And just like that, the three of us walked all the way to a muddy swamp. I took out my breath to see the disgusting hernia from time to time in the swamp bubbling with green blisters, and my heart couldn't help but turn over the river, and I almost couldn't hold it anymore, and vomited out the contents of my stomach. Looking at Linda and Ah Shui again, they looked indifferent, as if they were used to seeing this kind of scene, and each stood near the swamp full of silt. Well, it's not a person from the same world.

Pinching her nose and following Linda to the edge of the swamp, she looked around and concluded that Ah Xia and they should have crossed the swamp. I don't think this is strange: after all, it shouldn't be too difficult for a master of Jin Siniang's level to resist the golden wind and fly over this swamp the size of a football field. The question is, how do we get through it now? Of course, I couldn't do anything, so I had to look at Linda based on my experience along the way—

"Don't look at me. I can't help it. Naturally, Linda noticed that I was looking at her dependent gaze, and unexpectedly shrugged at me, spread her hands, and struck a helpless pose.

How so! I realized that along the way, I had subconsciously regarded Linda as my lifesaver, but whenever I encountered difficulties, I already felt that she could be settled as a matter of course, but I didn't expect that in this rainforest, there were things that she couldn't handle.

It can also be regarded as a correction of my perception of Linda, who was omnipotent before.

After mentally pulling my impression of Linda back to the level of "human", I had to rely on myself unaccustomed and look around the swamp, thinking to myself, if only I could find a tool to get through the swamp!

It's just that even though I turned around several times on the side, I came up with a lot of ideas in my head, but I still didn't have any bottom in my heart. After all, this swamp is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes, and I only learned about the terrible quagmire of this swamp that swallows everything in the invisible from the stories told by my fathers about the Red Army climbing snowy mountains and crossing the meadows. After thinking about it, I myself rejected the so-called plans of cutting down trees to build bridges, or weaving leaves to make rafts.

However, when I thought that I was helpless, I immediately missed Ah Xia in my heart: since I got along with her, we have almost always been in a state of being tired of being together, and I think about it, I really haven't seen each other for more than half an hour. And now, roughly speaking, I have been separated from Ah Xia for more than twenty-four hours. Looking at the misty old mountain, and then looking at the lonely sunset on the horizon, I suddenly felt that I really understood the common sentence in the book, "I don't see you for a day, like every other autumn", and the deep meaning contained in the words.

It's really apt! Words to describe who we are now.

"Little brother, looking at you like this, could it be that you are separated from your friend?" Ah Shui saw me in a daze at the sunset, and couldn't help but turn his head with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and ran to me in a hurry, seeing that I was depressed with a depressed face, and actually didn't call me a "good man" anymore, but almost familiar with me: "Na, you Brother Shui and I are also from here, and I also know the pain of being separated from my beloved......"

If it were in normal times, I would never listen to a person like Ah Shui, but at the moment, I am immersed in the sorrow of being separated from Ah Xia, and when I heard him talk about the past of separation from his lover, he didn't walk away immediately, but stayed where he was, and unconsciously, he had listened to his bullshit cross-border love story.

Ah Shui once had a lover, who was Vietnamese, and the two had been going up the mountains together across the border since they were children, herding cattle, and when they grew up, they often met together to catch the market, and they got together unconsciously......

None of this matters, where does my trance head have time to care about Ah Shui foaming and boasting about the relationship between him and the woman who doesn't know whether it exists or not, so I directly and selectively skipped most of the nonsense and focused on the key part:

Once, Ah Shui crossed the border to sell clothes again, and the woman was already waiting for him on the other side. The two came to the market to set up a stall, and were talking sweet love words back and forth, without noticing that there were fewer and fewer people in the market, and at the end of the main street, more than 100 riot policemen holding black shields and batons had gathered, and on the other side of the old city, a large number of barefoot people with red turbans on their heads, wine bottles, kitchen knives, and hoes in their hands, and their bodies were barefoot and only wearing short coats.

Ah Shui and the others were caught between two groups of people when they realized that something was wrong. At that moment, the leading insurgents directed his men to push out of the crowd a white man with rags in his mouth and tied up like a rice dumpling. With the leader's order, everyone had already pushed the unlucky guy who was frightened by the situation in front of him to the ground, and a guy who was more than two meters tall raised a big stick full of nails against his bloodless face and now even more pale.

"Phew!"

The sky was cloudy, and the humidity of the tropical monsoon suddenly enveloped everyone under the thick depression. Seeing that the situation was critical, the police finally couldn't hold their breath, and a police officer couldn't help but shoot in this suffocating situation - while the big man who was about to commit the murder fell to the ground, thousands of rioting people lost control, and for a while the flow of people was like a flood that burst the embankment, and the black tide drowned the frightened white man. When Ah Shui looked at him, he could only vaguely see the frightened blue eyes dimming weakly from among the chaotic footsteps of everyone......

In just a few minutes, the mob, ten times as many as the police officers, overwhelmed the uniformed men in black clothes and black boots, and the situation in the bazaar spiraled out of control: the red-eyed mob began to attack the crowd indiscriminately, sticking to those who did not have red turbans on their heads. Ah Shui, who ran to the alley by the market in a hurry, was frightened when he saw this, and quickly took his girlfriend's hand and ran in the direction of the barren farmland in the suburbs.

So what are you waiting for? Seeing this, Ah Shui pulled his girlfriend early, followed by a few panicked people, and rushed to the dirt road by the paddy field one after another.

"Boom!"

The explosion was very abrupt, and it instantly deprived Ah Shui of his hearing. When he reacted, the scrawny body of an old Vietnamese man in front of him had been blown apart by the explosion with blood, and an arm was powerlessly cut through a desperate arc in front of Ah Shui's eyes, slamming heavily under his feet.

Behind him, there was the frantic strafing of the red turbans - around them, several fellow merchants fell to the ground, including local Vietnamese traders and border city merchants who Ah Shui knew well......

In front of them, there are dense mine arrays, and behind them, there are fierce mobs. Ah Shui was confused for a moment, for the first time in his life, he felt the powerlessness of fate, and he only hated that he had no ability to bring the bland happiness of the woman who grew up at the bottom of this troubled country around him.

However, it was at this critical juncture that Ah Shui's lover held his hand tightly, and the two who were temporarily deaf stared at each other in this quiet hustle and bustle for a few seconds, and rushed into the minefield of death without hesitation in each other's smiles-

"Boom! Rumble! Prosperous! ”

Although Ah Shui couldn't hear the sound, he could still sense the thunderous explosions around him from the splashing earth and rocks around him, the stumps scattered in all directions, and the trembling earth under his feet. But where did his buzzing head have time to take care of this, and in the blood-stained sand, his eyes were fixed on the end of the dirt road, and he couldn't stop praying in his heart for a miracle!

Ten meters, five meters, three meters!

Seeing that the way of life was in front of him, Ah Shui only felt that his back was violently pushed forward by the qi wave, and his body had already rushed into the sky, his head suddenly felt a tingling pain, his body instantly lost consciousness, and his consciousness was slowly losing - his last memory of her was the poignant smile in the firelight, and the faint dark fragrance of the white water stone banyan that he had just helped her tie to the side of her hair bun......

In the end, Ah Shui, who survived, lost his hearing in his left ear forever, and his hearing in his right ear was only 50% of that of ordinary people. Years later, it is estimated that the shrapnel that pierced his brain damaged his sensory nerves, and his sense of taste and vision in his left eye began to weaken. However, the good news is that his nose can always smell the aroma of the white water stone banyan in his memory, and not only that, but he can also identify many faint smells in the air, from the fragrance of camellia a few kilometers away to the strong fragrance of durian in the border market...... Perhaps, this is a gift from her. Ah Shui often thinks that if she had been allowed to run ahead of her, maybe she would have survived. It's just that there are no ifs in life, there is no return in life, and she blocked the shrapnel and explosion impact of most mines for him, in exchange for his survival today. In this way, in Ah Shui's own words, he is burdened with the two of them for happiness, so he has to live no matter what, until the end of his life, he can tell her the wonderful stories he has experienced.

Listening to Ah Shui's tearful talk about his past, although I was still a little skeptical, my hostility towards him had weakened a little, and when I heard him claim that his nose was smarter than a dog, my heart immediately ignited hope: according to this, if I can find a half-piece with her smell pulled down by Ah Xia, perhaps, with Ah Shui's extraordinary sense of smell, I will be able to find Ah Xia's location!

As soon as I told Linda about this idea, she didn't have any objections, and immediately pulled out her gun and drove Ah Shui, who had regained her obscene appearance, to my side, and said to me with a charming smile: "Why bother, you are so close to that girl, don't you have a trace of her body odor?" Before it rained, there should still be some left in the woods. ”

I was shocked when I heard this, and then I felt that I couldn't refute it, after all, in the past month, Ah Xia and I have indeed surpassed each other, and it is recorded in the Taoist classics that the Taoist couples who have lingered many times contain each other's qi in their bodies, so what's impossible with some of each other's scent on their bodies? So, I had to hold back my nausea, let the obscene Ah Shui approach me, sniff back and forth with my nose. Although I don't know if he found the remnants of Ah Xia's body odor on me, I couldn't stand the fishy smell of his body mixed with the digestive juices in the abdomen of the python, and the smell of sweat and mud decay. Finally, Ah Shui narrowed his eyes and nodded to indicate that he had found the faint traces left in the air, and I had already fallen to the ground, lying on the edge of the grass and retching.

Following Ah Shui around the swamp and walking around the foot of the old mountain, I had only one thought in my heart:

I hope you capricious bastard, don't let me down this time!

(End of chapter)