out of time

Chapter 17 What the hell are you

Perhaps it was because of the singing, in this area of ​​the jungle, the roar of alien beasts had never appeared, as if the source of the singing was the master of this restricted area.

After its appearance, all things will be silent.

Team Lei sat there silently, still looking into the distance, it was pitch black and there was nothing there.

Xu Qing's expression was a bit complicated. After a while, his eyes swept around, and finally fell on the barbarian's mace and the broken shield fragments.

The ghost's corpse, like all the corpses here, turned into dust when the singing mist left, as if it had never existed in the world.

And scavengers often have no relatives, so maybe not many people care about their disappearance.

Even if there is, it will be gradually forgotten in the passage of time, until a few years later, no one will know, no one will remember.

Xu Qing suddenly thought of a sentence that the teacher who was kind to him in the slums said to his group of children before he died of illness in his dying years.

"It is a kind of pain to have someone you can't forget in your heart, but it is a kind of happiness to be remembered in your heart."

At that time, Xu Qing didn't understand this sentence very well, but now he looked at Team Lei and understood the meaning of this sentence, so he didn't bother, but walked silently to the place where the ghost's corpse used to be, took out the Dagger, dug up in the ground.

Although the interaction with the wild ghosts is not deep, to be precise, it is only a few days, and the words are few, but the other party taught him the experience of the jungle, and they walked out of the life and death wolf robbery together, and in the end he also borrowed the other party's things , blocked the black blood.

So Xu Qing felt that he should do something.

Just like when he left the city and cremated all the corpses in the city, he dug the soil hard and gradually dug a hole.

Bury the wild ghost's mace and shield fragments.

During this process, Xu Qing was very serious, and didn't notice Team Lei behind him. At some point, he withdrew his gaze from the jungle and was looking at him.

In his expression, there was a touch of strangeness when he looked at Xu Qing for the first time in the ruins of the city. When he saw Xu Qing buried the barbarian's weapon and seemed to want to make a tombstone, Team Lei spoke softly.

"Scavenger, you don't need a tombstone."

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. This is the life of a scavenger. He struggled in the world during his lifetime, and after death... there is no need to worship, just be quiet."

Speaking of this, Team Lei's aura became weaker and weaker. The severity of the injury, the accumulation of abnormalities, and the overdraw of his mind made him unable to hold on. The world slowly blurred, and he closed his eyes and passed out.

Xu Qing approached, took out some horse chestnuts from his pocket, and stuffed them into Team Lei's mouth.

He didn't know if it was useful, but he wanted to come to this product as a must for making Bai Dan, so it still has the effect of alleviating heterogeneity.

After finishing all this, he carried Team Lei on his back and tied him tightly with his clothes. Then he took a deep breath and galloped through the jungle in the dark night.

When passing by the place where the blood shadow captain turned into dust, Xu Qing saw a leather bag, picked it up and opened it, there was no pill in it, only some sundries.

So put it away, and went away in a flash.

When Team Lei regained his consciousness weakly, it was already half an hour later.

He vaguely felt that he was being carried by a thin body, rising and falling with its beating, slowly opened his eyes, and saw the side face of the young man in front of him.

He was silent.

Xu Qing also noticed Lei Dui's awakening and spoke in a low voice.

"Is it better? You can continue to sleep for a while. In a few more hours, we should be able to get out of the restricted area before dawn."

Team Lei didn't speak, his frail body couldn't hide his old age anymore, he tried to look up at the dark sky, his eyes gradually blurred, and when his consciousness was about to fall into a coma again, he murmured.

"Child, do you know why I proposed to take you away twice in the ruined city?"

Xu Qing's figure did not pause, but shook his head.

"Then do you still remember the scene when we first met?" Team Lei's voice was weak.

"Remember." With a movement of Xu Qing's body, he jumped onto a big tree, raised his right hand to the side and grabbed it, hid one end there, grabbed the alienated lizard that was rushing forward, and threw it to the ground in front of him.

With a bang, as the lizard fell, a large number of vines on the ground twisted and entangled it quickly. During the lizard's struggle, the leather armor was pierced and the flesh was devoured.

Xu Qing took advantage of this opportunity to jump up, avoiding danger and continuing to walk away.

At this moment, Team Lei's weak murmur came from behind him, his voice was sickly and weak, if it wasn't very close, it would be extremely difficult to hear.

"I saw the figure of your body being cremated. At that time, you beside the flames were illuminated by the fire, and seemed to be fused with the fire. It made me seem to see... a ray of warmth in this cruel world."

Xu Qing paused and fell silent, and Team Lei behind him fell into a coma again.

After a few breaths, Xu Qing raised his feet silently, and continued galloping in the jungle, shuttled through the trees, and flew away at high speed.

Time passed, and soon an hour passed.

Xu Qing avoided danger, and his figure was getting closer and closer to the edge of the jungle.

At this moment, the sky was at its darkest, and the night's chill from the restricted area invaded the surrounding area. Fortunately, Xu Qing had been moving rapidly, and the heat instinctively generated by his body resisted the icy cold a little.

It's just... as he walked forward, the coldness became more and more intense. After a stick of incense, Xu Qing's figure suddenly stopped, and he looked ahead with a gloomy expression.

In front of him, a thick fog appeared in the jungle.

This mist is extremely thick and diffuses in the distance, but unlike the singing blood mist that Xu Qing has seen before, it does not seem to have a strong sense of oppression.

It's just that as far as the eyes look, the place shrouded in fog is blurred, and it is impossible to see everything around.

Especially at this moment of night, the cover of the mist became more intense. Xu Qing wanted to avoid it, but after running for a long time, what he hoped was still the attack of the mist.

He knew what it was.

When they first entered the restricted area, Cross and Luan Ya said that among the dangers in the restricted area, there is something called fog.

If covered by this fog, people will lose their direction inside and eventually get lost.

And once the fog is formed, it often takes a long time to dissipate naturally.

Xu Qing felt that although he could survive until the mist dissipated and the heterogeneity in his body would not skyrocket, but the weak Thunder Team couldn't. If he was trapped in it, he would die of alienation soon.

This made Xu Qing have to retreat, trying to bypass the fog with a wider range.

But... the fog was too thick, no matter how fast he was, he still fell into a situation where there was fog all over his front, back, left, and right sides. There was nowhere to hide, and he was submerged in the fog.

But soon, the mist that engulfed Xu Qing's location gradually thinned, and finally Xu Qing's bewildered figure reappeared.

He lowered his head and looked at his feet.

There were no shadows in the dark night, but Xu Qing could feel the fog around him, which was pouring into the soles of his feet rapidly at this moment.

It was as if the invisible shadow formed a vortex and swallowed all around.

The speed of this devouring was not fast, and it seemed to be full after a while, and it was no longer absorbed, causing the mist to submerge Xu Qing's figure again.

But... After the end of the swallowing of the shadow, a force of feedback poured into Xu Qing's body, gathering his eyes, and as far as he could see, the thick fog became transparent.

Or it can't be described by looking, but perceived!

Obviously the fog still exists, and it is obviously extremely thick, but in his perception it is only slightly blurred, far from blocking the gaze and making people lose their minds.

This made Xu Qing short of breath, and looked down at the invisible shadow under his feet.

"You, what are you..." Xu Qing whispered.

After a long while, he raised his head to sense his surroundings, Shen Mo Shao leaned forward and moved immediately without slowing down, galloping past like a ghost in the dense fog.

Not long after, Xu Qing, who was flying in the dense fog, saw a living person.

Those were two scavengers.

Xu Qing vaguely remembered seeing them in the camp. The two held each other's hands at this moment, and slowly explored forward in the thick fog like a blind man.

But in Xu Qing's perception, their progress was actually going in circles. Obviously, they had already noticed this. The sweat on their foreheads and heavy breathing revealed their nervousness and despair for the future.

After glancing at the two, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and was about to leave in a flash.

He doesn't have overflowing sympathy, living in this cruel world, saving people without purpose, in exchange for examples of himself being backlashed, he has seen too many examples in the slums.

But for people whose vision is obscured, their hearing will be extremely sharp at this time, so they still detect the sound of Xu Qing's footsteps when he left.

The expressions of the two immediately showed nervousness, they couldn't tell whether it was a human or a beast that made the sound, so one of them growled ferociously, as if to deter him.

While the other one was crying for help, and even to show sincerity, he even took out the white pill and spiritual coins from the leather bag, and promised to give them away in words, just for a chance.

Xu Qing stopped for a moment, looked back at Bai Dan in the man's hand, and felt the weakness of Team Lei behind him.

So after thinking about it, he rummaged through the leather bag, found a candle and lit it, so that there was a fire in the place, but the fire was weak, suppressed by the fog, and it was slowly dimming.

Taking advantage of the flames, Xu Qing stepped back a little distance, looked at the two people not far away, and spoke slowly.

"Seven steps straight to the right, then ten steps to the left..."

As Xu Qing's voice came in, the two scavengers trembled, their faces showed ecstasy, and they immediately followed Xu Qing's instructions while breathing quickly.

Soon following Xu Qing's successive instructions, they circled left and right to avoid the dangerous place, and the fog in front of them gradually thinned as they approached the place where the candlelight was.

When they walked into the range of the candle that was about to be extinguished, they were illuminated by the fire, like a blind man reappearing the light, and they fell down beside the candle in an instant, feeling excited and boiling strongly.

As for Xu Qing, he was hiding at the edge of the dark place at the moment, even though the light of the fire was slightly shining, but his figure was still blurred, looking at the excited appearance of the two people in front of him with a blank face, he spoke lightly.

"Bai Dan give it to me."

One of them was trembling, and without hesitation, Yu Sheng immediately threw the leather bag containing the spirit coin and Baidan to Xu Qing, thanking him repeatedly.

And the other one was about to take the elixir from his body, but after sweeping his eyes over Xu Qing's figure, his excitement subsided a bit.

Because Xu Qing was in a dark place, the mist was thin and thin, so in this person's eyes, he couldn't see Xu Qing's face clearly, he could only see his thin and small body, and behind him seemed to be a comatose person.

So there was a glint in his eyes, but a smile appeared on his face, and he spoke sincerely.

"Little brother, I've used up all the white pills on me, but don't worry, when the fog clears, or if you have a way to take me out, I will repay you double."

After finishing speaking, his eyes flickered slightly, and he looked towards where Xu Qing was, with some eagerness to try.

The companion next to him also felt annoyed in his heart at this moment, feeling that he seemed to have given too quickly before.

Xu Qing took a deep look at the scavengers who didn't give Bai Dan, and didn't speak.

Just raised his right hand and waved, the wind blew past, the flame of the candle was extinguished instantly, and the surroundings were once again plunged into darkness and mist.

When the exclamation came from Cai Cai's mouth just now, Xu Qing approached in a flash, tore off the leather bag from his body, and then his calm voice echoed around.

"No, you stay inside."

"Wait, I was wrong, I was really wrong, I will give you Bai Dan, I..."

The man suddenly became anxious, and wanted to grab something, but his body was blocked by the tree under his feet and fell directly.

When he got up, his call became more anxious, and a strong sense of regret permeated his body and mind.

"Little brother, listen to my explanation, I..."

Xu Qing ignored the other party's call, and walked towards the other person who gave him Bai Dan.

This person's face was horrified now, and he was full of panic when he fell into the mist again. Without him noticing, Xu Qing passed by him and spoke lightly.

"Follow my footsteps."

After finishing speaking, Xu Qing didn't look back, and continued to move forward. After hearing Xu Qing's words, the man was short of breath and immediately followed the sound. At this moment, he was more grateful for the speed at which he had just paid the reward.

Especially when he heard the anxious wailing behind him quickly turn into frenzied cursing for help but failed, the despair in that tone made his heart tremble, and he felt a stronger sense of awe towards the owner of the footsteps ahead.

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Woke up late... It's too hot today, I want to go to the forbidden jungle for a while...

(End of this chapter)