Chapter 63 Dangerous Misty Forest
Ji Yingxue was silent this time. She was also afraid that something might happen if she accidentally touched the thick fog. Who knew what terrible things were in the foggy forest?
"No need, I'll just stay in the village." Ji Yingxue said as she retreated angrily.
After deciding on the escape route and method to leave the Misty Forest, Zhen Jinli led the other five players to the edge of Si Yao's water ripple barrier.
"Protect!"
Zhen Jinli activated a protective barrier, covering himself and other players.
"Lady Luck will surely bless us."
After Zhen Jinli finished reciting these words silently, he led the other players through the water ripple barrier and headed towards the Misty Forest.
It took about an hour to walk from the village to the outskirts of the forest. Zhen Jinli first took everyone for a walk around the outskirts of the forest and did not find any danger.
The six people were divided into two groups. After tying a prop retractable rope on their bodies, they went into the forest to explore separately.
Zhen Jinli didn't dare to relax the barrier rashly. The two male players beside him also kept holding up the barrier constructed with supernatural powers, not daring to give the thick fog a chance to touch them.
The visibility in the foggy forest was only about four meters. In order to blow away the fog, Zhen Jinli asked one of the boys with wind-related abilities to blow away the thick fog while walking.
Not long after, they saw a small river winding out of the valley. The water was so clear that you could see the bottom, and there were many small fish swimming in the river.
Seeing them coming, the little fish gathered around happily, opening and closing their mouths, as if they were scrambling to ask them for food.
This is the only living animal they have seen in this country so far, besides the players.
Zhen Jinli squatted down and looked at the little fish carefully for a while, and suddenly a terrible guess flashed through his mind.
"Do you think the reason those NPCs can't be woken up is because they're not just asleep?"
"Could it be possible that their souls were taken away by the thick fog, then fell into the river in this forest and turned into small fish?"
The two players next to him were amazed at Zhen Jinli's creative thinking, but they also began to doubt the origin of these small fish.
They didn't see any other living animals in the forest, only the little fish in the river were jumping around. No one would believe that there was nothing wrong with these fish.
"How about this, we catch a few small fish and try to see if we can use them to wake up those sleeping NPCs?" suggested the boy with glasses.
Zhen Jinli nodded, then took out a few mineral water bottles, cut the top third with a knife, filled the bottles with a few small fish, and prepared to leave the forest.
On the way back, they unexpectedly discovered that the marks originally made on the tree were gone, and even the arrow marks made of stones had mysteriously disappeared.
The entire misty forest seemed to be under a healing spell; even the footprints they had left disappeared completely.
Swamps appeared from time to time in the forest, and they almost got stuck in them several times.
Fortunately, Zhen Jinli had the skill of stopping time, so she dragged the remaining two people out of the swamp.
When they fell into the swamp, the supernatural barriers on the other two players disappeared briefly. Fortunately, Zhen Jinli's protective barrier was covering them outside, so they did not encounter the fog that could suck away people's souls.
This misty forest is full of traps. If you are not careful, you may fall into the swamp or fall into the trap set by the hunter.
The boy with glasses used his water-based abilities to wash away the swamp mud on the people and said with some emotion.
"Thank goodness Sister Xiaoli is here, so we can cross the swamp safely."
"Yes, thank you, Sister Xiaoli."
Zhen Jinli asked with a slightly odd expression on her face, "How old are you?"
"I'm 23." said the boy with glasses.
"I'm 22." said the tall boy.
Zhen Jinli: "Oh, it's okay."
Oh, it’s really embarrassing to be at this age where most young people have to call me “sister”.
After Zhen Jinli sent the two boys out of the forest, she hesitated for a moment whether to go back to find the other team members.
Forget it, let's send them back to the village first. If the other team members haven't returned by 3 pm, she can come and look for them.
After returning to the village, Zhen Jinli placed the fish he had caught from the river, along with the mineral water bottle, next to a villager NPC.
There was no movement.
The fish kept flapping in the bottle, poking the bottle with its mouth, as if trying to get out of the bottle.
The boy with glasses suddenly had an idea and said, "Could it be that we should put the fish's mouth against the NPC's mouth? That way the soul can return to its original body?"
Seeing the players around him looking at each other in confusion, the boy with glasses scratched his head awkwardly.
"I've read those fantasy novels before, and most of the settings are written like this."
Zhen Jinli nodded thoughtfully and said, "There's no other way anyway, why not just give it a try as you say."
She handed the mineral water bottle with only two-thirds of it left to the boy with glasses, indicating that he could catch the fish.
The boy reached out and grabbed the fish, then pointed the fish's mouth at the villager NPC's mouth and poked it.
However, even though the whole fish was almost stuffed into the villager NPC's mouth, the villager NPC still did not wake up.
Su Yan watched them struggling for a long time and couldn't help but ask the doubts that had been in his mind.
"Even if these little fish are truly the souls of NPCs from this country, we still need to confirm which NPC's souls these little fish belong to, right?"
That's true, but how can we confirm it?
Zhen Jinli recalled that the little fish seemed to have been poking the mineral water bottle with its mouth, and suddenly realized.
"Could it be that these little fish have memories? If we just let them find their way, maybe they can find their own bodies by themselves?"
Zhen Jinli put the fish back into the bottle, and then followed the direction the fish was swimming, just like looking at a compass, and moved forward.
When passing by a rather dilapidated house, the little fish suddenly stopped moving forward and swam to the side, as if wanting to enter the house.
"Is your body in here?"
Zhen Jinli ran into the broken house holding the bottle, "Don't worry, you will be able to return to your body soon."
Everyone followed Zhen Jinli all the way and finally came to a dilapidated house, where they saw a little girl in tattered clothes sleeping on the bed.
Zhen Jinli gave the opportunity to try to wake up the NPC to the boy with glasses and said, "You do it."
The boy, feeling a little excited, picked up the fish, put the fish's mouth to the little girl's mouth, and stuffed it in.
Everyone was watching expectantly, wondering if this was the correct way to wake up the NPC?
(End of this chapter)
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