Chapter 136: Bringing down the whole team
Before dawn, Colly returned to the harbor camp and slept with fish.
After dawn, Colly shared information and brought out sketches of various mushrooms and his own findings.
Flanders asked, "Shall we rest for a few more days before going to the Dragonmen, or shall we observe for a few more days and recuperate our spirits and state by the way?" I'm not in a hurry here, so I'd like to hear everyone's opinions."
Mary raised her hand: "I want to rest for another 5 days, I still don't feel like I have had enough sleep."
Enzo: "I'll do it all, but I've been clamoring to find Miss Mary from the Dragonmen, and I'm lazy and slacking off today, do you want me to check it on you?"
Mary gave Enzo a blank look, and after the meal, went back to her room with her book in her arms.
Colley: "I want to keep an eye out for the changes in those people, and I can just stay."
"Well, since that's what you say, I'll go take a shower and wipe my armor by the way."
Flanders went to boil water, albeit a rudimentary barrel shower and bath, but it was enough for here.
From time to time, Colley goes out to observe the movements of the competitor team.
I noticed that there was a little movement on their side.
For example, the mushrooms that the gang collected yesterday were all rotten after dawn today, and the rotten matter was like a bran or black lump of burnt***, emitting a strange smell sticking to the wooden board, and the shelf life of those mushrooms was abnormally short.
In other words, there is no time to do much research, and it is gone.
Unless someone is willing to eat something that is obviously problematic, its fate is to be thrown into the fire and burned.
"So, the traveling merchant is safe during the day? Is he truly alive under such conditions?"
Colley wondered if the Traveling Merchant appeared because they were back in the vicinity, and if they left and the Traveling Merchant mysteriously disappeared, the competitor team would immediately suspect that someone was messing with him.
People can take responsibility, people can attract firepower, which is an attribute that other tools do not have.
However, in Ke Li's imagination, such a strange thing as a traveling merchant should not be bound to a team of people all the time, otherwise the next time he appears near the team, the only result waiting for him is to be killed, which is a bit inconsistent with his human consciousness.
"He can't target us like this, but after this wave of operations, he began to 'show his talents in a fancy way, and gave me the attack methods of the fog of history, so wouldn't it be easier for me to prevent it?"
"We'll see what happens when he's sure he can stay on the contender team."
As Colly began to watch the play, he noticed that the sound of mosquitoes was gradually coming from the neighborhood, and the gang began to make noise again.
The traveling merchant got up impatiently and scolded, "Your camp stinks, the number of mosquitoes is a bit outrageous, you haven't showered for a few days, you don't like cleanliness?"
The crew scolded, "Take care of yourself, don't dislike this and that, you're not one of our team!"
"Day by day, the days are so chaotic, who uses the resources and who gets the things back doesn't remember clearly, a bunch of bad things raised, you can't do a thing well, do you really want to collect money to come over for a trip and picnic?"
The traveling merchant didn't react and returned to his own tent.
But from Colley's vantage point, he saw something outrageous: after the traveling merchant appeared, the trees in the hidden places actually reacted.
The poles of the trees squirmed slightly, and a bug spewing colloidal erupted from the surface of the bark, and soon a "hive" like a gray lotus pod was built, but the hive was not inhabited by bees, but red-bellied mosquitoes like small fingernails.
The fog of history also requires a certain logic and mechanism to harm people.
The precondition is that some people burned some fuel reserves last night because of mental pollution, so that these people had to cut wood to replenish the stocks, and tidy up the warehouses that those people messed up again.
The early harvesting of wood and the lighting of bonfires by Colly and others did not trigger these strange events.
Then there were no surprises, the gang was chopping
When the tree collects wood, it triggers a mosquito attack.
Many people didn't pay attention at first, but after chopping firewood, they looked at each other and saw large bags of bites all over their faces and backs.
It doesn't matter if you don't scratch, if you scratch, it will get more and more itchy.
It's not just mosquito bites that itch to death, but also cascading fever and malaria.
As a last resort, they invested more herbs and medicines in order to suppress this wave of accidents.
Considering that the rate at which medicines were consumed was exaggerated, they also had to consult with traveling merchants to find alternatives.
In this way, the team of competitors, who seemed to have an advantage in numbers and resources, handed over part of the initiative to the traveling merchant under the unexpected intervention again and again.
Traveling merchants can now take advantage of their status and use other people's recommendations to infiltrate the fleet.
In this way, the ripple effect is that the traveling merchant "anchors" the team of competitors, and he doesn't mention the encounter with the Sixes in the desert again, obviously having better choices and discoveries, and doesn't care if these people are a group or not.
Unless the person in charge of the other party comes back and finds out about the abnormal incident, he will be ruthless and send him away.
Otherwise, they will be carried out by the inner ghosts in waves, and this group of people has no hope, their efficiency of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall can drag themselves to death, how can the whole thing be less and less resources, from food to materials, all of them have been infiltrated by the inner ghosts.
"Let's see, what will we do with this mosquito attack?"
Faced with the crew's questions, the traveling merchant asked, "Mosquito bites? I know, but it's a little bit far."
"If you don't want to use medicine, then you can only walk a distance, I know that there is a very comfortable natural healing hot spring, where bathing can save medicine, and can also cure skin-related diseases and beauty."
"If it were me, I wouldn't be wearing shirtless short clothes like you, no matter how hot and humid the weather is
This traveling merchant always mixes in strange information when he speaks, intentionally or unintentionally.
"There are too many people bitten by mosquitoes this time, at least 30 people have been bitten so badly, if all of us take medicine for 7 days, our drug inventory will quickly decrease, why don't you bitten people hold on and hurry over to take a bath?"
"Just go, if you can get there at noon today, you can stop itching right away, I'm willing to do anything!"
"This can't be done, we'll have to talk again when the head in charge comes back, we have to add money, and we're losing too much of this!"
"Pay attention to safety, don't have an accident to save medicine!"
The traveling merchant led the team away, and Ke Li didn't want to go too far, so he asked Kestrel Yuelan and them to spy in the distance.
Although the forest of misty history is ferocious, the talent of the elves is still very useful, it can't be that Ke Li has taken over the task all the way, and everyone else is squatting and hanging up, so it is easy to become pale and powerless after a long time.
(End of chapter)