On land, this mineral—let’s think of it as blue gall amber—doesn’t emit the deep and distant beauty of the sea. Even under firelight, it is just a transparent gemstone except for the center.
It looks more like glass, but is much lighter. But no matter what, they don't know the exact way to use it.
"Are you sure you don't need to put it back...?" Qi Huan asked tentatively.
"I don't know. I just know that there's no point in pretending or not. After all, the other half is in Yasha's hands."
"…Then your decision to interrupt it would be too hasty?"
"Did you think of a better way at the time?"
It is normal logic for the scrolls that the two sides are fighting for to be torn into pieces in the chaos. Qi Huan remained silent, because even now he has no better idea. Theoretically, the texture of the halberd is the same as the ordinary weapons of the Yashas.
Consistently, the key to the problem should only exist in this piece of amber. How gorgeous the light was at that time.
Bai Ya brought Amber closer to Jun Aoyan. There was no change. It was better for Qi Huan to hand over a bowl of hot soup. They really had no choice but to put this thing in Aoyan's hand and spend the night first.
See if there are any changes. The two of them take turns keeping watch.
"You should go first in the first half of the night. I don't think I can wake you up."
Qi Huan's words were quite pertinent, and Bai Ya did not raise any objection.
But in fact, as soon as he lay down, he couldn't close his eyes. The main reason was that the pain all over his body was difficult to suppress, and he still wanted to scratch his skin unconsciously. Once he calmed down, this feeling became more and more obvious in the dead of night. On the contrary,
I seldom pay attention to this discomfort when I am busy. Just like the later a person goes to bed, the easier it is to think about some messy and annoying things, and the more difficult it is to fall asleep. For Qi Huan, he has both. He really can't do Bai Ya
That's "heartless".
There was no painkilling medicine, but Bai Ya was still sorting the raw materials. He also mixed the rest into Jun Aoyan's medicine, and he tossed and turned on the pile of dead leaves until the leaves crackled. The other two people didn't say anything.
, and when he was almost done tossing and turning, there was no sound anymore. This was not good. If he stayed up until Bai went to bed and kept vigil by himself, he was still awake. Wouldn't it be a big loss?
After a long time, he finally felt a little sleepy. Qi Huan grabbed the tired tail and pressed it under his body to try to fall asleep quickly. Who would have thought that at this moment, an indescribable whine came from the distance.
He sat up all of a sudden, his eyes widened. Jun Aoyan fell asleep, but frowned, holding the piece of amber in his hand. Bai Ya was still picking out the medicinal materials, and when he heard the sound, he just raised his head, it was nothing.
reaction.
"Didn't you hear?"
"I heard you."
"What is this noise?"
"Wolf, or monster, who knows."
"this……"
"Why are you panicking? Isn't this still far away?" Bai Ya continued to lower his head, only his pupils moved up, looking at him provocatively, "Are you afraid?"
"……cut."
Qi Huan fell down again and turned his back to the bonfire. His back was warmed by the fire, and his front was shivering from the cold. The sound came one after another, sounding like the unstoppable whine of an injured human being. If it were not very far away, he would even suspect
It was the injured Jun Aoyan who was talking in her sleep, but she had been very quiet. Is it really a wolf? He didn't know. He only knew that when a cat meows, it sounds like a child crying, but what does this mean?
He sat up again.
"Could it be a monster?"
"It's not impossible." Bai Ya picked and chose with an expressionless face, "I know there is a kind of monster that chops off people's heads, eats their bodies, and then relies on the dead people's mouths to ask for help. People who hear the cry for help deviate from the road.
If you look, you will fall into a trap. If no one passes by, the old heads will rot, and they will no longer make a sound when they are rotten. So they always lie in wait on the desolate mountain roadside."
"Hey...can you stop telling weird stories at night?"
"It's not scary. I know what to say."
"Then I'm surprised." Qi Huan crossed his legs, "Most people would be frightened when they hear the sound, so why do they still come closer? Isn't this a monster coming to their doorstep?"
"It was night. They actually appear during the day, and people are always bolder at that time. This monster lurks under the shade of trees or in caves near roads. My father once killed one, and the monster was very big.
There are many human skulls near its cave. Because it is so big, it always attacks the mountain village..."
While talking, Bai Ya finished telling what he had experienced. Qi Huan didn't know what to say and fell into a long silence. After a long while, he said:
"I heard that if you eat monster meat, you will be cursed."
"That depends on whether it is that capable."
"This is not a human diet. Eating too much is not necessarily a good thing."
"I have no choice."
"That's right..."
"My mother has eaten it too."
"ah?"
Qi Huan was stunned. The incessant human chirping had not disappeared, but it was still very far away. After hearing Bai Ya's words, he suddenly felt that the sound was no longer scary.
"Close your mouth." Bai Ya stretched out his medicinal-smelling hand and pushed his chin up, "What's so strange about this?"
"This is really strange! Besides, your parents' backgrounds in the Zuojimen family are not so poor... right?"
Qi Huan actually wanted to say that her death was caused by some kind of curse from the monster. But what was the truth? Since he was not present, he naturally had no knowledge. How could he make irresponsible remarks on the death of someone else's mother? He held it back,
I hope Bai Ya can give an answer. Unfortunately, Bai Ya only heard bits and pieces from his father. His father often mentioned his mother and he loved her very much.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be willing to be exiled to this ghost place after being imprisoned for the sake of soul-returning incense.
"Of course they are rich." Bai Ya scratched his head, "But my mother was not hungry at that time, she was sick. She knew that she was living a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife, and it was not easy to have a wife. It cost her life.
After wandering around the gate of hell for too long, her body was not suitable for giving birth and she could not keep the fetus. My father said that at that time she was more worried about my death than he was and sought medical treatment everywhere. A miracle doctor who was passed down by word of mouth gave her a prescription.
Fangzi, there are a lot of things from monsters in it."
"Ah, indeed...I heard that witch doctors can prescribe this kind of medicine. Human corpses and monster corpses can be used to make money. There are many people whose families have relied on the corpse trade for generations to survive.
"
"But the witch doctor also said that the prescriptions mixed with evil spirits are very evil, and he is afraid that they will make you live longer. Most likely, he was right and ended up like this... My father said that my mother was very thin when she died. I
But he’s a big fat boy.”
Qi Huan had something to say again and couldn't spit out a word. He didn't know if Bai Ya knew that there was indeed such a recipe that turned the child into a parasite-like thing that sucked the mother's blood. It was like a life-threatening thing.
Ghost. But this kind of witchcraft also needs the consent of the possessed person to be effective. Such a desolate story will make people sigh no matter who it is told to.
He killed his mother. That doesn't sound good.
Rather, his mother handed him the knife and then bumped into him.
Qi Huan didn't think about it anymore. He turned around and put his hand on Jun Aoyan's head. It seemed to be a little cooler now, but it was still very hot compared to a normal person's body temperature, but it was not as exaggerated as before.
"I've touched it and repeated it several times."
"...I hope to find a town soon, the bigger the better."
Qi Huan fell back to sleep. He had a confusing dream. In the dream, there were the monsters mentioned before going to bed, as well as the Yaksha they had encountered. In addition to monsters, there were also people; in addition to the two friends, there were also family members. In the dream
, Jun Aoyan recovered, but his illness still kept recurring. Was it the root cause? His parents actually appeared in Jiutian Kingdom, bringing his brothers and sisters with him. Maybe it was because of the dream, but he was not shocked.
.But he doesn’t want to see
They. So several people have been looking for him and chasing him, and he has been hiding and running away. Rare and exotic animals and flowers appear one after another in his dreams, and he is not sure whether he has seen them in reality - at least in Jiutian Kingdom.
Qi Huan didn't realize that he was dreaming, because these things were so logical. Everything had no connection or logic. He just followed the arrangement of the script, resisted, and struggled, but he was not sure whether the struggle was part of the plot.
When he opened his eyes, it was already dawn.
Bai Ya failed to wake him up, or didn't he scream at all? The night was obviously very cold, but when he woke up, he was covered in sweat. He sat up, with a wet rag on his forehead, which was very warm. But he didn't
There is no fever.
"you……"
"What?"
"You didn't sleep all night, did you?"
"I can hold on pretty well." Bai Ya seemed to be in good spirits, "I squinted for a while, that's enough."
"Thank you for waking up."
In fact, he really suspected that Bai Ya hadn't slept all night. He probably didn't dare to wake them up, right? He turned to look at Jun Aoyan. She had woken up, but her face was very poor, and she looked like she had lost too much blood. He
I checked her pulse again and found that her hands were colder and her forehead still had a high fever.
To be honest, he is really afraid that Ao Yan will have a fever problem. It’s not like he has never seen people who are stupid with fever. If he survives well, but the person is crazy, let alone how to explain it to the court, he himself
I can't bear the burden - both material and psychological.
Fortunately, she still agrees to whatever I say now. She said that she is always very sleepy and cannot wake up. When she wakes up, she feels pain all over her body.
"...I know." Qi Huan nodded, "It will be better if you don't think about it for a while."
Bai Ya spent one night separating most of the medicinal materials, and the remaining ones were too fine. He was not in the mood for the time being. He had also been fighting for a whole day, and he still hadn't rested yet. Qi Huan really admired him.
They rode horses and walked down the road that didn't look like a road. Jun Aoyan almost couldn't hold the reins several times, so Qi Huan had to hold the reins for her. When they reached a clear pool, they got off their horses and prepared to ride the horses.
water.
Bai Ya took the coconut shell and bamboo tube and came to the waterside. Qi Huan pulled the horse's head, but the stubborn horse was unwilling to go over.
"Aren't they thirsty? Why don't they drink water?"
Bai Ya just bent down and suddenly froze there, staring at the water for a while. The water was very clear, and he felt clean at first sight. Bai Ya thought for a while, put down the container, squatted by the water, picked up a handful of water and smelled it.
.
"What's wrong?" Qi Huan looked over, "Is the water poisonous?"
"There are no fish in the water, nor any aquatic plants or insects."
"It means the water is clean."
"Then why doesn't the horse drink?"
Qi Huan didn't know the reason, but he also felt something was wrong. These horses were pulled from the village by the sea, and they might know the secrets hidden in this jungle. Maybe, this pure water is really dangerous.
"It hasn't rained in the past few days, and I can't find the source of the water. This should be a pool of stagnant water."
What Bai Ya said was right, but how can such clean stagnant water be found? Qi Huan said, there is no other water besides this. Pack it in first and go on the road, then boil it and drink it when you rest at night. So Bai Ya did it
.And at night, all the water in the container turned into a viscous liquid, like clean snot, and was no longer drinkable.
How long will it take before we can leave this forest? No one knows. Jun Aoyan's condition is still relapsing, and his wounds continue to worsen.
In fact, they couldn't even find a road like a road.
