Just like me who turned around and left, Linda didn't pay attention to Ah Shui. She only stretched out one hand and gently touched the pistol on her waist, and then pointed the way with her other finger, showing her signature smile.

.Although he didn't hear a word she said, the cunning Ah Shui was very conscious and was already trotting on the road.

For a moment, I just felt that there was something different about him in front of me. After taking a closer look, I suddenly realized that it was the string of amulet-like copper coins that Ah Shui had hung on his waist before, jingling.

The sound of the banging was a little different! After looking carefully, I remembered that there should have been seven copper coins in the string before, but now there seemed to be only two coins hanging under the thin red line.

It seems that bad guys are hard-edged and not soft-hearted, probably.

In this way, the three of us walked and stopped all the way, and came to a muddy swamp. I took a look and saw that the green blistered swamp was filled with nauseating hernias from time to time, and my heart couldn't help but turn over.

, almost couldn't hold it anymore and vomited out the contents of his belly. Looking at Linda and Ah Shui again, they looked indifferent, as if they were used to this kind of scene, each standing near the swamp full of mud.

Stand still. Well, you are indeed not from the same world.

I held my nose and followed Linda to the swamp. I saw her checking around and concluded that Axia and the others should have crossed the swamp. This didn't surprise me at all: after all, a master of Jin Siniang's level

, it shouldn’t be too difficult to fly with a man in the golden wind across this swamp the size of a football field. The only problem is, if it’s us now, how on earth are we going to get through? Of course I have no choice but to

Based on the experience along the way, I looked at Linda——

"Don't look at me. There's nothing I can do." Linda naturally noticed that I was looking at her with a look full of dependence, and unexpectedly shrugged at me, spreading her hands in a helpless posture.

How could this happen? Only then did I realize that along the way, I had subconsciously regarded Linda as my life-saving straw. Whenever I encountered difficulties, I had long thought that she could handle them as a matter of course. But I didn’t expect that in this rain forest,

There are things that are beyond her control.

It can be regarded as revising my understanding of Linda, who had previously shown herself to be omnipotent.

After mentally bringing my impression of Linda back to the "human" level, I had no choice but to rely on myself unaccustomedly and looked around the swamp. I thought, it would be great if I could find a tool to cross the swamp.

!

However, even though I walked around for several times, I came up with a lot of ideas in my head, but I still had no idea in my heart. After all, this was the first time I had seen this swamp with my own eyes. I had only heard about it from my fathers before.

From the story of the Red Army climbing the snowy mountains and crossing the grassland, I learned about the horror of this invisible swamp quagmire that swallowed up everything - I saw it with my own eyes, and it still felt very tricky. After thinking about it, I rejected the so-called cutting down trees and building bridges one by one.

Or the plan of braiding leaves to make a raft.

However, when I thought that I was helpless, I immediately missed Axia in my heart: ever since we got along well with her, we have almost always been in a state of being tired of each other. Thinking about it, it really didn't last more than half an hour.

I can't see each other. And now, roughly speaking, I have been separated from Axia for more than twenty-four hours. As soon as I miss you, it immediately overflows. Look at the old mountains shrouded in clouds, and then look at the horizon.

Under the lonely sunset, I suddenly felt that I truly understood the profound meaning of the common phrase in books, "It's like three autumns after a day has passed".

It’s really appropriate! It’s a word used to describe us now.

"Little brother, looking at you, could it be that you and your sweetheart got separated?" Ah Shui saw me staring at the sunset in a daze, and couldn't help but turn his head with sly eyebrows and ran to my side.

Seeing me with a depressed look on my face, I became depressed. He didn't even call me a "hero" respectfully. Instead, he tried to get close to me: "Hey, Brother Shui, I've been through this too. I've also experienced the pain of being separated from the one I love."

knew……"

Normally, I would never listen to the nagging of a person like Ah Shui. However, right now, I am immersed in the sorrow of separation from A-Xia. When I heard him talk about the past of separation from his lover, I was surprised.

The God of Death did not move away immediately. Instead, he stood there and unknowingly listened to his nonsense cross-border love story.

Ah Shui once had a lover who was Vietnamese. The two of them had been hiking together in the mountains across the border since childhood, driving cattle. When they grew up, they often went to the market together. Unknowingly, they got along well...

None of this mattered. I had no time in my dazed mind to care about Ah Shui's frothing talk about his love affair with the woman I didn't even know existed, so I selectively skipped most of the nonsense.

Focused on the key parts:

One time, Ah Shui crossed the border again to sell clothes, and the woman was already waiting for him on the other side. The two of them went to the market, set up their stalls, and were talking sweet love words back and forth, but they didn't notice at all that there was something wrong with them in the market.

There are fewer and fewer people, and at one end of the main street, more than a hundred riot police holding black shields and batons have gathered. On the other side of the old city, a large number of people with red scarves on their heads and hands have been silently pressing over.

Barefoot people holding wine bottles, kitchen knives, hoes, and wearing only short coats with their breasts exposed.

When Ah Shui and the others realized something was wrong, they were already caught between two groups of people. At this moment, the leading rioter ordered his men to push out a man from the crowd with rags stuffed in his mouth and tied up like a rice dumpling.

The white man. As soon as the leader gave the order, everyone rushed to the ground and pushed the unlucky guy who was frightened to death by the formation in front of them. A guy over two meters tall was facing him.

The bloodless, and now even more pale, withered face raised a big stick filled with nails.

"Boom!"

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the moisture of the tropical monsoon suddenly enveloped everyone under this heavy low pressure. Seeing that the situation was critical, the police finally lost their composure. One police officer could not bear it under this suffocating situation.

Suddenly, he fired a shot - the big man who was about to commit the murder fell to the ground. At the same time, the hundreds of rioting people lost control. For a time, the flow of people was like a flood that burst a dike, and the black tide drowned the frightened white man.

When Ah Shui looked at him, he could only vaguely see the frightened blue eyes dimming helplessly among the crowd's chaotic footsteps...

After only a few minutes, the mob, which was ten times the number of police officers, swamped all the uniformed people in black clothes and black boots. The situation in the market immediately got out of control: the murderous mob began to attack the people indiscriminately.

As long as he saw anyone without a red scarf on his head, he would immediately hit him with a stick. Ah Shui, who ran into the alley next to the market during the chaos, was already frightened when he saw this, and quickly took his girlfriend's hand and ran towards the barren farmland in the suburbs.

, and soon crossed the paddy fields and reached dry land, and behind them, red turbans also followed one after another.

What are you waiting for? When Ah Shui saw this, he had already pulled his girlfriend, and followed a few panicked people who rushed onto the dirt road beside the paddy field one after another.

"Boom!"

The sound of the explosion was so sudden that it deprived Ah Shui of his hearing in an instant. When he reacted, the skinny body of an old Vietnamese man in front of him was already exuding blood and was blown to pieces. An arm also passed powerlessly in front of Ah Shui's eyes.

A desperate arc hit him hard at his feet.

Behind them, the crazy red turbans were firing frantically - around them, several businessmen who were traveling with them fell to the ground, including local Vietnamese traders and border town salesmen whom Ah Shui was familiar with...

Ahead, there was a dense formation of mines, and behind him, there was a ferocious mob. Ah Shui was confused for a moment. For the first time in his life, he felt the powerlessness of fate. He only regretted that he had no ability and could not bring this person who grew up around him.

The ordinary happiness of women at the bottom of a turbulent country.

However, it was at this extremely critical moment that Ah Shui's lover held his hand tightly. The two people, who were temporarily deaf, stared at each other for a few seconds in the quiet commotion, and never looked back in each other's smiles.

The ground rushed into a minefield of narrow escape -

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Although Ah Shui couldn't hear the sound, he could still sense the thunderous explosions all around him from the splashing earth and rocks, the flying stumps, and the shaking ground under his feet. It was just that somewhere in his buzzing head

He still had time to take care of these things. In the blood-stained sand and dust, he only stared at the end of the dirt road with his eyes, praying in his heart for a miracle to happen!

Ten meters, five meters, three meters!

Seeing that the way out was right in front of him, Ah Shui felt a wave of air pushed him forward from behind, and his body was already flying into the sky. His head suddenly felt a stinging pain, and his body instantly lost consciousness, and his consciousness was slowly lost——

His last memory of her was the poignant look back at her with a smile in the firelight, and the faint fragrance of the white fig tree he had just tied into her bun...

In the end, Ah Shui, who survived, lost the hearing in his left ear forever, and the hearing in his right ear was only 50% of normal people. Years later, it is estimated that the shrapnel pierced into his brain damaged his sensory nerves and his sense of taste.

The vision in his left eye also began to weaken. However, the good news is that his nose can always smell the aroma of the white water stone fig in his memory. Not only that, he can also identify many faint smells in the air one by one.

, as small as the fragrance of camellia a few kilometers away, as large as the strong fragrance of durian at the border market... Maybe this is a gift from her. Ah Shui often thought that if he had let her run ahead of him, he might have survived.

She is the one. However, there are no what-ifs in life, and there is no return journey in life. She blocked most of the mine shrapnel and the impact of explosions for him, so that he can survive today. In this way, in Ah Shui's own words,

He has carried two people's nostalgia for happiness, so he must live on no matter what, until the end of his life, he can tell her the wonderful stories he has experienced.

After listening to Ah Shui tearfully tell his past story, although I was still a little skeptical, my hostility towards him had weakened a bit. And when I heard that he claimed that his nose was sharper than a dog, I immediately felt hope in my heart: According to this statement

, if I can find one and a half of the items that Asya left behind that carry her scent, maybe, with Ah Shui’s extraordinary sense of smell, I can find Asya’s whereabouts!

When I told Linda about this idea, she had no objection. She immediately pulled out her gun and rushed Ah Shui, who had returned to his wretched appearance, to my side. She smiled charmingly and said to me: "Why bother, you and me

That girl is so close, doesn't she have a trace of her body odor on her body? It hasn't rained yet, so there should be some smell left in the forest."

I was shocked when I heard this, and then I felt that I couldn't refute it. After all, in the past month, Axia and I have indeed surpassed each other. It is recorded in the Taoist classics. Taoist couples who have been together many times have each other's Qi in their bodies.

In that case, why is it impossible that there is some smell of the other person on my body? So, I had to hold back my nausea and let that wretched Ah Shui come closer to me, sniffing back and forth and sniffing hard. This was better.

, I don’t know whether he found the remnants of Axia’s body odor on me, but I couldn’t stand the smell of his body mixed with the digestive juices in the python’s belly, as well as the smell of sweat and sludge. It was hard.

By the time Ah Shui narrowed his eyes and nodded to indicate that he had found the faint trace left in the air, I fell to the ground, lying on the edge of the grass and retching.

I followed Ah Shui around the swamp and walked in a large circle towards the foot of the old mountain. I only had one thought in my mind:
Chapter completed!