People who have passed by the Grim Reaper seem to be more calm.

The two of them walked in the direction of the mountain, and after a few steps they broke off a branch to make a mark. The mountain that no one has ever climbed, the vegetation is very thick, and the grass is half a man high. The two of them moved forward slowly, one foot deep and the other shallow.

"Look carefully at your feet, I used to watch TV, and said that if you find animal tracks in the forest, it means that you are not far from the water source. I just don't know if there are animals on this island. ”

"You're in charge of looking at the ground, and I'm looking around to see what wild fruit is."

"Good. Reasonable. Xiang Wen walked in front, stomping the grass down with his feet, trying to make Miao Miao walk a little better.

"Look, there's bamboo over there." Miao Miao said happily.

Xiang Wen looked up, "Really, will there be bamboo shoots?" ”

"Let's go, let's see." Along the way, they are all plants that I don't know, and it's hard to see a kind of recognition. This gives a little spiritual comfort.

When they got closer, they saw that it was a large bamboo forest, the tall bamboo forest blocked the sky, the sunlight, and a thick layer of dead leaves fell on the ground, and the bamboo shoots and other things could not be seen at all. Xiang Wen looked around, "Let's go up a little further, if we don't find a water source, we have to go back, we haven't eaten for a day today, so we will dig some conch before it gets dark." "Okay, let's go." So the two of them continued to walk up, leaving the bamboo forest, and the sky suddenly became open.

Further up, the mountain began to flatten out, and gradually there were fewer and fewer tall trees, more and more large rocks, and not far away you could see unknown birds perched on the branches. There seemed to be yellow wild fruits hanging from the branches. "Miao Miao, what do you think is that? Is it an apricot? Slowly, they climbed over a pile of rocks, which was really a wild apricot tree, and under the tree some fruit had been pecked by birds. Xiang Wen picked up a relatively intact one and took a bite, "Hey, it's sweet and sour, it's delicious." You wait, I'll climb up and shake some down. Xiang Wen explained the "shoes" on his feet and climbed the tree barefoot, the tree is quite high, but there are many forked branches and leaves, and it is not difficult to climb. There was a large branch that probably couldn't bear the weight, so it broke off and hung crookedly on the side. He saw that there was a lot of fruit and stepped on it and shook it vigorously, because the fruit was already ripe, and it fell off when he shook it. Miao Miao picked up and ate at the same time, some fell into the crack of the stone and did not pick it up, and after a while, on a relatively flat stone surface, there was a small pile of apricots. "Come down, it's okay." Xiang Wen heard a puff of smoke and crawled down. "Finally, in addition to the conch, we have one more food to eat." "Hmm. Let's take it back. Each of them filled his two pants pockets to the brim. I also had some in hand. Look at the sky, the sun is already halfway up. "It's still some distance from the top of the mountain, let's go home first, she doesn't need to make shoes tomorrow morning, she can set off a little earlier." Xiang Wen thought to himself.

The journey back felt much faster, and when the sun hadn't set yet on the beach, Xiang Wen hurriedly went to dig up conch shellfish while the sky was still bright, and then lit a fire. Miao Miao wiped the tin cans she picked up in the morning, and put the conch shellfish in it and put it on the fire, so that the soup could be preserved relatively well. She broke the apricots with ingenuity and threw some flesh into them. Anyway, this meal, Xiang Wen is eating with a different flavor.

After dinner, the two sat by the fire and fell silent for a while

"Do you think we'll be saved?" Miao Miao's voice was a little nasal, "If they haven't found us, what's the difference between us and death in this place where birds don't, it's even more painful to live like this." ”

"No, the birds here are supposed to poop." Xiang Wen knew that Miao Miao's mood began to collapse a little at night. He is also at a loss, but in front of women, he has to behave stronger. "Don't worry, they'll find us, and we'll have to wait for a month, two months, three months. God doesn't accept us, and we have to live. ”

Miao Miao didn't answer, hugged her legs and buried her head in her knees, and the fire was blazing.

That night, the two of them struggled to sleep.