A dark blue night covered the sky, with a bright moon and stars dotted in the sky. The bonfire that spreads across the sky emits an orange-red light, reflecting the redness in the middle of the night.
The bonfire in the center of the square is surrounded by log fences as high as one person, and the interior is full of fodder. The orange-red bonfire was burning brightly, and the flames were as high as three people. Stone pillars are evenly distributed around the square and in the middle. There are black braziers on the pillars. The torch-like flames in the braziers sway and dance, adding light to the bonfire square at night.
The entire square covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters. Countless villagers dressed in Chinese clothes are singing and dancing around the bonfire in the sky. There are drums, flutes and other music with rhythms that are sometimes tight and sometimes relaxed, constantly adding to the atmosphere. .
The south side of the square is full of tables displaying fine wine and barbecue. From a few hundred meters away, you can smell the strong aroma of wine flowing down the road, the aroma of grilled meat with golden oil, and a variety of other delicious food and drinks.
The east and west sides of the square are divided by small vendors in textile workshops and handicraft workshops. The beautiful new cloth and fresh clothes and various gaudy gadgets attract many villagers. The north side was occupied by the men of the hunter team, and a place in the open space was arranged for the villagers to compete in shooting competitions.
Rows of brightly colored lights hanging between the eaves can be seen everywhere nearby.
The scope of the colorful lanterns is the scope of the party. Almost all the more than 600 people in the entire village came tonight, making this area dressed in a festive atmosphere very lively.
Wu Qi and the other three, dressed like villagers, strolled to Bonfire Square. The bonfire in the center has been surrounded by singing and dancing villagers. Once the song is over, another group of people will come on. A 1-meter-high wooden platform was set up in the hunting ground to the north. The luxuriously dressed village leader Xu Haoqing was sitting on the village leader's chair. At this moment, the preaching process before the annual bonfire party had ended.
Wu Qi greeted Gao Yuan and Guo Baibai and walked straight to the north. There happened to be some villagers who were familiar with Guo Baibo and Gao Yuan. When they saw them coming, they all invited them to sing, dance, or drink and brag.
Wu Qi crossed the crowded square and arrived in front of Mutaizi. After two months, he met the leader of the village who took them in again.
Xu Haoqing has thick eyebrows and big eyes, outstanding facial features, and a kind but majestic face; his skin is a healthy wheat color, and through the wide Chinese clothes, you can see that he has a strong muscular frame, and he is wearing a graceful and luxurious black coat. Gorgeous clothes. The Chinese clothes are embroidered with light gold and bright red lines. The patterns are exquisite and unique. They are made by the best embroiderers in Xujiazhai. The mulberry silk used is the best in the season; the collar around the neck is sewn. A strip of pure black mink velvet adds to the nobility of the upper class.
Xu Haoqing sat on the exquisitely crafted and imposing village chair, with his hands covered in long sleeves resting on the armrests of the chair. There is a coffee table of the same style placed on the right side of his body. On the coffee table there is a bamboo basket filled with fresh fruits, a pot of tea, and a set of ceramic cups.
Xu Haoqing recognized Wu Qi, raised his hand to the seat on the other side of the coffee table, and said with a smile:
"Long time no see, sit down."
Wu Qi thanked Xu Haoqing without being polite.
"The master of the village, the dragon, has never seen its end. Wu Qi has wanted to visit the village master's mansion many times in the past two months, but he can't see you."
"Haha, you don't need to call me Lord Village Master," Xu Hao smiled brightly, took the initiative to pour a cup of tea for Wu Qi, and handed it to Wu Qi, "I usually travel in the mountains and rarely sit down at home to work. But I have I understand your life in the past two months. I am very happy to see that you have a harmonious relationship with my fellow villagers and that the neighbors are helping each other."
Wu Qi thanked Xu Haoqing again: "This is as it should be. Without the help of the original village leader Xu, maybe the three of us would have been lost in the mountains and become the prey of unknown beasts."
Xu Haoqing said: "Brother Wu is joking. You are so powerful that you hunted the iron-cracked brown bear by yourself without getting hurt. You must be able to make a living hunting in the mountains."
He raised his slender sleeves and pointed to the lively bonfire square: "But this stable and prosperous Xujiazhai is a rare and good place to live in the mountains. I like my village very much, what do you think? ?”
Wu Qi agreed. Xujiazhai is the most comfortable place Wu Qi has lived in his life. There are several houses and a yard, and the owner is himself. The neighbors communicate harmoniously, and there is a "human touch" that has never been tasted before.
After a few words of exchange, Wu Qi went straight to the point and explained his purpose.
"Master Xu, in order to express my gratitude to you, I have a gift for you."
Wu Qi took out a long gray box from the inside of Huayi, placed it on the coffee table and pushed it towards Xu Haoqing.
Xu Haoqing opened the box curiously, and what caught his eye was a transparent syringe and a bottle of light green medicine.
"What is this?" Xu Haoqing asked, the look in his eyes was focused and honest, and Wu Qi caught his eye.
"This is something from the outside. It's called gene enhancement potion," Wu Qi explained. "It's a way for ordinary people to improve their physical fitness. After the injection, they may become extremely powerful, or they may have strong skin and thick flesh, or Improve the coordination and sensitivity of the body. In an era when mutated animals are constantly evolving, humans also need ways to improve their own strength, otherwise they will one day be unable to defeat their former prey."
Xu Haoqing's eyes suddenly became bright. He picked up the box and looked carefully at the light green liquid in the potion.
"Is it really so magical?"
"Of course." Wu Qi said.
The main purpose of Wu Qi's gift was to test Xu Haoqing's reaction. As of now, Xu Haoqing doesn't seem to recognize the genetic enhancement potion.
Xujiazhai is isolated from the world, few outsiders enter, and even the owner of the village has never left the mountains. It is normal not to recognize the genetic enhancement potion. But Wu Qi just didn't believe it.
Because he heard from Gao Yuan, who had returned from the hunter team, that the men in the hunter team were all strong ordinary people, but they could actually use wooden bows and stone arrows as weapons to hunt various first-order mutant animals with very few casualties. .
A whole team of hunters has a mature hunter with strong leadership as the commander, eyes and ears with outstanding observation as observers, hunters with strong arms and thick skin for close combat, archers with superb archery skills for long-range combat, and There are auxiliary hunters who are good at making medicine, poison and laying traps.
The hunter team works as a team and is very good at selecting prey, so after Gao Yuan has been observing for two months, there is rarely a chance to find that someone has particularly strong physical abilities. However, he still seized the opportunity. When he encountered an iron-cracked brown bear, he saw the melee hunter who usually stood in front raised his shield to resist the iron-cracked brown bear's collision. Although the melee hunter flew out, fortunately the interference attacks of the long-range archers and auxiliary hunters worked, allowing them to retreat.
Afterwards, they went to visit the injured melee hunter. As a result, the man's injury healed a week later and he rejoined the team for hunting.
So Wu Qi became suspicious, suspecting that these hunters were not ordinary pure humans.
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