C19 Mountain elm

The sky in the old forest darkened extremely quickly. Wu Ji and I had long ago found a relatively flat clearing, and used it as a resting place for the night.

After a whole day of walking, I was exhausted. We lit a fire and ate some rations. I leaned against the fire and fell asleep.

But I was suddenly woken up in the middle of the night. I opened my eyes and drowsily asked Wu Ji what had happened.

Instead, he covered my mouth with his hand, made a silencing gesture, and pointed with his other hand.

I nodded in understanding and looked in the direction of his finger. I saw that there was a fire in front of us as well. Moreover, I listened attentively. There were even men speaking in a low voice.

Wu Ji released my hand and let me slowly stand up. He said that we should retreat to other places first so that we wouldn't be discovered by those people.

I didn't dare to ask any more questions, so I was pulled to the side by him and quietly moved to the side, trying to avoid those people.

When we were more than ten meters away, they were already unable to see the bonfires of those people, and since they were in the dark, they naturally couldn't see us either. I pulled Wu Ji and said enough.

But Wu Ji didn't listen to me either, and still pulled me quickly through the forest. The branching branches were clawing and scratching at his body and face.

I forcefully pulled on Wu Ji and said in a suppressed voice, "It's far enough, if you keep running, be careful of getting lost."

Wu Ji was pulled to a halt by me, but he still maintained the posture of running forward. He did not turn his head, but only used a slightly gloomy voice to say: "It's not far enough yet."

I think it's a little strange, Wu Ji isn't such a calm person, even if he met that giant beetle, he wouldn't show any signs of panicking.

"Those people didn't notice us, and it's so dark here. As long as we don't make any noise, they won't chase us." And don't you want to know the purpose of their sudden appearance here? Or perhaps, the people from the village knew that we entered the Xiao Xi Kou, so they sent someone to look for us! "

I was still out of breath, so I took a deep breath and rested my hands on my knees. I woke up in the middle of the night, still feeling a little dazed.

This time, Wu Ji slowly turned around. His face was covered by the darkness of the old forest, making it difficult to see his face clearly.

Wu Ji suddenly asked me, "Have you heard of Mountain Demon before?"

I thought about it. I seemed to have seen the Mountain Demon in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It was a type of Mountain Spirits.

Wu Ji nodded his head and said that it was true that no one had stepped foot into the Xiao Xi Kou in a long time. There was no guarantee that the devils and spirits of the mountain had already cultivated themselves to perfection, and the man by the bonfire, he believed that the devilish men had indeed become a devilish beast.

I was stunned. I said that I clearly heard the voice of a human just now. How could it be a monster?

"If I say so, then so be it!" Wu Ji suddenly raised his voice to refute me with extreme impatience.

His voice was strange, and at first I thought it was just the sound of his voice being lowered.

But when he was rebutting me, his voice suddenly became shrill, and his tone was sinister.

"Wu Ji, what's wrong?" I asked curiously.

He didn't explain. He just told me to follow him.

Because his temper had always been a little odd, I didn't think too much about it, though I immediately felt that something wasn't right. I tightened my backpack and prepared to follow him.

At this moment, a sound suddenly came from behind us. One of them questioned, "Who is it?!"

I find it strange, why does that person's voice sound so much like Wu Ji's?

But Wu Ji is right in front of me!

Just as I was about to ask, Wu Ji grabbed me and ran forward!

His hands were extremely strong, like cold and hard chains that tightly shackled my wrists!

Moreover, his footsteps were getting faster and faster. I was pulled by him, but I was completely unable to keep up with his footsteps. There were a few times where I almost fell down, feeling like I was a kite in his hands that could fly off the ground at any time.

"No, I can't run Wu Ji. Let's stop, he might not be a bad person!" I felt as if my strength had been sucked out of me. Running so hard had caused me to lose my breath, and I felt like I was going to suffocate.

At the moment, I would rather be caught by the people behind me than run another step.

But Wu Ji seemed to be unable to hear my words, and still pulled me along as he ran with his life on the line.

And it feels like we are running deeper into the forest!

"Halt!" The voice that sounded similar to Wu Ji's shouted at us once again.

Wuji, let's stop …" "Ahh!" "Before I could finish my sentence, I was tripped by a vine. My exposed hand and face slid across a dead branch, and a heart-wrenching pain came over me.

"Get up!" Wu Ji didn't care about my injuries at all, forcefully pulling me up while continuing to run.

"I'm not running anymore!" I was really angry, and I didn't know what the wind was! And I felt as if my face had been scratched by a tree branch.

I forcefully flung Wu Ji away and reached out to touch my face, but the strange thing was that there wasn't any blood, and it had only been a few seconds, and it hadn't hurt at all.

I actually felt something cut deeply into my face that time, but what was going on?

Just as I was curious, I heard Wu Ji say to me with his sinister voice, "Whether we leave or not, it's not up to you to decide!"

Hearing this, I raised my head. Borrowing the faint moonlight, I saw Wu Ji only had one arm and one leg left, and was reaching out his bony hands to grab me.

I panicked and backed off, and asked Wu Ji what happened to him, what happened to his limbs!

Wu Ji did not answer and instead let out a creepy giggle. It sounded like a weird cold laugh, but it was also a sound of him grinding his teeth.

It makes me shudder!

At this moment, I heard the footsteps of the people chasing after us approaching. Before I could stand up straight, someone suddenly grabbed my hand from behind and pulled me behind!

Let me take a closer look, it's actually Wu Ji!

"Wu Ji?" I was stunned, how did Wu Ji catch up to me from behind? What happened to that Wu Ji just now?

Wu Ji did not even look at me, but took out the piece of Death Jade Runes that he had used in Huang Wancai's house. He placed it on his palm, with his other hand forming the shape of a sword, and started chanting.

Suddenly, a strand of dark-grey smoke floated out of the Death Jade in his hand.

The smoke rapidly fell to the ground and actually took the form of a human!

This scene was extremely strange. It was a human shaped fog, and opposite him was a Wu Ji with only one hand and one leg. The two were opposing each other.

I really hoped that someone would knock me out and tell me that all of this was just a terrible nightmare!

Afterwards, when Wu Ji, who had caught up to me, protected me behind him, I could smell the faint fragrance that resembled plants and vegetation on his body.

Thus, I am certain that even though I do not know why he had caught up to us from behind, he is the real Wu Ji.

And that one...

After the smoke turned into a humanoid figure, it did not move, but stood there motionlessly. After opposing the one-legged being for a few seconds, one-legged Wu Ji suddenly let out a sharp cry that sounded like a monkey.

True and false Wu Ji!

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing that the thing had left, I pulled on Wu Ji's arm and asked.

However, he didn't answer right away. Instead, he looked up at the sky and said, "It's too late. Come back with me!"

Without waiting for an answer, he pulled me back.

I feel like dying right away, whether it's true or false, all I feel like is pulling me along to run. Why isn't anyone explaining to me what just happened!?

Anxious, I forcefully shook his hand away. "If you don't explain clearly that I'm not leaving, who knows if you're going to be another one-footed monster!"

Wu Ji helplessly looked at me and sighed, then used the simplest language to explain everything that had happened.

He said, "Just now, it was Mountain Demon that pulled out your soul. Your body is still at our campsite. If my soul cannot return to my body before dawn, the consequences would be unimaginable! "

As he spoke, I subconsciously touched my own cheek, as if that explained me. Although I felt a cut on my cheek, there was no actual wound, and the pain quickly disappeared as well.

"The sun is going to rise in less than an hour. Come with me." With that said, Wu Ji pulled me and ran towards the camp.