I was afraid for a while. If I hadn't encountered rice grains, I might not have been able to reach the village safely.
Chujiu didn't answer me, and it seemed like he didn't know either. Mi Li stuffed the small bamboo tube in his hand with a cork, and turned back to look at Chujiu and me.
"The bug in your stomach is gone, but there is still one bug I put in."
"What? The bugs you put in there?" I shouted involuntarily.
Mi Li told me that she had asked Chujiu about what happened to us along the way, and it was certain that we were bewitched.
It wasn't until just now, when I saw the bulge in my stomach, that I was sure it was insect poison.
The only way to deal with voodoo is voodoo. In order to force the bug out of my stomach, she could only let me eat another bug.
It turns out that the little pill I just took is not medicine, but a kind of insect egg. Before hatching, the egg is wrapped in a wax pill.
When the temperature reaches a certain level, it will grow rapidly. It lives by eating bugs and is the natural enemy of most bugs.
I think it should be like a wolf rushing into a flock of sheep, scaring the sheep into running away.
The worms I ate were like rice worms falling into a rice vat. There were food everywhere. The food was so frightened that it ran around, causing me to vomit.
"Then how are you going to take out this insect?"
Mi Li didn't answer me, but just told me to wait until we were in the village.
We continued on our way. According to Mi Li's analysis, it was most likely because we were poisoned while eating at the breakfast stall at the entrance of the train station.
The person who caused the poison was probably the long-haired man who made Chujiu feel uncomfortable.
As for why Chujiu didn't get hit, Mi Li analyzed that it was probably because when Chujiu was a child, his grandmother gave him some random gadgets.
"It's broken! Xiaoyu! Xiaoyu also had breakfast with us."
I thought of Xiaoyu who stayed in Chongqing and had to be on duty for her tutor. What should she do if she was also infected?
Chujiu told me that he had discussed Xiaoyu's matter with Mi Li. If discovered in time, the hospital would have a way to deal with it. If conditions permit, gastric lavage is a good method.
I guess that given Xiaoyu's condition, he would probably be discovered and treated in time, either in an apartment or in a hospital.
They didn't talk much along the way. The three of them had their own thoughts and hurried on with their heads covered.
Three hours later, a large bamboo forest appeared in front of us.
"Guo Guo, through this bamboo forest, you will reach our village. But you have to follow me closely. This bamboo forest is not easy to walk through."
It turns out that this bamboo forest is similar to a psychedelic formation. Following Chujiu and Mi Li, I walked a few steps forward, a few steps left or right, and sometimes even needed to take two steps back.
"Ordinary people would definitely not be able to get in here. The bamboo forest alone would make me faint."
Ten minutes later, I looked at a stilted building a hundred meters away. The entire stilted building was made of bamboo poles. Along the gravel road next to this stilted building, there was a stilted building at regular intervals.
The largest stilted building is located at the highest point of the gravel road, close to the mountain. Smoke is rising from the stilted building.
There are green bamboo forests everywhere. Who would have thought that there is such a beautiful village hidden in the bamboo forest.
The occasional bird call adds to the mystery.
Chujiu said cheerfully that the largest stilted building was his home.
"Let's go. Guo Guo, there is a fish pond not far ahead. You can only see it if you go over there."
"This is probably the end of the world."
As soon as I finished speaking, Mi Li covered her mouth and said with a smile, "How could it be so good? It's just the most primitive mountain and forest scenery, and there's no electricity here yet."
The gravel road on the ground turns out to be cobblestones if you look closely.
This kind of stone is usually found in river areas, but it actually appears in the mountains? Could it be that they were all carried up from the bottom of the mountain? Just this road is a huge project.
Chujiu told me that he didn’t know either. Anyway, there has been this cobblestone road for as long as he can remember.
I smelled the fragrance in the air, took a deep breath, and felt better. No wonder in the legend, gods love to live in the mountains. It seems to make sense.
"Let's go, there will be many opportunities to see it in the future. The old man's old man must have made delicious food and is waiting for us."
Chujiu urged me, who was shocked by the beautiful scenery and was stunned on the spot. When he said this, my stomach made a "gurgling" sound, and I really felt hungry.
When I step on the cobblestone road, I feel a slight pain in the soles of my feet. Every step I take is like massaging the acupuncture points on the soles of my feet.
Suddenly, I felt an extremely itchy feeling on my shoulder near my neck. I reached out and scratched it, and felt my hands were wet.
Looking at the palm of my hand, I saw a stream of transparent and sticky liquid.
"Chujiu, help me take a look, it seems like something has been scratched by me."
I held my collar and called Chujiu.
Before Chujiu could speak, Mi Li exclaimed and shouted, "Don't move."
Mi Li quickly took out a small bottle from his pocket. He tore off a small piece of clothes and poured some liquid from the bottle onto the clothes.
"Hands out! Quick!"
I don't know why Mi Li was so eager, and mechanically stretched out his palm. Looking at the palm filled with transparent liquid just now, it had already turned red.
The index finger and middle finger were cracked, revealing a long gash. I could even see the white bones inside the fingers.
My thinking stopped for a moment. I was extremely surprised that my palm was so injured in just a moment, and I didn't feel any pain at all.
The other fingers also began to crack. Mi Li applied the liquid from the corner of his clothes to my palm. Finally, Chujiu pressed the entire palm-sized hem of his clothes onto my palm.
Mi Li once again took out something from the cloth bag on his waist. It was a bamboo pole the size of a pen, with a blade as thin as a cicada's wing inlaid on one end of the bamboo pole.
"Squat down!"
Mi Li held down my shoulder and stabbed the blade directly into my shoulder. I clearly heard the sound of my shoulder being cut.
I felt the blade in my flesh, rotated it a few times, and then pulled it out.
I turned around and saw that the bamboo pole blade in Mi Li's hand was wrapped with a black silk thread. The other end of the silk thread was in the flesh of my shoulder.
The black silk thread was pulled out bit by bit by the rice grains.
I was about to speak, but I saw sweaty rice grains on my head, staring closely at the wound on my shoulder, telling me not to disturb her.
For about ten minutes, the bamboo pole blade in Mi Li's hand was wrapped with countless circles of black silk.
The black strands are as thick as hair, and they are still being pulled out from my shoulders bit by bit.
I began to panic deep in my heart, what on earth did I encounter? Human beings are instinctively afraid of unknown things.