Lin Que's sudden cry drew everyone's attention, and Man Jing, as if electrocuted, threw the grilled fish into the river: "This fish is poisonous!"

"Damn it, I got pricked in the mouth!"

Lin Que rolled her eyes, then opened her mouth wide and pointed it at the monkey: "My lord, please take a look! I feel a fishbone stuck in my upper palate, ouch...it hurts so much!"

"You're a fool too. We're eating fish, not pork knuckle. You're taking such big bites of it, no wonder you're getting pricked!"

Seeing the sparrow's pained expression, the monkey still went forward, cut off the top of a stick with a knife, and used it as tweezers to put into the sparrow's mouth.

After Lin Que hummed a few times, the monkey finally managed to remove the fishbone from his mouth, clicking its tongue in amazement and saying, "Hey, this fishbone is quite strange, why is it round?"

When I heard the monkey say that, I looked up at the stick in his hand and immediately stood up: "Monkey, let me see what it is."

Seeing how excited I was, the monkey handed me the stick: "What's so interesting about a fishbone?"

I picked up the "fishbone" and rubbed it on a nearby stone, looking at the metallic sheen inside: "This thing isn't a fishbone, it's a fishhook!"

"Hey, I thought I'd found something amazing, just a broken fishhook..."

The monkey was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly realized something: "How could there be a fishhook inside a fish's belly in this deep mountain forest? Could it be that we're already close to Ping'an Village, and the fish swallowed the hook while they were fishing?"

"At present, this possibility is very high."

I cleaned the fishhook in my hand and examined it carefully: "This is not a common fishhook on the market, but a handmade one, which is a perfect match for a village like Ping'an Village hidden deep in the mountains! This means that our route is correct, and this river is very likely the water source for Ping'an Village."

The discovery of the fishhook gave everyone a boost of morale. After a quick bite to eat, we were full of energy and began searching along the river.

As a result, we walked for several more hours, and the river around us kept rushing, as if it would never end.

The long walk had left my feet swollen and aching. Lin Que, panting heavily, came up to me and asked, "Brother, why does the scenery around us look so familiar? Are we going in circles again?"

"No! The river next to us has always been flowing. If it were a ghost wall, the water here would only form a circle. And since there's no electricity here, it would be difficult to provide power for the water flow."

Looking at the river that seemed to stretch on endlessly, and the shifting light and shadows, I sat down on a rock. "We've traveled far enough today. Everyone, let's rest for twenty minutes, then set up camp after sunset. Manjing, you're in charge..."

"Whoosh!"

Before I could finish speaking, a rock suddenly came flying from the woods towards me.

When I saw something flying towards me, I instinctively dodged to the side.

"Thump!"

The stone landed in the water close to my body, splashing water as I picked it up.

The monkey looked towards the woods and instantly grabbed a knife from beside it: "Someone's there!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Before we could react, countless stones flew out of the woods and rained down.

We had nowhere to hide on the open riverbank, so we could only raise our arms to protect our heads, and we were in excruciating pain from being hit by stones.

When Manjing saw me being attacked, he rushed forward without hesitation and used his massive body to block me: "Big brother, let's cross the river!"

"No, go into the woods to arrest them!"

I watched the falling stones, then roared and charged into the woods.

We've been walking along the river for hours in search of Ping'an Village.

Everything was peaceful before this, but the sudden attack shows that we have once again posed a threat to Ping'an Village.

If we can catch the attackers, we can force them to lead us into the village.

As I rushed into the woods, I was constantly hit by stones, and I even got a big bump on my head.

"Splash!"

As we approached, the sound of rustling leaves filled the woods, and I deliberately ran through the densest areas of trees, dodging the stones thrown by the other side, and was the first to rush into the woods.

Under the tree ahead, five or six paper figures were lined up, hurling stones at us.

The monkey followed me into the woods, and when it saw the paper figures ahead, its expression froze: "Damn it, what are these ghostly things again!"

I remembered the paper figure that had been shot and fallen to the ground last night, and I rushed towards the rock: "Attack together, capture them alive, and see what these things are!"

Upon hearing my words, Manjing rushed past me in a flash.

Upon seeing our movements, the paper figures turned and began to flee.

Last night when we saw these paper figures, we didn't dare to get close because it was night. But now the sun hasn't set yet, and although it's a bit dark in the forest, the visibility is still pretty good. In order to get into Ping'an Village, I disregarded my fear and decided to grab one of the paper figures to figure out how they were moving.

To my surprise, these paper figures ran extremely fast and their posture was particularly uncoordinated. Although I had dissected them yesterday and found that they had joints inside, they ran as if their arms and legs had no joints, and they just swung their arms and legs around.

Among us, Manjing was definitely the strongest, but I had the best physical fitness. Especially since I had been tormented by Ox-Head and Horse-Face in Fengmen Village for so long on the mountain road, I quickly overtook Manjing and got closer and closer to the paper figure.

In the blink of an eye, I was less than three meters away from the paper figure at the front.

At that moment, my chest was heaving violently, but the paper figure in front of me didn't make a sound of breathing at all, just like a real dead object.

Seeing the paper figure so close, I quickened my pace, rushed behind it, and grabbed at its shoulder.

"call out!"

At that moment, another whooshing sound came from the air, and then I felt as if my hand had been shoved hard and thrown backward.

"Duh!"

A two-foot-long arrow pierced my sleeve and pinned my arm to a nearby tree, its feathered tail trembling.

"Big brother!"

When Manjing saw that I had been hit, he made a move to stand in front of me.

"Boo! Boo! Boo!"

As Manjing took a step forward, several more arrows pierced the air and landed in a row on the ground in front of his feet.