Chapter 37
The further we walked, the more stones there were along the river, and the road became rugged, making it naturally inconvenient to walk. Fortunately, the shoes we wore were thick and soft enough, otherwise the whole journey would have been like a torture to the soles of our feet.
Tang Zeyu was walking in front and looking at the map. Lu Shiyu was at the back because he was not walking smoothly. Seeing that he was about to fall behind, Lu Shiyu got anxious and did not pay attention to the mossy stones on the ground. His feet slipped and he fell.
The noise instantly attracted the attention of several other people walking in front. Shao Xingyang turned around and didn't see anyone. When he looked down, he found Lu Shiyu sitting on the ground with a painful expression.
"Why are you sitting on the ground?"
"Idiot, she fell." Yan Hong stepped forward and tried to pull Lu Shiyu up: "If you can't walk fast, just tell us to walk slower."
When Lu Shiyu wanted to stand up, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle. He hissed and sat back down.
"What's wrong? Can't you stand up?"
When Lu Yu lifted up his trouser leg, he saw a bulge at his ankle.
"I sprained my ankle."
Yan Hong squatted down and checked the injury, saying, "It's not serious. I'll just let Chen Yunliang treat it."
"Chen Yunliang! Come here! I sprained my ankle while walking!" Yan Hong shouted towards Chen Yunliang.
"Sprained?" Chen Yunliang walked over with his medicine box and checked. "It's not a big deal, just a ligament sprain."
Chen Yunliang placed his palm on the red and swollen area where Lu Shiyu had sprained his ankle and began to use his supernatural powers.
It was completely different from what Lu Shiyu had imagined before. Although Chen Yunliang's ability could quickly heal wounds, it was really painful!
"Hiss..." Lu Shiyu grabbed Yan Hong's arm in pain: "Why does it hurt so much..."
"Because the healing ability is meant to quickly heal injuries, your injured ligament is growing and healing at an extremely fast rate, so of course it hurts."
"It'll be fine once you get used to it," Yan Hong patted Lu Shiyu's back soothingly, "Everyone has gone through this."
"This guy's ability seems to be customized for some group of people with special fetishes."
"Hey, Yan Hong, does anyone talk like you?"
The two chatted in a relaxed tone, but Lu Shiyu, who was sweating profusely from the pain of his rapidly healing ligament, was not relaxed at all. It felt like he had been tortured for several hours in just a short while.
"Okay, stand up and see if you can walk."
Lu Shiyu finally let out a breath of relief. Thank God, it was finally over.
Lu Shiyu moved his ankle and found that there was no soreness at all. The swollen part had returned to normal and there was no sign of injury at all.
"So awesome!" Lu Shiyu stood up and tried to use that foot to exert force, but there was nothing unusual.
"Of course. I've used my powers countless times, so a minor injury like this is no problem at all."
Yan Hong came close to Lu Yu and complained in his ear: "They almost always use it on us. They don't even treat our teammates as human beings."
Lu Shiyu suddenly remembered that Shao Xingyang was caught and covered with wounds for luring away the snake-tail chicken. It was Chen Yunliang who healed him with his supernatural powers. At that time, she was only concerned about watching the wounds heal. Now thinking about it, Shao Xingyang's expression seemed to be distorted.
"If you get hurt in the future, you can come to me." Chen Yunliang said to Lu Shiyu with a smile.
Lu Shiyu felt goose bumps all over his body. He inexplicably felt that Chen Yunliang's smile was very creepy. He quickly waved his hands to refuse: "No, no, no! I will try my best not to get hurt in the future!"
Healing powers aren't pretty at all!
After the little episode, Lu Shiyu planned to go to the river to wash the dirt off his hands. He had supported himself on the ground with his hands when he fell just now, and now his fingers and nails were covered with black moss.
The moss was carried away by the rushing river. Lu Shiyu watched the moss she had cleaned drift down the river, and then... was eaten by a stone.
Lu Shiyu: “?”
Did I see it wrong just now?
Lu Shiyu squatted and moved to the side of the stone. The stone opened a slight crack, absorbed some moss, closed again, and opened again, as if it was breathing.
Lu Shiyu wanted to take a closer look at the moving stone, but the moment he touched it, the stone closed completely, fitting so tightly that it was almost impossible to find the original crack.
"Strange," Lu Shiyu picked up the stone from the ground, "I clearly saw it move just now."
"Lu Shiyu, what are you holding a stone for?" Shaoxing Yang walked over and asked Lu Shiyu, looking at the Yuhua stone in his hand, which was as big as three fists.
"I seemed to see the stone move just now, but now it's unresponsive."
"Is it true? Let me see."
Shao Xingyang took the stone from Lu Shiyu. Lu Shiyu pointed to the middle and said, "There used to be a crack here, but it's completely closed now."
"A seam? It seems there is one."
Shaoxing Yang borrowed a short knife from Lu Shiyu and aimed it at the gap that Lu Shiyu mentioned, intending to insert the blade into it and pry it open.
However, because the stone had been soaked in water for a long time, a layer of slippery attachment had formed on its surface. Shaoxing Yang did not hold it tightly and let the stone slip out of his hand.
The stone fell to the ground and rolled a few times until it rolled to a location near the river. Then, under the gaze of the two people, the crack slowly opened, and several white tentacles stretched out from it, dragging the huge stone shell and crawling towards the river.
"Damn, this is also a deformed creature."
When the tentacle was about to return to the river with the stone shell, Shaoxingyang stepped forward and picked up the stone. The stone was going to repeat the same trick to close it again and pretend to be an ordinary stone, but Shaoxingyang, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, used a knife blade to get stuck in the gap, preventing it from closing completely.
"You want to use the same trick twice? No way..."
Shaoxing Yang was just about to rotate the knife handle to pry open the stone shell, but the stone opened on its own, and several tentacles shot out jets of water at the same time, spraying the unsuspecting Shaoxing Yang in the face.
“Yue——!”
The dagger fell to the ground, the stone closed again, and Shao Xingyang turned his face away and began to retch.
"Are you okay?" Lu Shiyu asked with concern.
"No, ugh! I'm fine, ugh!"
As Lu Shiyu approached, he smelled a strong fishy stench coming from Shaoxing Yang, the smell was comparable to a basket of rotten fish.
Lu Shiyu pinched his nose and stepped back: "Uh, why don't you go wash in the water."
Shaoxing Yang was not giving up. He smelled the hand that had just wiped his face and vomited everything.
"What's this guy up to again?"
The other three heard the noise and came over. They could already smell the fishy odor when they were still some distance away from Shaoxing Yang.
"Did he just kiss a fish? Why does it smell so fishy?" Yan Hong pinched her nose and refused to get close.
"He just got sprayed in the face with this thing, and that's what happened."
Lu Shiyu quietly moved to the side of the three people away from Shaoxing Yang.
"What a hassle..." Yan Hong didn't even want to get close enough to kick him. She picked up a stone and threw it at him: "Go wash it in the water! What will you do if those things dry up and can't be washed off?"
Shaoxing Yang curled his lips, unable to bear the smell on his body, so he left the things he couldn't take into the water on the shore, including the culprit stone, and then jumped into the river.
Chen Yunliang walked forward, kicked the stone, turned around and asked for directions: "Is this the thing?"
"Well, be careful."
"Don't worry," Chen Yunliang said, "It just sprayed Shaoxing Yang, and now there is no water in its body."
Chen Yunliang put on a disposable mask on his hands, goggles and a mask on his head, and picked up the stone after being fully armed.
Lu Shiyu: “…”
I was clearly speaking very confidently just now, but in the end I still had to cover my face and hands before I dared to touch it.
"It looks like a clam," Chen Yunliang said after removing the plants clinging to the rock. "It probably grew like this to mimic the surrounding rocks. It really does look like one."
Chen Yunliang picked up the short knife that fell on the ground, found a small gap on the edge of the opening, inserted the blade into it and stabbed it deep into the shell, cutting off the closing muscle on one side along the edge of the clam shell. After that, he could easily open the clam shell.
Chen Yunliang held up the fully opened clam shell and said, "Look, it's open now."
Lu Shiyu looked over curiously and said, "It seems to be no different from ordinary river clams."
Chen Yunliang pressed the tender meat inside the clam shell with the side of the knife, and several tentacles twisted instantly, as if they wanted to spray out more water, but the previous spray of Shaoxing Yang had already used up all the water in it, and now it could only spray out a few weak drops of water.
Along with the tentacles, there is also a mouth hidden underneath that is difficult to find. It opens and closes as if making a silent moan. If you look closely, you can see circles of tiny teeth growing in the mouth.
Well, there is still a difference. Lu Shiyu looked at the half-dead river clam and suddenly felt a little sympathy.
"Let's eat this today."
Yanhong:?
Shaoxing Yang:?
Tang Zeyu: ...
Yan Hong shifted her gaze from the river clams to Lu Shiyu's face with a complicated expression and asked, "How on earth did you connect these two topics?"
"But it's already like this, wouldn't it be a waste if we don't eat it?"
Yan Hong held her forehead and smiled bitterly, as if she was laughing out of anger, but she couldn't think of anything else to say except laughing.
"Everyone, look at me!"
Shaoxing Yang, who had been soaking in the water, suddenly broke out of the water, holding a struggling fish in his hand.
"Look what I caught! Let's eat fish today!"
Shao Xingyang said, "You are too late. You have no chance to change your fate of what to eat today."
"Ah? What do you mean?" Shaoxing Yang, who missed what happened just now, was still confused when he was slapped several times by the flapping fish tail.
"There are fish in this river?" Lu Shiyu asked.
"Yes, there are quite a few," Shao Xingyang threw the lively fish onto the shore. "There are also small fish and shrimps, but not many big ones. It took me a lot of effort to catch this one."
Shaoxing Yang just came up to pick up something on the ground when he was stopped by Lu Shiyu.
"Why don't you go catch some more? We'll eat these fish and shrimp today."
"sure!"
Shaoxingyang patted his chest and promised that he could catch enough food for today. However, when he turned around, everyone saw a shrimp hanging on the butt crack of his pants. Only one of the shrimp's claws was clamped on Shaoxingyang's pants, supporting its weight, and the shrimp swayed with the curve of Shaoxingyang's walk.
"Shaoxing Yang, wait a minute..."
Shao Xingyang turned his head doubtfully: "Is there anything else?"
"..." Lu Shiyu was silent for two seconds, thinking about whether it would be more feasible to say it out loud or to pick it up directly. In the end, he chose to pretend not to see it.
"Nothing. Just be careful not to let the river wash away the fish when you catch them."
"How is that possible? I'm not a three-year-old child."
Then, under the silent gaze of the four people, Shaoxing Yang returned to the water with a big shrimp hanging on his butt.
"Don't any of you have a conscience and remind him?"
"You're so conscientious, are you going?"
"Forget it then."
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