Chapter Forty-Nine: The Strange Jungle
I also looked up at the sun in the sky, Huya's actions were still a lot in advance, but I have to say that she was right to do this, don't forget, we still have to find a way to go deep into the dense forest more than ten meters away on the left and then find a place to live, and if such conditions are not met, then, most likely, the three of us will spend this long afternoon and a whole night in the trees.
Left finger pointed to the dense forest to signal Huya to change direction, and then patted the ball behind him and told him to follow us, his face was red in the sun, his naked body was greasy with a layer of oil, and it was obvious that the weight on his back was a little unbearable.
I looked at the dead birds and the beast that was dead like a cat behind him, sighed to myself, and reached out and pulled the thick rattan they had worn together in my hand, and threw it into the murderous hot spring with the force of my turn, and then, not forgetting to wipe the blood stains on my hands.
Dandan let out an exclamation when he saw my movements, then covered his mouth with his hand, looked at me with a puzzled look, and froze in place.
I couldn't explain to him how birds grow parasites and turn into carrion 12 hours after they die, and I couldn't even explain to him what a "parasite" was by words, gestures, or any possible means of communication, I could only point to the string of dead birds still floating on the surface of the water and make a gesture of gnawing meat at him, and then immediately stick out his tongue and pretend to be dead, although I could see from his expression that he still didn't know who to love, I knew the balls, as long as I told him that this thing was not eaten, He would never go to the hot springs again to fish them out, but what about being a tiger? Hehe, not evenly, as long as she thinks it's the right thing to do.
The position under my feet was a few meters away from the tiger, which caused the tiger to disappear from my field of vision as soon as she walked into the woodland, well, I know it's hard to understand how she "disappeared", in fact, it was only when I stepped into the dense forest with both feet that I understood the principle.
The trees here are so dense that it's hard to imagine how these towering trees could survive each other in such dense conditions, or rather, it violates the law of natural selection, but it's amazing that they exist.
This density caused the canopy of the giant tree to stand together without any gaps, and it was as dark as night in the woods, and it was precisely because of this brightness and darkness that the tiger girl disappeared from view in a blink of an eye when she first entered the woodland, and the bark here was very moist, and they could actually survive in an environment mixed with lake and seawater, and the bark was very hard, and it was as cold as a stone to the touch, such a strange phenomenon made me very staggered.
There were many medium-sized shrubs between the giant trees, more than a man tall, and the tiger girl carried a wooden spear in front of her to push away the bushes, hoping to open a "way" to the depths to avoid the lake later.
But to our surprise, it was so dense that sometimes even when we pushed aside the bushes and thought we could take a few steps forward, there was still a tree on the other side of the bush, although not as straight into the sky as the ancient trees, but several such "little trees" stood there, and one could not imagine passing by.
After some tossing, I reached out and grabbed the tiger girl and shook her head vigorously, since we entered this woodland, it took us half an hour, but we only traveled this distance of five or six meters, if according to the observation just outside, the time of the high tide of the lake is about to come, we cannot travel to a safe area anyway, because it would be a full forty or fifty meters from the edge of the false lake.
Other than that, it was so dark that it was hard to see my hands even with my round eyes, and the position of the three of them was entirely up to our ears, and in the end, we had to hold a spear to avoid the fate of being separated.
It's a matter of life and death, and I don't dare to be sloppy, that kind of strange fish is a species I can't afford to provoke anyway.
We had to hurriedly turn around and return to the outside of the woodland, hoping to find a dwarf tree that could rest on the trunk of the tree for the night, but the more it grew outside, the bigger it became, and the fossil-like bark was so difficult to climb that it was impossible to climb up.
Huya was a little anxious with red eyes, but Dan Dan looked back at the game I had just thrown away from time to time, so the three of them were busy going deep into the dense forest again, and finally, behind a bunch of bushes, they found a low tree that seemed to be climbable, in fact, before climbing, we didn't know how high the branches above were from the ground, can you believe it? But we did just that, the tiger was on top, and I was in the middle, and I climbed up behind the Dandan Palace, because we had already heard the sound of birds screaming outside the forest and the chaotic sound of thousands of birds flying overhead, and in the blink of an eye, there was the sound of tumbling water at the edge of the woodland, "panic and choose the tree", which is what we look like, thank God, God still has a conscience, and gave us three a thin tree that can just be held and run up.
The tree was far less complicated than I had feared, in fact we had reached the top of the tree no more than ten meters, and strangely enough, it had no canopy, and the top of the tree was just two thick branches, one on the left and one on the right, branching out on both sides, just enough to accommodate the three of us, and avoid the catastrophe.
I was panting as I hugged the trunk of the tree, and the balls next to me were not much better, he was tired, and the spears he was carrying behind his back didn't know if he had thrown them under the tree, and just now, he was pushing me up with his head on my ass, you know, when it comes to climbing trees, modern people like me have no advantage over them, but finally, at least it's safe now.
The sound of the water under the trees grew louder and louder, but in a moment it was stunned and then calmed down, and there were no more birds outside the forest, everything seemed to have subsided, so quiet, I could even hear the sound of strange fish tumbling in the water and the heavy breathing of the balls.
Wait, where's Huya? Why is there only me and Dandan's snort in this breathing sound?