Chapter 9: The Valley of the Grasshoppers (2)
The reason why I say this is because I am reminded of what I introduced in the news, because once you encounter a locust sucking blood in the wild, you must not drag it down hard, otherwise it is likely to be carried along and tear off a large piece of flesh and skin. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The best way to do this is to stick a salt bag on the locust. As soon as the grasshopper touched the salty salt, it was uncomfortable, and it automatically let go.
After hearing my question, Dawala paused obviously, but suddenly smiled again, pointed to the forest, and said, "Officer Xiaobo, you think too much, besides, this forest looks so dense, how can there be locusts?" ”
I think she deliberately went around in circles with me, especially what does the locust have to do with the dense forest?
I also contradict it. Dawala blinked his eyes and said, "The locusts are all in the water, and even if there is a pond and a river in this wood, how can we meet the locusts?" ”
Beard also persuaded me at this time, that means, even if there are locusts, what can I do? Aren't there just a few bugs?
I said in my heart, beard, what do you know. I also explained, "When the locust sucks blood, it is said that it secretes anesthetics and things to prevent blood clotting in its mouth, and the person who is bitten can easily bleed. ”
The beard still felt nothing, and waved his hand indifferently.
Davara deliberately patted his beard's chest and said, "Brother, I just found out now that you are a man." Then she looked at me deliberately, which means, learn to grow a beard.
The beard can't stand the praise of others, and at this moment I am interested, and I gag with her.
As soon as I saw it, since the beard and Davara had agreed, I should not retreat because the locusts are not locusts.
I softened my tone and compromised.
After we had rested a little more, Davara took the lead, and we all went into the forest.
Davara seemed familiar with the place, checking the direction from time to time and taking us around.
To be on the safe side, I pinned the pistol behind my waist and took out the folding knife and held it. We walked for about three hours, and along the way, I confess that I did not encounter a locust, but Beard found a caterpillar, and he was really not afraid of it, and reached out to the insect and grabbed and pinched it, and squeezed it all over the body.
In addition, I also estimated the distance we would go into, about thirty or forty miles. In the end, I and my beard were a little tired, and Davara was actually not much better, but she had to fight to the death, and cheered us both up, which means that you two old men, are you not as good as a woman?
I'm really not so easily excited, and my beard is said to be covered. I forcibly grabbed him, waved my hand again, and said, "Rest for a while, and replenish your strength by the way." ”
Davara was very unhappy with my "rebuttal", but we were two against one, and she couldn't help it, but she didn't fully listen to the two of us, so let's walk another half mile or so, and then we must rest.
Beard and I couldn't understand why she was emphasizing this half mile, but half a mile was not far away, and we insisted on walking again.
So when we all sat on the ground, the beard was still rummaging through our backpacks.
We also carried a small amount of food in our backpack, either compressed biscuits or beef jerky. The beard wants to eat beef jerky,
But as soon as he took his things out, and before he could tear the bag, Davara reached out and stopped his beard.
Beard looked at Davara with a puzzled expression. And I noticed that Davara's expression was serious, which made me chuckle inwardly.
Without waiting for the beard to ask, Dawala gave me a thumbs up and praised, "Officer Xiaobo, you are not simple, you just guessed correctly, this forest has another name, called the Valley of Grasshoppers." ”
There was a buzz in my head. The beard couldn't help but mutter, "What? But then he laughed and said, "Girl, are you kidding?" We've been walking for so long, and we haven't even seen a single locust hair, so how can we get the statement of the locust valley? ”
Davara looked up at the sky. It's almost evening.
Davara said, "I have asked someone for advice in advance on the route we just walked, so we took a safe path, and we rarely saw locusts, but it doesn't mean that there is not a single locust in the entire forest." Besides......" she said, gesturing ahead, "if I'm not mistaken, we're going to get to the death zone of the Locust Valley, where there is no safe path, and the number of locusts is getting bigger and bigger." If we don't get out of the fork, we can get out alive, but if we don't handle it properly and carelessly, we will definitely die here. ”
Davara's face was tense all the time, and his beard realized that something was wrong, and he answered, "You said that the locusts are all in the water, but there is no water in the area ahead." ”
Davara continued, "There are drought locusts in Tibet. Moreover, there are dry grasshoppers in the death zone, as well as black grasshoppers and flower grasshoppers. Once bitten by five or six drought grasshoppers, the amount of blood loss is undoubtedly the same as the blood transfusion, as for the flower grasshopper, not to mention, it is highly poisonous, and it is easy to get dysentery when bitten by it. ”
The beard was completely stunned. I glared at my beard helplessly, and said in my heart that you were stupid just now, and you were made by her soft words, and as a result, we were miserable by her.
And I didn't remember the way with Beard, so we couldn't go back the way we came, plus the two motorcycles, both of which were pricked by Dawala.
I knew that the reason why Davara did this was because I was afraid that we would be afraid after hearing about the Locust Valley in advance, but I said in my heart that she really looked down on us, and I and Beard would not cause trouble, but if something really happened, we would never be afraid.
I didn't say much, I just asked her, "What's next?" ”
Davara looked at me with something unusual, perhaps I surprised her by asking.
After a pause, she said to me and my beard, "Tighten your clothes as tightly as possible, preferably close to your body, and then put on disposable plastic gloves and tie up all the exposed skin on your limbs with a bandage dipped in thick salt." ”
The beard muttered a few words, but in fact, it was more serious, and it also meant scolding.
I don't know if he scolded the locust valley or the davala, but I told the beard not to say that it was so useless, and put away the folding knife together, and hurry up and prepare.
Our previous bags of salt weren't wasted, and we still had them in our hands when we finished packing. So that if a locust lands on us, we can rub it away with a bag of salt.
In addition to wrapping himself tightly, Davara took out a small one.
This little guy is very short, and it is quirky, as if two mini bamboo flutes are pinched together.
Dawala tried to blow a few times, but the sound was harsh. My beard and I were uncomfortably digging out our ears, and I had a thought to myself, could this be the flute I heard last night? But upon closer inspection, it doesn't look like it.
Davara explained, "It's called a two-tone flute, and it's also called Liling. Before coming to the Valley of Grasshoppers, she specially asked a master for advice and learned how to blow it. ”
Beard and I were stunned. The beard also asked, "Why do you play the flute?" Will you go to the Death Zone for a while, and you still have the leisure to play musical instruments? Besides, why don't you learn something else, like the guitar? ”
Davarabu replied, "You don't know, but here in Metuo there are people of the tribes of the Monba and Lhoba, and these two peoples were good at repelling beasts and insects in the early days, and they used the liling. This time when you enter the death zone, you must rely on the blowing order to suppress the ferocity of those locusts. Then she fiddled with the order a few times and said, "I spent a lot of energy and even ...... in order to get this technique."
Davara didn't say anything, his face a little shy.
Beard and I looked at each other, and I thought to myself, could it be that she ended up sleeping with the flute player in order to learn the flute?
The beard laughed, maybe he also thought of this, but he must also have serious doubts, what kind of strange man can take a fancy to Davara?
Of course, on this occasion, the beard didn't say much.
Davara asked if we were ready. After seeing that we both nodded, she held the Li Ling, and while ticking and blowing, she advanced into the death zone.
I slowed down with my beard for half a beat, and hurriedly followed.
At first, I didn't find much of a locust, but as I got deeper, I realized how disgusting it was.
The locusts that are black and still shiny on the outside, either lying on the ground, or climbing on the trees in groups, and even on some leaves, they can also be seen.
I admit that I have a bit of a phobia of intensity, especially after watching the locusts for a long time, my heart is a little stuffy. And it's really evil, under the sound of Dawala's thumb, these grasshoppers are all honestly immovable, and occasionally a few big locusts can actually match the tone and twist a few times.
On the one hand, he said that his intestines were green when he came here, and on the other hand, he sighed, what is the difference between this place and his mother's hell?
I said in my heart that there is a big difference, at least there are all kinds of ghosts in hell, there are drowned ghosts, starving ghosts, etc., but here, all around us are hungry "vampires".
We had walked a long way after that, when Davara suddenly stood still, her eyes wide open, staring carefully at an area ahead.
Beard and I were not far behind her, and as soon as she stopped, we didn't know what was going on, so we had to lean over to her.
I followed her gaze and found that there were many locusts crawling on the old trees in the distance, at least several times the number of locusts in the place we passed through in the future, and on the tree in the center, there was also an oversized locust with a particularly bright color.
Davara held the ring with one hand, not forgetting to blow the tune, and she gave one hand free and motioned for me and the beard to write.
I knew she had something to say, so I passed the palm of my hand.
She wrote in the palm of my hand. I didn't dare to delay, she wrote a stroke, and I immediately followed suit.
I also recombined the analogies she wrote in my heart, and finally composed a sentence.
Davara told us that there was a king of grasshoppers here, and that it was dangerous. But fear not! She played the flute and tried to suppress the ferocity of the locusts, and we waited for the opportunity to pass.
I whispered this to Beard. The beard blinked his eyes after hearing this, and asked me again, "Does this stinky girl have a score of talking, she used to talk about black grasshoppers and flower locusts, why did a locust king pop up again?" ”
I motioned for my beard not to mess up, and gave Davara a thumbs up again, telling her to continue on her way.
Davara twisted her body a few times in an attempt to relax herself, and then she kept her current tone and walked forward.
Beard and I held the salt bag as we closed the distance.
From time to time, I still stared at the locust king, who seemed to enjoy it more than the others, writhing its body quickly to the sound of the flute.
It all seemed good, and it didn't take a minute for us to walk through the swarm of locusts, and it wouldn't be long before we were out of here completely.
But Davara was so focused on blowing the order that he ignored his feet, and no one expected that there was a skull hidden in the wet surface here.
Dawala stepped down this time, not only stepping on the skull, but also pulling it directly, revealing half of its empty eye sockets from the wet mud.
Davara was dressed as a tomboy, but after all, she was a woman, and when she saw this scene, her face changed in fright, not to mention blowing the order, she couldn't help but wow. (To be continued.) )