Chapter 112: Burning the Mountain is not right
We sat down under a thick tree, and to be honest, we were exhausted from such a long tossing and turning, and there were still many injuries on our bodies, and we didn't even want to think about it when we sat down.
Xiao Fang snuggled up to me and seemed tired. We stayed there silently, not saying a word for a long time.
It was completely dark, and I asked Xiao Fang, "Are you sleeping?"
"It's okay, I'm not sleepy, or you can sleep."
"I ...... I'm not sleepy either. ā
She suddenly raised her head and looked at me with a pair of bright eyes: "Still lying, you must be tired and sleepy now."
I smiled helplessly. She said, "You can sleep for a while, and then I'll sleep for you later."
"Okay then, I'm not going to be polite to my own lady anymore."
"Who wants to be your." She pinched me coquettishly.
But it was still too difficult to sit and sleep, I just squinted, and soon a nod woke me up. After two or three times like this, my mind was very clear.
Xiao Fang couldn't help but smile when she looked at my sinful appearance. Then she said, "Otherwise, you can sleep on my lap, and you can sleep more peacefully."
"No, no, no, then your legs are not numb?"
"It doesn't matter, you can just let me pillow it in a while." She shifted as she spoke. I thought to myself that this girl was too good, and then slowly and carefully pillowed down, adjusting the posture of her body so that the pressure on her legs was minimal.
In this way, I looked at her with my eyes open, and she looked at me too, looking at each other with affection.
"Do you think we're a lot like two people?" I asked Xiao Fang.
"Who?"
"Adam and Eve."
She squeezed my mouth again, and her face flushed again.
I suddenly got up from her lap, and she was startled by me, and I was startled by myself.
It took two seconds for her to ask me, "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm ......," I was so happy that I couldn't finish my words, "I thought of a way to escape!" ā
"How do you escape?"
"Just now I was thinking, what if there are beasts here, I can't always rely on you to protect me, should I make a fire to drive away the beasts? Then I thought of a better way, set it on fire! In the wildfire, they will be able to find us. ā
She shook her head: "Haven't you heard that setting fire to the mountain and sitting in prison?"
"It doesn't matter, God knows, you know and I know, a thunderbolt can also cause a wildfire, not to mention that we are here to survive. As long as we can escape, I'll go to jail. ā
Xiao Fang looked at me and smiled helplessly, but also acquiesced to my method. I quickly thought about how to set the fire, and then I remembered that we didn't have a source of fire.
"Drill, wood, take, fire." Xiao Fang came out coldly.
That's right! In the Paleolithic Gold and Stone class, our teacher made us imitate the cave people on the top of the mountain and learned to drill wood to make fire.
So I quickly gathered some dead grass leaves around, found a few sticks of dry wood of different thicknesses but straight, and prepared to start.
Xiao Fang hurriedly stopped me: "Don't worry, let's take a look around first and leave a way back for ourselves."
Then we saw the direction of the wind, or decided to point on the mountain, so that it was like a beacon tower, if Mr. Ouyang and they were still looking for us, we could see it immediately, and we lit it and went down the mountain against the wind, so that no matter how bad it was, we could hold on to the firefighting team.
We were afraid that we would not be able to light a fire, and a lot of dead grass and dead branches had gathered on the top of the mountain, and it seemed that there was no problem.
So I used a wood knife to cut the dead branches into the best possible shape, squatted on the ground, and prepared to start making a fire. To be honest, I was excited and nervous in my heart, after all, it was a wildfire.
After drilling for a while, I finally smelled some of the wood missing, so I increased the force of friction. Finally, the white smoke grew bigger and bigger, and suddenly a small spark burst out, and I drilled it dozens of times, and the fire had become a decent flame. I quickly fetched some dead grass and put it next to Mars.
Fire is amazing, and it's spreading at an unimaginably fast rate. I quickly threw the fire in my hand on the prepared haystack, and soon it was half a man tall, one man tall, two people tall! I pulled Xiao Fang and retreated down the mountain according to the original route, only to feel like a sun rising behind me, illuminating the surroundings.
When we got to the bottom of the mountain, we looked back and saw that the top of the mountain was already a sea of fire, and the fire had risen no less than ten meters, and it was spreading with the wind, burning faster and faster, and in this dark environment, I felt that as long as it was not in the house, the people in the nearby villages would definitely be able to see it.
Tonight's wind wasn't particularly strong, but the fire spread quickly. The fire also has a tendency to spread to our side, and I realized how dangerous our situation is. If the wind changes, we will soon be engulfed in flames.
I pulled Xiao Fang to continue walking, turning back from time to time to care about the fire. Fortunately, the fire did not burn at us very quickly, and maybe this is not the season when the wildfires are at their best, so we can rest while walking, and we will not be particularly tired.
It wasn't until we all felt safe enough that we stopped and looked at the fire and felt it get closer, so we continued to retreat, and just like that, the sky began to lighten.
I don't know if it's the burning fire that can make people excited, or the instinct to survive, this night passed, although we were very tired, but not sleepy, and we still had the strength to continue to survive.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a strange sound in the forest, like a kind of wind, whirring and rhythmic, and I turned my head to see three flying machines exactly like the one I had sat in the grassland flying from the sky behind us and heading straight for the fire.
"Hey!" I shouted excitedly, waving at them as I jumped, but to my disappointment, none of them seemed to notice us, but flew directly to the fire and began to water and extinguish the fire.
Soon, under the water bombs dropped by the aircraft, the fire was brought under control and did not continue to spread. But this is what I am most worried about, don't put out the fire and don't see us yet, then aren't we working in vain!
I had also been on a flying machine, and I knew that shouting in the field was useless to them, so instead of wasting my voice, I went to a relatively empty ground and continued to wave my clothes at them.
But it was as if they could only see the fire, and after a while, perhaps all the water on it had run out, and they turned back and flew away.
Looking at the shrinking fire area, I really wanted to go over and light the fire again, but the heat wave on the ground still came in bursts, and it was difficult to get close.
Xiao Fang held my hand tightly and didn't let me move forward. Come on, I don't know how things will turn out now.
After tossing all night, we were physically and mentally exhausted, with an empty stomach and a dry mouth, and we had to solve the problem of eating and drinking first.
Fortunately, Xiao Fang seemed to have a good understanding of the trees here, and under her guidance, I quickly found a tree that could pick wild fruits, so I concocted the same method.
After solving the urgent task, we were all exhausted, and the fire could not burn anymore, so we sat on the ground together, and then we felt that our legs were weak and our eyes were black. No one was polite to anyone anymore, and we fell asleep not long after leaning together.
I don't know how long I slept, but I vaguely heard someone talking, and my nerves immediately became alert, and I tried to wake myself up.
I opened my eyes and looked in the direction of the voice, only to see a team of dozens of people, wearing uniform of the unified yamen, walking and stopping at the location of the original fire. This is? The fire extinguishing team came to the fire scene to check the embers and prevent recurrence?
I was so happy that I almost screamed, Xiao Fang woke up at some point, and quickly dragged me, and then leaned into my ear and said, "You're really not afraid of going to jail."
"Then we'll have to get out of the house."
"Seeing that they have been here for so long, we should have come here, and we will not be able to go out with them for a while."
yes, I can't help but feel that she's icy and icy. So we continued to stay silent from a safe distance.
I don't know how long they waited, but it seemed to confirm that the fire was completely out of danger, so they gathered and retreated. And we followed behind them all the way, but fortunately they brought a lot of equipment, and the speed of travel was not fast, and we were not tired at all.
As it approached dusk, I knew we were finally out of danger when I saw the familiar house.
Throwing off the fire brigade, we found that we were in a small place, like a village, much better than the village where we were stationed.
I scanned the signboards of several storefronts on the side of the road, and finally found that the name of this place was quite a distance away from Mr. Ouyang's construction site.
I touched my pocket, but fortunately, in addition to the money I put in the station, I still had a lot of change in my pocket. I know the price level in this place, so much more. Sure enough, not only did we buy some food, but we also managed to stay in a neat-looking inn.
So we first found a place to stay, and then found someone who stopped by to contact Mr. Ouyang over there, and really found a footholder.
When we went inside and looked in the mirror, we laughed, we never knew we could be so embarrassed. Xiao Fang washed her face with water, and I looked outside the inn and waited for Teacher Ouyang to come. It's so nice to be in a safe place waiting for help.
After I let Xiao Fang sleep in bed, I sat down on a chair and looked at her quietly, and she also looked at me with watery eyes, and soon we looked at each other and smiled.
"Or ......" Xiao Fang wanted to say something, but seemed embarrassed and swallowed back.
"What's wrong?"
"Why don't you sleep too, this bed is big enough, I'll just sleep half of it."
"Huh? Iā" My face was hot and my heart was pounding.
After a while, I said, "Don't, you haven't passed the door yet."
She snorted and laughed again: "If you can't pass the door, I'll let you lie down and rest." Come here, I'll rest assured of you. ā
She said that, and I walked to the other side of the bed and lay down very unnaturally.
This time we very tacitly didn't look at each other, but at the ceiling above our heads.