"Don't be anxious. It's not even eight o'clock yet. Maybe they are already on their way back. They are waiting. If they don't come back, I will go find the village chief and organize people to go up the mountain together." Wang Xueyi said.
"Old Wang..."
At this moment, a group of villagers came over, and it was the village chief.
"Village Chief, I was just about to look for you. Look, it's already getting late. Should you organize some people to go to the mountains to have a look?" Wang Xueyi said as he stepped forward.
"You want to go up there and have a look? That mountain is where the mountain god lives. They went up there without permission and offended the mountain god. This is going to cause big trouble."
Before the village chief could answer, a villager on the side yelled angrily.
"That's right, why go to the mountain if you have nothing to do? Dr. Ye is also true. It is very scary if the mountain god catches fire."
"How can we look for it in the dark now? There are wolves in that mountain even in broad daylight."
The villagers talked a lot and expressed their dissatisfaction. In fact, when Ye Haoxuan proposed to go up the mountain, some people already strongly opposed it. However, Ye Haoxuan was a benefactor to the villagers after all, so he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he agreed to let the two of them go up the mountain.
Moreover, when they went up the mountain, they warned them three times that they must come down before dark. The mountain god did not like people spending the night on the mountain. But now it is completely dark and the two people have not returned. These villagers believe that these two people have offended them.
The mountain god is gone, maybe something has happened now.
It doesn't matter if something happens, but don't bring trouble to the village? Who knows if the mountain god will anger the village?
"Village Chief, Dr. Ye may have found something, so he delayed it. After all, there are too many hidden dangers in the village. Everyone knows about the three previous cases. If this hidden danger is not eliminated, everyone will not feel at ease here.
Isn't it?" Wang Xueyi said.
The villagers were silent. Wang Xueyi was right. Three people were sick together before. Except for the child A Bao, the remaining two people were already dead. Rumors spread. I heard that the death of those two people was extremely tragic, with blood flowing from all the orifices.
It is no longer a trivial matter to have sores all over your body, and the body will slowly decay while you are still alive.
"No matter what, you must not go up the mountain now. Even if you want to go up the mountain, you have to wait until tomorrow." The village chief said after a moment of silence.
They had already made a lot of concessions on the matter of going to the Western Mountain. If it weren't for Ye Haoxuan, they would never have allowed others to go to the Western Mountain.
"Tomorrow?" Wang Xueyi was slightly startled.
Tang Bing bit her lip, finally realizing that the villagers had no hope, she turned and left.
After a while, Tang Bing took a flashlight and walked toward Xishan alone.
Just after leaving the village, a figure flashed in front of her, and a man carrying a bow and arrow blocked Tang Bing's path. This man was Xiangzi, the apprentice of an old Chinese medicine doctor.
"Do you want to go up the mountain alone?" Xiangzi still looked silent. He gave people the impression that he was relatively silent and didn't talk much.
"I want to go." Tang Bing answered without thinking.
"That's where the mountain god lives. You can't just go there," Xiangzi said.
"Then you have to go, because my man is still on the mountain." Tang Bing said.
"There will be danger at night. I will accompany you there tomorrow morning."
"No, it's precisely because of the danger that I want to find him. Please don't stop me." Tang Bing shook his head.
Xiangzi hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you. He is my master's savior and also my savior."
"You?" Tang Bing was slightly startled. When the villagers in this village heard that they were going to Mount Xishan, one of them was frightened. Isn't this Xiangzi afraid?
Xiangzi nodded and remained silent.
"Aren't you afraid of offending your mountain god?" Tang Bing asked.
"It's not a mountain god." Xiangzi shook his head and walked in front of Tang Bing.
Tang Bing hesitated for a moment, then quickly followed.
Ye Haoxuan was holding Jiang Lili with one hand and holding a flashlight with the other, staggering in the mountains.
Because the mountain was so desolate, the road ahead could not be called a road at all, especially the rocks on the road, which made Jiang Lili, who had just recovered from her foot injury, miserable.
Jiang Lili exclaimed, and she felt a sharp pain in her right foot again. There was a stone in the ground just now. She didn't see it clearly, so she stepped on it. Her right foot, which had just been connected, started to hurt again.
"Sister Jiang, let me carry you."
After checking Jiang Lili's injuries, Ye Haoxuan frowned. The mountain road was too complicated. If Jiang Lili continued walking like this, her feet would be broken.
"Ah... no, no need." Jiang Lili was slightly surprised.
"Let's go, if you keep walking like this, your feet will become useless." Ye Haoxuan couldn't help but said, carrying her behind his back, passing the flashlight into her hand, and then holding her plump thighs with both hands.
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"Ah..." Jiang Lili's face turned as red as a little apple.
She was originally a shy woman, and she had never been so close to a man since her divorce. However, she was not used to being so close to this man who was several years younger than her not long after she met her.
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Although she was extremely embarrassed, she liked this feeling.
A woman's body can't lie... Even if she says no, no, her body's behavior is exactly the opposite of what she says.
Jiang Lili hesitated for a moment, then she shyly leaned down and pressed tightly against Ye Haoxuan's back. Then she freed up one hand and used a flashlight to light the way for Ye Haoxuan.
Ye Haoxuan didn't have any distracting thoughts in his mind. It was always dark in the mountains, and when it got dark, he couldn't see his fingers.
The unknown creature just now made him feel vaguely uneasy. He had an intuition that the Z virus that broke out in the village might be related to that unknown creature, and Ye Haoxuan had an intuition that even if that guy was in a head-on confrontation
, it’s also difficult to deal with, not to mention it’s in the dark?
At this moment, Ye Haoxuan's heart trembled, and a sense of danger arose in his heart. He held Jiang Lili behind him in his arms, and then rolled on the spot, and the two of them rolled to the side of the grass.
Almost at the same time, a black shadow flashed in front of him, and a creature that was two meters tall suddenly came out. It held a pipe in its right hand and put it to its mouth and blew.
call out……
There was a subtle sound of breaking through the air, and a thin steel needle burst out from the bamboo tube, flew dangerously close to Ye Haoxuan's body, and was nailed to a tree on the side.
The creature missed a hit, turned around and ran, disappearing into the darkness in a moment.
"He is an intelligent creature." Jiang Lili said in a trembling voice.
Ye Haoxuan nodded. This unknown guy was making him feel more and more stressed. It could even use blow darts? This thing was similar to what the aborigines of primitive African tribes played, and he concluded that this steel needle
It must be poisonous, but what makes Ye Haoxuan curious is where do the steel needles it blows come from?
Ye Haoxuan carefully took out the steel needle with tweezers and looked at it several times. He saw that the steel needle was blue and glowed coldly under the flashlight. It was obviously quenched with poison.
Just as Jiang Lili said, this is an intelligent creature, otherwise it would be impossible to tinker with it. Ye Haoxuan put the steel needle away, then carried Jiang Lili on his back and continued walking down the mountain.
Ye Haoxuan has already made plans in his mind and wants to call for help when he returns. This thing is definitely not an ordinary thing, and he is sure that this virus incident must be related to it. Just in case, he can only use his own methods to deal with it.
It's up.
He remembered that this thing was poisoned by the poison of a five-step snake before. This kind of venom can poison an elephant within an hour. Even a strong person, if he is exposed to this kind of poison, does not inject serum within half an hour.
Definitely can't survive.
But after this guy was poisoned by the snake venom of the five-step snake, not only did nothing happen, but he was able to chase after the two people and take revenge on the two people. Its vitality is really not ordinary.
Moreover, it is cautious by nature and will never confront people head-on. If it misses a hit, it will turn around and run away.
After a while, Tang Bing and Xiangzi had already climbed up the Western Mountain. Tang Bing turned on a flashlight and looked at the dark Western Mountain in the night. She felt a little creepy.
Especially the howling of owls and unknown animals can be heard from time to time in the mountains, which is even more frightening.
"There are wolves around at night. If you're scared, let's go back now." Xiangzi said calmly.
"No, I'm not afraid." Tang Bing shook his head and took the lead to walk up the mountain. The homemade bow and arrows that Xiangzi was carrying on his back were already in his hands. There was also a pot of iron arrows in the arrow box on his back.
This bow is homemade by the people in the mountains. The bow is made of some extremely hard solid wood, and the string is made of a very tough plant fiber in the mountains. It is so powerful that the people in the mountains almost use it with human hands.
A handful.
"How is your master's condition?" Tang Bing asked as he walked.
"He is very good, but he will not live long," Xiangzi said.
"Is there no one else at home?" Tang Bing was very curious about this silent young man.
"No...I am an orphan. I was adopted by my master since I was a child. I only know that I have an older sister...but...I heard from the old people in the village that she was snatched away by a wolf when she was ten years old." Xiangzi said calmly.
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Tang Bing's heart suddenly sank. Although Xiangzi's tone was very calm, she still heard endless sadness in his words.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Tang Bing paused and said, "From now on, I will be your sister."
"I have always regarded you as my sister." Xiangzi said lightly, "You are a good person."
Tang Bing remained silent. In her heart, she only cared about Ye Haoxuan, and she only prayed that he would be fine.
At this moment, a cold light suddenly flashed before their eyes, and a pair of blue eyes suddenly appeared in Tang Bing's flashlight.
