Chapter 20 The Man on the Beam
The old dog sat in the whole field, and the twenty guards under his hand began to repair these houses in disrepair, of course, the materials were taken locally, surrounded by forests, wood and the like could be as many as they wanted, as for tools and consumables, the house was stored enough.
The slaves did not dare to go far, only dared to cut down trees nearby, but the nearby trees were limited, and there were so many broken houses, and there was even a lot of broken ruins that had been blown up and half of them, which required great effort to repair, once the wood was not enough, they had to run to the vicinity, and the probability of danger was greatly increased.
At least 800 of the 1,300 slaves of the Sima family died of miasma and poison.
The miasma of the plague jungle is colorless and tasteless, you don't know when it will invade your body, they will only latent at first, and when the miasma inhaled is too much, it will explode instantly, and at that time, it will be too late, which is why here, everyone has a miasma pill, these miasma pills are not cheap, they are specially made by the Gounod alchemists here, and the cost of one is fifty silver coins, which cannot support the needs of so many slaves.
Li Qing gathered in the group of slaves, working hard, Yu Huai was also silently cutting trees and moving trees, not fast, but not slower than the rest, in the guards scolded and whipped one after another, the restoration work here was carried out slowly.
"Hey."
The old dog sat on the bluestone, looked at the young man of the Sima family standing on the side, and asked, "Sima Qi, your Sima family has been here to escort the alchemist of Guno for seven or eight years, and you haven't encountered anything strange?" ”
Sima Qi pursed his lips and said, "What is a strange thing?" Sudden death for no reason? Or haunted in the middle of the night? ”
Sima Qi stretched his waist lazily and said casually: "It's all just a rumor, how can there be so many strange things in the world, and we have all encountered them, but these miasma is really annoying, sometimes even I have to be hit if I don't pay attention, over the years, because of the miasma, more than a dozen of our Sima family have died." ”
The old dog touched his chin and said, "These miasma, you should be able to resist them by relying on the qi machine, right?" ”
Sima Qi nodded slightly: "Yes, the qi in the body circulates all day long, and it doesn't stop for a moment, so it can naturally resist the miasma, but who would be so idle and continue to maintain the flow of the qi, this thing is surprisingly tiring." ”
The old dog thought for a while, indeed, if it was okay two days a day, if it took a week to spend time maintaining the qi, it would be troublesome.
Sima Qi patted the old dog on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, there is no big danger on the periphery, even if there is, can the two of us still deal with it?" Of course......"
Sima Qi paused, pointed to the dense jungle in front of him, and smiled a little strangely: "If you want to go there and wander around, just say otherwise." ”
The old sackcloth dog shrugged and said nothing.
Into the inner perimeter?
He's not crazy yet.
Even Izawa bluntly said that in the ghost place of the forbidden land, he is a little martial artist, how dare he touch his head.
As long as this order is completed, the old dog plans to rest for a while, and by the way, he can also replenish the lost slaves, according to his and Qi Miao's plan, as long as there are two or three hundred slaves left on this trip, they will still be earned.
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In the mountain hut, the bonfire was blazing, a couple of young men and women sat side by side, snuggled up to each other, talking softly, avoiding the pouring rain outside, this house should have been built by Orion a long time ago, it looked a little dilapidated, many places have begun to run water, this sudden heavy rain caught the two young lovers who went up the mountain by surprise, fortunately found this hut, otherwise maybe where to hide.
"Is it still cold?"
Looking at the girl beside him constantly flipping his palm to roast the fire, the young man took off his coat and draped it on the girl, the girl took off the coat and gave it back to him, her eyes were gentle, she gently hugged the young man's arm, and her eyebrows were slightly shy: "It's okay, I don't need to, you just hold me,"
The young man wrapped the girl in a coat and hugged her, with the warm nephrite in his arms, sniffing the fragrance in front of his nose, even if it was the lightning and thunder outside, it sounded very pleasant at the moment, and the two people who hugged each other took a break with the sound of wind and rain, waiting for the rain to stop.
I don't know how long it took, the young man who seemed to be asleep moved his ears slightly, caught a strange sound, slowly opened his eyes, looked around suspiciously, there was nothing around, and when he was about to close his eyes, there was a clear footstep sound in his ears.
"Anyone?"
The young man frowned, looked around, and there was nothing, and from the window he looked out of the window, it was pitch black, and he could see nothing.
The girl, who noticed the movement of the youth, woke up, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"It's okay, maybe it's some critters."
The young man smiled and comforted the girl, and the girl subconsciously tightened her arms in her arms, and her chest was soft as soon as it grew. The flesh made the young man's heart flutter a little, and the latter worried: "There will be no beasts, right? ”
The young man touched the girl's hair and said softly, "It's okay, the door is closed, we still have fire, even if there are wild beasts, they don't dare to approach." ”
The girl nodded, and just wanted to continue sleeping, when she suddenly stared outside, and said, "Did you hear that?" Seems to have footsteps? ”
The young man's expression was no longer relaxed this time, he also heard it, this time there was no room for sloppiness, the young man comforted the girl, and said, "It's okay, I'll go and see, maybe it's a rain dodder like us." ”
The young man walked to the door, pulled the deadbolt, looked around, and said loudly, "Is there anyone?" ”
There was nothing outside but the howling wind and rain and the flash of lightning, and the cold wind was coming, and the goosebumpy young man shouted again, and only closed the door after making sure that there was really no one around, this time he specially added another deadbolt and walked back to the campfire.
"It's okay, maybe it's caused by the wind and rain."
The young man smiled, picked up the firewood on the side and added it to the bonfire, and the girl nodded meekly with graceful eyebrows and eyes.
The young man with the bonfire suddenly noticed that water droplets were dripping from above, pouring it into the bonfire and making a snorting sound, which surprised him. If this is the case, we must quickly move the place, and the fire of the province will be extinguished.
The young man looked up, and above it was a beam, on which some water stains accumulated into a drooping dew and dripped down.
"It's leaking."
The young man stood up and looked up at the beams above, but he didn't see any leakage overhead.
The girl then raised her head, and at this moment, a silver snake streaked across the sky, illuminating the surroundings like day, and with the help of a moment of light, the young man's and women's pupils shrank suddenly, and their faces turned pale.
It was only at this moment that they realized that there was a person squatting on the beam.