Chapter 13: Damn Rainy Night

Ansu stood on the top of the cliff and looked around, the fluttering rain and the dim sky did not stop Ansu's eagle-like gaze, and she soon noticed the difference in the green. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Ansu remembered the direction, and took advantage of the fact that it was not raining much now, and left the cliff and headed for the clearing.

The trees were covered in a layer of water vapor, and the rain kept dripping from the leaves and falling into the murky stagnant water on the ground. The dead leaves and the corpses of insects soaked in stagnant water, trampled by one foot, creaked and emitted a rotten breath. The thick humus layer is soaked in water like a swamp, and every step brings the sound of swishing water, which is quite strenuous. The dense woods around her forced Ansu to stop several times and carefully identify her bearings.

No sun, no stars, no compass...... The woods are like a giant labyrinth that struggles without navigational equipment. But this is not difficult for Ansu, there are hints everywhere in nature. Ansu stopped and looked up at the canopy of trees that were rustling in the wind, and then crouched down to carefully inspect the vegetation on the ground, and within a moment, Ansu knew the direction by heart. The wind was blowing from the sea, it was the east wind, and Ansu's original camp was to the east, the cliff was to the northeast of the camp, and the clearing was to the west of the camp, to the southwest of the cliff. Ansu stopped and stopped all the way, relying on the direction of the wind and the growth of vegetation to discern the direction, but he did not get lost. When he finally saw the familiar gray-white rock, An Su breathed a sigh of relief.

The half-built frame from yesterday was still firmly attached to the rocks, and the water in the pond had swelled so much that only fifty meters were left from the camp. Ansu put the barbecue jerky and tinder into the crevice under the boulder and continued to build the shelter, which she had to build quickly, or the fire would not be able to ignite. Long-term exposure to low temperatures will cause people to suffer from hypothermia and be easily frozen to death. Although Ansu has a strong physical fitness, he is flesh and blood after all, and the danger of frostbite must not be ignored.

A fire must be lit.

The frozen fingers lost their previous dexterity, and Ansu almost knocked the wooden stick on the back of her hand twice. Ansu put his hands together and rubbed them quickly, and let out a cloud of hot air into his palms. When it was a little warmer, Ansu immediately began to build the framework of the shed. She hammered two forked clubs close to the ground, tied another beam to them, and placed branches long enough on the two beams, but unfortunately there was not enough material to cover them densely. The general framework of the shed has been completed, and only leaves are left to spread on it. Ansu cut some huge fern leaves near the clearing, spread them on the shed, fixed them, and a simple shelter was completed. Although there were occasional raindrops seeping into the shed, it was much better than bathing in the rain before.

Ansu built a circular stone platform with stones to isolate the rain from the ground, put the dry dead branches and moss found when cutting fern leaves on the stone platform, and then opened the bamboo tube wrapped in clothes (pants Ansu used to wrap firewood). The icy temperature made An Su's heart sink. When I opened it, I saw that the charcoal had long since lost its sparks, and only pieces of black charcoal that had not been completely burned remained. The last warmth disappeared, and Ansu's fingers pinching the bamboo tube tightened tightly, as if to crush the bamboo tube. The fire that had been saved so hard turned out to be a pile of waste, how could Ansu not be frustrated and angry? The chill around her continued to invade Ansu, who was only wearing shorts and a vest, and her heart was cold.

This damn rain, this damn god!

An Su slammed the bamboo tube to the ground and kicked it away, and the charcoal flew in all directions in the cold rain. A surge of anger rushed straight above his head, and An Su couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar--

The sound was like cracking thunder, exploding in the air. And the thunder in the sky did not lag behind, one after another fell, chopping the surrounding trees in all directions, and the nearby animals were even more frightened and trembling, full of panic, and they couldn't imagine that a strange snake had just left, and there was an even more terrifying one.

After roaring for a while, An Su roared out all the depression in his heart, and felt a lot more comfortable in his heart. Ansu kicked aside all the charcoal that had fallen in the shed and sat on the damp fern leaves to nibble on the roast jerky. It was hard and unpalatable, but Ansu chewed them up and swallowed them in her stomach, fortunately there was some barbecue, otherwise she might not have survived this cold night. The wet clothes were particularly uncomfortable against the body, and the surrounding darkness was continuous, and the sound of thunder and rain was incessant, which was particularly clear in the silent night. Tonight is another sleepless night.

Ansu watched the sky outside light up little by little, and in the faint morning light, the rain finally stopped, and the temperature gradually rose back. Ansu got out of the shed, took a breath of moist air, looked at the sun that seemed to have not been seen for a long time, and his frowning brows gradually loosened.

The whole island is happy to welcome the arrival of the sun, the flowers bloom with colorful light, the slender blades of grass stretch themselves, the brightly colored birds comb their feathers and sing gentle songs, the unknown insects in the grass harmonize, and a fish jumps out of the water and ripples......

Everything is alive again.

Ansu took off her clothes and spread them out on the stones to dry, and the scorching sun quickly dried them. After tossing and turning, the injured leg was more swollen and painful than the previous two days, and Ansu injected some more therapeutic agents and replaced it with a new splint. Ansu put on his clothes, still a shirt and shorts, and kicked his boots, which were still a little damp, to reorganize the shed. Ansu plucked off all the fern leaves that had been improvised and laid them on the big rocks to expose them to the sun. With this done, she once again went into the woods to find dry wood for the fire and wood for the shed, and Ansu planned to cover the top of the shed with a dense layer of wood and a layer of leaves, so that if it rained, there would be no need to worry about leakage.

The air in the woods was humid and hot, with the smell of decay, and because of the thick canopy, the sunlight could not reach the ground, and it turned the woods into a large steamer, and the water vapor steamed up, and for a while it could not go out, so it had to ferment in the vegetation at the bottom. Ansu was also sweating from the heat, and her back was sticky, but she didn't dare to take off her shirt, the exposed skin was the most vulnerable in the forest, especially some insects that were not afraid of death, it was like a fly that smelled blood.

Ansu picked up some damp dead branches and leaves as much as she could, and by the way, she also picked up three bird's nests that had been knocked down by the rain, and she spread them out in the sun, and after drying, they were good fire materials. Of course, Ansu also dragged some relatively large dead tree trunks back to dry together. After doing this, An Su went to cut the materials for building the shed.

The trunks of the trees that have been drenched in the rain are very slippery, and Ansu has to be extremely careful not to slide down, and the small branches are more difficult to find, and they usually grow at the height of the tree, but here there are fewer forks in the lower part of the tree, many of which are straight trunks, and they are forked at the top. If Ansu usually can't stop her at all, the height of these trees can't be difficult for her, but after her leg is injured, it is inconvenient to go up the tree. Ansu now regrets that she didn't stick a few more stabs in the body of that strange snake.