Chapter 483
For the next two days, Liam and Vincent were responsible for teaching clan members fighting skills.
Cynthia was responsible for setting traps in the surrounding woods. Due to its unique location, the town was surrounded by cliffs on both sides. For geographical reasons, all kinds of poisonous snakes, insects, rats, and ants were everywhere under the cliff. No one dared to go there.
Cynthia only needed to focus on the other two sides. She planned to scout the surroundings first before setting up traps accordingly..
to go with Cynthia.
Vincent was busy teaching clan members fighting skills. Mila was alone in the town. She felt so bored that she wanted to go
“Are you sure?” Cynthia asked, looking at her with a weird expression. The place I’m going to is not the way we came here. It’s a dense forest with many unexpected sights. Are you mentally ready for this?”
Mila nodded. I know what you mean. I’m not afraki”
Corpses were thrown into the forest, but it was such a huge forest. Moreover, People didn’t die every day. In her opinion, she would not have been se unlucky to encounter corpses.
She was so bored these days. People here had their own dialects, and she couldn’t understand them at all.
The only people she could communicate with had been preoccupied for the past few days. No matter what, she decided to go out with Cynthia and get some fresh air.
Since she insisted, Cynthia didn’t refuse her. She gave Mila a knife, and they set off
At first, the trails were easy to follow. But when they entered the forest, the clear sky suddenly got darker. They could smell something wet.
Cynthia led the way
by with a knife, and they kept going deep into the forest.
The trees became more luxuriant as they walked deeper. The huge trees blocked all the sunlight, making the illumination inside appear to be in the twilight.
At first, they could hear the birds and insects. The more they got into the forest, the less they heard them until they were completely disappeared. For a moment, it was deadly quiet
Mila swallowed, her hand holding the knife trembling. The woods were a little different from what she thought. It was creepy.
At that moment, Cynthia stopped in her tracks and gave her a pill.
“Take it,” she said.
Mila took it over and swallowed it without hesitation. “What is this?” she asked.
Cynthia didn’t go any further. She pointed to a dark place not far away and said, “It’s full of miasma here. The miasma ahead is getting thicker and stronger. We can’t move forward.”
Cynthia cut off the branch in front of her with the knife. The moment it broke, it released a strong rotten smell.
Cynthia hurriedly took steps back with Mila and said in a low voice, “Cover your nose and mouth with your clothes. Quick!”
Mila did what she was told, but the smell was still pungent several feet away.
“What tree is it? It looks leafy. Why does it have such a strong rotten smell?” she asked.
Cynthia frowned and looked around. “It must be the Death Tree. I’ve only heard of it before, and this is my first time to see it today. It is said that this tree likes the smell of death very much. Whenever a dead clan member is placed here, its root will follow the smell and engulf the corpse before sucking it up. The miasma here is so thick. It must be produced by this kind of tree. If I guess it right, the miasma here is also very toxic,” she
said
Mila couldn’t help but shiver. She smiled awkwardly and said, “It sounds mysterious.”
Cynthia knew she was scared, but she didn’t expose her.
“Don’t worry. We are living people. It can’t smell us. The medicine I just gave you can counteract the effect of the miasma poison,” she kindly explained
“That’s great” Mila secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She thought, Looks like I shouldn’t go to strange places. Fortunately, I’m with Cynthia today. Otherwise, I would have been dead if I had come with Liam or Vincent
She suddenly thought of something and looked down at her feet. Although it was dark, she still saw a skeleton under his feet.
“Holy shit Mila jumped with fear. She hurriedly moved aside.
Cynthia held back her laughter and shook her head helplessly.
Cynthia was afraid that the medicine would lose its effectiveness if they stayed there for too long. They left in a hurry and went to the back mountain
Cynthia observed the cliff for a while.
It was already early evening when they returned to Glenn’s house.
Liam and Vincent hadn’t come back yet.
In order to teach the clan members as much fighting skills as possible, they didn’t come back for dinner until 9 p.m. or 10 p.m.
Cynthia and Mila were tired from their long day on the mountain. They went to bed after a simple meal.
The next day, Cynthia got up early,
After thinking about it all night, she finally came up with an idea. Since she wanted to build a happy home in a hard world, the surrounding defense must be extremely robust
Yesterday’s miasma was a natural barrier that could proted them from ordinary enemies.
In that case, the town was still in danger.
Therefore, she decided to use the Death Tree to create illusions.
Because the Death Tree could detect the smell of death, she would find a way to make those who wanted to attack this town smell like death. In addition, the deadly miasma would slow them down, giving Death Tree more time to kill them with its roots.
As for how to get those people to smell like death, Delilah’s parasites would help.
She took out the parasites she had brought with her and collected their mucus. She then went to the back mountain to catch a poisonous snake. The mucus of the parasites combined with the snake venom would be deadly
If flowers and trees were anointed with them, they would die and turn into ashes in a short time.
Those ashes were the things that could let those invaders smell like death.
After Cynthia finished doing these things, she led the clansmen to destroy the existing trail and blazed a new trail connected to the outside world in a hidden place.
It was designed according to the maze, with forks in the middle. With one false step, they’d tumble into traps and die.
It took Cynthia three days to do all these things. She also taught Glenn how to deal with poisonous miasma and ashes in case any of his clan members were accidentally poisoned,
and Vincent tried their best to teach clan members all their fighting skills. What they needed to do was practice hard
In the past three days, Liam and every day.
They decided to leave on the morning of the fourth day because they had delayed long enough.
All the clan members came to see them
came to see them off, and Glenn thanked them repeatedly.
Cynthia walked over and gave Glenn a hug. “Mr. Gomez, take good care of yourself after I leave, okay?”
“Okay, okay. Don’t worry. I’ll take good care of myself. Stay safe and healthy. Remember to send me a video of your wedding.” Glenn said, “Sure, Cynthia replied.