Chapter 17: You, what are you?
Perhaps it was because of the song, the hissing of the foreign beasts never appeared within this range of jungle, as if the source of that song was the master of this forbidden area.
After it appeared, everything had to fall silent.
The Lei Team sat there silently, still looking into the distance, where it was pitch black and there was nothing.
Xu Qing's complexion was somewhat complicated, and after a long time, his gaze swept across the four directions, eventually landing on the Barbarian Ghost's wolf tooth stick and the broken open remnants of his shield.
The Barbarian Ghost's corpse, like all the corpses here, had become dust as the mist of the song departed, as if it had never existed in the world.
And scavengers tended to have few relatives, so perhaps not many cared about their dissipation.
Even if they did, they would eventually be slowly forgotten in the passage of years, until after a number of years, no one knew, no one remembered.
Xu Qing suddenly thought of the slums, that teaching teacher who was still kind to him, before he died of a windy illness, to their group of children, said.
"Having people in your heart that you can't forget is a pain, while being remembered in your heart is a blessing."
At that time, Xu Qing did not understand this sentence very well, but at this moment, as he looked at the Lei Team, he more or less understood the meaning of this sentence, so he did not bother, but silently walked to the place where the Barbarian Ghost's body used to be, took out his dagger, and dug in the ground.
Despite the fact that he hadn't socialized deeply with the savage ghost, just a few days to be exact, and the words weren't even a few, the other party had imparted his experience of the jungle, and together with each other they had come out of the life-and-death wolf catastrophe, and in the end they themselves had used the other party's belongings to block the black blood.
So Xu Qing felt that he should do something.
As he had done when he left from the city and cremated the corpses of the entire city, he dug hard at the ground and gradually dug out a pit.
Burying the Barbarian Ghost's Wolf Tooth Rod as well as the remnants of his shield, he buried it.
During this process, Xu Qing was so serious that he didn't notice that the Lei Team behind him, who had withdrawn his gaze towards the jungle at some point, was looking at him.
Within his complexion, there was a touch of the strangeness that had once been present in the ruins of the city when he had first looked at Xu Qing, and when he saw that Xu Qing seemed to want to make a tombstone after burying the Barbarian Ghost's weapon, the Lei Team spoke softly.
"Scavengers, don't need tombstones."
"Dust to dust, earth to earth. This is the life of a scavenger, struggling in the world in life, and after death ...... there is no need to worship, just be quiet."
Speaking here, Lei Team's breath grew weaker and weaker, the severity of his injuries, the accumulation of heterogeneous substances, and the overdraft of his mind and spirit caused him to be unable to support himself, and the world slowly blurred, closing his eyes and passing out.
Xu Qing approached and took out some Seven Leaf Grass from his pocket, stuffing it into Team Lei's mouth.
He didn't know if it was useful, but he thought that since this item was a necessity for making the White Dan, then it more or less still possessed the ability to alleviate the ectoplasm.
After doing so, he carried the Thunder Team on his back and tied it securely with his clothes, before he took a deep breath and sped through the jungle in the darkness of the night.
As he passed by the place where the Blood Shadow Captain had turned into dust, Xu Qing saw a leather pouch, picked it up and opened it, there were no pills inside, only some miscellaneous items.
So he put it away and swung far away.
When Team Lei's consciousness faintly returned, it was already half an hour later.
He vaguely felt himself being carried by a thin body, rising and falling with its beating, and slowly opened his eyes to see the side face of the teenager in front of him.
He fell silent.
Xu Qing also sensed Team Lei's awakening and spoke in a low voice.
"Is it better, you can continue to sleep for a while, a few more hours, we should be able to get out of the forbidden zone before dawn."
Thunder Team did not speak, his weak body could not hide his old age more and more, he struggled to look up at the dark sky, his eyes slowly blurred before him, and when his consciousness was about to fall into unconsciousness once again, he murmured and whispered.
"Child, do you know why I offered to take you away twice in the ruined city."
Xu Qing's figure didn't pause and shook his head.
"Then do you remember the scene when we first met." Team Lei's voice was weak.
"Remember." Xu Qing's body moved, leaping onto a large tree, his right hand raised to the side and grabbed an alienated lizard that was hiding there and rushing towards him, throwing it towards the ground in front of him in a smooth motion.
With a bang, as the lizard fell, a large number of vines on the ground twisted and came rushing to entangle it, piercing through the lizard's armor and devouring its flesh and blood as it struggled.
Xu Qing used this opportunity to jump up, avoiding the danger and continuing far away.
At this moment behind him came the feeble murmur of the Thunder Team, a sickly voice that would have been extremely difficult to hear had it not been so close.
"I saw your figure in the cremation of the corpse, when you next to the flame, reflected by the firelight, seems to be fused together with the fire, so that I seem to see ...... a wisp of warmth in this cruel world."
Xu Qing's footsteps lurched and fell silent, and the Lei team behind him also fell into unconsciousness once again.
After a few breaths, Xu Qing silently lifted his feet, and continued to gallop within the jungle, weaving through the trees and flying away.
Time passed, and soon an hour passed.
Xu Qing avoided the dangers, his figure getting closer and closer to the edge of the jungle.
At this moment, the sky is the darkest time, night from the forbidden area of the cold, invading the surrounding, good thing Xu Qing has been in the rapid movement, the body instinctively generated heat, slightly resisted the cold.
Just ...... as he moved forward, this gloomy cold became more and more intense, and after an incense burner, Xu Qing s figure violently stopped, and his face was gloomy as he looked ahead.
In front of him, a large fog appeared within the jungle.
This fog was extremely thick, diffusing away in the distance, but unlike the singing blood fog Xu Qing had seen before, it didn't seem to have too strong a sense of oppression.
It was just that as far as the eye could see, the places that were enveloped by the fog were all a blur, and it was impossible to see everything around them at all.
Especially at this moment, the darkness of the night made the fog's cover even stronger, Xu Qing wanted to avoid it, but he ran for a long time, and what he looked at was still the onslaught of fog.
He knew what it was.
When he had just walked into the forbidden zone, Cross and Luan Teeth had said that among the dangers within the forbidden zone, there was a kind called mist.
If covered by this fog, people will lose their direction and eventually get lost.
And once this mist is formed, it often takes a long time for it to dissipate naturally.
Xu Qing felt that although he could stay up until the fog dissipated, and the heterogeneous quality in his body would not skyrocket, the weak Lei Team could not, and if he was trapped in it, he would surely be alienated and die soon after.
This made Xu Qing have to back up, trying to go around the fog with a wider range.
But ...... the fog was too big, even if he was fast, he was still caught in a situation where the front and back were foggy, and with nowhere to hide, he was submerged within the fog.
But soon, the piece of fog that flooded Xu Qing's place, gradually became thinner, and eventually reappeared Xu Qing's shocked figure.
He lowered his head and looked at his feet.
There were no shadows in the darkness of the night, but Xu Qing could feel the fog around him, which was now rapidly surging into the soles of his own feet.
It was as if the invisible shadow had formed a vortex, devouring the surroundings.
This devouring speed was not fast, and it didn't take long before it seemed to be full, no longer absorbing, causing the fog to re-drown Xu Qing's figure.
But ...... with the end of the shadow's devouring, there is a force of feedback surging into Xu Qing's body, converging eyes, as far as the eye can see, the dense fog, actually became transparent.
Or can not be used to see to describe, but perception!
Obviously, the fog still exists, obviously dense, but in his perception is only slightly fuzzy, far from the point of blocking the gaze to get lost.
This caused Xu Qing to breathe a little more sharply, looking down at the shadows beneath his feet that he couldn't see.
"You, what in the world is ......," Xu Qing whispered.
After a long time he raised his head to perceive the surrounding, silent less body immediately move, speed does not reduce, in the dense fog as if a ghost, sped past.
Until soon, in this dense fog shuttle Xu Qing, saw the living.
It was two scavengers.
Xu Qing vaguely remembers that he seemed to have seen them in the camp, and these two people are now holding each other's hands, slowly exploring forward like blind men in the dense fog.
However, in Xu Qing's perception, their forward movement was actually circling around, and apparently they had also realized this, the sweat on their foreheads and their heavy breathing revealed their nervousness as well as their despair for the future.
After glancing at these two, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze, his body swaying as he was about to leave.
He didn't have a flood of sympathy, living in this cruel world, he had seen too many instances of saving people without a purpose in exchange for being revolted in the slums.
However, for those whose vision was obscured, their hearing would be extremely sharp at this time, so the sound of Xu Qing's footsteps as he left was still detected by them.
The two immediately looked nervous, they could not tell whether the sound was coming from a person or a beast, so one of them roared lowly to show ferocity, seemingly to use this as a deterrent.
The other was shouting for help, and even to show his sincerity, he even took out white dan and spirit coins from his leather pouch, promising to give them away in his words, just for a ray of hope.
Xu Qing paused in his steps for a moment, turning back to look at the white dan in that person's hand, and feeling the weakness of the Lei team behind him.
So after thinking about it, he rummaged through his leather pouch and found a candle to light it, making a fire where it was located, only that it was weak, and the mist was suppressing it, and was slowly dimming.
While the firelight is still there, Xu Qing backed up some distance, looking towards the two not far away, slowly opened his mouth.
"Seven steps straight ahead on the right side, then ten steps to the left ......"
As Xu Qing's voice came in, both of those two scavengers' bodies trembled, their faces revealed ecstasy, and they immediately followed Xu Qing's instructions between their short breaths.
Soon in Xu Qing's successive instructions, they circled left and right, avoiding the dangerous places, and the fog in front of them slowly thinned as they approached the place where the candle flame was located.
Until they walked into the range of the candle flame that was about to go out, being illuminated by the fire, like a blind man reappearing in the light, instantly fell down beside the candle, their moods were excited and boiling intensely.
As for Xu Qing, at this moment hidden in the darkness at the edge, even though the firelight was faintly reflected, his figure was still blurred, expressionless as he looked at the excited appearance of these two in front of him, and spoke faintly.
"White Dan give me."
One of them, whose body trembled, did not hesitate under the aftermath of the robbery and immediately threw the leather pouch containing the spirit coins and white dan on his body to Xu Qing, thanking him profusely.
The other one was just about to take the pills from his body, but after his eyes swept over Xu Qing's figure, his excitement was tempered.
Because Xu Qing was in a dark place, the mist was thin and lingering, so in this person's eyes, he couldn't see Xu Qing's face, and could only see the thinness of his body, as well as what appeared to be an unconscious person on his back.
So his eyes flashed with a ghostly aura, but a smile appeared on his face as he put on a sincere appearance and spoke.
"This little brother, I'm all out of White Dan on me, but don't worry, when the fog clears, or if you have a way to bring me out, I'll be sure to repay you twice as much."
After saying that, his eyes flickered slightly as he looked towards where Xu Qing was, somewhat eager to try.
The companion beside him, at this moment, was also flooded with chagrin, feeling that he seemed to have given too much too quickly before.
Xu Qing looked deeply at the scavenger who hadn't given the White Dan and didn't speak.
He just raised his right hand and waved it, and a wind blew over, the candle's flame extinguished in an instant, and the surroundings once again plunged into pitch blackness and mist.
When the cry of alarm came out from the mouth of the party, Xu Qing shifted closer and ripped the leather bag from his body, followed by a calm voice that echoed around.
"No need, you stay inside."
"Wait, I'm wrong, I'm really wrong, I'll give you White Dan, I ......"
The man was in a hurry and wanted to go grab something, but his body was stopped by the trees under his feet and fell directly.
When he climbed up, his call was even more anxious, and a strong sense of regret filled his body and mind.
"Little brother, listen to my explanation, I ......"
Xu Qing didn't bother to pay attention to the other person's call, heading towards the other person who had given him the White Dan.
This person's face was now horrified, relapsing into the mist filled with panic, and without him noticing it in the slightest, Xu Qing passed by his side and faintly opened his mouth.
"Follow my footsteps."
After saying that, Xu Qing did not turn around, continued to move forward, and that person, after hearing Xu Qing's words, breathing sharply immediately listened to the sound and followed, his heart at this moment unprecedentedly grateful for the speed of his party to give payment.
Especially when he heard the anxious wailing behind him quickly transformed into a frantic curse of unsuccessful pleas for help, the sense of despair in that tone made his heart tremble, and he had a stronger sense of awe for the owner of the footsteps ahead.
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Woke up late ...... This day is too hot, I want to go to the forbidden jungle to stay ......
