Chapter 42: Moving On
Several people were indeed hungry, and they finished eating in less than ten minutes. After eating, Luo Daxi and Xiaoxian began to set up tents and prepare a place to rest, while Li Hao and Meng Fan came to Professor Wang to ask questions.
Li Hao asked, "Professor Wang, what's going on with such a huge spider?" ”
"Yes, Professor Wang, this doesn't make any scientific sense! The spider itself can't bear such a huge body, so where can there be so much food supply? Meng Fan also asked strangely.
"Food?" When Meng Fan talked about food, Professor Wang's mind flashed through an idea, and then a few words popped out of his mouth with great difficulty: "There must be." ”
These three words squeezed out of Professor Wang's mouth with great effort, but each word was enough to knock Li Hao and Meng Fan down, there will be food, what kind of concept is that, that is, there will be more outrageous insects in this jungle, the two of them couldn't help but raise their heads and look around when they thought of this, Professor Wang is right, there must be a biological chain here, there must be a huge spider alone, there must be other creatures, so what else will it be?
Meng Fan and Li Hao didn't speak, they looked at each other quietly, facing many unknown dangers ahead, Meng Fan smiled and said to Li Hao: "How is it?" How do you decide? ”
"I, of course, have moved forward, but what about you? Surely it is, right? Li Hao replied with a smile, and there was no fear or retreat on his face.
"Then rest early and hurry tomorrow." Meng Fan stood up, he also had an idea in his heart, looking at Li Hao's eyes full of confidence and encouragement, what reason did he have to retreat? Thinking of this, he reached out and touched the long scar on his face, which did not bring him fear, but strengthened the idea of moving forward.
Li Hao also stood up, walked to Luo Daxi and Xiaoxian, and instructed while helping to set up camp: "Arrange people to stand guard tonight, two hours per person." This forest is not safe yet, you must be careful, and do not leave your weapons. Note that the wall should be added with branches at all times, and it will be leaned on tonight. The two of them didn't hear what Professor Wang said just now, thinking that Li Hao was still talking about spiders, so they both nodded.
"Okay, you guys hurry up and rest, I'll stand on the first shift." Li Hao said to everyone, Meng Fan heard this, came over and said to Li Hao: "Be careful, wake us up as soon as there is a situation." As he spoke, he patted Li Hao on the shoulder and walked into the tent.
Luo Daxi and Xiaoxian also entered the tent separately, leaving Li Hao and the little wolf outside, "Little wolf, you behaved very badly today, you have to prick up your ears at night, don't be lazy." ”
The little wolf was also dissatisfied with his performance during the day, and when he heard the master's words, he lowered his head in embarrassment, saying in his heart Can you blame me? I rushed up to make dinner for the spiders, what a ruthless host.
Li Hao saw the little wolf who lowered his head and was sad, and said: "It's okay, your most important task now is to assist in standing guard, and it is your credit to be able to warn in advance." With that, he patted the little wolf on the neck, stood up and took the broken sapper shovel in his hand.
I don't have a long-range weapon today.,You can only wait until the attacking spider arrives next to you to attack.,It's very passive.,It's better to be a branch spear.。 Thinking of this, Li Hao found a relatively straight branch, took the dagger and trimmed it into a round wooden stick about one meter and a half long, grabbed it with one hand, and found a rope to tie the dagger tightly to the wooden stick, so that he had a weapon in his hand that could kill from a distance, which could be cut and stabbed, Li Hao waved it in his hand a few times, and it felt okay, but the weight was a little light, he knew that this was the case, he should have held the Ugin shovel, and that guy was useful here.
The two hours passed quickly, Li Hao woke up Meng Fan to be on duty for him, and he also lay down to rest. With a wall made of fire, you can rest assured that after a round of posts, it will be Li Hao's turn to serve as a guard.
At this moment, it was more than three o'clock in the morning, Li Hao added some wood to the fire ring, and when he added it to the front, he found that the little wolf was looking out of the circle with his head raised, his eyes were full of hostility, seeing this, Li Hao's heart moved, and he hurriedly walked to the little wolf's side, and held the spear he had just made in his right hand.
Looking out through the circle of fire, there is a dark and secluded dense forest outside, nothing can be seen, not far from the circle of fire, it is the charred spider corpse, seeing the corpse, Li Hao suddenly regretted it, he knew that he had made a mistake, he should have buried the spider's corpse, such a thing is placed here, purely for nothing to the guy who came out to forage at night, attracting many fierce beasts to come and forage, and in the dark and secluded dense forest, although it is not clear to see, but at this time I don't know how many things are staring here, and now there is a wall of fire to protect, But what about tomorrow?
Li Hao couldn't think much about it, and when he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly saw two red things from the gap in the trunk, in the dark night, two ruby-like things flashed with an indifferent light, Li Hao knew that it must be the eyes of some kind of beast or insect, the distance between the two eyes is more than a foot long, and it must be a big guy. The thing on the other side also saw Li Hao at this time, and he stared at the delicious food in front of him in the dark night, and a burst of coolness came out of Li Hao's back, there will definitely be another fierce battle tomorrow. Fortunately, there is the protection of the fire wall tonight, everyone can sleep peacefully, thinking of this, Li Hao found some branches of trees to stand on the fire wall, so that the gradual fire burned again, it should be enough, Li Hao looked around, looked at the surrounding fire wall, and his heart was a little calmer, maybe these things will disperse at dawn tomorrow.
The forest didn't start to brighten up until more than eight o'clock, maybe because of the fire that was burning all night, there was no fog in the forest, Li Hao woke everyone up, got up to pack up for breakfast, and prepared to go.
Several people understood in their hearts that Li Hao had the least rest last night, and invisibly, Li Hao had become the core of this team, giving people confidence that as long as he was there, everyone would be able to rest and eat with peace of mind.
"Okay, everyone packed up and we're leaving, I'm still in front, Daxi is in charge of the delay, Brother Meng and Xiaoxian are on the left and right, everyone cheer up, you must be vigilant." Li Hao saw that everyone had finished eating, and then ordered to continue on the road.
Everyone pushed to the wall that had been burned to charcoal ash in front of them, and were surprised to find that the spider that burned to death yesterday was gone, and only some charcoal slag was scattered on the ground.
Li Hao lowered his body and looked carefully at the surroundings of the spider's remaining corpses, there were no animal footprints, didn't he find the animals in the distance last night? The distance between the eyes is more than a foot long, and the animal itself is at least two meters long, and it is impossible not to leave footprints on the ground, which is really strange.
Meng Fan also squatted down, looked around, and asked the same question as Li Hao's heart strangely: "What was the spider's corpse eaten by?" Why didn't you hear a sound, not even a footprint? ”
"No matter, let's go on the road, if we come, we will be safe, whatever it is, as long as we don't come to provoke us." Li Hao stood up, strode forward, and several people followed firmly behind him.
The group has been shuttling between the jungle, because there is still fog, the vision is very affected, Li Hao has been turning on the Apollo battery lamp, the light swept around in the jungle in a column, like the light emitted by a god's eye, where it shines, it will become safe.
The morning walked very smoothly, without any impact, and yesterday there was a swarm of spiders and did not see a single one, but the spider silk full of trees made a few people suffer enough, and there were no torches, and after walking for more than three hours, several people were all covered with beige spider silk.
The fog gradually began to dissipate with the sun's rays, and the jungle became brighter, Li Hao put away the battery lamp, under normal circumstances, it can be used for six hours to charge Apollo once, but today it has been used for nearly four hours, so it is necessary to save it.
"We're going to get out of the woods." Li Hao, who was walking in front, saw that the edge of the woods was in front, and a piece of sunshine was sprinkled outside the woods, they were like a group of sailors who were lost on the sea, and finally saw the outline of the continent, and their nervous mood calmed down a little.
Out of the forest, the eyes suddenly became open, outside the forest was a large meadow, golden weeds as high as a human waist, like endless reeds, a sea of gold as far as the eye could see.
Out of the forest, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, finally came out, although there are unknown dangers outside, but at least the sight conditions are much better.
"This, this, what's going on, this is just an ordinary weed, it is distributed all over the country, it can grow up to thirty centimeters, how can it be more than seventy centimeters here?" Professor Wang didn't seem relaxed like others, and his mind became even more chaotic when he saw the weeds in front of him.
As he spoke, he took out a dagger and cut a few of them, and looked at them in his hand, and the straw was already as long as a reed pole, and some were as thick as an index finger. Professor Wang took the grass stalk and observed it carefully, his face became even paler, and he kept muttering: "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" ”
"Old man, what's impossible, you haven't been in the countryside, there's more grass than this, my mother couldn't find me when I was standing in the grass when I was a child, that's called a high!" Luo Daxi saw that Professor Wang's expression was a little wrong, and wanted to comfort him.
"When you were a child, you didn't go to kindergarten yet, and any grass was taller than you." Li Hao knew that Daxi was talking nonsense, so he said a word to this kid, turned his head and asked Professor Wang again: "Professor Wang, what is impossible?" It doesn't matter if the grass grows tall, as long as there are no more huge animals. ”
Professor Wang didn't look up, stared at the grass stalk in his hand and said, "I'm not just talking about such a huge growth, I'm not surprised by this, but look at these grass stalks." With that, the professor gave a few grasses in his hand to Li Hao and Meng Fan.
The two of them received it suspiciously, and their faces became solemn at the same time.