The girl really couldn't hold on any longer. She was probably highly allergic to bee venom, and if she didn't seek medical treatment in time, she wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
I looked outside the car and said, "Ye Jin, Monk, give me all your coats."
Ye Jin was startled: "What are you going to do?"
I put on the coats of both of them one by one and said, "I'm going to go out and lead away the swarm of bees. Ye Jin, find a way to start the car and leave quickly."
Ye Jin grabbed my clothes and yelled, "Are you fucking crazy? There are so many bees outside, how far can you run?"
I pointed at the poisoned girl and said, "We can't just stand by and watch them die, can we? Warlocks have an iron rule that they must protect their employers. We got these three here, and we have to protect them at the risk of our lives. Don't worry, I won't die!"
I gently pushed Ye Jin's hand away: "After I go down, you quickly close the door."
I pulled the door hard, covered my head with my hands and rolled out of the car, then rolled twice on the ground before I stood up. Before I could stand firm, I felt a piercing pain on my back - even though I had three layers of clothes on, they still couldn't stop the sting of the wild bees.
In a short moment, I was stabbed several times. I forced myself to run towards the outside of the mountain despite the severe pain. I didn't have time and didn't dare to look at the scene behind me, but I could hear the buzzing sound of bees chasing me closely, and the sharp poisonous needles pierced into my body one after another.
At first, I felt like someone had set my back on fire, and the pain was piercing my heart from the outside to the inside. The more pain I felt, the more I wanted to run forward, but the more I ran, the weaker my legs felt. Every step I took felt like I was about to kneel to the ground, but I could only endure the pain and move forward.
I couldn't stop. If I stopped and rolled over, I might never be able to stand up again. I knew I hadn't run very far. If I died here, would it be meaningful to risk breaking out
Even if I just have to use my consciousness to support myself forward, I have to run as far as possible.
Soon, I no longer felt the pain. My legs, which had been filled with lead, swayed lightly from side to side as if they were stepping on cotton. The scenery in front of me began to become increasingly blurry. After I took a desperate step, my body involuntarily collapsed.
I don't know how long it took me to wake up. It was still light and the weeds around me were more than a meter tall. I just turned my eyes and saw a pair of snow-white legs.
When I raised my head slightly, I saw a girl wearing a Miao short skirt. I didn't see her clearly at first glance, but I thought she was very white, as white as clouds. When I stretched out my hand to block the sunlight on my face, a faint halo seemed to form behind the girl. She seemed unreal to me. Although she was close at hand, she seemed far away.
I asked, "You saved me?"
"Yeah!" the girl nodded.
I stood up from the ground, but the girl took a step back. Then I realized that her height was just reaching my chest. We looked like an adult and a child standing together. I clasped my fists and said solemnly, "I can never repay you for saving my life..."
"Wait a minute!" The girl interrupted me, "My name is Xiaotang. If you answer me a question, I will write off my saving you. Is your lover among those people?"
"No." I shook my head. "Only my brother and my employer."
Xiaotang tilted her head and looked at me and asked, "If there was only your employer in there, would you still risk your life to rush into the swarm?"
I nodded and said, "Yes!"
"Why?" Xiaotang asked suspiciously, "You said that there is no woman of yours in there. Are you willing to risk your life just for your employer?"
I said in a deep voice: "'The employer is also the master. The employer must not betray the sorcerer, and the sorcerer must sacrifice his life to protect the master' is the iron rule of the sorcery, and it cannot be violated."
Xiaotang tilted her head and thought for a while before saying, "How much does it cost to hire you?"
I shook my head and said, "My mission is not completed yet, so I can't take on another mission now."
Xiaotang hesitated for a while before asking, "Can you tell me what kind of mission you took?"
"Escort the employer into the heart of Miao territory and find a great witch to detoxify." The reason why I spoke frankly was also to test Xiaotang.
"You're going to Miaojiang?" Xiaotang asked in surprise, "You can't even deal with a group of wild bees, and you still want to go to Miaojiang?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "Let's leave it to fate!"
Xiaotang suddenly said, "Well, I will accompany you into Miao territory, but if someone tries to catch me, you must protect me. Of course, if you can't beat the opponent, you can run away first, and you don't have to fight for me. What do you think?"
I couldn't help but be moved. There wasn't even one person among us who could detoxify, but Xiaotang was able to save me from the bee swarm, which meant that she could at least detoxify, which was much better than us going straight into the depths of Miao territory.
However, this little Tang's origins are unknown, and she looks like she's running for her life. Can I trust her
Ye Jin came over at this time: "Zhaozi, let Xiao Baitang in! Her detoxification skills are not exaggerated, she cured the patient in just a few strokes."
Xiaotang gritted her teeth and said, "Don't call me Xiao Baitang!"
"Ahem..." Actually, I think the nickname Ye Jin gave me is quite appropriate. However, I haven't gotten to know her well yet, so I can't tease a little girl directly. But that doesn't stop me from calling her by her nickname: "Little Sugar, we are going deep into Miao territory, and it's very dangerous there. Are you sure you want to go in with us?"
Xiao Baitang nodded and said, "I want to go inside because it is dangerous. If you don't dare to go into a place, the people chasing me may not dare to go in either. But don't worry, as long as you complete your mission and want to withdraw, I will leave with you."
"Okay then!" Although I didn't understand what Xiao Baitang was going to do, she was the only poison master we could find. Being able to solve the urgent problem was much better than rushing directly into the depths of Miao territory.
I called out to Lu Xiaoying and asked, "How else are we going to go?"
"Keep going forward." After Lu Xiaoying and the three girls came over, Xiao Baitang took the initiative to walk in front of us, as if to lead the way for us, but he turned back from time to time to ask us how to go.
I saw that her movements were to drive away the poisonous insects, but Lu Xiaoying whispered, "The origin of this little white sugar is a bit strange."
I nodded and said, "She should be from the Central Plains School of Magic, either from the School of Poison or the School of Medicine."
Xiao Baitang was wearing Miao clothes, but she was definitely not a Miao girl. This was not just a matter of her accent. Miao girls were good at making poison, that is, Gu worms, so they would definitely carry bottles and jars to hold Gu worms, unless she had reached the level of a great witch to hide Gu without containers. Xiao Baitang didn't have a Gu cup on her, which was the first suspicious point.
The poison and medical schools in the Central Plains are good at using deadly poisons, which are things like powder or pills. I saw Xiao Baitang flicking something powdery into the bushes twice, which was probably a kind of powder.
If Xiao Baitang is a doctor, it would be fine. But if she is a poisoner...
I lowered my voice and said, "Xiao Baitang, have you seen the poison on Monk Shi and the others?"
"I've seen it." Lu Xiaoying said, "Xiao Baitang said that those people were poisoned by a special poison, and she couldn't cure it. And... and the monk didn't seem to be poisoned."
"What did you say?" I asked in surprise, "She didn't see it wrong, did she?"
"I asked her the same question." Lu Xiaoying replied, "Xiao Baitang said that she was not sure whether the monk was poisoned or not, unless she could find a great witch from Miaojiang. I always felt that she was not telling the truth."
"Let's make the best of it!" That's all I can say now. At that time, I was also unsure, and I could only comfort myself by saying "a girl who can stop and save others when being chased can't be that bad."
Lu Xiaoying didn't say anything, and Xiao Baitang didn't communicate with us either. We walked for almost an hour, and Xiao Baitang, who was leading the way, finally stopped and said, "There's a cliff ahead, how can we continue walking?"
I looked in the direction of the finger and saw a cliff. When I walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, I saw a village that was half hidden by the fog.
The girl named Xu Shitong exclaimed, "We found it. I know that village! Didn't we stay in this village the first night when we came here? Look at the entrance of the village. The tour guide even took us up the hill to show us the overall appearance of the village. What is the name of this village?"
"Panshe Village!"
"Yes, yes, yes..." Xu Shitong nodded repeatedly, "It's Panshe Village. The tour guide also said that this village looks like a snake coiled under the mountain when viewed from a high vantage point."
From my current perspective, the village does look like a long snake entwined in a mountain stream, but I still can't find the snake's head. Either the snake's head is built too secretly, or my view is blocked by the clouds on the mountain.
I looked around and found a winding path hidden in the grass on the mountain. "Go down and enter the village first."
I originally wanted to go into the village to inquire about the situation, but when I got to the foot of the mountain, I was dumbfounded.
That village was completely different from what we saw on the mountain. Just looking at the dilapidated gate, you could tell that the village had been abandoned for many years. Some of the houses were overgrown with weeds, and it didn't look like anyone was living there at all.
I turned to look at Xu Shitong and asked, "Are you sure you were living in this village at the time?"
"I..." Xu Shitong was also stunned, "I clearly remember that at that time... Look over there..."
Xu Shitong pointed to a stone near the village gate and said, "That stone is still there! When we entered the village, we saw an old man smoking a cigarette. He was smoking the same kind of Miao pipe that you see on TV. I went over to see it on purpose..."
"Are you talking about the pipe under the rock..." (To be continued)