Chapter 95 - Liuxi Village (2/2)
Not far away, a woman holding a basket of vegetables and a man carrying water almost ran into each other. Then they seemed to sense the same thing when they got close to each other. The woman stopped and asked with a smile, “Brother Qin, are you going to fetch water?”
The man replied, “Yes, we ran out of water at home. Your family’s Niuniu is feeling better?”
The woman sighed helplessly. “She was caught in the rain a few days ago and has a low fever. I’m planning to take her to Grandma Sun after dinner. She has been in poor health since she was a child.”
The man said, “You can’t be careless. Hurry and bring her to Grandma Sun as fast as possible for a prescription.”
“I know. I will go home first. Say h.e.l.lo to your wife for me.”
The two people parted on the road and went home.
The dialogue between the man and woman made Xiao Lou feel it was very magical. He quickly wrote on the ground, “Their eyes can’t see but they can distinguish each other when pa.s.sing by. It is so powerful.”
Yu Hanjiang also grabbed a branch to write. “They were blind since birth and are accustomed to the darkness of the world. Their keen hearing allows them to distinguish everyone’s footsteps and their keen sense of smell lets them smell everyone. They are very familiar with the village’s roads, buildings and even small animals. It is too hard for us if we don’t want to be found by them.”
At first, Xiao Lou thought it would be fine to hide from the bosses who couldn’t see.
Now it seemed likely that all the villagers would discover their existence and the huge Tibetan mastiffs were a threat to everyone.
Xiao Lou pointed to the tall, wooden hourgla.s.s in the middle of an open s.p.a.ce. “That big hourgla.s.s is used by the villagers to tell time? Once the sand runs out, it is time for them to go to bed. Then we’ll go to the village to check.”
Yu Hanjiang nodded. “We have to find out which homes have a Tibetan mastiff and avoid these fierce dogs.”
The two of them hid behind the tree and waited patiently for it to become dark. Just then, two men surrept.i.tiously stuck out their heads from a tree in the west. They cleverly hid from the villagers as they walked slowly into the village.
The two of them had very soft footsteps and walked like thieves. As a result, they were only a few steps away when a black Tibetan mastiff suddenly turned back and growled in their direction. “Bark bark!
A huge dog over a metre high was staring at them. The two men’s expressions changed and they turned to run. The hunched-over old woman turned to look in their direction and spoke in a cold voice, “I seem to smell strangers… Little Black, go chase.”
She released the rope and the Tibetan mastiff started to chase the two challengers.
The other old people around them heard the movement and frowned. “Has a stranger come to the village?”
“Yes, Little Black found them,” The old lady said.
The black Tibetan mastiff was very well behaved by its master’s side and looked docile, like a well-behaved child. From time to time, it rubbed against its master’s hand. However, once chasing a stranger, it was almost as fast as a beast!
The huge black shadow moved like the wind and caught up to the two men. Seeing the ferocious black dog get closer and closer, the two boys were in a panic. They weren’t familiar with the village and ended up in a dead end alley. Then they were thrown to the ground by the Tibetan mastiff!
“Ah—Ahhh—”
There was the squeal of dying pigs from the alley.
Xiao Lou’s face was white and he couldn’t bear to look away. Yu Hanjiang’s eyes had become extraordinarily deep.
The Tibetan mastiff soon came out with clothing fragments and b.l.o.o.d.y flesh. The hunched-over old lady came over to smell it and spoke coldly, “Indeed, strangers have broken into the village. She looked to the side. “Lin San, can I trouble you to tell the village chief to have people carefully guard against outsiders. They think they can easily bully us because we are blind and it is unknown what bad things they will do!”
The young man called Lin San immediately said, “Okay Aunt Qin, I’ll go to the village chief’s house.”
The old lady led the dog out of the alley. The Tibetan mastiff barked a few times, attracting the attention of the young people nearby. They asked incredulously, “Aunt Qin, what happened?”
The old lady spoke coldly, “Someone sneaked into the village. Break their legs and throw them out.”
She turned away with this sentence, hunched over as she held the big dog.
The group of young people picked up sticks for a beating. Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang could clearly hear the sound of broken bones and the two challengers’ panicked screams…
Moments later, the two beaten and bitten men were thrown straight out of the village. Silence was restored in the village. Not far away behind a tree, two girls’ faces were white with horror, their entire bodies shaking. Xiao Lou made the ‘shh’ gesture and they immediately covered their mouths.
Yu Hanjiang wrote on the ground. “These two guys were too impatient and looked down on the blind. They alerted the village and our next actions will be more difficult.”
Xiao Lou had a headache. “They couldn’t wait for night and the villagers to sleep before entering the village? They were too anxious.”
They didn’t know the Tibetan mastiff and were bold enough to act when the old lady was walking the dog through the village. This was simply running to death.
How many challengers had come to Liuxi Village this time? Apart from the two silly people who rushed into the village to be found, the other challengers were very quiet and everyone was silently hiding.
It wasn’t until the last grain of sand fell in the hourgla.s.s and Old Lady Qin took the dog back home that the other villagers returned home.
It was dark and the village had become extraordinarily quiet. The cold moonlight spilled down, leaving a soft shadow over the small mountain village. The light of the moonlight might be dim but it was better than complete darkness.
Gradually, there were sounds from the surroundings. It was clear that the challengers were coming out.
In the moonlight, Xiao Lou saw a skinny girl. She was only around 1.5 metres and barely reached Xiao Lou’s chest. Her hair was tied in a ponytail and her actions very neat as she jumped from one tree to another tree. After several successive jumps, she jumped over the wall and climbed onto the roof of a villager’s home.
Xiao Lou only felt a dark shadow in the moonlight and instantly lost track of her.
Immediately after, Xiao Lou saw a man slipped over the ground like a reptile, his crawling posture much like a gecko. He also specifically picked shadows of the trees to crawl under and disappeared.
Yu Hanjiang whispered in Xiao Lou’s ear, “To be able to reach 4 of Spades, most challengers aren’t simple.”
Xiao Lou agreed. The two people at the opening were too strange and it was estimated that challengers of several levels were mixed up in this room. The secret room had warned that the villagers were blind but their hearing and smell were extremely sharp, yet they dared to rush into the village.
More challengers with IQ were alerted to a key message.
Once the hourgla.s.s’s sand finished, the villagers would sleep. The safest time to act was when the villagers were asleep.
Xiao Lou wanted to talk when Yu Hanjiang suddenly pointed to the front and whispered, “Look over there.”
In the front left, there was a hooded teenager and an adult man over 1.85 metres tall. They moved from one tree to another. If Xiao Lou’s eyes weren’t good then he would almost think he was hallucinating. Under the moonlight, the two men quickly crossed 50 metres and soon disappeared from Xiao Lou’s view.
Yu Hanjiang whispered, “It’s Xie Qi and Shao Qingge.”
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