Chen Shi, who was afraid of death, stuck to his position, sat by the fire with a bag in his arms and waited for Xia Muqi to come back.

Time gradually passed, the light became dimer and darker, Chen Shi silently took out the knife in his bag and held it in his hand, the knife edge was outside, and he looked around vigilantly.

The fire at his feet was warm and bright, and this warmth made this huge forest exceptionally silent and dark, and occasionally one or two birds flew by and would frighten Chen Shiyi. Still, the knife in his hand was held firmly.

Jiang Feng noticed that this knife was the one he had seen in Fen Garden, which was full of rust. Now there was no rust on the knife, only blood stains that had not had time to wipe off, and it looked particularly sharp and bloody against the backdrop of the fire.

Finally, Shamuqi returned.

Carrying a jug of water, nothing else.

"Is the water source far away, why have you been there for so long?" Chen Shi said impatiently.

"It's not very far, I just looked around to see if there was any fruit to eat. "The result was obvious, Shamuqi was empty-handed and brought nothing back.

Chen Shi couldn't help but look a little disappointed, and gave up the warmest and best sitting position closest to the fire to Xia Muqi, and walked to another place that was not very flat and sat down.

"I just looked around here and there was nothing to eat. ”

"It's okay, you can't die if you don't eat for a few days, as long as you have a water source. Xia Muqi didn't care much about the food, and handed the kettle to Chen Shi to let him drink water, "As long as you can go out in the next two days." ”

Chen Shi took the kettle and poured most of the bottle in one breath before stopping, put down the bottle, and carefully wiped the mud on the kettle with a very dirty cotton coat, cherishing and even carefully touching the iron kettle, as if he was touching some treasure.

"This kettle must be worth a lot. Chen Shi opened the cloth bag and stuffed the kettle back into the cloth bag.

Xia Muqi added two sticks of wood to the fire, and stirred the fire to let the air in to make the fire burn bigger: "Those two strings of beads in your bag are worth a lot. ”

"Brother Xia, you didn't lie to me, are these two strings of beads really as valuable as you say? Can I really use these two strings of beads to go back to our village to buy a few acres of land?" Chen Shi hugged the cloth bag in his arms tightly, "I didn't take the piece of gold and took these two strings of beads according to your words." ”

"Yes. "Xia Muqi cherishes words like gold.

Compared with whether the jewelry in the bag is worth anything, Xia Muqi is more concerned about whether he can return to Beiping smoothly after going out: "Are you sure you can go to Star City through this forest?"

Chen Shi nodded: "Absolutely, I came from this road in the first place." Let me tell you that Star City is very prosperous, there are many foreigners, there are good inns, ships, docks, casinos, brothels, and the girls in it are like fairies. ”

"My house is on the edge of Star City, but we have to be careful when we go, there are bandits over there, and if you take the main road, you will be robbed, and the small road will also be robbed. If you're lucky, you just don't have money, and if you're unlucky, you're dead. ”

Xia Muqi looked at Chen Shi, as if smiling, the corners of his mouth pulled up slightly: "Are you still afraid of bandits?"

Chen Shi knew that Xia Muqi was referring to the fact that he dared to do such a thing even to kill the commander and escape, rob money, how could he be afraid of bandits, and explained: "The bandits over there are fierce, extremely vicious, everyone has several or even dozens of lives in their hands, and guns, those veterans may not have killed so many people." ”

"Then how many have you killed?" Xia Muqi talked about things that did not conform to the core values of socialism in a homely tone.

"I don't know, maybe two, maybe three, maybe neither. Chen Shidao, "Don't look at me, I've been a soldier longer than you, I've only been on three or four times, but it's quite a lot." ”

"By the way, have you ever been on the battlefield before?" Chen Shi asked curiously.

Xia Muqi shook his head.

"Then why are you so skilled in that movement?" Chen Shi stretched out his hand and scratched in front of his neck, making a clicking gesture, "It really scared me this morning, I thought we were going to die, but you ...... with one stab."

"It's no different from killing a pig and a chicken. ”

Chen Shi suddenly realized: "It turns out that you are a butcher, no wonder you are so strong." ”

Shamuqi: ......

"But it's good that you haven't fought, you don't know, it's scary on the battlefield. There are people everywhere, take a knife and slash indiscriminately, many people are directly scared to pee for the first time, and then run around, and when they run to the front, they are hacked to death with a knife, and it is estimated that they are all dead in a daze. Chen Shidao, "It's all your own people who beat your own people." What kind of world do you say this is, Beiping has fallen, and instead of fighting back, he will fight with his own people here. ”

Xia Muqi fiddled with the fire and didn't raise his head: "If we go to fight in Beiping, you won't run away?"

"Escape, definitely escape. Chen Shi looked firm, "If you don't escape, unless you are crippled, it is impossible to go back." If you become a cripple, you will also be a waste, what is the difference between death and death? ”

"I was fooled in by them, and at the beginning I said that I would pay money every month, but I didn't tell me that I was going to be a soldier to fight, so I came in a daze. As a result, now he only cares about food, and he doesn't have a lot of money, and he may die. My parents are still waiting at home for me to go back to marry my daughter-in-law and have a son, and I can't leave my life here. ”

Xia Muqi smiled and did not speak.

"By the way, Brother Xia, you want to go back to Beiping so much, is it that your parents are also in Beiping, you go back to marry a daughter-in-law. Let me tell you that I can see that the places where the war is going on now are dangerous, especially in the north, so you should take your parents away as soon as possible after you return to Beiping, the south is safer. Chen Shi persuaded.

Xia Muqi ignored him, closed his eyes and prepared to sleep.

After a few minutes, Xia Muqi suddenly opened his eyes: "I'll sleep first, if you are sleepy and can't hold on, wake me up and replace me with the vigil." ”

"Oh. Chen Shi held the package and kept vigil obediently.

Nothing was said all night.

Xia Muqi slept in the first half of the night, Chen Shi slept in the second half of the night, and the two of them actually didn't sleep well, but they had to rest in order to hurry up the next day.

Jiang Feng has been staring at the campfire at night, it is very quiet, not to mention jackals, tigers and leopards, not even small things like rabbits are close, and the silence in the woods is terrible.

But on the other hand, the silence can also be reassuring.

At dawn the next day, Xia Muqi first put out the fire, and then went to the river to fill water, and only after filling a pot of water did Chen Shi wake up, and the two continued to hurry.

Still lost.

In Jiang Feng's opinion, this forest looks the same everywhere, except for the tree or the tree, there is no difference between the varieties. Xia Muqi and Chen Shi are similar, neither of them is a master of survival in the wilderness, at most they can distinguish one direction, in this case, it is not easy to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest.

Xia Muqi is a little stronger, he can at least look for water by the color and wetness of the land, and judge whether he and Chen Shi are going deeper and deeper according to the density of the trees.

But they can only do this, and Xia Muqi's Chen Shi and ability can't help them get out of this forest smoothly.

The two walked for another full day.

Chen Shi's shoes were completely worn out, and he was reluctant to throw them away, so he kicked them in his arms and walked with them. Fortunately, although it is winter now, there is no snow on the ground, otherwise he walks barefoot in this state, and he is afraid that his feet will be frostbitten and frosted for another half a day.

In such a dense wood, there is no navigation, no direction, no way, you don't even know where you are, when you can get out, there is no food, no animals, only water, it is extremely scary.

If Xia Muqi and Chen Shi were psychologically fragile, fear and despair alone would be enough to kill them.

Although these two people are not masters of survival in the wilderness, they are definitely masters of survival, even Chen Shi, who is very desperate for his life and afraid of death, did not give up and collapse in this situation. The two of them looked for edible fruits as they walked, and if there was no fruit, Chen Shi looked for edible bark, cut off the old bark on the outside with the knife in his arms, and shoeed the tender ones on the inside and ate them partially.

The next day passed, and night fell.

Compared with the night before, Xia Muqi and Chen Shi at this time were obviously much more tired. I haven't eaten much for nearly two days, only drinking water, and I am walking non-stop, with no direction, no goal, and even a little desperate, and the mental state of the two is not very good under the double pressure of physical and psychological pressure.

Almost as soon as the fire was set up, Chen Shi collapsed on the ground and didn't think about it, but just put his feet close to the fire to bake, so as not to freeze.

"What kind of forest is this? Why is there nothing?" Chen Shi complained in despair, picking up a stone from the ground and smashing it into the tree, causing the two birds on the tree to flutter and fly away.

"We don't even have a living creature except birds, but we can't even hit birds without slingshots. ”

"It's winter now, there are few living creatures, and it is estimated that the periphery has long been caught and eaten by people nearby, and if you want to find a living animal, you must go to the depths, and if you go in, you really can't get out. Xia Muqi said.

Chen Shi lowered his arm dejectedly.

"I remember there was a story? Can't a rabbit come over and kill us right now? There are so many trees here. Chen Shi casually pointed to the largest and thickest tree on the side.

"You also know that it's a story, it's all made up by someone else, how can a rabbit be so stupid as to crash into a tree and die. ”

"If you're tired, go to bed first, and I'll keep a vigil and wake you up the next night." Xia Muqi said.

There was no response.

Chen Shi had already fallen asleep, obviously really tired, and sometimes the psychological fatigue was more terrible than the physical fatigue.

Xia Muqi yawned and turned his head to look at the tree that Chen Shi pointed to just now.

Jiang Feng read the desire for rabbits in his eyes.

Obviously, even the young version of Xia Murong, who doesn't talk much and cuts people like killing pigs, will have certain expectations for his scornful fables when he is extremely hungry and tired.

I just don't know if there was a stupid rabbit that met his expectations and crashed into the tree.

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