271st Round: Did You Pay the Money?
"I'm here!"
Lin Zhenxiao's voice suddenly came from the woods.
Immediately after that, the others parted the grass and walked in front of us.
"What are you doing there?" Lian Huanyu wondered.
"My subordinates have been patrolling the vicinity of this witch village to see if there are any suspicious clues." Lin Zhenxiao said.
"Did you find anything?" Yang Yu asked.
"Yes!" Lin Zhenxiao's face turned grim, and he stretched out his hand and pointed to the depths of the woods.
"Oh?" Yang Yu and I looked at each other.
"Take us to see it." Lian Huanyu said.
"But be careful, it's a miasma if you go any further." Lin Zhenxiao said.
If you look closely, you can see that he still has the kind of poison-repellent leaves stuffed in his nose.
We also took out new leaves and stuck them in our nostrils.
It may have been a little uncomfortable at first, but now I'm used to it.
Lin Zhenxiao stopped talking and led us deeper into the forest.
We didn't stay long.
I saw that the green fog in front of me was thick, and it had reached the point of obscuring my vision.
With the previous example of Lian Huanyue, everyone didn't dare to say anything at this time, but only made a brief eye contact, and then walked into the fog.
After walking a few more steps, I suddenly felt that something was wrong under my feet.
It's not that there's a trap or anything like that, it's because ...... Nothing.
The ground had apparently been cleared, creating a small clearing among the weeds and rocks.
A large earth pit was dug in the middle of the clearing, and green mist was pouring out of the pit.
It turns out that this is the source of the miasma!
However, judging from the scale of this poisonous miasma, one source is definitely not enough, and I don't know how many such big pits are hidden in Heipiling.
I walked around the pit and found nothing in particular, so I motioned for everyone to leave the place.
When I got to a safe place, even Huanyu and Yang Yu looked at me and didn't dare to speak first.
I waved my hand, and Shennong's strength dispelled the remaining miasma in the air.
"That's it." I said.
"Oops, it's so uncomfortable not to be able to speak." Lian Huanyu took a breath.
"Oops, so you can't talk so comfortably!" Yang Yu stretched.
Even Huanyue was about to attack, but I stopped her: "Let's get down to business first." β
"What's the matter?" Lian Huanyu asked.
"Smell it and see what it smells like." I pulled out a small piece of gray rag and handed it to Yang Yu.
Yang Yu didn't bother to connect, and directly snorted.
"This ...... It must be a witch thing, right? Yang Yu said.
"What kind of shaman? Blue Witch? Green Witch? Gewu? I asked.
"It's supposed to be Gewu's." Yang Yu said, "If I go back to the village and take a walk, maybe I can find out whose thing it is." β
"What are you picking up other people's rags for?" Even Huanyue was puzzled.
"I picked it up in the grass near the big pit just now." I say.
"So what?" Even Huanyue still didn't understand.
"In other words, this pit was actually dug by the people of Gewu Village!" Lin Zhenxiao said.
"That's nothing." Lian Huanyu thought about it seriously, "Haven't the people of Gewu Village been working as coolies for Blue Witch and Green Witch all the time?" β
"Makes sense." I nodded, "Then that's the end of the matterβlet's move on." β
"Where to go?" Lin Zhenxiao asked.
"Blue Witch Village!" I looked up at the moon in the sky.
The boy from Wu Village once gave me brief instructions on the locations of Blue Witch Village and Qingwu Village; But in this kind of deep mountains and old forests, it is night, let alone instructions, even if you are given a detailed map, you may not be able to find the target according to the map.
That's why outsiders who want to go into the mountains have to hire a local guide.
We didn't have a local guide.
But we have the poplar!
This time, it was Yang Yu who walked in front to lead the way, and we followed.
He leaned down, looking at the remnants of the Blue Witch in the jungle, the peculiar smell he had smelled on the streets of Xiaolin Town.
To smell the smell, of course, you can't stuff your nose with leaves.
You can go from Gewu Village to Blue Witch Village, and you will inevitably have to pass through a large area of poisonous miasma during this period.
What to do?
Even if you let the Talon King come here, I'm afraid there is no way.
I'm thankful that I'm here.
A layer of qi shield formed by Shennongjin gently buckled the head of the yang fish, constantly eliminating the toxins in the miasma, and at the same time not blocking the smell of the outside world.
Of course, before the eighty veins were opened, my qi energy would not be able to sustain it for so long.
Lin Zhenxiao, who was walking aside, saw this scene, and the expression of surprise flashed on his face.
Surprised? Not surprised?
It can surprise a martial arts master of the same level as the bigwigs in Yuanzhou, not to mention how proud I am in my heart.
In this way, after two or three more incense sticks, the miasma in front of me faded, and through the speckled moonlight, among the branches and leaves of the canopy, the roofs of simple wooden houses were exposed.
Everyone stopped and looked at me.
The place has arrived.
But what next?
"Remember, we're lost mountain visitors." I said this, and was the first to leave the woods and walk towards the small village built on the hill.
"I thought you were going to secretly arrest someone and torture you." Lian Huanyue whispered.
"How can you?" I shook my head, "We're here for help, not for trouble." β
"But what if...... Uncle's poison, what should I do if these people are under it? Lian Huanyu asked.
"Even if the poison is given by them, the mastermind is definitely not them, so there is a deal to negotiate." I said, "Anyway, let's do what the opportunity is." β
As we spoke, someone in the village had already noticed us.
"Who?" A lean man with a large knife asked.
"Great!" I wiped my face, changed the expression of the rest of my life, and ran over with open arms, "We're lost, help!" β
"Stop, stop!" The lean man pointed a large knife at me.
I slowed down.
"Brother, we went to the mountains to collect ginseng." Lin Zhenxiao explained loudly, "I am a mountain guest from Xiaolin Town, this is the young lady of the owner, this is a buddy, and this is Langzhong, who picked ginseng and wanted to go back to save his life." β
This is all made up a long time ago, and in terms of storytelling, there are no flaws.
The key is still two words - acting!
Can our acting skills fool these witches?
Torches were erected.
The lean man squinted his small eyes, his sharp gaze scanning back and forth over us.
"You guys come here...... Have you paid a toll? The lean man asked.
"Yes, of course." Lin Zhenxiao took out a small wooden sign from his waist and handed it over.
The lean man took the wooden sign and looked at it in the firelight.
I watched his expression.
"Wow......" The thin man's eyebrows jumped a few times.
What does this mean?
"Wow!" The lean man slammed the wooden sign to the ground, and said angrily: "You dare to lie to me, this is obviously a wooden card from a few days ago!" β
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar, and more than a dozen witches poured out on both sides, each armed with a knife and a sharp spear, and surrounded our group of four.
(End of chapter)