Chapter 113: The Great Famine
After a lot of tossing and turning over the cliff, it was already noon again. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info It's been more than 24 hours since they last eaten, and each of them has only eaten a little more than a bite of food. Now, climbing and climbing over the cliffs in the Miasma Valley seems to have exhausted all of your physical strength. One by one, like deflated balls, they walked in a large area at the bottom of the cliff.
The old man was even more tired because of his age, but after all, he had a clear mind, and he barely rested for more than an hour, then struggled to stand up and said, "Everyone, you can't stay here, you must work hard to get out..."
A middle-aged woman beside him said with a complaining expression: "Uncle, I can't walk anymore...
Qian Chong also stood up at this time, and he also felt weak. He began to feel very strange, when he didn't climb over the cliff, he felt that his physical condition was okay, and he didn't consume it like crossing the miasma valley just now, but why did his body become so unbearable?
He looked at the 'travelers' around him, all of whom were sluggish. What's going on here?
He began to suspect that the air under the suspense was hypoxic, but he soon realized that because everyone had been starved of food for a long time, and after such consumption, their physical strength was already at the end of their strength. I just held my last breath because of a strong desire to survive. Now, when this hurdle is overcome, this breath has been discharged. Now everyone is completely collapsed!
Qian Chong stood and staggered a few steps, not knowing whether it was hunger or physical exhaustion, his steps were a little staggering.
He couldn't help but look at Shen Junru beside him, and saw that her body had already sat up, but she didn't seem to have the strength to stand up.
He leaned down first and asked with concern, "Xiaoru, can you still go?" ”
Shen Junru was very strong and nodded: "No problem!" ”
Qian Chong's heart was relieved, and he reached out and pulled Shen Junru up.
By this time, some of the tourists who were in good shape had already stood up, but most of them were young men. For example: middle-aged man, man with a hairy beard, man in yellow, Lu Qingxuan and the two 'dangerous elements' and others.
Qian Chong shouted to those who had not yet gotten up: "Maybe we can walk through this jungle again, and we will be able to get out of this no-man's land and find food." Hold on a little longer, and don't be discouraged! ”
One of the tourists smiled bitterly: "I thought I would be able to get out of danger after that miasma valley, but who knows that I still can't get out of this death zone... ”
The old man cheered up at this time and retorted: "No matter what else we will experience in front of us, if we stagnate, then we will have to wait for death!" ”
"But I don't even have the strength to stand up, so why should I move forward?"
Qian Chong gritted his teeth at this time and said, "Anyway, we have to move forward." Only by moving forward can there be hope for survival. If someone really can't walk, then let's carry forward the spirit of crossing the miasma valley. The person with good physical strength will help the person who has no strength to walk..."
Shen Junru also cheered up at this time and said: "Qian Chong is right, we are a whole, and we will never allow anyone to be left behind." Please help pick up the sisters who are in poor physical strength and continue on the road! ”
Qian Chong continued to cheer everyone up at this time: "As long as we support it a little longer, we may be able to find someone before dark." We'll be able to eat and sleep in our beds! ”
His words of 'eat enough and sleep in bed' are so appealing that they give a glimmer of hope in the eyes of those who are pessimistic and hopeless. There were many people who stood up strong...
However, there is one person who can't stand up, and she's a tall woman!
Because of hypoglycemia, tall women not only can't eat three meals a day, but they can't stop snacking.
However, not long after entering the Heavenly Wolf Mountain, the snacks she carried were all eaten with the middle-aged man. For her disease, once there is a lack of food, it is equivalent to fatal.
In addition to the middle-aged man beside her, there is also a man with a hairy beard. They all felt helpless because the tall woman had fallen to the ground.
Qian Chong knew that the tall woman was close to the middle-aged man, so he gave an order to the middle-aged man: "Since she can't go, you just help her and take her down!" ”
The middle-aged man said with a sad face: "She doesn't even have the strength to stand up... ”
"Then please carry her on your back!"
The middle-aged man couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I'm also tired now, and I can even shake when I walk independently, how can I carry it?" ”
The tall woman, though a little confused, still understood her current situation. She took a few deep breaths, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Lao, Wang, you can't leave me, I, I don't want to die here..."
The hairy bearded man's eyes moistened a little when he saw her miserable scene. At this time, he plucked up the courage and said: "My physical condition is okay, let me carry her!" ”
Qian Chong was a little surprised that the bearded man cared so much about tall women, but since someone was willing to stand up for tall women, of course it was a gratifying thing.
"That's hard work!"
After Qian Chong finished saying this, he ordered the middle-aged man who couldn't be responsible: "You, hurry up and help her up and put her on this gentleman's back." ”
Although the middle-aged man feels very strange about the frequent overtures of even hairy bearded men to tall women, he has no intention of investigating this matter in the current situation of taking care of himself.
Together with Qian Chong, he lifted the tall woman's body and moved it to the back of the bearded man.
There are also a few female tourists who are physically weak and do not have the same difficulty standing up as tall women, but they can barely walk with the support of tourists with good physical strength.
The black-faced man took the initiative to support a weak woman.
The old man's physical strength was no longer good, but he didn't use other people's support to walk, and he used a branch as a cane to walk hard in the team...
Time passes little by little, hunger stimulates everyone's body more and more, and walking consumes the last trace of physical strength in everyone's body...
Even the bearded man finally couldn't hold it anymore, and after walking less than a few miles, he fell to the ground with a 'poof', and also flipped the tall woman on his back to the ground.
As the two of them fell to the ground, there was an immediate chain reaction in front of everyone, and they collapsed to the ground like dominoes...
At this time, their physical strength has been exhausted to the limit, and Qian Chong's ** force of 'eat enough things and sleep in bed' can no longer work on them.
The old man was no longer able to walk, he struggled, trying not to let his body fall quickly, but with the help of a cane, he slowly sat down on the ground.
"Little, young man, don't go, let's rest..."
The old man finally said soft words to Qian Chong.
Qian Chong and Shen Junru supported each other, their legs were already like they were filled with lead, and at this time, every step they took was the perseverance they put together.
However, they still helped the bearded man to stabilize the body of the tall woman who had fallen, and then sat down nearby.
Although the middle-aged man walked independently, after a trek of several miles, his body seemed to be about to fall apart, where could he still take care of the tall woman?
Lu Qingxuan has always been with Tilis. Although he is still injured, it is a skin injury after all, and with the foundation of his strong body, he is in much better condition than Tilis.
When he helped the exhausted Tilis to sit down, he was about to sit next to Tilis, but his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a small furry creature passing through the bushes next to him, and by his eyes, he immediately recognized it as a gray hare. He was overjoyed, and subconsciously took out his pistol from his waist, and quickly aimed the muzzle at the trail of the hare's escape...
Many people were shocked by Lu Qingxuan's sudden move, and they looked in the direction of Lu Qingxuan's pistol, and the wild hare that ran wildly had not disappeared from everyone's field of vision.
As soon as Qian Chong found the small animal, he couldn't help but be surprised and delighted: "Officer Lu, shoot quickly!" ”
Lu Qingxuan slowly watched the hare finally disappear into the depths of the bushes, and couldn't help but put down the muzzle of the gun in frustration. He lamented, "If I had a bullet in my gun, the rabbit would never run away!" ”
When Qian Chong heard this, he immediately came to his senses. He recalled that when Lu Qingxuan was injured on the bus, the black-faced man picked up his pistol and fired indiscriminately at the pursuers behind, and finally used up all the bullets in the gun...
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the black-faced man.
The black-faced man was too tired to do anything, and fell on his back on the grass, closing his eyes and ignoring his surroundings.
Qian Chong's vision left the black-faced man, and then looked around at the surrounding 'travel friends', their forms were different, but the couples still seemed lingering. Needless to say, the newlyweds leaned on each other, and even the man who threw the roast chicken leaned on the woman in a short skirt in his arms. But instead of the tall woman lying half-dead on the ground, the middle-aged man sat by with a dejected expression and drooped his head listlessly. Although Tilis sat on the ground with her buttocks, due to her weak body, her upper body also leaned into the arms of Lu Qingxuan, who had just sat down to rest...
Qian Chong thought to himself that for these 'travel friends' in a desperate situation, when they are on the verge of life and death, it is not a comfort to be able to share weal and woe with their favorite partners.
He couldn't help but think of Shen Junru, why didn't he wait with her?
When he just wanted to sit down close to Shen Junru, he couldn't help but stop. A question flashed through his mind: if he was to relax now, who would organize everyone to leave this place of right and wrong?
Thinking of this, he turned his target from Shen Junru to the old man...
"Uncle, we have now finally found out that there are other animals, which proves that we may be away from that forbidden area of life. That should be a positive sign, right? ”
The old man was already weak, and when he heard Qian Chong, who was leaning over, speak, he replied with a strong spirit: "Alas, we are not actually in the 'forbidden area of life' environment. Even if there are no animals, there are still plants. Now, even if we find other animals, we don't have the power to hunt them. Everyone is starving at the moment. The only hope is to find a place where there are people. ”
Qian Chong couldn't help but look around at the surrounding jungle, and couldn't help asking, "Although we can't catch animals, can't we find some plants to satisfy our hunger?" When the Red Army was on the Long March, didn't they often dig wild vegetables to eat? ”
The old man smiled bitterly: "Young man, this is not a meadow, you see, it is all some shrubs and jungles, and it is difficult to find wild vegetables growing close to the ground." Not to mention the wild vegetables that can be found to be edible. ”
Qian Chong saw the old man's pessimistic demeanor, and asked, "Then do you have any other solutions?" ”
The old man said gloomily: "At present, many people in our team can't walk. If you don't have food, it's useless to rest for a long time. The only way now..."
The old man's words came to his lips and he stopped again.
Qian Chong frowned: "Uncle, what suggestions do you have, whether it works or not, but it doesn't matter." ”
The old man glanced at everyone, and then said in a weak voice, "Now, the only way is to let the tourists who can still walk run for their lives... If we have to take care of those who can't walk, then we have to reimburse all of them here..."