I didn’t see Li Na.
An Qian shifted her gaze back to Zhang Rende and asked, "I didn't see Li Na this morning. Did she go find you?"
"You are talking about her." Zhang Rende replied, "She did come to me early this morning and said she wanted to talk to me about something. But it happened that Dawang also came to me at this time, and it was because of that attack , He is more urgent, so I can only ask Li Na to go to the mountain with the villagers and take Dawang to the temple to pray, and then I come to you. "
"What does she want to talk to you about?" Anxi continued to ask.
Zhang Rende shook his head: "I don't know. We both had nothing to do so we separated."
Anxi nodded.
Although she didn't believe Zhang Rende's words, he couldn't fault what he said. Besides, Zhang Rende's attitude didn't mean he wanted to tell the truth, so there was no need to ask more questions.
An Qian turned back to the house and changed into long-sleeved clothes, and followed Zhang Rende to the mountain in the south of the village.
Close to the edge of the mountain, you can vaguely see wisps of white smoke coming out of the mountain.
"Here we come." Jiang Wenwei, who was waiting at the bottom of the mountain, said hello when he saw An Qian and his group arriving, and then gave each of them a long wooden stick.
There is an iron cage hanging on the head of the wooden stick, which is filled with smoke agent. When it is lit, smoke will float out from the holes in the cage.
Jiang Wenwei helped throw a match into the iron cage in each person's hand, and the smoke emitted a pungent smell.
"Ahem! What's this!" Lin Dawang was choked and coughed, and cursed: "What's this! The smell is so strong! And we were asked to hold it with our hands."
Jiang Wenwei rubbed his hands apologetically: "There is no other way. We can only smoke the insects one by one when they go up the mountain to avoid causing mountain fires. Thank you for your hard work."
Lin Dawang continued: "Then wrap your face with a piece of cloth."
Jiang Wenwei nodded in agreement and quickly got some large square towels for the five of them and wrapped them around their faces to block out the smell.
"It's worse than nothing! You can't cover up the smell at all!" Lin Dawang complained, pulled off his handkerchief, and shouted: "I won't do this job today!"
"This..." Jiang Wenwei looked at Zhang Rende opposite with a confused expression.
Zhang Rende took a step forward and said in a low voice: "It's okay, it's okay. If you don't want to do it, just don't do it. This job was indeed added suddenly. But this job is very important and must be done today... How about this, I'll call a car to pick you up." , and by the way, send members from the association to take over your job."
Zhang Rende's words were polite, but they contained a dangerous message.
If you don't go up the mountain to drive out insects today, you will be kicked out of the village. In this case, the copy will be considered a failure.
Lin Dawang also thought of this. He felt that he had suffered so much and it was a big loss to fail here. So he coughed and changed his words: "No, I just complained casually. We are volunteers." Those who deserve to be sacrificed must be sacrificed, and I will definitely continue to do so."
"I'm really troubling you." Zhang Rende smiled apologetically and didn't ask Lin Dawang why he didn't want to work.
Anxi listened to their conversation and knew that she couldn't hide today.
Jiang Wenwei, who had been waiting aside, saw that no one was talking anymore and said, "Let's go after everything is sorted."
Then, he asked everyone to follow him up the mountain.
The weather today is not good, the sun cannot penetrate the thick clouds, and the mountains are also cold, and the complicated branches and leaves scratch my face from time to time.
Jiang Wenwei held up the long stick, placed it under a large leaf, and said to the people following him: "Just smoke it like this. Don't touch the iron cage directly to the leaves, as it will easily catch fire."
Everyone followed suit and smoked a few trees.
"Hahaha, sure enough, we are all smart people. We can learn it as soon as we learn it." Jiang Wenwei praised a few words and then continued, "Once you learn it, let's smoke it separately. Don't get together to smoke the trees in a field and waste smoke. ."
It is too dangerous to travel alone in unfamiliar mountains.
So, An Qian took Wu, Xu Ming and Fang Qianyao to form two groups automatically, leaving Lin Dawang alone and no one cared about his life or death.
The atmosphere in the mountains is extremely dull, with dead trees, vines and weeds everywhere, giving people a sense of withering and decay.
An Qian walked in front, leading Wu towards a place where there was no smoke coming out.
One is that she can be lazy, and the other is that she had already deduced last night that the entire Heshui Village was fabricating lies together, so she should stay as far away from those villagers as possible.
"Ahem!" The smell of the tobacco in her hand was too pungent, mixed with a rotten smell. I don't know if it was because of poor quality or different ingredients. Anxi had never smelled such tobacco before. , coughing uncontrollably.
She grabbed a handful of wet soil and stuffed it into the iron cage to suppress the smoke.
However, I am afraid that not most of the villagers came to smoke out insects today. The whole mountain has long been occupied by this smell. Even if I kill the ones in my hand, there will still be smoke floating over.
"Put out the smoke in your hand..." An Qian turned around and wanted Wu to put out the smoke in her hand as well, but when she turned back, the sight in front of her choked her words back.
"Cough..." Wu coughed weakly. His face was extremely pale, and thin cold sweat continued to appear on his forehead. He leaned weakly on the nearest tree trunk to support himself.
However, even though he was terribly uncomfortable, the moment Anxi turned around, he immediately managed a smile.
Anxi quickly ran to him and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I...I'm so dizzy..." Wu's speech was not smooth, and it took several breaths to say a word.
"It must be the smell of smoke that makes your head dizzy."
An Qian actually felt vaguely dizzy. After all, the smell of smoke was very irritating, and it was normal to feel uncomfortable.
I just didn't expect Wu's symptoms to be so severe.
"Sit down first." Anxi helped Wu lean against the tree, took the iron cage from his hand, and prepared to dig in the soil to extinguish the smoke agent.
When extinguishing the fire, a large amount of smoke would be stirred up. Anxi thought that she could not let Wu smell any more smoke, so she turned around and took a few steps forward, away from Wu's position, then squatted down and started digging.
In the same way, the burning smoke was extinguished by using soil.
Anxi kept resisting the urge to breathe and quickly wanted to stand up and leave.
However, as she stood up, a severe dizziness suddenly hit her.
Anxi fell to her knees with a snap and covered her head tightly, wondering if she had insufficient blood supply to her brain due to squatting for too long.
But the person who has been hiding in the dark will not give her a chance to rest.
"Swish, swish, swish..." The grass made a sound, and someone was approaching her quickly.
Anxi noticed this and immediately raised her head to look at the source of the sound.
It's Li Na who escaped last night.
She was holding a dagger and stabbing Anxi without hesitation.
An Qian reacted in time and rolled to the side to avoid Li Na's attack. Then, she stood up and took out the correction fluid hidden in her pocket to fight back.
She didn't have the time to ask Li Na about her motive for attacking her. Maybe Li Na had colluded with the villagers, or maybe Li Na simply hated her.
No matter what the reason is, Li Na has launched an attack on her now, and all Anxi has to do is fight back. Only by letting Li Na die here can she survive.
But due to dizziness, Li Na dodged the attack launched by Anxi.
After this back-and-forth battle, neither of them acted rashly and continued to attack.
They were holding weapons in their hands, standing in a stalemate, looking directly at each other, like hunting beasts.
"Ha...ha..." Li Na didn't seem to be in a good condition either. She was panting heavily and her eyes were unfocused.
It seemed that the smoke had an effect on her too.
Li Na's chest was heaving, she gritted her teeth, tensed her body, yelled, and rushed towards An Qian.
Li Na's voice had been deliberately kept low, and when she shouted it out so loud, her original voice was instantly revealed, and Anxi felt that this voice was extremely familiar.
But she couldn't remember it for a moment, and the current situation didn't allow her to think about it in detail.
Anxi stared at the direction of Li Na's attack, trying to avoid her attack.
But the next second.
The feeling of dizziness came over me overwhelmingly.
Anxi's body weakened uncontrollably and fell to the ground.
It's over.
An Qian was shocked, secretly wondering if her life would be decided here.
But then, there was a "plop" in my ears.
An Qian looked up and saw that Li Na also fainted and fell to the ground, still holding the dagger tightly in her hand.
Not only that, several pale faces suddenly appeared from behind her.
Only empty eyes, no mouth and no nose, it was the thing that came to her bedside last night.
They moved their limbs quickly, like humanoid spiders, crawling in their direction.
"This..." The doubts in An Qian's heart have not yet been vomited out. After all, she couldn't hold it in anymore, closed her eyes and fell unconscious.
