Chapter 1538 (1/2)

Li Qing's hearing is excellent. Standing more than 20 meters away, he can still hear the girl washing her body with water.

He tried to divert his thoughts from behind. He took two more steps forward. A clump of grass caught his attention. Several grass leaves were much darker than others.

Li Qing squatted down and twisted up the leaf to look at it carefully. He was finally able to determine that it was a long dried up blood.

”It's estimated to be five or six days.” he sighed softly. ”Fortunately, it hasn't rained recently...”

After more than ten minutes, Xinya, who was dressed again, came back. Her wet hair came down and set off her white face, looking quiet and beautiful.

The two continued to turn around, and Li Qing found bullet marks on several trees.

So far, he can finally confirm that there has been a gunfight here, and someone must have been injured. But whether anyone died is unknown.

”Go back.” Li Qing said faintly, taking Xinya back to meet Du Huasheng.

Du Huasheng was lying on the ground with his face ugly and extremely weak.

”I found blood in the woods and bullet marks on the trunk.”

”Yes.” Du Huasheng replied dully, as if he was not interested in it at all.

Li Qing was a little confused. He was alive just now. Has he become like this in such a short time? Is it because Xinya doesn't want to stay with him, so she is devastated?

He kicked gently and asked, ”what are you doing?”

Du Huasheng sat up, looked at Xinya with his head askew and said, ”did you take a bath?”

Xinya blushed and nodded her head.

”Good luck.” Du Huasheng glanced at Li Qing obliquely, still looking dejected, ”thank you for going upstream, otherwise...”

Li Qing looked blankly: ”what do you mean? Did you pee downstream?”

”That's not true.” Du Huasheng raised his hand and grabbed the dirty hair. ”We've drunk all the fresh water we brought, so I just drank a lot of water from the river.”

”Well, then? How did you become so weak?”

Du Huasheng narrowed his eyes and asked, ”don't you smell anything?”

Li Qing couldn't help but be stunned and immediately sniffed carefully: ”it seems... There is a little smell, a smell, but it's not too heavy...”

Du Huasheng pointed to the river covered by dense weeds not far away and yawned lazily: ”go and have a look by yourself.”

The remaining two people looked at each other and walked towards the place he pointed out, where a small area had been flattened.

”Ah!” Xinya went to the riverside, stretched her little head and took a look. In an instant, she screamed and retched back.

In that river, there was a dead body, which was covered with dense leeches, which made people's scalp numb.

Li Qing suddenly changed her face and took two steps back with her teeth: ”can't you say hello in advance? At least don't let Xinya see...”

”Are you satisfied?” Du Huasheng shouted angrily, ”I've drunk a lot of water. Can you imagine how disgusting it is? I almost didn't spit out my stomach.”

”Are you sure who it is?”

”There are only two possibilities, either Kuzhi bandits or the United Army.” Du Huasheng spread his hands. ”Anyway, I'm not interested in going through his things. If you have this hobby, you can come.”

Li Qing looked at Xinya who had just vomited with concern and slowly shook his head: ”forget it, it's good to prove that we've found the right place. As for the identity of this brother, I'm not interested in knowing.”

”What bad luck.” Du Huasheng sighed. ”I thought it would be easier to get close to the water source, but now this situation... Really disgusting.”

Li Qing silently picked out the filled bottle, looking obviously unnatural.

Du Huasheng's face eased a lot, looked at him and asked with a smile, ”what did you think of?”

In this way, it is like a person who has just experienced misfortune, has not recovered from his own pain, and hurried to appreciate the suffering of others.

Li Qing held his temple with his fingers and said reluctantly, ”if they really walk along this river... I can't imagine drinking water soaked by dead bodies all the way.”

”People who can't see don't feel anything. Such rivers in the depths of the mountains often soak up the bodies of some wild animals. On the contrary, some people say that the water on the mountain is sweet and clear...” Du Huasheng's words are more like comforting himself. ”We can only blame us for staying here and finding the body.”

Li Qing picked up his canvas bag and said, ”I'll load water upstream, and then we'll go.”

”Hey!” Du Huasheng shouted at the top of his voice, ”how can you be sure there is no body upstream?”

”Shut up!”