Chapter 5: Fighting Tigers
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It was invisible and ethereal, it appeared without warning, it left without warning.
No one can hold the wind, just as no one can hold memory.
Memories are not like the wind.
Because the wind fades, and sometimes the memory is more like a stone, heavy and engraved in the heart.
For example, at this moment-
At the moment of hurriedly climbing and escaping, the memories of the past in the stone monkey's heart poured out like a flood bursting its banks. They struck a certain emotion in the stone monkey's heart like lightning, and at this moment, the memory did not seem so ethereal.
The stone monkey saw his mother, and her image was clearly imprinted in his mind, and the episodes of his difficult life for more than 20 years reappeared in his mind like a slideshow......
He saw his girlfriend Wan'er, her determination and disappointment in himself made the stone monkey feel painful, but he believed that she was not unloving to him, and their relationship still had room for redemption......
He didn't know what would happen to his mother when he disappeared out of thin air during this time, and if she still had the courage to live......
He also didn't know if Wan'er had already known about his death and would forgive him......
"Mom, I'm coming back."
"Because in this world, I'm going to die too."
"Maybe if you die, you can come back, come back to you."
In the twenty-four years of human memory, the stone monkey has never had such a close contact with death as at this moment, it is so real that you can reach it at your fingertips.
He was not afraid.
It's like the ultimate fate of a leaf is to fall to the ground, to the dirt, and everyone will die. You are no more special than others.
Although death strikes everyone in a different way, the final point is the same - no consciousness, no consciousness, no fear, just like you were not born.
Relying on the last bit of perseverance and instinct for survival, the stone monkey kept jumping and climbing, and some unknown trees with thorny leaves scratched shallow scars on the stone monkey's hands.
The hound chased after him tighter, the arrows became more dense, and the stone monkey became calm.
There were no trees in front of him, and there was an open valley bottom in front of him, and the stone monkey's hand grabbed the branch of the last tree near the valley and hung it in the air, looking at the open area in front of him, at a loss.
He didn't dare to jump now because the tree was too tall to look back.
He was afraid that the moment he turned back, he would be shot with a bow and arrow and die on the spot.
However, there were no trees around him, and he became a living target.
Life, or death, is in this moment.
However, to the surprise of the stone monkey, at this most critical moment of life and death, there was no swishing sound of arrows around him, and the rampant hound seemed to have died down and stopped barking.
As if sensing something, he clung to the branches, looked down, and saw at least a dozen tigers prostrate on the ground, their front paws scraping little by little on the lawn, staring at the hunters and hounds in front of him, panting heavily, ready to go......
As if at the sound of an order, they would rush over and tear to shreds the hunters who had dared to break into their forbidden place.
People say that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, but in the world of Journey to the West, in the Huaguo Mountain that I crossed over, I saw more than a dozen tigers gathered together.
They were confronted with a common enemy, the hunter and the hound, and the enemy of the enemy was a friend, and the stone monkey felt that he was about to be rescued, but his physical strength was about to run out, and he was about to fall.
He held on...... I don't know how long it will last.
The hunters who rushed over saw these dozen tigers with white tendons, they panicked, they threw away their crossbows, and fled quickly in the jungle when they came and went, and the hunting dogs were also frightened in a trance, and they no longer looked like just now, and hurriedly ran backwards to escape......
The tigers, lightning fastened, and chased in the direction of the jungle hunter's escape.
The outcome of the fire merger of these three species is best to lose both, so that the stone monkey is saved.
There is no such thing as a path to heaven.
The stone monkey snickered in his heart, thinking that he had finally turned the corner.
Although he had already made up his mind to die just now, the feeling of the rest of his life after the catastrophe was still so refreshing......
The stone monkey didn't have time to think about it, and wanted to find a way to leave this place that was not suitable for staying for a long time, and at this moment, the trunk of the tree under him began to sway, if it wasn't for the stone monkey holding on to a branch tightly, I am afraid that he would have fallen down.
The stone monkey went down, but if he didn't look at it, he took a big jump......
A round tiger was lying on the trunk of a tree, scraping the tree with its front paws, and he was wheezing and roaring, as if he would not give up until the monkey was taken down and eaten.
The stone monkey glanced at the tiger, and under the eye sockets hidden by the huge word "king" on his forehead, a sharp and proud gaze shot directly at the stone monkey.
The stone monkey clung to the branches, his heart pounding.
At this moment, in the face of this tiger, the stone monkey actually ignited an extremely strong desire to survive, and the pleasure of the rest of his life just now was shrouded in a haze of fear in an instant.
The tiger shook the trunk desperately, and it was likely to be shaken off itself.
Now that his physical strength is almost exhausted, it is not a long-term solution to continue like this, and he must find a way to escape.
Thinking so, the stone monkey let go of the branch beneath him, and with all his might, jumped towards the nearest tree next to him.
Although it is recent, it is at least three feet away.
The body of the stone monkey crossed an arc in the air, the tiger was instantly alert, ran quickly, and when the stone monkey's fingers were about to touch the branch of the tree, the tiger also pounced on the trunk, the tiger's huge strength made the trunk tilt back for half a minute, and the stone monkey touched the branch, and it hissed and broken......
He fell to the ground with a bang......
When the tiger saw the stone monkey fall to the ground, he jumped and pounced on the stone monkey.
The stone monkey rolled over and dodged the tiger's pounce.
With instinct, the stone monkey turned over and left.
I only heard a "poof" sound, the tiger's forehead seemed to be attacked by something, he kicked in place to look for something to attack him, this stunned for the stone monkey to win a chance to breathe, the stone monkey stood up and mustered all his strength, and fled to the jungle, but the tiger was quickly alert, and quickly chased after him......
A voice shouted to the stone monkey, "Monkey, go this way." ”
The voice was familiar, as if it had been heard somewhere.
The stone monkey followed the direction of the sound and fled in a hurry, but he finally stumbled and fell to the ground, and the tiger was about to rush at a distance of five meters from the stone monkey......
The stone monkey rolled over and came across a metal instrument.
And the tiger also jumped up and pounced on the stone monkey. In a panic, the stone monkey activated the trigger of the metal instrument, and three or four sharp arrows shot directly at the tiger, only to hear a few swishing sounds, and the arrows pierced the tiger's neck, and the two arrows actually pierced out of the tiger's neck, and the tiger was hit by that blow, and fell heavily to the ground, spitting blood in his mouth, and his front paws kept digging on the ground, and he wanted to stand up......
The tiger finally stood up, and then fell to the ground again, spitting blood in its mouth, and its front hooves desperately digging the lawn, as if unwilling.
The stone monkey touched the repeater that the hunter had thrown on the ground in a hurry, took a deep breath, and exhaled heavily.
The heart is still beating wildly.
Unexpectedly, the hunter made a tool for death, and the thing that almost killed himself finally saved his life.
"You defeated the tiger, you defeated the tiger......"
The little squirrel was jumping in the tree, and she seemed to be happier than she was to defeat the tiger.
The stone monkey looked at the little squirrel in the tree, today, it was she who led herself to find the monkeys, and now it was she who saved her life.
The stone monkey said gloomily: "The person who saved me turned out to be you, why did you help me?" ”
"I didn't save you, you shot the tiger with a repeater, and no one helped you."
Still wary of the stone monkey, she stood on a branch and stared at him closely, holding in both hands a small pine cone with which she had attacked the tiger.
Today, she also uses the same pine cone to attract the attention of the stone monkeys.
This little squirrel has already cultivated to the essence, I'm afraid this is not her true appearance at all, but why should she help herself?
The stone monkey was puzzled, and just said:
"If you hadn't thrown something at the tiger, I wouldn't have had the slightest respite, and if you hadn't guided me, I wouldn't have found this crossbow, and I'm afraid I would have been in the tiger's belly by now...... You saved me, what do you want in return, you say! ”
"Do you need to be rewarded for saving someone?" The little squirrel said.
"Isn't it needed?"
"Do you need it?"
"Don't you need it?"
"Okay. Even if you want to repay me, it's not now," the little squirrel paused, and said, "Now we have to get out of here, it's too dangerous here, you're not familiar with this place, you follow me, and I'll take you to a safe place." ”
After the little squirrel finished speaking, he jumped into another tree and stopped there to wait for the stone monkey.
"Even if I am eaten by a tiger, I will not go with you." The stone monkey froze in place and said to the tree.
"Why don't you come with me? It's called Sanssouci Valley, and it's the territory of tigers, and if you stay here, you'll die. ”
"If you die like this, at least it will be clear, but I can't go with you like this."
"Why are you so stubborn?" Little Squirrel Road.
"Tell me if you are a human or a demon, why you have saved me repeatedly, what is the purpose, tell me this, and I will go with you."
"You don't have to ask, I'll tell you later." The little squirrel said helplessly, "It's dangerous here, can you come with me now?" ”
The stone monkey finally wavered, carried the repeater, looked at the tiger lying on the ground, and the last flash of divine light in the tiger's eye socket gradually disappeared, and finally closed his eyes gently......
The stone monkey climbed up the tree of the little squirrel with a repeater and followed her, climbing in one direction.
Is it true that no matter what direction you choose, you will all lead to the same ending?
(To be continued)
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