Chapter 44: Missing Again
Everyone carefully carried the iron lump to the stone platform that was exposed to the water, and looked at the wounds scratched by his claws all over his body, and his consciousness was almost nothing, and he was already short of breath and long breath out.
Wu Xie's words obviously sentenced Tie Tuo to death, and Tie Tuo couldn't insist on them rushing to the hospital at all.
Daifuku hugged the iron lump and cried bitterly, watching his good brother die in front of his eyes, who could be indifferent.
Wu Xie patted Dafu's shoulder and sighed, "Mourn." ”
The rise and fall of Tie Tuo's chest became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared completely.
Everyone got out of the way and walked aside, leaving Dafu to tidy up his remains, Dafu was hazy with tears, and felt that he seemed to have something on his hands, soft and collapsed, he didn't care at first, until the more he took care of his hair, the more sticky his hands felt.
Dafu was stunned, hurriedly wiped away his tears with his sleeve, looked at the things in his hands, and then looked at Tie Tuo's face, and immediately screamed out and sat down in the water.
"What's wrong?" The fat man hurriedly looked over, and as soon as the flashlight shone on, he immediately gasped.
The originally swollen face on Tie Tuo's corpse was rubbed up like a dough, and with the addition of this soak in the water, most of the fleshy tissue under the skin of the face had been exposed.
"I'm a good girl, I said Brother Dafu, no matter how sad you are, you can't rub off your good buddy's face, make it look like this, who can recognize this as an iron lump." The fat man's face was miserable.
Daifuku was so anxious that he spoke incoherently, "No...... It's not me, this and this...... I don't know if it's going to happen, it just fell out of nowhere. ”
Wu Xie was looking for clues on the stone statue while hearing this, and rushed over when he heard the words, "What's wrong?" ”
As he spoke, he looked at the corpse of the iron lump lying on the edge of the stone platform, and was also taken aback, and after careful observation, he found that there was still a layer of skin under the corpse's face.
He immediately understood what was going on, "Don't panic, we've been deceived again." ”
Everyone didn't know why, Wu Xie put on rubber gloves and gently peeled off the top layer of face, carefully unfolded it for everyone to see, and explained: "This layer on the outside is a human skin mask, and someone deliberately pinched an iron lump of face to tease us. ”
"And the face under the human skin mask, judging by the scars being dragged and rubbed, this person is probably the third person among the wild lamas who came in earlier."
And the remaining few cocoons, if nothing else, should be the collection of the remaining wild lamas.
The fat man took a closer look, and the special mother was really like this, so he was immediately furious, and looked around, "Which deflated calf dares to tease the fat man, and has the ability to stand up, let's fight alone!" ”
Wu Xie pressed his shoulder, "Okay fatty, the person who is playing with us is definitely not here, in this hidden jungle, the monkey is his eyes." ”
"But now it is certain that the iron lump is in his hands, and he is also the mysterious person who taught mandrill sign language, and even more, from the moment we stepped into this mountain forest, he has been eyeing him."
Mysterious people are in the dark, they are in the light, and any action they make is passive.
Wu Xie had a faint premonition in his heart that all the coincidences he encountered after he and the fat man came to western Sichuan were deliberately arranged by that mysterious person in advance.
The "it's time" that Granny Monkey has been talking about refers to the "It's time" in the mouth of the little brother Muyu, or the time agreed by the mysterious person and the ancestors of Muyu?
It's a terrible feeling to be under constant surveillance.
Wu Xie took a deep breath to calm himself down, so far, whether it was a group of monkeys or "iron lumps" they encountered, they had not caused substantial harm to them, just some intimidation and teasing, much like the game of "the wolf is coming" in the story.
Does this mean that the mysterious man does not have murderous intent towards them at the moment?
Otherwise, the group of monkeys that followed not far or near would have rushed up and tore them to pieces.
However, this kind of peace is only temporary, although we haven't met yet, but Wu Xie can feel that the character of the mysterious person can be said to be very stubborn and perverse, playing games with human life, such a person is a very uncontrollable type of person, referred to as neurosis.
The corpse has been confirmed that it is not Tietuo's, Dafu is happy in his heart, but he can't help but rise angry, and scolds in his heart, "Damn, it's a trip to hurt labor and management, where did Tietuo's grandson go." ”
This moment is dead and sometimes alive, and if he comes a few more times, his little heart will burst into fright.
The small temple only enshrines the stone statue the size of a grinding plate, and Wu Xie has found no traces of the existence of the organ on it, which means that the role of this temple is only a simple sacrifice and worship.
The group returned to it, checked the direction of the compass, and continued to walk deeper into the jungle.
In the scorching summer, and there was a heavy rainstorm last night, the jungle was very hot, and everyone wanted to be shirtless, but countless mosquitoes swirled in the bushes, grass roots, and puddles, and if they were not careful, their bodies were full of small packets.
The mosquitoes in this primeval jungle are slightly toxined, and although they do not die for a while, they will paralyze the muscles and make people drowsy and sleepy.
The number of Ping An buckles is not enough, the effect of ordinary anthelmintic drugs is not very ideal, and there are already two or three young men who have been tricked.
As a last resort, Wu Xie broke a safety buckle, poured the liquid inside into the water, and secretly added some of his own blood to it, and then gave the mixed medicinal water to everyone and asked them to apply it on the exposed skin, which relieved it a little.
The fat man had three mints in his mouth, and when he opened his mouth, the cool air swished into his voice, and the heavenly spirit cover seemed to have been sublimated.
After a day in the jungle, the kind of shadowy surveillance kept an eye on them, but when they turned back, all they could see was the verdant and dense canopy, and even the rustle of the leaves in the wind became eerie.
In the evening, the dizzying jungle finally changed, and a large earthen wall shaped like a castle appeared in front of it, standing there in a dark and dreary place, like a mountain.
Everyone walked over quickly, looking up at the towering city wall, and they couldn't help but feel a little fear in their hearts.
It's a mysterious city hidden among towering trees, even if it's not as big as the Western Mother Kingdom.
"Obediently, Gu King Lao'er Niu Breaker, Zhen Teniang built a city here, you see, there are still arrows left over from the previous defense of the city." The fat man pointed to an iron arrow stuck in a deep crack in the tree on one side.
There are countless similar traces on the city walls, which are proof of their existence over time.
When the night was dark, Wu Xie ordered everyone to camp at the foot of the city wall and rest, and discuss the way to enter tomorrow morning.
Sitting by the bonfire, Wu Xie watched Nie Xiaoba put a small bottle of wind oil essence with a cotton swab inserted in the mouth of the bottle in the corner of the three tents to repel mosquitoes at night, and sprinkled realgar and medicinal powder around the camp to repel snakes and insects.
Wu Xie turned his head and asked the fat man, "How much do we have left?" ”
They had been in the mountains for more than a week, and the supplies they brought in were only enough for half a month.
The fat man turned over the straw mushrooms and chicken fir mushrooms on the fire, the only mushrooms he knew that could be eaten were these two, and he didn't dare to eat a few other uncertain ones, "It's enough for us to last for nine days, and when we enter this immortal country tomorrow morning, we will get some more mushrooms to dry and bring with us." ”
Wu Xie nodded, looked at the oppressive high wall in the dark, and said, "At such a height, it is impossible to climb it with bare hands, so let's see if I can go up from the tree on the side tomorrow." ”
At night, Wu Xie, who was asleep, was suddenly woken up by a scream, and hurriedly opened the zipper and went out to check the situation.
"What's going on?" He thought it was the monkeys who were attacking again, but there were no monkeys in the trees near the camp.
"Little Third Master." Nie Xiaoba and another guy named Bantou ran over anxiously, covered in cold sweat, "Oh no, Dafu and Ah Zhai are gone!" ”
"Gone?" Wu Xie frowned, "Tell me what is going on." ”
Nie Xiaoba hurriedly told him that he had slept well at night, but when he fell asleep, he felt cold on his body, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he found that the zipper of the tent he was in was wide open, and Dafu, who lived in a tent with him, was not there.
At first, he thought that Daifuku had slipped out to release the water, so he didn't pay much attention to it, closed his eyes and planned to continue sleeping, but when he turned over, he unconsciously put his hand on Daifuku's sleeping bag, and felt a cold hand, which immediately scared him, grabbed the thing and threw it out.
Nie Xiaoba swallowed his saliva with palpitations, "Little Third Master, it's a snake, it's red and red, scary, throw it out and immediately twist it into a gourd and eight want to turn around and bite me, fortunately, when I was a child, I had the experience of following adults up the mountain to catch snakes, so I didn't get bitten, and finally I threw it with a sleeping bag and wrapped it, so I chopped the snake to death." ”
Hearing him say the red snake, Wu Xie had a very bad feeling in his heart, and immediately asked Bantou to wake up the fat man, and he and Nie Xiaoba ran to the tent with a big opening in the tent, lit the wind lantern and looked inside.
The tent was a mess, and he carefully lifted the sleeping bags piled up on the floor, which were littered with several sections of red-scaled snake meat that were still wriggling.
The snake wasn't very thick, only as wide as a bottle cap, and although it was red throughout, it wasn't as red as he had seen in Snake Swamp.
Wu Xie used his knife to fiddle with the snake segment, trying to find the head of the pheasant's neck, but he couldn't find it when he turned it over and over.
At this time, the fat man also rushed over, and just approached with a flashlight, but suddenly stopped a meter behind Nie Xiaoba, looking frightened.
Nie Xiaoba felt that something was wrong, and wanted to turn around and ask, "Fat man, what's wrong?" ”
The fat man's face changed greatly, and he yelled, "Stand up!" Bah, stop, don't move! ”
Nie Xiaoba was so frightened that he trembled, the knife in his hand almost flew out, he cautiously turned his face sideways, and saw the fat man and Bantou staring at his back nervously.
Wu Xie also hurriedly walked behind him, and then immediately turned into the same expression of the fat man.
Nie Xiaoba was about to die, stretching his neck to see what was behind him, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something that seemed to be hanging on his buttocks.
The fat man took the thick gloves, "Why don't I come." ”
"I'll come." Wu Xie Dao, when they came this time, they didn't expect that there would be pheasant necks here, and the serum they brought with them was only to deal with ordinary poisonous snakes, once they were bitten, there was only one end.
Wu Xie slowed down his voice to reassure Nie Xiaoba, "Don't be nervous, the snake's head should just be hanging on your pants, don't bite into it, just take it off carefully." ”
Nie Xiaoba swallowed his saliva, the cold sweat on his forehead ran down his sideburns, and he said ruthlessly: "Little Third Master, do it, I'm not afraid!" ”
"Okay." Wu Xie held the big tweezers in both hands, and bent down silently to approach.
First, he used tweezers to grip the edge of the piece of fabric that the snake's head had bitten, and carefully lifted it with the lightest amplitude, and the other tweezers clamped the snout of the snake's head, and he clearly felt the snake's crown twitching under his hand.
The fat man on the side quickly cut off the piece of fabric that was clamped.
Wu Xie grabbed the snake's head and threw it to the grass to the side, the iconic cockscomb was still trembling, the snake's mouth opened and closed, and a small stream of milky white venom dripped out of it.
"Alright, let's go change into tight pants." Wu Xie said, "Check carefully, see if there is any residue of pheasant neck in the camp, this thing is poisonous, remember to take a few more torches to drive it, and be careful not to go far." ”
The fat man scolded at the severed snake head on the ground, "Didn't you say that the pheasants in the snake kiln were burned to death by a fire, and where did this dog come from?" ”
Nie Xiaoba pinched his pants with a big hole, and felt the night breeze blowing in and was cold, and he wanted to cry without tears.
The fat man teased him, "Your kid is born this year, what are you wearing, Wolong pants?" ”
Nie Xiaoba touched his head and pulled out the red fabric inside from the hole, with two obvious small pits on it.
Wu Xie's face changed, "Biting you?" ”
Nie Xiaoba hurriedly took out a yellow talisman folded into a triangle from the back pocket of his pants, and said with a smile: "No, I didn't bite it, I have to lose the red pants I am wearing, and I have a rune paper in my fart pocket to help me block it, otherwise I would really have to pout here today." ”
The fat man took a look, "It's so useful, where did you get it, and when the fat man is born in his year, he will also ask for a card to avoid evil." ”
"Hei Ye gave it to me, when I went to Xiao Jiu Ye to deliver the goods a long time ago, Hei Ye gave me a discount of 99 yuan." Nie Xiaoba was a little proud.
The fat man poked Wu Xie on the elbow, "Didn't your master cheat and deceive professional households, why is he so clever this time?" ”
Wu Xie shook his head, "I guess it's a coincidence." ”
Nie Xiaoba went to change his pants, and the four of them searched around the camp for a long time with the lights on.
There are only four of them left in the team, and they searched for two hours, but they found no trace of the pheasant's neck, nor did they find Daifuku and Ah Zhai.
According to Itatou, Daifuku suddenly came out of the tent, and Ah Zhai thought he was going to pee, so he asked casually.
But Daifuku didn't answer when he heard his question, but walked straight into the jungle behind the tent.
Ah Zhai felt that something was wrong and went to see it, and the two of them have not come back until now.
Good night maca baka
(End of chapter)