22. The Last Memories of the White Butterfly (9)
As soon as they reached the fork, they heard a mess below, and a group of soldiers rushed up with guns.
The two of them couldn't climb up to the vent anymore, Xiaolan couldn't jump up, and Bai Butterfly jumped up, but they couldn't reach Xiaolan.
Bai Die turned on the flashlight, and with the other hand looked for a gap in the wall, and suddenly accidentally knocked down a big stone on the wall, and was surprised: this stone is very strange!
Xiaolan saw it, ran over and pushed away the big stone with Bai Die, and a small cave appeared.
The two of them were surprised and delighted, and quickly got into it, and then put the boulder back in its place. Now I saw clearly: the outside was a layer of five or six centimeters of stone, but in fact it was a door, supported by four wooden sticks.
The cave was only half a man's height, and it was very rough and rough, with potholes on the ground and walls, and it was not as neat as the passage to the north outside.
The two of them walked forward for a while, and found a small stone room, two meters high, which could seat eight or nine people. So I decided to take a break here. But as soon as they sat down, they felt hungry and thirsty, and ran for most of the day, and it was noon. Bai Die ate very little in the morning, but Xiaolan hadn't eaten a drop of water since she was caught, and she was even more gurgling in her stomach.
Bai Die blamed herself and said, "I didn't bring anything to eat, and I don't know when I can escape, I'm really careless." β
Xiaolan shook her head with a smile and said, "Don't say that, it's a blessing to be able to escape." What is a hungry stomach! β
Bai Die sighed and said, "I'll turn off the flashlight first to save some electricity." β
I turned off the flashlight, and my eyes became black, and I couldn't see my fingers. The two were only half a day apart, but they could only sense each other's location through the sound of breathing. White Butterfly asked again, "Are you sleepy?" If you're sleepy, just sleep for a while, they won't be able to find us now anyway. β
Xiaolan said: "Not sleepy. As soon as he finished speaking, he was shocked. Bai Die also sensed that it was a smell of meat, so she asked, "Did you also smell a smell of meat?" β
Xiaolan said, "Yes. But how can there be a taste of meat here? Could it be that there is someone here? β
The two of them immediately became alert, and listened carefully, but it was still silent, and there was no movement. Bai Die turned on the flashlight again, took a closer look at the small stone room, and found that there were falling fine pieces of slag on the ground, stuck a little with his fingers, and put it in his mouth to taste.
Xiaolan saw it and said with a smile: "Maybe there are big rats in this mountain." β
White Butterfly shook her head, tasted the slag and said, "It seems to be the taste of compressed biscuits." He groped around in the cracks of the stones, and sure enough, he found the bag of compressed biscuits and brought it to Xiaolan to see.
The bag is an opening that is not bitten open by an animal, it is definitely torn open by a human hand.
Bai Die immediately pressed the gun on his waist and whispered to Xiaolan: "There is definitely someone here, although I don't know who it is." β
Xiaolan thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that people like you and me also fled here?" β
"Possibly!" White Butterfly nodded and said, "Do you remember the man who said that his canned beef was stolen and eaten?" β
Xiaolan hurriedly said, "Remember, remember!" Could it be that someone hiding here stole it? If that's the case, those three people will die too unjustly! β
White Butterfly said: "Be vigilant, let's go further and take a look." As he spoke, he turned the flashlight to the darkest and walked forward.
After walking a little half a mile, I vaguely saw a white light coming in ahead. The two of them slowed their breathing, held hands, and walked towards the white light step by step.
When they got closer, the two of them were even more surprised, the white light was not the light of an electric lamp, but natural light!
Turning around a zigzag stone wall, a small stone chamber lay in front of me, very brightly lit by the white light, which shone in from the north, and there were some weeds growing on the ground.
The two of them walked into the stone chamber, and looked north, and a valley appeared in front of them.
The valley is not big, at most about two acres, and it is full of all kinds of plants, some of them bloom, some of them bear fruit, and the fruits are orange and yellow. The white butterfly got closer and smelled it, it didn't look like it was poisonous, and looked up again, and there was a white mist on it. And I saw a ditch in front of me, which was evidently the work of man. Bai Die stretched out his hand to try it, and the water turned out to be warm. I drank two handfuls in my hand, and the water was really sweet and delicious.
Xiaolan in the back ouched, and the white butterfly turned to look, Xiaolan was pointing to a plant and said, "There are footprints here!" Bai Die looked over, and there were some children's footprints next to his footprints, which were very light.
The white butterfly picked an orange fruit, took a bite, and said, "There must be someone here, and they planted these fruits." As he spoke, he picked another one and threw it to Xiaolan.
They were hungry, so they sat down by the ditch and ate and drank, and drank and ate. The fruit was also very sweet, and tasted like loquats, but much larger. It wasn't until the stomach was full that it stopped.
It was getting dark, and I thought it was late in the evening. The two followed the footsteps of the children, rummaging through the more than two acres of land, and still couldn't figure out where they disappeared from. So he went back to the stone chamber on the south side, sat down to rest, and fell asleep for a while.
In a daze, I heard the voice of Suosuo, the whispering of many people, big and small. White Butterfly was in a shallow sleep, her right hand still in the clothes around her waist, holding her gun, as long as someone approached, she could fight immediately. The voice was getting closer and smaller, and Bai Die wanted to try him, so he turned over, and sure enough, the voice was interrupted.
Now that White Butterfly was 100% convinced that there was someone nearby, she squinted her eyes to see where he came from.
Xiao Lan was curled up and lying at the base of the wall, breathing heavily, and it seemed that she had entered the Black Sweet Country.
The voices began again, as if someone else had joined in, and the previous one was speaking to that one. As she listened, White Butterfly thought to herself: Seeing that they were timid and cautious, they did not look like the style of the guards, but like a group of fugitives hiding in this cave......
After being quiet for a while, Bai Die turned over again, facing the road to the east, heard a slight startling sound, and immediately understood: someone came from this road! So he holds a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and as long as the person comes close, he will defeat the enemy with one move!
The man was cautious and cautious, cautious and cautious, and his steps were like turtle speed, and he had not advanced ten meters in half a day.
Seeing this, Bai Die pointed the muzzle and flashlight at the way he came, just waiting for the person to enter the attack range.
At this slow juncture of the year, Bai Butterfly could finally feel the breath of that person. The air in the cave was originally static, but once someone moved, even the slightest movement could stir the gas in the cave, and as soon as the gas moved, the white butterfly first felt it on the skin.
Finally, the time came for the two soldiers to hand over. White Butterfly suddenly turned on the flashlight, and it shone on the man's face, a terrifying black and red mask. The man hurriedly fired, and White Butterfly rolled to avoid it, while throwing the flashlight at the man's feet. This time, the man was in the light, and the white butterfly was in the dark.
The man's eyes flashed by the lightning, and he was about to turn around to look for Bai Die, but Bai Die had already stepped forward, grabbed the man's weapon, and slammed his knee into his waist, twisting his arm so hard that he was crushed under him.
At this moment, I heard a painful cry in the distance behind me. Xiaolan also woke up, hurriedly got up and picked up the flashlight, and came over to help.
Bai Die reached out and took off the mask of that one, it turned out to be a delicate face, she was a woman! So he asked her, "Who are you?" Why are you attacking me? β
The woman, though captured, struggled and asked, "Who are you?" Why come to our cave? β
White Butterfly asked, "Your cave?" What kind of cave is this? β
The woman didn't say anything. Bai Die saw that the clothes on her body were torn into strips of cloth, like a wild man, and hurriedly said to Xiaolan: "You take good care of her clothes, let me take a closer look." Xiaolan immediately used a flashlight to shine the woman's head to toe. White Butterfly turned the woman around again, and found a sign on the strip of cloth on her chestβa snow-capped mountain, so she asked her, "Are you from the snowy mountain?" β
The woman nodded.
"The two of us are also from the Great Snow Mountain." Bai Die said and let go of her, and asked, "You escaped here?" How long have you been on the runaway? β
The woman said, "Three years." You two, your clothes are quite fresh, just escaped, right? β
Bai Die and Xiaolan both nodded and asked, "What is this place?" β
The woman did not answer, but said, "You are so lucky that you met me as soon as you escaped." When I escaped, I ran around for two or three days, and I almost starved to death here. As he spoke, he clapped his hands twice.
After a while, I saw a group of black children, all with long guns and short cannons in their hands, coming from the east.
When Bai Die and Xiaolan saw it, they were surprised: they are children, but some of them actually have beards on their facesβmaybe they are dwarves? What surprised Bai Die and Xiaolan even more was that the clothes on their bodies were actually made of military uniforms from Daxue Mountain.
Then the woman spoke: "My name is Pila." Pointing to the two villains in front, "The two of them are the leaders, his name is Xiao Shrimp, and his name is Xiaomi." β
Bai Die and Xiaolan looked at the villains in front of them were all black, and they all looked the same, and they couldn't tell which one was which one for a while, so they had to deal with it.
Pyra said to the villain, "Both of them, like me, fled here after being persecuted by the bad people in the snowy mountains. They're all good people. β
When this group of villains heard this, they all threw down the weapons in their hands, ran over and surrounded Bai Die and Xiaolan, and kept sniffing and rubbing their noses on their clothes.
Xiaolan asked Pila, "What are they doing here?" β
Pila laughed and said, "It's their etiquette, once they recognize you as friends, they'll do it." β
Bai Die said: "You said just now, it's been three years since you fled here, how old are you this year?" β
Pyra thought for a moment and said, "The year I ran away was sixteen, and now I am nineteen." β
Bai Die said again, "Sister Pila, can you tell us what kind of place this is?" β
"Yes. Butβ" said Pyrrhea, pointing in the direction above, "I must take you to the king of the Yeti kingdom first!" β
White Butterfly said in surprise: "Ah, this is the Yeti Country?!" β
Xiaolan was also surprised and said, "Ah, there is still a king?!" β