Chapter 17: Wolf Smoke

The sparkling morning light spread on the hook's skin, and the snoring of the black bull kept me awake all night, and even the tiger girl had to lie beside me with her head deaf, and I don't know if she was trying to avoid the noise, or to spy on me in case anything wrong with the hook's body;

The hook slept very deeply, and the heartless hunter girl lay her head on my head as if she would never be troubled, and slept soundly all night, and the corners of her mouth trickled down to the ground, and there would be a few chirps.

"How long have I been in a coma since I was rescued?" I turned my head to look at the tiger girl, and found that she was also looking in the direction of the canopy with her eyes open, as if she was thinking about something, maybe the sound of my awakening woke her up, and I don't know how long she slept that night.

"Ten days", Huya didn't look at me, just replied hastily;

I didn't expect to be in a coma for so long, and I didn't know what to say for a while;

"Can the black bull be trusted? He's a spirit—" I asked softly;

"He saved you and saved all of us", Huya still didn't answer me directly, but just threw out a question that I needed to think about;

Deathly silence......

"Is he really a Spiritman? Is it the Evil Spirits who were separated from the gentle slope battle? How many more of them are there? How did he and that companion survive in such an environment for more than a year? I asked Huya a series of questions, which is not only something I care about, but also an important logic to make sure that Black Bull is not lying.

"They're all dead, just him and one other teammate, and now... That teammate was also killed by the hook, don't ask, Shanna, he's much more honest than you...", Tiger said, turning her body to the other side, facing in my direction;

"What do you say? What happened to you? I patted Huya on the shoulder and asked, but unexpectedly, the female leopard suddenly turned over and slapped my hand, baring out teeth that hadn't been bared out for a long, long time:

"Black Bull says he and his teammates never got out of here, they were stuck here the whole time! They weren't the ones who attacked our tribe at all, or rather, no one attacked us at all, right? Huya gritted her teeth, and asked me with the tip of her nose to the tip of her nose, and her tone was very soft, obviously she didn't want anyone else to hear this;

......

"Shanna, you lied to me, you lied to us! Your fighters have died four in such a scam and a dozen are missing...... They don't deserve it", and after a long time, she calmed down and lay back into the distance.

"I don't want to do that either! God knows how there could be such a ghost place on our island! Lao Tzu just wants to train the team in the unknown jungle so that he can take you home, do you think I don't feel sorry for their death? I tell you, no one is more distressed than Lao Tzu! ”;

I was short of breath and very emotional, but I knew that I would have to take full responsibility for such an outcome, so I did not dare to touch the tiger's eyes, even though she did not even look at me;

"Even he was tossed like this by you, you don't know how much he has changed since he came to the gentle slope, I have never seen him do so many things and do so much work", the tiger girl said to the bald man, and there was a bit of trilling in her tone;

I knew what she meant to say that a bald man rarely recognized a person and regarded a person as a friend, but unexpectedly he was harmed by that person to become what he is now...... Listening to Huya's complaints, I really wanted to stand up and shout to her: Lao Tzu will definitely be able to take you back to the gentle slope! But nowadays, even I don't have much confidence in this sentence.

"Give me some time..."

It was already dawn, and there were puffs of light smoke wafting through the valley, like a mist that made the woodland even more ethereal, but the smell of the smoke was very pungent, and it was evident that someone had deliberately covered the fire with wet branches.

Huya is gone, but the hook still shows no sign of waking up, she is very tired, I don't know if this woman has slept in the past ten days, I wanted to call someone to come over and ask what the smoke is all about, but I am afraid to wake up the hook;

I almost crawled to get into the tiger's sight, and to my surprise, none of the busy people spoke, and they seemed to consciously choose to be silent;

"What's going on?" , I lay on the ground and looked at the tiger girl squatting beside me and asked;

"Everything here is changing positions, I have to leave people in a few important places, every day at this time of the day, you see over there, it should have been a few days away from us, but the night passed...", Huya did not speak again;

The forest in the valley where we were was not dense, and there were even small bulging mounds in many places, just like the mounds on the edges of the waterholes before, and I was supported by a few white robes to stand on the mound, and looked in the direction pointed by the tiger girl, and saw that a low hill not far from us was also billowing with smoke.

"That mountain... Isn't that low hill where we found the stele? I asked, confused;

"But that's not, there's nothing there, we've found several of these low mountains these days, and the Black Bull tells us there's more, but the pathfinders haven't found it yet," Huya said softly;

"So you left a person on each mountain to set off a cigarette at a regular time to determine the location?";

"Hmm";

"You're doing a great job", I unconsciously admired the woman next to me, in the dense forest and this kind of trough, it is a very dangerous thing to do without the guidance of signal smoke, not to mention that we are now in this desperate zone.

"It's not me who I came up with, it's him," said the tiger girl, pointing to the bald man;

"He's awake?" , I asked, frowning;

"He woke up earlier than you, and if he hadn't vomited a few larvae out of his stomach, we wouldn't have looked through your body to see if there was anything the same going on, and he told us to leave someone to smoke in the open ground we were passing through and then fainted, so I had to choose these hills";

Huya looked at the bald man, although the two of them were fighting to the death not long ago, but the Huya in my eyes, her eyes couldn't deceive me, she still cared about the bald man.

......

"Shanna, is he going to die?" , Huya rarely showed a woman's expression, and asked me without an idea;

The bald man's breathing was steady and his pulse was strong, but when he opened his eyelids, he found that his eyeballs were a little upturned, but his pupils were normal.

"Probably not, I'm just worried about whether that little worm will get into his brain," I said, gesturing at my head, a gesture that made Tiger Ya look nervous for a moment;

"Don't worry, if something really gets into your head... He's long gone, don't worry, it'll be fine! ”,

Huya looked at me suspiciously, then at the bald man, and then whispered to the white-robed people beside her: "Don't delay, wake up the hook and yesterday's pathfinder team, maybe we will still encounter that river, remember!" No one is allowed to speak until you get back to the hill! ”;

Huya pointed to the location of the smoke closest to us with a serious face, but I don't know, why did she ask to "silence all the way"?