The shift change time is two o'clock in the morning.
But at half past one, Mo Qing woke up.
She opened her eyes and saw the person next to her sitting up. Her eyelids twitched. Then she met Jiang Ke's gaze and calmed down a little. She got out of her sleeping bag and sat up.
Jiang Ke took out the medicine bottle he carried with him and poured out two pills to Mo Qing: "Do you smell it?"
"Um."
Mo Qing responded and pushed his hand back.
The lights in the camp outside were turned off, but the campfire was still on. The firelight shined through a layer of tent cloth, making Mo Qing notice the damaged skin on the back of Jiang Ke's hands, and she frowned.
She said: "You eat it yourself and I will take a look."
"Are you okay?" Jiang Ke asked.
"It's okay." Mo Qing sniffed the smell in the mist, "It shouldn't be very toxic."
Jiang Ke woke up due to the burning sensation on his skin, while Mo Qing woke up due to his keen sense of smell and smelled the peculiar smell in the fog. However, the reasons for both were the same - the originally harmless fog had changed.
The two came out of the tent quickly.
Song Yiyuan and Chi Shi were still sitting by the campfire, and they were not surprised when they saw them getting up.
"Did you both wake up because of the fog?" Song Yiyuan looked at them and added dry wood to the bonfire, "It seems that the people next door have become alert because of the fog."
"Aren't they always on guard?" Mo Qing was surprised.
Since she came back from next door, the number of guards next door has doubled.
Song Yiyuan said: "It's even stricter. It seems to be guarding against something."
Jiang Ke asked: "Is there any problem with you two?"
"No problem," Song Yiyuan waved his hand, "Mo Qing's medicine is quite effective. I took two pills in advance and nothing has happened now. Chi Shi's skin was red just now, so he used the medicine Mo Qing got from next door.
Wiping your hands, the effect is too slow. Once you take the medicine, you will be fine in less than five minutes..."
Song Yiyuan increasingly felt that Mo Qing's title of "Medical Saint" was well-deserved.
Mo Qing sat down by the campfire: "You guys go and have a rest. I'll call you if anything happens."
Song Yiyuan frowned: "Aren't you going to check the source of this poisonous fog?"
"It's not important." Mo Qing shrugged, "Our goal is Xiwu Village."
"……OK."
Song Yiyuan nodded.
Chi Shi always followed the crowd, did not participate in their decision-making, and did not express any opinions from beginning to end.
The four people changed shifts. Song Yiyuan and Chi Shi went to sleep in the tent, while Mo Qing and Jiang Ke stayed vigil by the campfire. Jiang Ke had nothing to do, so he picked up the pile of information that Mo Qing brought back and studied it carefully.
Mo Qing fiddled with the route map Jiang Ke had written down.
At the same time, I took out an ordinary map for comparison.
While staying at home some time ago, she studied two maps and circled the suspected location of Xiwu Village. Later, she used the Hoss satellite system to take pictures, and what she could see were barren mountains and ridges, with no trace of the village at all.
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At that time, they were so imaginative that they even suspected that the residents of Xiwu Village lived underground.
"According to the route, it's only two days' journey, right?"
Mo Qing rested his head with one hand and held up the map. The flames were beating and red dots were printed on the map through the paper.
She frowned: "Will it go so smoothly?"
"Soldiers are coming to cover up the water and earth, and act according to the opportunity." Jiang Ke flipped through the information without even raising his head.
Mo Qing folded the map and threw it to Jiang Ke: "You can keep it."
She had nothing to do, so she dug out some random snacks from her backpack, opened them and ate them leisurely, while chatting with Jiang Ke about some insignificant things to pass the time.
Jiang Ke suddenly asked: "Are you okay?"
"What?"
Mo Qing didn't know why.
"Poisonous fog." Jiang Ke glanced at the white fog around him, "You haven't taken any medicine."
"The toxicity is low and it won't work on me." Mo Qing felt a little sleepy and glanced at the white fog around him, "I'm afraid this fog won't clear for a while. I'll call them later."
The fog is getting thicker and thicker.
White mist rolled around them. Originally, the bonfire could illuminate the surrounding environment within one or two meters, but now they could not see anything behind them clearly.
Everything in the forest seemed to have been pressed on pause.
Not even a sound could be heard.
Including the campsite next door.
If Mo Qing hadn't been vigilant and used acupuncture needles from time to time to test whether he was hallucinating, he might have thought that everything around him was fake.
"It's half past five." Jiang Ke looked at the time and said, "Wait for an hour before calling them."
"Um."
Mo Qing agreed.
She listened for a while and raised her eyebrows: "There's something moving over there."
Jiang Ke heard the sound and listened carefully.
The sound was very quiet at first, but gradually, the sound from next door got louder and became noisy.
Mo Qing and Jiang Ke looked at each other.
Mo Qing asked: "Would you like to go take a look?"
Jiang Ke glanced at Chi Shi and Song Yiyuan's tent, then nodded towards Mo Qing.
——With Chi's vigilance and ability, there is nothing to worry about.
The two of them went to watch a show next door with flashlights. All the lights in the camp next door were on. There was an open space in the middle of the tent. A man was blocked. His eyes were scarlet and he howled. He suddenly used force to push the few people blocking him.
He opened it, staggered a few steps, and suddenly grabbed his own skin like crazy, with such force that his flesh and blood became bloody in the blink of an eye.
The scene suddenly became bloody.
Almost subconsciously, Jiang Ke stood in front of Mo Qing to prevent her from seeing this scene.
Mo Qing's vision was suddenly blocked, and Mo Qing was stunned for a moment before reacting.
She stretched out her hand to hold Jiang Ke, took a step forward, and stood side by side with him: "It's okay, what haven't I seen?"
Jiang Ke looked sideways at her.
He wrapped her hand with his backhand and pursed his lower lip slightly.
If possible, he hoped to create such a calm scene for her, but none of it had ever happened.
Another person stepped forward, controlling the crazy man from left to right, and tied him up with hemp rope quickly. The man was still struggling, his face was covered with scratches, and blood and flesh were mixed together, but he followed
He felt no pain and tried desperately to break free. He opened his mouth and wanted to bite his companion, but his mouth was quickly sealed.
Xiao Yuqun stood aside and watched until he completely controlled his actions, then said: "Give him the medicine first. Everyone should wear gas masks. They are not allowed to take them off until the fog clears."
He had already noticed Mo Qing and Jiang Ke, but he only glanced at them before turning around and wanting to enter the tent.
Mo Qing stared at his back and said coldly: "Your information didn't say that the toxicity of this fog can cause people to go crazy."
Xiao Yuqun paused and turned back: "This is also the first time we have met."
Mo Qing: "Really?"
"There's no need to lie to you." Xiao Yuqun frowned, "I've given you the information. The most serious case recorded above is hallucinations, not self-harm."
Mo Qing said: "But the data does not keep detailed records of each deceased person."
The records of these data are divided into two parts.
Including what survivors recorded in diaries and what rescuers recorded afterwards.
They sent people into the mountain seven times in total, spanning five years. The first two groups of people left without finding anything. It was not until the third group of people died collectively that they noticed anything strange.
Of the next four times, three times we encountered mountain fog, but two times we encountered monsters and had no survivors.
Xiao Yuqun said that none of those people survived because they encountered monsters, but is there a possibility that some of them also died from the poisonous fog?
"This is all I got." Xiao Yuqun said, "The poisonous fog is very random and the source cannot be found, so we can only focus on prevention. There is no way."
Mo Qing sneered: "It seems you are all ready to die."
Xiao Yuqun was noncommittal: "This is our awakening."
White mist shrouded the forest, and it was quiet all around. The people belonging to Xiao Yuqun all stood quietly, staring at Mo Qing and Jiang Ke with eyes full of consciousness.
There was something indescribably weird for a moment.
Jiang Ke said to Mo Qing, "Let's go."
There is no point in communicating with these people anymore.
Mo Qing also noticed it, said "Yeah" and went back with Jiang Ke.
After leaving for a few minutes, the campfire had become smaller. All the spare dead wood was used up, and Mo Qing wanted to pick some back up and boil some hot water for washing.
Suddenly, Jiang Ke grabbed her wrist.
"Huh?" Mo Qing turned around.
Jiang Ke frowned and stared in the direction of Chi Shi and Song Yiyuan's tent: "There was so much noise just now, is it possible that they wouldn't be woken up?"
Mo Qing's eyelids moved.
She took a quick look at the tent, and then she and Jiang Ke immediately rushed to Chi Shi and Song Yiyuan's tent.
Their tents are farther apart.
There were no signs of damage to the tent, but both the outer and inner tents were open. When I scanned the inside with a flashlight, there were only two sleeping bags inside and not a single person in sight!
