Chapter 217 Token
When she heard Chen Yunfeng calling her, she put down the bag and came over. She looked at the man carefully and shook her head.
"He can't be saved, but I can revive him, but not for long."
Qin Yi nodded.
Su Tong took out a silver needle and pierced the man's several acupoints.
After a few minutes, the man slowly opened his eyes.
But his eyes were dazed, he ignored the people around him, and kept muttering:
"Dead... all dead... killed in the explosion... beaten to death... it's all over..."
Qin Yi asked him several questions in a row.
"What are you doing in the woods?"
"Why did they beat you?"
"What is their purpose?"
This person never responded, but just kept repeating:
“…It’s over…It’s all over!”
Su Tong thought about it, lowered his head and asked:
"Are you from Wushanao?"
As soon as Su Tong finished speaking, the man seemed to be shocked and immediately fell silent...
After a moment, his scattered eyes began to focus and he slowly looked towards Su Tong.
When Su Tong saw his reaction, he knew that his guess was correct, and immediately asked:
"You know Ge Baogen, right?"
The man's eyes were suddenly filled with despair, and he murmured:
"We...were lost and couldn't save Baogen...they caught us and we died...all of us died..."
"Why did they arrest you?" Qin Yi asked, grasping the key point.
"Pottery shards... for pottery shards... they are crazy..."
Pottery fragments?
"What do they want the pottery shards for?" Qin Yi asked.
The man's eyes gradually blurred, "Robbery... Many people are robbing... They are crazy... Baogen! Baogen! My Baogen..."
The sound became fainter and fainter until it finally disappeared.
These are clearly the people who went to Wushan'ao to look for medicine for Baogen, and this person is most likely Ge Baogen's father. I wonder if the person next to him is the Old Wu mentioned by Village Chief Ge.
These people must have gone too deep into the mountains and got lost, and ended up running into the same group of people and getting persecuted to this point.
Everyone felt heavy in their hearts. Although Ge Baogen deserved to die, these people only came out to find medicine for the nephews and nephews in the village, and ended up like this. It was really sad.
Qin Yi ordered that the two be buried properly and marked. He would find a chance to inform the people in Wushanao in the future that they could not return alive, but at least they should be informed if they died.
However, after seeing the scars on the two men's bodies, Zhao Xin frowned and thought for a long time.
Here, Zhou Jin finally found an opportunity to ask Su Tong:
"Sister, how do you know this person is from Wushanao?"
The others also turned around and looked at Su Tong. They also wanted to know.
Su Tong said: "Their clothes are all cotton or linen, with buttons, which are consistent with the characteristics of mountain people, but they also wear Jiefang shoes. In a primitive village like Yazui Rock, the villagers all wear handmade cloth shoes, and no one wears Jiefang shoes. So they are mountain people, but they have exchanges with the outside world and the flow of goods, and Wushanao fits the description.
Also, I saw Mao Ya tie a small cloth bag to a buttonhole with a string in Wushan Ao. Maybe this is a habit of carrying small things in their village, similar to a wallet outside. And we never met the team that came out of Wushan Ao to look for medicine, so it is easy to guess. "
The analysis was so logical and reasonable that Zhou Jin was so impressed that his eyes turned into stars.
The others didn't say anything, but silently raised her intelligence value by a few degrees in their hearts.
It’s not that no one has thought about it, but no one is as meticulous as she is, so no one is as sure as she is.
Rao Jiancheng searched the area around here. As a tracking expert, he managed to find two cigarette butts with filters and a crumpled empty cigarette box from this messy wild forest. After unfolding the cigarette box, he saw "Caifeng Cigarettes" printed on it.
"Caifeng? Is this cigarette from Shaanxi Province?" Li Song asked.
Qin Yi said, "It is very likely that they are originally from Shaanxi Province. In addition to the gunshots heard at noon, it proves that there is at least one group fleeing to the south and one group chasing... So in addition to us, there are at least three other groups of people in this area. They are armed and ruthless, and... their goal is pottery shards."
As he said this, he looked at Ma Liu who was sitting by the fire.
When the man mentioned the pottery shards, Ma Liu took out the pottery shard he got from Crow's Beak Rock and looked at it over and over again.
Seeing Qin Yi looking at him, he held up the pottery shard and said:
"I'm really not lying! I've seen it eight hundred times, and I'm sure it's a knockoff. If I sell it on the market, the best I can get is five dollars! It might not even be worth five dollars. Who would buy such a piece? It can't be placed steadily, and it can't be placed flat. I'd rather buy a few jars with the five dollars. At least I can use it to pickle vegetables."
At this point, Ma Liu stood up with a chuckle, "It can't be that the old guys at Crow's Mouth Rock are trying to scare us, not giving us the real ones but the fake ones..."
Qin Yi shook his head and said, "According to what that person just said, these people have been fighting for the pottery shard for a while. We just arrived, so they are certainly not fighting for the piece we have."
"This pottery fragment... should be a token of trust, such as a token of passing a customs check. Its value does not lie in itself."
Su Tong continued, "Is it because Sixth Master recognized the oldest bowl and passed the test that he gave us the pottery fragments?"
“That’s pretty much what I understand.”
Qin Yi pondered and said, "If you can get a pottery shard by passing a test, those who can't pass can only steal others'. Maybe this pottery shard is more like a pass."
"In that case, there will be new tests waiting for us in Qingshi Village." Lin Li continued.
"There will definitely be, and it will only get harder, otherwise they wouldn't be fighting to the death."
Su Tong continued, "And if the pottery fragment is a pass, one piece may not be enough. How many pieces are needed to meet the requirements? We don't know this yet."
"Yes! These are all unknowns. Only by moving forward can these questions be answered."
Qin Yi looked at everyone again and said:
"This large area is blank on the map, which not only means that the terrain here is complex and difficult to pass through, but also means that it is not regulated by the government. Anything can happen, so everyone should remain vigilant at all times."
"Yes!" everyone answered in unison.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, with large flakes of snow falling continuously.
The sky was getting darker and darker. It was only four o'clock in the afternoon, but we needed to use a flashlight.
They needed to find a suitable place to camp quickly.
After walking forward with difficulty for nearly an hour, the team found a cave when they passed a high hill.
The cave is not deep, but at least it can shelter us from the wind and snow.
At this time, the ground was covered with snow and the light had dimmed, making it even more dangerous to go forward.
As soon as we entered, we found an extinguished fire in the cave and a lot of dry firewood next to it, which showed that someone had lived there.
Qin Yi looked around and said nothing. He just arranged two people to keep watch, changing positions every two hours.
There is no absolutely safe place in this area now. We can only increase our vigilance and act according to circumstances.
But not long after he fell asleep, there was movement in the woods.
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