Chapter 10: 100,000 Mountains
In the northeast mountain forest, two people who walk together to pick mountain goods can easily lose each other's figures from sight, perhaps just a turn, a squatting action. The terrain is extremely complex, and tall trees and grasses can easily cover an adult.
The topography of subtropical rainforests is far more complex than that of northeastern mountain forests. In addition to the towering trees, there are countless vines and shrubs. An adult who rushes in will be immediately overwhelmed; Two seven-year-olds of a little more than a meter broke in, and there was no trace at all.
The two soldiers entered the rainforest to the south, but only walked a dozen meters, and could no longer find the traces left by the two children.
It is full of bushes and vines, and the bushes alone are more than a meter high. And the vines are so dense that there is no way to find a way to go.
Of course, this is for adults, and for skinny seven-year-olds, they can easily slip through the gaps in the vines and go farther and farther.
"All babies! Xiao Yuanchao! A soldier let out a high-pitched roar like a lion.
There was a stir in the rainforest, countless birds fluttered and froze, and frightened small animals scurried everywhere.
The sound passed through the dense forest, far away, and then fell silent.
In the depths of the rainforest, Xiao Yuanchao, who didn't know how far he had run, heard the voice and shouted at Du Baobao: "Du Baobao, don't chase it, someone is coming to us." ”
"Leave it to me." Du Bao spun in circles, muttering incessantly, "What about the cat?" Where did the cat go? ”
Xiao Yuanchao stepped forward and grabbed Du Baobao's hand, and begged: "Du Baobao, don't look for it, that is not a cat, it is a tiger." ”
"Tiger?" Du Baobao pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Crybaby, coward, I am so scared when I see a cat." That's not a little tiger, that's a cat! ”
"That's a tiger, I've seen it." Xiao Yuanchao looked at the towering trees around him, and said anxiously: "Du Baobao, let's go back quickly, if you get lost, it will be miserable." ”
"No, I'm going to catch my kitten!"
Du Baobao shook off Xiao Yuanchao's hand and continued to chase forward.
Xiao Yuanchao, who couldn't persuade the baby, was in a hurry, so he had to hold the saber and follow the other party closely. He knew that it wasn't a cat at all, he had seen a little tiger, and there was it in the animal world.
The two children walked farther and deeper, but unfortunately there was no trace of the little tiger again.
"Woohoo! ……”
In the distance, a terrible wolf howl sounded, as if it was close to the ear. The canopy trees, which are more than ten meters high, almost completely block the sunlight, giving a sense of gloom and forest.
The call behind them had long been inaudible, and the two of them seemed to be in an incomparably deep world.
"Hiss......" A poisonous snake spat out a bright red letter, slowly turned down from a vine, and stared at Du Baobao standing in front.
"Smack", a stick slashed straight over, smashing the poisonous snake to the ground. Immediately afterwards, a saber **** on the head of the poisonous snake killed the poisonous snake completely.
Pulling the saber out of the snake's head, Xiao Yuanchao said anxiously: "Du Baobao, let's go quickly, it's strange and scary here." ”
There was a wolf howl in his ears, a black pressure in front of him, snakes in the trees, and scorpions, ants and other reptilian creatures on the ground, which made Xiao Yuanchao instinctively rise into a deep uneasiness.
"If you don't go, you just don't go!" Du Baobao waved his little hand and shouted angrily: "It's all your fault, it's all your fault, scare my cat away!" ”
didn't catch the "cat", Du Baobao was in a very bad mood, pouting, and angrily lost his temper at Xiao Yuanchao.
"All babies, if you don't go back, I'll buy one for you." Xiao Yuanchao took two steps forward, took Du Baobao's hand and begged, "Do you want to buy two?" Three is fine! Let's go back first, they must be in a hurry. ”
Du Baobao turned around, stared at Xiao Yuanchao with his small waist and said loudly: "Whoever wants your cat, I want my little cat, I want my little kitten." You buy it stinks, don't I want it, even if you buy a thousand or ten thousand, I don't want it, hum! ”
Suddenly, Xiao Yuanchao's eyes revealed a thick sense of fear, and his body trembled.
"Go on your own, you're scaring my cat away. I hate you, you're a crybaby, a coward! "Du Bao angrily kicked Xiao Yuanchao, and he didn't talk about the reason at all.
"All baby......" Xiao Yuanchao stared at his frightened eyes, swallowed in his throat, and made a trembling voice: "Don't move...... Don't move...... You have ...... behind you."
"What's behind me?" Du Baobao asked strangely, but then became more angry: "Xiao Yuanchao, if you dare to lie to me, I will definitely beat you up." ”
"Woo...... Woohoo......"
There was a whining sound behind him, followed by a rotting stench.
This is an old jackal with a lot of hair shedding, red brown all over, a pair of pointed ears raised high, a blood-red tongue, and murderous dog eyes staring at the back of Du Baobao.
Jackals, a genus of jackals in the order Carnivorous Canidae, are the strongest living canines and inhabit a wide range of habitats in hilly and mountainous terrainlands from coniferous forests to tropical rainforests, and are found in northeast to southwest China.
Jackals are social animals and often form small groups of 3~5 or large groups of 10~20 individuals. The sense of hearing and smell is extremely developed, and the movement is fast and secretive, and the slightest abnormality is immediately avoided. Jackals hunt in groups, mainly deer, muntjac, musk deer, goats and other ungulates, and sometimes attack buffalo. Fierce by nature, all animals big and small are fearful.
This is an elderly jackal that has been expelled by the group, although it is old, but its ferocity has not diminished at all, but has intensified under the threat of survival.
Du Bao turned his head, and at the moment of turning his head, the jackal roared and pounced.
"Run!" Xiao Yuanchao rushed up and protected Du Baobao behind him, and raised his saber with both hands to stab at the jackal that pounced.
"Poof!"
"Whew! ……”
A long wail came out of the jackal's mouth, and its mottled chest was pierced straight into it by the saber, and a stream of blood burst out, stretching out its two front paws and grabbing Xiao Yuanchao's cheek unwillingly.
With a "snort", several deep blood mouths appeared on Xiao Yuanchao's face, and red blood gushed out, flowing down his neck and dyeing half of his clothes.
Xiao Yuanchao, who was still holding the saber in his hand, widened his eyes to the limit, and his legs trembled wildly, but his small hands were extremely calm.
"Whew......"
The jackal let out another wail, and puffs of blood flowed from its open mouth. Its ferocious eyes were full of unwillingness, but it was powerless, and it couldn't move forward half a minute when it saw its prey so close.
The jackal had forgotten the golden rules of hunting, and in its eyes, the two children had no sharp claws, let alone any offensive power, and were softer than a rabbit. So it attacked, throwing away the golden law of hunting for the right to live.
Unfortunately, the consequence of not following the law is to be stabbed in the heart by the weak prey counterattack, and die with unwilling wails.
"Kill it! Shoot it! Du Baobao, who came back to his senses, pressed the jackal's corpse to the ground and punched and kicked desperately.
Xiao Yuanchao, who was still standing there with a blood-stained saber, felt a lot of pain on his face, stretched out a trembling hand and touched his cheek, and found that there were several long blood cuts on his face, and the blood flowing out was hot.
"Du, Du, Dubao......" Xiao Yuanchao, who was covered in blood, said to Du Baobao with difficulty: "Let's go, let's go." ”
"I'm not leaving!" Du Baobao turned his head to stare at Xiao Yuan's right cheek, holding the bloody saber and shouting, "I'm going to kill them all, not a single one will be left!" ”
"Baby, let's go." Xiao Yuanchao's eyes were full of tears, and he whimpered and said, "I hurt ......"
Xiao Yuanchao didn't know how to kill this jackal, and when he woke up from his fear, he felt the pain in his heart, and he cried out in pain.
"Crybaby! Coward! Du Baobao stood up, kicked Xiao Yuanchao involuntarily, and shouted angrily: "Go, go, hum!" ”
After finishing speaking, Du Bao walked back angrily.
Xiao Yuanchao hurriedly followed Du Baobao, and the pain on his face made him grin and cry as he walked.
"Take my hand." Du Baobao stretched out his hand from the front and reprimanded him very unhappily: "Don't cry, you're a boy, you can't cry." ”
was reprimanded, Xiao Yuanchao immediately stopped crying, but tears still flowed downward.
"All babies, woo...... You're wrong, you should go that way, woo......"
"Humph!" Du Baobao snorted heavily, opened his mouth and asked, "Xiao Yuanchao, are you still in pain?" ”
"It hurts." Xiao Yuanchao replied honestly.
"Coward, crybaby, you're a boy, how can it hurt?" Du Baobao glared at Xiao Yuanchao fiercely again.
Xiao Yuanchao quickly shook his head, indicating that he was not in pain.
"It doesn't hurt." Du Baobao took two steps forward, tore off two leaves and put them in his mouth, chewed them twice, spit them in the palm of his hand, turned around and said, "Xiao Yuanchao, stretch your face over." ”
Xiao Yuanchao obediently stretched out his face.
Du Baobao put the not very broken leaves on Xiao Yuanchao's face, twisted his little head, and led the other party to continue to walk forward.
Applying the leaves, Xiao Yuanchao felt the wound cold, and the pain seemed to have eased a lot, and he couldn't help asking, "Baby, what are you sticking to me?" ”
"Leaves!" Du Baobao rubbed his little nose, looked around and said, "It's all like this on TV, if you are injured, you will be fine if you stick it with leaves...... Xiao Yuanchao, where is this, it's not like the road when we came. ”
Xiao Yuanchao looked up, pointed to the left and said, "Du Baobao, you are wrong, it's this way." ”
"Really?" Du Baobao said suspiciously: "I remember that it was obviously here." (http://.)。 ”
"Really, you're sure to do what I say." Xiao Yuanchao said seriously: "When I was a child, no one could find me. ”
"Okay...... baby's face suddenly turned red, and he muttered in a low voice: "I don't play hide and seek, it's all children's play......"
Along the way, Du Baobao, who was holding Xiao Yuanchao, kept going the wrong way; Xiao Yuanchao kept pointing the way, and the angry baby stomped his feet, but he didn't say Xiao Yuanchao again.
Several heavily armed soldiers appeared in front of them, rushing towards the two of them like lightning.
"All babies! Xiao Yuanchao! The soldier at the front called the names of the two of them in a deep voice.
"We're here, here!" Du Baobao waved his little hand vigorously and shouted loudly: "Uncle, come on, Xiao Yuanchao was scratched by a big dog and shed a lot of blood!" ”
"All babies!" Xiao Yuanchao suddenly grabbed Du Baobao's hand tightly, and asked anxiously, "Are we still good friends?" Are you still playing with me? ”
"Humph!" Du Baobao shook off Xiao Yuanchao's hand vigorously, crossed his small waist and said angrily: "I won't play with you, I will let everyone not play with you." Who told you to scare my cat away? ”
Hearing this, Xiao Yuanchao turned around and went into the rainforest to the south, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"Xiao Yuanchao, what are you doing, come back quickly, I don't want a cat!" Du Bao screamed anxiously, and just about to chase after him, he was picked up by a big hand.
"Put me down, let me go, I'm going to find Xiao Yuanchao, I order you to let go of me!" Du Bao struggled hard, opened his mouth and bit the arm holding him.
The bitten soldier was expressionless, gestured forward, and ran back with Du Baobao.
The remaining two soldiers continued to go deeper, looking for Xiao Yuanchao, who had re-entered the rainforest.