Be a master through ancient times
440 Blood Sacrifice
Kou Jing and others were afraid of scaring the snake, so they could only hide in place.After about a quarter of an hour, the sound of digging stopped, and then there was another rustling sound, as if leaves had been fallen on something.
After doing all this, with the sound of footsteps from far to near, a figure appeared in front of everyone.The man was indeed wearing the clothes of a nine-bath man, with a hoe in his hand, and looked up and looked around vigilantly from time to time.
After he left, Kou Jing and the others went to the place he had gone before.There was a clearing here, piled with rotting leaves, that looked no different from the last time they had been here.Kou Jing picked up a branch and cut it with a knife, and then stabbed it everywhere. Seeing this, other people imitated him to do it. Soon, someone found the place where the soil had just been moved.
After brushing off the fallen leaves, several people worked together to dig here with their sabers. As soon as they dug up, someone couldn't help vomiting, and there was a big lump of blood and flesh underneath, and the fishy smell mixed with the stench rushed to the face. Coupled with this unparalleled visual effect, it is really a challenge to others' nerves.
Enduring the stench, Kou Jing picked up the things underneath with a branch, and found that there were some dead beasts inside. These beasts died horribly, as if they had been tortured before they died. The blood on the top two was still red, presumably. It was just buried.
"These few have been dead for three or four days, these few have been dead for two or three days..." Qin Zhao had been a hunter before, so he was naturally more familiar with these wild beasts, so he picked them out with a stick at this moment, according to the approximate time of death together.
"Nine baht people are really weird. They don't eat wild animals, they just kill them and bury them?" Someone said in puzzlement.
"Isn't it normal for a group of barbarians to do weird things? It's just too disgusting." The soldier who had just vomited looked at the things on the ground in disgust, and wrote down the resentment that made him look ugly.
"It shouldn't be that simple." Kou Jing said, "I'm afraid General Wu and the others were bitten by poisonous mosquitoes here, which may be caused by these things."
Thinking of the plight of Wu Chunlin and the others, the people standing next to the pile of rotting corpses couldn't help but take a step back to avoid being bitten by the insects themselves.
"But there are no poisonous insects here now. Do they know when to come out?" Qin Zhao asked suspiciously after searching around but did not find any poisonous insects.
Kou Jing is also a little confused about this. Could it be that Jiuzhu people also know how to control bugs?Usually, I only heard that people in southern Xinjiang love to play with bugs. Could it be that the chaos caused by the analysis was also caused by the people in southern Xinjiang?
It was impossible to think clearly for a while, they restored the scene, then quietly withdrew from the dense forest, and carefully erased all traces.
For the next two days, nothing happened. Kou Jing sent people to guard near the intersection, but they didn't hear from Jiuzhu people.But according to the group of people stationed at the exit, the group of Jiuzhu people should still be in the forest.
At noon that day, the people who were sent down the mountain brought back a team of people. They put on stretchers and prepared to carry the group of seriously wounded back for treatment.Wu San's herbal medicine can only relieve their itching temporarily, and once the effect of the medicine wears off, it is powerless.
Those with abdominal pain were treated by an old military doctor who came with the team. He was originally from Lincang City and knew a thing or two about treating miasma.He first took the pulse of the soldiers, and then deleted some herbs and added a few herbs on the basis of Wu San's prescription.
After several doses of medicine, these soldiers with unbearable abdominal pain finally stopped.Originally led by Wu Chunlin and Kou Jing, there were more than 100 people left besides the seriously wounded who were brought back for treatment.Wu Chunlin, who was the chief general, was also carried back, and Kou Jing commanded the remaining troops.
Kou Jing gathered the people together, and just as she was about to deploy, she saw one of the soldiers who had been sent to ambush at the edge of the dense forest come back.The man looked happy, and when he saw Kou Jing, he immediately cupped his hands and saluted, and before Kou Jing called out, he made a crackling talk on the phone.
"You mean, the Nine Zhu people are here again?" Kou Jing stood up abruptly. They went in a hurry last time, so they didn't follow. There was no trace of the Nine Zhu people these days, and he was about to send someone there Look, who knows, this is the news.
The soldier nodded: "Yes, and it's not just one person! There's also an old man dressed in a strange way, he doesn't look like a Jiuzhu man!"
Kou Jing intuitively felt that this person should be a key person, and he could not be allowed to escape, so she immediately arranged for people to go to the dense forest.After arriving, he let the horses spread out into an encirclement shape, so as not to let them take advantage of the loopholes.
"General, those people are still inside. Hearing the sound, they should have dug out the things that were buried last time!" The soldier who spoke looked disgusted. After he smelled the smell last time, he couldn't even eat dry food when he went back.After a few more days this time, the smell...you can imagine it!
Kou Jing nodded, signaling to the crowd to continue ambush, and then he took Qin Zhao and walked in carefully.The fallen leaves are piled up on this road, and there is no sunlight. It is wet and sticky when you step on it, and it is accompanied by some rotten smell, which is disgusting.However, because of this, the sound of their footsteps was well covered.At this time, they had already touched a bush near those people, and they were not noticed.
Kou Jing looked in through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and found the person the soldier had just mentioned in the crowd at a glance.There was a cloth scarf tied on his head, and the clothes on his body were extremely gorgeous. Coupled with his face like dried orange peel, he looked extremely weird.
The old man looked at the carrion in the pit for a while, then took a branch and poked it in, frowning as if he was dissatisfied.The Jiuzhu man who came over last time had a puzzled look on his face, as if he was explaining something.The old man put on a serious face and opened his mouth to say a few words.His pronunciation was very strange, and Kou Jing and the others didn't understand a word.
But the nearest soldier who was following Jiuzhuren seemed to understand. His face was pale, trembling all over, and he stared at the old man, as if he had heard something particularly terrifying.And the actions of the nine baht man before verified Kou Jing's guess.
He grabbed the man in front of him, pulled out the dagger and stabbed him in the neck, the blood spurted out, the man couldn't even let out a wail, and he was killed just like that.
An evil intent welled up in the old man's eyes, he threw the man into the pit, watched his blood slowly spread out, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face.
Then, he took the dagger from Jiuzhuren's hand, and cut his own wrist forcefully.
Qin Zhao beside Kou Jing was startled, and said in a breathy voice: "Could it be that he wants to commit suicide?!"
Kou Jing shook her head and signaled Qin Zhao to continue watching. He felt that it was not that simple. The poisonous bug came so strange last time, it must have something to do with this person.Their actions just now seemed to be using human blood and carrion animals as sacrifices.
Sure enough, after he went down with the knife, a strange scene appeared!
The knife cut through the flesh, but there was not a trace of blood flowing out of it.The old man was not surprised at all, he just squatted down and placed the severed wrist on top of the blood-covered pothole.In an instant, a small bag bulged in his heart, and it moved violently inside, as if some living thing wanted to get out.
The old man was made hideous by that thing, as if he was enduring great pain.After a while, the thing calmed down and began to climb up his body, from the neck to the arm, and then along the arm to the slashed wrist, finally, it got out from between the ruptured flesh.
It was a bug. It was completely black and had many small thorns on its body. It looked extremely ugly, but the old man looked at it as if he was looking at some peerless beauty.
Kou Jing noticed that since the worm crawled out of his body, the old man had become haggard and haggard, as if he would die in a second.But the weird light in his eyes made people feel that he was still healthy.
The worm crawled all the way from his wrist into the pothole, and then crawled in along the bleeding neck that had just been cut open.Nine baht man who was holding his breath at the side finally breathed a sigh of relief.
About a quarter of an hour later, Kou Jing saw that ugly bug again.It seemed to be much more energetic than when it first crawled out, with its head still bobbing, and it seemed to be in a happy mood.The old man couldn't wait to stretch out his hand, hoping that it could crawl back to its original position from the wrist.
At this moment, Kou Jing suddenly moved. He jumped up, raised the knife in his hand, and slashed at the bug that was about to enter his wrist.His knife skills were superb, and he attacked suddenly, so the old man couldn't react in time, and could only watch helplessly as the bug was cut in two by Kou Jing's knife.At the same time, Qin Zhao also jumped out and subdued the leading Jiuzhu man with a few tricks, so as to warn others not to act rashly.
The old man stared at the insect corpse on the ground, his eyes were red, his expression became crazy, he turned his hand slightly, and shot something in the direction of Kou Jing.Kou Jing has been on guard against him, and immediately turned back a few steps when he made a move. Sure enough, a pool of black steaming water appeared at the place where he was standing just now, and a leaf fell into it and was swallowed immediately without a trace.
He said inwardly that it was dangerous, and became more vigilant.The old man originally wanted to move, but suddenly he seemed to be frozen by something, and his expression gradually became frightened.
Kou Jing found that there seemed to be something trying to "break through the ground" in his exposed skin, causing small bumps to bulge up on his body.This scene was both weird and terrifying, and the soldiers who came after hearing the sound were stunned, because they had never seen such a thing in their life.
The old man was too busy to take care of himself, and the Jiuzhu man who was held hostage by Qin Zhao also panicked. When Qin Zhao held him back with a knife, he still thought he could find a chance to escape, but in the end he was brought to the side of the Wei soldiers .
"Let them lay down their weapons," Kou Jing said.
The nine baht man pretended to be dazed, and Kou Jing glanced over, and Qin Zhao's fist "greeted" his stomach, causing him to twitch in pain.
"I know you understand, let them put down their weapons!"
The nine baht man was a little aggrieved and afraid of being beaten again, so he yelled.But who knows, this person is also unpopular.After he yelled, those nine baht soldiers turned around and ran away.Fortunately, the Wei army had ambushed before, so they didn't let them run back to report the news.
A group of people restored the place to its original state, and then took the captives back to the cave.
After doing all this, with the sound of footsteps from far to near, a figure appeared in front of everyone.The man was indeed wearing the clothes of a nine-bath man, with a hoe in his hand, and looked up and looked around vigilantly from time to time.
After he left, Kou Jing and the others went to the place he had gone before.There was a clearing here, piled with rotting leaves, that looked no different from the last time they had been here.Kou Jing picked up a branch and cut it with a knife, and then stabbed it everywhere. Seeing this, other people imitated him to do it. Soon, someone found the place where the soil had just been moved.
After brushing off the fallen leaves, several people worked together to dig here with their sabers. As soon as they dug up, someone couldn't help vomiting, and there was a big lump of blood and flesh underneath, and the fishy smell mixed with the stench rushed to the face. Coupled with this unparalleled visual effect, it is really a challenge to others' nerves.
Enduring the stench, Kou Jing picked up the things underneath with a branch, and found that there were some dead beasts inside. These beasts died horribly, as if they had been tortured before they died. The blood on the top two was still red, presumably. It was just buried.
"These few have been dead for three or four days, these few have been dead for two or three days..." Qin Zhao had been a hunter before, so he was naturally more familiar with these wild beasts, so he picked them out with a stick at this moment, according to the approximate time of death together.
"Nine baht people are really weird. They don't eat wild animals, they just kill them and bury them?" Someone said in puzzlement.
"Isn't it normal for a group of barbarians to do weird things? It's just too disgusting." The soldier who had just vomited looked at the things on the ground in disgust, and wrote down the resentment that made him look ugly.
"It shouldn't be that simple." Kou Jing said, "I'm afraid General Wu and the others were bitten by poisonous mosquitoes here, which may be caused by these things."
Thinking of the plight of Wu Chunlin and the others, the people standing next to the pile of rotting corpses couldn't help but take a step back to avoid being bitten by the insects themselves.
"But there are no poisonous insects here now. Do they know when to come out?" Qin Zhao asked suspiciously after searching around but did not find any poisonous insects.
Kou Jing is also a little confused about this. Could it be that Jiuzhu people also know how to control bugs?Usually, I only heard that people in southern Xinjiang love to play with bugs. Could it be that the chaos caused by the analysis was also caused by the people in southern Xinjiang?
It was impossible to think clearly for a while, they restored the scene, then quietly withdrew from the dense forest, and carefully erased all traces.
For the next two days, nothing happened. Kou Jing sent people to guard near the intersection, but they didn't hear from Jiuzhu people.But according to the group of people stationed at the exit, the group of Jiuzhu people should still be in the forest.
At noon that day, the people who were sent down the mountain brought back a team of people. They put on stretchers and prepared to carry the group of seriously wounded back for treatment.Wu San's herbal medicine can only relieve their itching temporarily, and once the effect of the medicine wears off, it is powerless.
Those with abdominal pain were treated by an old military doctor who came with the team. He was originally from Lincang City and knew a thing or two about treating miasma.He first took the pulse of the soldiers, and then deleted some herbs and added a few herbs on the basis of Wu San's prescription.
After several doses of medicine, these soldiers with unbearable abdominal pain finally stopped.Originally led by Wu Chunlin and Kou Jing, there were more than 100 people left besides the seriously wounded who were brought back for treatment.Wu Chunlin, who was the chief general, was also carried back, and Kou Jing commanded the remaining troops.
Kou Jing gathered the people together, and just as she was about to deploy, she saw one of the soldiers who had been sent to ambush at the edge of the dense forest come back.The man looked happy, and when he saw Kou Jing, he immediately cupped his hands and saluted, and before Kou Jing called out, he made a crackling talk on the phone.
"You mean, the Nine Zhu people are here again?" Kou Jing stood up abruptly. They went in a hurry last time, so they didn't follow. There was no trace of the Nine Zhu people these days, and he was about to send someone there Look, who knows, this is the news.
The soldier nodded: "Yes, and it's not just one person! There's also an old man dressed in a strange way, he doesn't look like a Jiuzhu man!"
Kou Jing intuitively felt that this person should be a key person, and he could not be allowed to escape, so she immediately arranged for people to go to the dense forest.After arriving, he let the horses spread out into an encirclement shape, so as not to let them take advantage of the loopholes.
"General, those people are still inside. Hearing the sound, they should have dug out the things that were buried last time!" The soldier who spoke looked disgusted. After he smelled the smell last time, he couldn't even eat dry food when he went back.After a few more days this time, the smell...you can imagine it!
Kou Jing nodded, signaling to the crowd to continue ambush, and then he took Qin Zhao and walked in carefully.The fallen leaves are piled up on this road, and there is no sunlight. It is wet and sticky when you step on it, and it is accompanied by some rotten smell, which is disgusting.However, because of this, the sound of their footsteps was well covered.At this time, they had already touched a bush near those people, and they were not noticed.
Kou Jing looked in through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and found the person the soldier had just mentioned in the crowd at a glance.There was a cloth scarf tied on his head, and the clothes on his body were extremely gorgeous. Coupled with his face like dried orange peel, he looked extremely weird.
The old man looked at the carrion in the pit for a while, then took a branch and poked it in, frowning as if he was dissatisfied.The Jiuzhu man who came over last time had a puzzled look on his face, as if he was explaining something.The old man put on a serious face and opened his mouth to say a few words.His pronunciation was very strange, and Kou Jing and the others didn't understand a word.
But the nearest soldier who was following Jiuzhuren seemed to understand. His face was pale, trembling all over, and he stared at the old man, as if he had heard something particularly terrifying.And the actions of the nine baht man before verified Kou Jing's guess.
He grabbed the man in front of him, pulled out the dagger and stabbed him in the neck, the blood spurted out, the man couldn't even let out a wail, and he was killed just like that.
An evil intent welled up in the old man's eyes, he threw the man into the pit, watched his blood slowly spread out, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face.
Then, he took the dagger from Jiuzhuren's hand, and cut his own wrist forcefully.
Qin Zhao beside Kou Jing was startled, and said in a breathy voice: "Could it be that he wants to commit suicide?!"
Kou Jing shook her head and signaled Qin Zhao to continue watching. He felt that it was not that simple. The poisonous bug came so strange last time, it must have something to do with this person.Their actions just now seemed to be using human blood and carrion animals as sacrifices.
Sure enough, after he went down with the knife, a strange scene appeared!
The knife cut through the flesh, but there was not a trace of blood flowing out of it.The old man was not surprised at all, he just squatted down and placed the severed wrist on top of the blood-covered pothole.In an instant, a small bag bulged in his heart, and it moved violently inside, as if some living thing wanted to get out.
The old man was made hideous by that thing, as if he was enduring great pain.After a while, the thing calmed down and began to climb up his body, from the neck to the arm, and then along the arm to the slashed wrist, finally, it got out from between the ruptured flesh.
It was a bug. It was completely black and had many small thorns on its body. It looked extremely ugly, but the old man looked at it as if he was looking at some peerless beauty.
Kou Jing noticed that since the worm crawled out of his body, the old man had become haggard and haggard, as if he would die in a second.But the weird light in his eyes made people feel that he was still healthy.
The worm crawled all the way from his wrist into the pothole, and then crawled in along the bleeding neck that had just been cut open.Nine baht man who was holding his breath at the side finally breathed a sigh of relief.
About a quarter of an hour later, Kou Jing saw that ugly bug again.It seemed to be much more energetic than when it first crawled out, with its head still bobbing, and it seemed to be in a happy mood.The old man couldn't wait to stretch out his hand, hoping that it could crawl back to its original position from the wrist.
At this moment, Kou Jing suddenly moved. He jumped up, raised the knife in his hand, and slashed at the bug that was about to enter his wrist.His knife skills were superb, and he attacked suddenly, so the old man couldn't react in time, and could only watch helplessly as the bug was cut in two by Kou Jing's knife.At the same time, Qin Zhao also jumped out and subdued the leading Jiuzhu man with a few tricks, so as to warn others not to act rashly.
The old man stared at the insect corpse on the ground, his eyes were red, his expression became crazy, he turned his hand slightly, and shot something in the direction of Kou Jing.Kou Jing has been on guard against him, and immediately turned back a few steps when he made a move. Sure enough, a pool of black steaming water appeared at the place where he was standing just now, and a leaf fell into it and was swallowed immediately without a trace.
He said inwardly that it was dangerous, and became more vigilant.The old man originally wanted to move, but suddenly he seemed to be frozen by something, and his expression gradually became frightened.
Kou Jing found that there seemed to be something trying to "break through the ground" in his exposed skin, causing small bumps to bulge up on his body.This scene was both weird and terrifying, and the soldiers who came after hearing the sound were stunned, because they had never seen such a thing in their life.
The old man was too busy to take care of himself, and the Jiuzhu man who was held hostage by Qin Zhao also panicked. When Qin Zhao held him back with a knife, he still thought he could find a chance to escape, but in the end he was brought to the side of the Wei soldiers .
"Let them lay down their weapons," Kou Jing said.
The nine baht man pretended to be dazed, and Kou Jing glanced over, and Qin Zhao's fist "greeted" his stomach, causing him to twitch in pain.
"I know you understand, let them put down their weapons!"
The nine baht man was a little aggrieved and afraid of being beaten again, so he yelled.But who knows, this person is also unpopular.After he yelled, those nine baht soldiers turned around and ran away.Fortunately, the Wei army had ambushed before, so they didn't let them run back to report the news.
A group of people restored the place to its original state, and then took the captives back to the cave.
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