Chapter 274: Alone in the Wasteland
Li Zhuang, they and Han Li were attacked in Baimao Mountain! ”
"What? What about people! When Ji Yuning heard this, his heart sank.
"People...... The nearby sentinels saw the signal flares they put out, and when they arrived there, they said that the bodies of Li Zhuang and Han Li had been frozen, and only Xizi~"
"How's Kiko? And what about Anting? Ji Yuning cut off the conversation and stepped forward to grab the right arm of the head of the guard.
"The person who rushed over there to report the news only said that Kiko was seriously injured and only breathed a sigh of relief. An Ting, she ~ is nowhere to be found! The key is...... They seem to have been attacked by photon guns. ”
Ji Yuning was taken aback, although the major city-states more or less possessed the weapons of the United States, they had already formed an unwritten rule, and whoever used them was equivalent to openly provoking other city-states.
So photon weapons and the like are just stockpiles for them to tacitly deal with each other's aggression by the United States.
For a while, Ji Yuning was full of doubts in his heart, and dragged the head of the guard outside.
More than ten minutes later, Ji Yuning sailed out of the City Lord's Mansion on a fast boat.
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A few hours ago, Su Xiaoting, who had escaped Ji Yingxue's attack, secretly turned back after she couldn't hear the movement.
First of all, he checked Xizi's injury, and found that the wound was magically covered with a thin film-like tissue, and although her breathing was weak, there was still residual warmth.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but the old clothes that pressed the wound were gone, and even the package that was left behind by her was gone.
It seems that Ji Yingxue is really determined to frame her, but unfortunately the boundless ambition was also swept away by her, making her a little helpless.
The flare scared Ji Yingxue away, but she couldn't stay long.
Once the people who came to investigate found out and confronted Ji Yingxue face to face, I'm afraid that few people would believe that their beloved priest would do such a crazy thing, and at that time, even Ji Yuning would probably think that she was harboring evil intentions.
Although Xizi was still breathing, in the cold and freezing wilderness on this day, and there was no repair warehouse, Su Xiaoting was not sure whether he would escape like Feng Xinglie at the beginning.
There are too many uncertain factors, and she can't hope that Kiko will come out and clarify the truth. It is more likely that if Ji Yingxue is in the way, she will be punished for several crimes in order to calm down the people's anger.
Thinking of this, Su Xiaoting touched the only remaining water bag on her waist, looked at Mu Ling's direction again, and turned around and stepped into the forest.
Originally, she thought that she could discern the general direction by the sun, but she did not see the shadow of the road until the afternoon, and she did not know where she was.
I thought that because of the cold season, the animals have reduced their foraging, but this is an inaccessible wilderness after all, and if you encounter large wild animals at night, your body is really not enough to see.
What's more, it is really not a wise choice to resist the winter night in the wild without eating, so Su Xiaoting decided to stop the rush and solve the problem of food and clothing first.
Fortunately, she carried a dagger with her, sharpened a large branch, and made a long pointed stick, which she held in her hand.
Thinking of the scene of hunting in the autumn hunt not long ago, Su Xiaoting purposefully searched for the caves on the ground and the pheasants in the trees.
I don't know if this mountain forest is too desolate, or if it is not the same as the ecological environment of Yishan, seeing that the sun has set, I haven't found a pheasant.
Two caves were found, but unfortunately the firebolt fell into the package, and she couldn't test it by smoking. I wanted to dig the ground, but I found that the soil was frozen hard, and it was not something that could be shaken by a wooden stick.
The only catch was that she found a lot of pine cones in the woods, and although many of them had been hollowed out by animals such as squirrels, she still picked up half a bag of pine nuts.
Su Xiaoting sighed, planning to find a safe place to make a fire and camp.
On the way to find it, an animal that looked like a sika deer flashed through the forest, and it looked like it was still a cub.
The first thought that rose in her mind was whether she had the courage to disembowel this little deer, and before she hesitated, the little beast had already fled more than ten meters away.
Su Xiaoting simply gave up the chase and despised herself, and she still couldn't compare with those guards.
I could only comfort myself: 'Let's be on fire, don't think about barbecue!' ’
Finally, when it was dark, she found an area surrounded by several trees, the largest of which had withered, and the trunk of the tree that required three people to hug had cracked through the middle, creating a natural cavity in which she could barely sit in.
Such a semi-natural barrier is very rare in this barren forest, but in order to be able to take a nap at night, Su Xiaoting still hurried up and found many forked branches and some pine branches from the side.
Fill the gaps in a few trees and place pine branches on top of the cracked holes.
After doing this, she wiped her sweat and began to try to make a fire......
She didn't know that she had strayed from the main road, and even with the guidance of the map, it would take more than half a day to reach the main road.
And in the place where she left, Ji Yuning, who arrived in the dust, had already finished exploring the scene of the attack, and many questions surfaced in her mind, but in the end, none of them could reasonably explain everything she saw at the scene.
"Where is Kiko now?" Ji Yuning asked the attendant on the side.
"City Lord, still in the infirmary!"
"Place him in the army of Yongwu County, and return to Fuyao when his injuries are better."
Ji Yuning looked at the barren forest under the cover of night, with heavy shadows, and his heart was empty.
The bloody scene, the whereabouts of Su Xiaoting, all this made him vaguely smell a hint of conspiracy, and also made him have an ominous premonition~
Before the epidemic subsided, he couldn't spare more effective manpower to investigate the matter, so he could only order a guard who had seen Su Xiaoting to stay and assist the local chief of the hundred guards in charge of border defense, and enter the forest again tomorrow morning to investigate.
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"Smack!" With a sound, the bow-shaped tool made of branches that Su Xiaoting used to pull the wooden strip to rotate was broken.
'Fortunately, I didn't travel through the wilderness era, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make fire!' 'Those experiences of making fire on TV also need practice to make perfect.
Hearing the faint cry of an owl in the forest, Su Xiaoting simply covered herself with a pine branch, although it didn't bring her much warmth.
Fortunately, this small haven can somewhat withstand some of the cold wind and retain some heat for her.
The sky was overcast, and as the night deepened, the temperature dropped to freezing early.
It seemed to be far away from dawn, and Su Xiaoting began to meditate on luck, keeping the heat while overcoming the fear in her heart.
She didn't expect to sleep, she just prayed for a safe night.