Reincarnation Train Restart [Unlimited]

Near noon, Wu Xiajiu and others came back after picking a bunch of herbs.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, coupled with the continuous rain, the ground is wet and muddy, if you don't pay attention, you will fall into the mud or slip.

Every step along the way has to be careful, so it takes a lot of time.

But fortunately, all the herbs I should look for were found.

After they went back, Amao, An Xing, and Ye Zi were pleasantly surprised and thanked again and again.

At this time, the rain had stopped, and Professor Zhao felt a little relaxed when he saw them coming back safely.

He had a map in his hand and had been studying it just now.

After everyone was ready, Professor Zhao pushed his glasses and said, "Take a good rest for a while, and we have to go after eating some food to replenish our strength. It's best to leave here as soon as possible."

"However, I studied the map and directions, and found that the direction we are going to move on is exactly the southeast of the snake group swimming..."

As soon as he said this, Wu Xiajiu raised his head, Mr. V frowned slightly, the action of applying medicine to the three wounded could not help but stop, and his face wrinkled again.

Lu Cheng was smoking a cigarette, he raised his eyelids and asked, "Are you sure?"

Professor Zhao nodded: "Sure, this is the direction."

Tao Bin looked at the map and said, "It's the southeast, the professor can't make a mistake."

"If any of you are afraid, you don't have to go. It's still too late to go back down the mountain."

Lu Cheng raised the corner of his mouth coldly and snorted.

Amao and An Xing had bitter faces.

not going?Not going is a dead end, but who wants to die, so even if you have to bite the bullet, you have to go.

However, this has not yet reached the Xun tribe, they have already become like this...

The atmosphere on the side of the two couldn't help becoming a little gloomy.

At this time, Wu Xiajiu said: "If we want to find the residence of the Xun people, we must first climb over a mountain, and then find a waterway."

"Could the snakes come from the waterway we must go through?"

Professor Zhao said: "Very likely."

Soy sauce heard the words and said strangely: "Could it be that there are snake nests in that waterway?"

"But what happened again made all these snakes swim ashore, and even brought us under attack..."

Old Hou snorted and said, "Who knows."

Regardless of the situation ahead, they must go.

But fortunately, they now have some guesses about what kind of situation they will encounter in the future, and they can make psychological preparations and guard against them in time.

It's not like last night, when it came to a critical moment, it was almost a mess, and it didn't deal with it well at all.

After Amao, An Xing and Ye Zi finished applying the medicine and bandaging them up, everyone took a rest and continued on the road.

They headed southeast, and along the way, they could vaguely find traces of snakes crawling and leaving on the muddy ground, winding and messy.

Not only that, but as they walked more and more southeast, their journey gradually fell into a difficult situation.

——The humidity in the mountains and forests has increased linearly. Even though the rain in the early morning has stopped, the branches, grasses and leaves around me are still dripping water.

If you touch it or touch it accidentally, your hair, clothes, etc. will be soaked immediately, and then stick to your body, which is very uncomfortable.

Furthermore, the muddy ground is even more difficult to walk on, because the water vapor keeps soaking through, making the soil too soft and sticky, and the mud is silted up.

Sometimes once your feet get stuck in, it's hard to get out.

The men are better, but the three girls have relatively weak strength, usually in such a situation, it is undoubtedly very strenuous, and they are in a mess, and they need help.

Among the three girls, Ye Zi was the least experienced.

Because of causing trouble for others and not being able to keep up with the team, he was about to cry, and tears were already rolling in his eyes.

Finally, Ye Zi staggered forward and fell to the ground, tears burst out of his eyes in an instant, and he cried out.

Liu Jinxi happened to be beside her, and when she saw this, she hurriedly bent down to help her up.

However, Liu Jinxi didn't know whether it was because the muddy floor was too slippery or the two of them had no strength. Liu Jinxi tried to help the leaf several times but failed to lift the leaf up.

On the contrary, she was almost unable to stand still, and finally Mr. V, who was standing not far away, gave her a helping hand.

The advancing procession was forced to stop because of this incident.

Lao Hou folded his arms, and said impatiently and sarcastically: "It's really enough, can you stop wasting everyone's time."

"With your useless appearance, when will we be able to leave this ghostly place, I'm afraid we won't be able to get out after dark."

Wu Xiajiu looked at Lao Hou and frowned.

"Yes, I'm sorry..." Ye Zi wiped away her tears and whispered.

The first time she entered the world under the car was high-risk, plus she was attacked by a group of snakes last night and the road was so difficult today, her heart was about to collapse.

Lao Hou curled his lips and wanted to sneer a few more words, but he just opened his mouth.

Ah You said: "Okay, there is more to come."

Laohou immediately shut up.

Wu Xiajiu said: "This road is indeed muddy and difficult to walk on. If you really can't continue walking, get two wooden planks to tie to the shoes to increase the force-bearing area between the soles and the mud, and then it will be much easier to walk."

He looked around and said, "Just use these grasses or vines to tie it up."

Ye Zi instantly thanked him gratefully.

Wu Xiajiu calmly said no.

At this time, in order to get out of this ghost place quickly before dark, they had better work together to avoid internal strife and conflict.

Therefore, Mr. V took the lead in helping to cut down branches to make wooden boards, and then Soy Sauce, An Xing and others joined in.

Lu Cheng took a puff of cigarette, slowly exhaled the smoke ring, looked at Laohou, Xiaoyu, and Sanma and said, "You guys also go to help."

"But boss..."

Lao Hou was not convinced, and wanted to say something, but Lu Cheng stared him in place.

Lu Cheng has never been close to the destination Xun, and even encountered so many difficulties on the road, which made Lu Cheng a little depressed and anxious.

He has smoked no less than five cigarettes now, but nicotine alone cannot relieve his impatience and depression.

He wants to find the Xun clan quickly, to find...

"Go quickly." Lu Cheng flicked the cigarette ash, and said with dark eyes.

"I see, boss." Lao Hou lowered his head and said in a low voice, then turned around with Xiao Yu and San Ma to help.

With the help of many people, the planks were quickly completed, and at the suggestion of Professor Zhao, each of them got two planks for emergencies.

After the leaves were tied to the planks for trial use, it was indeed much easier to walk like this.

So the people continued to set off.

But soon, they began to see dead snakes on the road, at first just one, two...

But as the direction goes southeast, there are more and more dead snakes on the ground, on the treetops, etc.

In the end, they could even see it as soon as they raised their heads, kick it as soon as they lifted their feet, and almost walked on the snake with almost every step.

The bad touch can't help but make people frown and look unbearable.

"Fuck, this is too fucking disgusting." Lao Hou couldn't help cursing secretly.

Many people left with pale faces and acid water gushing from their throats.

Wu Xiajiu frowned and muttered: "...why are they all dead?"

Judging from the superficial appearance of these snake corpses, there was no trauma at all, and they should have died suddenly for unknown reasons.

It was as if life had come to an end without warning.

At this time, Ah You squatted down, pulled out the dagger attached to the back of his waist, and cut open a snake's corpse with the sharp end.

——The skin bag was easily cut open, revealing the inside, but only the bones were seen, but no flesh and blood.

Seeing this, Wu Xiajiu let out a soft "Huh".

Ah You then sliced ​​open the other three snakes next to him one after another, all inside were like this, without any flesh and blood.

Professor Zhao, Tao Bin, Amao and others couldn't help opening their eyes wide with surprise.

How could these snakes die so strangely? !

And it seems that one after another is gathering inexplicable deaths...

Ah You stood up, put back the dagger and said, "All the snakes here should die in the same way, with their heads all facing southeast, and the tail end is where we came from."

It seemed that these snakes all died on the way shortly after the rain fell, without even struggling.

Probably when it was winding forward, it suddenly lost its vitality.

After Ah You finished speaking, many people realized this, and their complexions immediately became a little bad.

There happened to be a wind blowing in the mountains and forests, and the water droplets on the branches and leaves were blown to speed up and fall instantly-the sound of "crashing, clattering" resounded in my ears.

The wind blew through their clothes that had already been soaked, instantly adding a bit of coolness, making people shiver uncontrollably.

Amao's face was pale and ugly, and he shivered twice in a row. He couldn't help stretching out his hands to wrap his collar tightly, and shrank his body, only feeling a chill coming from the bottom of his heart...

He touched his forehead, but fortunately, it wasn't hot.

You can't be sick, Amao thought to himself.

"This is too weird." Swift said with a pale face.

Although she is an old passenger, this is also the first time for her to experience the high-risk world outside the car, and she feels no less anxiety and fear than anyone else.

At least, she has never encountered such a situation.

However, no matter how weird it is, it can't stop.

Everyone stepped forward on the snake, and finally did not know how long they continued to walk. The snake's corpse began to gradually decrease, and finally disappeared slowly.

In this regard, they were more or less relieved.

It seemed that because he had been walking in the direction of the snake corpse, Wu Xiajiu vaguely heard the sound of water flowing in the distance from the forest.

He asked, "Are you approaching that waterway?"

Professor Zhao looked down at the map, and then said in a surprised tone: "Yes, it's almost there! It should be ahead, we have to go through this forest first."

The others were cheered up.

Sure enough, after they finally walked out of this mountain forest, their eyes suddenly opened up.

——I saw that not far away were two majestic mountain peaks, soaring into the clouds.

It seems that there is a sword splitting the mountain from the middle, splitting it into two halves, with the blue sky and white clouds on the top, and the emerald green water pouring into the middle, and the water is gurgling, extending into the distance.

This is the waterway where the Xun people can be found.

Finally seeing some hope, everyone couldn't help showing joy on their faces.

While it was still early in the day, they stopped on the shore to rest their feet, and discussed what to do next by the way—they must make a raft and enter the water.

And a total of 16 people, at least three rafts must be made.

Look at the sky, I'm afraid it will be completely dark after the production.

Looking at the river, Mr. V frowned and said, "After dark, we lack lighting tools, so it's best not to cross the river at night. In case of any danger, we can't see the situation clearly, and we can't deal with it in time."

Another point is that it is easy to appear and encounter strange situations at night...

Most of their lighting tools have been damaged in that fire, even if they use torches for lighting, they cannot guarantee [-]% safety.

Mr. V's words were approved by Professor Zhao.

"Then stay here tonight."

Others naturally have no opinion.

"How many usable tents do we have left?" Mr. V asked.

Wu Xiajiu: "Five tents, two of them belong to them."

After Wu Xiajiu finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Cheng, Ah You and his group.

The group of snakes came suddenly, some people forgot to take away their backpacks and just ran away for their lives.

When they went back, the backpack and the contents inside were burned together, and it was lucky enough to leave five tents.

Professor Zhao said: "Then assign a tent to Ye Zi and the other three girls. We will squeeze in the remaining two tents and take turns to rest."

He didn't count the two tents of Lu Cheng and the other five, so they probably wouldn't live separately.

Wu Xia hummed for a long time.

Later, some people stayed on the shore to set up tents, and some people went back into the mountains and forests to cut wood and came back. The division of labor was clear.

Towards evening all the timber was hauled ashore to prepare the raft.

But it wasn't until now that they discovered that there were not many experienced raft-making people in their group.

Lu Cheng and five people can all be counted, but on Professor Zhao's side, only Xiao Fang and Mr. V can count a little.

Although Wu Xiajiu understands it, it is purely on paper and has never been practiced.

And what puzzled him was——Mr. V is an old passenger, so it's no surprise that he knows a little bit, but Xiao Fang is a new passenger. Where can he go in reality to gain experience in making rafts?

In order to prevent these rafts from being delayed until midnight, no one would be able to rest at that time. As a last resort, Lu Cheng asked someone to come over to help.

Ah You walked to Wu Xiajiu's side and said, "Does this count as a debt to me?"

Wu Xiajiu: "You can help others."

He was squatting next to two logs and tied them with vines. Apart from moving slowly, there were no other unnecessary problems.

Hearing this, Ah You raised his eyebrows and smiled, then he also squatted down, and said to Wu Xiajiu: "It seems that you have a character that refuses to suffer."

With that said, he started to help make it.

Wu Xia glanced at him for a long time, did not speak, bowed his head and continued to work seriously.

Ah You's hands-on ability is very strong. After he joined, the process of making rafts was significantly accelerated.

Soon after dark, the three rafts were quickly completed, and they were just waiting to be launched and left early tomorrow morning.

After everything was done, everyone was already exhausted, and Wu Xiajiu was also so tired that he thumped his shoulders and chose to sit down on a rock and rest for a while.

Xiao Fang was sharpening a wooden stick at the side, making one end of the stick pointy, holding it in front of his eyes from time to time and poking it with his fingers to check the sharpness of the stick.

Seeing Wu Xiajiu sitting not far away, he put the stick on his lap, turned sideways, and asked with bright eyes: "Monastery Master, do you want to eat fish?"

"I don't want to, I'm not hungry, don't ask." Wu Xia said for a long time.

Xiao Fang pouted and lowered his head, but after a while he regained his composure, hummed softly and continued to sharpen the stick.

He waited until one end of the stick hurt his fingertips, then he put away the dagger and stood up.

Xiao Fang took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and then walked to the river with a wooden stick.

Seeing this, Lao Hou sneered and whispered, "I'm really sick in my head, I'm going to spear fish at night..."

It was so dark that the water surface could not be illuminated at all. No one could see where the fish were swimming under the water, let alone hold them with wooden sticks.

Going to spear fish now is not just a serious brain disease.

The others probably thought the same way, and looked away after a couple of glances.

Wu Xiajiu was resting with his eyes closed.

But after a while, he felt someone sitting down beside him. He opened his eyes and turned his head to see that the person sitting down was Ah You.

One of Ah's right legs was bent, with his elbow resting on it, and he was also looking at him with his head tilted.

"What's the matter?" Wu Xiajiu asked.

Ah You: "It's okay, I'm just curious, do you have a good relationship with that Xiaofang?"

Wu Xiajiu: "... Which of your eyes can see that I have a good relationship with him?"

Ah You raised the corner of his mouth, pointed at the only right eye that was exposed on his face, and said, "This one."

His good-looking right eye is in stark contrast to the black eye patch on the left, but his appearance is still handsome and handsome, which cannot be ignored at all.

Wu Xiajiu was silent for a moment, and said: "Then you are wrong, I don't have a good relationship with him."

"Oh, that……"

Before Ah You finished speaking, he heard a sudden violent splash on the river not far away.

Immediately, Wu Xiajiu turned his head to look together with him.

Others were apparently startled by the sound, and some even stood up in fright.

I saw Xiao Fang standing in the river water very close to the bank, he was bending over, holding the wooden stick with one hand, and with the other hand he was groping into the river water for something.

And the thing was obviously thrashing and struggling.

Lao Hou secretly said: "I'm not going to be fished by him."

In the end, it was Xiao Fang who was the winner. He straightened up abruptly, and shouted cheerfully, "I got it!"

In his hand - a big fish with a wooden stick tied to its tail was thrashing non-stop. The fish was about as long as an adult's arm, not small in size, and very fat.

The night was too dark, even though the fire was burning, the appearance of the fish was still unclear.

After Xiao Fang caught the fish, he didn't stay in the river for too long. He turned around and came back soon, waiting to reach the shore.

He threw the big fish by the fire, and then excitedly poked it with a wooden stick, saying in his mouth, "This fish looks very strange."

strange?

Where is it strange? !

Isn't it just a fish...

An Xing, Liu Jinxi Yezi and others were puzzled, Professor Zhao and Tao Bin also walked over, and even Lao Hou and Sanma couldn't help but look over.

Xiao Fang moved the stick away, the fish flipped over and immediately exposed the other side of its body.

Wu Xiajiu opened his eyes.

Ah You raised his eyebrows.

The rest gasped, terrified.

Professor Zhao covered his chest and inhaled, his eyes widened and he said, "Mermaid?!"

On the other side of the fish's body, there was a human face on it, and it was very shocking to see it suddenly.

But if you take a closer look, you will find that the human face on the fish is only composed of fish scales of different shades, at first glance it looks like a human face.

But it's a bit weird for the fish to grow up like this...

Especially the fish was still struggling and twisting its body, as if someone was struggling and calling for help in the fish's body.

It makes people frown frequently, feel hairy and scalp numb.

Mr. V asked, "How did you catch this fish?"

Xiao Fang raised his head and replied with an innocent expression: "It swam by itself and hit my hand, otherwise how would I catch it? It's so dark that I can't see clearly."

Mr. V: "..."

It turns out that you still know that it's dark and you can't see clearly.

Wu Xiajiu suddenly said: "This fish is dying."

Everyone bowed their heads when they heard the words, and saw that the fish's struggling and thumping movements gradually became smaller until it stopped moving—the fish's mouth was open, but the fish's eyes were dead, and the human face on the fish was naturally still.

Professor Zhao sighed.

Tao Bin asked suspiciously: "Professor, do you know this man-mask fish?"

Professor Zhao pushed his glasses and said, "I just heard some rumors."

"I heard that someone drowned in the water, and if the resentment persists, the person will become a water ghost and cannot be reborn."

"And the body of this person will be eaten by fish in the water."

"Fish is contaminated with resentment, and if things go on like this, the fish scales on its body will change, and it will look like a human face..."

"And the human face on the fish will be exactly the same as that of the dead person."

"Such a strange thing happened in the community where I live."

"A woman's son fell into a park pond and drowned."

"They are a single-parent family. The son has some mental problems and can't take care of himself. The woman is going on a business trip for a month, so she asks a nanny to take care of her."

"But the nanny neglects her duties and often slacks off at work. The woman's son doesn't understand anything and doesn't know how to sue his mother, so the nanny treats her even more severely."

"One day the nanny was not at home and no one was cooking. The woman's son was so hungry that he ran out of the house and never came back."

"It wasn't until more than half a month later that her son's body was found in a pond in the park."

"But only half of the body was found when it was found, and the remaining half should have been eaten by fish."

"The woman then had a nervous breakdown, pumped the pond dry, and caught all the fish. As a result, she found that some of the fish had the human face of his son on their bodies..."

"This incident has been widely circulated in our community. I have not seen it with my own eyes, and I am not sure whether it is true or not." Professor Zhao finally added.

Although I'm not sure if it's true or not, it's absolutely true that the fish has a human face on its body.

An Xing and the others couldn't help but feel hairy all over their bodies, their backs felt cool, and goosebumps appeared on their arms, it was weird...

Especially when they looked at the river again, it seemed that there was something ghostly hidden in the dark and unwavering water, quietly watching them.

I don't know when it will break through the water and drag them down to the bottom of the river.

An Xing shivered suddenly, frightened by the picture he had made up in his brain, and then he didn't dare to look at the river again.