alien island

His ears moved, and Pei Yan seemed to hear a slight sound coming from outside. He frowned and turned his head to look outside the cave entrance. Zhang Yao originally wanted to ask Luc about the current situation of the boat made of floating wood. Seeing that Pei Yan who was standing seemed to have noticed something wrong, he couldn't help but question him.

"what happened?"

"The orcs are back." Hearing the sound of footsteps, they were gradually approaching in their direction, Pei Yan looked down at Zhang Yao who was still sitting cross-legged on the ground, and replied.

"They're back! It will be a disaster if you are discovered." Seeing that Pei Yan and Zhang Yao were filling the dried knife with salt grains, as if they wanted to get out of the hole and leave, Luc immediately stopped him: "Get out No way, the other side is a dead end, there is no exit, follow me!" He bent hard and leaned against the ground, the skin under his body had already been callused, his legs and knees were stitched together, Luc cooperated with him without arms The front chest support and chin crawled, motioning Zhang Yao and Pei Yan to follow him.

So, Zhang Yao and Pei Yan followed Luc who was crawling on the ground, watching him lead the way, he got into a pile of weeds on the other side of the cave at a relatively slow speed, and bit out from the messy pile of grass. Zhang Yao quickly squatted down and helped Luc pull the rope that was almost the same color as the withered grass.

There was a sound of "Ka--", in a covered corner of the haystack near the corner of the tree hole, a circular hole that could be drilled and crawled by adults was exposed.

Let go of the rope he was biting in his mouth, Luc stepped up and urged: "I discovered this hole by accident, and then slowly dug it out with worms, and it has been hidden here. You can crawl out along this hole, and there are no orcs. A secluded haunt. Get in!"

After pushing Pei Yan to go in first, Zhang Yao was about to crawl in with his waist bent, when he suddenly remembered that they had come here to talk for so long, besides inquiring about what happened to that group of people more than ten years ago, there seemed to be other things. An important clue they were looking for, which they hadn't had time to ask, was what happened to the boat that Pei Yan's father participated in making and was carried away by the orcs.

So, Zhang Yao poked half of his body into the cave, climbed out again, and asked Luc quickly to speed up his speech: "By the way, do you know what happened to your confiscated boat?"

"Boat?" Luc was taken aback when he heard about the boat, and was about to answer when the sound of footsteps outside the tree hole was getting closer and closer. Luc lowered his voice and called out to Pei Yan who had crawled deep into the cave: "Pei Yan! Quick! Pull him in!" While shouting, Luc lowered his head and bit another rope in the haystack.

"Swipe—" Zhang Yao didn't have time to react, his hands on the hole were grabbed, and his body was caught by Pei Yan, who was already crawling inside the hole, stretched out his hand quickly and vigorously. He pulled in.It was dark in front of his eyes, and he couldn't see anything in the field of vision in an instant, leaving only the narrow passage in darkness around him. Just as his feet reacted quickly and retracted into the passageway of the cave entrance, Luc immediately lowered his head and shut his mouth. The rope in the middle, and quickly loosened the mouth again. It was lifted up to cover the sundries on the hole, and then lowered again, covering the small hole again.

At this time, the orcs passed by the entrance of the cave one after another, and returned to their caves. His beast master also returned with these orcs. He entered the cave, and he didn't seem to suspect that he found anything wrong. Luc then secretly He breathed a sigh of relief, lay down on his back in the weeds as usual, and only hoped that Pei Yan and his friend could leave here safely, and don't get caught in the muddy water again, causing him to lose his freedom.

A weak body like him, disabled like a waste, has long since hoped not to return to his own country, regardless of his physical strength and environment, he has lost the opportunity to dream...

After being dragged into the passage by Pei Yan, Zhang Yao immediately reacted, and quickly accelerated to continue crawling in. If the body is too close to the area near the entrance of the cave, it is difficult to guarantee that the orcs will not notice it. It is best to crawl away from the orcs' cave The farther the better, the safer it is.

While crawling, Zhang Yao secretly scolded himself for his slow reaction. Just now, he just listened to the foreigner talking about them for a long time, but he didn't have time to find useful information about their way out. Until now, he and Pei Yan still don't know Where is the ship made of the floating wood that I am looking for now, has it been destroyed by the orcs, and is it possible for them to leave the island by sea.

These important news have not been asked, and they cannot return now, so they can only look for other news and clues, or find an opportunity to wait for the adventure tomorrow and ask again, to see if there is a chance to return here, and ask clearly.

Just as he was thinking, Pei Yan, who had been crawling at a constant speed, suddenly stopped. Zhang Yao followed behind and almost bumped into him. He raised his head and asked strangely, "Is there a problem ahead?"

"No, I saw two passages." Looking forward, there was a bifurcation of two passages, one left and one right. The left one stretched downwards, and seemed to lead to the place where Luc said that there were many orcs. That exit, and the one on the right, obviously still has a lot of wood debris falling from the bottom, which seems to be the passage opening newly gnawed out by insects, and it has been extending upwards at an incline, because the inclination angle and the gnawing are not too much. Smooth, Zhang Yao reckoned that if he climbed hard with his hands and feet, he should be able to climb all the way up.

"Are we going to climb this?" Looking at the upward passage with a faint light, Zhang Yao didn't know where it would lead, and he didn't know how dangerous the decision to climb would be.

"Well, this one should go straight to the top of the tree." Pei Yan affirmed by looking up, feeling the direction of the airflow and the light for analysis.

"Okay then, let's climb up this way." They were worried about where to find a shortcut to climb up to the top of the tree to watch the festival, but now they found a passage, which should be considered lucky for them.

It's just that Zhang Yao deeply felt that it would take a lot of energy to climb up this seemingly endless upward passage.

This passage needs to rely on one's own hands and feet to climb up together. The hands and feet can only climb or step on a little bit of the uneven wall of the tree hole passage. It is conceivable that it is difficult. If all previous efforts are wasted, it will slide down directly, and may even hurt yourself.Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yao seemed to be adjusting his breath, and then he followed Pei Yan who had already jumped into the passage, and climbed up a lot of distance with three times, five times and two times, and climbed up together with him.

Sure enough, for the same hundreds of meters, if you compare running across and climbing up vertically, it is definitely going up vertically, which is much more painful and difficult.Although Zhang Yao's usual physical exercise can be regarded as hard work, compared with ordinary people who sit in the office every day, his physical strength is many times better.

It can take a long time of stamina and physical strength to climb upwards without the protection of ropes, and the huge mental pressure of falling directly at any time makes Zhang Yao's palms form a thin layer of sweat. There are also some beads of sweat dripping down the sides of the cheeks.Because the entrance of the passage is narrow, climbing to the top is actually just a trivial matter for Pei Yan, but it can't help Zhang Yao on the top to speed up together. Even if he tries to stretch out an extra hand to help pull the distance between the two, there is no place or space. , the narrow passage can only rely on one's own personal strength to go up.

Zhang Yao gritted his teeth and insisted on climbing. Because the arm was held up for a long time, all the blood flowed backwards, and the arm became numb. He carefully explored any fulcrum that could be stepped on near the wooden wall and fixed the position of the foot. Zhang Yao He didn't want to look down, he couldn't guarantee that if he saw the underground edge far away from him, his head would suddenly become dizzy, so he had to look up all the time, trying his best to climb and think about nothing else.

I don't know how long it took to climb. Pei Yan, who had already climbed a long distance, suddenly lost his figure. Zhang Yao raised his head and looked around. Strangely, a tree vine fell from the top and fell straight to Zhang Yao's body. Beside him, Pei Yan's head protruded from a place far above, and shouted to Zhang Yao below: "Grab it, I'll pull you."

"Oh, good." The arm was so tired that it almost lost its strength. Zhang Yao was glad that the tree vine came in time. The arm that was so numb let the blood circulate into the arm again, and he regained the strength to grab the tree vine that Pei Yan dropped, and wrapped the tree vine firmly around his waist and arms, Zhang Yao lifted His feet stepped on the tree wall step by step, and while Pei Yan above helped him to move up, he used his feet to step on and move up.

After a while, Zhang Yao finally arrived at Pei Yan's position smoothly. The original slanted upward passage, after arriving here, a horizontal passage appeared again, because if he continued to go upward, Pei Yan had already observed After passing, the passage above became even narrower, not enough for their bodies to climb through, and the hole that shone with light was only as big as a child's head, making it impossible to pass through.So, when Pei Yan found out that there was a horizontal passage, he got in.

The area where they are staying now should not be far from the tree peak at the top, and the footsteps and roars of the orcs above can be felt and heard in the passage.

"Here..." Just as he was about to ask a question, Pei Yan made a silent gesture, pointing to the top of them, Zhang Yao suddenly understood, and nodded, afraid that the orc with the same sensitive ears would tell him Hearing their voices, Zhang Yao lowered his voice to the lowest level, moved closer to Pei Yan's side, and then continued to ask in a low voice, "Are we going from here?"

Nodding, Pei Yan didn't say a word, pointed to the front of the passage, and then took the lead and crawled forward. Zhang Yao had to follow Pei Yan to continue in. I don't know if Pei Yan can find the exit at the top of the tree.

"Swipe, swipe——"

Pushing away a large pile of leaves that seemed to be specially placed in the festival, Pei Yan quietly got out from inside the leaves, turned around and pulled Zhang Yao, the two quickly came out of the leaves, and used the last Quickly and quickly hide in the group of busy orcs.

Unexpectedly, the area above the top of the tree is still so wide, almost the size of a football field. The places where there are branches and branches beside the top of the tree are decorated with many different kinds of leaves. In the most central area at the top, a giant wooden stand was specially built and assembled from many pieces of wood. Several orcs were pulling their slaves to the wooden stand.

On the nearby ground under the wooden stand, there are many prey corpses that are probably used for the orcs' celebration and worship. All kinds of strange beast heads, blood dripping all over the floor, many orcs are surrounding the wooden stand Pushing and crowding, some seem to be waiting for the opportunity to assimilate, while others seem to come to watch the excitement.

Zhang Yao looked up at the sky, only to realize that before he knew it, the sky began to darken again. The sky closest to the sky, which was not covered by too many white leafless tree branches, had turned dark blue, close to black, purple The moon is hanging half hidden in the sky.

Unexpectedly, the two of them shuttled back and forth in the tree trunk cave and spent such a long period of time unconsciously. They clearly remembered that it was still early in the morning when they first got into the tree cave.

Continuing to stare at the purple moon in the sky, the full round shape is amazing in size, almost like a disc-shaped UFO that is about to land.The purple that emanates from the moon is not the kind of purple moon that is almost eggplant-colored as Zhang Yao originally imagined, but like a pure white moon, covered with a layer of lavender tulle, which is vague but hazy. It is bright and bright. From the point of view of appreciation, the moon is indeed quite beautiful. However, when one thinks that the moonlight is also one of the culprits that promote the forced mutation of human beings, Zhang Yao has no good impression of the purple moon in the sky. to speak of.