Chapter 138: Fireside Night Talk
It was getting late, Xu Xiaobai and Xiaoqing were lying on the hot kang in the cabin, chatting about the next plan of action, and they were a little dazed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAccording to Xu Xiaobai's meaning, he should take a walk forward at night, and when he arrives at about 12 o'clock, he may be able to find a similar cabin to rest. Xiaoqing, based on her own experience when she was a child, advised Xu Xiaobai not to do this. The huts in the woods were used by hunters to rest during the hunting season, and were usually a resting place within a radius of a hundred miles, and if they went out now, they might have to sleep in the woods in the middle of the night.
How terrible the woods are at night, Xiaoqing shuddered when she thought about it.
Needless to say, the low temperature is certain, even if Xu Xiaobai has a military tent, and he can exchange cotton bedding and so on at any time, sleeping in the snow will not be an easy thing. In addition, there is the threat of wild beasts, and the blind bears in the woods in this season are supposed to be in a state of hibernation, but because the season has not yet reached the cold winter, it is difficult to keep a few blind bears that have not yet entered the state of hibernation and will come out at night to forage for food. What is even more frightening is not the blind bear, but the man-bear. The bear blind man is a black bear, small in size, stupid in temperament, according to Xu Xiaobai's ability, when he encounters a bear blind man, he thinks he can deal with it, but the man and bear are strong, weigh more than a ton, and the skin and flesh are thick, even if the bullet may not be able to penetrate it. The man and bear are angry, and they can exert thousands of catties of strength, which is far from being able to compete with manpower.
Xu Xiaobai listened to what Xiaoqing said scary, and he didn't believe it in his heart. Seeing that he didn't think so, Xiaoqing hurriedly told him the story she heard from the hunters in the village when she was a child:
One year, two hunters from the village went hunting in the woods and accidentally encountered a man-bear. The hunter took a musket (an old-fashioned musket) and fired two shots at the man-bear, one in the arm of the man-bear, without even penetrating the fur, and the other in the ear of the man-bear, knocking off half of its ear.
The man-bear was in pain, and he stood up and pounced on his forelimbs. The two hunters were a little flustered, and one of them was thrown to the ground by a human bear, and his tongue was stretched out and licked on the man's face, and half of the man's face was blurred with flesh and blood, and the skin of the face was licked off, revealing Bai Sensen's bones. It turned out that the tongue of the man-bear was full of barbs, and it was the most powerful, but the person was licked like this, and most of his life had been lost. The man-bear patted the man's head with his paws, just like a watermelon, and the man's head burst into a burst of brains, and he was no longer alive at that time.
The other man was frightened half to death, and saw a tree next to him, and hurriedly climbed up, but the man and bear could not climb the tree, so he climbed a few steps up and fell. The hunter took advantage of this opportunity to quickly reload his ammunition and fired again, and one shot struck the man-bear in the eye, blinding him in one eye.
The man-bear was furious and suddenly began to pull up the tree. The tree is the thickness of a person, the trees in the old forest in the northeast are all old, how to say that this tree is also decades old, and it is deeply rooted, but I didn't expect the strength of this man and bear to be too terrifying, and the tree was uprooted in three or two strokes. The hunter fell from the tree, and the man-bear screamed and pounced.
Hunters recall an old saying that man-bears are only interested in living creatures and not in dead people. So he used all his courage to lie on the ground and close his eyes and pretend to be dead, not daring to breathe in his mouth or open his eyes. I only heard the man bear walk up to him, stretched out his nose and sniffed the man, stretched out his tongue and licked it gently, and the man's face was half licked off, and he tried his best to endure the pain, as if he was dead.
The man-bear was really not interested in him, and turned around in the same place a few times before leaving. The hunter got up and ran all the way back to the village, never to go into the mountains again. Xiaoqing said that she had seen the hunter when she was a child, and half of his face was disfigured, and he was usually wrapped in gauze and did not dare to see people, and the people in the village gave him a nickname, called Grimace Lao Zhang.
Xu Xiaobai was shocked when he heard this, the strength of the man and bear was extremely strong, and his temperament was extremely fierce, he had heard it before, but he never dared to imagine that it could easily pull up a big tree. Xu Xiaobai thinks that in the eyes of ordinary humans, his strength is already very powerful, and he can lift a Land Rover weighing five tons with all his strength, but this is completely different from pulling out trees, even if it is a twelve-level typhoon, it is rare to want to pull up an adult tree. The strength of the man-bear is much more terrifying than that of a typhoon. If he really encounters a human bear, he will definitely not be able to beat him, and running is a way, but if he takes Xiaoqing with him, it will be very difficult to run.
Unless there is a big axe, it may be able to use the power of the axe to fight with people and bears for a while. He thought to himself.
Xiaoqing said again: "The most terrible thing is not the human bear, I heard the old hunters say that the most terrible thing is the wolf." ā
Wolf? That thing doesn't have a lot of strength, at most its teeth are sharp, what's so scary. Xu Xiaobai is confident that dealing with two or three wolves is not a problem at all.
"No, wolves never go it alone, they all come out in packs."
It turns out that wolves are social animals, and often thirty or fifty wolves gather in a group, led by the wolf king, and act in unison after discovering the target prey. Wolves are animals that will not attack easily, and the attack is a must-kill, and even they will use some simple formations under the leadership of the wolf king, usually a wolf is responsible for being a bait or attracting the enemy's attention head-on, and the rest of the wolves take the opportunity to outflank, after forming a momentum of encirclement, the wolves will take advantage of the situation to attack, and the prey is tired of coping with the constant intrusion of the wolves, and the wolf king or the wolf with the sharpest teeth in the team will seize the opportunity of the prey's negligence, launch a killing blow, and bite off the throat of the prey.
The wolf's favorite attack is to bite the throat of its prey, which is a one-hit kill.
Xu Xiaobai was shocked, and said in his heart that when he encountered a man and a bear, he might be able to deal with it, after all, bears are all alone, but if he encounters a pack of wolves, even if his ability is several times stronger, it must be a dead end, the so-called good tiger is difficult to fight the wolves, this is the truth.
Xiaoqing said so much just to dispel his idea of rushing in the night. In fact, after listening to Xiaoqing say so much, Xu Xiaobai has already understood that he will not be able to travel tonight, and he has already dispelled this idea, the reason why he did not interrupt Xiaoqing's words is to listen to more stories in the old forest, he is going to find snow ginseng, and the more he knows about the situation in the snow field, the better.
Xiaoqing was tired of speaking, and waved her hand to Xu Xiaobai: "Emma said that my mouth is thirsty, give the whole mouth to drink." ā
Xu Xiaobai glared at her, and Xiaoqing realized that she was unconsciously not so respectful to him, and actually called him like a servant. In fact, Xu Xiaobai doesn't care, he doesn't have any shelf, Xiaoqing feels very embarrassed, she has this temper, and Xu Xiaobai is slowly getting acquainted, so she can't help but want to call him, no way, who makes him look like he can do anything, and he can change anything. Why does Nobita rely so much on the blue fat man of the robot cat? It's obvious!
The white light flashed in Xu Xiaobai's hand, and he had already exchanged two large barrels of mineral water, poured a few sips of it himself, and threw the other bottle to Xiaoqing. The latter looked embarrassed: "I want to drink hot water." ā
"In this deep mountain and old forest, where can I find hot water for you." Xu Xiaobai was about to talk about her, seeing that she looked embarrassed and a little twisted, he thought about it for a while, and immediately understood Xiaoqing's embarrassment, shook his head and sighed, exchanged a kettle from the supermarket system, put it on the wood that was burning at the bottom of the kang, poured mineral water into the pot and began to boil.
Xiaoqing looked at his busy figure, felt very satisfied, and said with a smile: "When I was a child, every household did not have running water, and everyone grabbed a handful of snow and put it in a pot to boil water in winter, saying that the snow falling from the sky was the cleanest. ā
Xu Xiaobai added firewood to the bottom of the kang and said, "That proves that you haven't been to school much." The reason why water vapor can condense into snow is because they are all attached to dust, and without that single grain of dust, there would be no snow, so snow is not clean, and its core is dust. ā
"Alright, alright, you're knowledgeable." Xiaoqing muttered, remembering the three-fold humerus doctor Xu Xiaobai said before, and couldn't help laughing softly.
Xu Xiaobai felt that Xiaoqing was laughing inexplicably, and he didn't know what she was laughing at, but he didn't bother to ask. Although he doesn't have a lot of thoughts, and he rarely cares about what other people are thinking, he has always been a person with good instincts. He always felt that Xiaoqing's attitude towards him had some subtle changes these days, but he couldn't say where the change was, and instinctively felt that he still kept some distance from Xiaoqing, otherwise he didn't know what would happen, and he always felt that it wouldn't be too good.
The water boiled, Xu Xiaobai exchanged a water cup, poured it for Xiaoqing, and asked her to warm it in her hand, and then drink it after a while. Xiaoqing obediently held the cup and looked at the hot water in the cup in a daze, and it didn't take long for tears to come out of her eyes.
Xu Xiaobai looked strange, and finally couldn't help but be curious, and asked, "What are you crying about?" ā
Hearing his voice, Xiaoqing came back to her senses, hurriedly wiped her eyes, and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing......"
"Does it hurt your stomach?" Xu Xiaobai said with concern.
Xiaoqing's face was embarrassed, she blushed slightly, and hurriedly shook her head, Xu Xiaobai saw that she was fine, so she didn't ask. After a while, Xiaoqing whispered: "I'm sorry, I can't control myself, I feel like it's been a long time, no one has been so good to me for a long time, I'm sorry......" When she spoke, not only did all the tears that had been stopped gushing out again, but she also cried even more sadly.