Chapter 20: A Crisis in the Long Waterway

"That's for the best. ”

Duan Qing said a word, immediately turned around, walked to a place with dense aquatic plants, stepped in, buzzed and startled a mosquito, the grass blades that knocked over were all dense insects, Duan Qing walked over and brought a trace of wind, they immediately let go of the small claws of the branches and leaves, moved with the wind, close to Duan Qing's clothes, stretched out their claws and grasped it, and the slender and sharp mouthparts continued to poke down, looking for the blood vessels that could provide nutrients.

"What's best? We're ...... when we run into that thing."

Looking at Duan Qing's whole body covered with small insects, Ding Wenwen's scalp was numb, and she didn't even have time to say anything, her eyes rolled a few times, and she jumped to the side, but she miscalculated, the wind caused by her jumping was even louder, and almost all the insects flew towards her at once, as if pulling out a faint smoke belt in the air, which frightened her into discoloration, and her eyes were red and jumped, but the bigger the action, the more interference with the air, and the more insects were attracted to it.

In the end, she fell into the water all of a sudden, wanting to drown the insects, but she ignored the insects that lived on the water, how could she be so submissive, and suddenly she only felt that her whole body was extremely itchy, and she just wanted to reach out and scratch it, to slap...

A hand pulled her out, the soaked skirt outlined the graceful figure, and was pulled deeper into the grass, Ding Wenwen woke up in an instant, saw the deeper grass, and immediately resisted, but the hand was undoubted, she shouted: "You are crazy! This is a bloodsucking worm, we will be sucked into a human to dry!"

Duan Qingtou didn't reply: "Only in this way can we temporarily hide our footprints." ”

Ding Wenwen relaxed, the back of her hand was already covered with insects, but she couldn't care about it, so she hurriedly wiped her face, and when she touched it, her scalp was numb again, and her face was simply replaced with a layer of insect skin, and she could even feel those little claws crawling on her face, and at the same time she was looking for a delicious touch with her mouthparts, and she was almost crazy.

But seeing that Duan Qing was walking extremely resolutely, she couldn't change the road alone, so she could only try to warn herself not to think about it, not to think about anything, and just walk in a mess.

I don't know how far away, I finally felt an indescribable smell, and then a burst of coolness, and the whole person was much more comfortable.

It turned out that Duan Qing sprinkled the insect repellent powder, and the bloodsampire insects, who were originally arrogant and greedy, seemed to have encountered natural enemies, and they avoided them one after another, and a layer fell on the water surface at once.

"You still have such a good thing, bring it!" Ding Wenwen said, she had already snatched the medicine powder in her hand, and sprinkled more on her body, only to feel that she had regained her life, she had seen a wild deer that had been bitten to death by bloodsucking insects, almost skinny and bone-like, and her body was full of thumb-sized blood tumors, and she knew that they were all bloodsuckers when she looked closely, and she was suddenly a little angry: "Why didn't you take out the medicine powder earlier, is it very enjoyable to be bitten?"

"The smell. Duan Qing dropped two words, turned around and found a place, and hid the rice bag, clear water, and books.

Ding Wenwen understood that if she had just used insect repellent powder, the people chasing after her might smell it, and she would lose the value of venturing into the swamp and grass, and she couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed, of course she would judge these things in normal times, but it was too scary just now, and she was flustered in her heart, and she suddenly lost her sense of proportion.

"From now on, no fires are allowed, only raw rice is eaten. Duan Qing said.

Ding Wenwen nodded: "Listen to you, do you still have insect repellent powder, give me a pack." ”

"It's gone. ”

"Why didn't you remind me that you should have saved some money just now?"

"Can you listen?"

Ding Wenwen pursed her lips, yes, in that state, even if someone sneaks up on her, she won't notice it, she regrets it a little, and she is more happy.

Fortunately, I have refined the alien fire.

Duan Qing continued to walk in the grass, the effect of insect repellent powder is not covered, all kinds of insects will fall into the water as long as they are touched, and he can't help but have some longing for the insect repellent pill, it is said that if you put one on your body, all insects will not invade, put one at home, and you don't need to worry about flies, mosquitoes and moths in the house, and this insect repellent powder is inevitably still somewhat toxic, and it should not be too long to touch the skin, otherwise it will still be a little harmful to the body, but it can't be taken care of so much here.

Following Duan Qing's line of sight, Ding Wenwen didn't see the focus, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

Duan Qing pointed forward, said he had found it, and walked over, Ding Wenwen followed and looked, and saw Duan Qing pick up two white bones that he didn't know what they were, a few pieces of iron, one of which was actually a palm-long broken sword, the surface was not smooth, I don't know what it was corroded, but there was no rust, and he wondered: "Has anyone been here?"

Duan Qing said: "Not necessarily, maybe it was brought by a snake, you see that these are relatively hard objects, and there is no way to digest them, so they were spit out, go, go and find them." ”

......

Thirty miles away from the two of them, Liu Qingfeng and his party temporarily rested on a wetland, and a few of them even climbed a tree, hung themselves on it, and fell asleep almost immediately.

Liu Qingfeng glanced at the state of his subordinates, it was not good, although the speed was not fast, but those subordinates of the second and third levels of the Qi refining period were still a little unbearable.

The swamp is not as good as the ground, or even as good as the mountains and forests, every step is quite laborious, and at this time, he really admires Duan Qing and Ding Wenwen.

"It's not a way to go on like this, you see that only three of my ten people are fine, the other seven are exhausted, and if this continues, there will be people left behind. "Sun Hongji can stop in moderation, in such an environment, as long as he falls behind, he will either get lost or die, and there will be no good end.

Liu Qingfeng knew in his heart, although he had made a lot of preparations, but the insect repellent powder had been used up, and the more people ate, the more people ate, and they didn't dare to make a fire for so many days, because they just looked at Duan Qing's cooking smoke to determine the general direction, and then two subordinates who were good at tracking and Tietou confirmed the specific route together, they all ate dry food before, and today they have eaten raw rice for a day, and Tietou still doesn't eat raw rice, and there are not even a few toads in this area, it seems that new plans must be made.

"I don't think it's as good as this, Linquan and Fang Hou continue to track before the trip, they don't need to be too fast, make obvious marks along the way, I take the iron head and people with enough cultivation to walk slowly in the rear, Brother Sun, you are responsible for these unbearable fatigue, you can rest assured to cook on the fire, rest well, replenish enough physical strength for everyone, and then come to meet us, the sound of the arrow is our assembly signal." Liu Qingfeng said.

Sun Hongji thought for a moment, and felt that this was the safest at present, Linquan was his own subordinate, and he was not afraid that they would swallow the results of the battle alone, so he pretended to be polite and agreed, but he still gave Linquan and Fang Hou some of his remaining dry food and jerky, plus a small pot of soju, and the two people who were moved were speechless, only to do their best, and then die.