"Woo woo woo"
It was obviously not the whimpering sound of leaves blown by the wind. If you listened carefully, it seemed that there were screams and crying.
“…”
"No, it's haunted."
Milje curled himself up into a ball, squeezed in between Jingxia and August, and shook his body like a quail.
"ah--"
A shrill scream broke the silence of the dense forest, bringing a touch of gloom to the dark forest. Then the whimpering sound came one after another in the depths, as if some creature was wailing in the deep forest.
The sharp sound made all five of them tremble, and Lan Huaili even covered his ears in pain.
Jing Xia quickly put a layer of mental protection on Lan Huaili's ears, which could penetrate Lan Huaili's own protection. The screaming creature was obviously much stronger than him.
"Want to go check it out?"
Herbert held his mecha button and asked his teammates.
"Let's go and have a look."
Jing Xia checked the protective shields he had given to his teammates one by one, and after confirming that the protective balls that Di Xiu had given them were still on them, he nodded.
At least he had to see who was calling for help. If it was a student who had been harmed, he would go and rescue him. If it was just a creature in the dense forest that was a bait to lure them over, he would kill it immediately.
The five of them carefully moved through the woods, staying alert to their surroundings as they approached the source of the whimpering.
As they got closer and their vision gradually widened, the scene before them made all five of them open their eyes wide.
I saw a huge, pitch-black tree standing on a flat ground. The leaves rustling in the wind seemed to be black, but the veins of the leaves were as red as blood vessels.
The pitch-black tree roots were winding like snakes across the entire surface. There was a bottomless hole in the center of the trunk, and the faint scream came from the hole.
This was already weird enough, but what was even weirder was that the screams coming from the cave entrance seemed to have a tune, like humming a song.
Two roots, each as thick as a person, stretched out from either side of the tree trunk, tying up a struggling figure like a zongzi. Several large, tied-up zongzi lay on the ground covered in roots.
A real "human meat rice dumpling", made with tree roots as rice dumpling leaves and human beings as fillings, and tied up with sharp edges. Jing Xia felt that it was even more standard than the rice dumplings his father made during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Each zongzi has a human head with its mouth covered by a tree root, which is quite creepy.
August and the others: This... did they disturb this person's "interest"?
Jing Xia was very surprised when he saw the appearance of the tree clearly. Isn't this the screaming tree monster from the abyss?
How come they live here and can make zongzi?
Jing Xia, with a head full of question marks, met the eyes of the tree demon who had sensed something and turned the trunk so that the tree hole was facing them.
Jingxia: Oh, it’s over.
"ah--"
The screaming tree demon dropped the half-finished rice dumpling in his hand (?) to the ground with a snap, and the tops of his two thick roots pressed against the two sides of the tree hole. There was another deafening scream, and the leaves on the top of the tree were still rustling.
August and the others: What?! Are they going to attack?
Along with the scream, the tree roots on the ground began to shake, as if they were about to attack them in the next second.
August and the others were nervously preparing for defense, and even Jingxia began to be wary of accidents, but the screaming tree demon suddenly stopped moving.
Jingxia and the others: oO?
The two thick roots pushed into the ground, and with a force, the tree with a dark trunk pulled itself up.
Jing Xia and the others:!!!
Perhaps sensing Jing Xia and the others' fear, the tree demon shook its body, slowly extended two thin roots towards them, and shook them gently to show that it had no ill intentions. In the end, it even made a heart sign to Jing Xia!
August pushed up his glasses which almost fell off in shock: "What is it doing..." Is it trying to show goodwill?
Milje muttered, "It must be fake... Are they trying to trick us into coming over and tie us up?"
Herbert silently looked at the black tree root with a red glow that had stretched out from the side at some point in time. The root playfully shook the bag on his back.
Lan Huaili looked at Jing Xia, and the love heart was obviously shown to Jing Xia.
Jing Xia touched his nose under Lan Huaili's inquiring gaze: Haha, he doesn't know either.
"But it shouldn't hurt us."
Hearing Jing Xia's words, the tree roots in front of him nodded excitedly, as if agreeing with Jing Xia.
The five people moved cautiously towards the tree trunk, with Jing Xia walking in front. With every step they took, the roots in front moved outward, revealing the ground that was compacted by the roots.
In this way, they walked all the way until they were three or four meters away from the tree trunk, and Jing Xia stopped with his friends.
There are strong mental fluctuations near the trunk of the Screaming Tree Demon. If the distance is too close, the mental power of August and the others will be damaged.
August looked at the retreating tree roots around him, wondering if they had just taken advantage of the situation.
The screaming tree demon used its roots to create a circle to protect the five people from the wind, and rolled up a "big rice dumpling" and shook it in front of Jing Xia, trying to stuff it in front of Jing Xia.
Screaming Dryad: Take it, take it.
Jing Xia quickly waved her hand to refuse: "No, no, you should keep this for yourself."
The entire tree trunk, including the crown above, tilted to the side, as if it was thinking about something.
Suddenly, the tree roots surrounding them began to wriggle, gradually covering the sky above their heads, like a semicircular hut made of tree roots.
August and the others were shocked: Are they going to make them into big dumplings?
Jing Xia felt a familiar breath approaching them.
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