23|Thousand Miles of Shrinking Ground, Wind and Sand 4

“哇啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！！”

Xie Ren withdrew his hand, speechless for a while. He realized that whenever he saw or touched something in the dark and was faced with such a creepy scene, he often didn’t even say a word before the other party screamed. In fact, the one who should be most afraid should be him, right?

The bushes in this garden are both high and dense, just now there was a man sneaking around in the grass, was Xie Ren touched his calf. The leg flew away, the grass in front of him rustled, and a man called out, “Don’t fight, don’t fight, it’s me, this brother!”

Xie Ren fixed his eyes to see, this is really never expected, that called “do not fight, do not fight” people, actually is that thick-browed, wide-eyed teenager Tiansheng. Tiansheng was relieved to see that he recognized him.

However, after seeing that it was him, Xie Ren did not breathe a sigh of relief, but instead became more alert. He raised an arm in front of him and said, “Didn’t you stay with the others to take care of the injured? Why are you here? Are you really a natural born?”

Appearing in this situation, it was more like something else that had been falsely transformed to pretend to be something else. Tiansheng was busy saying, “It’s me! It’s really me, not only am I here, there are also three uncles who came with me! They are inside, don’t believe me, look!” He pointed towards the palace, and sure enough, not long after, three people ran out of the dilapidated hall, and they were the merchants in the group just now. When they saw Xie Ren, they were all stunned, and then looked embarrassed.

Xie Ren spat out a breath before standing up, patting the hem of his white coat and saying, “What’s wrong with you guys?”

When he asked this question, the merchants all snapped and didn’t make a sound. After a long time, Tiansheng mumbled, ”A few brothers, you have not been gone for long, Uncle Zheng’s poison attacked again. He had a strong seizure, and we …… don t know when you guys will come back, worrying that you won t be able to find it, or that you will come back late. Azhao brother said that following that road will be able to find the Half Moon Country, so we thought, a few more people, also good to find faster, so we also came over ……”

After all was said and done, it was still regrettable. Fear of Xie Ren they find good moon grass after taking azhao themselves slipped, still do not rest assured, then also catch up. And Xie Ren can imagine, Fuyao if they can not persuade them, may also simply lazy to block, bent on not listening to advice to run to the death of the people, can not stop.

Xie Ren said helplessly, “You guys have too much guts. It’s not like you guys don’t know what might be in this city, what might happen, and you dare to come over like this?”

I think Born also know that doing so is clearly do not trust them, a little guilty, Fang lying in the grass did not dare to speak out, probably also feel embarrassed, said, “Sorry, human life is at stake, a rush, just ……”

It can’t be helped, the matter of human life, more long heart is also human nature. And willing to commit danger for the sake of others to take medicinal herbs, also can be considered to be sentimental. Xie Ren is not good to say more, rubbed his brow, said: ”You into this ancient city on the road did not meet anything, this is really your good luck. That said, how did you guys know to come to the palace to find the Good Moon Herb?”

Tien Tien scratched his head and said, “We don’t know where to look for it either. However, didn’t that story Brother Red Clothes told say that the Queen picked the Good Moon Grass? Queens aren’t even allowed to just go out of the palace, right, so I was thinking if I could come to the palace and try my luck.”

Xie Ren thought to herself that this child’s brain would turn, and thought right. At this very moment, Sanlang on the side said, “Found it.”

He glanced back and Miroku raised his hand. In his hand was a handful of turquoise colored leaves with a bit of root still on them.

This leaf was about the size of a baby’s palm, with extremely thin roots and whiskers in the shape of a peach, and a pointed leaf tail. Without even having to confirm with Ah Zhao, Xie Ren intuited that this must be that legendary Good Moon Grass. Before he could say anything, Sanlang had already caught his injured hand.

That hand was stung, originally swollen frighteningly, Sanlang for him after the drug, although the toxin has not been cleared, but the swelling has subsided a lot. At this moment, Sanlang held his injured hand with one hand, the other hand holding the Good Moon Grass, closed his fingers, did not see how he exerted force, and then when he opened it again, the leaf had already crumbled into a pile of green powder. He applied this pile of green powder to the back of Xie Ren’s hand, feeling a gentle coolness slowly spreading up from the wound, Xie Ren said, “San Lang, thank you very much.”

Miroku, however, did not answer. After applying the herbs to him, he put down his hand. With this atmosphere between the two again, Xie Ren always felt that there was something strange somewhere, but he didn’t know how to open his mouth to inquire, no matter how he asked, it didn’t feel quite right. The others, however, could not appreciate the subtleties, and Tiansheng eagerly said, “Brother, do you feel better? Is this herb useful?”

Xie Ren came back to her senses and said, “Much better, that should be right.”

Upon hearing this, the others were very excited and all said, “Quickly, look for it again.” Not long after, Ah Zhao also raised a handful of green leaves and said, “I found it on my side as well.”

This handful of leaves of the Good Moon Grass in his hand was much fatter than the pitifully small piece that Sanlang had just found, and the crowd, seeing that the shape and features were correct, all flocked over, saying in surprise, “There’s a good-sized piece here!” “So many!” “Quickly pick more.” “Can we sell it if we pick more?”

As they were busy picking herbs, Xie Ren looked back at the back of her hand, and without words, she said to Sanlang, “The area they were looking for, you seemed to have looked for it just now, and you didn’t find it then?”

After opening his mouth, he thought himself that it was a rather boring question to ask. Instead, Miroku shook his head and said, “You should not use the grass there.”

Xie Ren wondered, “Why?”

Who knows, before Miroku could open his mouth to tell why, he heard a miserable cry, “Go away!”

The crowd was instantly confused, their movements stalled, and they all said, “Who’s screaming?” “I didn’t!” “It wasn’t me either ……”

Again, I heard the voice say mournfully, “Go away, you’re stepping on me ……”

It was then that the crowd noticed – the sound, after all, was coming from their feet!

In an instant, the few people who had gathered in that area to pick the Good Moon Grass dispersed. Xie Ren had long since gotten used to going up and taking the top at times like this. When others retreated, he would go up. So, he walked to the place where the screams came from, reached out and slowly plucked away the dense grass. With this pluck, the breaths of several people on the spot froze.

Only the face of a man was buried under the grass and in the dirt.

In this land, there was actually a big living person buried under the soil, only showing a face!

This picture, when it was really incomparably bizarre, a few businessmen were suddenly scared and hugged each other and screamed. Xie Ren was again very skillful in comforting, “Don’t panic. Everyone calm down. It’s just a face. It’s no big deal. Who doesn’t have a face anymore, right?”

The face laughed, “Scare you guys? Lol …… I scare myself a lot too.”

Xie Ren half squatted down and scrutinized the face buried in the land.

It was a man’s face, flat when he didn’t smile, and with many wrinkles when he did. It was impossible to tell if it was old or young, or if it was ugly or beautiful. He looked at it for half a day and couldn’t tell what it was, so he had to just open his mouth and ask, “Who are you?”

The earth-buried face said, “And who are you?”

Xie Ren said, “A passing caravan.”

Earth Buried Face sighed and said, “Alas. A passing caravan. I was once a passing caravan as well. However, that was fifty or sixty years ago.”

The image got even weirder when he said that.

It’s amazing that this man has been buried in the earth of this abandoned ancient city for 50 or 60 years. Is that still a person?

A merchant asked warily, “So …… then why did your old man …… come here …… ah? “

The earth buried face coughed a few times and wrinkled his face, “I …… was captured by the Half Moon soldiers. I accidentally entered the city and was captured by them, so they buried me in the earth and made me into fertilizer for these Good Moon Grasses ……”

It turns out that these Good Moon Grasses are grown using living people as fertilizers, so it’s no wonder they’re so fat!

Several merchants hurriedly threw the large handful of Good Moon Grass in their hands to the ground, feeling that their party was no different from grabbing a corpse. Xie Ren also couldn’t help but look down at the back of his hand, but he heard Sanlang say, “There’s nothing wrong with that herb.”

No wonder that Sanlang clearly searched this land just now, but didn’t pick those plump Good Moon Grasses. I’m afraid that he saw this earth-buried surface just now and guessed that all these herbs were bred with man-made fertilizers, so he simply ignored the thing and turned his head away until he found clean herbs that had grown normally in a remote place, which he then applied to him.

Xie Ren said, “Sanlang has a heart, thank you so much.”

Miroku shook his head, still stoic.

Ever since he was stung by the scorpion-tailed snake before entering the Half Moon Ancient City, he had always had such an attitude. When the two of them were together a few days ago, he had been shouting before and after his brother, but now he was not shouting at all. Aside from the drugs and medication he was given just now, Sanlang also seemed to be avoiding physical contact with him as much as possible, which really made Xie Ren strange, puzzled by his attitude, and a little uneasy as well.

At this time, that earth buried face spoke again, “I haven t seen a living person in years, you …… all of you stand over here, let me take a good look, can you?”

The crowd looked at each other and unanimously felt that it was better not to do what he said. For a long time, seeing that no one responded, that earth buried face muttered, “What, you guys don’t want to? Alas …… it’s a pity ……”

Xie Ren turned his head and said, “What pity?”

Earth Buried Face said, “Ever since you guys came in, there’s been one thing I’ve been very, very concerned about. I’ve been very eager to confirm it with my own eyes before I tell you guys, that’s why I asked you all to stand over and show me. It’s because I want to take one by one and scrutinize all of you.”

Xie Ren said, “What is it?”

That earth buried face weirdly laughed and said, “I said that you should not be afraid …… Among you, there is a person that I have seen fifty years ago.”

At these words, a sudden wave of sweat ran down everyone’s back.

If there is a person this earth buried face in fifty years ago has seen, now at least have sixty or seventy years old. But among the several people here, the oldest one looks absolutely no more than forty, how is this possible?

Unless …… that person is not a “person”!

Xie Ren’s gaze swept past every single face, starting with Ah Zhao and ending with Born, the slightly shocked, the fearful, the incredulous, the jaw-dropping. Everyone’s reactions were incomparably in line with reason. If there had to be anyone whose reaction was out of character, it would be Miroku, who was all but unresponsive. However, for this teenager, probably no reaction was the normal reaction.

He looked back and said, “Who is this man you speak of?”

That earth buried face face muscles twitched a few times, revealing a strange and incomparable smile, as if he was doing his best to make himself look a little more reliable, but he could not hide the treacherous smile that leaked from the bottom of his heart. He said mysteriously, “You …… come a little closer and I will tell you.”

When that sentence first came out, Xie Ren believed him 80%. But after that sentence, only fifty percent remained.

How do we know that this monster isn’t trying to coax people to come closer and then suddenly strike?

Xie Ren of course wouldn’t listen to him and got up to back away. That earth-buried face hurriedly said, “You really don’t want to know who that man is? He’ll get all of you killed, just like he got us killed!”