have, curled up and climbed up the buds, entangled and scrambled for the sporadic light .

Not only do creatures fight for survival, but vegetation does too.

Huo Jingu walked through a mushroom forest with a flashing green light, and when it reached the cliff at the end, it flew high suddenly, and slowly flew towards the rain and fog on the opposite side of the canyon, gradually drifting away.

The four of them stood still on the edge of the cliff full of fungi and moss, looking down, there was no way to move forward in the misty fog.

Gu Li's nostrils were filled with the smell of rainwater and decaying plants, and occasionally he could smell the fragrance of flowers.Very messy, like a mixture of hundreds of species, coming from the bottom of a cliff.

Mimir stood at the end of the line, rubbed his nose, and couldn't help but sneezed several times.With physiological tears in his eyes, he said, "I seem to be allergic to pollen."

Dao Porling also smelled it, and couldn't help frowning, "I can smell the fragrance of flowers, but I don't see any flowers anywhere."

"It's all at the bottom of the valley." Gu Li affirmed, looking at the bottom of the cliff that he couldn't see clearly.

He took a few steps forward, holding Iris' arm with one hand to prevent his feet from slipping and falling.

Look carefully, there are several damaged "ghost ships" floating in the thick fog in the valley.Some have only the bottom of the boat, while others have only a few pieces of the hull.In addition, there are scrap iron sheets, plastic wires, and severely distorted iron boxes.

It may be caused by a large piece of fluorite at the bottom of the valley, but the magnetic field radiated by it is not stable.The floating objects are not only high and low, but also run irregularly with the direction of the magnetic field.

The sound of flapping insect wings came from behind, and several Huo Jingus lined up suddenly rose up when they were about to reach the cliff.Like Huo Jingu who led the way before, she deliberately avoided the range of the magnetic field and flew to the opposite side.

Dao Porling looked at it strangely, and said: "It's strange, the floating magnetic field will not have any effect on the creatures when it is not controlled by the wizard. Why do you avoid them one by one?"

Gu Li observed Iris' reaction, frowned and said, "Maybe what they want to avoid is not the magnetic field, but the smell."

Mimir pinched her nose uncomfortably, "Smell?"

Gu Li: "Have you noticed that we have come all the way, except for some larger mutant Huo Jinnus, there has not been any insects?"

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Yu Ling:

Thank you Yumumu and Wu Qiong for the fish food last night!