Section 26 The predetermined destiny
As she was about to set off again, Lily took the stake in her hand and looked at Anos beside her, quietly worrying about what to do with this thing. "Just now, I regarded them as a token of the mountain alliance and the sea oath, and now I want to throw them away, isn't it a little ungrateful," Lily thought embarrassedly.
Anos and Lily, who were already an unmarried couple, broke that barrier and became more intimate than before. But settling down here is obviously not realistic. First, the location they were in was still very close to the xenomorph camp. Second, there is no water source and a single source of food, making it unsuitable for settlement. And the first problem that Lily, who wants to continue their journey, is their token of love, "the two stakes". These two stakes were picked up by Lily on the ground, and it was indeed inconvenient for Lily, who had no long things, to carry these two things on a long journey.
However, at this time, Anos, who seemed to be rough-haired, had already thought of a solution. He took the stake from her hand under Lily's puzzled gaze, and found another sharp stone, which he polished with a hum. He first knocked out the irregular parts of the stake and smoothed out the uneven parts. Finally, a slightly thinner section is polished into a round point, so that the stake is much smaller as a whole, suitable for carrying in the pocket of clothes, and also becomes a sharp weapon for self-defense.
In this way, it took Anos half a day to polish the two stakes. Looking at the two much more delicate pointed wooden stakes, Lily gave Anos a thumbs up with satisfaction, while she found a small stone with sharp corners and carved the names of Anos and Lily on the two wooden stakes. When he was done, Lily smiled and handed the stake with Lily's name engraved on it to Anos, who looked at the stake and scratched the back of his head and smirked.
Just as they were enjoying the happiest time of their lives, the three xenos who pursued them were in torment. It's been five days since they've been out of the camp downstream, and the first two days they've thought they'd be able to find them easily without clues from the lilies with their strength and speed, but they've clearly overestimated their abilities. They don't know the idiom of looking for a needle in a haystack, but they do know what it's like to find sand that has fallen into the desert, and to be precise, that's where they are. It was so hard to find two humans in the middle of the mountains and forests, and after two days of confidence, they wandered around the mountains for two more days, and on the fifth day they began to despair, for from that day on they could never return to the camp downstream, for it was the order of the tribe that anyone who left for more than five days without a reason would be put to death for whatever reason.
One of the three xenos was about to go back on the third day, but was stopped by the other two, who were lucky. On the fifth day, the xenomorph finally collapsed, and no matter how much the other two threatened it to go back. The other two were afraid that it would go back to snitch, and then their plan to steal the richly robed property would be leaked, and they would be endlessly pursued by the guards of the inner city. They had no choice but to kill the xenomorph creature and eat its corpse. In fact, what they don't know is that "they have already run in front of the two humans, Lily and the others".
The reality is that because these three xenomorphs don't look at the road and just search and follow, they don't take a straight line but a huge S-shaped route, and this S-shaped route is three times the distance of the lily because it far exceeds the physical strength and endurance of humans. Because of the S-shaped route, they and the Lily's straight route intersect in many places, but they diverge back and forth.
After eating the xenomorph creature, their anxiety eased after no doubts and urges. After some discussion, they decided to search back, and if that didn't work, they would have to wander away from the area and die. To their surprise, in the process of searching back, they unexpectedly got results, and at a mountain pass, they met Lily and the two humans, who were on their way.
At that time, the lilies were descending the mountain, and the xenomorphs were climbing. Both sides found each other at the first time, and they were both stunned. Then shouts of horror and excitement rang out on both sides at the same time. Anos reacted immediately, he pushed out a boulder beside him, the boulder was eroded by the mountain wind in the mountain pass, and was pushed and shook by Anos for a while, and then rolled down the mountain, almost crushing the two xenomorph creatures that jumped upwards under the stone, but the strength and speed of the xenomorph creatures were much higher than that of humans after all, and they narrowly avoided the boulder that rolled down. And the lilies slid up the ridge into a ravine.
After seeing these two humans, the depression and frustration of the two xenomorphs these days were also swept away. They swayed slowly behind the humans, who seemed to them to be in their pockets, and the two humans were running as fast as they could while they could catch up with them at the same speed as they walked. They now had to play a good trick on the two humans to ease the depression they had suffered for the past few days and the unknown fate of their imminent escape.
At this point, Lily was already in despair. She didn't understand why fate did this to her, she had just gotten rid of all kinds of shackles on the earth, and she seemed to have found a little shadow of happiness, could it come to an abrupt end here?
The two xenos stumbled all the way down the ravine behind the humans, and when they turned a bushy turn, they suddenly lost track of the two humans, which made the two xenos both agitated and angry, and they immediately ran along the ravine to search for them.
After the two xenos ran away without a trace, Lily and the others nervously stood up from a bush not far from where the xenomorphs were. Looking at the direction in which the xenomorph creature was running, Anos said anxiously to Lily: "If they run for a while and don't find our trace, they will definitely know that they have been fooled, let's run separately, so that the chance of running away is greater."
"No, if we die, we will die together" Lily looked at Anos and said firmly, she knew that as long as they were separated, Anos would definitely use himself to lure away the two demons and create a chance for her to escape. She doesn't want to be like this, if she can't escape the predetermined fate, she hopes that the two can be together until the last moment.
Looking at the lily's determined eyes, Anos knew that he could not convince her, and looked around anxiously, pulled her and ran to the side of the ravine. But in the end, they still did not run through the fate of separationγγγγγ
Lily's experience said this, her and Anos's experience in this world has also come to an end, Lily, Zhang Lan, and Li Junshan all fell silent, only the big black Davis looked at them blankly. Li Junshan wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, wanting to say something but didn't know what to say. And Zhang Lan was also red-eyed and secretly hated why he didn't run a little faster, but he also knew that just saving Lily was already beyond his own limit.
Although I couldn't understand what the other three were saying, I could tell from their expressions that everyone was in a bad mood. Davis got up and fiddled with the somewhat dim campfire, poured four more bowls of hot water from the stone pot, and silently handed them to everyone.
"I seldom listened to the words of Annos in this life. But how could I not listen to what he said when he looked at me when he was dying, he looked at me and said don't want to die... How could I not listen to him," Lily muttered to herself. couldn't bear to see Lily's disillusioned appearance, Zhang Lan turned her head silently.
The tears that Li Junshan had just wiped away seeped out again. She took Lily's hand, swaying it back and forth but unable to speak. Just when the two were at a loss, it was the person concerned who was the first to break free from this sad atmosphere, Lily wiped her eyes, showed a smile and said: "So I want to live, live well, I can't let him down." β
After a night of silence, Li Junshan pulled Lily to sleep in her dragon skin quilt, not disgusted with her blood at all, while Davis and Zhang Lan slept at the door of the cave. The black man was lucky not to snore, otherwise the echo of this cave alone would have been endured by others. It can be said that this night is the safest night in the surrounding environment after Zhang Lan came to this world, but he can't fall asleep for a long time. He thought about which humans, which alien creatures, which white creatures Lily said, and the love between Anos and Lily, as a senior single dog, their love made him very envious, and also made him very puzzled, what kind of environment can create such a feeling, what kind of experience will make people die like this, what kind of state of mind Anos was in when he faced death, in the mixed thoughts, he finally fell asleep.
The next day, Zhang Lan got up late for the first time, and the big black man was cooking, so he woke up in a daze.
After helping Davis get breakfast sorted out, everyone finished breakfast together. Li Junshan pulled Zhang Lan aside and said, "Lily and I are going to take a bath, according to the old rules, you still stand guard." β
Zhang Lan looked at Li Junshan strangely and said, "Didn't I just let you go once?" How did it become an old rule. Besides, there are no benefits, let the big black go, I want to clean up the two trees that I carried back. β
Li Junshan hit Zhang Lan hard, glared at him fiercely and said, "Are you going?" Zhang Lan saw that Li Junshan had a tendency to get mad, so she hurriedly smiled and said, "Go, go." Definitely go, standing guard for the big beauty, is a blessing from my cultivation. I will do my best and not let anything take advantage of it."
Seeing that Zhang Lan agreed, Li Junshan nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile, "Hmph, sample"
Zhang Lan was speechless, he knew that it was not Li Junshan who wanted to wash, but Li Junshan was afraid that Lily would not be familiar with them and would not be able to speak.
After packing up, Li Junshan and Davis said their intentions, Davis naturally has no objection, his plan today is to perfect the traps around the cave, he wants Li Junshan to shout to inform him when they come back, so that he can bring them in to prevent them from falling into the trap by mistake. Then Li Junshan brought a change of animal skin clothes, while Zhang Lan continued to carry his two trees, in his words, when Li Junshan and them stood guard, they couldn't really peep, so he took advantage of this time to clean up the two trees, anyway, where are not the same work.
Li Junshan carried his clothes in a leather backpack, Zhang Lan carried two trees, and Lily followed behind them. Of course, their bathing ground was still the canyon dammed lake where the original temporary camp was, and it took more than an hour to get there.
Zhang Lan's post is still behind the big rock, close enough to the ladies, and there is no possibility of voyeurism.
Zhang Lan leaned the two trees on the big stone and prepared to start work. At this time, there was a timid voice from Lily: "You don't have to take off your underwear, right?" And Li Junshan said very simply: "You see that your underwear is full of blood, how can you wear it if you don't wash it." "But what are you wearing, is there anything to change here?" asked Lily, still timidly. If you don't change it, you won't wear it. There's no one here, I've tried it, it's fine. Li Junshan said coquettishly.
Zhang Lan, who was one stone away, almost didn't squirt saliva, no one, isn't she a human being? This Li Junshan is really the daughter of a soldier, and when the relationship is familiar, this straightforwardness will come out.
Listening to the sound of the water stirring while the two of them taking a bath, I couldn't help but think of the beautiful picture behind the big stone. She knows Li Junshan's hibiscus-like pretty face and graceful figure, and Lily has been bloodstained since they met, and she can't see her original appearance, and Zhang Lan only saved Baiyi Although he knew that he had done his best, he still felt a little guilty, and after hearing about the experience of Lily and Anos, he couldn't bear it. So I haven't looked at her head-on, but I know that she has a good figure, but I don't have an impression of her appearance, and the scene in my mind is only the specific appearance of Li Junshan.
Shaking his head, he laughed self-deprecatingly, swept the strange thoughts out of his mind, and carefully dealt with the two logs in front of him.