Chapter 39 Night Fishing
The first person to have problems was Chen Zai.
One second he was sitting in front of the campfire, cleaning his fishing rod, and the next second, he bounced back, leaning on all fours in a posture that is difficult for a human to accomplish, with his belly sticking out high. The black hat on his head fell to the ground, revealing the back of his head with severe and patchy hair loss.
"No, don't come to me..."
"I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong..."
"Please, I don't want to die..."
He was making strange movements and saying something, with a ferocious and terrified expression.
It seemed that his body could not withstand this level of pulling. Xu Zhiyan could hear the 'cracking' sound of his bones from the pulling even when he was hiding in the tent.
This scared the others.
Jiang Lie and Fang Guocheng, who were also sorting out fishing gear in front of the campfire, stood there stupidly. They didn't dare to pick up the things that fell on the ground, but just stared at Chen Zai.
Just when they were at a loss, the tour guide spoke.
He didn't speak as he did last night, but instead sang a strange dialect song that no one else could understand.
After listening to it, Chen Zai found that it was indeed effective.
His protruding belly and almost overwhelmed spine relaxed, and his whole body gradually changed from a strange posture to a normal lying position. He collapsed directly on the ground and gasped heavily. His whole body was soaked in cold sweat and looked very embarrassed.
The chaotic scene gradually returned to normal.
But Chen Zai still didn't wake up.
Fang Guocheng brought the medical kit and examined Chen Zai.
He checked his blood pressure and heart rate, and finally stripped Chen Zai's clothes off to look for any wounds on his body, wondering if he had been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Jiang Lie also went over to help and invited everyone to join in.
Xu Zhiyan, who was hiding in the tent, had no choice but to walk out of the tent and lend a hand to Fang Guocheng.
Looking at Chen Zai, who was stripped naked and had no blood on his skin, Xu Zhiyan did not attack him directly. Instead, he found a small wooden stick and poked the other's slightly bulging belly.
Chen Zai's skin did not rebound immediately after being poked by the branch. Instead, it seemed to have lost its vitality like a corpse.
Xu Zhiyan threw away the stick, he suspected that it was the bugs who did it.
Just now, Chen Zai's belly was pointing high towards the sky, and it was bulging, as if something was about to crawl out.
It's hard not to think of what's sitting in the pit of your stomach.
But now Chen Zai's vital signs are normal.
The most important thing is that Jiang Lie and Fang Guocheng didn’t think about the bugs at all. It is not known whether they really didn’t think about it, or because they also ate the bugs and their thinking was affected.
And Fang Guocheng seemed to be starting to have problems.
He had measured Chen Zai's blood pressure three times, and each time he got the same result. However, he still forgot the value and measured it again.
Unlike Jiang Lie and others who were in a panic, the old guide still sat calmly in his seat, looking composed.
After a lot of trouble, when Chen Zai woke up, it was already evening.
After the rain, the sky was gloomy.
The sky was almost falling.
Several people sat around the campfire.
In the morning, Jiang Lie and others went to the small bay to fish and brought back a lot of fish. Fang Guocheng processed them simply, and these fish are turning into delicious grilled fish.
The old guide looked at the grilled fish, opened his drooping eyelids, and glanced at everyone.
"Don't eat the things you brought with you. Make sure to eat fresh food." He solemnly instructed others.
After hearing this, several people nodded obediently, and even Xu Zhiyan nodded a few times.
The flickering firelight made the five people's faces red.
The other four people ate grilled fish. Xu Zhiyan used the excuse of writing a diary to hide in the tent and finish eating some compressed biscuits. He wiped his mouth and slipped back to watch the others eat.
He didn't care at all about the sympathetic looks from the others.
The guide's intention was very clear. The worms in his stomach only eat fresh food and don't like stale food. He didn't eat worms, so there was no need for him to follow him to eat more weird food.
However, in order to fit in, Xu Zhiyan still acted as if he was really craving for food.
"Can I drink the brew?" he asked the old guide.
The old guide nodded and replied, "Sure, the liquid doesn't matter."
Jiang Lie was also very happy when he heard this. After all, no matter how delicious the fish was, it would still be a bit dry if you only ate the fish.
"Xiao Xu, I see that you just like to make those kinds of powders. Do they taste good? Make me a cup too." Jiang Lie handed over his thermos cup without giving Xu Zhiyan a chance to refuse.
In his eyes, he was the boss of this group of people. He consciously took extra care of Xu Zhiyan and felt that it was his duty for him to share some things with him.
The other two thought so too.
Fang Guocheng also found his and Chen Zai's cups and asked, "I don't like sweet drinks. Didn't you say you brought milk powder? Make me some milk powder."
When Jiang Lie heard about milk powder, he didn't know whether it was because he followed the crowd or because he didn't like sweet things, but in the end, the three of them asked Xu Zhiyan to make the milk powder.
Although he didn't really want to share, Xu Zhiyan had to take the thermos cup due to the situation.
"That milk powder has been stored for a while. It may not taste as good as fresh ones," he explained.
"Hey, you don't want to give us a drink, do you?" Chen Zai, who had been silent since waking up, finally spoke with a somewhat aggressive tone.
Xu Zhiyan was not angry, instead he squinted his eyes and smiled.
"How could that be? I'll go get them right now."
He doesn’t care if I have diarrhea after drinking it!
Back in the tent, Xu Zhiyan opened the tattered can of milk powder, looked around for a spoon but couldn't find one, so he simply held the can and poured it into three empty cups without any accuracy.
After a few clicks, the milk powder, which was already limited, was almost gone.
He wrinkled his nose, feeling that the milky aroma became weaker after the powder was poured out of the can, and smelled even worse than before.
But the strange thing is, after pouring hot water into it and brewing it, the taste seems to become acceptable again.
He screwed on three thermoses and shook the cups vigorously.
Then he opened one of the cups and sniffed it carefully.
It's OK. It does have a weird milky aroma. You should only have diarrhea three or four times after drinking it, but it won't kill you.
He went out with the thermos cup, and the three of them took it and started drinking.
Chen Zai drank half a cup in one breath, not even afraid of the heat.
The four of them were having a great time, and what made Xu Zhiyan happy was that the other three did not say that the milk powder had a strange smell.
Only the old guide seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if he wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.
Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan thought that he was greedy, and thought that there should be enough milk powder in the bucket to make another cup, so he asked: "Do you want to drink it? I like something sweeter and don't like milk powder very much. If you want to drink it, I will make you a cup of milk powder as well."
He was calculating with great speed in his mind.
If the jar is empty, you can use it to hold the snake, but it may be a little crowded.
“…No.” The guide had a strange expression on his face. He stared at Xu Zhiyan for a long time before he refused. It was as if he was looking at a monster.
Xu Zhiyan stopped and made himself a cup of sweet, strong hot cocoa.
After the little episode, the five people continued to roast by the fire.
Xu Zhiyan listened to the random chats of several people and noticed that Chen Zai was behaving a little strangely and kept rubbing his eyes.
In order to see more clearly, he took the initiative to suggest that since Chen Zai had fainted in the afternoon and was exhausted, he would help him wash the cups.
When he got closer, Xu Zhiyan almost couldn't hold the cup.
There were two small bumps on Chen Zai's cheeks, the size of a fingernail, moving upwards along his nose. Just as these bumps passed over his eyes, a small white bug appeared in his eye socket and crawled along the surface of his eyeball...
The bug looked like a smaller version of a white-treasure bug larva.
Xu Zhiyan lowered his head, took the cup, and looked at the small bumps that continued to appear on Chen Zai's body. He felt a little disgusted.
The direction these worms are heading towards is...the brain.
He inexplicably thought of Fang Guocheng's performance in the afternoon.
When Xu Zhiyan came back after washing the cups, everyone had already started talking about the Amber Mountain Reservoir.
"Is the reservoir in Amber Mountain really as magical as people say?" Jiang Lie stared at the old guide with unconcealable expectation in his eyes.
Chen Zai and Fang Guocheng also looked over, seemingly expecting an answer.
"What's so magical? Isn't it just a reservoir?" The old guide answered and took out a homemade pipe from his pocket and started smoking.
"I heard that the water in the Amber Mountain Reservoir is not ordinary water. It can separate life and death." Jiang Lie couldn't help but say.
When Xu Zhiyan heard this, he hurried over to listen.
If nothing goes wrong, the secret hidden in this reservoir is the main content of the copy.
The old guide nodded seriously: "Yes, there is indeed such a saying."
"If a dead person lingers in the world and is unwilling to leave, then just drop the things he is obsessed with into the bottom of the lake and he will no longer bother the living."
After saying that, he stopped talking.
Xu Zhiyan raised his head and looked around, glanced at the three people whose expressions looked slightly agitated, and finally sorted out everything.
Considering the nightmares these three people encountered last night, they must have done something wrong, killed others, or indirectly caused the deaths of others, and then were haunted by ghosts.
So after hearing about this, everyone hurried over with their things.
They planned to use the water from the Amber Mountain Reservoir to eliminate the ghosts that were haunting them, so they were desperate to enter the reservoir, and even ate the insects given by the old guide.
It was completely night.
This time, Xu Zhiyan was assigned to keep watch for the first half of the night, and the old guide for the second half.
Xu Zhiyan used the excuse of going back to get something and asked the old guide to help him for a while.
When he arrived at the tent, he closed the tent door, took the white treasure insects distributed for dinner, and found the white snake that was curled up into a pile of snake cakes in the corner of the tent.
"Eat it. It's high in protein and low in fat. It's a very good food." As he said that, he pushed the insect forward with a wooden stick.
The big white snake, which had just finished eating insects at noon, had probably accepted its fate.
It stopped resisting and ate it obediently.
But just when the big white snake thought that was the end, suddenly, a transparent plastic bag covered it from head to toe.
Although according to the information given by the old guide, the white treasure worm needs to nest in the human stomach, and it is likely that human body temperature is needed to complete some kind of hatching process, so cold-blooded creatures like snakes should be fine.
But Xu Zhiyan was still a little worried.
He was still frightened and murmured, "If you feel like vomiting later, vomit into the bag. I will open the bag to breathe when I remember. Snakes can live for a long time without oxygen. I won't let you die without worry."
Don't let bugs crawl all over his tent!
The big white snake vaguely saw Xu Zhiyan's distorted face through the plastic bag, and there was great despair in his small eyes.
After dealing with the white snake, Xu Zhiyan came to the campfire.
Seeing that the old guide was still sitting, he looked grateful.
"You should go back and rest first. Didn't they say it will be foggy tomorrow? I'm really looking forward to going to the Amber Mountain Reservoir."
If it weren't for the fact that there was no guide in this desolate mountain area, he would never have found the way to the reservoir, and he wouldn't have had to argue with the guide for so long.
But who would have thought that after hearing this, the old guide looked at him with an even stranger look.
He spoke a little hastily this time, and a few dialect words with strange intonations popped out from time to time.
"You are quite capable and ruthless enough."
"People like you will be fine whether you go to Amber Mountain or not."
As he spoke, the old guide swallowed his saliva and sat further away from Xu Zhiyan.
"They ate the ashes you gave them, and those nightmares won't come to you again. You're safe, so why are you going to the Amber Mountain Reservoir?"
“…”
Xu Zhiyan paused as he was poking the fire. Although his expression was still calm enough, his heart was already in turmoil.
Ashes? Ashes!
Shit! It seems to be true!
If everyone who came to participate in this night fishing event was carrying the souls of innocent people, then he was here too, so he was just like the other three people!
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