At this time, Pan Zi came over and said, "The old man said it's too early and the boatmen haven't started work yet. Why don't we take a rest first."
Wu Xiaoxie was surprised, "You haven't started work yet?"
The old man was amused and knocked the dry tobacco pot in his hand on the sole of his shoe. "He is the only boatman here. He is the most powerful. He has the final say whether or when to start work. Sometimes he is too lazy to do it."
Just not working for a day can drive people to death."
"Then why don't you hold a meeting quickly to discuss how to evacuate the people and replace them with something more convenient?" Mr. Wu asked.
"We do think so." The old man smiled bitterly, "You guys are from other places, but you don't know. The mountain god here only gives him face, and it won't work if he changes people."
Mr. Wu was curious, "How to say?"
The old man took a sip from his smoking pot, exhaled a cloud of white smoke, sighed, and said: "Without him, others would have been unable to get out once they entered the cave. Who knows how he managed it."
Mr. Wu had seen the map before and knew that there was a cave ahead. Hearing the old man's words, he felt even more strange, "What? Could it be that that cave still eats people?"
The old man chuckled, but didn't say much. He waved his hand and said, "I don't know about this. They are all words passed down from previous generations. Who knows whether they are true or false."
Upon hearing this, Pan Zi and others next to him looked at each other and walked to the side. Mr. Wu said to take a break.
Mr. Wu squatted next to the old man and continued talking, but he only learned that the cave was really weird and that the boatman was a foreigner in his early years. There was no other useful information.
The water plants next to the stream suddenly trembled a few times. Mr. Wu quietly put his hand on the dagger at his waist, and saw a dog flapping out from inside, with a fish as big as a palm and a half in its mouth.
The old man laughed, "Donkey Dandan, I caught fish again today."
Mr. Wu took back his hand and asked, "You raised this dog. It looks really strong."
The old man shook his head, "No, the dog belongs to the boatman. Donkey Dandan, come here."
The old man clapped his hands and called the dog.
The dog was fat and strong, with bright black eyes. It looked like a good dog. Mr. Wu couldn't help but feel a little fond of it. He went over and touched a few handfuls. Just as he was about to pick him up, he suddenly smelled something.
He smelled something, and his expression changed, "This dog..."
Wu Xiaoxie was curious, so he went over and touched a few handfuls, and after a sniff, a foul smell hit his nostrils. He immediately rolled his eyes and coughed.
"Ugh... How long has it been since this bitch took a bath?" Wu Xiaoxie jumped away, wishing he could hide far away.
Suddenly something stepped on his feet. It was greasy and soft. Wu Xiaoxie lowered his head and saw that it was the fish that the dog had just picked up and thrown on the ground. When Wu Xiaoxie stepped on it, the rotten fish skin could not hold it.
All the internal organs inside were squeezed out, and Wu Xiaoxie even saw a few white maggots inside.
Wu Xiaoxie squealed, covered his mouth and was about to find a place to vomit. Suddenly he remembered that the hand covering his mouth had just touched the dog, so he really vomited this time.
Zhang Zhuxun had already known the situation, so naturally he would not join in the fun. Seeing Wu Xiaoxie's embarrassment, he laughed secretly.
Wu Xiaoxie was also having so much fun at this time.
Pan Zi laughed loudly, "Little Third Master, if you want to learn Third Master's trick, it's still early."
Wu Xiaoxie rolled his eyes weakly.
"Pan Zi, come here and have a smell too." Mr. Wu waved.
Pan Zi grinned and tried to muddle through, "Third Master, I don't need to."
Mr. Wu said with a straight face, "Don't be nagging, come here and have a smell. This dog smells a little weird."
Pan Zi had no choice but to walk over with a grimace, put a dog's paw on his neck and sniffed it, his face became ugly, and he lowered his voice and said: "This damn... it's corpse odor..."
Zhang Zhuxun pretended to be curious, "Uncle, what is corpse odor?"
Pan Zi glanced at Mr. Wu and saw that he had no objection, so he turned to Zhang Zhu and said, "Corpse odor is the smell of corpses piled together, rotting and growing maggots. Why don't you smell it too?"
"Eh~" Zhang Zhuxun wrinkled his nose, looking disgusted and curious, "I'd better forget it."
Wu Xiaoxie also came to his senses at this moment, because he had been exposed to antiques dug out of tombs since he was a child, so he knew a little more. Seeing Zhang Zhuxun acting like he didn't know anything, he hurriedly pulled him to give him some advice.
Popular science, "Hey, you didn't know this. Although I haven't smelled it before, but if it can accumulate such a strong smell, there must be a big corpse pit or pile of corpses ahead."
Zhang Zhuxun deliberately made his face pale, pretending to be scared and said: "No way, this is a legal society, how could there be so many dead people for him?"
Seeing that his face was really ugly, Wu Xiaoxie quickly laughed, patted his shoulder, and said with relief: "It's not necessarily a dead person, maybe it's an animal that drowned in the flood, or it floated along the water.
Where are the dead animals?”
Zhang Shuxun nodded and comforted himself, "Then it must be."
Suddenly something occurred to him, and he turned around and glared at Wu Xiaoxie, "You just touched the dog's right hand, right? Have you washed it?"
Wu Xiaoxie thought, "Oh shit, I really forgot."
Zhang Zhuoxun knew it by looking at his expression, and immediately moved away in disgust, "You can talk to me after you wash your hands."
Then he took out a small bottle of alcohol spray from his backpack and sprayed it hard on the place Wu Xiaoxie had just touched.
The corners of Wu Xiaoxie's mouth twitched and she silently went aside to wash her hands.
Mr. Wu also washed his hands with water, shook off the water drops, lit a cigarette, and said in Hangzhou: "I'm afraid there is a corpse hole in front of you. Get everyone who should be taken."
Then he glanced at the old man who was still teasing the dog with a hidden look, and said to Pan Zi: "Keep an eye on Xiao Xie, that old man has a problem."
Wu Xiaoxie also tacitly approached Zhang Zhuxun to chat, "Brother, where are you from? Are you here to travel too?"
Zhang Zhuxun's appearance does indeed look like a college student, and the identity assigned to him by the system during this period is indeed that of a college student, and he is still Wu Xiaoxie's junior, but his major is different.
"Yes." Zhang Zhuxun nodded, "I used to study abroad and didn't return to China until I went to college."
"Why don't I take advantage of the vacation to go out and take pictures of the scenery in the mountains and other things." Zhang Zhuoxun said with a smile, "I am a student of Zhejiang University."
"What a coincidence!" Wu Xiaoxie said in surprise, "I am also from Zhejiang University, but I have graduated several years ago. I majored in architecture. What about you?"
Zhang Zhuxun was also very surprised, "What a coincidence, I am from the Department of Foreign Languages, majoring in German and minoring in French."
He did learn this before, and it didn't change when the system inserted his identity. It was probably for convenience.
"Then you are so powerful." Wu Xiaoxie was even more surprised.
The two complimented each other, and Wu Xiaoxie began to show off his knowledge and tell some weird historical stories. Zhang Zhuxun was stunned for a while, marveling that he actually knew so much. Wu Xiaoxie, who was flattering, was a little confused.
smug.
The two of them looked as if they had met each other late, and if the timing hadn't been right, they would have sworn sworn friends immediately.