Snake Ancestor nodded his head, and Pampered Guy made a celebratory gesture: “Let’s stop talking about such suffocating things. What about your big snake from earlier? Is it lost?”
“You know the rules. I can’t tell you, so just forget about it.” Snake Ancestor said, glancing at Poker-Face, who was leaning against the post and slowly starting to fall asleep.
“Where did you learn your Mandarin? You don’t seem to have a dialect. Does no one doubt you in this area?”
“When I was a child, my family found someone to teach me, saying that I should be an official in the future.”
“Oh, it seems like you had a special status as a boy.”
Snake Ancestor smiled and looked around at the dark village. It was as if nothing had happened here. “What’s next?”
Pampered Guy pulled a bag of something similar to fennel beans from out of nowhere, and poured a little bit for Snake Ancestor. “The Bimo’s room has the Americans’ map, which is Jiutou Yandai’s real reason for coming here. Everything else is fake. The American expedition went into the forest and set up an outpost at the Meihe River’s third bay. In recent years, this village was their supply station. The Americans conducted geological surveys and made hydrological records near the Meihe River, and these bugs were brought out from there. The boss of this whole affair is called Richard, by the way. But the bugs couldn’t leave that place. When they were taken out of the forest, they couldn’t adapt to the outside water, and would die when they got to the village. As a result, the Americans said they would take some of the Meihe River’s water, but the Bimo here wouldn’t let them.”
“Why?”
“The Meihe River is connected with large and small underground water veins, and the people here drink from it. There’s something special in the water, which can detoxify and promote wound healing. It’s impossible for the Yi people to sell their holy water as goods. Such a thing is blasphemous.” Pampered Guy lowered his voice: “Of course, there was a deeper reason—the Americans had been in talks with this village for a long time, but to no avail. So, they came up with an evil idea. They wanted to build a dam on the other side of the Meihe River and lead the river to another village, which was this village’s enemy. The leaders here didn’t dare openly challenge the Americans, so they raided the expedition team over at the outpost. Many people died on both sides and the outpost was burned in the skirmish. The bodies were piled up in the woods, and it took a long time to wrap things up, so they weren’t disposed of in time. All the bugs inside came out, and all the people here in the houzhai died overnight.”
“The people in the outer part of the village didn’t understand the situation, so they brought in the Americans from outside. The Americans counted the egg shells on the bodies and wrote in their report how to determine how many bugs there were. But what happened to the bodies gave them an idea on how to get these bugs out alive. Because of the relationship between water and soil, the locals’ blood was similar to the water composition in the forest, which could feed that kind of bug. So, they kept a few bugs in the corpses in order to take them outside the village. At that time, there was a Bimo who was seriously injured. Everyone thought he was dead, but he later crawled back from the forest alone. He discovered the situation and killed those foreigners, but when they were dying, the bugs were released. This is probably the simple version of the story. When the Americans saw that nobody had come back, and all the villagers had disappeared, they went to Jiutou Yandai to try and find the chieftain.” Pampered Guy continued: “America is a commercial country, so everything can be used to make money.”
“If the bugs we killed just now were sold to the Americans, wouldn’t we get a lot of silver dollars?” Snake Ancestor frowned. “How do you know so much?”
“Because—” Pampered Guy obviously didn’t know if he should disclose it, so he looked to Poker-Face, who nodded with his eyes closed.
“Because we’ve been looking for that place in the forest long before the Americans discovered it.”
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Its funny that in the beginning the snake ancestor is more quiet than poker face and now he literally possessed by Wu Xie and keep asking question 😂
Not that i complaining
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