Ling Xiao carefully walked to the hay bunk where the Hu brothers had laid out. He did not reach out to touch anything, but observed carefully. Everything the Hu brothers had touched was suspicious, especially the place where they slept and ate.
Firewood, rice, oil, and salt are all normal foods, and there will be no problems. The two plastic buckets contain clean water, but it has not been tested. If you just look at it with the naked eye, you can't see any problems. As for the iron pot, it is also an ordinary iron pot.
There will be no problem with the pot.
Ling Xiao took out the plastic bottle used for sampling, carefully filled a bottle of water, then sealed it with a sealed bag and put it into his backpack. He couldn't tell what was wrong with the water, but the team led by Yang Yun
The expert team has equipment that can analyze the composition of water. If there is any problem, the expert team will find out.
Ling Xiao's eyes fell on the floor paved with hay again.
The grass on the grass bed is not the common grass on the grassland, nor the common thatch in the mountains, but a very special kind of grass. It looks very soft and has very long leaves, at least three feet in length. Its color
It's still greenish-yellow, not particularly dry, and obviously hasn't been cut for a very long time.
"What kind of grass is this? Why haven't I seen it before?" Ling Xiao frowned and thought.
He carefully picked up a piece of grass with his hands wearing antibacterial gloves and gently twisted it with his fingers. It was indeed very soft, softer than the straw commonly used by villagers to make beds. Such grass is used for
It is very comfortable to make a bed, which is probably why the Hu brothers chose this kind of grass to make their beds.
At this moment, a strange smell suddenly reached his nostrils.
It was a unique smell of decaying corpses, which was very unpleasant.
This unpleasant smell immediately made Ling Xiao nervous. His first thought was the smell of this grass, but then he thought, if this grass was so smelly, would the Hu brothers still use it to pave the floor?
?This thought made his heart calm again. He followed the smell to find something smelly.
On the edge of the floor, a mouse came into his sight.
The mouse's body has decomposed, but it is not a normal decomposition. Its fur has fallen off, and its relatively well-preserved skin is also full of festering wounds. There is a hole in the mouse's abdomen, and you can see the inside from the hole.
The internal organs, its internal organs were also ulcerated.
This discovery made Ling Xiao suddenly excited, "Isn't this a symptom of ghost burn? Mice are also sick. Is it related to these grasses?"
There is no evidence for this inference, but its possibility is extremely high.
It is very possible that the Hu brothers slept on this bunk and got sick.
The rats came to eat the rice oil stored by the Hu brothers at the resting point. They liked the comfortable environment in the thatched bunk, and they also contracted the disease and died. This possibility is also very high.
After this inference, all that's left is to take samples and study them.
When Ling Xiao told Tang Meiyu about his discovery, Tang Meiyu was also very excited.
"We haven't found the source yet. Are we going back now?" Tang Meiyu was really reluctant to leave this adventure. This adventure left her with too many good memories.
"It's time to go back, but we should check around this resting point. I suspect that Oni Shao Shen is related to this kind of grass, but it is just a guess and there is no evidence to prove it. We should check nearby to see if there is any such grass.
The grass grows. I don’t think the Hu brothers would go far away to cut grass for paving the floor. This kind of grass should still grow nearby," Ling Xiao said.
"Well, let's take a look nearby. I don't see that you are quite thoughtful," Tang Meiyu said.
Ling Xiao smiled at her, then packed the grass in his hand into a sealed bag and put it into his backpack.
Before leaving, Tang Meiyu took two photos of the Hu brothers' floor with her SLR camera, and also took a photo of the rat's body. These photos will make Ling Xiao's inference more convincing.
After leaving the cave, Tang Meiyu returned to Ling Xiao's back again, and he carried her around in the mountains and forests. She really enjoyed the process of exploring the mountains and forests without using her feet. Ling Xiao gave her the solid safety.
The feeling, as well as his powerful arms and strong back, made her intoxicated and unable to extricate herself. She took a camera to take pictures of the beautiful scenery in the mountains and forests, and sometimes she would also take a picture of Ling Xiao, alone.
, she was obviously not satisfied with the ambiguous group photo taken before.
Ling Xiao actually also liked her restless movement on his back. She was restless and moved around, her plump breasts grinding against his back, and her
Her soft lower abdomen was the same, rubbing against his waist and back, which made him secretly happy. What was even more wonderful was her legs. When she was restless, her legs would rub against his waist.
The limbs were clamped even tighter, and even though there were several layers of fabrics between them, he could still feel the heat coming from her private parts, which was fleshy, warm, and very moist.
There was no way, no control, so he got hard again.
After walking around the third resting point, Ling Xiao found the grass used to pave the floor in the cave on a slope. Looking at it in the cave, because it was not due to natural light, he saw green and yellow grass.
Color. Now looking at that piece of grass in the sun, it has a bit of black, cyan, yellow and black, forming a special and gloomy tone. It is like a plant from another world, and it is in harmony with the surrounding trees and black.
Weeds are out of place.
The area of the grass is not large, only a fraction of the area of the field. There are traces of being cut on several corners of the grass. Some of the traces are very fresh, and the roots are still fresh, while some have longer roots.
Over time, the roots have withered.
This discovery further confirmed Ling Xiao's inference.
Initially, a hunter or a villager in Xiamazhai who crossed the snow-capped mountains to dig up Cordyceps discovered this grass and used it to pave the floor. This villager or hunter contracted the ghost-burning virus and returned to the village.
, the ghost-burning body virus was transmitted to others. The Hu brothers and the hunters of the Chen family did not know that this grass was deadly. They learned about the existence of this grass from other hunters and villagers.
By spreading this kind of grass on their resting spots, they could not escape their bad luck.
Things like resting spots and ground beds are very primitive and unnecessary in the eyes of more professional travel enthusiasts like Ma Tie or Tang Meiyu, because they all specialize in outdoor tents, which are not much bigger than an umbrella when packed up.
Just put it in your backpack. But the villagers in Xia Mazhai do not have such conditions. They hunt in the mountains and dig cordyceps on the grasslands, and they often have to carry them with them for more than 20 days or even more than a month at a time. This is a
For a long time, they had to build their resting points to guard against sneak attacks by wild beasts. With resting points, it was normal to find ways to make their stay more comfortable.
But I didn't expect that this would actually become a nightmare for the entire Hongxia Valley.
Some earth-shattering events are often caused by unexpected minor problems. This seems to confirm the old saying that the sky has unforeseen circumstances, people have misfortunes and fortunes, and everything in the world is unpredictable. Everything has its destiny.
"What kind of grass is this? It's so evil." Tang Meiyu sighed on Ling Xiao's back.
Ling Xiao shook his head, "I don't know, but with samples of this grass, the expert team will be able to defeat the virus, and this crisis will pass."
"Let's go back." Tang Meiyu said. Although she was reluctant to end this expedition, she also knew that sending samples of this grass to the expert team was more important.
"Well, let's go back." Ling Xiao said, but he didn't move, still observing the grass.
This grassland is really weird.
In other grasslands, there are often several types of grass growing, as well as vines and the like, but this grassland only grows this kind of grass. There are no other grasses or vines or anything like that. It is very pure. This hillside is like them.
The territory is the same. There is not a single ant or other bug to be seen on the ground. It is completely a land of living death.
"Ling Xiao, what are you looking at?" Tang Meiyu asked curiously. The source has been found and samples have been collected. What is he still doing in this dangerous place?
Ling Xiao's eyes fell on a grass, which had already bloomed. The black flowers were very small, like ears of wheat, and they were densely packed on the flower stems. Those small flowers were so inconspicuous that they looked like
It still looks weird.
Tang Meiyu also saw those small black flowers. Her heart moved, she raised her arms and took several pictures of those flowers.
"Wait for me, I'll pull that grass back." Ling Xiao said and put Tang Meiyu down.
Tang Meiyu stood on the ground with one foot and said with concern: "Ling Xiao, be careful."
Ling Xiao nodded, walked carefully to the edge of the grass, and pulled up the flowering grass. Then he folded the grass in half, put it into a large sealed bag, and carefully put it in
In the backpack. The backpack also contained the snowdrops he picked on the snowy mountains when he came. At this time, he took out the snowdrops and threw them into the grass. They were placed together with such dangerous and evil things, even though there was a sealed bag.
But he didn't intend to ask for that snowdrop again.
"Okay, let's go back." Ling Xiao came back, squatted down, and waited for Tang Meiyu to climb on his back.
Tang Meiyu even leaned forward, wrapped her arms around his neck naturally, and then spread her legs to clamp his waist. She was already very skilled in these movements. There was nothing shy about such intimate contact.
I feel it, it feels natural.
Ling Xiao let go of his hands, grabbed her buttocks, and then stood up with his feet.
"Go home!" Tang Meiyu roared excitedly.
Ling Xiao was feeling her delicate and plump buttocks, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"By the way, Ling Xiao, can those experts defeat the ghost-burning virus?"
"I don't know, I think it should be possible. Today's technology is very advanced. With samples, I think it should be possible." Ling Xiao said, he felt that the chance of success was still very high.
"I don't know if we can save the Hu brothers. They are so pitiful and they are still so young. Their families will not be able to accept it if they die like this."
"I hope so. We have to go back soon." Ling Xiao suddenly hugged Tang Meiyu's butt tightly.
"Ah...what are you doing?" Tang Meiyu's face suddenly turned red and she became nervous as her buttocks were suddenly violated.
Ling Xiao suddenly started running in the forest!
"You..." Tang Meiyu opened her mouth in excitement, unable to believe what she was experiencing - he could run in the mountainous forest with complex terrain while carrying a person on his back, and he was very fast!