Bai Ya didn't answer. After a brief silence, the woman turned around and slightly opened the curtain in front of her. She looks relatively young, perhaps only a little older than Jun Aoyan, no more than five years. At her left foot lay a basket, and in her right hand she still held the extinguished stick. Bai Ya took two steps closer and then stopped because there were many corpses of suspected bees on the ground.
The woman's eyes quickly swept across the face, lingering on the scimitar for a moment, and then moved back to his face. She did not make any further introduction, but said softly:
"If anything happens, please wait a little longer. You don't want these murderous bees to wake up, do you?"
Bai Ya remained silent, not even nodding. But he acquiesced to the woman's statement, and there were no other questions after she turned back. He knelt down, looked up at the woman collecting bees, and then continued to study the bees on the ground. They are smaller than ordinary bees and have a slender body. The places that should be yellow are red, and the hair is black. Maybe it's not a bee, but a wasp or a bug like Hu Feng's. He stood up again and looked in the direction of the woman and the dark honeycomb diagonally above her. The beehive is also very strange. It is supposed to be hung on branches or under the eaves. It just stands on the branches, as if it has been placed on it.
Looking at this plainly dressed woman, Bai Ya felt moved in his heart for a long time. Although many doubts still lingered in my mind, the fear of not seeing other living people for several days was eliminated. He is not afraid of wandering alone. He has been to many deserted places and spent a longer time. But it was different here. Everything was too strange. The harsh environment and experiences made him not feel like he was living in a foreign country at all - because this was another world, and everything could not be dealt with based on experience.
But what about the woman in front of me? He couldn't help but wonder to himself, does she really exist? The possibility of hallucinations caused by eating the wrong thing cannot be ruled out. He had to keep an eye on her, as alert as if she might disappear at any moment. Compared with those crazy believers on the beach, this woman is obviously different. Not only is the fair skin less damaged by the sun, but also the indescribable "confidence" in every gesture. This kind of trust is trust in oneself, taking oneself as faith - at least she will not believe in illusory illusions like Poseidon. Is she a believer in any god? Will she be friendly?
Too many questions without answers means there are no questions. Bai Ya never thinks too much about unnecessary things, but rarely waits patiently for her to finish what she is doing.
The woman put down the smoker and took out a white cloth from the basket. She held the cloth with both hands, slowly covered the black honeycomb, and then pulled it apart. The hive rustled down black dust, like cinders. The woman did not put the hive directly into the basket, but rubbed the hive with the piece of cloth to let more "cinders" fall from it, still mixed with that kind of bee. Bai Ya watched from behind and saw nothing like honey flowing out, as if the hive had dried up. The cloth was always white and unstained.
"What are you doing?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Well, it's hard to explain." The woman shook her head, "You just think I'm collecting honey."
So he stopped asking, just took a few steps forward and glanced at the basket. The basket contained an oddly shaped off-white frame with tiny holes that made it look uncomfortable.
Eventually, the entire nest dismantled, revealing the same gray frame inside. It is more hollow and clear-cut.
Like half of a human chest.
"You're doubting," the woman said.
"I also suspect that the bones in that basket are human." Bai Ya looked into her smoky eyes, "And it's a pelvic bone."
"You are very smart."
This woman was very calm, so calm that it made Bai Ya feel uncomfortable. He didn't find anything strange happening in the woods, and the other party had been living nearby for a long time and knew everything about things he didn't know. But Bai Ya still didn't like her at all. Perhaps deep down in his heart, he still deeply disliked this country and its residents. Therefore, the more people here know about everything here, the more their disgust will be strengthened.
But he can still control it.
"What kind of bee is this? You said it can kill people."
"Yes. Even a black bear can be killed by a bee sting. Moreover, their poison is released slowly and will only attack when the prey has walked a long way. In the end, the prey is covered in ulcers and After death, the corpse emits a unique fragrance. This fragrance floats for hundreds of miles, telling them that the time has come. Then, a team will be separated from the original nest, and the new queen will lead the soldiers and build their own kingdom on the corpse. .”
"Do they eat dead meat? Are those bones considered prey that they stung to death? Do they only eat humans?"
"You are right. However, they only eat the prey they kill. But before the new team arrives, the scent will also attract other animals. Their poison is effective on ordinary bugs and will not cause the corpse to decompose quickly. , but it is ineffective against larger scavengers. Usually by the time they arrive, only the parts around the wound remain. However, human bones are rare...after all, almost no one comes here. These are very rare. Rare, I am more...lucky today."
"What do you want these bones for?"
"Used as medicine."
"Are you a witch doctor?"
"So be it."
Bai Ya looked at her. The woman stood face to face with him, very close. The woman has a well-proportioned figure and is a bit shorter than Jun Aoyan, but she is still tall compared to most women of the same age. Bai Ya lowered his head slightly and looked at her for a long time before saying these words.
"My friends need you. They're hurting."
The woman turned her face slightly. Under the shadow of the brim of her hat, her expression was mysterious.
"You come from the northern continent."
"yes."
"Well, you come with me first. If these bees wake up, we won't be able to go back."
"Why not just kill them?"
"There aren't many of them...it's going to be harder to harvest the bones."
When Bai Ya and the woman appeared from the woods at the same time, both Qi Huan and Jun Aoyan were so surprised that they were speechless. It had been so long since they'd seen anyone other than each other, real people, normal people - or so it seemed. When the woman saw Jun Aoyan for the first time, her attitude was slightly serious. She just told them that it would not be too late and took them away.
The three of them followed her in a daze, and it took an hour to leave the dense forest that had trapped them for days and nights. The feeling of seeing the sky again when the clouds clear up and the mist disappears is like being reborn, which is even more incredible. Perhaps they had arrived near the exit long ago, but were trapped in the dense forest by an unknown force. But that’s not important… what’s important is that they came out.
They follow women all the way. Before dark, I came to her small house away from the hustle and bustle. The wooden house was not big, and it was located alone on the bank of a river surrounded by mountains and rivers. The river does not flow through dense forests, and occasionally fish suddenly appear and then disappear, which is reassuring.
There are two beds in the hut, one is made of bamboo and is in the guest room. Before entering the door, Bai Ya could smell the strong smell of Chinese medicine in the room, but it was not bitter, but rather sweet, mixed with the elegant fragrance of flowers.
She asked them to put Jun Aoyan on the bed and go to the back room to change clothes. When she came out, her whole demeanor had changed. They didn't know how to describe this feeling. It was like a village girl taking off her rice-planting attire and putting on the eldest lady's gorgeous clothes, transforming into a fairy girl. The examples at both ends are somewhat extreme, but they can fully express people's surprise. The material is really not silk brocade, but the style is pretty. The outermost blouse has an ink-colored base, dyed with large onyx flowers. The light-colored lining inside is tied with a wide green-blue belt. The whole body is ink-colored and decorated with white, with green in the white and green in the green. After taking off the hat, I realized that she was wearing a Japanese bun. Even though there were new accessories on my head, it was still a bit messy. But chaos returns to chaos, and when people stop there, it reminds you of the graceful and graceful weeping willows by the stream in spring. Bixi streams, white catkins, and green leaves all come into view.
"You can just call me Liu Shenghan." The woman introduced herself.
The two grown men felt like mudworms crawling out of the ditch. It's no wonder they were left in such a place for six or seven days, no one would be dignified. Qi Huan wiped Aoyan's face with water. Her face was much cleaner, but it was still earth-colored. Liu Shenghan took her pulse, while the other two stood aside blankly, hoping to hear some good news from her mouth. But the woman was silent for a long time and did not mention Aoyan's injury. Instead, she looked Qihuan up and down for a while and asked him:
"Did you not stop when you came up from the sea?"
"...Indeed, indeed."
"Swimming in this sea is different from rivers and lakes."
"Um……"
"I'll get you some medicine later and you'll feel better. Don't panic anymore."
Qi Huan thanked him repeatedly, but Bai Ya still stood aside with his arms crossed and a cold look. Until now, he still had an indescribable feeling of alienation from Liu Shenghan, a feeling that had not disappeared since the first time he saw her. Unfortunately, Liu Shenghan's eyes followed Qi Huan and stopped on Bai Ya's scimitar for the second time.
"When I first saw you, I wanted to say: your pair of knives is not ordinary."
"How is her injury?"
"Well... it's not a good idea to go on like this. She won't die, but she will suffer the pain alive. You are probably provoking something you shouldn't offend along the coast. People in the interior of Jiutian Kingdom don't like to deal with them."
It is unknown whether "they" here refers to the followers of Poseidon or the Yaksha group. Combined with seeing Qi Huan's problems at a glance, it's not difficult to guess what the three of them went through. Jun Aoyan was lying on the bed, conscious, but still unable to make a sound. She stretched out her other hand tremblingly and struggled to touch Liu Shenghan's arm, and Liu Shenghan held her.
"Don't panic, it's not an incurable disease. You can't speak because there's no sound in your throat. They are your friends. If you have any questions, they will answer it for you."
Jun Aoyan pursed her lips and tried her best to open her eyes wide. After Liu Shenghan finished speaking, she nodded with difficulty.
"Let me ask you..." Liu Shenghan looked at the two of them again, especially Mo Dao, who was supported by Qi Huan.
"Ah, just ask."
"Is this the daughter of the great general Jun Luanjiu, who kills Ma Aoyan?"
Jun Aoyan almost sat up.
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