Chapter 222
"I can't see it. At that time, we felt that there were no other animals within a radius of 20 meters, but that doesn't mean that there are no other animals outside of 20 meters. ”
"Doesn't that mean we're going to have no meat to eat for a long time?"
At this point in the conversation, the faces of those people became ugly.
Although they don't eat meat all day long, they can't stand it, so they occasionally dig up some wild vegetables to spice it up, and although the crops can't grow, there are still wild vegetables on the mountain. However, the wild herbs that once covered the mountains became very difficult to pick after the end of the world, for no other reason than to be covered by other plants or taken over by plants that multiply so fast.
"If you just eat vegetables every day, how can you have the strength to go up the mountain to hunt!" One of them wailed.
The other snorted with his nose and said, "It's okay if there are still wild vegetables to eat, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat them even if I want to, you see what this has burned, even the mutant beasts have been burned, what wild vegetables are you talking about!" ”
"Then you don't have to plow grass and eat tree roots!"
"What do you think! How can it be so hard, at most it will be hard in the future, I'm afraid of the farther mountains, look at you pig brains. Xiao Zhang suddenly turned around and interrupted the arguing of the people.
Finally, you can see the small village between the two mountains.
At this time, this village can be said to be obvious.
The mountains on both sides are bare, and only the village is surrounded by greenery.
I had never found a firebreak around the periphery of this village, but now the surrounding mountains have been burned with vegetation, but this small black forest village is intact, and the owner of this village can not be said to be cautious, and he has thought of everything.
In the distance, I saw a row of people standing at the gate of the village, waiting for them.
When they saw the figure of their group of people returning from the mountain, the people in front of the village waved their hands. It must have been the family of these people.
Ye Ziyu looked intently and saw Dai Meitong standing silently beside Mrs. Mo, and there was no Ye Baishuang beside her, not even the most conspicuous pom-pom on her snow-white body.
Could it be that the two of them were waiting for them at the Mo family and didn't come out to greet them?
No, even Dai Meitong has come out, and it is impossible for Ye Baishuang and pompoms not to come out.
Ye Ziyu quickened his pace and rushed down the hillside.
One person ran, and the others saw the worried eyes in the eyes of their relatives and friends, and their hearts were warm, and they all ran down the mountain, hugging the people waiting for their return one by one.
The gate of the village suddenly became lively.
"Gangzi, what's wrong with you? Why did this mountain come to be? An elderly woman asked with concern, holding the hand of one of their strangers.
"Mom, I'm fine, it's all Xiao Fei's fault, he accidentally set the forest on fire, we walked in the forest to avoid the fire, and waited for the fire to stop before coming back."
"I said why is this fire so sudden and so ferocious, it turns out to be Xiao Fei's ability! Such a large forest, if it were an ordinary open fire, it would take three to five days to burn out. ”
"Stinky boy, I knew you were going to make trouble sooner or later, look at the good things you did!" Another old man hit Zhao Xiaofei's back and punched him twice. "Did you burn yourself? You deserve to burn it, you call it playing with fire**, see if you dare to do it in the future. ”
Zhao Xiaofei looked aggrieved, so he could only hold the fire in his heart, thinking that after calming down his father, he would go to settle accounts with that nonsense gangzi. ”
Ye Ziyu was very strange, why didn't they explain the truth, but put the fault on those few fire-based powers, so that the people in the whole village mistakenly thought that they were the trouble.
But at the moment, she didn't have the heart to think about this, she first said hello to Dai Meitong and then asked hurriedly, "What about Xiaobai and pom-poms?" Is it in the stockade? ”
Dai Meitong also seemed to be a little flustered, and asked Ye Ziyu rhetorically: "Didn't you touch Ye Baishuang and pompoms?" ”
Ye Ziyu immediately understood what was going on, and couldn't help but be even more anxious: "Are they looking for us?" When did you leave? From which direction did you go up the mountain? ”
Dai Meitong stretched out her hand and pointed back, "The two of them went up the mountain from the back of the stockade, and when they left, the fire had not yet burned, but they could see the fire on the top of the mountain and the rising smoke." ”
As soon as Ye Ziyu heard this, he immediately rushed to the back of the village.
If these two things are usually playful, it is just a matter of secretly going up the mountain, Ye Ziyu will not be too worried, but the speed of the fire burning yesterday is not a joke, and those mutant snakes, when they go up the mountain, it is estimated that they will wait until Bai Haocheng comes back to lead them to avoid the snakes.
If they come across a swarm of snakes...... Ye Ziyu didn't dare to think about it.
"Wait."
A person suddenly appeared in front of Ye Ziyu and blocked her way.
"Get out of the way! I'll have to go find them. Ye Ziyu glared at Bai Haocheng, who was blocking the road, and his face turned white in a hurry.
"I'm not stopping you from going up the mountain, but it's such a big piece, just how the three of you can find it. I will send people to search with you separately from all directions. ”
Ye Ziyu didn't say anything more, and said softly, "Thank you".
"Xiaobai! What's going on? Why didn't you run away before you could finish talking to me. A loud and majestic voice behind him remembered who it was not Bai Baigang.
Little White ......
Ye Ziyu didn't think much about it, but she became anxious again when she heard the name.
Bai Haocheng grabbed Ye Ziyu's wrist with one hand, afraid that she would run around alone again if she was impulsive, and frowned at the old man standing behind Ye Ziyu: "Old man, how many times have I warned you, don't call me Xiaobai again." ”
"Oh hehe, I'm not worried about your safety, I'm in a hurry."
"Don't take it as an example."
"Eun." Bai Bai Gang nodded immediately, in front of his precious son, especially in front of Bai Haocheng, who came back intact from the fire, no matter how powerful Bai Gang was, now he is just an old father who regards his son as more important than his life.
But when the old father reached the age where he wanted to hold his grandson, he subconsciously turned his attention to the women who often appeared next to his son.
Bai Tiangang squinted at his son's palm on Ye Ziyu's wrist, turned his head to look at Mrs. Mo, and found that Mrs. Mo was holding her little granddaughter and frowned, and also looked at him.
Obviously, this old guy also saw that his son's attitude towards this Ye girl was unusual.
During the day, Gang Chong smiled slyly at Mrs. Mo, then turned her head away, and said in her heart: Although I married you in the past, it was based on your old face, whether there were other excellent girls around my son, and now I have taken care of your family for decades, and this kindness is almost the same, and my son has a crush again, so this marriage is still good.
Old Mrs. Mo has lived for such a long time, and she has known Bai Gang for so many years, of course, he can see the deep meaning with his smile, and secretly thought: If you want to break the contract surnamed Bai, it is not so easy.
Not to mention that the two old men each had their own ideas, Bai Haocheng sent someone to help the two old men back to their respective homes, and hurriedly recruited people to start searching the mountain.
The mountains and forests of Nuoda, one person and one fox are not so easy to find, and they originally planned to leave after returning to the village, but now they will stay for a few more days.
On the first day, they searched several burned hills, but to no avail.
On the second day, searchers began to penetrate deep into the unspoiled forests. Before that, Bai Haocheng took out the signal flare they used to communicate.
Although he had not negotiated with Ye Baishuang in advance about the signal flare, with Ye Baishuang's wisdom, if he saw the signal flare in the air, he would definitely guess that it was fired for him.
Looking for Ye Baishuang and Pom-pom, Dai Meitong still did not participate, waiting for news alone at Mo's house, Ye Ziyu was also very relieved that she was left alone in the village, knowing that she was not a person who would walk around, and instructed her that if Ye Baishuang and Pom-pom returned to the village, she would launch a signal flare into the air.
However, the trees in the deep mountains are luxuriant, and it is difficult to see even the sky when you look up, in fact, the effect of signal flares is minimal, but fortunately, these signal flares taken out by Bai Haocheng will not only emit dazzling colored spots in the air, but will also be accompanied by a sharp sound when launched, so that people in the distance can hear and identify the direction of the sound.
Such flares are undoubtedly specially made for this vast forest.
On the second day, there was still nothing, not even a clue.
Everyone thinks that if the person and the fox are either burned to death or buried in the belly of the snake, the best idea is that they are lost in the mountains, in which case it is estimated that they will die for a lifetime.
However, Ye Ziyu did not give up.
On the third day, everyone still searched in their respective directions scattered yesterday, but they only walked a short distance more inward than the previous day, and there was no way, this round trip could be so far with the strength of their feet.
So on the third day, when everyone started to walk back, Ye Ziyu decided to stay in the mountain and wait for tomorrow when it was dawn, and she would continue to look for it.
This decision was opposed by everyone, but Wang Congyi did not make a sound.
Bai Haocheng asked her twice in a row, but he got a positive and stubborn answer, no, he could only lead his subordinate brothers back, leaving Ye Ziyu and Wang Yuyi alone in this deep mountain and old forest.
It's not that he is relieved, it's that he can't think about his brothers who follow him because of his own selfishness.
Before, they had to spend the night in the mountains, but fortunately, nothing happened, and they didn't encounter any powerful mutant beasts, but such luck doesn't always befall them.
However, he quietly remembered the location of Ye Ziyu and the others on the way.
At night, there was silence in the village. The door of the white house was gently opened, and only one person was allowed to pass sideways.
A figure came out of the white house unconsciously.
He looked left and right, and the two big red lanterns at the door were pitch black, and he couldn't even see the shadow of a ghost.
For the first time in his life, he went out of his own door like a thief, and he couldn't help but scold himself.
However, after he closed the door lightly, he used his ability to appear outside the back door of the stockade in a few breaths.
The mountains are rolling and rolling in the dark and not in the middle of winter. What you see at night is completely different from what you see during the day.
During the day, I looked at the two bald mountains in front of me, and I only felt that the mountains were surrounded and full of greenery. And at night, all the mountains have only a black outline, and in the light of the stars they are like a great beast, coiling and sleeping on the earth. If anyone wakes it up, there is no doubt that it will be overwhelmed by its anger.
The small man standing at the foot of the mountain took a few deep breaths of the cold night air, and then held his breath to not let himself be overwhelmed by the majestic momentum of the mountain.
He carefully recalled the direction and position he had written down during the day, and with the palms of his hands facing diagonally behind him, the weeds behind him began to sway slightly, and then became more and more complete, and fell in unison in the opposite direction of the man's body.
When the wind behind the man was strong to a certain extent, he saw the man lift his leg slightly, and disappeared in an instant, leaving only a piece of flying sand and rocks blowing.
If someone can maintain a relative balance with this person, they will find that the reason why this person moves so quickly is because of the wind.
Every time he took a step forward, his other foot also lifted off the ground, and the moment he stood on the ground, he was pushed away by the wind, and it looked as if he was gliding against the ground.
It took several hours to travel, but it only took two quarters of an hour under his feet.
When he found the place where Bai Ri and Ye Ziyu were separated, he didn't see the two of them.
He stood there and thought for a moment, then pulled out a flashlight and lit up the surroundings, looking for directions where the two might leave.
However, there is not a single clue.
He put the flashlight back into his backpack with a calm expression and no trace of panic.
He didn't believe that the two of them would spend the night in the mountain without any fire, and as for which direction, with his speed, it was not impossible to turn over the whole mountain, and besides, he didn't necessarily need to work so hard.
Sure enough, after only two walks, he noticed a faint light faintly shining from the depths of the dense forest.
There was wind under his feet, and he didn't hesitate to fly in that direction.
When he got closer, he put away his ability, slowly approached, and then stood twenty meters away.
He remembered that her perception was within twenty meters, and if he had taken two more steps, he would have caught her attention.
But what puzzled him was, what happened to the two extra tents in front of him?
He clearly remembered that when he went up the mountain during the day, everyone, including the two of them, traveled lightly, carrying only a small bag, and it was impossible to fit into two tents.
And there could be no other people here, he was sure that it was definitely the two of them in the tent.
Anyway, they used two tents and slept separately, didn't they?
The corners of the man's mouth curled up slightly, a beautiful arc.
The man stood there and looked at it for a while, and now that his heart was settled, he no longer intended to stay, so he turned and walked back, only to use his ability to quickly move back into the stockade after he had walked far away.
Today, he also has to organize all the strangers to go up the mountain, but this time it is not to help her find people, but to go into the deep mountains to fight as many beasts as possible, find wild vegetables, stock up on some food, and help her find those two guys by the way. Then, when the mountains around the stockade are newly overgrown with plants, they will take people to hunt every day as before. After all, the mountains and forests that are too deep are not familiar to him, and he is not sure what he will encounter inside. (To be continued.) )