Journey to the Half-Elf Plane

Loki carefully hid behind the stone wall. With his hand on the stone wall, he suddenly noticed a black smear with charcoal on it.

The black thing seemed to be a picture, but before he could take a closer look, an ant climbed up the stone wall silently, and then climbed along the stone wall to the back of the half-elf boy's hand.

Loki didn't dare to make a sound and wanted to shake the ants off gently.

But what I didn't expect was that the ant suddenly opened its mouthparts and bit into the place where the finger of the left hand was amputated.

He felt a slight pain on the broken part of his finger, and he immediately crushed the ant to death with his hands. He didn't think too much for a moment, but what happened next caught him off guard.

The skin bitten by the ants suddenly felt an indescribable pain. A blister was visible to the naked eye, and a pungent corrosive smell also emerged.

He endured the pain, carefully cut open the blisters with a claw knife, and then immediately spit out a mouthful of saliva.

The blister wound was getting more and more painful, and there was no sign of relief.

Fortunately, the evil witch didn't notice him. The pungent corrosion smell on the other side of the stone wall was stronger and even irritated the respiratory tract.

The mouthparts of this ant contain irritating and strong acid, Loki guessed in his mind.

He did not dare to delay, and while holding back the severe pain, he lowered his voice and took out the water bag from the bag, cut a slit in the water bag, and immediately stuffed the severed finger and his left hand into it.

The severed finger burned by acid was washed in clean water for a while, and the pain of corrosion was finally relieved.

"Goodbye, Milson, the apprentice who is sitting with the teacher, I will help you take good care of... your lovely girlfriend."

Then, there was a burst of hoarse laughter like iron friction. It took a long time before the sound disappeared outside the cave.

This strange witch-like murderer finally left, and Loki slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

……

After waiting for a long time and seeing no further movement outside, the half-elf boy finally cautiously poked his head out.

The place where Milson's body had been was turned into a puddle of pus that was about to dry up. Naturally, the body had been eaten clean by the ants from before.

Loki felt his fingers tremble a little. He didn't know whether it was the pain caused by formic acid corrosion or an unknown fear.

Beside the puddle of dried pungent pus, a few corrosive ants remained, still licking the liquid with unsatisfied interest.

Finding two or three ants crawling towards him, Loki trampled them to death without hesitation.

These ants containing super strong formic acid must be the method used by the mysterious evil witch to destroy corpses and eliminate traces. The spell that makes people's souls tremble is something that normal people will never forget.

The half-elf boy suddenly thought of something. He circled back behind the stone wall and found that there were a few clumsy and simple words and pictures on it.

A small house is drawn with simple lines. The characters outlined in the lines are simple and childish, but you can still tell that there are two adults inside the small house, holding the hand of a little girl. There are two simple braids on the small circle head.

There are also crooked typos on the picture - home, dad, mom, little Fatuna is going home.

Among them, several words in 'Little Fatuna is going home' were misspelled.

There are also sporadic man-made carvings on other cave walls around the cave, as if more than one person has been here. If you search carefully, you will find that there are names or messages for help engraved on them. There are also some carvings like those of illiterate and lost people. Pictures of strange beasts or despair.

Loki felt some inexplicable feelings in his heart. He sighed and put these things aside.

to the back of the head.

It was not yet dawn, and thinking that the evil witch had not been gone for long, he resisted the pungent smell and stayed in the cave to rest.

After tossing and turning all night, it was around morning the next day that Loki walked out of the cave cautiously.

There were some clear footprints left on the ground, showing the evil wizard's departure route along the river. As for Loki not finding any footprints at the entrance of the cave before, it was probably because they were washed away by heavy rain.

The half-elf boy scratched his scalp vigorously. He felt embarrassed. He originally planned to wade along the river, but the evil witch had already left along this route.

Loki took out the nameplate pendant he got from the dead body yesterday. He didn't dare to light a fire in the cave and took a closer look. At that time, he only felt that there was a carving similar to a flame pattern on it by just touching it with his fingers.

Looking carefully now, I found that this small metal nameplate is extremely exquisite. On it is a line of unknown text engraved on it, and below it is a pattern of arms embracing a black flame. It looks like the logo of some kind of organization of evil witches. .

After thinking for a while, in order to avoid encountering this strange evil witch, he weighed the degree of danger.

In the end, Loki had no choice but to continue heading due west and venture into this strange secret forest area again.

……

The sun gradually rises to its highest point, reaching the hottest time at noon.

This ubiquitous green ocean, in which dense forest plants wait for water vapor to evaporate, turns into a dense miasma.

After shaking the remaining water bag, Loki raised his head and took a small sip.

Previously, I used a claw knife to cut a gap in the water bag, so that the water bag could not even hold half of the water it had previously contained. In just half a day, there was not much fresh water left in it.

Loki wiped the sweat from his forehead again. The fog around him not only made people feel hot and humid, but also had a certain impact on the direction of identification. Even reference objects ten meters away were difficult to see clearly.

Although he has a visual optimization system, it is only based on comparing visual images with continuously collected memory images and processing the optimized images, which may contain certain errors.

This error is not a big deal in normal times, but he has to be alert to the dangerous and strange jungle around him at any time, but he needs to be extremely careful. Not only does he maintain a high concentration of energy, but he also has to slow down his speed.

When his body couldn't bear it any longer, Loki would choose to stop and rest, so that he could stop and go in the fog.

Finally, I found that the trees in front of me had become sparse, and even the poisonous insects and beasts that appeared and disappeared around me seemed to have suddenly disappeared.

"This place... seems to be close to the center of the Forest of Secret Words."

Loki estimated the distance traveled in the past few days and almost came to this conclusion.

The air seemed to suddenly become drier, the surrounding trees were no longer so tall, the crisp chirping of birds could be heard, and the green grass was filled with wild flowers of various bright colors.

Loki suddenly became alert. There was a sound of wild animals running and scraping in the bushes in the distance.

He didn't dare to be careless, so he hid behind a tree trunk and quietly set the crossbow string.

The branches of the bush were knocked open, and a small pig beast with fangs emerged from it. The pig beast was running towards the place where the half-elf boy was hiding.

Loki quietly grabbed the bulge of the tree trunk and climbed nimbly onto a thick branch. At the same time, he picked up the short-arm crossbow and carefully observed the beast.

As if it smelled his scent, the pig beast ran over with a chirp, and then went around behind the tree.

He raised his fangs and screamed wildly at the half-elf boy in the tree.