326 Back from the Dead
When I found out that the bird meat was dead, I could only bury him in a hurry after grief, which can be regarded as a teammate!
I looked at the nearby terrain and found a small pit in the distance. Maybe I can move him there, and I don't have to dig hard, just find some more stones to press on him, and make a grave.
After choosing a spot, I picked up the carcass of the bird meat again and carried it over my shoulders to the dirt pit. My physical strength has not fully recovered at this time, and a corpse that has been soaked in water and is sinking to death feels like it is about to collapse after carrying such a distance of twenty or thirty meters. As soon as I reached the pit, I couldn't hold on to it, and the body fell off its back.
"Click!"
What was that?
I was stunned, could it be that there were stones in the dirt pit, and the corpse had fallen on it?
"I'm sorry, Brother Bird! I'm also bored, I didn't mean to be disrespectful to you......"
"Ahem! Ahem, ahem! ”
No sooner had I bowed to the corpse as a sign of respect for the dead than the strange voice rang out again. No, it was a cough!
"Wow!"
The "corpse" coughed violently a few times and then turned over and vomited, choking a big lump of water from its mouth and nose!
Bird meat, this guy is injured like this, and he didn't die!
He was on his back when he was in the water, and his mouth and nose were not in the water. And I carried him on my shoulders for a short walk, and finally the moment he fell into the dirt pit choked out some of the remaining river water in his chest and lungs, and then resumed his normal breathing.
Call! This guy came back to life, but he almost scared me to death!
I hurried forward to take a closer look at his injuries once more. Actually, it's okay, although on the surface it seems that he is seriously injured, but basically it is a skin injury, that is, the scar on his face is the most terrifying. I took the first aid medicine out of my backpack and helped him medicate all the wounds and bandage them.
The bird meat vomited the water in its stomach before it began to gasp for air. Although he is still alive, his mental state is very poor and his body is extremely weak. He looked up at me with difficulty and muttered, "You're not dead......
Well, this sentence shows that his brain is still good, and he also recognizes me. I advised him not to bother and to lie down and rest.
The clothes on the bird's body were soaked, and his body was cold, so when I touched him just now, I thought it was a dead man. Now you have to get his body dry quickly, otherwise there is still a possibility that he will really hang up.
So, I couldn't hide my whereabouts anymore, so I tore off my two sleeves and lit them with a lighter, and then simply led those useless street signs to create a small pile of open flames. I stripped the bird of his clothes again, and left him to lie naked by the fire and roast it.
I wrung out his clothes, too, and roasted them half-dry over the fire. There was nothing to start a fire in the area, and we couldn't burn all the clothes on our bodies, otherwise we would have to freeze later.
Fortunately, the bird's physique was not bad, and after roasting the fire for a short while, his body temperature gradually returned to normal. I also put the half-dry clothes back on for him.
"Why are you taking off my clothes?" The first thing he said when he woke up was this, "Have you been trying to take advantage of me for a long time...... Ahem, ahem! ”
I reached out and patted him on the back and scolded, "Humph! Your mouth is so cheap, you deserve to cough it to death! ”
"Ahem....... Shui ...... "Bird meat can't fight with me at this time, so he has to stretch out his hand and beg."
I handed him the kettle, but he choked on it after only one sip.
"Well, actually, what I want to say is: give me something to eat......" After choking on the last time, his breath was smooth, and he changed his request.
I took out the blue beans and stuffed them directly into his mouth, and I didn't dare to feed them too much, so I fed them one by one. He chewed slowly, barely swallowing when he couldn't move. After eating a dozen blue beans, he finally regained some strength, sat up on his own, and ate up the two large handfuls of blue beans I gave him.
When I wanted to eat the bird meat again, I didn't say yes. I said to him, "You lost your backpack, and now we have to share one of our dry foods." There are still at least three days to go back to Zuoqiu City, you have eaten all in one go, how to go next? ”
"By the way, go back to Zuoqiu City!" Bird Meat scratched his head, looked at the surrounding scenery suspiciously, and asked me again, "Where is this?" ”
I spread my hands helplessly and said, "I don't know the way, and I want to ask you!" ”
I told Torirou about the street sign I had just discovered, expressed my speculation, and finally asked his opinion.
Bird Meat shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My head melon is still confused at this time, and I should be able to remember it when I have rested!" ”
"Okay, so tell me how you got out?" I asked him.
"Hey! What else could it be! Bird Meat sighed rarely.
It turned out that after I ran out of the encirclement after chasing Buye, the rest of the people also began to run in all directions. Although there are a large number of ghost bandits, and an ambush circle is also designed in advance, people can also burst out with amazing energy when they are desperate. As a result, Bird Meat and the other dart master desperately stumbled across the water and fled to another small island.
The ghost bandits then launched a pursuit, not wanting to leave anything alive. After repelling three consecutive rounds of attacks by ghost bandits on the isolated island, the two of them were finally unable to fight again. The bird meat was slashed in the head by a ghost bandit, the helmet was cut in half on the spot, and the face was scratched. He had an idea, and with a scream, he fell into the water and pretended to be dead.
Due to the large number of places where blood was shed on his body, as soon as he fell into the river, he stained a large area of river water red. In addition, the injury to his head was obvious, and he had successfully deceived the ghost bandit, so he didn't come up to make up for him.
Then, he floated straight down the current. Although he could float on the surface of the water without drowning, he was unable to swim ashore, so he continued to drift with the current, and then passed out again because of his injuries. Then, like a corpse, he "met" me.
"If you hadn't pulled me up, I guess I'd have had to hang up in the end. Either hit a rock in a rapids or drown in a whirlpool or waterfall. He laughed miserably at me and said, "Well, from now on, I owe you my life!" ”
"Let's keep your little life and bring me back to Zuoqiu City first!" I also smiled wryly.
"By the way, where's Bu Ye?" Birdmeat finally remembered this and asked, "Didn't you run away with him?" ”
"Dead!"
"Dead?" Bird Meat was taken aback, and asked again in a strengthened tone: "Is the old immortal really dead this time?" ”
"It's dead!" I changed to a sneer, "Torn in half by the ghost bandits!" ”
Subsequently, I told Bird Meat about the trick of discovering that Bu Ye used a mysterious projectile to soften the fossil shoots, saying that Kong Jian was actually killed by Bu Ye a year ago.
Bird Meat was silent for a long time before finally nodding and saying, "Bu Ye should have died a long time ago, I didn't expect him to be such a person, and I still followed him for five years!" ”
"He's okay with you. If it weren't for that, he would have continued to take you on the caravan. ”
Bird Meat shook his head with a wry smile: "Sooner or later!" As I told you before, Bu Ye changes owners every one or two decades, and almost every time he loses the goods of the entire caravan, and none of the team members can escape back, leaving him alone. Alas, do the math, he has been working in the Teng family firm for almost twenty years......"
"This time the Teng family is really a heavy loss! Not to mention the goods and Yin Yuan that were stolen by the ghost bandits, except for the two of us, the other sixteen people died. That's a lot of money for the pension alone! I said miserably.
Bird Meat sighed, "Those ghost bandits must have been eyeing us for a long time. When they went to Shilinzhai from Zuoqiu City, they didn't launch an ambush, probably because they knew that the goods at that time were all medicinal materials, and when they came back, they became Yin Yuan, so they decided to do it on the return trip! ”
"Maybe we were too flamboyant when we were in Shilin Village, and then we were targeted by them?"
"Well, that makes sense!"
“......”
"I remember!" The two of us were silent for a while, and then the bird meat suddenly screamed.
"What do you remember?" I wondered, "Did you find out how the ghost bandits got to know our whereabouts?" ”
"Not this thing." Bird Meat smiled and raised his hand behind me: "I remember, the way back to Zuoqiu City should be that one!" ”
I looked at the bird's hand and saw that it was the road that had been flooded by the river!
"The road is flooded, how can I walk inside?" I questioned, "Your head isn't bad, is it?" ”
"Okay!" Tori confirmed, "That's it!" On the right hand side from Shilinzhai is a cliff, and when the underground river arrives, it becomes a waterfall. That's what I remembered when I said that if you don't save me and go ashore, I'll fall to my death. ”
"And what about the other one?"
"Opposite Shilinzhai is Death Ze."
"The only way to the left is the way back to Zuoqiu City?"
"Absolutely, yes! It's time to go to the right to the stone forest, and to the left to die; When I came back, I went left back to Zuoqiu and went straight to Deathze. This is the mantra that Bu Ye taught me! ”
"Well, it seems that this old immortal can still exert some residual heat after he dies!"
Now that the problem of direction has been solved, all that remains is to rest and wait for the water level of the underground river to drop. Anyway, Bird Meat has just recovered a little at this time and can't walk, and I can't carry him, so I'll rest again.
I expanded my search in the vicinity, and finally found some dry underground plants, and I got many of them back and started a fire. This time, I didn't just roast the bird's meat, I also cooked a pot of blue bean soup with a shield wok. The hot bean soup was served, and the strength of me and the bird meat quickly recovered.
After resting for about two hours again, the river finally receded, and the path back to Zuoqiu City slowly appeared, and it was indeed safe to pass.