Chapter 406 Fountain of Youth

Chapter 406 Fountain of Youth

"Captured by a monster?"

Rutina took the double-barreled shotgun at her feet, stood up and asked with a frown.

"What happened?"

"It's... it's rat people! Swarms of rats, they not only attacked us, but also captured Gray!"

The boy Oslo said with a painful expression on his face as he covered the claw wounds on his chest and abdomen.

Blood was seen flowing out from between his fingers, and the wound was obviously quite deep.

Lutina turned around and took out alcohol bandages and other medical supplies from her backpack, and handed them to the short-haired girl with glasses, Mecia, and asked her to bandage the wounds of the other injured students.

Immediately afterwards, she asked several students about the physical characteristics of the so-called rat people, and the students answered honestly.

"The Rat People... what you encountered should be the Tamara Rat People, but their gathering place should be in the deepest part of Coleridge Forest. How could they appear near here?"

She analyzed with a calm face, then raised her head to examine several students.

"Are you hiding something?"

Several people in Oslo looked at each other, and finally answered dryly:

"We searched according to the location marked on the treasure map, and indeed found the 'Fountain of Youth'... But we didn't know that the spring had been occupied by rat men."

"We originally planned to secretly drink two bottles and leave, but we were discovered anyway."

Afro-haired boy Stiller added.

"Greedy and ignorant..."

Rutina shook her head.

The four students' faces turned green and red, extremely embarrassed.

Chen Lun, who was on the side, heard their conversation and raised his eyebrows.

"Fountain of Youth?"

"Well... the treasure map says that the spring water has the power to make people immortal. Just take a sip and you can stay young forever and live for several epochs."

The short boy Anel glanced at Chen Lun, no longer hiding anything, and explained softly.

"You also believe this kind of nonsense."

Lutina sneered disdainfully, but she obviously had no intention of explaining. She just said with a double-barreled shotgun:

"After all, you have paid, and I have to be responsible for your safety... Clean up quickly. If you are really injured and can't move, just wait here. Send someone to take me to have a look."

"I'll take you there, I'm not hurt."

Mecia, a girl with glasses, said.

Rutina nodded.

At this time, the couple also heard the commotion and came over. They were surprised to see the students covered in blood.

"Oh my sun! What happened? Did you encounter a beast?!"

"They are rat men who are more terrifying than wild beasts!"

Oslo grinned in pain and sat on the wooden stake and said.

"What Rat Man?"

The couple was shocked and confused.

Stiller, the boy with the afro, had no choice but to explain it to them again.

"There is such a species in this world? It's incredible!"

The husband of the couple looked surprised.

When his wife heard that a girl had been kidnapped, she eagerly wanted to help, but unexpectedly her husband grabbed her and warned her in a low voice.

The two had a slight conflict because of this. The wife seemed unwilling to see her husband's cowardice, while the husband was worried about his wife's safety... In the end, the husband chose to compromise and agreed to his wife's help in finding the female student.

"This is the brave man I know, Pat."

The wife kissed her husband's cheek and said warmly.

Chen Lun became a little interested in the "Fountain of Youth" mentioned by the students. It happened that the cow Antonio returned from the woods, and Noah also put away his drawing board and walked over. He explained the situation to them in a low voice and planned to go and see it together.

Naturally, Noah and Anton would not refuse and said that they would follow the group leader closely.

So except for the three seriously injured students who stayed in the hunter's cabin to rest, Lutina, the couple and Chen Lun followed the girl with glasses, Mecia, into the woods.

Mecia's character seems to be relatively calm, but after all, she is still very young and has just experienced an attack by a rat man, so she inevitably shows a nervous expression.

"Miss Lutina, do you still have other firearms with you? If you only have a double-barreled shotgun, I'm worried that you won't be able to defeat the group of rat people... There are thirty or forty of them!"

Mecia said as she walked.

Lutina pouted, took out the kukri knife from her backpack and handed it over.

"Well, this is the only one."

Mecia took the knife with slight disappointment. She thought about it and then handed the knife to Chen Lun.

"Sir, this is for you to use. I am not strong enough to use it."

Chen Lun smiled slightly, but shook his head in refusal.

He raised his silver cane to show that it was not needed.

But I secretly thought in my heart that this girl is a little clever... On the surface, what she said does make sense, but in fact, whoever holds the weapon should be at the forefront.

Mecia is protecting itself indirectly.

"Cane? Okay... then this knife is for you to use."

She turned around and handed the knife to the husband of the couple, who happily accepted it.

With the knife in hand, he felt he could better protect his wife.

Soon, everyone walked through the dense woods and came to a clearing.

Not far ahead, there is a spring four or five meters in diameter surrounded by three crooked trees. The water inside is extremely clear and seems to exude a strange fragrance.

Around the spring, dozens of rat people gathered.

They were hunched over and looked to be only about 1.2 meters tall. They had no clothes on their bodies, but were covered with short, dirty dark brown hair... But what was surprising was that some of them actually held weapons in their hands like humans.

Or homemade wooden spears, or forks and hatchets that I didn’t know where to pick up.

Squeak!

When the rat people noticed the arrival of everyone, they all rushed over on alert, like a pot exploding. They screamed, bared their teeth, and brandished their weapons.

"Don't be afraid! The Tamara rat people have low intelligence and like to bully the small ones. In fact, they are extremely weak. As long as you kill a few of them, they will disperse in a rush!"

Lutina said coldly.

Her petite body stood at the front of the crowd, directly raising the gun and pulling the trigger.

Bang!

The fire suddenly appeared, and the projectiles were thrown forward, directly popping the head of a rat man.

The powerful impact of the double-barreled shotgun even blew the mouse's body several meters away.

Bang! !

There was another gunshot.

At such a close range, it was difficult to empty the gun. The chest and abdomen of the other rat man exploded, and he flew upside down and died miserably.

Squeak!

The rat men screamed wildly and gathered around.

After Lutina fired two bullets, she had to break the barrel of the gun to reload. Mecia, who was originally standing next to her, retreated behind everyone in fear, with the intention of running away if the situation was not good.

The husband holding the kukri had sweaty palms. He saw his wife's expectant eyes from the corner of his eye, stepped forward and waved the weapon towards the rat man.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he killed one, another mouse scratched his arm.

"Ah!"

The man cried out in pain.

Two more mice threw him to the ground, opening their big mouths and preparing to bite his scalp.

The man was so frightened that he dropped the knife in his hand.

His wife and schoolgirl Mecia both screamed.

Chen Lun couldn't see it and sighed secretly. He walked over and swung his cane casually. With two bangs, he killed the two rat men lying on the man's body with a headshot.

Immediately, he winked at Noah.

The latter understood the meaning tacitly, took out the drawing board, picked up the brush and started painting.

He raised his brush and waved it lightly, and several rat men lost their breath while running and fell directly to the ground. No wounds could be seen on the surface... but in fact, their spirituality had long been swallowed up by the [Bone Gallery].

thump!

Thump thump!

One after another, the rat men died inexplicably, and everyone could not help but be stunned. Even the group of fellow rat men discovered that something was wrong, and soon turned around and ran away, screaming.

"Chase! Follow them to find the kidnapped girl!"

Lutina loaded the bullet, but did not fire. Instead, she chased after him with a shotgun and said to everyone.

The man who fell to the ground was helped up by his wife, and he apologized guiltily and regretfully.

Everyone followed Rutina and chased the fleeing rat people.

Halfway through, Lutina glanced at Noah with interest and praised:

"Your paintings are really good. Can you show them to me later?"

Noah glanced at Chen Lun, and when he saw that he had no expression, he smiled and nodded.

"No problem."

Lutina stopped talking and ran forward with a calm face.

Soon, everyone chased the mouse to a hole in the ground, and vaguely heard a woman's cry for help coming from inside.

"Stay inside...leave one person to guard outside, let's go down."

Rutina turned back and said to everyone.

"Me! Let me stay!"

Mecia volunteered.

Lutina seemed to notice her timidity, but she did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

"In this case, you stay outside and guard, we will be back soon."

After she finished speaking, she took the lead and walked down the hole.

Chen Lun asked Anton, the cow, to stay on the surface because he was too big to get down easily.

The passage in the cave was very narrow and extremely dark. Lutina took out a kerosene lighter and used it to illuminate the front, while everyone followed behind.

Soon, the view widened and entered the hinterland of the cave.

The cave is damp and disgusting, full of sour smell, and there is a thick layer of decaying matter on the ground, mixed with some dead branches and bone fragments, whether it is human or animal.

Squeak!

Some hairless mouse-men who were still in their infancy were lying on the ground, squirming slightly. A girl whose clothes were in tatters and could hardly cover her body was thrown into the pile of little mice, with a look of horror and almost madness.

"Save...save me!"

The girl was the missing Gray, she shouted in panic.

Everyone stepped forward and saw that under the light of the fire, her limbs had been bitten off, and blood was spread all over the floor. Little mice kept sucking her blood on the ground.

"Those mice...they still want to...wow!"

Gray broke down and cried, obviously she couldn't accept what she had experienced.

"Although I have never heard of the Tamara rat people mating with humans and reproducing offspring, judging from their strong desire to reproduce, it is not that they will not do such things... Good luck to you, we arrived in time."

Rutina shook her head and said to Gray.

She took back the kukri from the man's hand, chopped all the mice on the ground to death, then took off her coat and wrapped it around Gray.

"Would any of you gentlemen help me to carry her out...she can no longer walk."

Rutina turned around and asked.

"I'll do it."

The husband of the couple, under the signal from his wife's eyes, stepped forward and carried Gray behind him.

Then everyone returned the same way and came to the entrance of the cave.

Mecia was happy to see her companions rescued.

But seeing the injuries on Gray's body, she couldn't help but clenched her fists.

"Those damn rats are so disgusting!"

"How could there be such a monster in this world, such a big rat, walking upright like a human being..."

The man was puzzled.

But Lutina was not interested in answering this question. She just strode forward and said without looking back:

"This is the Coleridge Forest. Why do you think the empire has listed this place as a restricted area? Because there are countless terrifying things in it that ordinary people have never seen! The Tamara Rat Man is actually nothing. If you meet other Weird things, I hope you won’t be scared to death..."

The couple looked at each other and saw panic on each other's faces.

"How about... let's go back later. We don't want to go further into this forest."

Rutina shook her head and pointed to the sky.

The sky had darkened at this moment, and it looked like evening.

"It's getting dark. Traveling at night is difficult and more dangerous...and there are still so many wounded people. We can't go back unless we leave them behind."

Rutina said.

When Mecia on the side and Gray on the man's back heard this, their expressions immediately changed slightly and they denied it.

"No!"

"Please don't leave me!"

Gray cried.

The wife of the couple saw this and quickly comforted her.

"Stop crying, we won't leave you alone... Well, let's stay in the hut overnight and return early tomorrow morning."

"Thank you...thank you, kind lady."

Gray said weakly.

Chen Lun took Noah and Anton with him and did not speak from the beginning to the end.

He is actually quite unfamiliar with Coleridge Forest and has never set foot in this place in his previous life. Now it seems that there are indeed many secrets hidden in this forest...

'Listening to Rutina, there should be many other extraordinary creatures like Tamara Rat Man... and what on earth is the Fountain of Youth? ’

Chen Lun was a little curious.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to return to the original route and pass by the Fountain of Youth again, Chen Lun took out a water cup from the blood poem ring, walked to the spring and bent down to scoop a cup.

【Extraordinary thing: Fountain of Youth】

Item description: Spring water containing vitality has the effect of healing injuries, and can slightly alleviate the aging of the appearance and increase the life span by three to five years.

'It seems that it does have some effects, but it is far from as exaggerated as described... No wonder Lutina showed disdain when she heard about the Fountain of Youth. ’

Chen Lun was a little disappointed.

But even so, this spring water is still valuable.

So he took out several iron buckets, filled them with eight hundred liters of the fountain of youth, and then turned around and left. Everyone was very surprised when they saw his movements and the sudden disappearance of the iron bucket.

But Chen Lun obviously had no intention of explaining, so everyone had to bury their curiosity and shock in their hearts.

Among them, Mecia also followed his example and ran to the spring to fill a bottle. Judging from her annoyed expression, it was not difficult to guess that she was unwilling to accept that the container she carried was too small.

"Let's go quickly. This spring won't run away. It's not too late to come back later and pretend."

The husband of the couple admonished.

However, Lutina smiled. She turned back and said slowly:

"You can't say for sure. Maybe it will run away soon... After all, there are all kinds of strange things in Coleridge's Forest."

The man's eyes widened, and he quickly winked at his wife. The latter hesitated for a moment, then took the small kettle he had brought with him and filled a pot of eternal water.

"You can give her something to drink. The spring water should be able to heal the injury..."

Rutina said to Mecia.

The latter was stunned for a moment, then hesitated for a few seconds, then opened the bottle and gave Gray two sips.

Sure enough, the girl's broken hands and feet healed slowly, no longer bleeding, and she could even walk on the ground.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked by the effect of the spring water, and their eyes burst out with more longing.

Chen Lun looked at all this with cold eyes and shook his head secretly. (End of chapter)