Bureau of Anomalous Biological Countermeasures Chapter 8: Forest fire

From that day on, every one or two months, the old pavilion's white-haired brother would go down the mountain, eat him for free at the only restaurant at the foot of the mountain, and then return to the mountain with dozens of catties of dry food and meat. . It was not until two years later that the old pavilion master who had waited for three or four months in a row never saw the white-haired brother again.

Just when Old Ting Chang thought that the white-haired brother died on Mount Yan, half sighed and half happy, Wu Mian had already appeared in Miaojiang, thousands of miles away. Two months ago, he had integrated all the spells recorded on the bamboo slips, and decided to leave here and look for the next map, Wu Mian felt a little uneasy. Inside the cave, another small porcelain vase was found. It contained four wax pellets the size of pigeon eggs. After crushing one, the black pill inside was exposed.

Wu Mian recognized it at a glance. This is the elixir of immortality. But I don't understand why Xu Fu kept the medicinal pill here, but since he found it, there is no reason not to take it away. Wu Mian searched the cave again, and after finding nothing of value, he left here with a few pieces of gold pancakes and the pill of immortality.

The second map is located in a local forest. Wu Mian has been wandering around here for seven or eight days, but has not found the location marked on the map.

The rainy season here is lush all year round, and some of the roads that are not often traveled have been covered by new growth bushes, which completely do not match the map in Wu Mian's mind. The dry food that Wu Mian brought has been eaten, and the location marked on the map can no longer be found within a day or two, so he has to go back to the town outside first and come back after replenishing the food.

As soon as he thought of this, Wu Mian's heart became a little impetuous, and he didn't notice his feet. After stepping over a bare tree root, suddenly there was a foreign body sensation under his feet, and then he heard a "click", and a huge animal clip turned over from the ground. Wu Mian's attention was looking for the road on the map, but there was no such thing. Under the precaution, the iron teeth at both ends of the clip firmly bit his calf.

Although Wu Mian is now immortal, the pain caused by physical injury has not diminished at all. The clipped calf was already a **** mess, and just as he was enduring the severe pain and was about to break the iron clip apart, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.

Wu Mian suddenly had a thought in his heart: Could it be that this is a mechanism set up by bandits to make money and kill people? As the footsteps behind him got closer, Wu Mian simply sat on the ground against the trunk, pretending to be injured and at a loss. Be on guard and see what the people behind you are doing.

Running behind were three or four sturdy men with **** shirts. The leader of them was in his forties. He frowned when he saw Wu Mian's **** calf being bitten by a beast. Immediately, he ran to Wu Mian, holding both ends of the iron clip with both hands, and forcefully opened a gap through which the calf could be stretched out.

This person first shouted a series of words at Wu Mian, but when Wu Mian couldn't understand it, he changed some jerky Mandarin and said: "You, come out with your legs"

Wu Mian shook his head and said "weakly": "I can't feel my legs, so I can't move"

The man frowned again and shouted something Wu Mian couldn't understand to the people behind him. Immediately another person ran over and lifted Wu Mian's leg out of the animal trap.

After checking Wu Mian's wound, the man in the lead said to him, "It's badly injured, you, we will recuperate it there, well, and then go." He carried it on his back. They were used to walking in this forest. After walking around for more than half an hour, he vaguely heard the sound of running water, and the sound became louder as he walked forward. After passing through a bush, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a waterfall of dozens of feet appeared in front of Wu Mian.

Beside the pool below the waterfall, the leading man gave Wu Mian a brief cleaning of the wound. Wu Mian used a small illusion, and in the eyes of these people, the injury on his leg did not improve in the slightest. Following the water pool all the way upstream, it didn't take long after walking through a bamboo forest, and then came to a cottage.

After seeing these men coming back, the men and women in the village came out to greet them, but they all looked surprised when they saw the wound on Wu Mian's leg.

After placing Wu Mian in a bamboo building, an old man in his sixties was brought here. It seems that the old man is a local doctor. After checking Wu Mian's injury, the old man said a series of words that Wu Mian could not understand to the leading man. The leading man agreed, and then said to Wu Mian with gestures. Said: "The doctor said that there is no major issue, just take the medicine and it will be fine in half a month"

When the leading man spoke, the old doctor pulled out several herbs from the bamboo basket he was carrying. After chewing it in his mouth, it stuck to the wound on Wu Mian's leg. This herb is cold and cold, but there is nothing special about it.

After watching the old doctor leave a few herbs, he left here. The man who took the lead pointed to his chest and said to Wu Mian: "I, Lin Huo, you live here, eat, I, bring it here"

Wu Mian looked at the man who took the lead and said, "Your name is Lin Huo? The clip that injured me just now was buried by your people?"

Although Lin Huoguan's words are not good, understanding them is definitely not a problem. As he gestured, he said: "The one that traps a wild boar, not a human being. People don't need clips, they are directly killed..."

Since the entrance marked by the map could not be found in the short term, Wu Mian simply stayed here. His village and several nearby villages are all Miao villages where the Miao people live. The Miao people usually live a very simple life. In addition to farming, they organize the men in the village to go hunting in the mountains. The captured prey belongs to the whole village, and the elders in the village divide it into several equal parts. Except for the gods, they will be distributed to the whole village according to each household.

The local Miao people treat Wu Mian quite well, and every time they catch prey plus the crops in the field, he will be counted. The elders in the village personally came to ask about Wu Mian's origin. He only said that he was looking for mines for the big miners. He went up the mountain and lost his way to get here. In the end, he was injured by the animal trap set up by the forest fire. Wu Mian was a alchemist since he was a child, and he knew a lot about mineral and herbal medicine, and he couldn't find any flaws in his words.

In the days when Wu Mian was 'recuperating', Lin Huo came to see him almost every day. After going back and forth, the two became friends. Because he accidentally injured Wu Mian, Lin Huo felt a lot of guilt towards Wu Mian, and he didn't quite understand the meaning of some Mandarin words. Therefore, Wu Mian usually speaks a little bit of sarcasm, but Lin Huo doesn't care much.

Lin Huo's Mandarin was learned from the Han Chinese merchants who came and went here, and it was originally used for bargaining. During the period of contact with Wu Mian, his Mandarin level has been significantly improved.

Wu Mian calculated his recovery days based on 100 days of injury. When teaching Lin Huo to speak Mandarin, he also asked about the location of the second map. Unexpectedly, Lin Huo didn't know it himself. He helped Wu Mian to ask the elderly people in the village. Even these old people had never heard of such a place.

Wu Mian had absolutely no choice but to stay in the Miao Village first. Anyway, he had some time. After wandering around for a few years, there was always a chance to find clues.

In the blink of an eye, more than three months have passed, and Wu Mian feels good to outsiders. Just when he was thinking about how to convince Lin Huo to stay in the village for a few more days, Lin Huo first rushed to Wu Mian's bamboo building and said to him, "Brother Wu, prepare for today. The evening is the day when our thirteen Miao villages welcome the ancestors. According to the rules, as long as people in the Miao villages, whether they are hosts or guests, must go. If you don’t know, you may be the ancestor of the next generation!”

Wu Mian knows a little bit about Wu Zu. This is the **** that the Miao Jiang generation believed in. Wuzu is different from the gods of the Central Plains religion. It is a living person who becomes a **** and assigns the successor to the next generation during his lifetime. Before the physical body dies, the soul will merge with the designated heir, thus giving birth to the next generation of Wuzu. This is not the same as the seizure of homes in the Central Plains religions. It is the fusion of two souls, a new soul is derived, and then the body of the successor survives.

Wu Mian didn't have the heart to watch this lively event, but Lin Huo came with the intention of pulling people away. For this, he also brought his nephew, a young man named Yang Xiao. There was really no way for Wu Mian to be entangled. In the end, he simply agreed to Lin Huo and went to see what Wu Zu looked like at night.