Wilderness Redemption Tour

Before leaving the village, Arthur found the injured man he had left behind again. Unfortunately, due to his severe injuries, he had died before they returned.

Since the person was dead, there was no need to make an extra trip to send the body back. The villagers were deceived by the prophet and didn't like them, so why should they continue to try to please him?

"I think these people seem to be poisoned." Starting again, Lin Yan looked at the rolling mountains around him and slowly expressed his speculation.

"Have you noticed that the skin of the people in this village is very bad, and many of them have ulcers on their bodies. In addition, I found that these people are generally slow to react to things. If it were only one or two people, it could be explained as their personal reasons, but it is obviously abnormal for everyone to be like this."

Arthur nodded. "We all saw what you said, but what does this have to do with poisoning?" He looked at Charles again. "Charles, you know more about poison than I do. Have you ever seen this kind of poison?"

Charles was silent for a long time. He recalled in his mind all the toxins he had seen and heard in his life and the characteristics of their diseases. Finally, he shook his head in disappointment: "No, this is not any toxin I know of."

Lin Yan asked Charles: "Charles, how much do you know about the toxic substances in minerals?"

Lin Yan's question made Charles and Arthur stunned. Charles shook his head blankly and said, "I know nothing."

Arthur thought he had misheard, so he scratched his ears and asked again, "Did I hear correctly? You mean that stones can also be poisonous?"

"That's right." Lin Yan nodded seriously and said, "Some ores contain minerals that are harmful to humans, such as lead and arsenic. Lead can affect a person's blood and nerves, while arsenic can cause skin lesions and also affect a person's nerves. Since it is harmful to the human body, it makes sense to say that it is a poison."

In fact, Lin Yan only has a half-understanding of this, but the amount of information that people of his era are exposed to every day is countless times more than that of people of this era. Even if Lin Yan only has a half-understanding of this, it can kill most people in this era when modern civilization is just budding.

"It's reasonable, but how did those people get poisoned? They are not miners, and it's impossible for everyone to have the opportunity to come into contact with ore in life."

Lin Yan smiled and pointed to the Kamassa River next to him, "Water. Everyone should drink water."

"Wait!" Arthur shuddered. "Are you saying that some kind of mineral upstream has contaminated this river, and the people in the village drank the water from the river, which caused the cursed symptoms? Then...then our daily water is also taken from this river, so we are not..."

"It should be... no way..." Lin Yan didn't think about it at all. After hearing what Arthur said, he was a little panicked, but he still comforted himself: "Our camp is quite a long way from here. If the problem lies further upstream in the river, then there shouldn't be only that unpleasant smell around here..."

Charles's thoughts were somewhat strange. "If it is chronic poisoning, then the crazy behavior of the Murfree family has a reasonable explanation."

"Hahaha! Charles, you can tell jokes, too!" Arthur laughed when he heard it. He corrected him with a smile, "The Murfree family is acting crazy because of inbreeding. This is known to almost everyone in the West."

"That doesn't rule out the possibility." Charles said stubbornly, "Before this, no one thought about it, right?"

It was five o'clock in the afternoon when the three of them returned to the camp. Except for Dutch and Micah who had gone to Annesburg to inquire about Cornwall's news, almost everyone was in the camp. Pearson's dinner was ready and many people had already started eating. Lin Yan resisted the drowsiness and served himself a bowl of food. Only when he was full could he have the energy to sleep.

Lin Yan was eating alone, and Sadie came over with her own plate to chat with him: "I heard from Lanny that you came back at noon, stayed in the camp for a while and then went out again. Where did you go? Aren't you sleepy?"

"I'm so sleepy!" Lin Yan sighed and started to complain to Sadie. "I was about to go to bed in the afternoon, and Arthur asked me to go with him to look around to see if there were any people from the Murfree family nearby. We went all the way to the Paradise Pool in the south, but we didn't see anyone. Just when we were about to come back..."

The meal was over, and Lin Yan had finished his nagging. "That's how it is." Lin Yan said as he put the empty plate on Sadie's plate. "Please take the plate back for me. I feel like I'm going to die if I don't sleep."

Sadie looked at him speechlessly and said, "Okay, I'm leaving now. You should have a good rest."

Before she could finish, Lin Yan started snoring.

Sadie: “…”

The next morning, Lin Yan, who was drowsy, dragged his still exhausted body to pour himself a cup of coffee. Even though he had slept for fourteen hours, his body still hadn't recovered. After touching his forehead and confirming that he was not sick, in order not to delay today's work, he had to continue to rely on the unpalatable cowboy coffee to stay awake.

From today on, the Van der Linde Gang is back on track. After breakfast, the gunmen leave the camp one after another, either alone or in groups, to look for their respective targets and earn money to support their families.

Before leaving, Lin Yan rode on his horse and glanced around the camp. The people who stayed in the camp were basically the same few people. Dutch didn't go out today, probably because he didn't have any plans. As for Micah, Lin Yan hadn't seen him in the camp since he woke up. Looking around, Lin Yan suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have seen Molly since he came back yesterday evening. Molly used to be inseparable from Dutch in the camp.

"Hey, do you know where Molly went?" Lin Yan asked Sadie about this as soon as they set out.

He specially called Sadie today because Sadie was a little dissatisfied after listening to Lin Yan's story yesterday, and blamed him for not asking her to go with him before leaving. Lin Yan couldn't refute it at the time, so he could only smile and invite her to go with him today.

"I know." Sadie rarely showed her gossiping side, with an expression that said, "Just ask me." "Not long after I sent that girl back yesterday, Molly and Dutch had a big fight in the camp. This fight was more intense than ever before. After the fight, Molly cried and rode away on a horse."

"Gone?" Lin Yan was stunned. "Where did she go? She hasn't come back in such a long time, won't Daqi send someone to look for her?"