Chapter 0202: A Dark Shadow Drifting Through the Middle of the Night
After all, there were lepers living in this house, and it was better not to touch the things in it, so the three of them cleaned up the things in the house and made a clearing, and then Lao Huang also found some firewood on the stove, and he got the firewood and lit a bonfire.
The sudden storm just now drenched all the clothes on their bodies, and by the way, they dried their clothes, and the bonfire was red, which contrasted with the darkness outside the door.
Wu Tong and Lao Huang felt a chill on their backs as long as they thought of the lepers who didn't know how many people had died in this place, they were not as bold as Ye Wudao, in fact, they were worried in vain, with Ye Wudao here, no matter whether they were living lepers or dead lepers, they would not have anything to worry about.
Lao Huang and Wu Tong took out their sleeping bags, and soon fell asleep next to the bonfire, and there was also a snoring sound, after all, everyone had worked hard all day today, and they had climbed mountains and waded to come here, and they were already tired.
And Ye Wudao didn't sleep, he was sorting out his harvest today, dealing with some medicinal materials that were easy to lose their medicinal effects, originally he thought that he would have to wander around this mountain for at least ten days and a half months, but he didn't expect this leprosy valley to give him such a big harvest, and he would get most of the medicinal materials at one time, which made him very happy, and he would soon be able to go back.
At this moment, a thunderclap suddenly sounded outside the house, and Ye Wudao, who was sorting out the medicinal materials, raised his head suddenly, and with the help of the lightning outside, he saw a black shadow flashing past the house.
"What person?" Ye Wudao burst out.
Ye Wudao could be very sure that the black shadow that he had just passed over would definitely not be an animal, this black shadow looked a little hunchbacked, only about one meter five, and it was definitely a human being.
"Mr. Ye, what's going on?" Ye Wudao let out a loud shout, waking up Wu Tong, who was sleeping soundly, and he immediately grabbed a mountain knife on the ground and asked.
"Someone, Lao Wu, you stay here to protect Lao Huang. After Ye Wudao finished speaking, he immediately chased after the black shadow outside the house.
This black shadow didn't even notice Lao Huang's old hound, if it hadn't happened to slash the lightning just now, Ye Wudao might not have noticed his existence.
"Stop!"
Ye Wudao saw the black shadow in front of him and ran into a room in a panic, Ye Wudao immediately followed in, and found that the back of the room could go out, and saw a black shadow running desperately in the pouring rain.
"I still want to escape!"
Ye Wudao picked up a stone on the ground, aimed at the black shadow in front of him, threw it hard, the stone made a whistling sound, passed through the raindrops, and accurately hit the calf of the black shadow in front of him, the black shadow stumbled, and the whole person threw himself in the muddy water.
Ye Wudao walked over and dragged him back to the house from the muddy water, Ye Wudao took out the flashlight on his body, opened the photo, and wanted to see who it was?
But the black shadow all whimpered, and covered his face with two hands, Ye Wudao kicked his hand away with his foot and stepped on it, shining a flashlight on his face.
The first thing that caught Ye Wudao's eyes was a very terrifying face, only to see that this face was full of deep wrinkles, and there were many red spots and black scabs on his skin, his hair and eyebrows had fallen out, and he was illuminated by Ye Wudao with a flashlight, and he was not used to avoiding the light of the flashlight.
Ye Wudao saw that it was a hunchbacked old man, not some kind of demon, but he breathed a sigh of relief, removed the flashlight from his face, and landed on his clothes, and found that this person was actually wearing a blue-gray military uniform.
"The military uniform of the Beiyang Army?" Ye Wudao said with some surprise.
Although he is not a historian, he is not illiterate, the old man forced him to read a lot of history books, Ye Wudao could see at a glance that the clothes on the old hunchbacked old man were the head of the Beiyang Army.
"Who are you?Why are you here, why did you see me sneaky just now?" Ye Wudao asked him three questions in a row.
The hunchbacked old man didn't react at first, but after a long while, he squirmed his mouth and uttered some syllables, and Ye Wudao didn't understand a word.
At this time, Wu Tong and Lao Huang also rushed over, and when they saw this terrible old man, they didn't dare to approach, worried about whether this old man would be a leper.
The hunchbacked old man seemed to have been silent for a long time, he didn't know how to speak, he couldn't ask at all, just when Ye Wudao had a headache, the hunchbacked old man suddenly shuddered and picked up a wooden root from the ground and wrote on the ground.
Not to mention, although this old man can't speak, his handwriting is still good, he writes with diamonds and horns, and he writes a traditional Chinese character.
"Zhu Xingcai. Soon there were three more words on the ground.
"Is your name Zhu Xingcai?" Ye Wudao guessed that the old man should have written his name and asked him.
The hunchbacked old man nodded to Ye Wudao, confirming Ye Wudao's guess, although this old man couldn't speak, he was still able to communicate with Ye Wudao with words, since he could still communicate, it would be much easier.
"Are you a leper in this village?" Ye Wudao asked him.
The old man took the root of the wood and wrote and drew on the ground, and soon a sentence appeared on the ground: "I am not a leper." ”
"Since you're not a leper, you're here like this?" Ye Wudao continued to ask him.
"I came with the troops, and then I met the bandits, and the troops were separated......" The hunchbacked old man slowly relied on Mugen to communicate with Ye Wudao.
At this time, Ye Wudao suddenly remembered some of the things left in the cave they passed by when they came, and those things should be the "bandit army" in the mouth of the hunchbacked old man.
However, the hunchbacked old man seemed to be a little speechless, and kept asking Ye Wudao if they had seen their chief, and their chief's name was Hong Fang.
And there seems to be some problems with the memory of this hunchbacked old man, it seems that it is not clear, and now it has been nearly a hundred years since he came.
However, Ye Wudao immediately remembered a question, this hunchbacked old man said that when he came in here, he was only in his twenties, so didn't that mean that he was almost one hundred and thirty years old this year?
Is it normal for a 130-year-old hunchbacked old man to be able to walk like a fly, quickly dodging Ye Wudao's pursuit? If it is a person who practices martial arts after entering the hall, then it is still possible, but this hunchbacked old man obviously does not practice martial arts, he is just an ordinary soldier, at most he can only say that his body is stronger than ordinary people.