077 The Truth About the Thorn Array
The body is tired and longs for a good rest, but after calming down, the spirit is still in a state of tension. Every nerve is tense, and I dare not let go, because the slightest mistake will slip off the shaky stone slab and be injured by a needle.
Shen Yan'er and Ah Zhen hugged each other tightly, not only to save space, but also to use each other's body temperature to ward off the cold. Both of them did not say anything for fear of disturbing each other's rest, but a long, long time passed, and none of them could fall asleep.
There is not much dry food left, it has been all eaten, and I don't know what to do tomorrow. Shen Yan'er closed her eyes and thought about the way to escape irritably. After a long, long time, she was so tired that her consciousness became blurry and she fell into a semi-sleep.
Vaguely, I seemed to hear Ah Zhen's heavy breathing from the side of my neck. Shen Yan'er's consciousness was only slightly clearer. I listened carefully with my eyes closed, and found that it was not a sound of snoring in a deep sleep, but a gasp of pain that seemed to be a little breathless.
"Ah Zhen?" Shen Yan'er immediately got up and sat up and gently patted Ah Zhen's cheek. After a pat, I suddenly found that Ah Zhen's cheeks were hot. Shen Yan'er was frightened and grabbed Ah Zhen's shoulder and shook it violently.
Ah Zhen didn't move, let out a daze, and it took a long time to open her eyes slightly and look at Shen Yan'er weakly. "Little, sister...... "The dry lips twitched slightly, and a faint cry was made with difficulty.
"Ah Zhen, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yan'er hurriedly touched Ah Zhen's forehead and the back of her hand with her hands, and found that her whole body was hot, as if she had just been boiled in a pot.
Ah Zhen didn't respond, her lips opened slightly, as if she wanted to speak but couldn't make a sound. Shen Yan'er suddenly panicked, and hurriedly lifted the corner of Ah Zhen's skirt to take a look, and suddenly the whole person was stunned.
I saw that Ah Zhen's injured calf was terrifyingly jet-black, like a withered wooden stake, and the skin color was no longer visible. It's just a skin injury, and it's been immediately medicated and bandaged, why does this symptom occur?
"Miss, I'm fine......" Ah Zhen leaned weakly on Shen Yan'er's arms, still wanting to be strong, but unfortunately her thin voice exposed her dying.
The corners of the skirt slipped from Shen Yan'er's stiff fingertips and gently rested back on Ah Zhen's calves. Shen Yan'er bit her trembling lips, and two large crystal tears suddenly bulged in her eyes. She didn't dare to tell Ah Zhen about the abnormality of the wound, for fear of frightening Ah Zhen.
But in fact, Ah Zhen already knew, and without waiting for Shen Yan'er to speak, she closed her eyes and said lightly: "My leg probably can't be saved, and there seems to be a poisonous ...... on the needle."
Other than that, there is no other explanation. Shen Yan'er hugged Ah Zhen into her arms vigorously, and she could feel the fiery temperature from Ah Zhen through the clothes of the two people. Shen Yan'er kept blaming herself for not being able to discover Ah Zhen's abnormality in time.
"It doesn't matter, I'll take you out right away......" Shen Yan'er chattered to herself in a panic, "Let me think about it, by the way, Pan Yuting seems to have a show girl who understands medical skills, and she said that she can heal Miao Pu...... Just catch up with them, and I can beg them to heal you......"
As she spoke, Shen Yan'er took out the pack of gunpowder that Pan Yuting left her yesterday from her arms...... Judging by the biological clock, it should be the morning of the sixth day. I don't know if Pan Yuting's group of people have gone far, and I don't know if it's too late to catch up now.
Everything is unknown, but Shen Yan'er has no choice.
"Miss, don't use gunpowder...... will affect your ......" Ah Zhen, who couldn't even open her eyes, clenched Shen Yan'er's hand holding the gunpowder, and said intermittently, "Don't take risks to save me...... If you have anything long and short, I'd rather die like that...... You have to use the safest way to escape, no, use gunpowder......"
Ah Zhen was so weak that she couldn't even speak, but every word she desperately squeezed out was for the sake of Shen Yan'er's safety, and she didn't care about her own life at all. Shen Yan'er couldn't hold back any longer, tears came out of her eyes, and she hugged Ah Zhen and sobbed.
"Why, why is this happening...... "The only thing Shen Yan'er was afraid of finally happened. In this place where it is difficult to protect itself, what does she use to protect Ah Zhen? Can you just watch Ah Zhen weaken? At this moment, she hated the person who set such a vicious trap.
"It's just a trial, why do they have to put us to death?" Walking corpses, traps, secret rooms, food and water shortages, these tests are cruel enough, why do you still encounter poisonous stabbing arrays? This is no longer a trial, but a slaughter. What did the show girls do wrong to be treated like this?
Shen Yan'er, who was out of control, couldn't control her voice. Her hoarse roar stirred up several other "living" walking corpses in the distance.
The walking corpses, firmly held in place by the stingers, struggled fiercely and let out a terrible howl, but no matter how hideous and terrifying they looked, they did not break free from the shackles.
Seeing such a scene, Shen Yan'er's brain worked again.
Why is there such a cruel trap in the place where the upper and lower mounds divide the grave? And it didn't naturally appear on the way forward of the show girl, but was blown up extremely rough by Pan Yuting......
Connecting this qiē, Shen Yan'er came up with a bold speculation: "I understand......" She stared directly at the painful and struggling walking corpse, took a deep breath and said: "This trap is not used to deal with the show girl, but to deal with the walking corpse!" ”
The Thorn Trap is simply the natural enemy of the walking corpse, and the walking corpse cannot move as long as it falls in. After the ten-day trial, when the Imperial Forest Army entered the mass grave to clean up, in the face of hundreds of walking corpses, if they only used swords to kill, they would definitely suffer heavy casualties, so there would be "such a design" in the mass grave.
The Guards can come here from the nearest road speed, use sound or other things to attract the walking corpses scattered all over the mass graves, then open the traps, cause all the walking corpses to fall into the stabbing formation, and then clean up all the walking corpses at once.
This is the reason why all the intricate roads eventually converge into two passages, and this is why the Thorn Array appears at this key position. Shen Yan'er had long felt a little strange, and it wasn't until this moment that she finally figured it out.
Since it is used to deal with the walking corpse, there is no need to apply poison many times, so there is no poison on the stinger. However, in the past few decades, countless walking corpses have been pierced by stinging needles, and the corpse poison on the walking corpses has been stained on the stinging needles, so Ah Zhen's wounds will appear Yan zhòng infection.