Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Guards Awaken
Master helped me up, and I limped in the direction of the guards. I hadn't walked a few steps www.biquge.info I suddenly smelled a strange fragrance on the riverbank. I sniffed vigorously, the fragrance was a little familiar, a bit like a domain incense, but when I smelled it again, it didn't seem to be. And the closer you get to the guards, the stronger this peculiar fragrance becomes. What did I say in my heart? Could it be that this strange fragrance is coming from the guards?
When Master and I approached, we found that the guards were checking on the monk's injuries. I walked up to the side and asked him, "You..."
Before I could finish speaking, I was stunned.
"You—your eyes?"
I don't know how to put it, the guards turned pale and looked very weak. And his eyes seemed to have something wrong, and they were frighteningly red.
But he apparently knew where he was, so he didn't react to my words.
"They are still saved, take them away."
I suddenly came to my senses and hurried to check on the injuries of the monk and the guards. Cassia's injuries were fine, the condition was not very serious, while the monk's condition was much worse, his body was full of scratches, and a large area of blood flowed, which must have hurt the arteries. Master found the wound at the base of his thigh, and we carried the hemostatic medicine with us. We hurriedly treated the monk to stop the bleeding, and the bleeding stopped.
This hellish place can't stay any longer. The guards carried the monk on their backs, and because I had a wound on my back, I had to carry Cassia with Master and retreat to the stone path we had planned earlier. Before leaving, I noticed a strange phenomenon, the ice of the waterhole had begun to melt, and the place near the river bank had completely turned into water.
But at this time, I can't take care of these anymore, a few people have just escaped death, and now they urgently need to rest and adjust.
I didn't go far into the stone path, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it. At the turn of the stone road, there is a simple rest camp!
I was overjoyed, and I said that this must be the heavens that are watching over us, and this camp must have been left by the same group from before, and now it has solved our urgent needs. I found all sorts of things in the camp and enough food for us to eat for ten days, including dry food and bacon. Apparently this was supposed to be their last stop, and after resting here, they traveled lightly and left the extra food and water behind. I even found a box of "Wu Zhen San" that was placed in a rouge box of Magnolia Xuan.
I lit a bonfire, and Master re-treated the wounds of the monk and Cassia Ming. The monk's condition is not ideal, he is now in a severe coma due to excessive blood loss, and he does not know when he will wake up. Cassia was lucky, except for the skin trauma on his back, there were almost no major problems. The guard's situation was the most complicated, since he woke up just now, he had a high fever that did not go away, and now he fell asleep again.
After Master had treated their wounds, I would help Master scrub their bodies. Looking at the situation in front of me, I couldn't help but smile wryly, and my head was big. The three tiger generals all fell to the ground unconscious, and they were taking care of me all the way, but I didn't expect that this would be the end in the end. Fortunately, Master is here, otherwise I would have been in a hurry right now and didn't know what to do. But what surprised me the most was that the strange smell of the guards disappeared at this time. I wanted to ask him a chance, but I didn't have a chance now.
By the time everything had settled down, it was already an hour later. I tiredly boiled some tea and sat by the campfire to keep warm. At this time, the stone path was very quiet, and after I talked to the master for a few words, I asked the master to go and rest first, and I would just guard it alone.
Master didn't worry that I was keeping vigil alone, so I took out the box of "Five True Scatters".
I remember the fourth child said that this thing is very effective. If he hadn't lied to me, I should have no problem keeping a vigil alone. Master couldn't resist me, so I had to go and rest. I looked at the six in the rouge box, and I didn't know how long this one would last. After a moment's hesitation, he threw one into the campfire. I thought that this thing would make some noise or be like Yu Xiang, emitting thick white smoke, but what I didn't expect was that there was no reaction in the fire, not even a taste. I said in my heart that it was really a god, no wonder the fourth child said that this thing was very popular.
With Wuzhensan, my heart is much more steady. But I have no experience in vigils, and I don't know what to do during the vigil. I treated the scratch on my back briefly, but luckily there was no infection, and after cleaning it, it should be healed quickly. The master had already fallen asleep, half of the water in the cup had been drunk, and the remaining half had been cold. I grabbed the glass, poured the hot water again, and started thinking about what to do next. The three pillars have all fallen, and Master and I can't really do much, the only thing we can do is wait.
While I waited, I began to sort out the doubts in my head. The first thing that puzzled me the most was the guard, and along the way, the more I got to know him, the more I found out about him. Pushing from back to front, there are too many mysteries on his body, what's going on with that strange smell? How could his eyes become like that? And the most puzzling thing for me is, why did those gargoyles escape? What are they afraid of? I think it must have something to do with him.
In addition to the guards, another one that I can't understand is the fourth. To this day, I still can't figure out how the fourth child suddenly disappeared, and why did he suddenly appear there? Where did he go after he got off the rope bridge?
And who are the "they" that the guards say? According to the clues I have now, I only know that "they" are a group of tomb robbers, just like the fourth child. But they were not the same as the fourth, they were a gang, and they were well prepared, well-equipped, and very familiar with the terrain here, so they obviously came prepared. And what does the tattoo on the hands of that group of people represent? Why does the same pattern appear on a coffin in the Spring and Autumn period? What is the connection between them?
These puzzles are like countless pieces churning in different ways in my mind, making me drowsy. I drank some water, forced myself to empty my head, and began to concentrate on the vigil.
It must have been dawn outside, but here, there was no difference between dawn and darkness. So far, we haven't found the entrance to the underground palace, and they're all injured, so we'll be here for at least three days. I started to think about the food and water that we had left, and now that we had less than a day's worth of food, we didn't have to worry about eating. What I'm most worried about is whether this place is as safe as I imagined, there are only six of the five true scatters, and it will definitely not last long. Now that it's just me and Master, can we guarantee their safety?
I suddenly felt so stressed that my hands were shaking a little when I drank water. While praying in my heart that nothing would happen again, I also hoped that they would wake up as soon as possible.
And so I sat by the campfire for two hours. Because of the injury on my back, I couldn't lean against the wall and had to sit. However, you can clearly hear the movement on the other side of the waterhole, but fortunately there is no movement there. I thought I had to find something to do, but the guard was still having a high fever and I was about to wipe him again, when Cassia woke up.
I was surprised that Cassia would wake up so early, maybe God had played with me enough, and now he began to pity me. I asked him if he was feeling sick. Cassia looked at me for a long time, then turned his head to look around, and then asked me.
"What is this place?"
I said that this was a camp left by someone else, and it was relatively safe for the time being.
He looked at the monks and guards lying next to him, and asked me how the others were. I said it's okay, it's all alive.
Cassia touched the monk's snort and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I thought he was dead, bald, and his life was really big. The guard, that kid hasn't woken up yet? ”
I remembered that Cassia had passed out before the guards woke up, so I didn't know what happened next. I told him that the guards had woken up once and were asleep again.
"Do you have anything to eat?"
I said in my heart that you were awakened by hunger? I was worried about death. I said nothing else, enough to eat, and the group left here before leaving, in addition to the dry food made of beans, and a few packets of pastrami beef. For the past two days, it has been dry food, and the skin of the mouth has been worn out.
In this case, beef is simply a delicacy in the world, and the aroma of meat has hooked out our gluttony. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough to eat, so I soaked a few pieces of dried grain in it. Soon, a large pot of beef offal soup came out of the pot.
The two of them were like the reincarnation of a starving ghost, a large pot of broth, and less than half a pillar of incense was wiped out by the two of us. Cassia burped as I patted my stomach, the aroma of beef still lingering in my mouth. I wanted to leave some for the master, but I couldn't hold back for a while, so I drank it all. However, there is still beef, and there is also a lot of dry food. When they wake up, it's not too late to boil another pot.
After eating and drinking, Cassia's face was obviously much more rosy, and it seemed that he had recovered a lot.
With Cassia in place, my stress has been reduced a lot. Then we stayed here for three days, during which time there were three of us, two of us keeping vigil and one resting, and so on and so on. When they go out to fetch water, they also go together with two people. In the past three days, all the wounds on my and I's bodies have scarred, and the injuries have basically healed.
It wasn't until the fourth day that the monk woke up from his coma.
I helped him up and drank some salt water, and he seemed to be a little dazed at this point, and all his movements were unconscious conditioned reactions, like a puppet. Cassia said that he had slept too long and that his brain had fallen asleep.
It was only after half an hour that the monk's eyes regained their look, and I asked him how he felt. Is there anything wrong with it? He stared at me inexplicably for a long time, his eyes rolling around, and after a long time, he asked me, "Little brother, are you dead too?" ”