Chapter 16: Human Skin

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The mountain road is difficult to walk, and it is dark night, the road is slow and uneven, and it coincides with the snow in early spring, the mountain road is slippery and muddy, and our group except Bu Jin is holding a flashlight and slowly moving forward. I was quite tall, and my eyes were not very good, and my head hit the branch in the middle of the mountain road several times in succession, which caused Ryazan Ha Lu Ha to laugh.

In this season, there are not many mosquitoes, but after a long winter, the snake and scorpion-like animals began to move quietly, and we walked for about two hours before we encountered two snakes, one of which was trampled under Gao Peng's feet, and it was thanks to the Ryazan eye thief that stopped him.

It was quiet, there were no insects or birds, but the occasional gust of wind from the mountains caused the trunks of the trees to shake slightly, and the new branches and buds made a slight grinding sound.

Gao Peng walked for a while, not only raised his collar, but said, "Hey, I said, is it possible that we have to rush all night?" ”

"Master Peng, where is the road for one night, several nights!" Ryazan said as he walked ahead.

In fact, Ryazan has already made arrangements for the journey, and the reason why we are in such a hurry is to get rid of Qin Ye's group as soon as possible, and secondly, although it sounds a little unreasonable, but in this mountain forest, it may be a better choice to travel at night and rest during the day. The beasts in the mountains are terrifying, but I am a lot more relieved to have Bu Jin and Ryazan by my side, but poisonous substances like snakes and scorpions are generally day and night, and they are silent, which makes people unguardable.

Along the way, I asked Ryazan what happened to the Ah Song who fought him in the Pangen Cave in Yunnan. But Ryazan just said "not dead" and did it hastily, I didn't want to mention more, I was out of breath and didn't bother to ask, but I always felt in my heart that Ah Song's tattooed man was not simple, what was the result of the most difficult struggle between him and Ryazan, and what was the reason why he and Ryazan did not have the opportunity to enter the underground palace in the end, I don't know.

Time flickered, the sky was already slightly purple, and after a while, the white of the fish belly had been revealed, and it was about to dawn. Gao Peng was already panting as a cow when he walked beside me, and I was naturally no better, and as I walked, I found that there were already some dewdrops on my clothes and hair. On this night's journey, although we also stopped and stopped in some places, we often only drank two sips of water or chewed two mouthfuls of compressed biscuits to satisfy our hunger, which was not a rest at all.

"Master Peixi, Master Peng, how is it, can you hold it." Ryazan laughed.

"When, of course you can hold on, what a big deal!" Gao Peng said to me stubbornly, and immediately, he looked at Bu Jin again, and then whispered to me: "Boss, sister-in-law's physical strength is quite amazing, you should pay more attention to your body in the future." ”

"Oh, she really doesn't have the physical strength to say......" I was halfway through my words before I suddenly reacted and scolded repeatedly: "I said why can't you kid think about something else in his head?" ”

Gao Peng laughed twice, but didn't reply, I knew that he was tired, otherwise, with his rotten mouth, he might make up some kind of words to hurt me.

At eight o'clock in the morning, we stopped by a small stream. It's an open area, and although the ground is close to the creek, it's dry due to direct sunlight. Gao Peng and I gasped like oxen, threw down our backpacks, and lay on the ground and shouted long live, even if we all knew in our hearts that this was just the beginning in this slow mountain road.

When I woke up, I was surprised to find that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. I saw Ryazan leaning against an old tree beside him, playing with a bronze coin in his hand. And Bu Jin is still very quiet, I saw that she just didn't bother to touch the tree, and knocked on the stone, to be honest, I always felt in my heart that she might be looking for some kind of insect to use to make Gu.

After another half an hour, Gao Peng also woke up. As soon as he woke up, he began to complain of backache and leg pain and swollen hair, saying that it was more tiring than staying overnight in an Internet café when he was studying. The two of us each smoked a cigarette, then opened the backpack and began to open the can to satisfy our hunger, and we both gave way to Ryazan and Bu Jin, but neither of them ate it, preferring to eat those dry compressed biscuits. Ryazan said that here, it is better to eat less greasy things, but Gao Peng and I don't care about that. Two people can easily solve four cans of canned beef with three clicks and five divided by two.

Gao Peng is delicate, he is used to eating big fish and meat on weekdays, and he is very dissatisfied with this canned beef, and complains that the meat is too salty, so he gulps down water, and after a while, he drank all the water in his kettle. Then he lifted his ass and walked towards the stream, apparently to drink the water.

I hurriedly warned him not to drink raw water, he thought I was hypocritical at first, but then I thought about it, probably because I was afraid of parasites in the water, so I took the kettle back, turned out a large iron water cup in my backpack, and said, "I'll boil it and drink it." ”

So, Gao Peng built a simple small stove with small stones and dead branches, took a lighter, and after a while, the water boiled. In fact, there is nothing to be happy about such a thing, but I don't know why, there is a wonderful sense of satisfaction in doing such a simple thing in this deep mountain and old forest.

Gao Peng said proudly: "See no, this is the wisdom of human beings!" Think about it, the first person who could use fire in ancient times, how awesome and ...... he was."

"Master Peng." Ryazan suddenly said coldly, "Hurry up and drink water, and then we have to continue on our way." ”

Gao Peng was talking about sex, and suddenly Ryazan said this, he was very unhappy, and he glanced at Ryazan and said, "What are you anxious about?" Haven't you heard a sentence, a good meal is not afraid of being late, and we can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, aren't we just going to a broken cave, this big forest, is it possible that there are still people playing a race with us? Can't we choose to walk in the daytime, black and white upside down is not good for the body. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the big iron water cup, blew on the hot water twice, and then tilted his neck, and before the water could enter his stomach, he spat the water on the ground, and scolded: "Damn, what a thing?" ”

I, Ryazan and Bu Jin were all shocked, and hurriedly asked him what was wrong.

Gao Peng licked his lips with his tongue, spit out two more mouthfuls, and said, "There seems to be something in this water, it's all foam." ”

"Moko?" Ryazan raised his eyebrows, and immediately stepped forward to snatch the cup in Gao Peng's hand, looked down at the cup, and didn't know what he saw, but his brows were furrowed.

Bu Jin, on the other hand, reacted faster than Ryazan, she didn't mean to look at the water in the cup at all, but had already walked straight to the stream, dipped the tips of her fingers in a little water and put it in her mouth, spit again, frowned, and turned back to me and said, "This water is not clean." ”

Gao Peng and I couldn't help but look at each other when we saw Ryazan and Bu Jin's reactions. The big iron cup had no lid, and when Gao Peng was boiling water with the cup just now, I could see it clearly, the water was clear, and I didn't see any obvious impurities.

Ryazan apparently saw my doubts, so he found a stone and poured the water from his cup on it at once. Gao Peng hurriedly stopped and said, "Hey, hey, don't pour, it's hard to boil." ”

But it was too late, and it was difficult to collect the water, and a cup of freshly burned mountain water was poured on the big stone.

Ryazan smiled, pointed to the stone, and said to Gao Peng: "Master Peng, you take a look at this first, and then how much do you want to drink, and I will help you burn it." ”

Gao Peng and I didn't know why, so we rushed forward to watch. At first glance, there is nothing unusual, but as the hot water evaporates, we gradually notice that there seems to be a thin film on the surface of the stone.

Curious, I picked up the film on the stone and looked at the sunlight, only to see that the film was no more than the size of a palm, with four holes on it, and the film itself was colorless and odorless, and the whole body was transparent, looking like a plastic wrap. However, when I felt it carefully with my hand, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, only to see that there seemed to be a dense layer of directions on the film, just like the skin of an animal, and then I looked at the shape of the film, I couldn't help but feel the shape of the film, and hurriedly threw the thing out of the coffin, and yelled, "This is a fucking human skin!" ”

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