Seeing that other soldiers were indeed eating this herb, Su Tao chewed the flower and swallowed it.

There were many shallow pits where he had just hid, and the deputy general ordered his men to dig the pits deeper so that they could bury the dead soldiers.

Looking at the remaining 400 soldiers, the lieutenant felt a little painful. This was really more terrifying than going to the battlefield to fight.

The group did not dare to stay in the forest, fearing that the poisonous miasma would attack again, so they continued to move forward.

Two hundred soldiers held torches and opened the way in front. Su Tao and several others followed, followed by two hundred soldiers behind them.

Su Tao and his party walked forward in the woods, the leaves rustling under their feet.

Suddenly, the soldiers in front screamed.

Su Tao was panic-stricken. The deputy general went to take a look and was shocked.

"Everyone, stand back! Don't move forward!" The deputy general also backed away.

Shopkeeper Qian said: "What's going on? What's happening ahead?"

"It's a swamp!"

At this moment, the soldiers trapped in the swamp suddenly felt as if their bodies were sinking little by little.

There are dense shrubs all around, and when the mountain wind blows, the shrubs on the outside sway gently, but the inside of the swamp is impenetrable. It must be because of this condition that the rotten branches and leaves in the swamp fermented so thoroughly.

The soldiers were anxious and struggled to climb to the shore.

Unexpectedly, things backfired. After struggling, I found that my body slowly sank a few centimeters downwards.

At this time, everything from the chest down had sunk into the swamp.

"Try not to move!" the lieutenant shouted.

But it's too late.

Suddenly, the soldiers began to breathe unsmoothly.

Many soldiers have fallen into the swamp due to the struggle and cannot see anyone.

As their bodies sank to their chests, several soldiers knew that they could no longer move casually, otherwise they would only sink themselves faster.

So he slowly stretched his arms, stretched them flat on the rotten leaves on the surface of the swamp, and tried to use the strength of his arms to pull his body up.

At this time, the force should not be too strong, and the force can only be exerted slowly. The soldiers tried it and felt that their bodies were obviously lifted upwards.

But the two arms left two deep impressions on the surface of the swamp.

A soldier's right hand pushed too hard due to inertia and pressed deeply into the swamp. He subconsciously touched it and touched a round thing.

The thing was only an arm's length away from me, buried under the rotten leaves on the surface of the swamp.

If he hadn't pressed down hard with his arms, it would have been difficult to detect.

The soldier said "Hey" and wondered if there was something else buried in the swamp.

So he kept his body still, and gently fiddled with the round thing with his right hand, pushing aside all the rotten leaves covering it.

Because the thing was to his right, he had to be careful not to sink in, so it was extremely inconvenient to turn his head.

I could only reach out and grab the thing, trying to grab it in front of me.

As soon as he grabbed it, he immediately let go of the thing because it was too big, but a bunch of thread-like objects were caught in his hand.

The soldier relied on his hand to grab the thread-like object and gently pulled it upwards. The thread-like object was torn off, but the thing was still left in the mud of the swamp.

The soldier slowly brought the silk-like object in front of his eyes. After a closer look, he was startled and threw the ball of silk-like object far away with a raised hand.

The filament-like object turned out to be a large tuft of human hair, and what was even more shocking was that the end of the tuft of hair was connected to a large piece of scalp.

The scalp was bloody, rotten, and faintly exuded a disgusting corpse odor.

This was really unexpected,

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The soldier never imagined that there was a dead body just an arm's length away from him.

The body had begun to decompose, indicating that it was at least half a month old.

The soldiers were in a panic. They struggled to climb up again, but forgot about the lieutenant's words not to let him move, and began to sink again.

Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, Su Tao's thoughts were in confusion.

She looked around again. Under the moonlight, through the mottled shadows of the trees, she could see the mountains in the distance.

Su Tao felt even more sad as he listened to the soldiers' cries for help.

The lieutenant calmed down for a moment, trying his best not to panic.

He is now the backbone of the army. If even he is panicked, how can the soldiers not be in chaos?

He turned around and looked around, and found that the swamp was about ten feet square, and the surface of the swamp was covered with thick rotten leaves.

This is a place of death that can swallow life. In this swamp area, the soldiers did not dare to move in the mire. However, their bodies still gradually sank.

The silt pressed on the chests of the soldiers, making it difficult to breathe.

I found that my body was sinking slowly, and the speed was obviously faster than before.

The soldiers were shocked and saw bubbles popping up all around.

You can even feel that the mud under your feet is getting thinner and thinner, and your body is sinking continuously.

He ordered the soldiers to cut down the branches and pull the soldiers out of the quagmire. However, the pressure in the swamp was too great and it was not easy to pull them up.

Despite this, many soldiers were still pulled up.

The soldiers who were pulled up breathed a sigh of relief as they escaped death.

The lieutenant held a torch and looked over, and immediately felt a chill rising from his heart.

Some wriggling maggot-like things instantly corroded the soldiers' legs.

The white bones are faintly visible on the legs.

"Quick! Everyone stay away, don't get close to them!" The deputy general roared angrily when he saw this scene.

The soldiers all fled away. After a closer look, they realized that the comrades they had worked so hard to rescue could not escape the fate of death.

"Puff, puff, puff!" The sound sounded like raindrops falling on the flames to extinguish the flames.

Those maggot-like things kept squirming around their bodies and gnawing at the soldiers.

It seems that the things in the quagmire are about to spread.

Shopkeeper Qian shouted: "Quick! Light a fire! Burn them!"

The soldiers did not move, they were their companions.

The injured soldier lying on the ground could not move his legs. Hearing these words, he cried: "No!" The deputy general looked at them and said decisively: "You can do it yourself and give yourself a good time!"

The soldiers may have been desperate, or they may have felt the pain of being eaten by maggots, and knew that they could not survive. Some of them took the lead and drank their own knives. Then, when those people saw it, they killed themselves with tears in their eyes.

The lieutenant frowned and felt a chill as he saw the dense insects eating away at his whole body.

He frowned and said: "Burn!"

The soldiers trembled and threw torches.

The fire lit up, and there was a crackling sound in my ears.

That was the sound of burning insect corpses.

No one spoke, and the air was deathly silent. Su Tao couldn't bear to look, so he closed his eyes and trembled slightly.

After all this fuss, the sky has turned slightly white.

Less than 300 people were left and continued on their way.

This time, everyone used branches to explore the ground as they walked, for fear of encountering a swamp again.

Traveled ten miles.

In front of it, it suddenly opened up, forming a small valley with a radius of about one acre.

To the east, there is a gentle slope.

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On the gentle slope with a radius of three to four hundred square meters, the sun shines directly down from the top of the canyon.

The light shines on the gentle slope, and there are no other plants on the entire gentle slope.

Neatly and uniformly, they are all plants that are about twenty to thirty centimeters tall and resemble an usnea.

However, unlike usneas, most usneas are parasitic on trees. They hang upside down from the branches, leaves, and trunks of trees, and they look as crystal clear as rime.

However, this is not Qingyanhua.

The stems, petioles, leaf rachis, and inflorescence rachis of Blue Rock Flower all have long and short hairs.

The leaves are irregular, odd-pinnate, compound leaves, and there are three leaflets on the upper part of the stem, mixed with very small leaflets in the middle.

The small leaves are rhombus-shaped and oblanceolate, with thick serrated edges, sparse hairs on the veins or between the veins below, and golden gland spots.
To be continued...