Chapter 44: Miao Nu
After the death of the mother, except for those villagers who had been killed, the rest of the faceless people in the village were all free from the control of the Gu worms, but their facial features that had been eaten away by the Gu worms could never come back.
After Cao Xiaoyang and his entourage bid farewell to the villagers of Sanhe Village, they immediately set off for Guli Village, as Zhang Yulan's parents said.
Guli Village is located in the southwest of Sanhe Village, and the straight-line distance between the two places is not too far, but because of the large area of primeval forest between them, and the forest is full of poisonous miasma, the road to Guli Village is very difficult.
Unlike some dangerous swamps, this miasma is not dangerous as long as you don't step into it, and its location is fixed and does not change.
The miasma is mainly composed of some poisonous gases, which can flow freely in the jungle when the wind blows, and sometimes people are still in a safe area one second, and they will be surrounded by the miasma the next second.
Cao Xiaoyang had been advised by Zhang Blind from the beginning, so they had always been very cautious and cautious on the way to Guli Village.
But sometimes bad luck can't be hidden, and they are trapped by the miasma soon after entering the primeval forest.
Bai Xiaoyan used a fan to fan out the gale, originally wanting to dispel the poisonous miasma, but he never thought that the poisonous miasma would become thicker after the gale.
In this highly poisonous mist, even if a living person holds his breath and closes his eyes, his skin will be eroded by the poisonous gas, and then the poison will enter the human body through the wound on the skin, and it will take the person's life in less than half a minute.
Cao Xiaoyang has a golden cicada Gu that can cure all kinds of poisons, so there is no danger to his life in the poisonous miasma for the time being, but even so, he is still eroded by the poisonous miasma and cannot open his eyes.
At this time, he suddenly felt a hand pulled on his hand, and then ran forward with him quickly, that hand was not big, it seemed to be a girl's hand, so Cao Xiaoyang guessed that Tang Wenwen wanted to take him out of the miasma.
But the strange thing is that she didn't pay attention to Cao Xiaoyang's words to her at this time, so Cao Xiaoyang ran with her for about ten minutes, and Cao Xiaoyang was now tired and out of breath due to the difficulty of breathing in the miasma.
He gasped and said, "No, I really can't run!"
At this time, the other party was still forcibly pulling him forward, and just when Cao Xiaoyang just felt that something was wrong, he suddenly stepped on the air, and then he rolled down a position that seemed to be a hillside.
Cao Xiaoyang felt that his body had hit a lot of trees, and the bones in his body seemed to fall apart, but his body was still rolling down the hillside, and finally he fainted in severe pain.
Cao Xiaoyang suffered from the miasma in the afternoon, but when he woke up, he found that it was already the early morning of the next day, and he thought that he had been in a coma all night.
He stood up from the ground and looked around, and found that although the miasma had dispersed, it was a completely unfamiliar jungle, surrounded by towering trees that obscured the sky and the sun, and the forest below could only let in very little sunlight.
After that, Cao Xiaoyang checked his body and found that there was nothing serious except for some skin injuries, so he found a wooden stick as a crutch and planned to find Bai Xiaoyan and Tang Wenwen.
At this moment, a wild fruit flew out of nowhere and smashed it on his head impartially, and when he looked up, he saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl sitting on a branch in the high place, and she was laughing at him while nibbling on the fruit.
The girl had a baby face, she looked very cute, there was a red flame pattern at the center of her eyebrows, she was wearing Miao costumes, no shoes were on her feet, and three bells tied with red thread at her ankles made a crisp sound as she shook her feet.
Seeing such a girl in this primeval forest, Cao Xiaoyang looked very puzzled for a while, at this time the girl finished chewing a fruit, and threw the kernel towards Cao Xiaoyang, Cao Xiaoyang planned to dodge, but was still smashed in the head, and looked a little angry for a while.
"Hey, I said who are you? Can you stop throwing things, you know if you hit people?"
The girl smiled, jumped directly from the branch dozens of meters high, and then landed on the ground unharmed, she slowly walked in front of Cao Xiaoyang, picked up a wild fruit in her arms, and then threw the fruit out and smashed it on the bridge of Cao Xiaoyang's nose very arrogantly.
"I'm just throwing things around, what can you do?"
Cao Xiaoyang took a deep breath, and then showed a wicked smile, wanting to scare this girl who didn't know the height of the sky.
"There are only two of us in this mountain forest, what do you think I can do?"
When the girl heard this, she did not seem to be afraid at all, and continued to nibble on the fruit by herself.
"You mean you're going to do something shameful to me?"
Cao Xiaoyang coughed, looking a little embarrassed, and then cheered up and said, "That's right, otherwise my head would have been smashed by you just now, but I see that you seem to be very familiar with this place, so as long as you promise to take me out of here, I will let you go." ”
At this time, the girl threw all the fruits she was holding in her arms to the ground, and then slowly walked in front of Cao Xiaoyang.
"Let me go, as if you could beat me. ”
Cao Xiaoyang re-examined the girl and found that although she was very energetic, she was not tall, half a head shorter than him.
Cao Xiaoyang knows that he is not the type that can fight very well, but it is definitely not a problem to deal with such a little girl.
So he stretched out his hand and gestured on the other party's head, meaning that I can kill you in seconds with my height.
Who knew that as soon as his hand stretched out, he was grabbed by the girl, followed by an over-the-shoulder fall, Cao Xiaoyang was already injured, and at this time, she fell so hard, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he almost fainted again.
Then the girl crouched down in front of her and smiled at him.
"Well, who's going to let go of whom?"
Cao Xiaoyang was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that these Miao girls are all so tough? This looks petite and cute, and it is not ambiguous at all when it comes to beating people.
"Just kidding, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously. ”
Cao Xiaoyang patted the soil on his body, stood up from the ground, looked at the strange primeval forest, looked at the girl again, and said, "I don't know what the girl is called?"
The Miao girl shook the bell on her wrist and said, "Chi Xiaoyue." ”
"Oh, it turned out to be a girl, that's actually a foreigner, I was going to go to Guli Village, but then I encountered a poisonous miasma and accidentally got lost in this woods. Since the girl is a local, if it is convenient, can you show me the way, as long as you get out of this wood, I will definitely thank you. ”
"What to eat girl, girl is not delicious at all, just call me Xiaoyue. ”
Cao Xiaoyang hurriedly smiled and nodded, and Chi Xiaoyue continued: "Actually, I live in Guli Village, and it's not difficult for me to take you out of here, but I came out to collect medicine this time, if you really want to follow me, you must wait until I have picked enough herbs, and then go back together." ”
Cao Xiaoyang scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.
"This ...... How long will it take you to finish picking the herbs?"
"About three days, plus the time to return, I will definitely be able to take you back to Guli Village in five days. ”
"What, five days!"
Cao Xiaoyang thought to himself, if he didn't arrive in Guli Village five days later, the daylily would be cold.
"Why don't you want to, I'm taking you to Guli Village for free, I don't need any pay, if you don't want to, find your own way over, if you're lucky, you can meet someone from our village who came out to collect medicine after more than ten days, if you're unlucky, I'm afraid you can only die here." ”
Cao Xiaoyang hurriedly shook his head. "No, no, no, Miss Xiaoyue kindly took me out from here, how could I not want to. I think so, since Miss Xiaoyue wants to collect medicine, I will help you pick it together, if the herbs are collected enough in advance, how about we go to Guli Village in advance?"
"If you have enough herbs, you can naturally go back early. ”
In desperation, Cao Xiaoyang had no choice but to accompany Chi Xiaoyue to collect herbs in the forest, although it was to collect herbs, Cao Xiaoyang followed her for more than four hours, but he didn't see her pick any herbs.
As soon as she asked, she said that the herbs she was looking for were relatively rare and difficult to encounter, Cao Xiaoyang gradually began to worry, at her speed, I am afraid it will be difficult to collect all the herbs in three days.
It wasn't until late in the evening that Chi Xiaoyue finally hung a few herbs on her waist.