I heard someone remind me and subconsciously looked under the stone. Sure enough, there was a Miao pipe thrown there.
In addition to their beautiful appearance, Miao tobacco pipes combine national craftsmanship and weapons. Authentic tobacco pipes are very valuable and will not be discarded so casually even if their owners are away.
I walked quickly to the stone and gently moved the pipe a few times with a knife, wanting to pull it out for a closer look. Unexpectedly, I pulled out a few snow-white finger bones from under the stone.
"There's a corpse down there! Ye Jin, come and help." I asked Ye Jin to find two wooden sticks, put stones on the ground, and pry out the stones that were about half a foot buried in the soil little by little.
There was indeed a torn body underneath. Judging from the position of the corpse's right hand, he must have fallen on his back holding his pipe, and then was smashed into the ground by the rocks that followed.
The size of the stone was too big to cover a person completely, and the skeleton underneath was also incomplete. Judging from the body, he had cut off the body and head that were exposed on the edge of the stone and took them away by himself.
In the past, not only did a great war take place here, but the battle was also extremely brutal.
I was just about to use a dagger to pick open the corpse to look for some clues, but I heard Ye Jin shouting, "Zhaozi, look at that stone, it looks like a snake head."
I turned to look at the stone we dug out, and found that it was actually a snake-shaped stone sculpture. The stone, as big as a millstone, was carved into the shape of a snake's head. If the stone sculpture was still intact, it should be a venomous snake with fangs exposed, ready to bite people. The stone sculpture in front of me obviously had its lower jaw cut off, so I couldn't recognize its full appearance at first.
Although I don't know much about Miaojiang, I know that many places have the custom of worshipping gods, and the older the ethnic group, the more so. This snake head is probably the object of worship for the Miao village as a guardian god. Since it has been destroyed so badly, how could there be any living people in the village
I looked at Yu Shitong: "Are you sure you have lived here?"
"I... I'm sure..." Yu Shitong was so scared that her face turned pale, but she said with extraordinary certainty, "When we came here, we lived in the house over there."
“Go and take a look!”
The room that Yu Shitong mentioned was already overgrown with weeds, and the weeds were over a meter high and had even grown out of the door. Plants all have the characteristic of being oriented to the sun, and it is definitely not the result of one or two days for the grass leaves to grow like this.
The moment I used the knife to push aside the grass leaves, I saw a colorful little snake jump out from the grass and swim quickly into the house: "Follow me and don't wander around. Yu Shitong, take me to the room where you lived."
Yu Shitong pointed to a wing room and said, "We lived in that room at the time. When I left, I left my makeup bag in the room..."
Sure enough, there was a dusty makeup bag in the room, and there were even a few bloody fingerprints on the bag. Those should be the traces left by someone grabbing the makeup bag with their hands before dying.
Yu Shitong's face turned pale: "That handprint is not mine... It's really not mine."
As Yu Shitong was speaking, the bag that fell on the dressing table suddenly moved. It looked as if something trapped inside heard the noise outside and was trying to struggle out.
I pulled out my long knife, pressed the tip of the knife against the zipper of the cosmetic bag, and gently lifted it up, and a gap suddenly appeared on the cosmetic bag. I thought a poisonous snake would jump out of the bag, but I never expected that a white finger would jump out of the bag.
The finger that was broken off at the root first pressed on the table, then bounced up from the dressing table, curled up in the air, and then bounced on the table with a crisp "pop" sound.
As the sound suddenly occurred, the finger fell into the gap behind the dressing table with the help of the rebound force.
I was just a step slower, and I heard a series of rustling sounds coming from all around the house. Lao Chang, who was hiding in my backpack, quickly transmitted a message: "There are snakes outside!"
Before he could finish his words, Ye Jin, who was guarding outside, ran in with Monk Shi on his back: "Zhaozi, it's bad, there are snakes outside, lots of snakes."
In just a moment, I saw countless poisonous snakes poking their heads out from the cracks around the room, struggling desperately to get in. The next moment, a swarm of snakes like a tide blocked the door of the room and swarmed into the house.
When Xiao Baitang, who was standing on the periphery, grabbed a handful of medicine powder and sprinkled it towards the door, the violent poisonous snake became docile in an instant, like a tamed pet, twisting its body gently on the ground, waiting for its owner's praise.
As I watched in amazement, Xiao Baitang quickly sprinkled the powder around us. All the poisonous snakes that had come in from the cracks in the wall and windows stopped and lay obediently in the cracks in the wall without moving.
Xiao Baitang said, "My powder can't control the poisonous snakes for long. Hurry up and wade out. Don't step on the poisonous snakes. Once you scare them, they will collectively counterattack. Hurry up!"
“No, I don’t dare…” Yu Shitong was so frightened that she trembled and dared not move forward.
It may seem like nothing to wade on the ground, but now we have to put our feet under the body of the poisonous snake, slowly pull the snake away, and then move forward step by step. Not everyone can bear the fear of a poisonous snake crawling on the back of their feet, let alone a few girls.
I hesitated for a moment and said, "Lu Xiaoying, Xiao Baitang, please each of you carry one and I'll carry one. Let's get out first."
There were only four of us who could walk into the snake group without fear. Monk Shi's poison had broken out again, so Ye Jin had to carry him on his back. I could only let Lu Xiaoying and the others each carry a girl on their backs and walk out.
Xiao Baitang carried a girl on his back and walked in front. I turned around and carried Yu Shitong on my back, and followed the path Xiao Baitang had paved, and walked towards the outer yard. At first, the venomous snake that Xiao Baitang had picked away did not react. When I walked to the outer room, I found that the venomous snake here was much more agile than before. It swam back quickly not long after being picked away by Xiao Baitang, and twisted its body around my feet.
Efficacy!
It must be the efficacy of the medicine. We are now about 12 or 13 meters away from where we were. The efficacy of the medicine will naturally weaken. Xiao Baitang just sprinkled a lot of medicine powder. I guess she doesn't have much on her body. Otherwise, she should have sprinkled medicine powder all the way out instead of risking wading through the snakes like she is doing now.
I just took a few steps forward, but suddenly I felt a chill on my neck - a poisonous snake crawled into my clothes through my collar? But I was clearly carrying someone on my back, how did the snake get in
The next moment, I suddenly felt like two sharp claws grabbed the skin on my back, pushing my back and crawling into my clothes. It was not a snake, but a gecko!
Some people list geckos as one of the five poisonous animals, while others exclude geckos and include spiders in the five poisonous animals. In any case, a gecko that can move freely among a group of snakes is definitely not a good guy.
I immediately broke out in a cold sweat on my forehead: "Yu Shitong, what's in my neck?"
"Bloodline Gecko." Yu Shitong whispered on my shoulder, "I put it in there!"
"You..." Everyone stopped in an instant. I clearly heard the sound of Lu Xiaoying and Ye Jin drawing their weapons. Xiao Baitang also turned around in front and took out an exquisite scimitar in his hand.
I saw Yu Shitong's face behind me from the slanted blade of Xiao Baitang, and my heart suddenly tightened. Yu Shitong's face had turned as pale as paper, and there were traces of bloody red lines at the corners of her eyes. At first glance, it looked like she was crying and bleeding, but in fact, there was not even a trace of blood in her eyes.
I said in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
Yu Shitong said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that your lives are in my hands. Listen to me, cooperate with me, and everything will be fine. Otherwise, you won't be able to leave Miao Territory."
I once again said in a deep voice: "What do you want me to do?"
"I want you to kill someone." The man said softly, "Kill the three women you are guarding. Then, follow my orders and kill people. That's all."
I refused coldly: "Impossible! They are my employers."
The man laughed and said, "Employer? How ridiculous! You dare to come out and practice magic with your abilities. What's even more ridiculous is that there are still people who believe you! I quietly appeared behind you twice and spoke twice, but you didn't notice that there was an extra person in the team. What kind of magicians are you?"
Talking twice? I couldn't help but shudder. I already recognized the other person's voice.
The first time, when we were standing on the top of the mountain, she said the village below was called "Panshe Village." At that time, we were concentrating on observing the situation in the village, and I was only about half a foot away from the edge of the cliff.
But at that time, a ghost appeared silently behind us, and she almost stuck to us and shouted "Panshe Village". If she had reached out from behind and gently pushed me against my vest...
The second time, we were at the entrance of the village, and someone said there was a pipe under a rock, but none of us paid attention to where the sound came from. At that time, a ghost was among us, looking at me with a sad and cold smile as I searched for corpses.
None of us noticed when this ghost appeared in our team, but after her two reminders, it broke into this deserted Miao village.
The ghost chuckled and said, "You are afraid, right? It is rare to find a warlock who is afraid of ghosts. I will give you three breaths to consider whether you are ready to kill people according to my request, or to die first. One..."
Three breaths is three seconds. This time may seem short, but it is enough for a gambler to make a judgment.
And I am that gambler, the gambler who is gambling with his life.
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