to blame

When he said this, Ming Xia knew that his reaction just now was not groundless.There was also something in his heart that swayed for a while, fluttering and falling to the bottom.

"what happened?"

"The water is poisonous." Nanjiang's two handsome brows frowned tightly, "It's a toxin that disinfectants and purifiers can't solve. Lin Su's preliminary inspection revealed that it is a kind of neurotoxin. Su, it’s not sure if it’s snake or venom at the moment. Someone has been arranged to bring the sample back, and I hope Mr. Hu can come up with a feasible solution as soon as possible. In addition, the downstream of the stream must be monitored more.”

What worries Nanjiang the most is how to solve the water problem for the next itinerary. Does it all depend on Mingxia's humanoid detection machine?What if one day he is not in good condition and is not detected?

"How on earth did you notice it?"

"I actually don't know what's going on." Ming Xia also had lingering fears. There are dozens of people in this room who are going to be poisoned, and the consequences will be disastrous. I am more sensitive to this toxin."

Nan Jiang is noncommittal to this statement, because he knows that the so-called poison, element is not just poison, element.

"What should we do next?" Ming Xia was thinking about the poison, since it was possible for him to fall into the upper reaches of the stream. If he continued to go into the mountains, the problem of water pollution would not be resolved.

Nan Jiang thought for a while and said, "There are still bottled water in the warehouse of the supply station, and we will go into the mountain tomorrow... Even if it is the water lizard that poisoned it, it is not powerful enough to poison the entire Western Mountain."

Ming Xia thought about the area of ​​Xishan, and felt that what Nanjiang said made sense.

"Besides, since it puts the poison in the stream, it must calculate how long it will take for the poison to pass through the place where we fetch water. He has so many things to worry about now, how can he have the energy to deal with us endlessly."

Nan Jiang touched Ming Xia's sweaty forehead and pulled him up, "It's nothing serious right now, you go back to your room to rest. I'll call you when dinner is ready."

Ming Xia wanted to say that he was fine, but when he got up, he found that he was indeed as Lin Su said, with sore muscles and bones all over his body, as if he had just run 5000 meters.

Ming Xia was afraid that something might happen to his body, and in the end he would hold back the team, so he stopped insisting and went back to the room with Qingqiu who took the initiative to ask to take care of him.

One person and one bird returned to the room, but they couldn't fall asleep anyway, leaning against the head of the bed and whispering about the strange thing just now.

"How do you think that long worm knew we were coming?" Qingqiu stood on his chest, raised his neck and asked him, "Have you already arranged the eyeliner?"

"It knows when and where the team goes," Ming Xia said, "and then seizes the time to poison."

Qingqiu said angrily: "It's really wicked."

"I think, this snake spirit doesn't necessarily expect everyone to be tricked. After all, the stream outside is running water. Sooner or later, the poison and medicine will be washed away. Put the poison and medicine in the stream, how do you hear it?" It’s not very safe.” Ming Xia said: “Why do I have a feeling of ‘It’s fine if I get the trick, but it’s okay if I don’t get the trick’? Am I thinking too much?”

Qingqiu said: "It knows we are at the supply station now. Maybe it's just using this trick to test it out."

Ming Xia doesn't quite understand the monster's thinking.It's like probing. If you do it well, it's called probing. If you don't do it well, isn't it just a warning?

The sky darkened unconsciously.

There is little light pollution in the mountains, and night falls quickly as soon as the sun goes down.Even the dusk seemed darker than the scenery Ming Xia was used to.

Ming Xia jumped up from the bed in a jerk, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, even if the sun was setting, there was no reason for the sky to be so dark in such a short period of time.

He threw himself to the window, and saw the dark sky with a tinge of dull red before, but at some point, it was enveloped by a layer of smoke that looked like smoke but not smoke, fog that looked like fog but not fog.

The smoke is like a thin cloud driven by a strong wind, with strands of black ink like thick ink, gathering and spreading in mid-air, hovering like some living creature, getting thicker and thicker. The more solid.

Ming Xia smelled a familiar smell, a kind of damp and slightly fishy water vapor, like a river pond in the countryside, the smell of mud was also mixed with a hint of grassy fragrance of summer plants.Fluttering, gradually filling the entire room.

Ming Xia shuts the window with a snap, hugs Qingqiu with one hand, grabs the crossbow by the bed with the other, and runs downstairs.

As soon as he ran to the stairs, he almost collided with a person, the person dodged to the side, his shoulder brushed against Qingqiu, Qingqiu's body shrank back, and he yelled loudly.

"What is it called?!"

Nanjiang, who had just rushed up, was also startled by its cry. He reached out and grabbed Ming Xia's shoulder, and his eyes quickly swept around him, "Go, go downstairs."

Ming Xia was dragged down the stairs by Nan Jiang's arm, only to realize that the situation downstairs was more urgent than what he saw upstairs.The courtyard wall of Qingshi Lei has been swallowed up by thick ink-like black mist, and this black mist is still approaching the direction of the small building bit by bit.In the turbulent thick fog, black figures like clumps of tangles can be clearly seen. They seem to be extremely excited because they are close to their prey, and they can't wait to break through the barrier of the thick fog.

The two teams trapped at the supply depot have already allocated their respective areas to defend.Nanjiang's team members spread out along an arc, each one as if facing a formidable enemy.

Ming Xia saw the powder that Li Youran had used on the brick floor in front of them.

This kind of thing that Ming Xia didn't know the composition of once resisted the attack of the snake group in front of his eyes, and helped Li Youran find the most critical little snake in the snake group.As long as the little snake is caught or killed, the rest will disappear with it - this is Ming Xia's knowledge from experience.

So the question now is how to identify the key little snake?

Outside the powder circle, the mist became thicker and thicker, as if it was only a blink of an eye, all the churned lines in the mist turned into substance, and fell to the ground chaotically.

Ming Xia set up his crossbow and aimed at the snake in front.

It has a pitch-black snake body, a triangular head, and fan-like fins growing seven inches behind the eyes. The straight lines are as bright red as blood.

Ming Xia's mouth was dry, and he felt a nightmare, the fear of recurring dreams.

Fortunately, after being stimulated by those buckets of water, his suspected allergic symptoms to this toxin completely disappeared.

The group of snakes rushed forward like a tide, but were blocked from the circle of fans again.The group of snakes hesitated to move forward, and kept testing the crowd.

Ming Xia felt that his eyes were not enough, with so many bodies squeezed together, how would he find the decisive guy?Apart from the fact that it was extremely small, all he remembered was that it was lighter in color than its companions, a color similar to smoky blue.

Will there be such a key flaw this time?

Will it still be... smog blue?

The light came from under the eaves of the corridor behind, and there was an elongated figure under his feet, and at the end of the shadow was a wall composed of a pile of rolled black scales.

The two sides confronted each other strangely across the arc drawn by the powder.

Ming Xia felt that it was only a blink of an eye, and the invisible barrier in the confrontation had been washed away by the black torrent, and the black tide composed of the bodies of the snakes poured down from the breach, and quickly rushed towards him. Spread over where they are.

Ming Xia heard Nan Jiang's shout, but he was surrounded by the tingling sound of scales rubbing against each other, so he couldn't hear what Nan Jiang was shouting clearly.But his players clearly knew.A gunshot rang out, the black snake was shot, and the impact of the gunpowder pushed it into the air, the body exploded, and blood splattered everywhere.

The group of snakes became restless, and their forward speed seemed to speed up.

Ming Xia shot out an arrow, nailing the black snake at the front to the ground.The black snake twisted violently, and exploded after a while. The black mist that exploded engulfed the nearby black snakes and disappeared instantly.

However, the space they vacated was quickly filled by the later black snakes.

Gunshots rang out, and someone cursed in a low voice, "What the hell is this?"

A black snake was shot, and its slender body was hit in two in mid-air.The splashed blood made the surrounding black snakes agitated, and they swam to both sides one after another.However, when the broken snake body fell to the ground, the squirming body strangely turned into two black snakes, one long and one short.

The two black snakes spit out letters and entwine each other, as if celebrating their rebirth.

At this moment, the steel arrow in Ming Xia's hand left the string and instantly penetrated the head of the first black snake, and then continued to move forward and hit the second short snake seven inches in length, nailing them to the brick. on the ground.

The two black snakes twisted violently, black smoke rose from their bodies, and they exploded with a bang.The shock wave of the explosion also involved the surrounding black snakes.

The black snake's forward speed slowed down.

Ming Xia heard Li Youran reminding her teammates in a low voice, "It won't be too big, and the color may be different. It will be the real commander among them. Also, try not to use guns."

Ming Xia searched for the "commander" who might be hiding behind the snakes in the scope, but all he saw in front of him were entangled bodies of snakes, with black scales, bright red ear fins, and bright red inside the open mouth. The bloody Xinzi... all seem to have the same appearance, even the same size.

Ming Xia felt nauseous, and sweat gradually oozed from his forehead.

The tide formed by the gathering of black snakes surges forward slowly and firmly, but any black snake shot by a steel arrow will explode, clearing an open space in the black tide—as if every black snake is a mysterious creature. The energy body, a moving explosive, will explode once it is touched by an external force.

Behind the black snake, near the courtyard gate, the black mist is still spinning, like an open gate to hell.Countless black snakes still slid out of the black mist one after another, rushing towards them one after another.

Cold sweat slid across Ming Xia's eyelashes, and he shook it off forcefully, while whispering to Qingqiu, "Is there any?"

As the only player with air superiority present, Qingqiu had already flown back and forth over the yard several times, and he was almost paralyzed from exhaustion.

"I... didn't see it." Qingqiu leaned on Ming Xia's shoulder and panted heavily, "The light is already dim, and they are stacked one on top of the other, I really can't see clearly..."

Ming Xia herself couldn't see clearly.He gently touched Qingqiu's small head with his cheek, reminding it in a low voice, "Don't fly too low."

"I heard Li Youran say that these are all hallucinations," Qingqiu said, "Look, they don't know how to spray poisonous juice. That day, the water lizard was like a big kettle, spraying endlessly."

Ming Xia was amused by its words.But if you look closely, you will find that it is right.In the process of advancing, these black snakes just opened their brightly colored ear fins to swallow snake letters. After careful study, this is actually a kind of intimidation, not a sign that they are about to launch an attack.It was as if they wanted to occupy this territory and were trying to scare away the living creatures on the territory.

Of course, there is another possibility: these phantoms do not have the ability to attack.

Ming Xia looked back and forth among the snakes.If these are illusions, according to Mr. Hu's explanation, one of them must be real, because it must carry the energy that stimulates the illusion.

If he were it, where would he hide it?