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Chapter 432 Crisis Everywhere

This is a basin-like terrain.

The basin is surrounded by high mountains and dense forests.

After walking in the mountains for more than ten days, the people were no longer as clean as they were before they entered the mountains. The team members were all a bit unkempt, with long beards and noticeably thinner faces than before they entered the mountains.

They clearly came from a long journey.

Even Jiang Tang looked a little tired.

Not to mention Deng Ping.

His face had become almost as pale as a vegetable.

Although he used to live in the mountains, he had been living in this human body for a long time and had lost the agility he had before when he was a rabbit.

I've been traveling in the mountains for so long, I'm exhausted.

Her face has become noticeably thinner.

We arrived at our destination in the afternoon.

They didn't rush inside.

Instead, they decided to listen to Jiang Tang and rest on the hillside at the edge of the basin.

After I've rested, I'll go in tomorrow and see what's going on inside.

There are no caves nearby.

They needed to rest and spend the night, so they had no choice but to set up tents.

Fortunately, everyone had brought tents in their luggage.

They chose a slightly higher spot, pitched their tent, and set up some traps around it to keep wild animals away at night.

Deng Ping stayed at the camp to help with cooking.

Jiang Tang took her dagger and pistol and went hunting in the nearby woods.

In these remote mountains, it's relatively easy to find wild game.

Not far from the camp, Jiang Tang caught two pheasants, a roe deer, and a wild boar.

She originally intended to catch the fat, large rabbit, but considering Deng Ping, she withdrew her hand that was reaching for the rabbit.

"Fine, I won't arrest you anymore, so as not to upset your fellow human beings later."

She's a considerate person who always puts her teammates first!

With a faint smile on her face, Jiang Tang carried her prey back to their camp.

They were currently on a slope, with towering mountains behind them, and a ravine about twenty meters below.

A stream flows through the ditch.

Jiang Tang returned with her prey.

Xu Hui summoned Luo Haiqiang, Wang Zhu, and Fu Xiangwen, and asked them to go to the stream to clean the prey.

We'll bake it and eat it later.

"Be careful in the mountain streams, and don't go to dark places, beware of snakes lurking in the shadows."

Snakes, leeches, and other unpredictable creatures might be hiding in places with lots of fallen leaves in the water.

When cleaning prey by the water, one must be quite careful.

"Everyone must be careful with every step we take now. Don't forget that ahead of us, twelve teams have gone missing, and none of them have made it back."

Even if that forest ahead is their destination.

Their mission this time could be said to have shown signs of success.

Even so, Xu Hui dared not be careless.

He repeatedly gave instructions.

Along their journey, they had not seen any trace of the group ahead of them.

To this day, they still don't know what happened to the teams ahead of them that caused them to disappear without a trace.

As the temporary commander of this squad, Xu Hui had an absolute responsibility to get everyone out of there.

In such calm places, one should be especially vigilant and cautious.

"Don't worry, Captain Xu."

"We'll be careful."

After the three finished speaking, they picked up the prey that had been thrown on the ground and walked towards the stream.

Jiang Tang paused for a moment, then followed. Although she wasn't doing any work, once she reached the stream, she looked around, treating herself as a lookout and a bodyguard for the three of them.

They quickly processed the wild boar's skin, peeling it off completely and emptying its belly, then throwing the contents into the stream.

Luo Haiqiang's hands were stained with a lot of blood. He was about to reach into the stream to wash them when Jiang Tang stopped him.

"Don't touch this water."

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, Luo Haiqiang's fingers touched the stream.

He instinctively pulled his hand back.

A sharp pain shot through my fingertips.

He looked down and saw something on his fingertip that looked like a leech, but wasn't.

It's drilling into his thumb.

Luo Haiqiang was startled.

Jiang Tang had already reached his side. She grabbed Luo Haiqiang's thumb and, before the small black worm could completely burrow into Luo Haiqiang's flesh, forcefully pulled it out and slammed it onto a large rock nearby.

"Go find Comrade Chen Jie to disinfect him quickly."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Hui arrived with Chen Jie and the others.

Upon hearing Jiang Tang's words, no one dared to delay and quickly took out alcohol and soaked Luo Haiqiang's bitten hand in it.

The others who came to the stream looked at the dense swarms of tiny black creatures floating on the surface of the water and couldn't figure out what they were.

How can it bite a person and burrow into their flesh?

"Jiang Tang?"

Deng Ping looked puzzled. Standing next to Jiang Tang, she was also a little scared as she looked at the dense black dots.

"Is that a leech?"

"Ah."

Jiang Tang nodded, “The leech ancestor is a hundred times stronger than the leeches outside.”

Normal leeches only attach to a person's skin or appear in the body if accidentally swallowed.

But the leeches here will actively burrow through people's skin and flesh!

It crawls inward through the blood vessels, and eventually, no one knows where it will end up, but it certainly won't be a pleasant experience.

Upon hearing this, everyone was quite frightened.

The wild boar entrails that had just been thrown into the stream were quickly covered by black leeches.

Then, under their watchful eyes, the leeches opened their mouths and began to gnaw on the pig's internal organs.

This is truly something I've never heard of or seen before.

The people on the shore gasped in shock at the sight.

"These things don't seem likely to come ashore."

Deng Ping also found it terrifying and lowered her voice to speak to Jiang Tang.

Jiang Tang hummed in agreement, took out a match from her pocket, lit some dry firewood, and waited until the firewood in her hand was burning brightly enough before placing it on the water.

Instead of letting the fire touch the water, the flames were used to roast the swarms of leeches on the water's surface.

She wanted to see if the temperature of the flames could kill or disperse the leeches.

She roasted them for a while and discovered that the leeches on the water's surface were not afraid of the fire; on the contrary, they seemed to be gathering in greater numbers.

The leeches in the area were all attracted by the firelight.

Seeing this, Deng Ping was so frightened that she told Jiang Tang to quickly drop the firewood in her hand.

"They'll climb up the firewood and bite you in a bit."

Deng Ping's concerns are well-founded.

Jiang Tang clicked her tongue and threw the firewood in her hand into the stream some distance away.

The leeches were not afraid at all. When something fell into the stream, they quickly swam over, found that it was not edible, swam back, and continued to gnaw on the wild boar's entrails.

We must not approach this stream.

The team members all had this in mind, and they quickly retreated back to the edge of their camp.

"Xiao Jiang, should we move to a different place?"

(End of this chapter)