Chapter 292: Eating Jujube Pills in This Place......
Following the direction indicated by the sign, the crowd's car made a turn at the fork in the Aylesbury Highway.
A deep ravine crossed and cut off the road beneath the people's feet.
An apparently old wooden bridge connects the canyon.
"Can this bridge still be walked?"
Qin Yixian stopped the car and looked at the wooden bridge in front of him with a frown. The wooden bridge, which had fallen into disrepair, crumbled and smelled of mold and decay for centuries, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.
Across the bridge is a vast swamp, in which the sheep's gut trail points a path. Scattered and dilapidated and decaying buildings with folded roofs in the distance can be seen β and that is Tunwich.
"It's still a matter of people." Bai Shaobao stepped on the bridge deck with his boots, and the old wooden bridge let out a whimpering sound.
"Do you want to say that the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people?" Chen Qiang shrugged.
"This place is not a place where the people are fed by poor mountains and bad waters," Bai Shaobao said, "but it lacks renovation and repair." β
Sometimes there's only a thin line between the poor mountains and rivers that people hate and the beautiful scenery and scenic spots, he thought. It's the people who are bad.
But he still wanted to say more......
"This ghost place eats jujube pills." He added.
Chen Qiang glanced at his phone. A new map has been imported there.
"Let's go." Chen Qiang said that he chose to get out of the car and walk and take their boxes from the car.
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Inside the village of Tunwich.
Osborne Grocery Store.
It used to be the village chapel, but now it is unrecognizable.
The ignorance, superstition and stubbornness of the villagers scared off every priest or priest who came here. Eventually, the spire of the chapel was demolished and turned into a grocery store and meeting place for the villagers.
All year round, regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, there will be idle villagers gathered here in groups all day long, playing cards by the pot-bellied stove, and chatting about some boring trivial matters.
In the past two days, the village has welcomed some foreign faces. Last time it was a mysterious woman, and she left quickly; Today, the merchant, who claimed to have the surname "Hong", came to visit with three friends, two of whom were Orientals like him, and Mrs. Agatha Pickman.
The man surnamed "Hong" not only sold alcohol at a low price, but also brought the villagers a fresh blue pill that tasted unforgettable for a lifetime and also strengthened the body, so it was very popular with everyone.
In this year when "Prohibition" was in power, it took some courage to sell alcohol, and only those who had something to do with both black and white dared to do this business. And the origin of the mysterious pill is even more inscrutable, and it can "cure all diseases and prolong life" as strong as tobacco - the villagers here have never heard of health product advertisements and believe in this statement.
Hung insisted it was a "local pill" he had concocted with Mrs. Agatha Pickman using herbs from the vicinity of Tunwich.
"I don't know what kind of ......heart you are pressing" In front of the counter, Gu Shun was dealing with the villagers who were snatching pills, and at the same time chanted in Chinese, "'Dunweizhi pills'?" β
"I promise, whether it's in this era or in your hundred years," Hong Zhou, who was standing beside Gu Shun, said happily, "it's not a prohibited drug." You see, it's not addictive and it's not harmful to the human body. β
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Gu Shun was muttering something in his mouth, which sounded as if "that is, it is more dangerous than the chemicals known to civilized society".
The two of them stuffed vials of blue medicine into the villagers' hands. The delicate transparent medicine bottle alone was enough to make these ignorant and bored villagers feel that they had taken advantage of it.
"There's something for everyone."
Agatha Pickman was not interested in Hong Zhou's "sociological practice". She wanders around the village with the new backbone of Silver Twilight, saying that she might go to Arkham first.
Suddenly, the door of the grocery store was pushed open.
Some of the "fresh faces" in the eyes of the villagers walked into the grocery store: Chen Qiang and others rushed in.
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"It's him."
Chen Qiang spotted Gu Shun at first sight, and Gu Shun immediately discovered a group of people who were out of step with the village. His face suddenly turned pale.
"It's the leader of the 'Fortress of Reason.'" Gu Shun showed a vigilant expression. He still doesn't know who is behind the time-traveling phenomenon - and Chen Qiang is definitely one of the suspects.
Chen Qiang and Pickman looked around.
[Chen Qiang's investigation verification 39/72 success]
[Pickman Investigation Verification 19/75 Success]
The grocery store was bustling, and Gu Shun and another smiling Oriental man stood at the counter, stuffing small medicine bottles into the villagers' hands. The villagers scrambled to catch the pill and those who were squeezed behind shouted vulgar words in heavily accented English, while others brandished money to buy from others, as if they valued the medicine in particular.
A villager who snatched the pill bottle was overjoyed and passed by the two, and Chen Qiang and Pickman could see the small blue pill inside.
ββ¦β¦ Wait a minute. β
Chen Qiang and Pickman invariably noticed the wonderful color of the small pill the size of a soybean in the bottle......
[Chen Qiang's intelligence test 6/75 success]
[Pickman Intelligence Test 66/95 Success]
The hue was somewhat similar to the blue pus of the ghouls who died violently at the Arkham Imperial Theater.
"Don't you say!"
Pickman was about to have a seizure, but he was surrounded by ordinary villagers who were noisy, and he hesitated for a few seconds, but finally did not make a direct move.
The ghoul looked at Chen Qiang with a calm expression beside him. He is very glad now that he chose Chen Qiang as his helper: he is sure to deal with the little Watley brothers, but with these two people, it may not be.
On Pickman's side, Chen Qiang still looked like a well-groomed and motionless mountain.
In fact, Chen Qiang was also stunned by Gu Shun's sudden appearance - but he knew a truth, that is, if he showed surprise at this time, he would lose......
Chen Qiang's intelligence was a little more than Pickman's: he knew that Gu Shun was an ordinary person who had gained extraordinary abilities, and Hong Zhou, according to the mythological map, was a certain superior race disguised as a human. Before entering, he thought that the superior race in the grocery store was Little Waterley.
γHong Zhou Psychology Examination 3/90 Great Successγ
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Gu Shun's partner's gaze turned around Gu Shun and Chen Qiang and his party, as if he had an understanding.
"Yo," he greeted Chen Qiang and the others casually, "new customer." Is it a foreigner? Hello. β
Chen Qiang blinked.
[Wisdom pool required to use mythic interference on Gu Shun: 120]
[Wisdom pool required to use mythic interference against Hong Zhou: 130]
[Current Wisdom Pool: 217]
ββ¦β¦ Headache. β
If it weren't for the fact that Hong Zhou might be stronger than Gu Shun, Chen Qiang really wanted to directly enter the transformation form, stop time and try to shoot at the two of them to see if they could be killed directly with physical attacks......
But thinking of the other people present, as well as little Waltres who didn't know where, Chen Qiang still chose to wait and see.
"Yo." Chen Qiang greeted the villagers, all of whom stared at the strangers with distrust.
Pen fun pigeon