Bai Ya did not answer. After a brief silence, the woman turned around and slightly opened the curtain in front of her. She looked relatively young, perhaps only a little older than Jun Aoyan, no more than five years. She placed her left foot
He was holding a basket, and his right hand was still holding the wooden stick with the fuel extinguished. Bai Ya took two steps closer and then stopped because there were many corpses of suspected bees on the ground.
The woman's eyes quickly swept across the face, lingering on the scimitar for a moment, and then moved back to his face. She did not make any further introduction, but said softly:
"If anything happens, please wait a little longer. You don't want these murderous bees to wake up, do you?"
Bai Ya remained silent or even nodded. But he acquiesced to the woman's statement and had no other questions when she turned around. He squatted down, looked up at the woman collecting bees, and continued to study the bees on the ground.
Bees. They are smaller than ordinary bees and have a slender body. The places that should be yellow are red.
The fluff was black again. Maybe this was not a bee, but a wasp or an insect like Hu Feng's. He stood up again and looked in the direction of the woman, and at a dark hive diagonally above her. The hive was also very strange, so it stands to reason
It is said that they are all tied to branches or hanging from the eaves. It just stands on the branches, as if it has been placed up.
Looking at this plainly dressed woman, Bai Ya felt moved for a long time. Although many doubts were still in his mind, the fear of not seeing other living people for several days was eliminated. He was not afraid of wandering alone, he had been to many places
He spent a longer time in an uninhabited place. But it was different here. Everything was too strange. The harsh environment and experiences made him not feel like he was in exile in a foreign country - because this was another world, and everything could not be relied on.
Experience processing.
But what about the woman in front of him? He couldn't help but wonder to himself, does she really exist? He couldn't rule out the possibility of hallucinations caused by eating the wrong things. He had to keep an eye on her all the time, as if she would disappear at any time. Compared with those on the beach,
Crazy believer, this woman is obviously different. More than that
It is fair skin that is less likely to be sunburned, and an indescribable "confidence" in every gesture. This kind of trust is trust in oneself, taking oneself as belief - at least she will not believe in illusory illusions like Poseidon. She is
A follower of some god? Will she be friendly?
There are too many questions without answers, which means there are no questions. Bai Ya never thinks too much about unnecessary things, but rarely waits patiently for her to finish what she is doing.
The woman put down the smoke pole and took out a piece of white cloth from the basket. She held the cloth with both hands, slowly covered the black honeycomb, and then broke it down. Black dust, like cinders, fell from the honeycomb.
The woman did not put the hive directly into the basket,
Instead, he used the piece of cloth to rub the honeycomb, letting more "cinders" fall from it, which was also mixed with the kind of bees. Bai Ya looked behind and saw nothing like honey flowing out, just like the honeycomb.
It has dried up. The cloth is always white and has not been stained.
"What are you doing?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Well, it's hard to explain." The woman shook her head, "You just think I'm collecting honey."
So he didn't ask any further questions. He just took a few steps forward and took a look at the basket. There was a strange-shaped gray-white frame in the basket with fine holes, which made it look uncomfortable.
Eventually, the entire nest was dismantled, and what appeared inside was the same gray-white frame. It was more hollow and clear-cut.
Like half of a human chest.
"You're doubting," the woman said.
"I also suspect that the bones in that basket are human." Bai Ya looked into her smoky eyes, "And it's a pelvic bone."
"You are very smart."
This woman was very calm, so calm that it made Bai Ya feel uncomfortable. He didn't feel strange about anything that happened in the forest, and the woman had been living nearby for a long time and knew everything about things he didn't know. But Bai Ya still didn't like her at all.
Perhaps deep down in his heart, he still deeply dislikes this country and its residents. Therefore, the more people here know about everything here, the more he intensifies his disgust.
But he can still control it.
"What kind of bee is this? You said it can kill people."
"That's right. Even a black bear can be killed by a bee sting. Moreover, their poison is released slowly and will only attack when the prey has walked a long way. In the end, the prey's body is covered in ulcers and dies.
After death, the corpse emits a unique fragrance. This fragrance floats hundreds of miles, telling them that the time has come. Then, a team will be separated from the original nest, and the new queen will lead the soldiers to build their own kingdom on the corpse.
.”
"Do they eat dead meat? Are those bones considered prey they stung to death? Do they only eat humans?"
"You are right. However, they only eat the prey they kill. But before the new team arrives, the scent will also attract other animals. Their poison is effective on ordinary bugs and will not cause the corpse to decompose quickly.
, but it is ineffective against larger scavengers. Usually by the time they arrive, only the parts around the wound remain. However, human bones are rare...after all, almost no one comes here. These are very rare.
Rare, I am more...lucky today."
"What do you want these bones for?"
"Used as medicine."
"Are you a witch doctor?"
"That's right."
Bai Ya looked at her. The woman stood face to face with him, very close to him. The woman was well-proportioned and a bit shorter than Jun Aoyan, but she was still tall compared to most women of the same age. Bai Ya was slightly shorter.
He tilted his head and looked at her for a long time before saying this.
"My friends need you. They're hurting."
The woman turned her face slightly. Under the shadow of the brim of her hat, her expression was mysterious and unpredictable.
"You come from the northern continent."
"yes."
"Well, come with me first. If these bees wake up, we won't be able to go back."
"Why not just kill them?"
"There aren't many of them... it's going to be harder to harvest the bones."
When Bai Ya and this woman emerged from the woods at the same time, both Qi Huan and Jun Aoyan were so surprised that they could not speak. They had not seen anyone other than each other for a long time, a living person, a normal person——
At least it seemed that way. When the woman saw Jun Aoyan for the first time, her attitude was a little serious. She just told them that it was not too late and took them away.
The three people followed her in a daze, and it took an hour to leave the dense forest that had trapped them for days and nights. The feeling of seeing the sun again when the clouds cleared and the mist lifted was a breath of fresh air, and even more incredible. Maybe they had arrived a long time ago.
Near the exit, they were trapped in the dense forest by unknown forces. But that's not important... What's important is that they came out.
They kept walking with the woman. Before dark, they came to her small house away from the hustle and bustle. The wooden house was not big, and it was located alone on the bank of a river surrounded by mountains and rivers. The river did not flow through the dense forest, and occasionally fish suddenly appeared.
Then it disappears, which is reassuring.
There are two beds in the hut, one is made of bamboo, which is in the reception room. Before entering, Bai Ya can smell the strong smell of Chinese medicine in the house, but it is not bitter, but sweet and mixed.
Light floral fragrance.
She asked them to put Jun Aoyan on the bed and go to the back room to change her clothes. When she came out, her whole demeanor had changed. They didn't know how to describe this feeling, like a village girl taking off her rice-planting clothes and changing her clothes.
Wearing the eldest lady's brocade clothes, she transformed into a fairy girl. The examples at both ends are a bit extreme, but they can fully express people's surprise. The material is not really silk brocade, but the style is beautiful.
The outermost smock has an ink-colored base, dyed with large onyx flowers. The light-colored lining inside is tied with a wide blue belt. The whole body is ink with white, with green in the white and green in the green. The hat is removed.
, then I realized that she was wearing a Japanese hairdo.
Although there are new accessories on the head, it is still a bit messy. But the mess is still messy. When people stop there, it reminds you of the weeping willows by the stream in spring, standing gracefully. The blue stream, white catkins, and green leaves are all reflected.
Come into view.
"You can just call me Liu Shenghan." The woman introduced herself.
The two grown men felt that they were mudworms crawling out of the ditch. No wonder they were left in such a place for six or seven days, and no one was embarrassed. Qihuan wiped Aoyan's face with water, and her face
My face is much cleaner, but still looks like dirt
Se. Liu Shenghan took her pulse, and the other two stood aside blankly, hoping to hear some good news from her mouth. But the woman was silent for a long time, and did not mention Aoyan's injury. Instead, she
Qi Huan looked him up and down for a while and asked:
"Did you not stop when you came up from the sea?"
"...Indeed, indeed."
"Swimming in this sea is different from rivers and lakes."
"Um……"
"I'll get you some medicine later and you'll feel better. Don't panic anymore."
Qi Huan thanked her repeatedly, but Bai Ya still folded his arms and stood aside with a cold eye. Until now, he still had an indescribable feeling of alienation from Liu Shenghan, a feeling that had not disappeared since the first time he saw her.
Unfortunately, Liu Shenghan's eyes followed Qi Huan and stopped on Bai Ya's scimitar for the second time.
"When I first saw you, I wanted to say: your pair of knives are not ordinary."
"How is her injury?"
"Well... it's not a good idea to go on like this. She won't die, but she will suffer this pain alive. You are probably provoking something you shouldn't offend along the coast. People in the interior of Jiutian Kingdom don't like to deal with them."
Whether "them" here refers to the followers of Poseidon or the Yasha group is unknown. Combined with the problems on Qi Huan at a glance, it is not difficult to guess what the three of them have experienced. Jun Aoyan was lying on the bed
, conscious, but still unable to make a sound. She stretched out her other hand tremblingly, and struggled to touch Liu Shenghan's arm, and Liu Shenghan held her.
"Don't panic, it's not an incurable disease. You can't speak because there's no sound in your throat. They are your friends. If you have any questions, they will answer it for you."
Jun Aoyan pursed her lips and tried her best to open her eyes wide. When Liu Shenghan finished speaking, she nodded with difficulty.
"Let me ask you..." Liu Shenghan looked at the two of them again, especially Mo Dao, who was supported by Qi Huan.
"Ah, just ask."
"This is the daughter of the great general Jun Luanjiu, who kills Ma Aoyan?"
