Zhao Rui suddenly became alert, and just as he was about to send someone over to see what was going on, two sentries hurriedly entered the yard.
"Your Highness, what's wrong, we found a corpse at the entrance of the village. It was already in a state of disrepair, and there was some strange smell coming from it."
Hearing this, Zhao Rui couldn't help but frown. These soldiers in front of him were all veterans who had followed him in the east and west. There was nothing to be afraid of with just a corpse.
I just wanted to reprimand him, but I felt something was wrong. If it was really a simple corpse, these veterans would not be so panicked.
Especially the strange smell they mentioned made Zhao Rui shiver.
"Take me to see it!"
Not daring to show any signs of neglect, everyone immediately took Zhao Rui to the entrance of the village.
This place looks like a mass grave, but if you look closely, you will find that all the graves seem to have been buried just recently!
The exhumed corpse was placed aside. It was rotten and covered with maggots, but the color of the maggots was a bit strange.
There are actually three colors: red, blue and purple!
Zhao Rui stepped forward to take a look, and was suddenly shocked and took several steps back in a hurry.
"Go get a fire, dig out all the corpses here and burn them! We may have fallen into a Khmer trap."
Everyone did not dare to be negligent at all and immediately went to prepare torches.
Zhao Rui gathered everyone together, hurriedly took out the silver needles he had with him, and called out the army doctors and asked them to place all the medicinal materials in the yard.
"Your Highness, there are no patients here, why did you bring us together?"
"Yes, Your Highness, we have worked so hard to get these medicinal materials. Isn't it a bit of a waste to just put them on the ground like this?"
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Zhao Rui ignored them, and just collected some messy medicinal materials together, then poured them into powder, and then used mud to paste them together.
"If you want to survive, do as I say, otherwise none of us will be able to leave this village!"
After hearing what Zhao Rui said, no one dared to slack off at all.
It didn't take long for them to prepare a large amount of mud balls.
"Someone used these things together with dry firewood to light a fire every ten steps in the village!"
Although everyone was still confused, they did not dare to disobey Zhao Rui's order and went to do it immediately. Not long after, thick smoke rose from the whole village.
"Your Highness, what on earth is going on?"
Ziyun was also puzzled. It was the first time she had seen Zhao Rui so nervous in such a long time, and the things he did were also strange.
Zhao Rui shook the mud off his hands and sat aside.
"I have long heard that the Khmer are good at poison. When I saw it today, it turned out to be true. They actually hid poison on the corpses and wanted to kill all of us."
Ziyun's star-like eyes were suddenly filled with horror.
"You mean they left those bodies behind on purpose?"
Zhao Rui nodded, then took out a small cloth bag from his body and stuffed it into Ziyun's hand.
"I prepared these medicines. They can save your life at critical moments. You must carry them with you."