scales
The fog dissipated, revealing the tall shapes of the grass and trees in the deep mountains again. Lush trees spread forward. Everything was quiet, and Jiang Jingyuan did not see any moving living creatures.
"That thing must be quite large..." Jiang Jingyuan thought, feeling confused and puzzled by the scene in front of him.
Could that thing be moving so fast?!
No matter what, as long as there was no crisis... Jiang Jingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked in the original direction.
Jiang Jingyuan walked more and more slowly and carefully. A gray mist lingered around her. She didn't know if it was an illusion or intuition, but from time to time, a numbing chill quickly climbed up her arms and back.
It was as if something was following her closely.
Jiang Jingyuan pursed his lips and continued to walk forward, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, looking back from time to time.
"clatter……"
Jiang Jingyuan turned her head and looked behind her, and suddenly she felt something hit her feet. She was startled and looked back suddenly, but there was nothing in front of her.
But the feeling in front of her toes was still there.
For a brief moment, Jiang Jingyuan held her breath unconsciously. She clenched her hands into fists under her sleeves and suddenly looked down.
The first time she looked, hurriedly and a little panicked, she saw a thick and huge black shadow standing in front of her swaying goose yellow dress.
“!!!”
Jiang Jingyuan took a big step back and looked again with a vigilant look on his face.
Stepping back and looking, Jiang Jingyuan realized that the black shadow she had just seen was not the whole picture. Even now, the huge, silent black shadow still crossed her field of vision and spread beyond her field of vision.
It was covered with dark green, almost black, fingernail-sized scales. It looked like a snake with a huge body, about the thickness of an adult's waist. It was so strange that it seemed like a legendary monster... The dark green, almost black section of the snake's body lay quietly in the weeds, as if it was sleeping soundly, and ignored Jiang Jingyuan's unintentional kick that was like a tickle.
Jiang Jingyuan's lips moved as he stepped back step by step, turning his head to look in the direction where the snake's body was spreading. However, no matter how hard he looked, he could not see the end of the snake's body.
"This...this snake...how big is it..." Jiang Jingyuan was stunned, and this terrifying doubt unconsciously emerged in her mind.
"Should I go and take a look..." Jiang Jingyuan muttered to himself blankly.
Although the snake in front of her was big, it was not difficult for Jiang Jingyuan to jump over it... But... should she go and see whether this thing was a snake that appeared naturally in this foggy forest, or if it was another weird thing created by someone?
Now that he was here... Jiang Jingyuan paused, still wanting to go and find out what was going on.
She turned around and walked two steps along the snake's body, then suddenly stopped. She was silent for a moment and asked in her mind, "You say... which direction is the snake's head..."
"..." Xu Qinglin was silent for a rare moment. Only then did she remember that Jiang Jingyuan, who was often injured, was actually a pampered person in the palace. After a pause, she calmed down her awkwardness and said in a calm and casual voice, "Look at the direction of the snake scales."
Jiang Jingyuan nodded, lowered his head and looked carefully at the black shadow in front of him again.
After a moment, she raised her head and continued walking in the original direction.
It turns out she didn't make the wrong choice before...
The dark green, almost black, snake's body was bloated and fat, lying across the mountain like a huge dead tree trunk, appearing and disappearing among the lush vegetation. If Jiang Jingyuan hadn't walked next to the snake's body, he might not have been able to discover this behemoth that almost merged into the vegetation and forest.
It seemed like just a blink of an eye when he was distracted. When Jiang Jingyuan came back to his senses, he saw a thick fog in front of him again.
She stood there, quietly waiting for the fog to dissipate.
"sand……"
The grass and trees swayed and rubbed against each other, making a sound.
Jiang Jingyuan's whole body tensed up instantly. Instead of turning around to look, he stood still and listened carefully to the movements around him.
The fog was so thick that two people standing face to face could hardly see each other. Regardless of whether there was anything in the deep forest that could see through the fog to see the surrounding scenery clearly, Jiang Jingyuan could only rely on his ears in such an environment.
"rustle……"
"rustle……"
Jiang Jingyuan cleared his mind, closed his eyes, and listened carefully to the whispers between heaven and earth.
"sand……"
"rustle……"
In the thick gray fog, Jiang Jingyuan suddenly opened his eyes and frowned. Why did the rustling sound of grass and trees seem to be so distant, so near, so high, and so low?!
Was that the trace of some living creature, or just the gentle breeze blowing through the forest?
"rustle……"
“Rustle… rustle… rustle…”
The frequency of the sound of grass and trees rubbing against each other became faster and faster, and a feeling of uneasiness was spreading. Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help but feel anxious and irritated.
It became thicker and thicker. The moment the anxiety and irritability reached its peak, it was like being poured with a bucket of cold water, and instantly turned into thick panic and endless chill.
"Why hasn't the fog receded yet... Why hasn't the fog receded yet..."
She had no idea how long the fog had been there. The fog in the Grandma Forest would dissipate without any warning, so she had no way of judging how long it would take for the fog here to dissipate.
"rustle……"
here we go again!
"rustle……"
Jiang Jingyuan's dark eyes condensed, and he turned around suddenly, holding the cold long sword that appeared out of thin air in his hand and slashed heavily towards the back!
“Clang!”
The silver-white long sword sank into the gray-white fog and struck a hard object. Jiang Jingyuan's eyes turned cold, and his hands became fierce. The long sword vibrated and made a buzzing sound. He did not retreat, but became more fierce.
The clouds and mist surged rapidly, and with a long and sharp sound of metal rubbing against metal, countless bright sparks suddenly burst out from the vast gray-white world in front of Jiang Jingyuan's eyes.
Sparks as dazzling as tiny gems danced between the flying light green headband and the black hair. A powerful airflow instantly spread out in the thick fog, and Jiang Jingyuan and the thing behind the gray-white fog were both shocked back.
Jiang Jingyuan exerted force on her feet to steady her body. Just as she was about to raise her knife to chop again, the thick fog in front of her suddenly became thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.
She paused and looked up to take a closer look at what was hidden behind the thick fog, but she saw that there was nothing behind the gradually thinning clouds and fog, only the shadowy silhouettes of trees.
"Running so fast?!" Jiang Jingyuan was stunned. "Don't you even want to fight?"
After waiting for a while and confirming that the thing had really left, Jiang Jingyuan put away his long sword, grasped the plum blossom sleeve arrow that seemed made of ice in his backhand, turned around, and continued to walk forward along the bloated and fat snake body that seemed like a dead thing.
The fog in the forest dissipated, and the panic and anxiety in his heart seemed to dissipate as well, and Jiang Jingyuan calmed down.
Pushing aside the thorny grass, Jiang Jingyuan unknowingly slowed down her pace and placed a little distance between herself and the extremely huge snake. Her heart was pounding for no apparent reason, as if she had some inexplicable strange premonition.
The mist gently obscured her vision like a veil. Jiang Jingyuan blinked, and a slight coolness appeared on her face as she passed through the mist. When she focused her attention and looked forward again, her heart suddenly skipped a beat and started beating rapidly again.
I saw——
Amidst vast expanses of green and gray, a row of towering trees stood quietly in front of the steep slope. Among them, a grayish-white figure was leaning against the ancient tree closest to Jiang Jingyuan.
Jiang Jingyuan opened his eyes wide and looked in that direction. His whole body froze in place for a moment and he did not dare to move forward.
From afar, the moss-covered old tree and the pale figure contrasted strangely. The graceful figure sat casually on the dead leaves of the grass, leaning against the mossy old tree as if powerless. She was motionless, yet strangely tilted her head high, revealing a slender, tender neck.
Her long black hair cascaded down from her head like a waterfall, soft and shiny like silk.
She sat there far away, quietly, like a legendary forest fairy, making the scene of the deep forest look like a dream.
But when Jiang Jingyuan's gaze shifted...
Amidst the overgrown weeds, Jiang Jingyuan vaguely caught sight of the graceful figure's waist and abdomen...
It seems to be connected to a thick snake tail? ! !
The fair and tender waist and abdomen were covered with snake scales, which gradually became denser as they went downwards, converging into a bloated snake tail about as thick as an adult's waist. It was dark green, almost black, and almost blended in with the surrounding grass and forest.
"this……"
Jiang Jingyuan stared at the scene blankly, his mind a little confused.
This scene was completely different from the visual impact brought by the human-faced strange bird seen before.
Seeing those dark grey, human-faced strange birds, almost no normal person would not feel a chill, but when seeing the scene before him, Jiang Jingyuan was at a loss as to how to react...
She seemed to have been poisoned by a hallucinogenic drug without knowing when, and everything she saw made her constantly doubt whether it really existed in reality.
Is that thing in front of us with a human body and a snake tail... an unknown entity that already exists in this ancient forest, or is it a weird monster intentionally created by some evil-minded people?
Jiang Jingyuan's thoughts were stagnant, as if she was attracted by some kind of call. She slowly walked out of the bushes and walked step by step towards the graceful figure under the ancient tree.
The grass was covered with thick layers of countless dead leaves. "Rustle..." The goose yellow sleeves swayed slightly as she walked. A pair of beige boots stepped on the dead leaves. The young girl stood firmly under the tree, looking at the graceful figure in front of her in a daze.
My eyes first fell on the long, white and tender neck in front of me, which seemed so fragile that it could not be grasped. I looked up along the neck, bit by bit, to see the round and small chin, the wide-open, pale and bloodless mouth, the straight nose, and...
When Jiang Jingyuan's sight touched those wide-open gray eyes, it was as if he had touched something terrible, and he withdrew his sight immediately.
His heart was pounding, Jiang Jingyuan's limbs felt cold, and he quickly glanced at the face in front of him.
She saw a pale face with beautiful features. Even though the expression on this face was distorted and hideous, filled with extreme fear, it could not change this...
Jiang Jingyuan retreated little by little.
"Da..." Her retreating footsteps hit something hard.
"brush--"
Jiang Jingyuan saw it!
The pair of gray pupils that had shrunk to the extreme suddenly dilated, "Ha..." Saliva or venom was secreted from the huge mouth that opened wide, and a pair of slender fangs were revealed. The woman's face with ferocious features bit towards Jiang Jingyuan!
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