12dz Chapter 131 Poisoning 2
Chapter 131 Poisoning 2
"When we act at night, we can capture someone and ask him. There must be a leader among so many people, but these people have strange habits and do whatever they want. It's impossible to find out who the leader is." A Zhou said.
Qing Jiu, "It's the older woman." After observing these days, he found that although these people were casual and didn't seem to have much communication, in fact, the bonfire they lit every night was near the cave where the woman lived that night.
Perhaps they still respect their mother, and it is very likely that the others have a blood connection with this woman.
Dayan originally wanted to say something, but after hearing Qingjiu's words, he raised his eyebrows. This man is usually quiet, and it seems that he has some extraordinary qualities, not just brute force.
Qing Jiu took a wooden stick, found a clean place, and marked the route for everyone. They all knew that these cannibals were real enemies to them and there was no need to show mercy.
"Don't kill that woman, keep her for questioning." Qing Jiu said this before the action, and he had given all the necessary reminders.
After dark, the cannibals' mobility is not as strong. Although they are small in stature, it does not mean that they are not good at fighting. In other words, due to the influence of their physical fitness, they know how to use skills to kill and hunt.
By late night, everything finally calmed down. Several people were injured, so they found a cave to recuperate.
Dayan pushed the tied woman in. There was a flashlight on in the cave. She squinted her eyes and looked at the flashlight in some surprise. She was very curious about this thing that was beyond her cognition.
If they had this thing, they wouldn't be unable to see anything at night and be wiped out by this group of people.
She didn't seem to think anything of this. Either other tribes were destroying them, or they were destroying other tribes. She just didn't know why these people didn't kill her.
She looked around, and finally her eyes stopped at Qing Jiu. She smiled with an ambiguous meaning, "You killed my child."
Qing Jiu thought he was talking about these people and did not deny it.
"Isn't this nonsense? We killed all your people, so your child must be among them." Ah Zhou said. He really hated cannibals, so he was not polite at all when he spoke.
The woman shook her head and looked at Qing Jiu and Zhou, "You killed Dayu."
Qing Jiu, who had originally lowered his head to wipe his long sword, and A Zhou, who was wandering around in the cave, both looked over at the same time with sharp eyes.
"What? Do you find it strange? But you have the scent of Dayu on you." The woman curled her lips and looked straight at Qingjiu, "Especially you. However, judging from your appearance, my useless son can't get close to you. I think only the people living with you have been hurt by him. Your family? Or your partner or son?"
After finishing his speech, he looked at Qing Jiu's increasingly furrowed brows and laughed, "I'm going to die, but... he can't live either."
The next second, Qing Jiu grabbed her neck. She was very thin, just skin and bones. Qing Jiu felt that if he exerted force, her neck would be broken.
However, there was a strange meaning in her words, and Qing Jiu did not dare and could not kill her directly.
"Why can't he survive?" Qing Jiu asked in a deep voice.
The woman was strangled by him and couldn't speak. She whimpered in pain. Dayan quickly came over and pulled Qingjiu's arm, "Calm down. If you strangle her to death, she won't know anything. The priest will be fine."
Upon hearing this, Qing Jiu put more strength in his hands and threw the man out.
Priest? The woman rolled on the ground and stopped, laughing. "Do you think we are so vulnerable? Do you think we haven't made preparations in advance? Even if we all die today, we have to take someone with us."
She said excitedly, "I heard that your priests are very powerful."
Qing Jiu was panicked at first, but then forced himself to calm down. Ji Lang would be fine.
He thought for a while and asked, "Are there any of your people who were rescued from the Baiyun tribe?"
"Hmph, he's pretty smart, much better than my stupid kid. If he had your brain, he wouldn't have died so early." The woman sat up. "But he's not one of ours. After all, if we kill him later, he'll be willing to tell me everything he knows. As for why we have to kill him later, it's because he has more important things to do."
She was very proud, "Let me tell you another secret. Our people, what you call cannibals, have blood that is a kind of poison. Even if you only eat a little, it will lurk in the body for a long time until someone triggers it in a special way. The poisoned person will suffer and then slowly die. If the breath of Dayu on you comes from your priest, then he would have been poisoned a long time ago. He is so stupid that he didn't notice it for so long." What she didn't say was that there is a sense of breath between their people, and she appeared here because she sensed the breath of Dayu here, but after arriving here, she found that Dayu might have died a long time ago, and he just poisoned someone with his blood.
Coincidentally, one day when she captured an old man and was going to kill him for meat, the old man actually took the initiative to tell her everything about the Taotie tribe. The old man was willing to lead the way for them and only asked her to kill him after she avenged her son.
The old man's target was the priest of the Taotie tribe, and her target was the entire Taotie tribe. She also knew that some people from the Baiyun tribe had gone out, and she could use them when they came back. It would only mean the loss of some of her own people, which didn't matter to her.
Dayan frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly stood up, "Oh no, it's Acheng's father." Last winter, Acheng followed Dali and others to seize the Taotie tribe, but was bitten and seriously injured while fighting with a pack of wolves. He died not long after returning.
Acheng's father has always been hostile to other people who returned alive and the Taotie tribe. He even refused to live on the kang that Dayan and his tribe had learned to build. This is one of the reasons why Dayan did not agree with Ahua taking the tribe to join the Taotie tribe.
Because some people in the tribe were very hostile to the Taotie tribe, Dayan felt that bringing them over would actually cause trouble for Jilang and the others.
At that time, there were only two elderly people rescued by the geese. One was an old lady who usually didn't like to talk, and the other was Acheng's father.
"You still have the mind to worry about others?" The woman sat up and stared at these people with sinister eyes. "The blood of cannibals is poisonous. You must have a lot of it on your bodies, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense here." Ah Zhou cursed, learning this from Ji Lang, and knocked the ground with the stick in his hand. "You knew we were coming, why didn't you run away?"
The woman didn't say anything, just stared at him.
Zhou felt a little scared after seeing this. What a psychopath.
"Didn't you talk a lot just now? Why are you silent now?" Ah Zhou walked up to her, waving the stick, as if he was going to hit the woman on the head in the next second.
The woman coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood. She was injured a lot when she was thrown out. "We haven't finished our food yet. How could we run away?"
Their ideas are strange yet simple. They travel through mountains and rivers just to find food. How can they just leave without finishing the food they have found? If they encounter danger, they will solve the problem. If they cannot solve the problem, they will die.
They are more afraid of not having human flesh to eat than dying.
But why didn’t the curse work? These people had clearly been to the cave and were contaminated by the aura of the cave, but the curse didn’t work.
There were a lot of rats in there that were stained with the blood of their people.
What she didn't know was that Qingjiu and the others brought a dog with them. The dog went into the cave, walked around, and then drove away the rats in the cave, so it didn't have a chance to bite anyone.
It is called a curse, but in fact it is just a method. The curse symbol is at the entrance of the cave. As long as you walk through it, you will be contaminated with the smell of blood, and then it will spread with the human breath. The rats that have been fed a lot of blood cannot resist this kind of living person with this kind of smell, and will definitely try their best to bite him.
"What will happen if I'm infected with your blood poison?" Qing Jiu suddenly asked. He didn't feel anything at the moment, as his body was covered in blood from the fight. However, he was vaguely worried about Ji Lang. If Ji Lang had been infected with the blood poison for so long and was fine, then they should be fine in the short term too. But from what the woman said just now, it was obvious that someone was targeting Ji Lang.
The woman didn't want to say more at first, as she was making these people anxious. However, when she saw the glowing, blood-stained weapon in Qing Jiu's hand, she could die, but she didn't want to suffer. "It's nothing if you're poisoned by blood. It will only be sensed by the tribesmen connected by blood. But...if you've already been poisoned by blood, and you're poisoned again, it's hard to say."
Although her words were ambiguous, Qing Jiu's brows were still furrowed. It was not an easy task for that Acheng's father to poison Ji Lang under so many eyes in the tribe. But, this was not right. How did he know that the poisoned person was Ji Lang?
Regarding the matter of the cannibals, Qing Jiu turned to look at Dayan, "Did Abai tell you about our past encounter with the cannibals?"
Abai stayed in the tribe for so long during the cold season, and got along very well with Xiaoman and Wu. They should have told Abai about this.
Dayan thought for a while and nodded, "He did, and there were other people around us at the time. He didn't mean it, he just thought you were awesome." Dayan explained helplessly. When Abai was talking about it, there were stars in his eyes, saying that they were so awesome that they could even defeat such terrible cannibals.
Qing Jiu didn't say anything else. Of course he knew that children have a nature where if they think they are great, they will show off to others, even if they didn't do it.
At that time, Ji Lang was attacked by Dayu, and later when Abai told the story that Ye killed Dayu, Acheng's father must have heard it and later told the woman.
Although he thought Ji Lang would not be so stupid as to be poisoned again, he still felt unhappy. Besides, they were also poisoned by blood. Qing Jiu glanced at Zhou and asked, "Did you get blood on your hands when you fought the cannibals before?"
Ah Zhou shook his head. At that time, there were only Xiaoying and him, and they had no way of getting close to Dayu and the others. He was even injured, so he was lucky enough not to be infected with the blood poison.
Qing Jiu, "Let's burn this place down later. We'll rest outside for a while and then go back quickly." This place is too close to their tribe. If the corpses keep piling up, it will attract a lot of carnivorous wild animals. It will be even more annoying if groups of hyenas come. Those guys are disgusting, and their hunting method is also despicable. With these things, many prey will be forced to leave here, and then they will be able to catch less prey.
The flames were very conspicuous in the completely dark mountains. Fearing that the fire would spread, a group of people watched the fire burn out and only evacuated after making sure there were no sparks. The originally dark sky had now become slightly brighter.
Ji Lang came out of the toilet, his legs were so sore that he could not walk and he was shaking all the time. Mosquitoes had bitten his butt, which was itchy and painful.
Grandma Xue said that he might have a diarrheal attack. He didn't expect it to be so severe. He felt like he was going to faint.
There are also a lot of mosquitoes in the toilet, and I get bitten every time I go in. It seems I have to bring some wormwood with me to burn next time.
Ever since they heard that he was poisoned, the whole family has been very nervous. Now that they saw him come out, they all surrounded him.
Jilang: ...
I just went out to take a shit, and you guys made me think I just did something big.
"How long will this diarrhea last?" Li was a little worried. Ji Lang was originally thin, and after having diarrhea, his face looked pale and he looked listless, which made her feel distressed.
Sa Shi came over and said, "Amu, stop making trouble. Let him go back and rest. Grandma Xue said that it's better to have a stomachache. It means that the poison can be expelled. If he doesn't have a stomachache, he will be doomed."
"How did I cause trouble? What are you talking about?" Li slapped his daughter angrily.
Sa Shi pouted after being hit and quietly hid aside.
When Ji Lang returned to the door of the house, he saw Xi Shi standing by the window of his cave, staring at the moisture-proof mat pasted on the window in a daze.
"What are you looking at?" Ji Lang asked him.
Xi Shi waved his hand to signal him to come over, "There's a small hole here, and it looks like something is stuffed in it."
He said and reached out to take it.
Ji Lang quickly grabbed him and said, "I am poisoned. What if this is the thing? Why are you holding it with your hands? Wear gloves."
After Xishi took the gloves back, he put the thing in the palm of his hand. It was a dark red, not very round ball.
Ji Lang originally wanted to take a closer look, but for some reason he suddenly felt a little dizzy. Xi Shi noticed that something was wrong with him, so he quickly put the thing away and helped Ji Lang into the house to rest.
He didn't react much, but Ji Lang seemed to be in great pain. It seemed that this guy was indeed poisoned by this, but why was he the only one who felt this way?
Xishi couldn't understand.