There was no one in the village.
The work utensils were randomly dumped in their original places. Through the window, you could still see several families' cooled meals on the table. But all the villagers disappeared without a trace. Bai Ya knew that they couldn't stay here for too long. The pursuers behind them would arrive soon, and they wouldn't be able to get away enough in a short time. Qi Huan used a spell on the shore, and with the help of a spell, he blinded the pursuers' perception in a short period of time - similar to a blinding method. They lingered there for a long time, which bought them time to escape.
"Are there only so many villagers here?"
"I don't know." Qi Huan couldn't answer Jun Aoyan's question, "But in my impression, there should be more than just those who caught up. Did the others leave?"
Bai Ya glanced around: "No one packed their luggage and left, but it doesn't seem like something happened suddenly."
Qi Huan doesn’t remember. Judging from the number of houses, more than half of the believers did pour into the sea at that time, and the remaining people may not be there, or they may not be able to leave. Among the remaining people, there should be some old and some young. But now they are missing. Whether it is the Yaksha group or the believers who believe in Poseidon, what these two people are thinking, their behavior patterns and motivations are all a mystery to the three of them. For now, there is no need for them to figure this out.
Most home and shop doors are open. Qi Huan walked in boldly and asked them to collect useful things as quickly as possible. The most useful thing to them is food and medicine. Due to time constraints, they only briefly searched four or five places in total. One of them looked like a pharmacy. Qi Huan opened the lid of a box and found white powder inside. Reaching in, he found that it might be some kind of material mixed with mineral ash and sea salt, and the greengill preserved in it blocked the air. Qi Huan grabbed many kinds of strange medicinal materials and poured them all into a cloth bag. No big deal, just go back and separate slowly.
Next to the pharmacy is a building like a temple or an ancestral hall, but there is no ancestor worship inside. The "tablet" only has names and numbers under the names. If the numbers are ages, then they are all children, perhaps boys and girls from the past. The number is staggering.
The large shrine in the center has ferocious-looking Yaksha sculptures on the left and right sides. They are also strangely shaped, and many of them are holding different weapons in their hands. They had seen all those weapons in the hands of Yasha. If they see such a sculpture for the first time, they will definitely be confused. But now it seems that the so-called three heads and six arms are more than an exaggeration.
However... the interior of this shrine is empty. Maybe no one knows what Poseidon looks like to this day. Or, the non-existent appearance is the true appearance of Poseidon.
Qi Huan found their box in the ancestral hall, which was basically untouched. Jun Aoyan took out three horses from someone else's house. Although they looked sick, now was not the time to be picky. Bai Ya asked her to open all the cattle pens and sheep pens. Ao Yan was confused, but she did as she was told. There are not many animals raised specifically at the seaside. They are probably traded with other areas in the mainland. Bai Ya randomly picked up some food, which were all very ordinary things. Rice and noodles are not common on this remote coast, maybe they come from the same source as those livestock. The horses were reluctant to put all the luggage, food and medicine on the horses.
"How to go?" Qi Huan asked, "I told you in advance that I don't want to walk through that forest."
"I have a solution."
After that, Bai Ya took out a fire stick and set the place on fire. The other two people didn't know his intentions, so they had to leave with him before the fire spread. After a while, the few chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep in the village started to make a fuss. They screamed and ran wildly through the village. Fire is always the most instinctive fear of animals. After a while, the animals rushed through the village and rushed to the wide and silent road behind the village. In the panic, not a single small animal entered the dense forest. It was as if all the little ones knew that there was some unspeakable power lurking in that place.
"Looks like we still have to go through the village."
"What if the rest of the villagers ambush on the road?" Qi Huan asked.
"Then you choose."
"forget it."
A strange cry soon came from behind, which was the voice of Yaksha that they were already used to hearing. Are they angry? For not catching up with these blasphemers. If they still have reason, are these strange cries in memory of these houses that are about to be burned down? no one knows.
They had no idea where to go next. Before dark, they just rode their horses and walked as far down the road as possible. The road became narrower and narrower, becoming less like a road and more like a path trodden by travelers. It was getting dark, and the horses were becoming more and more lazy and unwilling to walk. They had to stop and find an open space to rest for a while.
"It would be nice if I could go on in one breath. I don't know if I will be caught up."
"You make it easy..." Qi Huan slapped his shoulders, "Aren't you tired? My whole body is almost falling apart now."
"You exercise too little."
"Shit!" Qi Huan pinched the bridge of his nose and unconsciously scratched his right arm with his left hand, "I was taken ashore by a monster before. The speed was too fast. When I came up, I actually felt like I was seasick. Ah, I just When I was very young, I got seasick and felt uncomfortable all over. But the feeling was not that simple. My whole body was itchy, my joints and muscles ached, and nothing felt right... Sometimes I couldn't breathe, and I felt dizzy and nauseous. "
Bai Ya lit a fire, and the moment it lit up, Qi Huan saw his solemn expression. Most of the time before, he looked like he didn't care about anything, but now he suddenly seemed like a different person.
"You might be sick."
"What's the disease? A cold?"
"When I traveled to the seaside with my father, I learned that people there often died of a disease. If you go into the water or swim up too fast, it may happen. It sounds like your symptoms are very similar. We thought at the time It's parasites or other infectious diseases, but as you put it, it may have something to do with the pressure of the water. Some corpses still have bubbles under their skin."
"No, please don't scare me at a time like this, okay?"
"See for yourself, there are red webs all over your arms. There are also strange bruises on those dead people."
Qi Huan immediately lowered his head and found that in addition to the marks of being caught, there was something like a red-purple blood vessel network on his body. It's not obvious, but it's there. He was a little nervous and didn't dare to scratch it anymore.
"Then how do you cure this thing?"
"I don't know, maybe you can just take care of it for a while."
"I don't want to feed myself to death."
"Probably not. It's not serious for you. If it's serious, you'd die on the spot."
"..."
The two of them were talking to each other, but no one noticed Jun Aoyan, who had been silent. Qi Huan turned around and saw her leaning on the stone, her face covered in cold sweat and her face livid, feeling that something was not quite right. Bai Ya also stood up immediately and quickly stepped over the fire. He touched Aoyan's forehead, which was very hot. Qi Huan also felt his pulse and looked ominous.
"...I'll boil some fever-reducing medicine first. Look at her injuries."
Bai Ya opened the area where she applied the medicine and found that it was already red. A strong smell of blood hit his face. No wonder they were always surrounded by flies along the way. There was no smell of decay for the time being, so he had to clean the wound with water to further examine the injury. Jun Aoyan lay down on her side. Her body had no strength left, but her breathing was still steady and her consciousness was very clear. However, she was unaware of the changes in her body.
Even though Bai Ya was very economical, washing the wounds almost used up their drinking water. The water flowing over the wound also turned red, and he realized that the bleeding could not be stopped. He immediately asked Qi Huan to get clean gauze to temporarily stop the bleeding.
"Where's the medicine?"
"There is no more to apply. You can apply it now, but, but..."
"but what?"
"All the herbs are mixed together..."
In the coconut shells roasted on the fire is the last medicine they have prepared and can still distinguish clearly. Bai Ya didn't say anything. After Jun Aoyan stopped bleeding, he put a coat on his head. Qi Huan also took off his own and handed it over. Then, Bai Ya calmly began to sort all the medicinal materials in Qi Huan's pocket. He quickly picked out the big pieces first, and then sorted out the more obvious ones. Some of the medicines were very similar, and after a while, he dropped a handful of dry leaves in annoyance.
"How on earth are you pretending?"
"Well, time is pressing. Don't panic. The ones I caught have no adverse reactions with each other. Even if you use them wrongly, it's no big problem. You don't need to divide them too finely... By the way, don't we have that Poseidon's treasure? ? How to use that thing!"
"It's in the baggage, find it yourself."
Both of them knew that most people would not use something that was beyond common sense. Slightly less urgent now. Qi Huan had time to study it. I don't know whether it was due to the rush on the road or other reasons, but the ore below had separated from the main body. Qi Huan looked at the fork for a long time before he remembered what was wrong. He rummaged through the package again and found the blue gem stuck in the gap.
The shape of the gemstone is irregular and almost spherical. It is so large for the gemstone that an adult male's index finger and thumb could wrap around it in a circle. It is completely blue, very pure, and has no variegated colors, but there is something turbid like bubbles in the middle, which may also be flocculation. And the stone was light, lighter than any mineral he had imagined of its size.
"I think the key to the so-called treasure lies in this stone." Qi Huan said.
"So how to use it?"
"Then how do I know? Look at it? This thing is quite light. Is it really a gem?"
Bai Ya put down the medicinal materials in one hand, took the gem and took a look. The moment he took it in his hand, he weighed it and said:
"Like amber."
"You think it's very light, right? I'm not without doubts, but how can amber be blue? It's still such a pure blue. I heard that amber is made from tiger tears dripping into the soil, so there are worms in some amber. But how did this end up in the sea?”
"Some insects have wings, so how can they get into the soil?"
"Some people say it was caused by burning honeycombs."
"It's not just bees, there are also flowers, plants and other things."
"So I prefer resin, as some books say. As for whether it's maple or pine, I'm not sure."
"Then it shouldn't appear in the sea?"
"Who knows how it fell into the sea." Qi Huan carefully moved the coconut shell away from the fire. "As for the color... it may be due to the penetration of other minerals. If it is really amber, this one is a water bladder. .”
Bai Ya looked at it under the firelight again. He only knew that those crystals or jade with water galls were very expensive, but water gall amber had never been seen before. Looking carefully, the floc is really a bubble, transparent to light, and there seems to be something flowing inside.
How does this work?
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