boy and bone

The ferret woke up again, it was already dark.

The moment his consciousness became clear, there was a dull pain from the back of his head. The ferret sat up from the grass with difficulty, trying to recall what happened and why he was lying here.However, the images that flashed through his mind were broken and messy, and he vaguely recalled that he seemed to be caught by a human hand bone... It was surprisingly weird.

At this time, there was a rustling sound not far away, listen carefully, the movement was different from the natural sound, and the ferret was alarmed and alert.Relying on the instincts he had trained for danger, he got up from the ground and quickly hid behind the nearby tree trunk regardless of the pain in the back of his head, carefully using it as a cover and observing secretly.

Unexpectedly, this observation surprised him.

About five trees ahead, an ant stood in the middle, a giant ant with a clear body as if it had been magnified thousands of times.The knee-shaped tentacles reach directly to the top of the forest, the gray hairs on the six calves are clearly rooted, supporting the fat belly slightly tilted upwards, the big sickle-shaped palate on the mouthparts opens and closes, and keeps pushing into the mouth Send stuffed with a corpse.The giant ant was carrying piles of dead bodies, and several precarious corpses hanging from the giant ant's body slipped from its body as the giant ant moved.Ferrets have natural excellent night vision of the nocturnal species. He can vaguely recognize some familiar clothes on the corpses. Those should belong to walking with him on the same road for quite a long time after entering the Floating Gold Mist Forest. A person, even if he has not talked to him, will leave an impression on his memory.

They were all in trouble... The ferret suddenly realized that he compared the tree where the giant ant was leaning against in front of him with the towering mangrove tree he was hiding in. After visually measuring the size of the ant, the ferret was deeply impressed. Realizing that my body, which is like a falling leaf, is not worth mentioning, and it is not as long as the ant's leg hair.

The giant ant slowly moved its calf to this side.

The ferret didn't dare to be disturbed. He carefully stepped back around the tree, while holding the saber tightly in his hand.He was always avoiding the sight of the giant ant. He didn't know if the ant's eyesight was good, or it had no other sensory organs. The ferret didn't dare to make a move without knowing the monster well, so he could only keep quiet for a while. observe.

That giant ant is definitely not from the Fujinwu Forest.It should be the bounty monster.

So what happened to the bones in his memory?It was not as weird as the giant ant in front of me.

The ferret thought for a moment, and he decided to follow the giant ant quietly first. After all, his purpose of coming to this forest was to get rid of any things that should not appear in the Floating Gold Mist Forest.Since he wasn't sure whether the bones in his memory really existed, he had to deal with the reality in front of him first, get rid of this big ant first, and then talk about other things.

Of course, the ferret wouldn't be foolish enough to single-handedly challenge such a gigantic... gigantic monster.He followed it first, secretly understood its habits, and it was best to discover its weaknesses. After that, he thought about countermeasures.

Thinking of this, golden sparks jumped out of the place where the ferret's palm was close to the blade of the sword, and then disappeared without a trace.If there was a nocturnal species like him beside the ferret who had been trained as a knight, he might be able to catch and recognize the beauty of the rules framed in the golden sparks in an instant.

The ferret propelled the light rune familiarly, and his feet quickly stepped on the tall tree beside him as a cover. He held his breath, stepped on the straight trunk and swooped to the top of the tree, and then lightly jumped to the top of the tree. Stand on top of a branch.

Looking down from the top of a tall tree, the vision in the forest is clearer. The ferret observed quietly. He saw that where the giant ants walked, the ground they touched instantly withered and withered, but that was the same as the corrosion system. The curse of magic power is not the same, the place where it has corroded does not form black crystal spots, and the place where it walks, it seems that everything is deprived of life and vitality and decays rapidly.Compared with a curse, the ferret thinks it is more like a poisonous acid gas released by the giant ants themselves, as a means of predation by wild beasts and monsters to stun or poison all living things close to them.

If it wasn't a curse, it would be much easier.The ferret calmed down a little. If a monster of this size was a monster, the ferret would no longer have any delusions about the bounty.

Then he used the same method to jump from the branch tip of this tree to another tree, lightly and without making a sound, and approached the slow-moving giant ant step by step, but kept a certain distance to follow. Get behind it and watch exactly where it's going.

After the ferret followed all the way, the surrounding scenery became more and more unified. He saw the direction where the giant ants were moving slowly. The place was a forest that had long been withered by acid gas poisoning. There was an open space in the middle. The ferret looked carefully. When I went, it turned out to be mountain bags piled up with corpses.

At this moment, the ferret, whose eyesight is extremely good at night, saw a figure moving quickly among the piles of corpses from a distance.

The ferret was sure there was still a living person there.

Seeing that the giant ants were about to go to the pile of corpses, the people in the open space were not alert and were still wandering around among the piles of corpses.The ferret was in a bad mood, and he hastily swung the saber in his hand. A tiny spark burst out from the tip of the sword again, but the color of the spark was dim at this time, so dark that it almost blended with the night. Before the dark sparks dissipated, the ferret jumped up, and the figure rushed towards the nearby trees behind him very quickly, and when he stepped on the top of the tree, he cut off the surrounding branches in an instant. Before rustling down, the ferret clenched the hilt of the sword again, and a flash of lightning on the blade split the tree he stepped on vertically in two.

The giant ant that was moving forward heard the sound coming into the air from other directions, its tentacles trembled, turned its huge body and tried to move slowly towards the source of the sound, and slowly moved away from its original path .

Before the tree was split in half, the ferret took the opportunity to jump from the top of the tree to another tree. His figure quickly jumped in the forest until it landed in the clearing surrounded by mountains of corpses.

Hearing the noise, the person hiding behind the pile of corpses finally came out sideways. He saw the giant ant go away, and then fixed his eyes on the robed man who had just landed, and said in a tone of fear amidst hesitation: "It was you who helped me!" To lure away the monster?"

The ferret just wanted to nod, but he suddenly realized that he seemed to have an impression of the person next to the corpse pile.The ferret looked at this man for a long time, and finally said with certainty: "You are Kiranji? You are Man Kiranji"

Man was startled: "You are?"

The ferret pulled the hood off, revealing his face: "I am from the same knight academy as you, and we have also taken classes together. You often sit in the third row from the bottom on the east side. I sit on the south side. Second row."

"Oh. I remember." Man politely concealed that he didn't have any impression of the face under the robe.

The ferret saw it through, and said, "No, you don't remember. You always sleep in class."

"Why are you here?" The ferret felt unbelievable. He observed that Man Guilanzhi was still wearing light and expensive fabrics like a nobleman. Except for the black silk glove on his right hand, there was no weapon or armor on his whole body. He didn't even have a magic sword, and the ferret didn't think Ki Ranji came for a reward: "Have you lost your way?"

"I also want to ask you this question." Man Qiao replied: "You are still an apprentice knight who has not graduated, why did you come here?"

Ferret is very bad at lying, he always felt in his heart that he was sneaking in, so he was very guilty, and Gui Ranzhi could make his heart beat faster when he was asked by Gui Ranji with a few hints, and he didn't know how to respond.

Seeing this, Man said confidently, "Keep each other's secrets and make a deal?"

"...Deal." The ferret compromised.

He looked at the ferret nonchalantly, and thought suddenly: "Since there are only two of us living in this 'food court', how about we join forces temporarily?"

"'Food field'?" The ferret was puzzled.

Man explained: "The food field is a name I made up. I mean the open space where the corpses are piled up in front of you. Most of the corpses on this corpse mountain have traces of that ant's gnawing, so I think This is where the monster eats, that is, the food ground..." After a meal, he suddenly said: "Don't you think our time is limited? The ant was lured away by you and came back at some time, you still want me to share with you Do you talk in detail?"

"Okay, I agree." The ferret stretched out its hand to Man Kiranji's eyes.

Staring at the friendly palm stretched out by the other party, he asked puzzledly, "What do you mean?"

The ferret said confusedly: "Aren't we going to be a partner?" Shaking hands means alliance.

"I don't need the ceremony, thank you." Man said: "You guard here, and the giant ant will remind me immediately when it comes back."

"Okay." Ferret suddenly felt that there must be a reason why Man Kiranji was not popular in the academy.

The ferret stood around Kiranji, observing the surrounding movement from time to time, but fortunately, there was no shadow of that huge body.

He heard inexplicable noises around him, so he turned his head to look, and saw Man Kiranji leaning over, kicking on a corner of the corpse mountain, reaching into the pile of corpses exuding the despair of death, stroking each one Looking at the unrecognizable head inside, it seemed to be rummaging for something.

"What are you looking for?" the ferret couldn't help asking.

"My cousin." While digging through the pile of corpses, Man said, "When we first entered the forest, he was replaced."

The ferret felt that he couldn't keep up with the man's train of thought: "Sorry, what replacement?"

When Manchu realized that the curly hair on the skull in his hand was golden yellow, he threw the severed head aside, because Rhea had black hair.When he found another severed hand, he had time to reply to the ferret: "Don't you even think about the reasons for all this?"

"After we entered the forest with day and night reversed, we woke up to this place full of dead branches and rotten wood. There was no transition in the middle. When we woke up, we were placed in the food pile of the giant ant. At first I thought The scene of "reversing day and night" is caused by the illusion rune of different space or reversed space. But then I rejected this idea, because this food field has an edge, it is not endless, and it can be seen outside the edge To the moon and the luxuriant foliage, there is a piece of decay on the edge, and this edge boundary does not have the sense of fragmentation like a fault, but gradually, as if slowly decaying. Some trees even have only a small part It is in decline, but half of it is still full of vitality. The most important thing is that as long as we avoid the threat of giant ants, we can easily walk outside the edge, so I am sure that the 'food ground' is part of this forest, we have no Being teleported to another space, although the scene is very different, this place is still a floating gold fog forest."

"At that time, what caused the reversal of day and night when entering the forest was the transfer rune for instantaneous location change, which was very different from the ordinary teleportation array. Few people used this method to achieve the position change, so I didn't Respond in time. But the essence of the two runes is interlinked, and this should be the way for giant ants to quickly bring their prey back to their nest when they are hunting." Man explained.

The ferret listened to the other party's eloquent analysis. To be honest, he was completely at a loss as to what this man was talking about. He could only nod half-understood.

He searched through all the bones with complete heads, trying to identify the only distorted and cracked faces left on them.

He said: "By the way, I haven't asked you why you came back? You have escaped from the monster's food court. I am looking for someone, what are you doing for it? After seeing the magnificence of that monster, don't you still appreciate it?" Is Kim under any illusions?"

The ferret said: "I didn't come back, I followed the giant ants and came here for the first time."

Man Wen turned his face away, seeing that the ferret didn't seem to be lying, he said: "Impossible, changing the rune when entering the forest will move everyone to this place, it is impossible for you not to be affected."

"Everyone?" Only then did the ferret respond. Could it be that the piles of corpses were all the more than 200 people who entered the forest?

He never expected that there were so many Golden Ape Knights and so many Silver Snake Knights on the roster before entering the forest. Although the ferrets knew the dangers in the forest, they would not end up almost completely annihilated.

The giant ant's estimate in the ferret's mind jumped a few more layers, and there was some coolness behind him, and he suddenly wanted to give up the reward.

Man Que looked at the ferret, thinking secretly: "The nature of the transfer rune is that it can affect the actions of animals, no matter whether it is a bird or a rabbit, as long as it is within the range of the transfer, it will be affected. At that time, when we entered the forest, Rhea and I finally Enter, we didn't go far in the forest, and we were transferred here, so I expected that the range of influence of the transfer rune should be very large, covering almost the entire forest, and everyone would not be spared. But here There are only about sixty corpses, and I know that some of them escaped, but there may also be a small number of people like you who were not within the scope of the transfer."

Man looked shocked when he saw the person in front of him, as if he really didn't know that most of the people who came into the forest died here, and said: "...you are so lucky."

The ferret looked around at the withered scenery, and he sorted out his memory: "No, I remember that I have been here, but something dragged me away...it was a hand bone...Impossible, I can't remember ..."

Man didn't care and said: "You'd better help me pay attention to the surrounding environment while thinking about it. Now I can fully entrust my wealth and life to you..."

"By the way, classmate, what's your name?" Man asked.

"My name is Ferret. Ferret Arion." Ferret said.

"Sorry? What?" Hearing such a weird name for the first time, Man couldn't help doubting his ears. He was startled by the movement of holding a head in his hands, and turned around to look at the ferret seriously.

The Ferret knew this, and everyone who heard his name for the first time responded in this way, repeating, "Ferret Yarion."

Man hesitated: "Is it the kind of 'ferret' I imagined?"

"Yes, an animal's name. I was brought up by the Charity Church, where orphans are adopted. All the orphans there are named after animals, and the last name is not changed until someone adopts it."

"So you have never been adopted." Man is very picky.

The ferret said frankly: "Although it's embarrassing to say it, it's true."

"Oh... sorry." Man said.

"I don't think so." The ferret said, but at this moment he felt the wind was blowing around him, he didn't want to waste time talking about his life experience, so he turned back to the man who was still turning over the pile of corpses and said: " Can you please hurry up? I want to go home early."

Faced with the urging of others, Man still took his time, and he was only a small mountain of corpses away from the investigation.

Fortunately, he didn't see Rhea's appearance here... He couldn't be sure whether Rhea had been completely eaten by the monster or was still living elsewhere, but his heart finally calmed down a little, at least there was something alive. possible.

While secretly relieved, he also knew that he had to evacuate immediately, in case the man-eating ant returned to continue its dinner business, and was pleasantly surprised to find a fresh and lively dessert beside the 'dining table'.

The ferret was guarding behind Man. While he was anxiously hoping that Man would move faster, he listened to the movement around him. The ferret was watching out for when the giant ant would return. When he turned his head, he unexpectedly met a flat Head-on collisions.

The ferret's forehead went numb all of a sudden, and the giant ant came back without warning and without a sound. Its two hard palates were covered with blood tendons and minced meat, and it exhaled a disgusting stench from its mouthparts. And its antennae on both sides kept moving towards the front of the ferret, as if it was about to search for something.

The ferret's hand holding the saber trembled unconsciously.

Man turned around and immediately froze, covered by the bloody smell coming towards his face and the shadow of the huge head, Man instantly lost the strength to make any movements.

Suddenly, a shrill adult scream appeared behind the ant.The giant ant's tentacles folded back, dragged its fully rounded abdomen, and crawled towards the direction of the sound.

Taking advantage of this gap, the ferret grabbed Man's arm that was shaken in place, turned around and ran wildly, and the accelerated light runes were launched again and again, and the densely grown mangrove trees became blurred and floating under the rush of the ferret, like a group of Sick and thin wild ghosts crowded in.On such a strange night with no moon and no stars, the more flustered my heart was, the less I dared to look back, and I rushed forward just to shake the fear in my heart to the back of my head.It wasn't until they felt that they had run far enough, so far that they felt that they were out of danger, and that they had no strength to run for their lives even if they didn't get away from him, that they dared to look back with courage, and saw that there was no trouble behind them.

Only then did the ferret slow down.His feet were floating, and he found a tree randomly with one hand and stood there. His raised arm supported his weak body and adjusted his breathing.

He saw that the person beside him who was running wildly along the way also looked exhausted, and the two looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths showed a smile of survival after a catastrophe.