Chapter 24: Trapped in the Cliff (2)
I crept carefully through the crevices between the rocks to the edge of the stream. Although there was no road beside the stream, there were many large stones that had been washed down by the current, and I grabbed the hem of my skirt in my hand, jumped from one stone to another on tiptoe, and walked more than half a mile in less than a quarter of an hour.
Just as hope rose in my heart, I found that the stream had led me into a dense forest.
Here, the bright moonlight was tightly blocked by the dense foliage, and within ten steps of walking, it was already pitch black. What to do? Can you keep going? Maybe listening to the sound of running water all the way, I can walk through this wood. But regardless of whether I get lost or not, my instincts tell me that going into the jungle at night is a very dangerous thing to do.
Forget it, I can only go back to the cave and wait for a few more hours, and then find a way to go down the mountain after dawn.
I picked up some dry wood and leaves along the way, hoping to raise a fire to ward off the cold and beasts later.
Has Si'er returned to the General's Mansion at this moment? Does Wu Feng know I'm gone? What if Si'er stupidly chased Wuxian up the mountain?
"Innocent, innocent, you really hurt me!"
It turned out that my luck tonight was really not very good, I had been drilling with a solid wood for a long time, and my hands were too tired to lift up, and the small ball of hay on the pine chips still couldn't blow any way.
In the middle of the night, the cold in the mountains was heavy, and in just a moment, my hands and feet were already frozen. When people get cold, they feel more and more tired. The stone wall behind me was soaked in water, damp, and I couldn't lean on, so I could only hold my knees tightly and try to stay up until dawn.
As soon as he closed his eyes, there was a sudden wolf howl outside the cave. I hit a spirit and suddenly came to my senses.
There are wolves!
If the wolves smell it, I'm afraid that it won't take a moment for me to be gnawed into a skeleton.
I fumbled on the ground and picked up a slightly thicker branch and held it in my hand, staring at the hole without blinking.
I have so many things to please not do, so many words that I can't just die here!
The vines at the entrance of the cave were quickly torn apart, and a wild wolf leaped in with a whoosh, followed by several more. In the darkness, four pairs of green eyes stared at me tightly.
I held my breath and slowly moved down the cave with a branch, wondering why I hadn't learned a few tricks from the guards when I was in the General's Mansion before. Otherwise, I would still be able to fight my way out at this moment, instead of waiting here to be eaten.
The four wolves just walked around the mouth of the cave, occasionally glancing back at me. Wolves still howl outside the cave, and they don't attack me now, do they want to wait until everyone is here to start enjoying together?
What is the use of being well-read? What is the use of familiarizing yourself with the art of war? Nothing will save my life at this moment.
Will Wu Feng come to me? If he comes, I just hope that these wolves will eat me cleanly, and at least it will look better than a blur of flesh and a broken belly.
I knew I would die here today, so why should I wait until I was fifteen. Some words, after tonight, I am afraid that they will fall into the wolf's belly with me.
While I was thinking about it, the four wolves at the entrance of the cave suddenly lowered their ears, tucked their tails between their legs, and whimpered and retreated. After a while, there was silence outside the cave.
Strange, could it be that the wolves have retreated?
I cautiously took a few steps outside, looking through the gaps in the vines to see what was going on outside.
At this moment, a hand suddenly reached out from the middle of the vine and dragged me out with incredible force.
I was so scared that I wanted to scream, but my throat was blocked by excessive tension, and I could only let out a few hoarse shouts. And when I saw everything outside the cave, I couldn't even utter this hoarse shout.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, as far as the eye could see, dozens of pairs of green eyes were staring at me viciously, and the air was filled with the smell of bloody killing. At this moment, a cold wind poured into my neck, and all the pores of my body opened up in an instant. The cold, fearful, and deathly aura took the opportunity to creep in and destroy my will completely.
Just as I was in despair, a long howl suddenly came from beside me, and I was picked up and passed through the wolves at a strange speed.
It turned out that the person who pulled me out of the hole before was innocent. He was standing beside me all the time, but I didn't see him at all in my horror. Innocence led me to a high protruding rock across the cave. The rock rises more than a foot above the flat ground, and you can clearly see the entire valley from it.
Innocence threw me to the ground and turned to look down at the wolves beneath his feet. His face was clearly marked by a fight, and several bloody paw prints stretched from the corner of his left eye to his mouth. His eyes were no longer warm and moist, and his deep eyes were full of the most primitive wildness.
The restless wolves were quiet under his gaze, as if they were waiting for something......
Innocent walked to the top of the rock, crouched down, and let out a long wolf howl at the full moon in the sky. Suddenly, dozens of wild wolves under the rocks also began to cry at the same time.
In the dense forest, hundreds of birds were awakened by the terrible wolf howl, and they all flew out at once. Their wings swept across the sky above me, making a dense chirping sound.
Lined with a full moon, the innocent side face is still bleeding, but his whole person exudes a momentum of dominating the world, as if he is the absolute king of this mountain and forest, and everything here is dominated by him. I have never seen such domineering even in Gongzili.
The originally silent mountain forest has become extremely lively at this moment. I sighed in my heart, I am afraid that there are few people in this world who can stand on top of the wolves like me now, and enjoy such a moving spectacle.
At the mouth of the cave where I was sheltering just now, there was a huge gray-white shaggy wolf. It couldn't move at the moment. For animals, only the strong can become the real king, and if it loses to innocence, it loses the dignity and status that originally belonged to it. Death is its only home.
After the battle with the wolf king, innocent has become the new wolf king, and I finally don't have to worry about being eaten. After the tense nerves in my brain relaxed, I fell asleep surrounded by wolves.