Chapter Forty-Eight: The Swamp That Swallows Everything

It didn't take me much time to think about where we were going, and it was an easy decision, because there were only two paths, either we would return to our canoe and go around the coast to find another place to live, or we would go around the false lake, and there would be a few mountains on the other side of the murderous hot springs. Where there are mountains, no one will starve to death, even if it takes me a few more years to create a second "cave", it will not be difficult, after all, I have already experienced it myself.

As you will know, my character will no longer choose to go on sea adventures, which will have a great shadow on my heart, and I will refuse to go to sea even for a long time to come, because of that adventure around the island.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, we climbed from the sea to the land, from reptiles to primates and finally into human form, all of which are the result of the evolution to the land, which shows that our ancient ancestors also understood that the sea water is not suitable for us to live, and our two feet were born to live on land, so why go back to our ancestors and work hard in the sea?

It has to be said that Dandan was a faithful servant, and he used soft rattan to string the dead birds and the big cats together, and carried the dozen spears of the tiger on his body, but he did not complain at all, even if the weight was so heavy that he could only walk hunched.

Walking through the woodland, near the false lake, the tiger girl looked at the rising sun in the morning and saluted, then looked at me with a frown, I knew in my heart that although this woman was stubborn and extremely assertive, she would always obey my arrangement in such big decisions, especially after I pulled the witch back from the brink of death, this attitude was more humble, although her nature made her unable to obey her words, but at least she would not use extreme means to resist, nor did she bare her teeth again, which made my heart feel a lot more relieved.

I patted Huya on the shoulder, and stroked her crumpled door with my hand, signaling her to reassure, and looked around, the left side of the false lake intertwined with countless murderous hot springs surrounded a large woodland, and the right side, although also woodland, was much more sparse and shorter in density and height than the left, and subconsciously told me that the right side might be closer to the coast, while the left side stretched inland, which was due to the normal natural conditions, at least I thought.

This seemingly simple judgment has a great influence on the decision that the three of us will make, in other words, if you want to eat a coconut like a candle all the way to the distance, then please pass on the right; But if you want to eat a little bit of meat, then there is only the left side, and this reason could not be simpler, and there will be no easy small animals to inhabit the coast, where there are only coconuts!

But walking around the coast is not without any benefit, there will be no beasts there! The woodland on the left is completely unknown.

Frankly, it was a difficult decision to make, but it was also very simple, and in the end I chose to walk on the edge of the woodland on the left, just because I was afraid that the water of the murderous lake that would spread in the afternoon would instantly swallow us up by the shore, although there may be such a danger in the woodland, but Lao Tzu will climb trees!

The savages "escorted" us away from the shore of the habitat with their spears, and although I was full of unhappiness, what could I do?

The old man said: "Wangshan runs a dead horse", this sentence is not wrong at all, this fake lake is full of only two or three kilometers of square meters, but really around, but found that it is actually difficult to move an inch, we just walked out of more than 100 meters, walking in front of the tiger girl will clench his fist above his head to signal us to stop, this sudden move behind the head of the head walking the ball almost hit my waist.

Walked quickly to the side of the tiger girl, but saw that her brows were furrowed tighter than just now, she pointed to the mud next to the hot spring in front of her, and then used the spear in her hand to probe into the mud, who knows, the tip of the hair just touched the seemingly tight ground, the ground spit out a string of bubbles, and then turned up the pulp, the tiger girl took advantage of the situation to let go of the spear in her hand, the spear sank into the mud by itself, and in a blink of an eye the tip of the hair fell in, and then the spear body was swallowed into the mud mouth with bubbles little by little.

I watched all this until the whole spear was completely immersed in it, and it was only a little more than a minute, which was more terrifying than any swamp I had ever heard of, and don't forget, the wooden spear was so thin and light, if a stunned living person plunged into this swamp, I believe that in a few tens of seconds, it would be evaporated by this soft mud that eats people and does not spit out bones.

Turning to look at the group of savages more than 100 meters away, they were still looking forward to "seeing off" our departure, the tips of the hair in their hands were still straight towards us, without the slightest slack, and they scolded the eight generations of ancestors of this group of beasts in their hearts, and then began to miss the canoe on the coast, or, I don't know if it would be feasible to turn around and discuss with them now whether it would be feasible to take the sea route.

The murderous swamp seriously affected our path, and even, every step became very difficult, you know, Huya is a cautious person by nature, until the sun rises in the sky, we are only halfway there, Dandan reminded me several times if I can enter the woodland on the left to build a habitat to live, in fact, I also used this brain, but in the end I didn't do it, the forest is too deep, and very dense, I don't have a machete in my hand, I can't cut the way at all, I want to live in that environment, It's tantamount to giving three carrion bodies to a beast.

The sun rises higher and higher, Hu Ya looks up at the sky from time to time, I understand, she is paying attention to the time, don't forget, no matter how carefully we avoid the swamp that swallows people, but as long as it is noon, this murderous hot spring will instantly flood into a lake, the wound on the demon girl's leg torn by the strange fish is vivid, I will never make such a risk again, I believe that Hu Ya is now thinking about the same problem.

A sense of exhaustion welled up in my heart, accompanied by sadness and a burst of sadness, this is all my own sin, if it weren't for my whim to do some kind of round-the-island travel, Lao Tzu must still be holding rabbit meat and holding Moutai to feast, or was not shoehorned into the "Zheng He" by those leaders, how could he have become a peasant who looked at God's face from a good naval lieutenant, and how could he be in such a dangerous situation.

Well, I know, I'm a Navy major is an impostor, in my career in the military academy for a few years, I have never read it seriously, and even swimming is a second knife, but God will never punish me to such a point with such a small thing, there, there are a lot of children than me, but I still learned a little bit of theory under Lao Tan's "careful care", and those people, some of them have never even been to school, and they are not the same rank and school rank after graduation?

With such a bad mood, I didn't have the heart to move half a step forward, and at the same time, Huya also seemed to be very understanding, stopped, turned back to me and pointed to the sky, I understood that she was reminding me that the time for the murderous hot spring had arrived.