Chapter 94 Mountain Leech
Xie Liang wore it while sleeping in bed. When he came to his senses, he was already lying on the ground.
Xie Liang was the last one to wake up. As usual, he woke up in Xu He's arms.
The ground of the temporary stay looked like a river beach. There were a lot of people descending this time, and it was so huge that there seemed to be at least more than a hundred people.
"Wow, are all the adventers here?" Lu Bubu said in surprise.
"Not necessarily, but it also accounts for the majority." Shi Xiaoyin said.
After everyone woke up, the vortex gate opened.
After the door opened, Xie Liang and his companions and the descenders walked towards the vortex gate one after another and entered the door one after another.
After Xie Liang entered the door, he was thrown into a bush.
This forest has a strong primitive atmosphere, the ground is covered with dead branches and rotten leaves, and there is no one around.
There are two paths before him.
The first one was covered with half-human-high reed grass, which could hardly be considered a road. There were only traces of people passing by.
The second road was covered with dead branches and leaves, and there were no footprints on the road, as if no one had ever walked on it.
Xie Liang didn't know which way to go for a moment, so he found a branch and tentatively patted the grass on the first path.
The weeds were completely silent, with only the sound of him slapping the grass with branches.
Xie Liang walked to the second road again and stepped on the fluffy dead leaves. The dead leaves sank instantly and he felt a sticky and soft feeling under his feet.
He quickly pulled his leg back, leaving deep footprints on the dead leaves.
Suddenly, tiny, rustling sounds came from the originally quiet bushes. The sound came from all directions, penetrating every corner, and Xie Liang was so excited that goose bumps appeared all over his body.
It was almost dusk and there was no time to lose. We had to get out of the jungle before dark, otherwise it would be even more dangerous when night fell.
After some thought, Xie Liang chose to follow the traces of footsteps in the weeds.
After walking for about ten minutes, Xie Liang met a man in a blue windbreaker. After asking, he found out that his name was Niu Dadan, also an Adventer. The two of them then walked together.
After the two of them climbed over a hillside, the surrounding trees gradually became sparse.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Niu Dadan suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Xie Liang bent down and helped him up.
Suddenly, he felt a soft and sticky feeling on the hand that was holding Niu Dadan, just like the feeling of stepping on a dead leaf before.
Xie Liang released his hand and carefully observed Niu Dadan's expression. In just over half an hour, Niu Dadan's entire face looked as if he had been drained of his vitality, and his face turned pale.
Just then, there was movement under Niu Dadan's clothes on his shoulders.
"Why do I feel dizzy?" Niu Dadan said.
"Take off your clothes."
"Ah, what?"
"Take it off first, there's something inside your clothes."
"Okay." Niu Dadan took off his blue windbreaker and flipped through the pages. "There's nothing here. Could you be mistaken?"
"No way, take off your T-shirt too."
Seeing that Xie Liang was so confident, Niu Dadan shyly took off his underwear in two moves.
Xie Liang was suddenly stunned. He saw a swarm of blood-sucking mountain leeches clinging tightly to Niu Dadan's back! Niu Dadan himself was completely unaware and was still stretching lazily.
Xie Liang felt a tingling sensation on his scalp and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Niu Dadan was puzzled when he saw this: "What's wrong? Is there something behind me?"
"Leech! Don't move." Xie Liang said as he hurriedly took out disinfectant from his bag and sprayed it on his back.
Niu Dadan was stunned and let Xie Liang spray alcohol on him.
After a while, the leeches attached to his back fell off one by one.
Only then did Niu Dadan feel waves of burning pain in his back. Turning around, he cried out in shock, "There are so many..."
The wound on Niu Dadan's back caused by leech bites was still bleeding, and the air was filled with a slight smell of blood.
The leech that fell to the ground moved, crawled onto his trouser leg, and climbed up step by step, wanting to go back and suck that piece of sweet flesh and blood.
More rustling sounds were heard around, as if something silent was rushing towards here in large numbers.
Xie Liang hurriedly sprayed disinfectant alcohol on the two of them and said in a deep voice: "Run, get out of here first!"
Niu Dadan hurriedly followed Xie Liang and ran towards a yellow mud mountain road that could be seen in the distance among the mountains.
On the way, Xie Liang saw a human-shaped object that was tightly wrapped by leeches. The person inside must have been dead for a long time.
Xie Liang didn't dare to stop. He ran while spraying alcohol on himself.
More and more leeches moved towards the two of them, and a few even jumped onto Xie Liang's face.
The two men didn't dare to stop. After running for a long time, they finally reached the mountain road.
While running, Xie Liang didn't have time to look at Niu Dadan. When he stopped and looked, he saw that there were still several blood-sucking leeches attached to Niu Dadan's body. Xie Liang hurriedly helped him get them off.
More and more people gradually ran out of the dense jungle on both sides of the mountain road. They took off their clothes and caught each other's leeches that were attached to their bodies.
Xie Liang checked himself and luckily he hadn't been contaminated by any of those disgusting, sticky things. He had stuffed some mugwort in his bag, probably because the strong smell of the mugwort blocked the smell of blood and flesh on his body.
They were on the hillside of a big mountain. Behind the mountain was a long and dense jungle and a higher peak. In front of the mountain was also a dense jungle, but in the distance they could vaguely see a wide river at the foot of the mountain, green and flat farmland, and further away was a village.
Everyone began to rush along the mountain road towards the foot of the mountain in the distance.
Along the way, screams and cries were heard from time to time in the dense jungles on both sides of the mountain road. Before Xie Liang could follow the sounds to check, the sounds returned to silence.
When we were almost at the foot of the mountain, we heard several women's screams from the jungle.
The voice was so charming and alluring that one could imagine what kind of stunning woman was in the forest just by listening to it.
"Is anyone there? I broke my leg."
"Please, save me, my home is in the village at the foot of the mountain."
The sound came from the slope on one side of the mountain road. Below the slope was a wide river, stretching majestically to the other side of the village.
There was a trail extending deep into the jungle, and Xie Liang followed the woman's voice and walked there.
Niu Dadan grabbed Xie Liang's arm and warned him, "Brother, don't go. There's no place like this in the wilderness. Where can you find such a delicate woman?"
A bearded man walked past Xie Liang and said, "Didn't she say he was from the village? He might be an NPC."
"That seems to make sense. Let's go together." Niu Dadan said.
Xie Liang responded, and followed Niu Dadan behind the bearded man toward the steep path.
After walking for five or six minutes, they saw a woman wearing a bamboo hat. She was about thirty years old, dressed in a plain orange-yellow dress, sitting on the ground and sobbing.
When the bearded man saw the woman, he strode over to her.
Seeing someone coming, the woman stopped shouting and turned to the bearded man who walked up to her, almost crying: "I don't know what your brother's name is. Can you carry Xiaoying back? Please..."
The bearded man looked her over and said, "No problem."
Xie Liang and Niu Dadan walked towards them. When Xie Liang got closer, he realized that the woman's exposed skin was white and delicate, and she didn't look like someone who did farm work. If she wasn't doing farm work, why would she be in the wilderness?
Xie Liang said, "Miss Xiaoying is from the village at the foot of the mountain?"
The woman wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "Yeah."
"How come you, a delicate woman, come to this mountain?" Niu Dadan asked.
"I...I..." The woman started crying again.
"Hey, why are you crying?"
The woman seemed to have remembered something sad, crying bitterly: "I..."
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't tell me. Where is your home? I'll carry you back." The bearded man said as he squatted down in front of the woman.
The bearded man carried the woman on his back and walked back. Before he had taken a few steps, the woman cried out "Ouch".
"What for?" asked the bearded man.
"My scarf was blown away by the wind," she said, pointing to Xie Liang who was standing beside her. "Could you please help me pick it up? Please."
"You really call everyone brother." Niu Dadan said.
The woman started crying again when she heard this.
Xie Liang: "Where?"
Hearing this, the woman pointed to a patch of grass half a person's height and said, "Not far away, right there."
Xie Liang walked towards the bushes she pointed to, and Niu Dadan followed him.
After passing through the bushes, there is a cliff. On the side of the cliff, there is a narrow path covered with dead leaves and branches, which can barely accommodate one person.
The yellow silk scarf was hanging on a dead branch on the narrow road, fluttering in the wind.
"It's so narrow, I think I'll just forget it." Niu Dadan said.
The bearded man followed with the woman on his back: "Are you done yet? Stop dilly-dallying."
"What's good about it? Who would dare to go up such a narrow road?" Niu Dadan said unhappily.
The woman burst into tears again. "That scarf... is very important to me... to me. Please..."
The woman cried louder and louder, and her tears fell like beads from a broken string.
Her cries echoed through the jungle, attracting three more Adventers.
"Girl, why are you crying?" asked a short man wearing a khaki jacket.
"My scarf...can you help me?" The woman cried, pointing at the scarf hanging on the side of the cliff.
The shorter man looked toward the side of the cliff the woman pointed to. "That's a bit dangerous. It's too far away."
At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew.
The wind blew up the yellow silk scarf hanging on the dead branch, and it fluttered and hung again just a few steps away from the slope where they were.
Looking at it this way, getting the scarf doesn't seem so dangerous anymore. Instead of walking along the narrow path on the side wall as before, you only need to step on the narrow path on the side wall and lean over to get it.
Xie Liang was just about to go over to help the woman get her scarf back, but unexpectedly the short man walked over there first.
"Asan, come here and hold me." The short man shouted to his companion.
Upon hearing this, the man named Asan walked towards the short man. He had a dazzling red hair.
"How do I catch him? Why do you always meddle in other people's business? It's so annoying!" Asan impatiently grabbed the short man's jacket on his back.
"Okay, that's it." The short man tentatively stepped onto the narrow path on the side of the cliff. He stepped back and forth, as if to make sure it was safe.
At this time, Xie Liang found that the woman's expression looked like she was smiling.
Her eyes were red and tears were still falling. She stared at the short man with a sharp gaze, and the upward curve of her mouth became bigger and bigger!
The short man was leaning forward, reaching out to grab the fluttering yellow scarf.
"Come back quickly!" Xie Liang shouted in shock.
The short man was startled when he heard this and shrank back abruptly. He turned around and looked at Xie Liang in confusion: "You scared me! What are you yelling about, you little brat?"
The short man ignored Xie Liang and leaned forward to grab the scarf.
Nothing happened. It was as if the woman's smile was because she was happy that the scarf would be returned soon. Xie Liang couldn't help but feel that he was overthinking it.
The short man's hand had already grabbed the scarf, and Xie Liang breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had indeed overthought it.
Just as the short man was retreating, something unexpected happened!
The narrow road covered with dead leaves under his feet suddenly collapsed, and he fell into the air!
"Ahhh!" The short man screamed, let go of his hand, and fell rapidly off the cliff!
His cries for help became increasingly distant, and soon he fell into the deep river at the bottom of the cliff, and his voice could no longer be heard.
The yellow silk scarf fluttering in the air was picked up by a gust of wind and floated lightly in the air. After floating for a while, it fell back to its original place!
Ah San, who was pulling the short man's clothes on his back, was thrown out by the huge inertia. Fortunately, there was a cliff tree as big as a bowl at his feet. He held the cliff tree tightly with both hands, so he did not fall to the bottom of the cliff with him.
Ah San's face was filled with shock, one of his hands still clutching the khaki jacket he had ripped off the short man.
"Damn! Xiaoxi, pull me up quickly!" Asan shouted at the woman who came with him.
The woman was wearing a black sportswear. She looked at San coldly and didn't seem to intend to help.
"You bitch! Fuck you! I shouldn't have saved you!" Asan cursed in panic.
The woman named Xiaoxi withdrew her gaze and walked towards the mountain road with a cold face.
The woman on the bearded man's back changed her expression again and stared deeply at the rushing river below the cliff.
Xie Liang found a bunch of ropes in his bag, tied them around his waist, and handed one end to Niu Dadan.
"Help me hold the rope, I'll pull him up." Xie Liang said.
Upon hearing this, Niu Dadan pulled Xie Liang aside and whispered, "There's something fishy about this woman. Let's not meddle in her business."
"I still want to give it a try." Xie Liang said as he took the rope back from Niu Dadan's hand, "You go ahead, I'll just tie it to the tree."
Xie Liang walked towards the big tree behind him and tied the rope tightly to the tree in a short while.
Just as Xie Liang passed by the bearded man, the woman started crying again and begged them to help pick up the scarf.
The bearded man didn't say anything, seemingly thinking about something.
Asan saw Xie Liang walking towards him and hurriedly said, "Brother, thank you very much."
Xie Liang didn't say anything, but grabbed one of Asan's arms and pulled it up. At this time, he felt a pulling force from the rope around his waist.
Niu Dadan had not left yet and was helping Xie Liang pull the rope. With his help, Xie Liang quickly pulled most of Asan's body up.
At this moment, the woman's cries suddenly became sharper, and she insisted that they pick up the scarf.
No matter how stupid the bearded man was, he could tell something was wrong. This woman had no feelings for the person who fell off the cliff and just kept asking people to pick up the scarf.
The bearded man refused to do this and said coldly, "Then go pick it up yourself. I won't accompany you any more!"
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