Yuan Zhan was the first to wake up, and was about to jump up as soon as his body moved, but the sequelae of traveling through space made him stagger.
Puchi! He seems to have stepped on something. Yuan Zhan lowered his head, his face changed slightly.
The old man He was the weakest, lying on the ground without any response.
Jiufeng fluttered his wings dizzily, flying here and there, hitting Yuan Zhan's solid back with his head, "Jie!"
The old man He moaned, and his body began to struggle.
Jiu Feng slid down, and quickly flapped his small wings to fly above Yuan Zhan's head, "Jie! Where is this? There are so many dead two-legged monsters!"
Yuan Zhan calmly pulled his bare feet out of the rotting corpses, wiped the mucus and decay on the ground, and poured some water to rinse them. At the same time, he picked up the old man He and put him in an open space far away from the corpse.
The place where they fell was very bad. Dozens of corpses were scattered on the ground, including men, women, and children. There were no wounds caused by weapons on their bodies. Most of the corpses looked thin, but they definitely didn’t look like they died of starvation. rather like...
Yuan Zhan remembered that when he was a child, a similar mass death incident occurred in the original tribe. It was also the beginning of summer. Many people fell ill, and the elderly and children were the first to fall. The old priest at that time, Qiushi, said that this was God’s gift to them. Punishment, because they hunted a few pregnant females in the spring.
Now that I think about it, this is probably the plague Mo told him about? Because some dirty things invisible to the naked eye enter the body, people get sick, and the dirty things will go to other healthy people.
Mo said that these dirty things are like beasts, their purpose is to survive and continue, and human beings and other creatures are their prey and food.
However, whether the cause of the death of these dead bodies was an epidemic or not has yet to be confirmed. Because poisoning, curses, and some horrible witchcraft can also do the same.
"Jie! Two-legged monsters are coming!" Jiu Feng looked far away and reminded Yuan Zhan: "They have weapons!"
"You are also a two-legged monster, a two-legged monster without arms." Yuan Zhan moved Mo Sha tied on his back to his waist, and touched the wooden box on his back to make sure that the blood stone was still there.
"Jie! It's nothing without arms, I have wings! I have wings!"
"Well, twolegs with wings."
Not only was Jiu Feng not angry, but he was also very proud, Jie Jie smiled strangely, "I am a two-legged monster with wings, I can fly, you can't, Jie Jie!"
"Sooner or later." Yuan Zhan was full of confidence in himself, and at the same time turned his head to look at the surrounding environment.
This is like a plain area. There are mountains in the distance as far as the eye can see. They are not high, and most of them are small independent hills.
Nearby, there is a continuous small mountain range behind them. The mountain looks rich in water and trees, and a dirt road extends into the mountain. In front of the mountain is Yimapingchuan, and there are many adobe houses at the foot of the mountain. If you look farther away, you can see a faint large building complex.
Is this the Western Continent? It doesn't look like there's anything special about it.
No, there seems to be something different. Yuan Zhan took a deep breath to get rid of the rancid smell coming from the pile of corpses. The air here made him feel... a bit dry? It's not dry and dry, but like there is not enough of something important, and at the same time it seems that there are too many other ingredients.
Yuan Zhan tried to push a soil thorn out of the ground, but fortunately, his main ability seemed to be still usable, and it was no problem to use the water ability just now.
The old man He also finally struggled to get up, and when he got up, he saw a crowd not far away waving weapons and shouting at them, but none of those people approached them.
"who are you?"
"What are you doing there?"
"Where are you from?"
The tense crowd grabbed their spears and shouted at them, but unfortunately, none of the three Yuan Zhan could understand what the other was saying.
"It would be great if Mo was here." Yuan Zhan patted He on the back and asked him, "Can I go?"
The old man nodded, "I'm still a little dizzy, but I'm fine, I can walk."
"Leave here first." Yuan Zhan didn't want the person he brought here with great difficulty to die inexplicably before he could be useful.
"Jiufeng, don't act recklessly." Anyway, it's my own person, and it's better to give a warning if it's an unfamiliar place.
"Jie!" Although Jiu Feng was still a young bird, he was vigilant, and he had already rushed into the sky without Yuan Zhan's orders.
Yuan Zhan led the old man He towards the crowd.
When those people saw the two coming, they started to retreat, but they didn't retreat much. Among them, people who looked like soldiers came out more and more, shouting something to Yuan Zhan.
Yuan Zhan didn't understand, and his footsteps didn't stop.
The man drank heavily.
"Shua!" The group pointed their spears at Yuan Zhan and the other two.
Does this mean not letting them pass? But how can he ask Yan Mo's whereabouts if he doesn't go there? The dark god said it, because what he provided was only hair, and the space channel always contains uncertainty. The farther the distance, the greater the error. It can send them to the person they want to find, but it may not be exactly there. around that person.
But the dark god is also sure that unless there is a problem with the space channel, the place where they go out will not be too far from the person they want to find.
The man shouted: "Don't come here again, if you come here again, we will do it!"
Yuan Zhan, who didn't understand, continued to move forward.
"You guys! Get ready, I say throw it! Don't let them come over!"
Yuan Zhan is getting closer and closer to those people.
That person didn't look like an ordinary person in Yuan Zhan's aura, which made him hesitate a bit, but the opponent didn't have horns on his head, he wasn't a horned tribe, and there were only two people in the opponent. Considering the sudden appearance of these people, they came from the pile of corpses For the rest of the villagers, the man gritted his teeth and waved: "Throw a spear! Kill them!"
Dozens of spears flew towards the two of Yuan Zhan.
Yuan Zhan grinned. It's been a long time since he received such a low-level attack, and he kind of missed it.
On the other end, Yan Mo stepped into the valley wearing a cloth towel soaked in liquid medicine. Something brushed across his face, like wind, but it wasn't.
Yan Mo couldn't tell the difference for a while, so he had no choice but to ignore it for the time being.
The valley is wider than he imagined, and there is a meandering stream in the middle. There are scattered adobe houses mixed with thatch on both sides of the stream, and some wide and flat places have been reclaimed into fields.
The temperature inside the valley was higher than the outside, and there was plenty of water vapor. Similarly, a stench of rotting corpses that had accumulated for several days mixed with feces and other odors also condensed in the air and did not dissipate.
Some corpses fell by the stream, and some were half-lying in the stream.
In the village, there is no cooking smoke, no human voice, no animal calls, not even the sound of the wind.
Should I be grateful that it hasn't been windy for two days? Otherwise, there might not be many people left in the Wadi village closest to the valley.
The queen village witch let out a hoarse exclamation: "This is... all dead?!"
Yan Mo proceeded carefully all the way, "You go to the hut over there, I'll go over here to see if there are any living people in the hut."
"Okay!" The stepdaughter immediately crossed the creek to the other side.
Yan Mo first dragged all the corpses soaked in the stream ashore, and he didn't know where the stream leads downstream. If it was the lake, considering that the people in Gudi Village would probably pour excrement, urine, dirty water, etc. into this stream The stream, the lake may really be undrinkable in a short time.
He could remind the people in Wadi Village, but the lake seems to be running water, what about the area it flows through? Generally, upstream pollution like this will be more unlucky in the downstream areas within a shorter distance and shorter time frame.
Now he just hoped things were better up the creek in this valley.
"Hehe, many people died." Wu Guo probably knew that they had changed their environment, so she was no longer silent.
"How is Dudu?" A small stone rolled to his feet, and Yan Mo kicked it away lightly.
"He's fine."
"Why do you always not let him come out and talk to me?" Yan Mo was really helpless.
"His soul power is too weak, and he won't last long." Wu Guo gritted his teeth, "I'm still trapped in your body, and it's not because of this kid! Originally, the energy of so many bloodstones that Yuan Zhan gave me is enough for me. Come out, if you are not afraid that I will come out, this kid's soul will be scattered, I... "
Yan Mo's heart twitched, and he said sincerely and sincerely: "Wu Guo, thank you."
Wu Guo snorted, "He and I have one body and two souls, we are brothers, I will help him... what can I ask you to thank!"
"You're right." Yan Mo smiled, and the smile was gentle and tender, "You are brothers, both my children. I am very happy, very happy that Dudu has such a good brother like you."
"Fart!" The unborn little Maotou was shy and scolded ferociously.
Yan Mo laughed so hard that his eyes rolled up, "Wuguo, tell Dad, is there any way to strengthen your brother's soul power? No matter what it is, as long as it is good for you, I will find a way to get it for you."
"Then quickly find the thing I said before."
"Okay, I will definitely speed up. We will go to Wugan City after the epidemic here is dealt with." Yan Mo made a decision, but he didn't know that he went to Wugan City much earlier than he expected.
One hour is enough for them to walk through the valley village. The stepdaughter came to join Yan Mo, and shook her head without saying a word, "I didn't see a single living person."
"It's the same here." Yan Mo paused, "Do you know their village witch and village chief? Do you have their bodies?"
"I don't see it here. Your side?"
Yan Mo shook his head, "I didn't see anyone dressed like a village witch."
The stepdaughter suspected, "Maybe the people in Gudi Village didn't die, and the living people ran into the mountains."
Yan Mo looked up at the small but dense mountain range following the eyes of the stepdaughter. From a distance, this mountain range looks like a ")(" shape, with a valley in the middle, but there are no such open exits at both ends, only asymmetrical The winding path, the stream flows in from the west end, and the east end flows into the ground.
"Where is the northwest exit?"
"Front Mountain Village."
"Is there another road on the mountain?"
"have."
Yan Mo drew a rough topographic map on the ground. What is known so far: Qianshan Village is located approximately at the head of the bracket on the right, Wadi Old Village is slightly below the end of the bracket on the right, and New Village is below the bracket on the left.
When drawing the terrain, the soil on the ground seemed to be blown by the wind, and the floating soil floated, blocking the lines he just drew. this is? Yan Mo felt a little strange, maybe it was his illusion, he always felt that there was something around him.
Smiling, Yan Mo deepened the lines.
Seeing him draw the topographic map, the stepdaughter also squatted down and told him with tree branches: there are villages on the flat ground above the left bracket and in the mountains and at the foot of the mountain on the left; It is directly above the two back-to-back bracket mountains, and is also due west.
Yan Mo was about to go to Qianshan Village, when the village witch from the back sighed first: "The relationship between Qianshan Village and us is not good, and we often fight for the prey in the mountain on the right. The boundaries in the mountain are difficult to draw. Sometimes they say that Chasing wild animals across the border, we can't do anything about them."
"I have to go there, including other villages around here." At first, he thought that Wadi Village was the source of the virus, but seeing that Gudi Village had more deaths, he couldn't be sure.
The queen village witch did not answer immediately.
Yan Mo roughly knew what he was thinking, "Do you think that Qianshan Village has a bad relationship with you, even if it is dead, it has nothing to do with you? It is even good for you?"
The stepdaughter is embarrassed, that's what he thinks in his heart.
Yan Mo understood him. As a village witch, he naturally considered the interests of his own village. When those people from the upper city provoked him, he wished that all of them would die.
"That was before cholera was discovered. Once cholera broke out, they would be upstream of you, and in front of your road to Wugan City. If you don't know their situation and don't dispose of their corpses, the people in Wadi Village will really kill you." The only way to go is to migrate the whole village."
"So serious?" The stepdaughter was surprised.
"Believe me, it will definitely be more serious than this. I think Ugan City hasn't sent troops to deal with you until now, but they just want to wait for you to die naturally, and then they only need to come and burn the corpses. But if the virus spreads to Ugan City Go, as long as the city lord is not stupid, he will never wait like this, he will definitely take the initiative to eliminate the source of the disease."
"Okay, I'll go with you, but I have to tell you first that the people in Qianshan Village are much more fierce than those in Wadi Village, and they are close to Ugan City, and they have more people and fighters than us. In addition, if you let them know You are another god's envoy, and they are likely to betray you to the Ugan Temple for a little reward."
Yan Mo frowned. He didn't mind that the villagers were fierce, but it would be a bit troublesome to inform Wugan City. Or hide your identity
"How are the people in other villages? Is there anyone who is close and friendly to you?"
When the stepdaughter heard that Yan Mo seemed to be shaken, she immediately cheered up, "Yes, we have a very good relationship with Huoguo Village. Many of our women marry into their village, and so does their village."
"Huoguo Village? The village on the left hill?"
"right."
"Come on, let's go over there first."
The stepdaughter is also worried about Huoguo Village. Although they sent people to visit last time, they said that no one died of illness, but it has been seven or eight days since the last visit, and now they don't know what happened.
Yan Mo and his stepdaughter turned their heads, there was no way to climb up the steep mountains in the valley, they could only go out through the east path, and then detour up the mountain from the outside.
"Jie!"
Yan Mo raised his head in surprise, he seemed to have heard Jiu Feng's voice just now
No huge bird shadow appeared in the sky, nor did the sound appear a second time.
Yan Mo shook his head and sneered. He's only been here for the second day, even if Jiufeng can fly thousands of kilometers in an hour after he advanced, it's impossible for him to chase him across the ocean so quickly and fly to his vicinity so accurately.
How long has it been? Did he have auditory hallucinations because of missing it
The three Houshi guards waiting at the mouth of the valley were overjoyed when they saw Yan Mo come out.
The rear lion came up to meet him and asked loudly, "How is Gudi Village? Did many people die?"
"A lot. Houshang, Houyu, you two should report back to the village first, and tell them that Master Shenshi and I are going to Huoguo Village. If we can't make it back tonight, let them not worry."
"yes."
"Hou Shi, come with us, we will depend on you on the road." Although there is a more powerful envoy by her side, the Hou village witch still subconsciously relies on the warrior Hou Shi.
Hou Shi patted his chest, "With me here, you don't have to be afraid, I will send you to Huoguo Village without any problems."
After that, they rushed all the way, and the rear lion walked in the front with a spear in hand, beating the grass and shrubs.
The queen village witch tied up her trousers with a straw rope, and took a long branch in her hand to explore the way.
The diameter distance between Huuoguo Village and Wadi Village is not far, but because of the difficult mountain road, it took more time than to go to Valley Village.
At the beginning of walking, Yan Mo carefully looked at his feet, but after walking for a while, he suddenly felt something, it seemed to be a kind of cautious probing, and it seemed like an invisible elf was being mischievous.
"A different soul..."
"Different human beings..."
"Can you hear us?"
"Can you see us?"
"Hee hee, come and play with us."
"Come on, come on, humans from another continent, come and play with us."
Yan Mo raised the corners of his lips, just as his feet landed, the ground was entangled into a pile of weeds that sounded like a trap and separated silently.
"thanks."
"Yeah! He heard it! He can hear us!"
The knee-length weeds rolled like waves, as if being blown by a strong wind, spreading the news farther and farther afield.
Yan Mo didn't know what his mood was, maybe he wanted to experiment? He even pricked his fingertip with a wooden thorn, forced out a drop of fingertip blood, and flung it into the air.
"Wow!" Obviously there was no sound, but Yan Mo heard laughter similar to cheers.
"This is a good man!"
"This is a very good human being, I like him!"
The naughty weeds quietly wrapped around Yan Mo's ankles, and then let go.
The venomous snake hiding in the bush poked its head out, and was blown around by the inexplicable wind again.
Yan Mo walked more and more easily, and a large amount of energy, which was different from that of the East Continent, rushed to his body.
The energy here seems to be more lively, they are like children who have been lonely for a long time, finally waiting for a good friend who can play with them.