Shi Qingxue was taken aback and ran over quickly.
At first glance, the young man was already foaming at the mouth, twitching for only a few moments, and then suddenly became unresponsive and his whole body went limp.
Qingxue couldn't help but feel a little thump in her heart. She stretched out her hand to explore the tip of the young man's nose, but was so frightened that she retracted her hand.
It turned out to be... He died!
From the time when the young man had a lofty talk with her to now, not even a quarter of an hour had passed before a living human life was lost.
It was so sudden that even Shi Qingxue, who had seen a lot of changes, was shocked.
How, how could this happen
However, before Qingxue could recover, the people who were watching the excitement began to twitch one after another. Before Qingxue could react, everyone fell to the ground.
He was frothing at the mouth like a young man, and soon there was no movement.
Shi Qingxue covered her mouth in panic before she screamed without losing her composure.
She was dumbfounded for two seconds, then suddenly came to her senses and went to help the only middle-aged woman on the ground who was still twitching, hoping to lend a helping hand.
But in such a dry desert, there was not even the most basic liquid for inducing vomiting, not to mention that Qingxue had no idea how these people died suddenly.
In the end, she could only watch the woman take her last breath in her arms, her eyes widening.
With a dead look on his face.
Shi Qingxue held the woman's body in her arms and could not recover from the accident of corpses on the ground for a while.
Until she felt someone push her shoulder from behind, and a voice came into her ears.
"Are you OK!"
Shi Qingxue was shocked, and when she turned around in surprise, she saw Abao standing behind her alive.
She immediately felt relieved and quickly put down the woman's body, then took the little Abao into her arms and shouted in surprise: "You're okay! That's great! You scared me to death!"
Although she knew that such thoughts were inappropriate, between the indifferent fellow travelers and Abao, who had been closest to her in the past few days, she secretly hoped that Abao was still alive.
This was probably the first time in Abao's life that he was held so close by someone. His body became stiff as a piece of wood. Shi Qingxue's warm breath of talking could still be heard in his ears, making his ears itch.
It's a little uncomfortable, but also a little indescribably comfortable.
He resisted the urge to scratch his ears, ignored the awkwardness all over his body and the increasingly hot cheeks, and coyly whispered: "I'm not a fool, so nothing will happen!"
"Huh?" Shi Qingxue didn't hear clearly.
She was so happy that A Bao was still alive, and she asked him to take his pulse to make sure that he was really healthy and had no problems at all, so that she could have enough time to think about this sudden death.
"How did that happen?"
Shi Qingxue let go of Abao, stood up and looked around. The corpses on the ground were dazzling, especially the young men who were leading them. They were originally very fierce, like kings at the top of the food chain, with a big knife hanging on their waist and the desire of everyone. And the rare and precious water bag.
However, at this time, it had become a corpse in the desert, no different from other corpses.
The animal skin bag he had collected fell next to their bodies, which seemed even more ironic.
Shi Qingxue sighed, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
She couldn't figure out why, except for her and Abao, everyone in a caravan died in a short period of time
Looking at these people foaming at the mouth and twitching all over before they died, it looked a bit like... poisoning
Poisoned!
An idea flashed in Shi Qingxue's mind, and she suddenly looked at the cacti, the treasure of the desert, which were still standing tall, with disbelief in her eyes.
No way!
She muttered secretly in her heart, but still walked forward in surprise, raised the dagger, hung a little milky white juice from the cactus, and put it in front of her.
Before she could study it thoroughly, her arm holding the dagger was suddenly pulled.
Qingxue didn't hold it, and the dagger fell to the ground.
Then she heard Abao shouting angrily: "Are you crazy? You didn't see them all dead, how dare you eat them!"
This roar confirmed Shi Qingxue's last suspicion - these people were indeed poisoned and died after eating cactus juice.
But when Qingxue came to the realization, instead of showing a look of sudden realization, her face was filled with shock and fear.
Then, the scenes that she had not noticed just now appeared in her mind one by one like a slow-motion replay.
Abao was the first to discover this oasis...
When she was about to scrape the cactus juice, Abao tried his best to stop her and even said "I don't care about you anymore"...
Just now, when Abao thought she was about to taste the juice, he tried to stop her...
This scene made Shi Qingxue have to confirm that Abao knew that the juice of these cactus could not be eaten.
Shi Qingxue's pupils suddenly dilated, her face full of disbelief, "You did it on purpose!"
Abao's face also turned pale, but he quickly calmed down.
He didn't bother to defend himself, or even explain. He just turned away awkwardly.
After a long while, he said coldly: "I didn't force them. I just discovered a plant here."
Shi Qingxue's eyes darkened, "But you didn't tell them that the sap of these cacti is poisonous, and you even stood idly by as you watched them drink the venom!"
Abao opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something, but finally closed it and turned his face away again.
He didn't look at Shi Qingxue, but said stubbornly and bluntly: "I have no obligation to tell them!"
"You!" Shi Qingxue raised her hand in anger and almost slapped her down.
Halfway through raising it, she suddenly remembered that the boy in front of her was not hers, so she put her hand down, with a livid face and an extremely ugly expression.
Abao also noticed Qingxue's action, pursed his lips and said, "You want to hit me?"
Shi Qingxue admitted frankly, "That's right!"
Abao asked again: "Then why don't you fight?"
Qingxue snorted angrily: "If you were my brother, I would never be soft on that slap just now!"
Abao: "You kept saying that you would take care of me, but once I did something wrong, you would just abandon me, wouldn't you?"
Shi Qingxue: "..."
She was left speechless by Abao's strange brain circuitry.
Finally, he couldn't help but laugh. Under Abao's surprised gaze, he raised his hand and pinched the other person's cheek with some force.
He hummed: "Just because I won't hit you doesn't mean that you can do wrong things without being punished! You tell me first, they have no enmity or grudge against you, why do you treat them like this?"
Abao still wanted to quibble: "Hmph! Even if I told them that these plants are poisonous, they would definitely not believe it! Instead, they would think that I want to swallow the juice alone.
To take a step back, even if they are doubtful, they are such greedy and life-saving people, they will definitely not give up this 'opportunity to survive', nor will they test it themselves. When the time comes, a child like me who has no power to resist will definitely be forced to be the scapegoat first! "
Shi Qingxue opened her mouth, but found that what Abao said seemed to make sense.
Even if she doesn't want to maliciously speculate on human nature, the desert environment is too harsh, and what happened in the past few days is enough for her to clearly realize that Abao's worries are very likely to come true.
Qingxue couldn't help but feel dizzy for a while, but she soon regained her composure, straightened her face, and said in a deep voice: "Don't confuse me. No one noticed this cactus forest at first, if it weren't for you If you were the first to shout it out, maybe it wouldn’t turn into this!”
Although human nature is evil, if you don't deliberately test it, most of the time you can still pretend to be peaceful.
"I..." Abao wanted to defend himself, but under Shi Qingxue's heavy gaze, he couldn't.
He felt inexplicably guilty and a little unwilling.
In the end, stubbornness prevailed, and he held his head high again and admitted frankly: "Yes, I did it on purpose. I deliberately led them here to eat these venom!"
He spoke very eloquently, but his rapid speaking speed revealed his timidity.
He was afraid of Shi Qingxue's eyes, so he could only say more quickly: "Don't tell me that you haven't discovered that the reason why these people keep us alive is to raise us like animals, and then kill them when they are desperate." It's up to us to save themselves.
The previous team leader was met with a living fate! Such a villain, if I don't strike first, I can only be the meat on their chopping board and let them slaughter me.
I want to live, so what's wrong with me taking the initiative! No matter what you say, I don't regret what I did! "
Shi Qingxue was so shocked by Abao's eloquent talk that she couldn't say a word for a long time.
She had to admit that even if she was reborn and had a wealth of experiences, she would still have illusions about human nature.
As A Bao said, she did know how those people viewed them, the 'old, weak, sick, and disabled', but all she considered was how to preserve herself and protect A Bao when those people were about to attack.
She didn't think about anything else, and she didn't dare to think too much about it.
Compared with Abao, she is still too naive.
Shi Qingxue was silent for a long time without speaking.
Abao was originally very confident and felt that he had done nothing wrong at all.
But when there was no response for a long time, the anxiety in my heart began to beat again.
He looked down at the yellow sand on the ground, and then secretly raised his eyes to take a look at Shi Qingxue's expression.
The longer he got, the more uneasy he became. Finally, he couldn't hold it back any longer and choked out: "Why didn't you say anything? Are you very disappointed in me? You think I'm so bad and you shouldn't have given me water in the first place. Maybe I was hungry at that time." If we were dead and thirsty, nothing like what happened today would have happened!”
Abao opened and closed his mouth up and down, talking like he was pouring beans, and he spoke out loudly.
In the end, he turned his back and didn't want to look at Shi Qingxue again.
Like angry.
Shi Qingxue was keenly aware of the shaking of the child's shoulders, and the little anger left in her heart completely dissipated.
After all, he is just a poor child.
Just like Abao said, if Abao doesn't do this today, maybe they will be the ones who fall to the ground and have their blood and flesh cut out tomorrow!
Reality is so cruel!