A man and a tiger walk through the dense forest of Yunchi Mountain.

The tiger in front was walking quickly, and Qi Yuancheng, who was not far behind, was almost a little overwhelmed. This was the third day of their march into the depths of the forest, and Qi Yuancheng's physical energy was extremely exhausted, and he was exhausted from the continuous climbing over the mountains.

"Tiger Boss! I can't walk anymore and need to rest! With that, Qi Yuancheng sat on the ground. He took the jug and drank it, but poured out only a pitiful few drops.

"We need to refill the water again! Let's go find a water source. Qi Yuancheng said to the tiger, feeling a little anxious. After the battle of locust swarms between him and the tiger, trust and tacit understanding have been formed. He found that the tiger could understand many simple words, which made it much easier for him to communicate with the tiger.

But the problem is that Qi Yuancheng can't understand the meaning of the tiger, and can only roughly understand the forward, stop, and so on through the tiger's movements. So Qi Yuancheng has just followed the tiger towards the mountains in a daze for the past few days, but he doesn't know where the destination is.

Qi Yuancheng tried to ask the tiger's destination, but found nothing. He deduced that the tiger had something very important to show him or needed his help. But Qi Yuancheng also has very important things - he hopes to find Director Jin and Professor Zhang and his party as soon as possible with the new letter stone and return to civilized society.

When the tiger in front heard the roar, he looked back at Qi Yuancheng, who was resting on the side of the road, stopped, turned his head to him, and roared apologetically. Then its nose sniffed around, and then arched Qi Yuancheng's hand holding the kettle with its nose, signaling him to follow him to find the water source.

"Since you've been here for so long, you're here, so let's just stick around and have a look." Qi Yuancheng saw that the tiger lowered his posture and accommodated himself, and he also eliminated some complaints in his heart. He stood up and walked behind the tiger.

Sure enough, a man and a tiger walked to a stream after a while. Qi Yuancheng was not in a hurry to get water, he set up the stove, took out some remaining dry food, and said to the tiger embarrassedly: "It's noon, let's have dinner." However, the food stock has bottomed out, and it may have to be eaten sparingly. ”

The tiger understood what Qi Yuancheng meant, and it ran into the jungle, and after a while, it came back with a fat hare. It placed the hare in front of Qi Yuancheng and let out a low roar.

Qi Yuancheng saw that the hare's eyes also glowed, and he said to the tiger in surprise: "Tiger boss, are you asking me to open meat?" Great, show you my craft! ”

Qi Yuancheng insisted on drinking boiling water and cooking food along the way. With the King of the Jungle by his side, he no longer worries about threats from wild animals, but he fears illness the most. Qi Yuancheng often gave his food to the tiger to taste, and the tiger still hunted animals for food, and when it hunted, it often avoided Qi Yuancheng far away, and seemed to be a little afraid of the fire that Qi Yuancheng raised.

Qi Yuancheng cleaned up the hare in three times and divided five by two. He took some of the meat and boiled it in a pot, leaving some for grilling directly over the fire.

"Luckily, we still have a lot of salt, and it must taste good. But it's a shame that there is no more spice. ”

After a while, Qi Yuancheng's "big meal" was ready. He beckoned to the tiger lying on the side: "Tiger boss! Come and try my roasted bunny legs! The tiger reluctantly took a few steps closer, took the rabbit's meat, and unceremoniously feasted on it.

Qi Yuancheng chatted with the tiger while eating, but he still didn't give up, wanting to know what the purpose of the tiger's trip was. "Tiger Boss, how long will it take for us to get to where you're going?"

"Roar."

Qi Yuancheng was a little disappointed, after getting along with each other in the past few days, he knew that the tiger's short voice meant that he didn't understand what he meant. "Okay, let's change the question. Are there any people like me in the places you took me? ”

Qi Yuancheng is almost certain that the tiger must have dealt with humans, and even got along for a relatively long time, so it can have a simple communication with himself.

The tiger nodded, then shook his head again.

"Huh? Is there any? Qi Yuancheng was confused by the tiger.

The tiger whimpered lowly, shook his head, and then slowly lay on the ground without looking at Qi Yuancheng.

Qi Yuancheng could feel that the tiger seemed to be a little low. He fished out the rabbit's skeleton from the pot and gave it to the tiger, and tentatively comforted him, saying, "Eat another piece, and let's hurry away after eating." ”

The tiger took the rabbit meat in its mouth and quickly finished eating it and got up. Qi Yuancheng also ate it quickly, boiled water and put it in the pot, and continued to follow the tiger.

On the fifth day, when one man and one tiger were rushing into the mountains, they came to the foot of a small hill.

The tiger stopped suddenly, sniffed the air vigorously, and roared tremblingly, sounding a little excited. It sped fast up the hill.

Qi Yuancheng complained that the tiger was running too fast, and at the same time kept up with its pace and walked towards the mountain. He found that there was a rare path, but it seemed that no one had walked for a while, and it was almost covered with weeds.

"It looks like there's human activity here." Qi Yuancheng was a little surprised, there was still human life in such an inaccessible deep mountain and old forest.

While Qi Yuancheng swept the weeds on the side of the road with his cane, he was also a little vigilant and released a poisonous mist to spread around him, just in case.

After walking up the mountain for about 20 minutes, Qi Yuancheng walked along the road to the top of the mountain. He saw a small thatched hut nestled among the trees on the hill. The tiger sat motionless in front of the door.

Qi Yuancheng approached the room and looked at it. He saw that the little hut seemed to have been left untended for a long time, the yard was overgrown with weeds, and the door was closed. He came to the tiger's side and asked the tiger softly, "Tiger boss, should we go in and have a look?" ”

The tiger nodded, but did not move.

"You mean let me in?" Qi Yuancheng asked.

The tiger nodded, his eyes full of supplication.

Qi Yuancheng put the packing package aside, released the mist beside him, and gently pushed the door open with a cane in his hand. He paused for a moment, and when he saw that no one had come out, and nothing unusual, he walked in vigilantly.

The room was pitch black, and Qi Yuancheng turned on the searchlight to look around. The inside is very small, with only a simple earthen kang and tables and chairs. The roof is not high, it is simply covered with thatch, and the floor is ordinary masonry, except for a pool of black ash at the foot of the table.

Qi Yuancheng took a closer look and found that there was the same black ash on the table, and there were traces of scorching in the corner of the table.

"It looks like something was left behind after it burned." Qi Yuancheng secretly thought in his heart.

At this time, the tiger entered the house, and it pulled the corner of Qi Yuancheng's clothes with its mouth. He seemed to be motioning to check the kang on the other side of the house.

Qi Yuancheng cautiously turned over the quilt on the kang, but found nothing but the flying dust.

The tiger leaned over and struggled to climb into the hole under the kang, but the house was too small and the hole was too low for it to enter.

Seeing this, Qi Yuancheng also leaned down and shone under the kang with a lamp. He was surprised to find a small booklet in the middle of the kang cave.