"yes!"
...Chen Xin and his group had been rushing on the road for several days. In order to arrive in the capital on time without delay, they had to give up the official road and grope their way forward on the small path in the mountains.
Although the journey was a bit longer, it was fortunately relatively peaceful, with no one trying to stop them. In the evening, after Shen Xin ordered everyone to rest, he quickly helped Liang Shuyi, who was limping a bit, to the side and carefully took off her shoes and socks.
Looking at the blisters on her feet, Chen Xin's heart felt like it was cut by a knife: "I told you not to follow me, but you still didn't believe me. Look how sad I am."
Liang Shuyi murmured somewhat embarrassedly, "It's just a few blisters. I can just pop them. I don't walk often, so I'll get used to it after walking for a while."
While helping her prick the blisters and apply medicine, Chen Xin said, "You, otherwise, how about I take you back?"
Liang Shuyi said with a smile: "You've said this so many times. Anyway, I'm out now, and going back is impossible."
The attendant who was traveling with them looked at their affectionate appearance and could only look away and said, "Ahem, Second Master, let's go find some clean water nearby."
"I'll go get some firewood."
"Go ahead, be careful, this forest is deep and there might be wild animals."
As the stars hung low over Mu Ye, Liang Shuyi sat with everyone in front of the fire, leaning against Chen Xin and chatting. Her eyelids began to droop, and just as she was about to close her eyes for a good sleep, her nose suddenly started to twitch. Her nose, like a normal person's, just couldn't stand the smell.
Just now, a gust of wind blew over, and she seemed to smell something discordant: "Ahem!"
Seeing her suddenly cough, Chen Xin subconsciously put his hand on her wrist: "What's wrong? Why are you coughing all of a sudden?"
Liang Shuyi said: "Do you smell a strange smell? It's a bit choking."
Everyone subconsciously took a deep breath upon hearing this. As a doctor, Chen Xin had a rather keen sense of smell. With his excellent discernment, he concluded that the smell was identical to that of a toilet. He then seriously asked everyone present, "...There is a smell, a foul odor. Tell me, did one of you fart?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Second Master always plays jokes on us, hahahaha!"
Chen Xin and his wife also laughed out loud twice, and then Chen Xin's expression suddenly became very serious: "Hahaha... No, this smell seems to be the stench of a corpse!"
"Um, what?"
Liang Shuyi thought Chen Xin was joking again, but before she could finish her words, a smelly person suddenly rushed out from behind her. If Chen Xin had not been quick to pull Liang Shuyi aside, she would have been knocked down by this person and ended up in the fire.
"careful!"
The people who jumped into the fire seemed to feel nothing, and slowly stood up with flames all over their bodies. After a while, Chen Xin and his companions were surrounded by these creatures that were neither human nor ghost.
In the light of the fire, Liang Shuyi accidentally saw the distorted faces of these people. If she hadn't seen a lot of things, her hand holding the whip would probably be shaking badly by now: "Oh my God, what are these!"
After Chen Xin injected a silver needle into the flaming zombie, it froze in place, its body frozen in place as the flames spread across its body, unable to move. "...Zombies, be careful! This smell isn't right, it might be poisonous. Try not to run into them. You can't escape in the dark."
Liang Shuyi held up a long whip and said, "If you can't run away, then beat me. I brought a weapon with me."
Chen Xin said that since the needle had already immobilized the zombies, it was time for him to perform. He had previously read in medical books about methods of making corpses move, and he had to admit that it was very worth studying. "I'm here, so there's no need for Madam to do anything. My eyesight isn't very good at night, so you all should be careful and stand around me to avoid being accidentally injured."
"yes."
However, the silver needles in Chen Xin's hand were almost used up, and these zombies were still madly dragging their limbs to attack everyone. The long whip in Liang Shuyi's hand moved like a dragon and snake, but he could not withstand these tireless non-human and non-ghost creatures.
Just as everyone was sweating profusely, exhausted from responding, a small, glowing red insect slowly flew in from the woods. It flew and flew, circling around Shen Xin and Liang Shuyi in a group, then danced swiftly. Its afterimage, like a red thread, instantly surrounded these inhuman, infernal creatures. After a snap of fingers in the silent air, the red thread retracted inward, and the monster that had been "showing off its might" a moment later shattered into shrunken pieces that fell to the ground.
There were bursts of footsteps treading on leaves in the forest. When everyone was on guard, Chen Xin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He looked in the direction of the sound and shouted, "Miss Hong Yu, is that you? Why are you here?"
After the bloodthirsty insect returned to Hong Yu's side, it happily circled around her and said, "Tang Chen asked me to follow you."
Liang Shuyi breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a smile, "Why didn't she tell me? Thank you so much!"
Hong Yu played with the jade cicada in his hand and smiled: "It's okay, I received my reward."
Liang Shuyi took a closer look and found that the thing in Hong Yu's hand looked very familiar! If she remembered correctly, this was Li Xinzhai's thing. After he left, Tang Chen handed it over to Mo Yu, and later, it returned to Tang Chen's hands: "This, if I remember correctly, is the jade cicada that Li Xinzhai gave to Achen?"
Hong Yu said: "It was hers before, but now it's mine."
After Chen Xin and the others left Hong Yu and Liang Shuyi behind, they went to check the situation around them. After making sure that the surroundings were completely safe, they lit a few more bonfires.
Shen Xin asked with some concern: “After watching what you just saw, do you still dare to sleep now?”
Liang Shuyi smiled and said, "I would dare if you were here."
"Everyone, please work hard tonight. We can deal with these things tomorrow morning. Let's all go up the tree." After that, he took out a lot of medicine packets from his bag and distributed them to everyone: "These are mugwort, which can repel mosquitoes. Take them with you later."
Chen Xin picked a sturdy tree with Liang Shuyi in his arms, then jumped onto it and prepared to spend the night on the tree.
Liang Shuyi had just felt that this scene seemed to have been mentioned by someone before, but for a moment she couldn't remember where it was, so she asked softly, "Husband, do you feel that these things seem familiar?"
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