The moment she returned to her body, Jiang Chan didn't even have time to feel the exhaustion that had penetrated her soul before her right hand had already reached into the "tattered bundle" with lightning speed.
A pea-sized, brown pill with a strange, herbal scent appeared at her fingertips.
"Open your mouth!" Jiang Chan hissed, forcefully stuffing the pill into Zhou's tightly closed mouth, her fingers moving up and down Zhou's throat.
Glug.
The pill was swallowed.
Almost simultaneously!
Zhou's swollen, blackened calf, covered with terrifying bluish-purple veins, looked as if it had been wiped clean by an invisible eraser. Black poisonous blood seeped out eerily from the snake fang wound, the bluish-purple veins quickly subsided, and the swelling subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a dozen breaths, apart from two small teeth marks and a little bit of redness and swelling, the leg had actually returned to normal!
Zhou's originally rapid, weak, and deathly breathing gradually became steady and long.
His eyelids twitched a few times, then he slowly opened them. Although his eyes were weak, they had regained their clarity.
"Master's wife!" Chen Yan's voice trembled with relief, as if he had survived a disaster.
“I…I am…” Zhou looked around blankly.
"A miracle! Another miracle!"
"Fairy Maiden, save me! Fairy Maiden, please give me medicine!"
After a brief silence, the crowd erupted in deafening screams and frenzied shouts, and many were about to kneel down again!
"Shut up! Stand up!" Jiang Chan shouted sharply, silencing all the noise. "Rest for 10 minutes... 15 minutes! Get ready to continue!"
Her complexion was also not good, showing the fatigue of completing a mission, but her aura was even stronger.
The crowd fell silent instantly, looking at her with awe. They dared not kneel any longer, but no one dared to sit either, all standing stiffly.
Jiang Chan ignored them and took out two multigrain cakes, handing them to Chen Yan. "Feed your master's wife some." Then she found a place to sit down, closed her eyes, and rested to quickly recover her strength.
For the rest of the journey, Jiang Chan's tattered and deflated bundle became everyone's source of sustenance and spiritual support.
During rest:
They pulled out hard, multigrain cakes from the "package"—everyone silently accepted them, taking small bites as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.
Several rice balls were pulled out of the "package"—the group silently shared them, their expressions calm.
A few pieces of dried meat were pulled out of the "package"—everyone's eyes lit up, they swallowed hard as they took them, carefully and tenderly tearing at them, feeling grateful, but no longer exclaiming in amazement at the miracle.
Find a place to rest at noon:
A bag of brown rice was pulled out of the "burden"—the group silently searched for stones to build a stove and gathered firewood.
A large iron pot was pulled out of the "package"—everyone silently cleaned it and set it aside.
He pulled a piece of fresh pork out of the "package"—chopped it up with a knife, and threw it into the pot to cook porridge.
The rich aroma of rice mixed with the fragrance of meat permeated the mountain forest.
Everyone sat around the pot of porridge, watching intently, swallowing their saliva, their eyes burning with longing, but no one spoke.
The porridge is ready; one bowl for each person.
"Eat up," Jiang Chan said.
The sound of slurping porridge could be heard.
Everyone held their bowls, sighed contentedly, and looked at Jiang Chan with pious and dependent eyes.
From shock to numbness, and then to acceptance as a matter of course.
The fairy's "burden" could naturally contain anything that could save a life.
The mountain path seemed to have no end.
Three days have passed.
Guided by the old woodcutter and protected by Jiang Chan's detector, the team traversed the difficult terrain.
The further you go into the forest, the denser and more pristine it becomes.
Exhaustion weighs on everyone like a heavy shackle.
Their clothes were torn even more by the thorns, their faces and bodies were covered with red and swollen welts from mosquito bites, and some people had blisters on the soles of their feet, making them walk with a limp.
"Ouch!" A man stepped into the mud under the withered leaves, slipped, and his arm was cut by a thorny bush.
"Hiss!" A suppressed cry of pain escaped as a boy in the group accidentally kicked over a rock. A brightly colored centipede darted out from beneath it and bit him hard on the ankle! The wound quickly swelled up and turned red!
"Don't move!" Jiang Chan's voice rang out.
She strode over and pulled out a treasure from the magical "package"... First, she used alcohol powder to stop the bleeding and reduce inflammation on the man's arm wound, then she put a small, cool-smelling pill into the boy's mouth, "Eat! The poison will be neutralized in a little while."
The stinging pain in the man's arm quickly subsided, and the bleeding stopped.
The redness and swelling in the boy's ankle did not worsen under the suppression of the cool scent of the pills and quickly subsided.
"Thank you... thank you, young lady..." The two were moved to tears.
The others watched with eyes full of relief and reliance.
With the fairy maiden around, snakes, insects, rats, ants, and all poisonous creatures no longer seemed so frightening.
Although fatigue and pain are inevitable, at least they won't die from poisoning.
The probe hovered silently high in the sky, scanning the terrain ahead.
The current direction avoids large canyons and steep cliffs, and it is estimated that it will take another ten days to reach the plains outside the mountains.
Ten days... Jiang Chan frowned as she looked at the group of exhausted and ragged "burdens" behind her.
It's too slow!
The afternoon of the sixth day.
The group walked along a narrow ridge.
On both sides were bottomless mountain ravines, and the wind howled.
Sudden!
"roar--!!!"
A deafening, savage tiger's roar erupted from the dense forest to the side! A stench filled the air!
A massive, golden-furred tiger with piercing eyes and a white forehead suddenly pounced out of the bushes! Its amber eyes were fixed on the thin boy at the front of the group! Clearly, it had chosen the weakest prey!
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