Old Man Tie knew that he could not panic or break around in this situation. He immediately turned around and faced him as he entered the path of herb collection. Then he took a bandage that could be used to gait leggings and stop bleeding and covered his eyes. He carefully recalled the path he had walked through, confirmed his position, and then half-squatted down, took the stick for walking on the mountain road, and tried to move back little by little.

Because of the mountain road, the old man Tie did not move very fast, but he could feel that his position was moving on the trail, and he constantly knew his exact position based on the terrain characteristics, rather than always spinning in place like before. However, this kind of backward movement was very physically exhausting. Even if the old man Tie practiced martial arts for many years and was only stronger than the young man, he felt unbearable. He had to stop and rest after walking for a few minutes.

In this way, the old man stopped and walked back for more than an hour. He estimated that he had already walked out six or seven miles. Especially when he heard some sounds of running water in the mountain spring, he could be sure that he had entered the middle section of the herbicide path. This is the main herb growth site of the herbicide path. Because of the nourishment of mountain springs, various herbs grow particularly vigorously here.

However, what puzzled Old Man Tie was that after entering this area in the past, he would smell various medicinal fragrances. But now he felt that he should have been in it, but he did not smell any trace of medicinal fragrances. Instead, he felt a very strange heat.

As October comes, although it is still very hot outside the mountain, it is already very cool inside the mountain. In addition, there are mountain springs flowing by nearby, so this area should not make people feel any heat according to common sense.

After repeatedly confirming that his feelings were not wrong, the old man Tie quickly linked this abnormal situation with the ghosts he encountered. A fear of unknown situations made him involuntarily put his hand on the hunting knife on his waist. Although he was carrying a well-maintained hunting rifle behind him, he knew very well that this thing was OK to deal with people and was probably not enough to deal with those ghosts. He had heard that any weapon would condense into a blood evil spirit, and this blood evil legend could hurt ghosts. The hunting knife on his waist followed him for decades. It was originally a waist knife, but it was broken and changed to a hunting knife by him. He had always worn it. There were countless living creatures who died under this knife for so many years. He thought that there should be a blood evil spirit on it, and it might be able to play a role if necessary.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect or the fact that there is blood evil power on the hunting knife. In short, when the old man iron put his hand on the knife handle, his courage that was originally timid because of the ghost hitting the wall became stronger. Years of experience in fighting reminded him that he is in an extremely unfavorable state now. If he continues to blind his eyes like this and does not understand the surrounding situation, if he really encounters any danger, he will be completely passive and may not even be able to fight back.

Considering the current situation, the old man hesitated for a moment and resolutely pushed the bandage that was blindfolded up. At the same time, the hunting knife on his waist was also pulled out of the sheath. However, he did not immediately open his closed eyes completely because he knew that after a long time of closing his eyes, he would suddenly open his eyes and even become dizzy for a long time. So he just opened his eyes a gap, and checked the surrounding situation through this gap, while allowing the eyes that had been closed for a long time to adapt to the changes.

However, before his eyes could fully adapt, the old man who looked down on the surrounding situation opened his eyes wide in horror, as if he had seen something extremely shocking. He completely ignored the discomfort caused by suddenly opening his eyes.

The forest that appeared in front of the old man Tie was no longer the wild medicine garden he was familiar with, but a completely withered land. All the plants, from precious herbs to tall trees, had died, and the lush forest that should have been replaced by a touch of dry yellow. Even the land under his feet was cracked like it had not been watered for many years. Looking around, the forest land that was nearly a mile or so was like this, as if all the vitality in this area had disappeared inexplicably.

Then, the old man Tie felt that the heat he felt before did not come from the surrounding air, but from the ground under his feet. After confirming that there was no danger around, he squatted down and touched the ground. He felt a stream of heat coming from the ground. At the same time, the ground was extremely dry. When he touched it, he sucked the sweat from his palms due to tension.

"Volcano erupted!" Old Man Tie quickly remembered the natural disaster mentioned by the popular science staff sent by the government to the village, but soon felt that it was impossible. After all, if Guanyin Mountain became a volcano, it would be impossible for this area to appear abnormally. Besides, the volcano eruption could not explain the ghosts hitting the wall I encountered before.

Unexpectedly, the old man Tie found a hill with a slightly higher terrain, stood on it and looked into the distance, and saw the surrounding situation. Soon he saw some unusual places.

The entire withered area presents a nearly perfect circle, which looks like it has been manually planned. The closer it is to the periphery, the weaker the degree of the withering of the grass and trees. The closer it is to the center of the circle, the stronger the withering of the grass and trees. Even in the most central area, all the plants and trees have turned into ashes.

Seeing this scene, the old man's reason told him not to investigate anymore and to leave, but his curiosity became very strong, and he made the opposite decision. After falling from the hills, he carefully moved towards the center.

On the road, the old iron man opened the dead bushes on the ground and saw many dead animals. Without exception, these animals all looked like they had been dead for a long time and had been dried. He had no doubt that a flame could light the jerky meat.

The appearance of animal corpses made the old man feel more uneasy, but what made him feel strange was that the more uneasy and fear he was, the more his curiosity became. Even though the idea of ​​turning around and escaping in his mind continued to appear in his mind, his body was always moving firmly towards the center.

Not long after, the old man iron came to the central area of ​​this withered land. As he saw on the hills, all the plants in this area withered very thoroughly, from low shrubs to towering trees, all turned into ashes, covering the ground, and turned into a thick blanket of velvet.

The old man iron grabbed a handful of ashes and rubbed them in his hand. He was shocked and wondered why the trees in this area died so completely, not even a single wreckage. At this time, his gaze suddenly fell in the center of the ashes. He found that the ashes in that place were obviously one layer higher than the surroundings, and it looked like something was covered underneath.

After hesitating for a moment, the old man iron stepped into the ashes, but the expression on his face seemed very struggling, as if the decision to enter this place was not what he made. Soon he came to that unusual place, and his skills opened the ashes layer by layer, and soon saw what was covered by the ashes. But when he saw that, an unexpected expression appeared on his face. The thing covered by the ashes was a man, to be precise, a person in rags and severely burned.

The clothes on this person were very broken, almost equivalent to not wearing them. The skin on the surface was burned, which could be said to be beyond recognition. The blisters in many places were broken, revealing the flesh and blood below, which looked fuzzy and scary. Anyone would definitely die if such a serious injury was replaced by anyone. At least the first glance of the man, the old man thought this was a dead person, but then he found that his chest was up and down with his breathing, and realized that more than 80% of the burned person in front of him were still alive. And judging from his steady breathing, such serious injuries did not pose a fatal threat to him.

Ghosts hit the wall, dead woods, and severely burned strangers all kinds of things happened so suddenly, which made people feel extremely strange. The iron old man had not seen such a strange thing for so many years, which also made him guess the burned person in front of him might have been transformed after being injured. At this moment, he recalled all the actions that were contrary to his thoughts just now, and he felt that he must have been confused by some magic to do so.

The inexplicable fear that surged in his heart made Old Man Tie couldn't help but recite the quotes of Taizu, and instinctively felt that this might be his only support. Although he had never been interested in this set of things, and most of them followed the crowds of the village to read aloud, at this moment he seemed to have become a believer with an extremely promising future, just like those young red players standing on the platform, wearing red armbands and speaking loudly, completely committed to a state of fanaticism.

But what Lao Laohan didn't expect was that his approach seemed to have really worked. The mysterious power that drove his body to act contrary to his ideas disappeared, and he seemed to have regained control of his body.

After feeling that he had returned to normal, the old man Tie turned around without hesitation and prepared to escape from this place. However, when he turned around, his eyes accidentally swept on several pieces beside the burned man. The pieces looked like metal, with patterns like Taoist talismans on the surface, and there was also a Tai Chi Bagua diagram that many people knew.

"Is he a Taoist priest?" Seeing this scene, the old man iron suppressed the urge to leave immediately, took out a quote manual and held it tightly in his hand like an amulet, then walked back, picked up the fragments and looked at it. After confirming that the things on it were all related to Taoism, his thoughts changed a little. After looking at the burned man for a moment, he gritted his teeth as if he had made a major decision. He placed the quote manual in his hand on the man's chest, fixed it with a bandage, and then carried the man out and walked out. His pace was also very fast, as if he would change his mind if he was slowing down. (To be continued)
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