Chapter 37 of 310

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Poker-Face pulled out eight wooden pegs and pushed two of the floorboards up, revealing a gap that was barely big enough to allow people to pass through. Later, I checked the information and realized that if he hadn’t done this, the safest and most concealed passage for us would have been to climb up the dung hole in the toilet. Before Poker-Face went in, he put a whistle under his tongue and climbed into the building. Soon, I heard a series of sounds similar to “gege gege”.

I couldn’t understand the whistle, but I felt as if it sounded like the building’s wooden boards were naturally squeezing. Based on Snake Ancestor’s behavior, however, it should mean “safe”.

For the convenience of narration, I have to explain this kind of ghost whistle first. This way of communicating by whistle had developed all over the world, from the communications between islanders to the “clip language” variant used by the Allies during World War II. There were various whistle languages in the world, but only China’s ghost whistle hadn’t been deciphered yet.

First, the number of people who used ghost whistles to communicate was very small, and the language often changed. The whistle language itself spread among small groups, so it was difficult to use unified research to study a sub-category of an already special language.

There were several sayings about why it was called a ghost whistle. Some people said that it was because grave robbers initially used this whistle in tombs out in the wilderness, which made people mistakenly think it was a ghost howling. Others said it was because this whistle could confuse zombies.

The sounds that came from a ghost whistle were very diversified, and people with quick tongues could use it to imitate dozens of sounds on different occasions. For example, Poker-Face entered the multi-storied wooden building and immediately used the ghost whistle to imitate the sounds of people walking in various parts of the house. The ghost whistle could even imitate the sounds of insects in the grass and birds in the mountains.

I recalled the scene where Poker-Face communicated with the blood zombie in the Seven Star Lu Palace. Maybe the ghost whistle had resonated with the corpse-eater bug in the zombie’s brain, and he had been testing whether it was the king of corpse-eaters or just a normal one.

In order to not to make things complicated—and make the story coherent from now on—I’ll describe any ghost whistle communication in words.

I also climbed up into the building, and realized that it was a home. There were a lot of materials for weaving rattan baskets piled up in the corner and some woven rattan baskets were placed in the middle of the room. There was a charcoal stove next to them, where the woven baskets were drying to get rid of any excess moisture. There were a lot of cattail and worn bamboo tools, but I didn’t know what they were used for.

On one side, there was a wooden staircase leading to the second floor. The doors and windows facing the valley were all closed, and there were a lot of meat strips hanging in the window.

This was how ordinary Yi people lived, but it was also reasonable to say that this was a wealthy family. Judging from the hanging meat strips, the patriarch of this family was in his prime and should be a hunter. Those kinds of people had social status in the village.

We had been quiet for a while, and I already had a feel for how these people who often came and went on such occasions moved. As they quieted down and listened to what was going on upstairs, they started removing their wet clothes without any hesitation.

Phoenix had a hot body. Although she wasn’t a young girl, her skin was smooth and white, which gave off a kind of primitive sensuality. But I could clearly feel that Snake Ancestor wasn’t distracted at all, for he and Poker-face took off their shuikao as if there was no such thing as gender here. Snake Ancestor pulled out a thin, close-fitting strip from the inner layer of the shuikao, and with a bare upper body, folded the shuikao and tied it around his waist. All the snakes naturally came back to him, with half going inside the shuikao, and some remaining exposed, looking like colorful tattoos.

Off to the side, the blue-black serpent that was as thick as an arm slowly moved to the building’s main beam and disappeared.

Phoenix didn’t have a shuikao, and obviously didn’t bring a change of clothes, so after stripping all her wet clothes off, she went upstairs naked. I wasn’t worried. With her figure, there wouldn’t be any immediate danger if she appeared naked in front of any man or woman. After watching Poker-Face clean up, I squatted on the stairs. If there was any change in Phoenix’s situation up top and the ghost whistle went off, then we could immediately go and support her.

Poker-Face didn’t have any weapons at this time, which made me feel a little strange.

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