Chapter 43: Boiled Frogs in Warm Water

All night, Li Chengfei was busy adding water, firewood, and fanning the wind......

He wanted to fight hard, kill the strange old man and the strange old lady, and escape from here.

However, he was not sure at all.

The strange old man and the strange old lady are definitely not ordinary people, how strong they are, Li Chengfei doesn't know at all.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles.

If you don't have the slightest understanding of the opponent's strength, you make a rash move, which is to joke with your own life.

Moreover, as long as he makes a move, the opponent will definitely be not only the strange old man and the strange old lady, but also the people around him who burn the fire.

Although these people are all enslaved by the strange old man and the strange old lady, and they are even about to be crushed to death.

But Li Chengfei can be sure that they don't have the idea of killing the strange old man and the strange old lady at all, they only have one idea, that is, to do what the strange old man and the strange old lady say, cook the stones, and count on the strange old man and the strange old lady to let them go.

Whoever tries to stop them from boiling the stone is their enemy, and they dare to fight hard.

No matter how anxious Li Chengfei is, he can only be like everyone else, desperately burning the fire and boiling stones.

The next morning, the strange old man and the strange old lady each came over with a pair of chopsticks.

All the burners stopped and looked at them expectantly.

They first walked to a stove, lifted the lid of the pot, and stabbed the stones in the pot with their chopsticks.

The chopsticks are inserted only a little.

"No! If it's not cooked, you have to increase the heat! The strange old lady said.

Then she put her head in front of the stove and sucked hard through her long nose.

Li Chengfei's divine sense clearly captured that a "mist" that was invisible to the naked eye came out of the stone, burrowed into the nostrils of the strange old lady, and was inhaled by her.

The "mist" is exactly the same as the one that comes out of your forehead and burrows into the stone when you boil the stone, but it is thicker and thicker.

The strange old man and the strange old lady are sucking everyone's spirit in this way.

The stone is just a "tool" for the strange old man and the strange old lady.

Li Chengfei was secretly frightened.

It's no wonder that these people who burn the fire are all described as withered, like ghosts, and it turns out that the spirit and spirit have been sucked away.

Doesn't it mean that if you stay here, you will become like this?

After this night's work, Li Chengfei already felt extremely tired, and his body seemed to be hollowed out.

The strange old man and the strange old lady stood at both ends of a row of stoves, sucking in the fire one by one, their faces becoming more and more ruddy.

When Li Chengfei's stove approached, it happened to be the turn of the strange old lady.

She took a chopstick and thorned it inside the stone.

Laugh at!

Most of the chopsticks didn't go in, almost all of them went in.

"Whew!"

There was a murmur all around, and everyone was amazed.

The thin young man who was Li Chengfei's partner had a gleam in his eyes, and his sense of expectation was instantly full.

Cooked?

"Huh?"

The strange old lady also sighed lightly and felt surprised.

Li Chengfei saw that at the moment when the chopsticks pierced, there were laws fluctuating on this stone.

Obviously, this stone is not an ordinary stone.

The strange old lady put her nose in front of the stone, and with a suck, a mist much thicker than the other stones penetrated into her nostrils.

"Ahh

The strange old lady opened her mouth and sighed, looking happy.

The strange old man stopped what he was doing, watched from a distance, swallowed his saliva, and envied the strange old lady.

After enjoying that spirit, the strange old lady turned her head to look at Li Chengfei, with joy in her old eyes.

"Not bad! Not bad! ”

was praised by the blame old lady like this, but Li Chengfei was creepy, holding the "burning stick" in his hand tightly.

When it was really a last resort, even if he knew that he was not an opponent, he could not sit still, but would fight to the death.

Fortunately, the strange old lady didn't make the next move, just shook her head and said:

"It's just a little bit, alas! Let's do it today! ”

"Phew!"

Around, there was a sudden clamour.

Li Chengfei listened, and there were few regretful voices, most of which were gloating.

"It's all because you're too hardworking! I didn't do it well at first, but then I was always distracted! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, you're trying to escape! ”

The thin partner young man was even more resentful, and directly complained about Li Chengfei.

The words he said suddenly made Li Chengfei's heart beat faster, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

The strange old lady has just walked out not far away, and the other party must be able to hear such a loud voice from the thin partner.

Fortunately, the strange old lady didn't care about these appearances, maybe she was confident, and she wasn't afraid of Li Chengfei running, she didn't even bother to turn her head back, and she didn't warn Li Chengfei, but continued to suck the spirit of the next stove.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Li Chengfei glared at his thin partner.

When he first came, he still felt some sympathy for this thin partner, and felt that the other party was a victim, and he was about to be squeezed dry by the strange old man and the strange old lady.

But now, he has no sympathy at all, and only feels that this thing deserves it.

"I'm not talking nonsense, you know it yourself! You always want to run away, you don't work hard, how can this stone be cooked? If you had been more down-to-earth and diligent last night, we'd have cooked the stone by now! Grandparents obviously pointed out a good way for us, as long as we burn the stove well and cook the stones, we can go, but you are selfish, always thinking about running away by yourself, annoying your grandparents, and everyone will suffer with it! Don't blame me for not telling you, if you work hard in the future, if you want to run away, I will be the first to report you to your grandparents! The thin partner was puffing.

His face was even whiter, and his eye circles were even darker.

Li Chengfei was speechless for a while.

He understood that the first obstacle in his escape plan was not the blame old man and the strange old woman, but this partner of his, and the other firemen......

After the strange old man and the strange old lady checked it, they didn't know where to get some black food for everyone to eat.

Everyone didn't ask so much, and after grabbing one and eating it, they all fell to sleep and curled up in front of the stove.

Li Chengfei was busy all night, and he was also physically and mentally exhausted, perhaps because his spirit was extracted, he felt unprecedented fatigue, and he also lay down.

"How's the new one?"

"It's delicious!"

"I'm going to eat tomorrow. The chopsticks are almost all stuck in the end, and this is the first time we have encountered them! ”

"The old lady hasn't eaten enough, you dare to rob the old lady?"

Faintly, there was a quarrel between the strange old lady and the strange old man.

Li Chengfei knew what they were arguing about, what should have been creepy, but he was very strange that there was not much fluctuation.

Extreme tiredness made his interest in everything much weaker.

"Hurry up! Hurry up and start the fire! ”

Almost as soon as he felt like he had slept for a while, Li Chengfei was woken up.

The wizened partner urged anxiously.

I saw that under the sun, the figures were longing, except for Li Chengfei, almost everyone had already gotten up to work, some added water, some burned fires, and some chopped wood.

Li Chengfei was exhausted, pushed by his partner, and didn't have any other thoughts in his heart, just felt that he would start burning the fire first.

Anyway, there is no danger for a while, so let's get used to it first and then look for a chance!

In this way, a busy day and a night passed.

The next morning, the strange old man and the strange old lady came to inspect the stones, and Li Chengfei and their pot of stones were the best cooked, but they were still almost cooked.

The thin partner was annoyed and felt that he should work harder at night.

Li Chengfei was also a little anxious, he didn't notice it himself, he seemed to have forgotten about resisting and escaping, just thinking about whether he could really cook the stone and leave with a little more effort?

In the next few days, Li Chengfei almost blended in with everyone, eating rough meals every day, only curling up on the ground in front of the stove and sleeping for a short while, and busy cooking stones the rest of the time.

I was busy from the moment I woke up, and my feet didn't touch the ground, until I went back to sleep......

Coupled with the extraction of spirit, Li Chengfei was extremely tired, and he was almost in the mood to think about other things.

He had only one idea, and that was to get the stone cooked so he could get out of here......

I don't know how many days have passed, Li Chengfei has almost lost the concept of time.

On this day, after an all-night fire, the stone inspection was unsatisfactory, and a fireman next to him looked unacceptable, and kept repeating in his mouth:

"Why? Why is it undercooked? This time it's just a little bit off...... Why Did It Take That Long For Me To Poop Last Night? If only I tried a little harder......"

Before he could finish his words, the whole person fell backwards, fell to the ground with a "tom", and died suddenly.

"Dead! It's a pity! ”

The strange old man came to check it out, and his expression was like the loss of a working donkey.

He picked up the burner's thigh, threw the body into the fire, and burned it as firewood.

Everyone is used to seeing it, and they don't even have facial fluctuations, what should they do.

Li Chengfei woke up suddenly.