On land, this mineral—let’s think of it as blue amber—doesn’t emit the deep, distant beauty of the sea. Even under the firelight, it looked like a transparent gem except for the center. In other words, it is actually more like glass, but much lighter. But no matter what, they don't know the exact method of using this thing.
"Are you sure you don't need to put it back...?" Qi Huan asked tentatively.
"I don't know. I just know that it's useless to pretend or not. After all, the other half is in Yasha's hands."
"...Then your decision to interrupt it would be too hasty?"
"Did you think of a better way at the time?"
It is normal logic for the scrolls that the two sides are fighting for to be torn apart in the chaos. Qi Huan remained silent because even now he had no better idea. Theoretically, the texture of the halberd is the same as that of the Yaksha's ordinary weapons, and the key to the problem should only exist in this piece of amber. How gorgeous the light was at that time.
Bai Ya brought Amber closer to Jun Aoyan, but there was no change. It would be better for Qi Huan to hand over a bowl of hot soup. They really had no other choice, so they decided to put this thing in Aoyan's hands and spend the night to see if there were any changes. The two men took turns keeping vigil.
"You should go first for the first half of the night. I don't think I can wake you up."
Qi Huan's words were quite pertinent, and Bai Ya did not raise any objection.
But in fact, as soon as he lay down, he couldn't close his eyes. The main reason was that the pain all over his body was difficult to suppress, and he still wanted to scratch his skin unconsciously. Once it calms down, this feeling becomes more and more obvious in the dead of night. On the contrary, when I am busy, I rarely pay attention to this discomfort. Just like the later a person goes to bed, the easier it is for him to think about some messy and disturbing things, and it is even more difficult to fall asleep. For Qi Huan, it’s both. He really couldn't be as "heartless" as Bai Ya.
There is no painkiller, but Bai Ya is still sorting the raw materials. He mixed the rest into Jun Aoyan's medicine, and he tossed over the pile of dead leaves until the leaves crackled. The other two people didn't speak either, and when he was done tossing and turning, there was no sound at all. This is not possible. If he stays up until the person named Bai goes to bed, and he is still awake during the vigil, wouldn't it be a big loss?
After a long time, I finally felt a little sleepy. Qi Huan grabbed the tired tail and pressed it under his body, trying to fall asleep quickly. Who would have thought that at this moment, an indescribable whine came from the distance.
He sat up suddenly, his eyes widening. Jun Aoyan fell asleep, but she frowned and held the piece of amber in her hand. Bai Ya was still picking out the medicinal materials. When he heard the sound, he just raised his head and had no reaction.
"Didn't you hear?"
"I heard you."
"What is this noise?"
"A wolf, or a monster, who knows."
"this……"
"Why are you panicking? Isn't this still a long way off?" Bai Ya continued to lower his head, only his pupils moved up, looking at him provocatively, "Are you afraid?"
"……cut."
Qi Huan fell down again and turned his back to the bonfire. The back was warmed by the fire, while the front was shivering from the cold. The sound came one after another, sounding like the unstoppable whine of an injured human being. If it wasn't so far away, he would even suspect that the injured Jun Aoyan was talking in her sleep, but she had been very quiet. Is it really a wolf? He didn't know. He only knew that when the cat meowed Spring, it sounded like a child crying, but what did it mean?
He sat up again.
"Could it be a monster?"
"It's not impossible." Bai Ya picked and chose with an expressionless face, "I know there is a kind of monster that chops off people's heads, eats their bodies, and then relies on the dead people's mouths to ask for help. People who hear the cry for help deviate from the road. If you look, you will fall into a trap. If no one passes by, the old heads will rot, and they will no longer make a sound when they are rotten. So they always lie in wait on the desolate mountain roadside."
"Hey...can you stop telling weird stories at night?"
"It's not scary. I know what to say."
"Then I'm surprised." Qi Huan crossed his legs, "Most people would be frightened when they hear the sound, so why do they still come closer? Isn't this a monster coming to their doorstep?"
"It was night. They actually appear during the day, and people are always bolder at that time. This monster lurks under the shade of trees or in caves near roads. My father once killed one, and the monster was very big. There are many human skulls near its cave. Because it is so big, it always attacks the mountain village..."
As he talked, Bai Ya finished telling what he had experienced. Qi Huan didn't know what to say and fell into a long silence. After a long while, he said:
"I heard that if you eat monster meat, you will be cursed."
"That depends on whether it is that capable."
"This is not a human diet. Eating too much is not necessarily a good thing."
"I don't have a choice."
"makes sense……"
"My mother has eaten it too."
"ah?"
Qi Huan was stunned. The incessant chirping of people has not disappeared, but it is still very far away. After hearing Bai Ya's words, he suddenly felt that the sounds were no longer scary.
"Close your mouth." Bai Ya stretched out his medicinal-smelling hand and pushed his chin upward, "What's so strange about this?"
"This is really strange! And your parents' Zuojinmen backgrounds are not so poor... right?"
Qi Huan actually wanted to say that her death was some kind of curse from the monster. But what is the truth? He was not present and naturally had no knowledge of it. How could he make irresponsible remarks about the death of someone else's mother? He held it back, hoping Bai Ya could give an answer. Unfortunately, Bai Ya only heard bits and pieces about it from his father. His father often talks about his mother and he loves her very much.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be willing to be exiled to this ghost place after being imprisoned for the sake of the soul-returning incense.
"Of course they are rich." Bai Ya scratched his head, "But my mother was not hungry at that time, she was sick. She knew that she was living a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife, and it was not easy to have a wife. It cost her life. After wandering around the gate of hell for too long, her body was not suitable for giving birth and she could not keep the fetus. My father said that at that time she was more worried about my death than he was, and she sought medical treatment everywhere. A miracle doctor who was passed down by word of mouth gave her a prescription. Fangzi, there are a lot of things from monsters in it.”
"Ah, indeed... I heard that witch doctors can prescribe this kind of medicine. Human corpses and monster corpses can be used to make money. There are many people whose families have relied on the corpse trade for generations to survive. "
"But the witch doctor also said that the prescriptions mixed with evil spirits are very evil, and he is afraid that they will make you live longer. Most likely, he was right, and he ended up like this... My father said that my mother was very thin when she died. But he’s a big fat boy.”
Qi Huan had something to say again and couldn't spit out a word. He didn't know if Bai Ya knew that there was indeed such a recipe that could turn a child into a parasite-like thing that sucked the mother's blood, making it a life-threatening ghost. But this kind of witchcraft also requires the consent of the possessed person to be effective. Such a desolate story will make people sigh no matter who it is told to.
He killed his mother. This does not sound pleasant.
Rather, his mother handed him the knife and then ran into it herself.
Qi Huan didn't think about it any more. He turned around and put his hand on Jun Aoyan's head. It seemed to be a little cooler now, but it was still very hot compared to a normal person's body temperature, but it was not as exaggerated as before.
"I've touched it several times."
"… I hope to find a town soon, the bigger the better."
Qi Huan fell back to sleep. He had a confusing dream, in which there were the monsters mentioned before going to bed and the Yaksha they had encountered. In addition to monsters, there are also people; besides the two friends, there are also family members. In the dream, Jun Aoyan recovered, but his illness still kept recurring. Was it the root cause? His parents actually appeared in Jiutian Kingdom, bringing his brothers and sisters with them. Maybe it was because of the dream, but he didn't feel shocked. But he didn't want to see them. So several people have been looking for him and chasing him, and he has been hiding and running away. Rare and exotic beasts and flowers appeared one after another in his dreams, and he was not sure whether he had seen them in reality - at least in the Nine Heavens Kingdom. Qi Huan didn't realize that he was dreaming, because these things were so logical. Everything has no connection or logic. He just obeys the arrangement of the script, resists, and struggles, but he is not sure whether the struggle is part of the plot.
When he opened his eyes, it was already dawn.
Bai Ya failed to wake him up, or did he not wake him up at all? The night was obviously very cold, but when he woke up he was covered in sweat. He sat up with a wet rag on his forehead, which was warm. But I didn't have a fever.
"you……"
"What?"
"You didn't sleep all night, right?"
"I can hold on pretty well." Bai Ya seemed to be in good spirits, "I squinted for a while, that's enough."
"Thank you for waking up."
In fact, he did suspect that Bai Ya hadn't slept all night. You probably didn't dare to wake them up, right? He turned to look at Jun Aoyan. She had woken up, but her face was very poor and she looked like she had lost a lot of blood. He checked her pulse again and found that her hands were colder and her forehead still had a high fever. To be honest, he was really afraid that Ao Yan would have problems with his fever. It's not like he has never seen people who have a fever and become stupid. If they survive well but go crazy, let alone how to explain it to the court, he himself cannot bear the burden - both materially and psychologically.
Fortunately, she will still agree to whatever I say now. She said she was always sleepy and couldn't wake up. When she woke up, she felt pain all over her body.
"...I know." Qi Huan nodded, "It can be good if you don't think about it for a while."
Bai Ya spent one night separating most of the medicinal materials, and the remaining ones were too fine. He was not in the mood for the time being. He has also been fighting for a whole day and has not rested yet. Qi Huan really admires him.
They rode horses and walked down a road that didn't look like a road. Jun Aoyan almost couldn't hold the reins several times, so Qi Huan had to hold it for her. When they reached a clear pool, they dismounted and prepared to fill the water.
Bai Ya took the coconut shell and bamboo tube and came to the water's edge. Qi Huan pulled the horse's head, but the stubborn horse refused to go over.
"Aren't they thirsty? Why don't they drink water?"
Bai Ya just bent down and suddenly froze there, staring at the water for a while. The water is very clear and feels clean at first glance. Bai Ya thought for a while, put down the container, squatted by the water, picked up a handful of water and smelled it.
"What's wrong?" Qi Huan looked over, "Is the water poisonous?"
"There are no fish in the water, nor any aquatic plants or insects."
"It means the water is clean."
"Then why doesn't the horse drink?"
Qi Huan didn't know the reason, but he also felt it was inappropriate. These horses were pulled from the seaside village, and they might know the secrets hidden in this jungle. There's no telling, this pure water is really dangerous.
"It hasn't rained in the past few days, and I can't find the source of the water. This should be a pool of stagnant water."
Bai Ya was right, but where could the stagnant water be so clean? Qi Huan said that there was no other water besides this. Pack it in first and go on the road. When you rest at night, you can boil it and drink it. So Bai Ya did it. At night, all the water in the container turned into a viscous liquid, like clean snot, and was no longer drinkable.
How long until we can leave this forest? No one knows. Jun Aoyan's condition continued to relapse, and her wounds continued to worsen.
In fact, they couldn't even find a road that looked like a road.
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