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The voice fell to the ground, and the group stopped talking.

For a moment, there was a dead silence in the dense forest, and the airtight feeling made Cheng Mo feel breathless.He hesitated for a moment, and just about to say something, the warmth from Qin Chuhe's palm wrapped him just right.

"Let's go to the main tree first." Qin Chuhe was still calm and composed, which was rare among the crowd. His voice was not loud, but he had a force that made people involuntarily obey him.

When he opened his mouth, it seemed as if he had given others a reassurance.Everyone made up their minds and got ready to go on the road again.

The more you go to the middle of the dense forest, the denser the aerial roots become, and finally everyone has to pass through the intertwined branches.Cheng Mo and the others were alright, but they suffered from the larger Wei Guoqiang and were made out of breath by the journey.It was just that he was shocked by the legend of the banyan tree that the predecessors said, so he only had a green face, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to curse in this forest.

This journey took far longer than they expected, and the group of people finally approached the location of the main tree in the evening.

After passing through the last area with dense aerial roots, the scene in front of me suddenly opened up.I saw a huge banyan tree standing quietly in the center of an open space the size of a football field. The main branch was nearly 20 meters in diameter and as thick as 30 people hugging.This area is different from other places. There is not even a single auxiliary branch hanging down to the ground. There is only a huge tree canopy covering the sky like an umbrella supporting the sky, wrapping the entire main area tightly and airtight.

It stands to reason that the main crown of this banyan tree has cut off all the light from the outside world, but in fact the main tree is surrounded by a layer of dark green fluorescence.The fluorescent light seemed to come from the top of the head, Cheng Mo looked up and searched around, and finally found the source of the dim light.

At the same time, Xu Qing staggered and almost knelt on the ground.

"God..." Wei Guoqiang murmured.

Above the head, in the vast area under the canopy of the banyan tree, crystal clear spherical objects were shining with green light.Cheng Mo looked carefully for a long time before he realized that there were regular hexagonal structures densely covered on it—those turned out to be transparent beehives.

Cheng Mo thought that he probably knew why from the moment they entered the forest to now, there was no living thing in the entire banyan forest——

Those transparent hives of different sizes, without exception, are wrapped in the corpses of various animals.Those animals still kept struggling before they died. Cheng Mo even saw the fangs of a little squirrel screaming silently.There seems to be some kind of liquid in the hive, which freezes these animal corpses in the way they screamed before death. The green fluorescence of the hive makes these sharp and struggling animal corpses look like evil spirits from the depths of hell.

There was no sound and no wind in the woods, but these dark green beehives full of corpses still shone with fluorescence.The dots of light flickered on for a while and then went out suddenly, as if the starlight lit by the corpses in the sky was lit up in the area of ​​the main tree.

"I can't hurry today, it's getting dark." Qin Chuhe glanced at his watch and said in a deep voice.

"We want to sleep overnight in this ghost place?!" Zou Qingqing reacted the most, and immediately refused with a livid face, "I don't want it!"

"Then you go out alone, I won't accompany you in the matter of sending you to death." Qin Chuhe didn't accept her at all, and only glanced at her coldly before looking away.

Zou Qingqing was devastated, but knew that there was only one copy of the map. Running alone at this time was tantamount to death. Although he was unwilling, he just gritted his teeth and took a few breaths, turned around in an unhappy mood and stopped talking .

The rest of the people didn't react as much as Zou Qingqing, but they didn't look very good either.After all, staying overnight in such a place that looks weird at first glance undoubtedly requires a very strong psychological quality.Fortunately, the superstitious Wei Guoqiang was already deflated in such a place, and the others had experience and knew that it would be easy to get into trouble when driving after dark. Several people looked at each other and followed Qin Chuhe's suggestion.

I just agree that sleeping in the rough is easy, but finding a place to sleep in the rough is even more difficult.They had no plans to go camping before, so the whole group traveled lightly, without any camping tools.

When the rest of the people were at a loss, Qin Chuhe had a pensive expression on his face, not flustered.Seeing his appearance, Xu Qing couldn't help asking:

"young people……"

As soon as he started talking, he was interrupted by Qin Chuhe's "silence" gesture.At the same time, Cheng Mo suddenly heard a slow and heavy sound of "Du" coming from the back of the main tree.Then there was another sound.

Benedict.Benedict.Benedict.

—like someone was chopping wood.

"Go and have a look." Qin Chuhe said softly.

A group of people walked lightly around to the back of the main tree.Because the trunk was so huge, they had assumed that the two sides were the same thing, and hadn't checked the side of the tree that was facing away from them.

After seeing the back of the main tree clearly, Cheng Mo couldn't help being surprised.

Unexpectedly, the scenery on the back of the main tree is different from the front.I saw similar transparent beehives hanging on the umbrella crown on this side, but the beehives on this side were shining bright red fluorescence like blood.What is wrapped in these hives is no longer the corpses of small animals, but a piece of bloody human organs, including curled severed fingers, and dead hearts. Looking at the small group of people on the ground, they are like wicks of blood melting.

These red beehives are bright and dark, and where the light is the brightest, there is a small wooden house.This wooden house seems to be made of banyan wood, with a strange shape. Its appearance is not as regular as ordinary wooden houses, but many twisted branches grow outward. At first glance, those branches seem to be moving. In the bright light, it looked extremely strange.A row of pure black urns lined up from the door of the house, extending all the way to the branches of the main tree, connecting the wooden house with the main tree.

At the end of the urn, a figure with a strange posture was raising an ax that had already been curled up, and was slowly cutting towards the main branch.Again and again, like a rhythm, accompanied by the rhythm of that time and time again, the shadow seems to be still muttering something.

——The sound of "duk tuk" came from him.

This scene is really weird - the bloody light, the strange wooden houses, the urns in pairs, the shadow of completing the impossible task... A chill slowly came up from the bottom of Cheng Mo's feet.

Everyone else felt the same way. Wei Guoqiang, who was already superstitious, was about to faint in this kind of place, and even Zou Qingqing, who was always aggressive and bold, turned pale.Only Xu Qing calmed down a bit, he looked at Qin Chuhe inquiringly, and said:

"Little brother, look..."

"Go and ask."

Qin Chuhe still had the aura of not getting close to strangers, and he simply answered Xu Qing's words.It's just that with the experience and lessons from the previous few times, what he said should mean that there is no big problem.Xu Qing heaved a sigh of relief, and the group approached the shadow that was chopping trees slowly.

"Excuse me..." The muttering stopped, and the tree-chopping figure paused, then slowly turned around.

Xu Qing's words got stuck in his throat when the shadow turned around. He seemed to take a breath in a low voice, and then finished the following words with some stumbles:

"Your house...can you let us stay overnight?"

The shadow took a few steps forward, and Cheng Mo saw his face clearly, and understood the reason why Xu Qing choked up——

This is a hunched old man, with all his hair down and his eyebrows sparse, expressionless on his ravine face, a pair of dull eyes staring straight at them, the distorted shadows of a group of people reflected in the gray pupils.The old man has a thin body, but his limbs are extremely long.The weirdest thing is that his joints seem to be reversed, and his elbows are bent outwards instead of inwards, which makes his tree-cutting posture very strange, which is why Cheng Mo and the others felt weird when they first saw this shadow.

"If you want to stay overnight, cut down the tree first. The house is broken and it will leak." The old man spoke slowly, his hoarse voice seemed to be polished on sandpaper.

"This house is under the main canopy of the banyan tree. Where does the rain come from?" Xu Qing raised his head and glanced at the top of his head that was covered by overlapping branches and leaves.

The old man didn't respond, he just turned his head and glanced at the flickering hive, and said, "It's time, rest."

He seemed to be able to speak only a few simple words at a time.After saying this, he handed the curly ax to Cheng Mo, and without looking at the others, he moved towards the hut without looking back.Because of the reflexed knee, he walked very slowly and limped.

The group was still hesitating, but when they saw Qin Chuhe following the old man without hesitation, they also hurriedly followed the team.

They walked towards the wooden house along the path paved with urns, and every time they passed a pair of urns, the lid of the box would be turned up, emitting a cluster of blue-white phosphorous fire.They walked all the way to the wooden house, the urn was lit all the way, and with the rising white smoke, an inexplicable smell permeated the air.

Cheng Mo didn't really want to think about what the smell was coming from, but fortunately, before his thoughts went too far, the old man in front of him spoke quietly again:

"Once every two hours, use an axe." He bent his elbow and pointed to the rusty ax in Cheng Mo's hand.

As soon as the words came out, everyone couldn't help but frowned—not to mention that the main branch of the banyan tree was as thick as dozens of people hugging each other, but the ax he gave Cheng Mo didn't look like it could be used anyway.

"This ax has rolled its blade, how do you cut it?" Zou Qingqing suppressed the anger in his tone, "Didn't you just see nothing yourself?"

But the old man limped to the door as if he didn't hear it, but the movement of the hand that opened the door stopped like a clockwork.He paused, and slowly began to repeat the words he kept saying when he cut down the tree:

"If you want to stay overnight, cut down the tree first. If the house is broken, it will leak..."

It seems that if Cheng Mo and the others don't agree to this condition, he won't open the door to let them in.

The communication was fruitless, Cheng Mo sighed, and said to the others: "Let's agree to his conditions and go to the house first, otherwise it looks like this, there is no better place for us to stay tonight."

The others couldn't think of any better way, so they could only swallow their anger and nodded.Seeing that everyone had unified their opinions, Cheng Mo said to the old man:

"Old man, we agree to your request, let's open the door."

The old man's chatter stopped.With the sound of "click" the door lock fell to the ground, the door of the cabin opened.

The author has something to say: Fixed a few typos.