Chapter 120: Strange Phenomenon

Fatty was very experienced . The moment Ai Hui finished speaking, Fatty was already moving towards him . He put up his guard, like an alerted cat .

The main reason why he could survive the many dangers of the Wilderness was because every time Ai Hui gave a warning, Fatty would immediately react to it .

Other people would question Ai Hui’s intuition, causing a slight delay in their reaction .

Fatty, however, would not doubt him, and that was why he managed to survive .

Fatty felt that Ai Hui was much more powerful than himself . Ai Hui was the abnormal laborer who had the highest chance of leaving the Wilderness alive . He trusted Ai Hui unconditionally .

Complete obedience!

Whatever Ai Hui wanted him to do, he knew that it would be necessary . Whatever reaction Ai Hui had, he knew that Ai Hui must have discovered something of importance .

When Ai Hui asked him if he had heard anything, he knew right away that Ai Hui must have heard something .

Hence, without any hesitation, he moved closer to Ai Hui . The closer he was to Ai Hui, the safer he would be . Whatever Ai Hui did, he would follow suit .

As swift as the wind, Ai Hui’s sword brushed past Fatty’s face and penetrated the underbrush behind him .

Swoosh!

Possessing the sword embryo, Ai Hui’s senses were extremely acute . Even though the sound was very soft, he could still hear it . It might be hard to sense something through the tip of his sword, but he could still sense what he had struck .

Deep down, Ai Hui quickly confirmed that the thing he had hit had a very small surface area .

The first time he entered the Garden of Life, he had heard a faintly discernible noise at night . At that time, he had still thought that it was a misperception caused by his long absence from the wild; however, today he heard the same noise again .

He withdrew the Sawtooth Grass Sword and positioned its tip right in front of his own face .

“You shocked me!” Fatty came over . “What’s that? Eh, there is some blood on the tip of your sword . ”

Fatty moved nimbly into the underbrush . After a while, he returned with a dead mosquito that had its wings shattered and body cut in half . “It’s a mosquito . ”

Ai Hui saw the blood stain Fatty was talking about . It was a very small drop of blood . When the mosquito was struck by the grass sword, its body exploded and this small drop of blood stained the sword .

Ai Hui was surprised as well . He did not expect it to be a mosquito .

He did not feel relieved just because it was only a mosquito . In reality, the mosquitoes in the Wilderness were rather dangerous, as many of them were extremely poisonous . Once you were stung by a mosquito, you would be in dire straits .

As such, he did not put his guard down just because it was only a mosquito . The thing that surprised him was that faintly discernable sound; he did not expect a mosquito to produce such a weird sound .

“There’s something odd with this mosquito . ” The dead mosquito on Fatty’s hand only had half of its body remaining . Its wing was, oddly, dark red in colour . For some reason, even Fatty, who had been through many life-and-death situations, felt a shiver go down his spine . He mumbled to himself, “Why am I afraid?”

Even though Fatty was scared, he still checked the dead mosquito carefully .

In the Wilderness, one could not stand there and do nothing .

Fatty might hide behind Ai Hui when they were engaged in combat, but he would not be sloppy when there was a need for him to do some work .

Ai Hui pulled the tip of the sword close to his nose and took a sniff . There was an odd, sweet smell to it .

He suddenly had an urge to lick it .

“There’s something wrong with this blood . ” Ai Hui’s eyes were ice-cold as he put down the sword .

“There’s definitely a problem,” Fatty replied . “Such a small amount of blood should have dried up by now, but take a look, it hasn’t dried up at all . Look at its wing, what do you think of when you see this color?”

Fatty bent down to pull a stalk of grass from the ground, then placed it beside the mosquito’s wing . “Look at this root, isn’t its color similar?”

Ai Hui nodded . The two colors were slightly similar . It was just that the mosquito wing’s color was a bit darker .

“Look at the grass . ” Fatty’s eyes were flickering . “The roots are the most red . The color becomes fainter as it goes up the grass and the top half of the grass is dark green . What do you think?”

“The soil!” Ai Hui replied without the slightest hesitation .

The two of them looked at each other before squatting down to begin looking through the underbrush . Ai Hui used the tip of his sword to dig up the roots of the grass . Indeed, he saw red-colored soil, so he did not stop and continued digging . The deeper he dug, the redder the soil became . The soil was so red that it looked like cinnabar .

Suddenly, red-coloured, muddy water gushed out from beneath Ai Hui’s sword . It resembled gurgling blood .

Ai Hui froze and the air seemed to freeze with him . Both Fatty and Ai Hui could see the fear in each other’s eyes . The two of them had seen many scary things before in the Wilderness, but this sight still managed to make their blood run cold .

“Didn’t they say this damned place is safe?” Fatty gulped .

Ai Hui moved the tip of the sword in front of his face . The sword’s tip was dark red, completely stained by the muddy water . He took a careful sniff . It did not smell like mud; instead, it had a faint aroma .

This aroma smelled somewhat similar to the aroma from the mosquito’s blood; however, this one was milder .

They had seen red-colored soil before, but the red color of the soil before them now resembled the color of blood . Could there be a cinnabar mine here? No, that couldn’t be right, cinnabar would not have such a weird aroma . Furthermore, if there was really a cinnabar mine here, the surrounding vegetation would be red in color . Right now, only the roots of the grass were dyed red .

Apparently, this phenomenon had begun quite recently .

This might be the reason why everyone, including Ai Hui, did not notice it at first . From afar, everything looked lush and green .

Ai Hui walked for another ten steps until he came to an area where there was no vegetation, then started digging again .

Fatty trembled in fear and quickly hurried over .

The soil Ai Hui dug up was ash gray in color . Where had the red color disappeared to?

Could it be . . .

Fatty’s face turned ugly .

Without saying anything, Ai Hui walked under a tree and started digging again . Within seconds, blood-like muddy water gushed out from the ground . He then hacked open the tree and found that, within one meter from the ground, the core had turned completely red in color . From the outside, no one would be able to see it .

Fatty and Ai Hui clearly understood that this could not have happened naturally .

“Maybe it’s a kind of blood poison?” Fatty’s trembling voice contained a hint of uncertainty . “It’s cross-contamination . The contaminated plant must have been eaten by a herbivore, contaminating the herbivore in the process . That herbivore was then stung by a mosquito, causing the mosquito to be contaminated as well . What kind of poison is this? This… this is too scary…”

Knowing that there was a sea of blood beneath the boundless, lush vegetation surrounding them, the two trembled in fear .

“We had better get the teachers and Instructor Zhou to come and take a look,” Fatty warned, “because this place is too bizarre . ”

Without any hesitation, Ai Hui nodded . “Let’s go!”

The two of them were feeling extremely uneasy .

Suddenly, there was an amazed exclamation coming from up ahead .

“Rabbit, ahh, there’s a rabbit!”

“It’s really a rabbit!”

“Even more so, it’s a rare red-haired rabbit!”

“Woah, such beautiful eyes, they look like rubies! Oh my god, it’s so cute!”

Red hair . . .

At the same time, Ai Hui and Fatty thought of the red-colored weeds, dark-red mosquito, and the seeping blood-colored muddy water .

“Be careful!”