Seeing us appear, Liu Yue was the first to rush up, and naturally asked Sheng Shiyao urgently: "Brother Yao, it's okay." Sheng Shiyao only went back upstairs to talk, she immediately turned around and walked back, when she entered the hotel, she saw the boss looking at us, Sheng Shiyao gave Zhou Tong a look, Zhou Tong immediately walked over and talked to the boss with a smile.

To be honest, our group of outsiders are already eye-catching enough, but now it's dark again, and it's hard not to be suspected. went up to the second floor, and directly entered Liu Yue's room, Sheng Shiyao said when he entered the door: "Liu Yue, give me a shot of serum." My heart tightened, my head was dazed, and I was stunned to see that he had lifted his trousers, Liu Yue gasped and exclaimed: "What's the matter?" ”

His calf was black and had a visible wound on it, and I immediately had an epiphany, he had been bitten by a snake! I went all the way back from the castle to here, and I didn't say a word. The dull pain rose from the heart and spread to all parts of the body, and he was stunned to watch Liu Yue take the medicine box neatly with his hands and feet, disinfect and inject it, and smoke the knife with fire, cut a layer of skin on Sheng Shiyao's calf, and let out the black blood in it little by little.

I couldn't think about how he was bitten, how he endured the venom and walked back without saying a word, and why the poison was all gathered in his calf and didn't spread to other places. After Liu Yue dealt with it almost and bandaged it, I stepped forward and asked, "Why didn't you say if you were bitten by a snake just now?" ”

He looked up at me, a faint glint in his eyes, "Don't worry, I'll be fine." ”

My lips moved and I wanted to say something more, but Liu Yue had already turned her head and stared at me with a cold gaze, there were a few emotions flashing in it, even if she didn't open her mouth to scold, she knew that she blamed me for Sheng Shiyao's injury. And I can't refute it, if he had only one man, he should have been able to get out of the way, but I had to take risks in order to take care of me, no wonder I ran all the way out of the castle, he must have used some method to attract a large number of poisonous snakes, and he did not think of going to the top of the castle until I was safe.

It's often easier to know than to know, and when I think about it, I feel uncomfortable, as if there are countless insects and ants biting.

Zhou Tong also came up at this time, and the sixth son followed behind him, and it turned out that the sixth son had stayed in the car until now. As soon as they entered, they sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, and they looked at me with each other, and I turned my eyes away and stared at the windowsill. I didn't think that Liu Yue would talk about Sheng Shiyao's injury first, and they naturally cared about and asked, which made me feel uncomfortable.

Finally, Sheng Shiyao reprimanded them lightly, stopped them, and the topic turned to Zhou Tong's side. Zhou Tong was particularly excited when he talked about the people surnamed Zhou from the innkeeper, and he said that he had the same surname Zhou, which was originally a family five hundred years ago. It is said that the surname Zhou was originally the origin in the ancient town, and the people in this ancient town were all surnamed Zhou, and the surname Chen migrated after that, and they went to the mountains and countryside in the early stage of reform, and stationed other surnames.

In the center of the town, there is also an ancestral hall of the Zhou family, which enshrines the ancestors of the Zhou family. So needless to say, there must be a big family in this Zhou family, and Zhou Tong heard that there is a senior and noble person among the elders of the Zhou family, named Zhou Jing. In the afternoon, he had already explored the terrain and knew where Zhou Jing lived.

As for the Chen family, it seems that he has no strengths and is special, he is just an ordinary foreign migrant, and after arriving in this ancient town, he has not made much achievements, and has always been very low-key. Among the other surnames, the surname Huang was also inquired, a pair of brothers, nearly forty years old, each with a son, and their place of residence was also inquired.

Zhou Tong said that it was roughly that, and no matter how much it was from the boss's mouth, it couldn't be dug out. I said in my heart that there is already a lot of information, and it seems that the boss treats Zhou Tongzhen as a close friend.

Sheng Shiyao pondered for a while, and then asked, "Did the boss ever mention some weird and strange things in this ancient town, or legends or the like?" Zhou Tong's eyes lit up, patted his thigh and said, "Hey, Brother Yao, I really told me a rumor." He said that there was a castle outside this ancient town, and there lived in it the dark demon god, and no one could set foot there, and if he went, he would not return, and he would be swallowed up by the demon god. But don't be afraid, the dark demon god is the patron saint of their ancient Jinsha town, as long as they don't anger the demon god, they can bless the townspeople to live comfortably and live a long life for a hundred years. In this town, it is said that there are already ten people over 100 years old, and Zhou Jing is one of them. ”

I glanced at Sheng Shiyao, and as he expected, there was such a rumor. Needless to say, this rumored castle is the ancient castle we explored in the afternoon, as for the dark demon god, it may have been made up by someone with a heart to deter the people here, or it may refer to the black-winged bat, and if it is deified illusory, and then linked to the natural events around it, it becomes real and credible.

Sheng Shiyao asked Liu Yue and Liuzi again, what happened in the afternoon, Liu Yue shook his head and said no, Liuzi said that when he sat in the car, he seemed to see a group of outsiders coming to the ancient town, very similar to the group of archaeologists we met at the previous stop, but only passed by the hotel where we stayed, and did not come in to inquire about the accommodation, it should have gone to another house.

Yang Wenhao's team? Why did they come to the ancient town? I met them at the stop yesterday, and it stands to reason that if their destination was this ancient town, they should have arrived at about the same time as us last night, so how could they be a day late? Shouldn't this be the destination in the first place, but after going to a certain place, you came back here to settle down and rest?

Thinking of Yang Wenhao, I don't feel a headache, Sheng Shiyao's gaze seemed to float to me, which made me panic. After a few words, he went back to the room with me, and it was past eight o'clock, and the water must have stopped again, and he had already brought some mineral water from the car downstairs to use.

Sheng Shiyao lit a cigarette and sat there with his eyes down after entering the door, he didn't see it when I walked around, and finally I didn't hold back, pointed to his feet and asked, "Are your injuries okay?" ”

He came back from his meditation and was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said it was all right. I opened my mouth a few times to stop talking, and after he saw it, he said, "Ask whatever you want, don't stumble." ”

Since he spoke, I no longer had any worries and asked: "The snake in the castle looks very poisonous, why did you ...... after being bitten by the snake?"

Sheng Shiyao answered: "You want to ask why the toxicity is controlled at the ankle?" And I'm okay? ”

I nodded in a daze, it was indeed a question in my mind, but it was actually a bit too much, as if he should have been poisoned deeply. He wasn't angry, he just beckoned to me, "Come here, sit next to me." ”

I looked at his chair, it was a single chair, his tall figure had no place to sit down, and the whole room was the same chair, where was this for me to sit? Although I muttered in my heart, I walked up to him, and sat on his lap as soon as he pulled him, and I whispered, "Be careful of your injuries." ”

"It's okay, it's on my foot."

He put his hands around my waist, and the faint smell of smoke wafted in, and the cigarette had been extinguished in the ashtray. I only heard him whisper behind me, "Have you forgotten that I understand acupuncture points?" After the snake bite, as long as the arterial acupuncture points are pressed in time, the toxicity will not spread. "When he reminded me, I remembered the punishment, and his fingers pressed all the way on my back, and the pain was so painful that I couldn't speak. It turns out that he understands acupuncture points and can stop toxicity in time, so I have to admire him, he knows much more than ordinary people.

But he still had palpitations and reconfirmed: "It's really going to be fine, is it?" ”

Sheng Shiyao hooked his lips lightly, "Xiaoxiao, are you worried about me?" I have to say that your melancholy expression is very much to my liking. If I had been teased like this by him before, I would have blushed again, but this time I admitted frankly: "Well, I saw that you were bitten by a snake and I was very worried." If you're injured in the future, tell me as soon as possible? ”

I think the expression on my face must have been serious, and his dark eyes stared fixedly, and finally I saw him nod slightly. I asked him again what had happened when I ran out of the castle, and this time he did not hide it, telling what he had not seen.

It turned out that when I ran out, Sheng Shiyao used himself to attract the attention of the poisonous snake to buy me time. After kicking away dozens of snakes, they were inevitably bitten, and those snakes were very cunning, and after biting him, they all retreated and surrounded him, as if waiting for him to be poisoned. But he didn't want Sheng Shiyao to understand the acupuncture points to stop the spread of poison, not only did he not get poisoned on the spot, but he also took this opportunity to turn over to the top of the fort. At this moment, a strange sight happened, none of those small flower snakes swam up to chase him, they only looked up as if staring at him, and only a few red flower snakes followed him in pursuit.

Sheng Shiyao said this, and took out the bead from his arms, "I can find this bead thanks to those red flower snakes, as if they are deliberately guiding me to take this bead." When I took it off, the red snake retreated. ”

And this kind of thing, it's really unheard of. Could those snakes still have the wisdom of men? Is it because they found creatures that are more powerful than them, and changed from attacking to worshipping?

His eyes fixed on the bead, which glowed green, and he asked, "What do you think this bead is for?" Sheng Shiyao said lightly: "I don't know, what is the use, I'll know if I see Zhou Jing tomorrow." ”

I was shocked, "Are you saying that the centenarian Zhou Jing may be the Huang family, and the Zhou family is the Huang family?" ”

"Whether it's the Huang family can't be sure, but a person who has lived past a hundred years old naturally has seen, heard and known more than ordinary people. He's going to dig out something out of his mouth that we're looking for. ”

This makes sense, the innkeeper downstairs is young after all, and he knows at most what has happened in the past ten or twenty years, seeing that the castle is so old and the sand layer is so thick, it must be at least a hundred years old. It's just that I'm worried that the centenarian still remembers something a long time ago, don't be so old that he is deaf and slurred, so how do you ask?