Tie of Peace Chapter 21: The Eye of the Storm
The next day. As soon as it was dawn, Fang Chenxi was woken up, and it was a bear. When she woke up, she heard a different breathing sound than a human being, and then a large tongue began to squirm in her face, and she took off in fright.
"Ah...... I don't care about you! Brute! She jumped up and greeted the grizzly bear's mother again, asking if it was sick. Grizzly Bear disagreed, and sat directly in front of her to perform and applaud, which was cute and cute.
"Ed is here! Fang Chenxi must have been frightened. Feather was woken up by the scream, and his father woke up with him. He rushed out of the treehouse, sliding to the ground like a monkey clutching a vine, while his father yawned and prepared to wash.
"Ed, you're scaring the guests." Feather Cloak ran over and stroked it, and told the person who was wiping his face: "It has bad eyesight, it must have mistaken you, and I apologize to you for it." ”
Fang Chenxi looked at the grizzly bear, the hairs on his body stood up, and he said with a hideous face: "I accept your apology, but can you wash my face first, its saliva is so disgusting!" ”
"In the treehouse, go yourself." Feather tells her that she is still stroking the grizzly bear's head, a scene that resembles a parent disciplining a child. Fang Chenxi quickly climbed the rope ladder into the tree house, and she saw the old man washing his face.
"How did you sleep last night?"
The old man rubbed his face with a towel, and the most striking thing was the towel, which couldn't be thinner. He twisted the towel, and the water splashed in the wooden basin with a muffled "tick" sound, and smiled at the other party Chenxi and said, "I'll just say that Ed likes you, come and wash your face with water, and we'll leave later." ”
Fang Chenxi was silent, walked in and scooped up the water with a wooden scoop, and wiped it for a few minutes before stopping.
"You have piano resin on your face, no wonder Ed likes it." The old man stood on the edge of the tree house and pointed to the cracks in the branches.
He took out an empty bottle, tiptoed down the dripping resin, and said to himself, "Good sesame oil, it's fragrant when you use roast chicken." ”
After a while, the empty bottle was full, and he turned his head to look at Fang Chenxi standing in the tree house, and couldn't help asking, "What's your name?" How did you know Eric? ”
"My name is Fang Chenxi, and I work on the same starship as him." Feeling insufficient, she added, "He's a captain." ”
"Jiang Quanzhe, this name is not good, right?" The old man said his name, he didn't want Fang Chenxi to laugh.
"I'll call you Bai Teyi."
"Okay." Bai Te's chin was bowed, and he tapped the trunk lightly, and a crisp sound came from between his fingers. He put away the piano resin and explained the phenomenon: "This is the piano tree, and it makes a sound just by striking its trunk. Listen, the tree trunk on top of it sounds really good. ”
"What about down there?" Fang Chenxi walked over and also knocked on the trunk of the tree, although the tone was about the same.
Bai Teyi climbed to the ground and demonstrated to her the sound of tapping the tree trunk below. "Dodo", a deep voice came, and she guessed that it was probably really the piano.
"Father, shall we go now?" Hagoromo asked, standing next to Ed. Ed also wanted to join in the fun, and yelled a few times, which sounded "good" to it, and Fang Chenxi only felt panicked when he heard it.
"Let's go, let's go to the eye of the storm." Bai Teyi picked up a stick and took the lead, Ed immediately followed when he saw it, and the two people behind him also hurriedly followed. The group headed west, where the woods were dense and dangerous, and it was easy to run into poisonous snakes, so it was Ed who opened the way.
After walking for about 1 hour, Fang Chenxi obviously felt hungry, she looked at the bracelet, it was 6:40. At this time, her body urgently needs breakfast to sustain herself. But the strange thing is that the father and son, not only did they not bring food, but they also did not even have the most basic equipment, which is unimaginable. If it's a long journey to the eye of the storm, how do they take care of food and lodging? She might have to figure it out herself, but she didn't know anything about the place.
"I'm hungry, didn't you prepare food?" Fang Chenxi asked them slightly embarrassed, but Ed seemed to understand, and yelled a few times to say that there was no need to worry.
Bai Teyi looked around, he stopped, ran to the bushes to pick some unknown berries, and put them in Fang Chenxi's hands. He said, "You can take these and eat them first, and there will be no problem." It's true that I didn't prepare food, but this forest has a lot of resources, and you don't have to worry about that. ”
"Oh, and how long are we going to go?" Fang Chenxi put a berry in his mouth, and then exploded, it was juicy and the flesh was sweet. But she knows very well that this is not a good source of carbohydrates compared to rice.
Bai Teyi smiled and didn't speak, his face looked strange. Seeing this, Yu Yi hurriedly replied to her: "Two days, if you don't rest...... It also takes a whole day. ”
"What?" Fang Chenxi chewed the berries in his mouth, and suddenly realized that it was not very sweet. She thought it would only take a few hours, or half a day, to arrive, and now it seems that Eric's task is not very easy to accomplish.
Bai Teyi asked: "Do you still want to go?" If you can hold on. ”
"I've said this a long time ago, so hurry up and hurry up now, and solve the problem on the spot." Fang Chenxi swallowed the berries she was holding in her hand, and she felt that the taste of these things was getting stranger and stranger.
It wasn't a smooth road, and when they crossed the last mountain, they saw an open eye, which meant there wasn't much food to come by. Bai Teyi called it the Land of Death, because it was made of stones and sand, and it was hard to imagine any animals living in this environment. And the last time he was here, it was 30 years ago, and he remembered it very well, and even the big rock where he had been lying still remembered. Tree? There are no taller plants here, and Feather is the first time he has come here, and his father always tells him not to come to this place. He picked up a pebble and brought it with him, it was probably the only weapon left, but it might be of other use.
Time passed minute by minute, and unconsciously, the energy radiated by the sun poured here, Fang Chenxi looked at the white sand and gravel land in front of him, and finally understood why this place was called the Land of Death. At this point, Ed no longer led the way, and it had no further place to go back the way it came, so Bai Teyi took a stick and led them on. A grizzly bear withdrew from the team, Fang Chenxi didn't know whether to be happy or sorry, maybe with a strong helper, they could be much easier. But she hadn't thought about sitting on it.
Bai Teyi squinted, holding the wooden stick he had chopped this morning, and kept beating the stones on the road, he suddenly asked the people behind him: "How do you feel about being baptized by the sun?" ”
"I want this damn solar energy to be obscured by the clouds, or just go down."
Fang Chenxi blocked the sunlight that was shining directly into her eyes with her hand, she accidentally found that the time on the bracelet was a quarter past 8, only to realize that time passed so slowly, this was probably the first time that she hoped that time would pass quickly. But now that she hadn't even reached a quarter of the distance, her hope was just a luxury.
The endless road is the most terrifying, even if you can see the light ahead, but it doesn't mean that it is smooth. Fang Chenxi sometimes complains about Eric, giving himself such a difficult task, but thinking about it, his life is in his own hands, which is also a different kind of fun.