Chapter 124: Save Lang Jin
Coupled with the comparison with other places around, the arc of this bulge is even more obvious, and under this slightly raised pile of dead leaves, it is likely that there is a big smoke bubble that eats people and does not spit out bones.
Of course, there are so many piles of dead leaves in the Buddha Lotus Mountain, if you lie on the ground and observe for more than ten minutes every time you see a pile of dead leaves, then you don't need to hurry, and you may not be able to walk a kilometer for half a day. So the way I can tell if there is a big bubble is not by sight.
This is also a skill exclusive to the Underground Burial Master, so I made a poultice that sensitized my sense of smell with a mixture of leaves called Blinding Leaves, and applied it to my own person.
The ointment made from the blinding leaves as medicine has a very pungent smell, if it is an ordinary person, just smelling this smell may directly faint, so Wang Er Mazi directly refused to apply this ointment.
However, as long as you can survive this period, your sense of smell will gradually return to the paralyzed sense of smell that has been stimulated by the strong stimulus, and you will become very sensitive to the smell of decay. And this allows me to smell large smoke bubbles from a distance of ten meters.
The large smoke bubbles are mostly formed by rotting plants, and the smell is especially pronounced because they are mixed with the bones of decaying animals that have accidentally fallen into them. But ordinary people can't smell it, because the density inside the big smoke bubble is too high, and it is still a semi-closed environment.
So, unless I break the outermost "membrane" of the big bubble and get stuck in it, it will be difficult to smell the stench, but after applying the ointment, I can smell it and identify the direction of the big bubble.
At this moment, Lang Jin was lying on the flat ground opposite the big smoke bubble. Lang Jin didn't see a hound around her, so I guess she was separated from the hound.
And now the big smoke bubble in front of us is intact, and there is no trace of being trampled, which means that Lang Jin ran here from the opposite side of us. Wang Ermazi asked me if the pile of dead leaves in front of me was a big smoke bubble.
I told him that not only that, but the large area now in front of us was probably the area where the big smoke bubbles had formed. Wang Er Mazi didn't believe it, so he found a big stone from around and threw it forward.
The stone fell heavily in an arc, and at first there was no reaction, but gradually, it began to sink, and the greater the sink, the faster the speed, and finally the whole thing was swallowed directly into it without a shadow. Wang Er Mazi looked straight at it.
"Brother Jun, what should I do now? Can't we get by? ”
Wang Er Mazi looked at Lang Jin, who had fainted opposite, touched his head, and looked embarrassed. I looked up at the few birch trees growing around me, and I had a plan, so I took out a long rope from the package and asked Wang Er Mazi to take one end of the rope.
I took the other end of the hemp rope and tied it to the sturdy birch tree, and then took the hemp rope in Wang Ermazi's hand, simply tied it to my body, and climbed up the birch tree neatly.
The trunk of this birch tree is curved in large characters, and if you climb over it, you can go directly to the opposite side, and after I touched the ground, I pulled the rope apart and tied it to Lang Jin's body. By the way, I also touched Lang Jin's pulse and listened to his heartbeat.
Fortunately, although Lang Jin is a little weak at the moment, he doesn't seem to be in danger of life. After I tied the rope on Lang Jin's body, I called Wang Er Mazi to pull the rope up from there.
At the same time, I myself followed the birch tree from the opposite side and pulled the rope up and down with Wang Er Mazi, and after a while, Lang Jin, who was tied to the rope, began to shake back and forth, and the amplitude became larger and larger.
"You kid hold on for a while, if you dare to let go, I'll kick you into the big smoke bubble."
"Look, you're just going to have this little thing on me."
Fortunately, Wang Er Mazi, this kid is not fat, his strength is not small, and a person can fully maintain his strength by dangling the hemp rope, I carefully walked to the position where there was a distance of about one meter from the big smoke bubble, and then stared closely at Lang Jin's figure swaying back and forth in the air, waiting for the best time.
When the arc shook the maximum, Lang Jin swung high on the opposite side, and then swung towards me, I jumped up gently, wrapped my arms around Lang Jin's waist, hugged her and fell behind me, and Wang Er Mazi immediately put down the rope and didn't shake it anymore.
The reason why we want to take Lang Jin over is because we have two horses here, and we can't cross to the other side. In addition, now that Lang Jin has been found, sending her back is the top priority.
After putting Lang Jin flat on the ground, I opened her eyes and looked at it, there was nothing abnormal, and I pinched her hard, but Lang Jin still didn't react. After thinking about it for a long time, I put two fingers on Lang Jin's neck, and there was a trace of coldness near the foreign exchange hole.
"It's not good, Lang Jin actually fell victim to cold poison."
Lang Jin may have been poisoned by the cold, and this means that ...... Lang Jin has already seen the White Mist Banshee? I circled around, and the forest was quiet, with the occasional chirping of birds and beasts, but nothing strange in sight.
Wang Er Mazi urged me and said, Brother Jun, hurry up, let's hurry up and save Miss Lang Jin and go back. I shook my head and said Mazi wait a while, you take Lang Jin back first, remember to take the map, you must go back the way we came, you know?
Wang Er Mazi was stunned, and then asked me in surprise, Brother Jun, don't you go back with me? What, you're going to find that old monster yourself?
I took out the rune paper and drew the symbol of the purifying fire on it, and said, Of course, is it possible that I can still take you with me, and you are not a demon slayer, so won't you cause trouble for me in vain.
Hearing me say this, Wang Er Mazi stopped talking, and after being silent for a while, he said guiltily, Brother Jun, so you brought me here at the beginning, in fact, it was so that I could take Miss Lang Jin back, right?
After drawing the talisman, as soon as my mind moved, the purification talisman between my fingers began to ignite a sea-blue flame, I put the talisman ash into the clear water, and asked Wang Er Mazi to help Lang Jin up and feed the talisman ash water to her mouth.
After doing everything, I looked up at Wang Er Mazi and said to him: "Mazi, your task is not simple, Miss Lang Jin must be very weak when she wakes up, and the journey back is not short, if something happens to you along the way, you must also protect people for me, understand?" ”
Wang Er Mazi nodded fiercely, patted his chest hard, and said, "Brother Jun, don't worry, I, Wang Mazi, will definitely bring people back to you safely." ”
As he was talking, Lang Jin, who was suddenly lying on the ground, whimpered in pain, and after struggling violently for a while, he turned over and lay on the ground and began to vomit. Fu ash water was spit out mixed with her stomach juices.
And after Lang Jin finished vomiting, there was an extra translucent crystal on the ground that looked like a pebble. This is the crystallization of cold poison.
"Lang Jin, your body is weak now, but as long as you rest for two days, you can recover...... On the way back to the village, Wang Er Mazi will take care of you, so you don't have to worry too much. ”
When I got up to leave, Lang Jin grabbed my wrist with a painful face, and said weakly, "I, I'll go with you...... Ahem......"
I pulled Lang Jin away, wiped the stains on her face for her, and said that this time you listen to me, you just follow me and I can't help much, in the end I have to protect you, if you really want to help me, follow Wang Er Mazi back to the village safely, this is the biggest help.
Lang Jin's face looked unwilling and complicated, but this time, she didn't continue to be stubborn. Lang Jin ripped off the jade pendant hanging around his neck, I looked at her in shock, she took my hand and put the jade pendant in my palm.
"This ...... It's the amulet that my mother left me, you take it. ”
I looked at Lang Jin and muttered with his eyes lowered, feeling a little unbearable in my heart.
I said that this thing is too valuable, you should take it yourself - I remember Lang Jin said that she had been dependent on her father since she was a child, and her mother died of frail health when she gave birth to her. In other words, this amulet should be the only relic given to her by Lang Jin's mother.
Lang Jin shook his head resolutely, looked up at me, and said, "Don't underestimate it, it really has the use of saving lives and warding off evil spirits, you take it...... I will definitely be able to come back safely. ”
This emerald green jade pendant was placed in the palm of my hand, and I felt a special energy fluctuation, and I was shocked, and then I realized that the jade pendant worn by Lang Jin as a talisman was really not ordinary.
“…… I see, I'll keep this thing for the time being, and I'll return it to you when I get back. ”
"I'll talk about it when you get back."
During this period, Lang Jin has been holding my hand firmly, her little hands are white and soft, and the small grip in the palm of her hand will make people feel protective of this stubborn little girl.
And when Lang Jin and I were talking some "ambiguous" words, Wang Er Mazi kept squeezing his eyebrows at me on the side, snickering snickering.
After that, I sent Wang Er Mazi and Lang Jin away, I let Lang Jin ride my horse, and asked her where the hunting dogs had gone when I left. Lang Jin said that she was attacked by a man-bear on the way, and the hounds became entangled with the man-bear in order to protect themselves.
I watched the bodies of Lang Jin and Wang Er Mazi walk farther and farther in the forest, and finally disappeared completely, and then set off again and continued to move forward. Lang Jin has been found, so there is only one next task - to find the body of the White Mist Banshee.
To say that looking for the corpse in this endless Buddha Lotus Mountain does give people the feeling of looking for a needle in a haystack, but I have my own method, and today because there is not much day left, I first found a safe place to sleep.
After a night of silence, when I woke up the next morning, I found that the fog around me was much thicker than the previous days, and my guess was clearer. I took out a dark green gossip compass from the package and placed it flat on the palm of my hand.
"Tai Chi gives birth to two rituals, two rituals give birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to gossip, gossip gives birth to all things, yin and yang have laws! Gossip Fuxi! The Styx beast is as quick as the law! ”
As the mantra was silently recited, the gossip compass in his hand also began to rotate rapidly, and emitted bursts of dazzling bright light. In the beginning, the light was scattered without any pattern.
The entire white mist forest was filled with strong light, and large holes were reflected. But as time passed, the speed of the Bagua compass gradually slowed down, and the strong light began to turn into patches of dark green light like a whirlpool, condensing in one direction.