Chapter 73 Entering the Forest
"Senior Sister, please think twice!!!"
She looked down with a wooden face at Han Yueshan, who was lying on the ground, hugging her legs and crying, and her fists clenched.
In the past, she only knew that he was shameless, but she didn't know that he was shameless and could wipe his tears and snot on her clothes.
There was a reason why the master beat him so skillfully.
"This forest is not that scary." She kept telling herself that he was just an ordinary seventeen-year-old boy. It was not a big deal for him to cry, and she couldn't blame him for crying out loud.
After a lot of effort, his amiable look reappeared, and Han Yueshan grabbed her trouser leg and wiped it again.
"Han Yueshan, if you don't get up, I'll take action!"
The roar startled countless birds in the forest.
Xi Jing sighed and said, "Master, I am going to follow in your footsteps."
After a short period of thought, Zhao Xue decided to share the same stance as his senior brother, but he continued to watch his senior brother get beaten.
As soon as the senior sister stopped, he stepped forward cautiously and began to speak as if reciting aloud: "The Dayless Forest, the gathering place of evil beasts, the burial ground of mankind, no one can walk out alive..."
Tao Zi's expression became serious. She raised her hand to stop him from speaking and quickly took them to hide behind a big tree.
"Ahhh, save me, save me!" A man rushed out, rolling and crawling, and disappeared from their sight.
She said calmly: "Look, someone still came out alive."
Thank you, but the three of them were not comforted.
Zhao Xue spoke with difficulty: "Senior Sister, don't you think this is even more terrifying?"
"No."
She turned to look at them and asked, "Why are you so afraid of it?"
Han Yueshan, his face bruised, spoke: "It's the Dayless Forest! The Dayless Forest that can stop children from crying at night! Who hasn't grown up hearing about its evil reputation?"
"I."
The three were speechless.
Tao Zi glanced at something not far away and said meaningfully, "We don't have much time. It would be best to go into the Dayless Forest."
Xi Jing was stunned for a moment, then reacted: "But we have already left the sphere of influence of Xujiamen."
"But we have offended the Chengyi Sect, and the north is where the Chengyi Sect is located."
"Then we won't go north."
She smiled and said, "Hidden forever? Then how long will it take to end?"
Han Yueshan finally realized something was wrong and asked, "Senior Sister, is there something else here that we don't know?"
"The He family also has an older brother and an older aunt."
The three looked at her blankly.
"Big brother is in the Heartbeat Stage, and I am a direct disciple of the Minglan Sect's main peak, only a step away from the Nascent Soul Stage. If they want to kill us, it will be effortless."
Zhao Xue argued: "But we didn't kill him."
“If they were reasonable, would we be standing here today?”
A few people fell silent, but Han Yueshan did not forget his original intention: "If you enter the Dayless Forest, you will die. There is still a chance of survival outside."
"If you can get out of the Dayless Forest, you can live with dignity. At the very least, you can at least be a foe. If you stay outside, you will just be barely surviving."
Tao Zi glanced at the area not far away again and said, "The resources and connections of Chengyi Sect may not tempt Xujia Sect, but that doesn't mean others can't be tempted. Unless we are strong enough, neither the south nor the north will be a place where we can survive safely."
Several people struggled there, and to her surprise, it was Zhao Xue who made the decision first: "Senior Sister, I'll go in!"
"Third Senior Brother?"
"Xi Jing, you don't want to fight for territory with homeless people every day, right?"
Xi Jing gritted her teeth and nodded vigorously.
Han Yueshan touched the wound on his face depressedly and said, "Well, since you are planning to die, I, as your senior brother, can only accompany you."
Zhao Xue asked, "Big Sister, when are we going in?"
"Now."
Since the three of them had made their decision, they stopped questioning her and followed her inside.
The people following behind them exclaimed, and one of them said, "Are they crazy?"
"It must be a pretense. You guys continue to guard. I'll go and notify Cheng Yimen."
The first person to speak asked uncertainly, "Boss, are you sure it's them?"
"Calling each other brother and sister, who else could it be if not them?" The person who spoke was the leader of the homeless people from yesterday.
Just this morning, they found a notice that a sect called Chengyi Sect had issued a reward, offering a large sum of money for the whereabouts of the Yisan Sect's master and disciples. The reward was enough to allow them to live a worry-free life.
They didn't go directly because the gender didn't match, but now they have entered the Dayless Forest and might die in a moment. Whether the gender is right or not is not up to them to decide.
As soon as they entered the forest, they knew why it was called the Dayless Forest. It was truly a bright way in but a dark way out.
Before long, the way back will become dark.
The few of them followed the eldest sister, walking in the abnormal darkness, literally pitch dark. They even occasionally, no, constantly, felt like animals or even ghosts were watching them. If they hadn't held hands and reminded each other of their presence, they would have gone crazy in less than a quarter of an hour.
Zhao Xue was the first to speak up: "Senior Sister, should we light some fire to illuminate the area?"
Tao Zi walked ahead slowly, "There are many animals in the forest that are sensitive to fire."
He immediately shut up.
Not knowing what she saw, she suddenly stopped and curled the corners of her mouth.
Xi Jing didn't hear any movement and bumped into him.
"Um?"
"Senior sister, it's too dark." Xi Jing explained in a low voice that they didn't hit the tree purely because of the senior sister leading the way.
"Once you get used to it, you'll be able to see it. You don't have to be so nervous. The outskirts of the forest aren't scary at all."
The three junior brothers and sisters did not want to respond to this sentence.
Tao Zi asked again: "Can't you see it now?"
"Yes."
"You have two choices. One is that I go get something that will allow you to see clearly, and the other is to continue like this until you can see."
Han Yueshan pondered, "Senior Sister, will you be okay?"
"Of course not."
He made the decision on behalf of his fellow students without hesitation: "Choose the first one."
Tao Zi nodded: "Stand here and don't move."
She walked out and stood in front of a tree that was pitch black from the trunk to the branches. She jumped up and reached out to pick the new buds.
The buds are white with a hint of pink, which is totally inconsistent with the style of this tree.
She counted and found that there were only six new buds on the tree. Coincidentally, she needed exactly six, but in the end she only picked two and went to pick the remaining four from other trees.
However, no matter how she went around, she always made sure that her fellow junior students were within her sight.
Although not much time had passed, Xi Jing felt as if every second was like an eternity. She spoke in a trembling voice, "Senior Sister?"
Not bad, you even know to keep your voice down.
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