The night in this unknown village was colder than Yang Yiyi imagined. The air was extremely humid, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling. If she hadn't followed Wu Ziwen's suggestion and found a lot of dry firewood early before nightfall,
I also put a lot of things on the ground, fearing that it would be too cold to sleep tonight.
Making a fire is not difficult for her. She can do it with just a burning charm. The flickering light of the fire dispels the darkness and the cold. She adds more firewood to the fire from time to time, and then takes the opportunity to secretly look at Bai Mo's expression next to her.
.
This guy always seems to have this cold look, as if someone owes him money. Even the flames can't melt away the coldness on his face. The profile of his face flickers in and out under the firelight, which makes it difficult for people to understand.
Read his emotions.
The children were very tired today. After eating, they went to bed early. Their expressions were calm and they seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
Their acceptance ability was much stronger than Yang Yiyi imagined. From picking them up to leaving, they hardly spent much effort, which saved her a lot of effort.
This dilapidated house is a temporary residence carefully selected by Yang Yiyi. It is small in size and has no windows on all sides. The only entrance and exit is the door directly opposite, which means that tonight you only need to focus on guarding the door.
In order to detect danger in time, a lighting stone was placed at the door. In addition, Bai Mo not long ago used a hunting net to weave a large number of sharp hair around the house, like invisible blades. Anyone who approaches rashly will be absolutely sure.
There will be a very heavy price to pay.
All in all, they were well prepared to deal with danger at night. Of course, it would be best to live in peace all night.
The village was extremely quiet throughout the night. It seemed that just as the group of people said in the afternoon, there were very few forbidden creatures in the village. There was only the sound of burning firewood, which made Yang Yiyi feel a little lonely inexplicably.
"You go to sleep first, we will take turns to keep vigil." She licked some firewood into the fire again and suggested.
"No need, you can just sleep."
Bai Mo said calmly, "Sleeping is not necessary for me."
"How can that be done? Not sleeping will affect your state during the day. What if you encounter danger? I will still need you then."
"I've slept long enough, it doesn't matter if I don't sleep."
Yang Yiyi thought he was caring about her, so she said seriously: "You don't have to worry about me, I'll just sleep for a few hours, and you can rest for the rest of the time."
"Worry?"
Bai Mo glanced at her and said, "I'm really worried about letting you come to watch the night. I don't know when I will die."
Yang Yiyi's face froze, she immediately snorted coldly, gritted her teeth and said: "If you don't know the heart of a good person, then I'll sleep!"
"Um."
Bai Mo stared at her.
Yang Yiyi's scalp was numb, and she felt that the other person's eyes were strange. She hesitated for a moment, and then said angrily: "Why are you looking at me like this? Is there grass growing on my head?"
"It's not that far away."
Bai Mo shook his head and said, "Go to sleep, finish things early tomorrow, and then go back with me."
Yang Yiyi was stunned for a moment, and an inexplicable emotion suddenly flowed through her heart.
"Who wants to go back with you..."
She subconsciously wanted to retort, but the words were stuck in her mouth and she could not speak out. She just lay quietly on the floor that had been laid in advance, with her back to Bai Mo, so that no one could see her expression clearly.
"Don't regret it if you get sleepy tomorrow, remember to keep a good watch!"
She said angrily, not knowing what she was angry about.
Bai Mo ignored her, just raised his head slightly and looked at the roof.
In his sight, a transparent silk thread passed through the roof and connected to no one knows where.
The other end of the silk thread happened to be connected to Yang Yiyi's head.
…
At the same time, in another direction of the village, there was a slightly larger house.
A total of four bonfires were lit in the room, which illuminated the room brightly. The moisture and coldness were completely driven away. In the center of the room was a large piece of dried meat steak, which would be everyone's food tomorrow morning.
There were about ten people in the room. They seemed to have lived in the wild for a long time and were very well prepared. Everyone had their own sleeping bag and were neatly arranged on both sides of the campfire, with men and women separated.
Wu Ziwu exposed half of his arm, and his huge mechanical right arm shone with metallic luster in the flames. While wiping his arm, he said: "Tonight is the same as yesterday. Everyone will take turns to keep vigil in pairs according to the prearranged arrangement. Is there any problem?
?”
"No problem." No one had any objection.
"Although Shuiyuan has been normal these days, we still cannot relax our vigilance. The air here is getting more and more humid. Don't take it lightly."
Wu Ziwen added, "I have observed that the stone monument of the forbidden area in Shuiyuan has been pushed outwards. Maybe there will soon be forbidden creatures like those in the previous forbidden areas. I suggest not to stay here for a long time."
Wu Ziwu pondered for a moment: "This is a rare opportunity. If there is no harvest tomorrow morning, we will leave."
Everyone nodded.
At this moment, a man hesitated and said: "Speaking of boss, do you want someone to keep an eye on the group of people who came to the village today?"
Wu Ziwu looked at him and said somewhat suspiciously: "Why are you staring at them when you have nothing to do?"
"I think they are a bit suspicious..."
"In today's world, we are still running around, and others still think we are suspicious. We can take precautions, and there is no need to keep an eye on us. It's fine if everyone doesn't interfere with each other. There is no need to cause trouble for ourselves."
Wu Ziwu put on his clothes and said, "A man, a woman, and four children. What do you think they can do to me?"
The man's expression froze, he scratched his head and was speechless.
Wu Ziwen thought: "Such a few people dare to walk around in the buffer zone at will. Their own strength is often extraordinary. There is really no need to do anything offensive."
Hearing this, a girl with short hair asked curiously: "Sister Wenwen, are you referring to the people you mentioned this afternoon?"
Everyone knew that several more people had arrived in the village.
"Who else would it be?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man said disgustedly, "No matter how strong those guys are, at least the one among them is very shameless."
He remembered Bai Mo's matter-of-fact manner when he took the meat skewers and said, "This is enough." He suddenly became angry and didn't even say thank you.
He recalled for a moment and suddenly said: "It seems that guy said at that time that we should not eat too much of the kind of meat we eat, otherwise we will feel dizzy and weak."
"Is there still such a thing?"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and the short-haired girl before said: "No wonder Sister Wenwen didn't let us continue eating after she came back..."
She wiped the corners of her mouth, "But what if he's talking nonsense?"
"I would rather believe that it is there than that it is not. It is enough to eat half full for dinner, there is no need to eat more." Wu Ziwen said with a smile.
"We asked someone to try this meat. Although it seems to be fine, if you think about it carefully, we didn't really see what happened to the other person after eating too much..." the short-haired girl thought.
"It's all because the boss was impatient and killed people so quickly." Someone joked.
Wu Ziwu said helplessly: "That is the enemy. Of course, the sooner he dies, the more reassuring he will be."
"Really, but I see that your expression now seems to be a little regretful."
"Hahaha, it's true."
"..."
It can be seen that the relationship between this group of people is very good, and the atmosphere of getting along is quite harmonious. Even though Wu Ziwu is the boss of this team, he has no airs and everyone can even make fun of him.
"Okay, okay, it's getting late, it's time to go to sleep..."
He was about to let everyone go to sleep, but suddenly he noticed that a fat man who had huddled in his sleeping bag suddenly stood up. His expression became very ugly, his face was as pale as paper, and big beads of sweat continued to fall from his forehead.
"Dazi, what's wrong with you?"
Wu Ziwu's expression changed and he quickly stepped forward to check on the fat man's condition.
The others also put away their teasing expressions one after another and gathered around with worried expressions on their faces.
The fat man looked very depressed. He endured the pain and replied: "I don't know why, but I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable..."
His voice was quite weak, and he was obviously very uncomfortable.
Wu Ziwu asked: "Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
The fat man hugged his head: "I have a headache. My head feels like it's going to explode."
As soon as he finished speaking, the air in the room suddenly became strangely stagnant.
The next second, Wu Ziwen and Wu Ziwu looked at each other and asked tentatively: "Um... do you still feel that you have no strength?"
The fat man raised his head with difficulty and glanced at her in shock: "Sister, how do you know?"
Everyone's expressions became strange, and the short-haired girl asked directly: "Fat man, did you eat a lot of meat this afternoon?"
The fat man's eyes widened and he replied with some embarrassment: "This, this... what does this have to do with my headache!"
Everyone looked at him suspiciously.
At this moment, the expression of a man among the people suddenly became painful. If the people around him hadn't supported him in time, he might have fallen to the ground.
Before anyone could ask questions, he explained with a wry smile: "I ate quite a lot in the afternoon..."
There was a dead silence in the air.
After a while, Wu Ziwu sighed: "It seems that what that guy said is true."
He walked towards the outside of the room and said, "You stay here, I'll come back as soon as I can."
"Where to go?" everyone asked worriedly.
"Since that person knows the harmful effects of this kind of meat, he probably also knows how to alleviate it." Wu Ziwen answered on behalf of Wu Ziwu and continued, "I will go with him so that he can take care of me, and you don't want to stay here.
Relax your guard."
"But……"
"If we haven't come back in half an hour, you can come directly to us."
After saying that, Wu Ziwen said no more and followed Wu Ziwu out of the house.
The village was not too big, and there were not many places to stay in it, so the Wu Ziwu brothers and sisters quickly saw the light in a small small house in the east of the village and quickly approached it.
They did not deliberately hide their footsteps to avoid causing misunderstandings and arousing hostility from the other party.
However, just as they were about to knock on the door, they suddenly heard a cold voice coming from the room.
"stop."
Wu Ziwen remembered that the voice was the man she had met in the afternoon, so she quickly said: "Sorry, I am Wu Ziwen, who I met with a few people in the afternoon. You are right, there is indeed something wrong with the kind of meat we eat.
Place……"
She was about to take a step forward, but at this moment, Bai Mo's cold voice suddenly sounded again.
"If you don't want to die, don't move."
Wu Ziwen's expression froze, while the expression of Wu Ziwu next to her became gloomy.
He could understand the other party's mood. No stranger came to the door in the middle of the night, so it was normal to be defensive. However, we met each other once in the afternoon. My sister was kind enough to give the other party food, even if this guy didn't welcome them.
No need to threaten like this, right?
Wu Ziwen patted his shoulder and told him not to be angry.
"Crunch——"
The next second, the door that had not been used for a long time was pushed open, making an extremely harsh sound, and a dim yellow light was transmitted from the room, making the figure that appeared at the door look particularly dim.
Under the gaze of the two people, Bai Mo slowly came to them, stretched out his hands as if to gather something, and said nothing, leaving the two of them confused.
Bai Mo didn't bother to explain to the two of them and asked, "Has any of you eaten too much?"
"Um."
Although this was a strange thing to say, Wu Ziwen still said calmly, "That's why we came here this time because we hope you can tell us how to deal with that symptom."
"What you eat is called a bait beast. It is a social creature. Anyone in the group is both bait and fisherman."
Bai Mo thought for a moment and gave the two of them a rare introduction to science, "The meat of the bait beast is quite delicious, so it can attract many predators, and the value of its flesh and blood is also very attractive, but it has no ability to protect itself - at this time
There is no doubt that they are bait.”
"But this kind of meat is delicious if eaten in small amounts, and it is equivalent to poison if eaten in large amounts. In order to achieve its goal, most of the time, the bait beast will take the initiative to let one of its kind die and let the hunter prey, while other bait beasts will follow the hunter.
Once the opponent becomes weak from eating too much of the same kind of meat, they will swarm it and eat it ruthlessly - obviously, at this time, they become fishermen."
Wu Ziwu and Wu Ziwen looked at each other.
Trading the death of their companions for the death of their enemies... This is a cruel way of survival for them, but the most unexpected thing for them is that there are people who have such a deep understanding of the creatures in the restricted area...
"What should we do?"
"The bait beast is not really poisonous. Its meat can be regarded as a great supplement, otherwise it would not be so attractive to hunters. As for the reason why you will have headaches and fatigue after eating too much, it is mainly because it is not enough to supplement the deficiency.
, just take some time to rest.”
Wu Ziwu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this and asked: "How long do you need to rest?"
"If there is only a slight adverse reaction, about three days should be enough." Bai Mo said calmly, "It will pass if you tolerate it."
"Three days?"
Wu Ziwu was a little sluggish and asked, "Will the pain slowly subside during this period?"
"Of course not. The pain will last for about three days, and then it will slowly recover."
The corners of Wu Ziwu's mouth twitched.
The pain lasted for about three days...can you say that it will be over if you endure it?
He thought of the fat man's sluggish look, and thought to himself that after three days, this guy must have been in pain to death, so he quickly asked: "Is there a faster way?"
"have."
Wu Ziwu's eyes lit up: "What should we do?"
Bai Mo glanced at him: "Only I can do it."
"Then can you please come with us?"
Bai Mo shook his head and said: "No, I have to guard the safety of those guys here. Since you gave us something to eat this afternoon, I can help you, but I need you to bring people here."
Wu Ziwen hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, we'll bring them over right away."
"That's good."
Bai Mo nodded slightly, turned around and walked towards the house without looking back and left a word.
"Just stand where you are now when you come here. If you get closer...be careful not to die."