But they soon realized something was wrong. Although the three people stopped screaming, their pain seemed genuine. And this unexpected turn of events made the already hesitant passengers even more hesitant. "Hey, what's wrong with you guys? Get up!"
None of the three passengers responded. They tilted their heads slightly back, their tongues trembling, as if they had something to say but couldn't get it out.
The passengers panicked even more, shouting, "What's wrong with you? Say something!"
"hiss……"
With a gasp, the three passengers screamed again, their eyes bulging out as if struck hard from their sockets.
"Ah, pull me up, quickly pull me up!"
Although the two passengers standing in front were very scared, they thought that since they had been close to the three of them and nothing had happened, it wouldn't be a problem to just pull them up now. With this thought in mind, the two of them each grabbed a passenger's hand and were about to pull hard when a suction force from the ground caused them to fall face down to the ground.
The other passengers, who were just about to lend a hand, immediately took several steps back in alarm upon seeing this, asking in disbelief, "What happened? How did you suddenly fall?!"
They were met with two piercing screams.
The three passengers who had just been unable to get up were now incoherent, repeatedly saying that it was too hot and they wanted water.
"Holy crap, what the hell is going on?!"
"Waaaaah, was it that bloodthirsty demon vine that caused this? How come we're in trouble right after it kidnapped the captain!"
As Yang Zhou was backing away, he suddenly looked up at the passenger who had just spoken, then abruptly turned to look at the five people who looked to be in great pain even though nothing had happened. Recalling the incident of the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine suddenly kidnapping the captain, a strange thought suddenly surged into his mind, and he couldn't suppress it no matter what.
Did that bloodthirsty demon vine sense the danger, and that's why it deliberately took the captain away?
"Ah! Blood!!!"
They hadn't noticed the blood earlier, probably because it was too dark to see clearly. But now they could see it because the blood had completely surrounded the five of them! Seeing this bizarre scene, the passengers were so shocked that they backed away, shouting, "We...we'd better run!"
"Easier said than done! Where can we run to? Without our captain and the others, can we even survive?"
With neither Mo Shuwan nor Wen Zuo present, the passengers instinctively looked at Yang Zhou and the other older passengers in the queue, and said with long faces, "You decide."
Neither Yang Zhou nor Cai Zhongqi immediately offered their opinions, but another passenger urged them to run away quickly.
"No, we can't leave. We'll wait here for the captain and the others to come back. We were so close just now and nothing happened. The other two people got hurt because they touched them. If we stay away, we should be safe for now." Yang Zhou, panting heavily, led a group of passengers back and forth until they finally retreated into the darkness.
The night was still quite hot in this world, and the passengers were quite far from the fire while resting. So now that Yang Zhou and the others had retreated into the darkness, they could barely see the situation of the five passengers over there, but their screams followed them everywhere.
"Aaaaaah! I need water! Water!"
"Give me water! Give me water!"
The piercing screams sounded particularly eerie in the darkness, and the passengers, whose hearts were filled with fear, couldn't help but feel compassion. However, they dared not go over. To save someone who had no idea what kind of monster was attacking them could cost them their own lives. That wouldn't be kindness, it would be foolishness. But they couldn't just let it go like that either.
Yang Zhou took a deep breath and took out two defensive talismans hidden in his clothes. "You guys wait here, I'll go take a look." After saying that, he broke off a branch from a nearby tree and carefully approached the passengers.
Upon approaching, Yang Zhou saw their miserable state and gasped in shock. He activated his defensive talisman without hesitation, but even so, his steps did not increase.
The five passengers were covered in blood. Yang Zhou, who was about ten meters away, saw that the passenger who had been lying face down had half of his face gone! Only one bulging eyeball was staring in his direction. Yang Zhou was so frightened by the sudden eye contact that he fell to the ground.
He quickly glanced at the others and noticed that the flesh and blood where they had been in contact with the ground were completely gone! Yet, despite this, they were still alive!
Yang Zhou's forehead was covered in cold sweat. Just as he was about to get up from the ground, he felt a suction force coming from the ground. The suction force was blocked by the defensive talisman, which protected him once. He felt that the invisible barrier formed by the defensive talisman was about to collapse. Yang Zhou let out a strange cry and immediately gave up the idea of continuing to go forward. He scrambled away from this place of trouble.
It wasn't until he had run several dozen meters that he felt the deadly suction force disappear. Yang Zhou rushed back to where the passengers were, shaking his head with a pale face, "No, there were no monsters, it was the earth, it was the earth that attacked them!"
"What did you say?"
"It's the earth, it's the earth!"
The passengers fell silent, looking at the flustered Yang Zhou. They all thought he might have been paralyzed with fear. The ground? How could that be…?
Mo Shuwan, who was kidnapped in public by the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine, immediately resisted after a two-second reaction. However, she soon realized that the vines binding her were not using much force, and that the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine had protected her well as it moved through the forest. The flame-formed blade slowly disappeared.
Mo Shuwan frowned: "Stop!"
The Bloodthirsty Vine didn't stop and continued to flee at high speed. It only slowed down when Mo Shuwan was about to attack it again, and finally stopped after Mo Shuwan's scolding.
With a frown, Mo Shuwan was placed on the ground by the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine. She took out a flashlight and shone it on its true form, then asked coldly, "Why did you take me with you?"
The Bloodthirsty Vine couldn't respond, but it clearly understood the question. The three vines intertwined and approached Mo Shuwan, becoming increasingly entangled under her gaze. Finally, as if suddenly exploding, the three vines fell limply to the ground.
Mo Shuwan couldn't understand it at all, but could glean some meaning from the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine: "Is that place dangerous?"
The Bloodthirsty Vine wrapped its tendrils around Mo Shuwan's ankle, which was probably a tacit agreement.
Mo Shuwan's face immediately turned extremely ugly. "Take me back."
...
Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng stopped one after the other, panting heavily. They had completely lost track of the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine and Mo Shuwan.
Wen Zuo's face was gloomy, and he kept shaking his flashlight, trying to find any trace of the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine that had passed through this place, but there was nothing, not a trace at all!
We must have gone to the wrong place!
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