When we landed, the sky was slowly getting brighter and the dark clouds in the mountains were slowly dispersing.
As the dark clouds dispersed, the strange human-faced fish in the Black Rock Pond began to dive into the water one after another as if they were afraid of the light.
There was no flow in the pond water, but strangely, the pond water, which was originally stained red and turbid with a large amount of fish blood, slowly became clear again as the fish schools sank.
Qian Zhiqi was very excited when he saw us. He held my hand and said, "Hu Ling, I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly."
There were many scratches and wounds on his hands, several scratches of varying depths on his face, and his hair was sticky with dried blood.
The jacket on his body was stained with a large amount of blood, and dried up to a hard texture, hanging on his body. He looked as if he had been soaked in blood.
Qian Zhiqi lost a lot of weight, his cheeks were sunken on both sides, and he looked much calmer than before.
The facial contour is somewhat similar to that of Hao Jingde.
I didn't see Xu Wenying, Professor Zhang, or anyone else.
"Brother Qian, why are you alone? Where are Professor Zhang and the others? Didn't you say you were with them?" I asked doubtfully.
"They are all here too. They have suffered some injuries. I let them rest up there." Qian Zhiqi said and pointed to two big trees not far behind him.
I looked in the direction of his finger, and then I noticed that there were two large trees behind Qian Zhiqi that only two people could hug. In the middle of the tall tree crown, dozens of small tree trunks as thick as wrists were used to build a simple tree.
A small wooden house with a roof made of Parmao.
A soft ladder made of rattan hung down from the platform made of tree trunks in front of the wooden house. It should be used for them to go up and down the wooden house.
"Hu Ling, are these people from the Tianshi Mansion?" Qian Zhiqi looked at Lu Xiaohong, Hao Jingde and others behind me.
Although Lu Xiaohong met Xiao Hanjin's Tianshi Mansion in Jiming Mountain, Qian Zhiqi was probably still recovering from his injuries at that time, so the two had not seen each other.
"Well, Shi Xian, Lu Xiaohong, and Lian Ruowei, all three of them are from Tianshi Mansion!" After I introduced the three people from Tianshi Mansion to Qian Zhiqi, I pointed to Dongzi and said, "Dongzi,
Now I have opened a Soul Spirit Pavilion with me. You should have already met before we came here just now, Brother Qian, and there is another person I want to introduce to you!"
I said and turned to look at Hao Jingde. He was looking at Qian Zhiqi, his lips trembling slightly and his eyes filled with suppressed excitement.
"Hao Jingde, we all call him Uncle Hao, it's..." I paused as I started, not knowing what to say to Qian Zhiqi.
It seems a bit strange to directly tell Qian Zhiqi that Hao Jingde is his father.
"I am Dongzi's master. Just follow them and call me uncle." Hao Jingde responded, his voice was dry, and the excitement on his face had been suppressed by him.
I glanced at Hao Jingde and said nothing.
Hao Jingde may have his own plans. Our current situation does not seem to be a good time to recognize our relatives directly.
"Hello, Uncle Hao, thank you very much for coming to help us remotely this time!" Qian Zhiqi smiled at Hao Jingde and nodded in greeting.
After saying hello to Hao Jingde, Qian Zhiqi turned his attention to Sean again and said with a smile: "Hu Ling, I didn't expect Sean to be so big and majestic now. He was the one who carried Dongzi here just now!"
Sean also knew Qian Zhiqi. Hearing Qian Zhiqi praise him, he hummed and ran to Qian Zhiqi's feet and rubbed Qian Zhiqi's trouser legs.
"Hu Ling, it's not very safe here. Let me take you up first!" Qian Zhiqi lowered his hand and rubbed Sean's big head and said to me.
"Okay!" I nodded subconsciously and said.
"We won't go up yet."
“There are many of us, so we won’t all crowd in!”
Lu Xiaohong and Hao Jingde shook their heads in opposition in unison.
"Brother Qian, where is Uncle Xiao now? We want to go directly to Uncle Xiao first." Lu Xiaohong and Hao Jingde looked at each other and said.
"Uncle Xiao, he——" Qian Zhiqi glanced at me and spoke hesitantly.
"Are Xiaohong and Hu Ling here? Come on, you two come up first. I have something to tell you!" A familiar voice sounded from above our heads not far from us, interrupting what Qian Zhiqi was about to say.
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Lu Xiaohong and I looked up at the voice at the same time, and saw Professor Zhang sticking his head out of the door of the cabin, shouting in our direction with empty eyes.
"Professor Zhang, it's us!" Lu Xiaohong responded to Professor Zhang's question.
"Zhiqi, let Hu Ling and Xiaohong come up first!" Professor Zhang said to Qian Zhiqi.
Qian Zhiqi looked at me and Lu Xiaohong, then at Hao Jingde and the others.
He smiled awkwardly.
The corners of Shi Xian's mouth curled up slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but he didn't say anything. He silently turned his face and looked in the direction of Black Stone Pond.
"You go up first, they and I will wait for you below!" Hao Jingde said.
"Okay! Let's go up!" Lu Xiaohong took my hand and walked towards the hanging rattan ladder of the wooden house.
The rattan ladder is very strong and only shakes slightly when you step on it.
As soon as Lu Xiaohong and I climbed up, Professor Zhang said: "Xiaohong, please put the rattan ladder up first!"
Lu Xiaohong was stunned for a moment, then silently followed the instructions.
The light in the woods is not very strong, and the wooden house is almost completely blocked by the canopy of trees and banana trees, so the light is even darker.
The wooden house was covered with a thick layer of dry leaves, which were soft to the touch. Professor Zhang lay paralyzed on the leaves with his hands and feet, arching his body back like a reptile, and retreated from the door of the wooden house to the middle of the wooden house.
The right side of the wooden house was covered with a thick mat made of dry batamao, and lying on the mat was a motionless woman with a slightly swollen belly.
Under the dim light, I saw obvious anxiety and vigilance on Professor Zhang's face. It wasn't until Lu Xiaohong put away the rattan ladder that his vigilant expression softened slightly.
Professor Zhang's eyes are blind, with no pupils, only the whites of his eyes.
"I can't believe anyone except you and Zhiqi now!"
Professor Zhang said in a low voice, "When we came here, there were twenty-eight of us in total, all of whom were elites sent by various archaeological detachments. Now there are only three of us left. Even your father has disappeared. I have become what I am now."
It seems that Wenying is still breathing, but she has been unconscious for more than half a month. Only Zhiqi is in better condition and can still move."
As Professor Zhang spoke, he turned his gaze to the woman lying on the mat, and the corners of his eyes were slightly moist.
"Sister Wenying?" I lost my voice in surprise and walked to the woman lying on the mat.
Xu Wenying's face was as pale as paper, her eyes were tightly closed, her lips were chapped, and she was so thin that she almost lost her human shape.
If it weren't for the fact that her chest was still rising and falling slightly, I would have even suspected that she was dead.
I reached out and touched her hand. It was frighteningly cold, not at all the body temperature a living person should have. This chapter has been completed!