150 Miasma
Standing at the bottom of the valley and looking up, the narrow and deep ghost valley is like a line of sky, the faint red and green mist is as ethereal as a fairyland, and then covered by a huge canopy, as if the ghost valley is another world, isolated from the world in the dark.
It's just the dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the valley, I don't know how many hundred years have been deposited, half a knee deep, rotten and moldy sediment, the smell that comes out once choked us can't even open our eyes, the countless animal carcasses inside, the smell of maggots all over the body is unstoppable, occasionally one is not careful, when the foot is raised, it will hook up the white bones.
In an instant, people's mood plummeted, and they no longer had the intention of enjoying this illusory beauty.
The ghost valley, from the moment it entered, made everyone's breath crouch, the thick fallen leaves were like a brown winding snake python, and there was a squeaky sound when it went down, no one knew what they would step on, the crackling broken bones or the sudden python, or the swarms of flying mosquitoes.
In short, Ghost Valley makes people feel that danger is everywhere.
In order to show their strength, Sakata and Ono may also want to indirectly tell Ruan Botao that his honorarium was not wasted, so after the two whispered, without anyone urging, they crossed the crowd and opened the way in front of the head.
Two black military mountain* knives nearly a foot long and covered with white snake spots kept swinging forward, throwing the branches, skeletons, and corpses of various animals that fell in front of them to both sides.
"Sense 1, keenness, skillful movements, and accurate judgment, it seems that Ruan Botao's blood is not blind in vain, at least their comprehensive quality is not inferior to that of a professional soldier, and even a few points stronger." I whispered to the big mouth, and there was admiration in my eyes.
I've heard of the name of mercenaries for a long time, and I've never had the opportunity to encounter them, but I haven't had the opportunity to encounter them today, and it seems that mercenaries are not vain, and they have outstanding points, so I have to be mentally prepared.
In case one day two groups of people turn their faces and don't recognize people, it will be troublesome to deal with.
"It's a mule or a horse, pull it out and slip it on, Lao Cui, you don't need to borrow other people's prestige to show me, it's not me who is glorious and bragging, they don't tie up enough for me to see." After squinting his eyes, he replied to me sullenly, as if his vanity had been greatly hit.
I looked at the eyes of Qianmo who was walking in front, and saw that she didn't mean to turn back, so I lowered my voice and said to the big mouth. "I believe it, I believe it, your brother can't shout so loudly, right? If they listen to it, it will inevitably be a verbal battle at that time, and if they can't get it back, how hard will it be to do it with real knives and guns? ”
"Just do it, others have them, Lao Tzu is not afraid of ......"
"You're awesome!"
Seeing that his big mouth was about to be thickened again, and his high-pitched voice was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, I hurriedly interrupted what he hadn't said yet, pulled Gu Yi up and hurried a few steps forward.
Look at the time, it is almost noon, although there is no scorching sun, but the temperature of the ghost valley has also risen to the commanding heights, in addition to the sultry heat, the mosquitoes the size of bees blow buzzing horns, tirelessly harassing every sweaty person, everyone's back is black pressing, from a distance it seems to be wearing a black horse clip, fortunately, there is no excess meat exposed on everyone's body, and they can cope with it freely.
A group of eleven people has walked into the open area, the mighty team has been stretched to a distance of fifty or sixty meters, Sakata and Ono are still opening the road in front of the head, the village entrance is following, followed by Ruan Botao, Yu Mancang and Chen Ding, Qianmo has been walking unhurriedly in front of us more than ten meters, waving the weapons in his hands from time to time, driving away mosquitoes that like to bite incense.
The four of us followed the back of the team, and there was a section of the road that I carried Gu Yi on my back and Xia Ling with a big mouth to pass, there were too many debris deposited at the bottom of the valley, and it was accompanied by sticky mud scalding, almost one foot down, the whole leg went in, and it was quite difficult to pull out the legs, but fortunately, we all carried it quite strong in advance, so as not to lose the armor.
After reading the watch, Dazui informed everyone of the time, and grinned: "Ghost Valley is nothing more than that, if the next road is so easy to walk, at least go out a little earlier, and then the old Cui and our brothers will have to do a few good jobs." ”
"It's a little too early to be happy."
Fortunately, our clothes are treated with sulfur, and even then there are a lot of things that are not afraid of death coming to sneak attack, from morning to now, there are at least dozens of various poisonous snakes that have died in my hands, although there is no suspense in the battle, but it is also quite tiring, especially everyone is nervous almost to the limit.
As I walked, I shoved a few compressed biscuits into my mouth, and then gave Gu Yi a few more.
"Please, brother, I'm ...... I really can't swallow it, so I'd better stay with you to eat, and carry me on my back when I'm full, hehe. Gu Yi said cautiously, his face was very ugly.
Just now, I stuffed a biscuit into her mouth, and before I could let go, Gu Yi began to vomit in a flood of mountains, and I had to force her to drink a small half bottle of water before letting her go.
The special environment of the Ghost Valley causes the light to be very dark, almost equivalent to five or six o'clock in the evening on the ground, probably because we talked a lot along the way, resulting in a little slower under our feet, and then look at the people in front of us have become blurred figures.
In order to catch up with the big army as soon as possible, I turned around and said to the big-mouthed Xia Ling, and accelerated the speed again, and a few minutes later, Gu Yi and I caught up with Qianmo, and Ruan Botao and their chats and laughter were also heard really.
"Boss Yu, it really deserves the reputation of the living map, I have heard your name in Vietnam, today it seems that you are not only familiar with every inch of land in Yunnan, but also your command skills are also commendable, so in the future, including me, this is a person who will be fully entrusted to you to lead, no problem, right?"
"Haha, Ruan Ye praised it falsely, in fact, I'm just an old stubborn......"
"It's a deal."
"Good, good, it will live up to ......"
Time spent in sweat and rain, everyone gradually became familiar with the environment here, in their spare time, you can also look up at the strange rocks covered by clouds and fog and the edge of the green plants, occasionally there are thick aerial roots in bundles of straight down, and the sound of monkeys chattering and wah-wow is heard from above.
But I don't know when, a group of monkeys began to flee in one direction, making a lot of movement, the first to find out that something was wrong was Gu Yi, Gu Yi said that animals are sensitive by nature, especially things that live in the area of the Ghost Valley, and even more so for the premonition of danger.
It's not like that, whether it's a monkey, there are all kinds of flower snakes swimming around on both sides of the ghost valley, I don't know where they were hiding before, all appeared in an instant, this kind of scene looks like it makes people's scalp tingle and shudder, as if it is not the snakes that are clustered together, but the entire stone wall.
Even the mosquitoes that flew at us turned around and flew away in an instant.
"It's the miasma, the miasma has appeared, everyone run." Before I could warn me, someone had already started shouting like a bell.
This voice came too suddenly, and it echoed in the ghost valley for a long time, and the knowing smile on people's faces immediately stiffened, and the next moment, a frightened figure flew past me and Gu Yi.
"Don't run, don't mess around, find a place to climb down first......" let Lao Yutou shout through his throat, but he didn't shout to stop anyone, but someone kicked him firmly when he passed by Lao Yutou.
"Oh, my old bones are broken, bastard......"
The original red and green miasma has unconsciously turned yellow, and it seems to be intensifying, and the yellow miasma floats in the direction we are moving like cirrus clouds, accompanied by a burst of strange fragrance.
It was only a dozen seconds before and after, and an orderly team turned into a bird's nest, some people wanted to climb up the stone wall, and some people pounced directly on the fallen leaf layer, and the whole person was buried in it.
"Old Cui, what should we do?" The big mouth took Xia Ling's hand, rushed to me, and roared violently.