The Heartless Mage Chapter 59: Bone-Eating Poison

Yue Qiluo rode a walking corpse for five or six miles, and then changed to a donkey to drive to Wenxian County. On the way, her legs hurt more and more, until the donkey jolted, and her heart jolted.

It was bright and dark, and she finally entered Wenxian County, where she met Zhang Xianzong who was restless - Zhang Xianzong had been waiting for her to come back.

She didn't take Zhang Xianzong in her eyes at first, and even if Zhang Xianzong took her off the donkey's back, she still only regarded him as a worthless mortal. But when Zhang Xianzong sent her to the room and squatted down to lift her trousers in a hurry, she moved in her heart and suddenly thought: "Besides him, who else can treat me like this?"

Zhang Xianzong did not notice her thoughtfulness, and then asked urgently: "What is it biting? How can such a large tooth mark be a gecko?"

Yue Qiluo was too lazy to look at him, feeling that he was not good-looking at all, there was nothing to see, but when she spoke, there was a bit of grievance in her tone: "I don't know what that is, it's just a bit like a gecko, but Much bigger than a gecko."

Zhang Xianzong rolled up her inner and outer trousers layer by layer, until the last layer of long wool socks that were close to the calf was left. Zhang Xianzong held her ankle and carefully examined her socks, but found no tooth marks.

"It seems that I didn't bite through it." Zhang Xianzong breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll take off your socks and take a look."

The wool socks come off, revealing swollen, hot ankles. Yue Qiluo put her bare feet in Zhang Xianzong's arms, and put a cold copper button on the soles of her feet. A rough palm grasped her slender calf, and she looked up at him calmly—look at him, look down on him.

Looking up to meet her gaze, Zhang Xianzong smiled: "I'm not afraid, it's just a sprained joint, and two doses of plaster will be fine."

Yue Qiluo raised the corner of her mouth and smiled. The smile flickered, she wasn't really funny.

The throbbing pain in her right eye, she didn't need to look in the mirror, she knew that a little blood in her eyes was spreading. Looking straight at Zhang Xianzong, she said softly, "I'm hungry."

Yue Qiluo stretched her legs and sat on the bed, with plaster on her right ankle. A gunshot suddenly sounded in the distance, and I don't know who became Zhang Xianzong's ghost. Zhang Xianzong was very good at finding someone for her. Those on death row, those on the street, those who were bought and sold on the side of the road... He always had no shortage of living people in his hands.

As soon as the door opened, Zhang Xianzong walked in with a small bowl. There was a complicated fishy smell in the room immediately, and Yue Qiluo took the small bowl from him. Raising the little orchid finger and pinching the small spoon, she lowered her head and suddenly said, "I will protect you."

Zhang Xianzong was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: "Okay, thank you."

He always sees Yue Qiluo as a little witch. And Yue Qiluo sometimes pretends to be a young girl and sees him as a considerate big brother; He was small, and he didn't have the qualifications of a hero. No matter how he looked at it, he was an ordinary man. It was the end of his life to be a small warlord in Wenxian.

Yue Qiluo escaped from the monster's mouth with a false alarm. Zhang Xianzong listened to her story, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he simply did not move. At the same time, Master Gu was very happy under the Qingyun Mountain. Every night there was a game of playing, playing and singing, and the men and women in the room sang and danced. When the singing and dancing are over, they begin to catch each other for fun. And because the house is in the Qingyun Temple, he has never heard of ghosts in the temple, so he is extraordinarily reassured and fearless.

The workers and equipment have not yet been seen, and the exploration team is a group of its own. Apart from digging holes in the mountains, the army has no enemies to fight. Master Gu can only play. He had a hard drink that night, and threw the glass to sleep at the end. The orderlies dragged him to the bed in the bedroom, and a little prostitute named Mei Xiang took this opportunity to look at a staff officer of the brigade. The staff officer is a little white-faced, and is Mei Xiang's ideal beautiful man; the two of you look at me and I look at you, and they leave the table together, and they are nowhere to be seen.

Master Gu was completely drunk, and his snoring was so loud that it sounded like a train passing through a cave at first glance. As soon as the orderly heard his movement, he knew that he had fallen asleep; the two guards shrugged their shoulders from the cold at the door, and seeing the orderly slipping away, the two of them together quietly got into a small gatehouse next to him and made a fire. .

It was a long night, and two guards were attentively roasting sweet potatoes on a small stove. And Master Gu's snoring was so loud that his breath suddenly choked in his throat. After a few seconds of silence, he snorted like a horse and woke himself up.

The stove in the house was burning very vigorously. Master Gu only felt that he was full of fire. Reaching out and touching the woman, he didn't touch the woman, so he got up sleepily and wanted to find water to drink. Unexpectedly, he stretched his foot under the bed, he blinked, and found a shadow on the ground.

He thought he was drowsy, so he raised his hand and rubbed a smear from the corner of his eye. Open your eyes and look again, the shadow of the person on the ground is clear, and it is Mei Xiang!

Mei Xiang seems to have tripped on the threshold when she entered the door, and a big horse will not get up again. Master Gu was quite surprised and called out, "Meixiang? Are you dizzy?"

Then he reluctantly got out of bed and pulled on his cotton slippers. He first walked to the table to pick up a large teacup and poured a belly of cold tea. Putting down the teacup, he turned to Mei Xiang. He had nothing to say about prostitutes, and he stretched out his feet to kick: "Hey, what's the matter? Wake up!"

However, his cotton slippers suddenly stopped in mid-air, because in the dim morning light, he saw Mei Xiang's empty and shriveled lower body. The cloak is still there, the trousers are there, even the shoes and socks are there, all of which are immersed in a pool of indistinguishable color liquid, only the flesh is not there!

After being stunned for a while, Master Gu raised his hand and slapped the light switch suddenly, then turned around and walked to the bed, and pulled out a pistol from under the pillow. He loaded the bullet with a clatter. He put on a cotton glove, bent down and squatted in front of Mei Xiang, grabbing the big bun on the back of her head. Mei Xiang followed his strength and raised her head, her eyes were about to pop out of their sockets, her mouth opened to the extreme, she didn't know whether to cry or exclaim. Master Gu carefully tried her breath, and found that Mei Xiang had completely died with a ghastly face.

Senior Gu saw that Mei Xiang was not going to die easily, and as soon as he released his hand, he hurriedly got up, took out an old cotton jacket from the box in the corner of the room and put it on. The padded jacket is still the needle thread of the crescent moon, and there are two paper charms hidden in it. At first, I had no intention to ask for a lot of paper talismans from Chuchenzi, but after using it several times, there are only two left. He couldn't put the amulet into a small purse and hang it around his neck like a crescent moon, so he simply asked her to sew the paper amulet into the inner pocket of the padded jacket. After buttoning up, he also put on his army trousers and large knee-high riding boots. He kicked Mei Xiang over with one kick. He stopped looking at her hideous appearance, and only studied her lower body. The lower body is not covered by the long cloak, and the shape of the leg bones has been revealed under the thin silk trousers. Master Gu took a feather duster in his hand, bent over and opened the wet trousers with the long handle of the duster and looked inward. As a result, the bones were watery and white, and it was not bitten by a wild animal or scraped with a knife. Now, all the flesh and blood seems to have turned into itself.

There are more and more corpses on the ground. Master Gu just pondered, Mei Xiang's hip bones collapsed. Seeing that the situation was not good, Master Gu jumped over the corpse and jumped outside the door. At the same time, he sniffed, and found that the corpse water was translucent and almost bloodless, slightly fishy, ​​but not very smelly. With his knowledge, he naturally knew that Mei Xiang was neither suffering from a strange disease, nor should he have been poisoned.

The guard in the gatehouse saw that the lights were on in the brigade room, and hurriedly ran out with hot roasted sweet potatoes, and returned to their posts with their rifles in their hands. Not wanting to wait for them to stand firm, an adjutant came on the horse, and after dismounting, he didn't make it clear what he was coming, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Brigade, brigade, are you awake? The camp... out I have something to do, I would like to invite the brigade over to take a look!"

In less than half a minute, the adjutant saw that Master Gu was in neat uniform and walked out with great strides.

Master Gu and his adjutant rode forward and arrived at the barracks a moment later. The adjutant walked on and said: "I don't know where the bite was. Staff Wang himself can't tell. Anyway, when he felt the pain, he was bitten by the thing. Staff Wang was frightened and ran back quickly, but Running and running is bad. Now... let's see for yourself, Staff Officer Wang's legs are dead."

Master Gu had a little bit of a point in his heart. After getting off the horse and throwing the reins, he walked towards the tent and asked, "What did the military doctor say?"

The adjutant hurriedly hurried, panting from exhaustion: "The military doctor said it wasn't a poisonous snake, because that thing's mouth is too big, we won't be able to grow such a big snake in this place. But we don't know what it is. The military doctor gave Staff Officer Wang took some snake medicine, but it was of no use."

When the voice fell, the adjutant's eyes were sharp, and he stretched out his hand to lift the tent curtain in front of Master Gu. There were also electric lights hanging inside the tent. Master Gu bent down to take a look, and immediately frowned.

Counsel Wang's little white face was completely white, and he was lying on his back on a reclining chair. He didn't need to look closely to know that he was venting more and less. His trousers had been taken off, and his two slender white legs were draped over the chair. One leg is still normal, but the other leg is festering from the middle of the calf. Bai Shengsheng's leg bones were exposed, and there was not even a trace of blood on the bones. There was no blood on the skin and flesh at the upper and lower ends, instead it was dripping with yellow water, and the underside of the chair was already wet.

The tent was surrounded by several officers who were close friends with Staff Officer Wang, as well as one of the most qualified old military doctors. Seeing Master Gu coming, everyone stood up quickly, but Master Gu, with his hands behind his back, asked the military doctor directly, "Why doesn't he cry out in pain?"

The military doctor looked like he was sleepwalking, and stuttered: "Report, report to the brigade, Staff Wang doesn't seem to be in pain."

Master Gu asked again: "Where did Xiao Wang get bitten?"

Officer Wang was so angry that he was obviously unable to speak, so an officer next to him replied: "Report to the brigade, Xiao Wang just said that he was bitten in the mountains, and that the thing that bit him was quite large, like a four-legged snake. ."

Master Gu fell silent and understood in his heart—Xiao Wang and Mei Xiang ran into the mountains for fornication, and accidentally encountered a monster bite. Xiao Wang must have left Mei Xiang and fled first, but Mei Xiang was seriously injured and wanted to live, so he had to run back to his room for help.

Mei Xiang and Xiaobaimian had an affair, and Master Gu was not jealous, because Meixiang was not his concubine, and the two were nothing more than a dewy marriage, and maybe they would break up one day; Meixiang and Xiaobailian died of an affair, Master Gu nor pity. The problem is that they are not easy to die. As for the so-called four-legged snake, when he compared it with Wuxin's original description, he immediately knew its origin. But just knowing is not enough. If you let it bite people wantonly, your army must be scared away by it.

Everyone in the tent was at a loss as to what to do, seeing Xiao Wang so rotten that his stomach was broken. In the end, he couldn't stand it any longer, and he found out that Xiao Wang was dying, and a few daring officers wrapped him in a thick canvas and dug a deep hole to bury him.

Master Gu has issued a gag order, and those present are not allowed to speak rashly. After dawn, he returned to his room, pushed the door open, and found that Mei Xiang had already turned into a snow-white skeleton.

Master Gu is bold, and even more bold in broad daylight. Using tongs to clamp the bones one by one into a quilt, he wrapped a bundle of white bones and wanted to find a way to find the dust. Unexpectedly, before he could set off, the captain of the exploration team came.

The captain is a big, gentle and strong man with glasses and a very friendly person. I would like to ask Mr. Gu to send a military truck to transport a Buddha statue to Tianjin.

Master Gu didn't understand: "What Buddha statues? You also have antiques?"

The captain immediately laughed: "No, no, no, it was accidentally dug by a team member. Oh, it's very beautiful. Unfortunately, I don't know history and can't identify its age. We want to send it to Tianjin as soon as possible. Invite some old gentlemen to take a look. If it is a rare treasure, then we are lucky."