Chapter 5 – Shadows of the Past
The thin man felt that Zuo Chen seemed to have changed somewhere, although he was still indifferent but no longer impersonal, there were sadness and happiness, these feelings or emotions were only faint and imperceptible, they were very happy, thinking that they had finally been recognized by Zuo Chen, and now they were no longer the wastes that had achieved nothing in the past.
I didn't dare to stay until I walked, for fear that the giant ape would come back again, and I didn't pay attention to the direction in a hurry, and now I was lost in the woods, and it was okay not much, because they didn't know where to go to find a village, and maybe they might have been lost in the woods a long time ago, just going around in circles in the woods.
The night had already come, and the long battle had led to physical exhaustion and mental fatigue, and the three of them were so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs, so they had no choice but to rest and eat for a while.
Because of the tribulation together, the relationship between the three of them is good, and they don't know how much, but they at least know that the other party is a person who can rely on their backs, and they can rest assured if they want to fight.
"Fatty, thin, hurry up and eat, we are going farther, this area is farther away!" After quickly finishing eating, Zuo Chen found that the two of them were chewing slowly and couldn't help urging.
"Hmm~" The fat man was very obedient and quickly ate the rest of the bread, and his speech was slurred. The thin man put away the bread directly, looked at Zuo Chen, and could go.
The approach of the two made Zuo Chen stunned, but he didn't expect the two of them to trust him so much, his heart warmed, he said "grace" lightly, and led the way away.
Due to the impact of the air flow before, Zuo Chen's body could still feel the pain and walk unfast, slower than normal walking, but even so, the two of them had been following him, Zuo Chen was very strange, I didn't understand why the two of them became silent, and they had never surpassed their own pace, is it recognition? Zuo Chen thought.
As soon as this thought appeared, Zuo Chen found that his body had become very strange, his heart was warm, and his hands and feet seemed to be full of strength.
After walking for a long time, the three of them stopped walking when they felt tired, because they had to maintain the necessary physical strength in case they were attacked by wild beasts, and they didn't even have the strength to escape.
The night was very deep, and without waiting for Zuo Chen to speak, the fat man and the thin man unusually volunteered to keep vigil first, and finally quarreled and almost didn't fight, but fortunately, Zuo Chen mediated, so that they could say goodbye. The fat man first kept vigil, then the thin man changed shifts, and finally Zuo Chen.
The terrible silence of the late night, but it didn't affect the fat man's state of mind, he was thinking about life, thinking about what happened today, if it weren't for Zuo Chen, he would have fallen into the hands of the giant ape and became food. Unlike the universe, after losing the war in the universe, he will either dissect and study, survive as a pet or slave, or be exterminated, etc., because he is protected and can't see the real blood, so he will yearn to join the army, and he has been saying that his efforts are intermittent, and he is ridiculed when he doesn't succeed, but the forest is different, they are all gambling on their lives to survive, I am strong and I eat you, I am weak and I am eaten, and if you want to live, you can only become stronger, and today's events made him make up his mind.
The thin man is timid and afraid, but his self-esteem is very high, but his heart is fragile and glass-like, once he is frustrated, he has the opportunity to sneer and cover up his weak heart to make himself strong, which is a subconscious instinct that is not controlled, and when he realizes it, it has become a habit to always speak subconsciously, and the relationship with others is also a mess.
Recalling that when he first met the giant ape, he was still a little scared, and at the same time secretly hated that he was not angry, and would only drag his feet. Thinking that he was hot-headed and thought that he needed to change, to make himself brave, to be able to really make others admit and admire him.
"Woo~"
The screams around him instantly woke up the thin man who was fantasizing, and he hurriedly called the fat man and Zuo Chen, and asked Zuo Chen what the situation was and what to do.
"It should be something hunting, hide separately and hide first, don't let yourself be discovered!" After pondering for a while, Zuo Chen said cautiously.
If you run away, you may be discovered by hunters, which is too dangerous, and it is even better if you hide to avoid hunters.
The two nodded heavily, did not speak, as if afraid of being discovered, and cautiously turned around and prepared to leave to find a safe place to hide.
"Wait!"
The two looked back at him suspiciously. Zuo Chen thought for a while, and then said slowly to the two of them with a heavy expression.
"If, I mean if, if we are discovered, we run in three separate directions, don't stop running, run until we can't run, understand?"
The sound of the scream just now made Zuo Chen a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, he found that it might be a giant ape, his heart was pounding, the giant ape would be hunted as a top predator, how powerful the hunting monster was, fortunately, he had always been expressionless and would not be discovered by the two of them, although it was just a guess, but it was not impossible to happen, just in case the three of them ran apart and let the hunters hesitate for a moment, their hope of survival would increase, and if they were hunted down, they could only mourn that person silently.
"You must live!"
Zuo Chen's heavy tone made the two of them dare not be careless at all, and the pressure doubled, and the three of them looked at each other and saw the seriousness and firmness in each other's eyes. The fat man and the thin man hummed softly, only to find that their voices had become rude and their voices were low.
"Yes"
In just half a minute of escaping, the voice became closer and closer, and both times as if they recognized them here, they suddenly burst over, obviously they had never encountered a beast before. Soon after the three of them hid, a black shadow flashed, it was the giant ape, it didn't care about the bleeding body and fled frantically, and then another figure flashed, it was the giant ape again, and the body was also injured, but it was not as serious as the previous one.
Is it the civil strife of the giant ape? Zuo Chen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. The tense body was unconsciously relieved, and it had left them, and the crisis was temporarily lifted.
Zuo Chen's body, who had just wanted to get up, suddenly tensed and stiffened, as if he knew that some terrifying creature was coming.
"Rustle"
A huge figure appeared in the shadows, although it was fast, but it gave Zuo Chen the feeling that he was playing, deliberately letting go of the prey and following unhurriedly, enjoying the speed of the hunt, giving the prey hope first to make it desperate.
The faint light of the forest insects at night is far less than the sun during the day, and Zuo Chen has never been able to tell what kind of creature this creature is, and can only barely see a lot of tentacle-like things flying.
When it got a little closer, Zuo Chen suddenly froze, and his body was trembling, because he saw that strange creature, which should not be said to be a plant or a tree.
It was a shadow in his heart, a feeling of despair welling up in his heart. The smell of ripeness seemed to take him back to five years ago, when he was pushed into the abyss by the people he swore to protect after he grew up in the army, tortured, and after experiencing fear and despair and the collapse of his faith, he lost his heart, and thus lost some of his memories.
"Run~!Run~!" Zuo Chen howled desperately after seeing the tree demon react. The fat man and the thin man had never heard Zuo Chen's voice so impatient and desperate, which was the opposite of the usual feeling of safety.