"Let me ask you a question, can this one kill people?" Lu Xiufeng asked with a smile.
Miao Qingfeng was stunned.
"This, of course."
"Haha, I'm just asking casually. Don't take it too seriously." Lu Xiufeng smiled and patted him on the shoulder. The latter just smiled. Of course he wouldn't take it seriously. They never use such things to kill people there, so Too rude. Of course, this kind of thing can only be known in the heart and cannot be said out loud.
They pursue their prey and continue deep into the jungle.
"What does it smell like?" Yang Guanfeng suddenly stopped.
"smell?"
After hearing this, Lu Xiufeng and Miao Qingfeng also stopped and smelled carefully.
Very familiar smell, is this? The smell of corpse!
The three of them searched in the direction where the smell came from, and then deep in the jungle, they found a corpse in the weeds under a tree. A stinky corpse. Although the body has begun to stink, it can be seen that there are two obvious wounds on the body, one on the abdomen and the other on the neck.
"How is this going?"
Three people stepped forward.
"The time of death was about seven days. The fatal injury was on the neck, a severed throat, quickly and accurately." Lu Xiufeng said after inspecting the body.
"Is this someone from your village?"
"No." Miao Qingfeng said after looking at it carefully.
"If I remember correctly, there shouldn't be any other villages within a hundred miles, right?"
"No more, our village is the only one."
"Now, there is another murder case near your village. He obviously did not commit suicide." Lu Xiufeng said.
"We are willing to cooperate with the investigation." Miao Qingfeng said.
The sudden appearance of the corpse disrupted all their original arrangements, including those of Lu Xiufeng and Yang Guanfeng.
"Sorry, we need to discuss this."
Then the two people went to the side and discussed in low voices for a while. Instead, they felt that this was a good opportunity. Then the sudden appearance of the body gave them a suitable reason to continue going deep into the jungle, especially with the news they received. The place pointed out.
"Let's search nearby to see if we can find any other clues." Lu Xiufeng said to Miao Qingfeng.
"This requires your cooperation. After all, we are not familiar with this place."
"Okay." Miao Qingfeng agreed without any hesitation.
They then began to search the jungle, and soon they found a dagger with dried blood on it.
"This is a murder weapon!" Lu Xiufeng said after leaning down and taking a closer look at the dagger blade.
"continue."
They continue their search.
"Wait a minute." Miao Qingfeng suddenly said.
"What's wrong?"
"Try not to pass by in front." He looked at the jungle ahead.
"Why?"
"There are poisonous substances in there, very scary ones." Miao Qingfeng said.
"Even people in our village rarely go in, and some people have even been seriously injured by accidentally entering it."
"Really?" Lu Xiufeng and Yang Guanfeng looked at each other after hearing this.
According to the news they got, the place where they were conducting the experiment was somewhere in the jungle ahead, but Miao Qingfeng stopped him at this time. Either he was telling the truth, and there was indeed something terrible inside. Or they are afraid that they will go in and see those things. Obviously the latter is more likely.
"Not even you?" Lu Xiufeng asked.
"It won't work." Miao Qingfeng shook his head decisively.
"Let's go in and take a look. If we find anything abnormal, we'll come back immediately." Yang Guanfeng thought for a while.
"Is it too dangerous?" Lu Xiufeng asked.
"It is indeed too dangerous." Miao Qingfeng said.
"Let's go back to the village first. I will report the situation here to the clan leader, and then ask him to send people from the village to accompany you and prepare medicine to remove poisonous insects. This will be safer."
"Let's go in and have a look?" After Yang Guanfeng finished speaking, he continued to move forward, with Lu Xiufeng following behind.
"Captain Yang!"
"I found something!" Not long after they left, they found a piece of blood-stained clothing, and the blood on it had dried.
Lu Xiufeng knelt down and looked at it carefully, and then made some gestures.
"It doesn't belong to the person who died just now. The body shape is not right. This person's body shape is much shorter and thinner than the person just now, and he was also injured."
"I saw it, there is blood here." Yang Guanfeng found blood stains among the weeds on the ground.
"Be careful."
The three of them moved forward significantly slower. They followed the intermittent bloodstains. After walking for a while, the bloodstains suddenly stopped and were never connected again.
"How is this going?"
"Here, he has been simply bandaged, and the blood in the wound will no longer drop." Yang Guanfeng said, there were some torn clothes under the tree nearby, and there were blood stains on them.
"Brother Miao, are these the homespun clothes from your village?" Lu Xiufeng picked up the piece of broken clothes and said.
The clothes worn by the people in the "Thousand Medicine Valley" are different from those outside, because they have no contact with the outside world and are basically self-sufficient. They eat the food they grow and the livestock they raise, and what they wear is what they wear. The clothes made from the homespun cloth spun by oneself cannot be bought outside, and people outside will not wear clothes made of this kind of cloth.
"Yes, it's the homespun cloth from the village." Miao Qingfeng stretched out his hand and tried it.
"People from your village?"
"I'm not sure about that either."
"Keep looking?"
They continued to search in the woods, walked forward for a while, and found a mountain with many rocks on it.
"What is the taste?"
"Stink, corpse stink!" Lu Xiufeng said.
"Huh?!" Yang Guanfeng suddenly felt a pain in his calf. When he lowered his head, he saw a centipede, more than ten centimeters long, biting his leg. The black carapace was like steel.
"Not good!" Miao Qingfeng was shocked when he saw this. He quickly pulled out a dagger from his waist, and then picked down the centipede.
"Captain Yang, how do you feel?"
"It feels numb here and I'm a little dizzy."
"This kind of centipede is highly poisonous." Miao Qingfeng said anxiously.
"Take this first." He took out a pill from his pocket and asked Yang Guanfeng to take it, then picked it up and walked back.
"We must return to the stockade quickly. If we are late, we will be in trouble."
"Then hurry up!" Lu Xiufeng said.
At this point, they could no longer proceed with the next step of their plan and could only return to the village to heal Yang Guanfeng.
Miao Qingfeng was very fast, moving through the dense jungle like an agile leopard. Lu Xiufeng followed behind. He was alone, and the other party was carrying someone else on his back, so he could barely keep up.
"Phew, this guy is a master!" He thought to himself, he could tell something from the opponent's steps.
"Captain Yang, Captain Yang?!" Miao Qingfeng kept calling Yang Guanfeng as he ran quickly.
Yang Guanfeng was immediately dizzy, his body became cold, and he began to tremble.
"He's shaking!"
"I know, this is a sign of poisoning."
"Can you hurry up and go back to treat him first? Don't worry about me." Lu Xiufeng said. He was really anxious and worried for his good friend.
"No, I can't leave you alone here. It's too dangerous. A poisonous snake or a centipede could kill you. Don't worry, I've given him the antidote. It can be done temporarily. Suppress the toxin so it won't spread so quickly," Miao Qingfeng said.
They walked quickly through the dense jungle. After a while, Lu Xiufeng was sweating profusely and out of breath. However, Miao Qingfeng, who was carrying Yang Guanfeng on his back, still continued unabated and was breathing very fast. Evenly.
Finally, they came to the village. Just like the village, he carried Yang Guanfeng straight to Zhong Miao Xihe's residence without stopping.
"Clan leader."
"What's wrong!" It was another person who came out, a young man who often accompanied him.
"Captain Yang was poisoned."
"Come in quickly!" Miao Xihe's voice came from inside.
They hurriedly carried Yang Guanfeng into the house.
"Clan leader."
"what happened?"
"Captain Yang was bitten by a centipede."
Miao Xihe took a look at the wound and saw that the area directly bitten was already red, swollen and blue.
"Is it a red-headed centipede?"
"right."
"Why are you so careless!" Miao Xihe said.
"It's all my fault for not taking good care of them." Miao Qingfeng said.
"Go get the medicine." Miao Xihe said to the young man on the side. The latter quickly brought a small gray-brown clay jar. Miao Xihe took it and opened it. There was a blue-black ointment inside. He directly used it. He picked up a little with his fingers and applied it on Yang Yangfeng's wound. Then he took a little and dissolved it with warm water and fed it directly to him.
"Okay, let's help him go back and rest. He will be fine in two days." Miao Xihe said.
"Thank you, Chief Miao." Lu Xiufeng said.
"Yes, it's because we didn't take good care of it." Miao Xihe said.
"Well, he won't leave any sequelae, right?"
"No." Miao Xihe said with a smile, "I have cured this kind of poison once."