"Dead people?" Han Sen looked at the woman with shock.
"Follow me." The woman waved at Han Sen and Zero, and then she turned around and walked to the other side of the orchard.
Han Sen and Zero looked at each other, and then they followed her with the Golden Howler. After walking for a while, they came across an empty field. There were a few tents set up there, and there were many tools. A few people were basking in the sun.
Han Sen and Zero's arrival attracted the attention of those people. They stood up, and some of them walked out of their tents.
There were a dozen humans in the camp, and judging by the condition of the tents, they had been there for a long time.
"You are lucky to have met me. If you hadn't, you wouldn't have known how you died."
After returning to the camp, the woman relaxed. She said to Han Sen and Zero, "This place is safe. You guys can set up your tents here."
Han Sen looked at the woman and asked, "Big Sister, what's going on here?"
"Don't you guys know this is the Dark Haunted Forest?"
The people in the camp looked at Han Sen strangely. The woman looked surprised.
Han Sen shook his head and said, "I came from afar, and I just passed by this orchard. I don't know what this place is."
"Then you are so pitiful. People who wander into the Dark Haunted Forest have never made it out alive," the woman said with a sigh.
"Can't make it out alive?"
Han Sen was shocked, but he didn't believe it. It was just a forest, and there was no way they couldn't make it out alive.
Even if they couldn't walk out, they could still fly out.
No matter how strange the path was, it couldn't trap people who could fly.
"It looks like you really don't know what's going on here. You two look so young, and yet you've wandered into the Dark Haunted Forest. What a shame," someone said.
"Please tell me what is going on here," Han Sen took out some wine and food from the back of the Golden Howler and gave it to them.
When those people saw the wine and food, their eyes almost popped out of their sockets. They didn't stand on ceremony and started eating and drinking as if they hadn't eaten for hundreds of years.
"Brother, do you have a cigarette?" A middle-aged man approached Han Sen and asked.
"Yes."
Han Sen took out a bag and threw it to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man was overjoyed.
"You should keep these things and eat them slowly. You still have a long way to go." The woman from before couldn't help but smile bitterly when she saw how generous Han Sen was.
Han Sen knew what she meant, but he didn't think he would be trapped here. He just smiled and asked them to tell him more about the Dark Haunted Forest.
These people didn't mean any harm, and with Han Sen's generosity in giving them food and wine, they became enthusiastic and told Han Sen everything they knew about the forest.
They were like Han Sen, and they had all wandered into the Dark Haunted Forest by accident. They came from different places, and they had all wandered into the forest at different times. They had all been lost, and none of them had ever made it out alive.
Aside from Han Sen and Zero, the last person to wander into the forest was the woman who had brought Han Sen here. Her name was Liu Fang, and she had been lost two years ago.
Liu Fang studied botany, and her work in the Alliance was related to it. She knew about the Dark Haunted Forest, and she was very interested in the Dark Haunted Tree.
She had come here to study the Dark Haunted Trees, but after going a dozen meters into the forest to collect a sample, she was lost. She couldn't find her way out, and she ended up in this camp.
Everyone else's situation was similar. Some had come here to explore, and some had wandered in by accident. But as long as they hadn't died in the Dark Haunted Forest, they were all gathered here.
"What is so dangerous about this place?
The fireflies in the flowers shouldn't be aggressive, right? "Han Sen couldn't help but ask, seeing as they hadn't gotten to the point yet.
Liu Fang gave a wry smile and said, "The Dark Haunted Insects aren't aggressive. The real danger doesn't come from the insects. It comes from the trees themselves."
"The trees?" Han Sen looked around at the Dark Haunted Trees, but he couldn't see anything dangerous about them.
"We all think the trees themselves are creatures, and the Dark Haunted Insects are just a part of them."
Liu Fang paused and continued, "You may not have noticed it when you first came here, but if you stay in the woods for a long time, your body will gradually become old and weak. At most, you will die of old age in less than three months."
"Really?" Han Sen frowned.
"You are lucky to have been brought here by Xiao Fang. If you had come within a thousand meters of the Dark Haunted Tree King, you would have died of old age in less than six hours," the middle-aged man called Wang Jiangang said.
"Thank you so much."
Han Sen was very grateful to Liu Fang. He was invincible in the Second God's Sanctuary, and he wasn't afraid of a real fight. But he wasn't sure if he could survive something as strange as this.
If he didn't know there was danger ahead of time, he might have fallen for it.
"It's nothing."
Liu Fang smiled bitterly and said, "Two of my friends who came with me got too close to the Dark Haunted Tree King. They only stayed there for an hour, and then they aged like two hundred years old people. They didn't live for long, and they died of old age here.
Remember, don't go within one thousand meters of the Dark Haunted Tree King. If you do, it will affect your body. "
"If you don't have to, don't leave the camp. The ordinary Dark Haunted Trees will affect you, too. You won't be able to feel it, though," Wang Jiangang said.
"Can't we fly out?" Han Sen asked.
"You can't fly out. This Dark Haunted Forest seems to have no end. Whether you walk through the forest or fly in the sky, you can't get out. There is no end."
Wang Jiangang gave a wry smile and went on to say, "I used my beast soul wings to get here. If I could fly out, I wouldn't be trapped here."
Han Sen frowned and asked, "Have you tried cutting down the Dark Haunted Trees?"
Liu Fang said, "You can't cut them down. If you cut them down, they will release a strange gas that will make us age faster. Aside from the camp, the rest of the forest will grow back in a few days, even if you uproot them."