The temple had completely collapsed, and they didn't even know where the door was. A few people found a corridor and walked in, avoiding the watery stone crevices. They discussed as they walked.
The sun had already set halfway in the west, and the temple seemed so big that it had no edge. After walking for nearly four hours, I couldn't see the edge.
The gray-white ruins around them looked almost the same. If it weren't for the marks that had been carved along the way, they would have thought they were lost again like in the Devil's City.
Pan Zi looked up at the sky and said with a heavy expression, "We can't go any further. It's getting dark here very quickly. We have to find a safe place to camp."
A few people found a stone room with barely intact walls, cleared out a place, and pitched a tent.
In order to prevent the snakes from touching them again at night, Zhang Zhuxun and Wu Xiaoxie found a muddy puddle, dug out mud from it and smeared it on the tent.
The fat man hung up the miner's lamp, set up a small fire and hung up the iron pot. He grabbed Zhang Zhuxun's backpack and started to take out food.
He first took out all the vegetables from the self-heating rice and cooked it into a pot, then poured water from an empty can to steam the rice inside.
"Come on, come on, don't be too busy, come and try Fatty's craftsmanship. The first bite is free, and the second bite is a treat." The fat man said cheerfully.
Zhang Zhuoxun chuckled, put down the bucket, and called Wu Xiaoxie to go over and sit down on the floor, "You are so loud in your abacus that I heard it from a long way away."
Wu Xiaoxie sniffed the fragrance in the air and said, "Whatever skills are needed to cook this thing are ready-made. Just pour water and heat it before you can eat it."
The fat man waved his hand, "You don't understand. This adds to this my deep affection for food. You can't understand it in this state."
Several people were very hungry. They picked up their chopsticks one after another and quickly ate up all the food.
After the meal, the fat man drank black tea brewed on the smokeless stove and continued the topic discussed before.
"Maybe Chen Wenjin has yin and yang eyes and can see the ghost of Aning's woman, so he scared her away."
Wu Xiaoxie didn't want to talk about this, so he changed the subject and said, "Let's think about how to lure Chen Wenjin out first."
"I have a way." The little brother put down the can, took the water bag and took a sip of water.
Several people looked over curiously.
The little brother pointed to some soup base left in the pot and said, "Chen Wenjin has been wandering in the woods for so long, and her food reserves have long been exhausted. We can use food to lure her out."
After saying that, the younger brother glanced at Zhang Zhuxun secretly, seeming to feel a little guilty.
Zhang Zhu listened to his serious nonsense, suppressing a smile and echoed: "I think this method is okay. Everything in the camp that can be put into the mouth has been taken away by us. She is a woman, no matter how much equipment she has to carry. , it must have been almost consumed after such a long time. Now we are the only ones with food in our hands within a hundred miles. Even if she doesn’t come for food tonight, she will probably come in the next few days. We just need to wait quietly. .”
Wu Xiaoxie wanted to laugh a little. This method seemed a bit nonsense, and it seemed unreliable no matter what. However, Fatty and Pan Zi thought this method was good, so he didn't say anything else. ….
Just as he was told, the fat man dug out another box of self-heating rice and stir-fried the vegetables into the pot.
"It's rude to let guests eat leftovers," said the fat man. "We'll treat you to delicious food. Eaters are short-tongued, so we won't be afraid of her turning against her when the time comes."
Lowering the fire a little, the fat man warmed the pot to the top, and then urged everyone to get into position quickly, and it would be dark if they didn't wait any longer.
In order to lower Chen Wenjin's vigilance, Wu Xiaoxie was specially arranged to stay not far from the fire. The other people applied anti-snake powder and mud on their bodies and disappeared into the surrounding ruins, deliberately opening holes in the only way they could pass through. .
Everything is ready, just waiting for the fish to take the bait.
Wu Xiaoxie sat by the fire, feeling a little uneasy at first. He kept rehearsing a hundred ways to catch Chen Wenjin in his mind, but when the moon came out, Chen Wenjin's shadow did not appear.
Sighing, I was afraid that all my efforts tonight would be in vain.
The surroundings were too quiet, and drowsiness gradually came over him. Wu Xiaoxie yawned, thinking of Zhang Zhu's suggestion that he should fall asleep, so he gave up and leaned back on his backpack, closing his head. Within two minutes of closing my eyes, I started snoring softly.
On the treetops in the moonlight, Zhang Zhuxun and several people were squatting behind a pile of rocks. They could no longer hold on. The wet mud shells on their bodies were clinging to them. Their clothes were already damp. The temperature dropped sharply at night. They were all wearing single clothes. The biting cold seeped into the bones bit by bit through the pores, and he couldn't move much. It was really unbearable.
Time passed by, and no one knew what time it was, and there was no movement near the encirclement.
The fat man was always impatient, and it was difficult to endure it for such a long time. His body seemed to be crawling with fleas, and he was itching everywhere. He couldn't hold it in anymore, so he turned to Zhang Zhuxun and breathed "piupiu" twice.
Zhang Zhu saw that he wanted to speak and quickly waved his hand to stop him. He looked at the time on his watch in the dim moonlight.
It is now three twenty-seven in the morning, when the human cerebral cortex is most relaxed and when people are deepest asleep. Even if Chen Wenjin is going to come, he will definitely take advantage of this time.
The fat man gritted his teeth and had no choice but to keep his head down and wait.
The moon is extremely low tonight, and the floating clouds in the sky move very fast, blocking the moonlight from time to time. The shadows cast by the surrounding buildings on the empty ground are faint, and under the fog-like moonlight, they are as quiet as ghosts. Lying there.
Under the deep night, the stone wall looked like a huge monster with its mouth open in the abyss, patiently waiting for its prey to fall into the trap.
Although Zhang Zhuxun knew that his brother must have made an agreement with Chen Wenjin, and he would definitely run into the trap tonight, Chen Wenjin, the special girl, is also very patient. Wouldn't it be better to show up earlier and let them call it a day and rest? Fortunately it's not foggy yet.
While he was silently cursing in his heart, something suddenly flashed past his eyes. Zhang Zhuxun immediately came back to his senses and stared closely at the shadow that suddenly appeared from the crack in the stone and was projected on the ground.
As if to confirm that there was no danger, the shadow moved a little bit. Soon, a thin figure covered in mud squeezed out from behind the stone cracks and cautiously approached the fire.
When he saw a person sleeping beside the fire, the thin clay figurine immediately stopped. Zhang Zhu looked at the others and did not dare to express his anger. He held his breath and waited for a moment before the clay figurine continued to move.
He ran toward the iron pot with a clear goal. Just as he stretched out his paw, Wu Xiaoxie, who was fast asleep, suddenly turned over.
The clay figure was so frightened that he immediately squatted down on the ground and looked around for a long time to confirm that Wu Xiaoxie was not awake. Then he stood up again, bent his waist, grabbed the vegetables in the pot and wolfed them down.
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