Although I don’t know why Wenmo led us to the other side of the river, I always feel that he must have a reason for doing this, and now I can’t ask, so I can only do it first.

Soon, I felt that my feet had touched the bottom of the river, so I climbed to the shore with my hands and feet.

At the same time, I saw Yuanxiao and Annaduo also got ashore. As soon as I came out of the water, I immediately felt that my body weighed more than a thousand pounds. In addition to the rushing and swim just now, I knelt on the ground and gasped.

This is Wen Mo who said anxiously: "Everyone holds their breath!!"

"What?" I felt so breathless that I couldn't breathe enough, so I actually made us hold our breath? We looked at Wen Mo in surprise.

Wen Mo covered his mouth and nose, pointed to the other side of the river and said, "If you breathe, you will attract those giant mosquitoes!"

As soon as we heard this, we immediately held it. At the same time, I immediately felt a sensation of tenderness in my lungs.

However, before we recovered, Wen Mo threw down the sentence "Follow me! Quick!" and turned around and ran deep into the woods.

I looked at his back as he ran away, and I was almost vomiting blood. Yuanxiao and Anaduo looked at each other, and everyone's eyes were filled with pain and incredible.

However, looking at Wen Mo's back as he was getting farther and farther away, I still gritted my teeth and followed, and Lanxiao and Annaduo followed closely.

I held my breath and ran for less than thirty seconds before I was about to suffocate. I felt my lungs were about to explode!

Yuanxiao's face next to him had already turned into pig liver color, "I'll go!! I can't stand it anymore, even if I'm bitten to death, I can't hold it back!!" Yuanxiao gasped heavily after saying that.

As soon as I saw Lantern Festival, Annaduo and I felt relieved and opened our mouths and gasped. For the first time in my life, I felt that my breathing was so pleasant!

Wen Mo turned around and looked at us, but did not say anything, but stopped, as if he was discerning the direction, and from time to time he sniffed it with his nose, as if he was smelling something.

I couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Boss, are you?"

Wen Mo did not speak, but waved to us, and then continued to run in one direction. Then the moonlight, we quickly followed, fearing that we would lose it.

After running for a while, we rushed into a bush. Wenmo stopped and signaled us to squat down.

As soon as we hid in the bushes, we heard a "buzzing" sound coming from afar. I subconsciously wanted to get up and run away, but Wen Mo reached out to hold me tightly, and I couldn't break free for a while. Wen Mo whispered in my ear: "Don't move!"

Our heart immediately rose to our throat and we didn't even dare to breathe. I wanted to hold my breath again, but due to the running just now and the tension, I found that I couldn't do it at all.

Fortunately, the sound of the mosquito group approached a little and slowly moved away again.

As soon as the danger was lifted, I suddenly collapsed on the ground. At this moment, I could finally breathe with confidence.

But during my breath, I smelled a strange fragrance. It should have been emitted from the surrounding shrubs. I think this is probably the reason why Wen Mo brought us here.

I asked Wenmo: "Boss, what kind of plant is this? It has a strange smell?"

Wen Mo pulled a stick and sniffed it, saying, "This plant is called Rutel. There is a substance of citronellal in its branches and leaves. This substance has a good anti-mosquito effect. Mosquitoes don't like this smell and will even affect their perception. It is precisely because of this that we escaped."

"So that's how it is!" I couldn't help but nod.

Yuanxiao said: "You asked us to hold our breath and run away just now, just wanting to come to this place?"

Wen Mo nodded, "Mosquitoes can keenly feel the air feathers when people exhale carbon dioxide, and they can even be discovered by dozens of meters apart. That's why I asked you to hold your breath and delay the time you are discovered as much as possible so that you can find this place."

Annadu asked curiously: "How did you know that there would be this place? Have you been here before?"

Annaduo's question made me very surprised how Wenmo knew that there was such a place in this jungle.

Wen Mo said: "When we were going downstream, we were basically underwater, so I didn't notice it at that time, but when we came back just now, I vaguely smelled this smell, so when the mosquito group appeared again, I decided to hide here."

After listening to Wenmo's words, I understood his intention. Just as I was thinking, a cold wind blew by, and I couldn't help but have a cold war. Our bodies were still wet at this time, so I rubbed my nose and sneeze immediately.

Next, we cleared out a piece of open space and found some branches to create a fire.

Four of us surrounded the fire, and Yuanxiao asked a little worriedly: "Boss, let's raise the fire, won't we attract those mosquitoes over, right?"

Wen Mo threw a few branches into the fire, "No, the temperature rise will cause the fragrance of rhizome wood to spread faster, and those mosquitoes will not get closer."

After hearing what Wenmo said, Lanxiao quickly threw some branches into the fire.

I suddenly remembered something and asked Wenmo, "Boss, why did you ask us all to go get equipment just now?"

Wen Mo said: "The main reason is that we have made new discoveries and need to adjust the route."

"Oh?" I raised my eyebrows, "What new discovery."

Wen Mo took out a palm-sized stone slab from his pocket, "This is the first time I found it at the bottom of the water when I was flowing down the river." As he said that, Wen Mo handed over the stone slab.

I took it and saw that the stone slab should be a small part of a large stone carving, with some symbols, patterns, and two larger things that seem to be written.

While I looked, I listened to Wenmo and continued: "Actually, there are many similar fragments at the bottom of the water, but the stone carvings on this piece are quite obvious, so I picked up this piece."

I picked up the stone slab and asked Wen Mo: "Boss, what are the two words engraved on it?"

Wen Mo looked at me, paused and said, "It's Xuqi."

I was shocked immediately, "Xuqi? So the original place of this stone slab has something to do with the ancient tombs of the island, and even with the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom and the Qilian Mountains."

Yuanxiao also said: "There should be the place we are looking for this time."

"Will Zhuoqiu be there too?" Anado's goal was clear. I looked at the stone slab in my hand and said, "This stone slab appears at the bottom of the river, which means it was washed down by the water flow, so this place should be in the upper reaches of the river!"

Wen Mo nodded, "I think so too."

Yuanxiao shook his wet clothes, flattened the shrubs and grass around him, and half lay down, "Okay, it's time to make sure the goal is settled, and we'll go upstream as soon as the sky is dawn."

Anado was still hesitant, "Then do we need to notify those people?"

Lantern Festival sat up again, "Notify them? Why! Don't forget that when the mosquito groups just appeared, these people ran faster than rabbits, and they all had guns. Who would have taken care of us? If the boss hadn't left the rear to break, I would have taken the risk of getting those two guns. In addition, Zhuoran didn't attract mosquitoes, we would have been dead long ago."

Yuanxiao was full of righteous indignation, but when you think about it, what he said made sense. Anado also agreed to the Lantern Festival statement.

Yuanxiao continued, "But they did help us, especially when Sister Ah's fever." He pointed to the fire in front of him, "Aren't we lit the fire? They will definitely find that we didn't keep up. If they come back to find us, even if they have feelings and righteousness, it doesn't matter to share this news with them and bring them with them. But if they find out that we don't keep up and ignore our lives and death, then it's even better and take care of themselves."

Although I still felt that the logic of Yuanxiao said this was a bit problematic, I did not refute it. The four of us were resting next to the fire, and our clothes were dried up after a long time, and we were still warming up.

Lying on the grass and looking at the stars in the sky, I forgot the thrill of the past for a moment. Gradually, there was a snoring sound from the Lantern Festival next to me. I didn’t know when I fell asleep. I didn’t sleep well that night, and I would always wake up halfway, and I didn’t sleep soundly for a while until dawn was almost dawn.

Until Anaduo woke me up, I opened my eyes and looked at it. There were still three people in front of me. I knew that the Yuan family's team did not come back to find us in the end, so I couldn't help but sigh.

We returned to the river again, and the river water was still clear and turbulent, but the mosquitoes had long disappeared.

We took some water back, cooked some tea, ate something, put out the fire and set off again. This time we will go upstream to find the source of the broken stone slab.

We passed through this piece of rue and walked in the opposite direction of the water flow. We originally planned that it would be easier to find when we were moving along the river, but the terrain here was relatively complicated, and the river would occasionally drill into places that we could not reach. Therefore, many times we had to listen to the sound of the water flow to judge that we were still moving along the river.

When we walked into a forest, I felt that this location should be not close to the river, so even I heard the sound of the water flowing a little blurred. At this time, I believe that Yuanxiao and Annaduo could no longer hear the sound of the flowing water.

Sure enough, after a while, Anaduo spoke, "The sound of the river has disappeared. Are we going in the wrong direction?"
Chapter completed!