Chapter 118: The Visitor (I)
When Wang Xingguo returned to the camp, Sherpa asked Mr. Min and Xia Ruobing to evacuate temporarily, hiding behind a big tree, and when they saw everyone coming back, they came out of hiding and asked, "What's wrong?" β
"Eyes, a pair of horrible eyes." Kerry didn't seem to have recovered from the panic just now, his feet were soft all the way, if it weren't for Chen Badai holding him, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to walk this short distance of dozens of meters.
"What do you see?" Wang Xingguo asked this question again, "What eyes, recall carefully, any little detail is important." β
"A pair of eyes...... Uh-no...... I can't tell......" Kerry tried hard to recall, but the memory of that moment seemed to be erased.
"Animal, human?" Wang Xingguo led the question.
"Not an animal's...... It doesn't seem to be human...... I was washing my face, sitting down by the rock, digging my feet into the stream, and when I looked up, I saw a pair of eyes, and he was so silently close, as if ...... Like a ghost, I didn't hear anything...... Such a silent wood, it is impossible for him to approach me without a sound......" Kerry seemed to remember something.
"How close?" Sharjah couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know...... Fifteen feet? Perhaps less than ten feet...... (about 3 meters). Kerry shook his head, as if trying to get the eyes out of his head that would give him nightmares.
"No sound? What else do you see? What else is there besides the eyes, what else is there on the body? Wang Xingguo asked.
"No...... There was nothing, just a pair of eyes that appeared out of thin air, I jumped ashore screaming, tripped over a stone as I ran, and when I looked back, I saw those eyes blink and flash...... Flashing ...... Viciousness? No...... The eerie light, I hurriedly hid behind a tree, and when I looked again, my eyes were gone, nothing ......," Kerry said.
It seemed that he couldn't get any valuable information from Kerry, Wang Xingguo looked at the sky and said to Krussell, "I need to discuss it with you." β
Crussell and Wang Xingguo walked aside, and Crussell was the first to ask, "What do you think?" β
"There is no trace of any animal or human activity in the place I searched just now, if it is really like what Kerry said, there is something...... It was basically impossible to get close to him about three meters without making a sound or leaving a trace. Wang Xingguo said.
"You mean, his hallucinations?" Crussell asked.
"It's possible that Kerry's physical strength is severely overdrawn, and he drank a lot of water just now, and a slight imbalance in the electrolytes in his body can affect his vision, perhaps the sunlight is projected on the ground through the leaves, and at a certain angle, it looks like his eyes are ......," Wang Xingguo said.
"Since it's an illusion, we don't have to worry." After listening to Wang Xingguo's words, Crusell relaxed.
"But what I'm worried about is that it's not an ......illusion," Wang Xingguo said, and before he could finish speaking, Crossell interrupted, "Hmm...... I understand that there are many legends of gods and monsters in the jungle, huh...... But Sharjah Jean has said that this jungle has never been entered...... At least that's what is written. β
"Are you sure that Sharjah's account is reliable?" Wang Xingguo asked.
"This ......" Crussell didn't think of this question, but now what else can be trusted except for trusting the few information in Sharjah's hand?
"It's getting late, let's set up camp." Krussell felt that there was no point in arguing like this, and by this time their progress had been seriously delayed, and he thought that if they didn't get a good rest tonight, everyone's physical fitness would be seriously reduced tomorrow.
"I need to set up a cordon, and an observation post." Wang Xingguo looked at the sky, and the light had begun to dim.
"You're the expert, it's up to you." Krussell simply had nothing to do, and happily handed over the command to Wang Xingguo.
"If there is a conflict, I want you to have the courage to shoot." Wang Xingguo reminded.
"Hah! For courage, I believe in the power of bullets! Crussell patted the gun in his hand, still quite confident.
"We don't have much time, we need to build a main camp and two outposts, with the camp as the center, and a cordon set up at a distance of twenty meters, Sherpa and Chen Badai, you and I will collect the main building materials, Krussell and Sharjah will collect the leaves and mulching materials, Mr. Min and Xia Ruobing will take Kerry to tidy up the ground of the camp, remember, you are absolutely not allowed to be alone, you must ensure that your teammates are within sight, Krussell, you start from over there, we will cut wood here." Wang Xingguo quickly issued an order, "Once there is a situation, it will be concentrated, and it must not be dispersed." β
"OK, everyone heard the words of the security experts, action, action, action, fast! Fast! Fast! We don't have time! Krussell understood Wang Xingguo's words, waved his hand and shouted.
Sharjah Jean stood up, at this time Rambo's spear was already weakly crooked on the ground, and he didn't have time to care, Kerry sat there stunned, Sharjah Jean pulled him before standing up in a daze, Mr. Min and Xia Ruobing reacted quickly, put down their backpacks, and prepared to clean up the ground in the camp area.
Beams and other materials need the help of machetes, Wang Xingguo pulled out a heavy mountain knife from the back of his backpack, ready to act, when Xia Ruobing walked by him, he asked in a low voice: "Wang Xingguo, what is the situation?" β
"Hmm...... I don't know, but ...... I don't think it's too bad. Wang Xingguo originally wanted to say that when he was by the creek just now, he also had an inexplicable feeling, but after thinking about it, this is not the time to talk about this.
"Then why set up a cordon?" Xia Ruobing asked, building a tree house in the jungle is to prevent the moisture on the ground, and it is also to avoid fierce beasts or poisonous insects, but to establish a warning belt, this should be something that only soldiers have to do.
"I'll talk about it later, hmm, Xia Ruobing, don't be alone." Wang Xingguo saw that the weather was not early, so he had to say so.
"You have to be careful, too." Xia Ruobing suddenly had a not very good feeling, as if someone was looking at her, and when she looked back, there was a dead silence in the woods, only the figure of Mr. Min bending down to clean the ground.
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The trees on the island still grow straight, and the trees with small arms to the thickness of the big arms are easy to find, but the trees are harder than the ones cut down before, Chen Badai wielded the machete hard, and finally cut down one, but it takes at least ten of these trees to build a treehouse.
"Hey,, why do we do the hardest work every time?" The three of them took turns cutting wood, and when they cut down the third tree, Chen Badai was already wielding a machete, what kind of wood is this? In his impression, such a hard tree is only made of ironwood for cutting boards, this sharp machete cut into the tree, can only chisel out a shallow trace, Chen Badai doubted whether this tree is iron, in a trance, it seems to see the machete cut up and burst out of sparks.
Sherpa gritted his teeth and swung the machete vigorously, this tree with the thickness of his small arm had taken him almost ten minutes, and it seemed that it was still a little bit away, but the tree was still standing stubbornly, and the tree had fallen by itself under gravity with a slight push, but the tree had to be completely cut off.
Sherpa finally brought down the fourth tree, already sweating profusely, he stood up and gasped, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, cold, as if he saw something.
"Wang Xingguo......" Sherpa shouted.
"What's wrong?" Wang Xingguo and Chen Badai are working together to cut wood, chopping in the opposite direction, you cut me and I cut it, this efficiency will be faster, hearing Sherpa call him, he looked up and asked.
"Hmm...... It seems that something is gone in a flash......" Sherpa just made a dozen eyes, there was nothing in front of him, he hesitated, looked hard, there was really nothing, "Maybe I was dazzled just now." β
"Hey...... Hurry up, it's getting dark. Chen Badai muttered, such a long tree had to be cut off when it was dragged back, and Chen Badai felt that it was a failure not to bring a chainsaw.
It took almost two hours to finally build a triangular tree house, 1.5 meters high from the ground, Wang Xingguo used vines and bark as ropes, used three trees as supports, tied beams and other materials, and tied a number of straight logs side by side as floors, laid a thick layer of dry leaves, and the roof was also paved with wide blades to keep out the rain - this is good in the jungle, building materials are available everywhere, It just takes a little time.
In the end, Wang Xingguo made a staircase with two remaining wooden beams and put it on the edge of the tree house, which could be removed after going to the tree house, so that there was no need to worry about harassment by wild beasts.
Looking at his results, Krussell felt very satisfiedβhe never thought that he could build such a "work of art" in the jungle, although most of this was the credit of Wang Xingguo, in some places, Wang Xingguo cleverly used the tenon structure, saved a lot of rattan ropes and made them stronger, he felt that this was simply the Chinese's non-learning.