Volume 1 The Corpse Maze Chapter 7 The Shadow of the Tree

We found an open field on the top of the mountain, lit a smokeless stove, opened the few cans we had brought and poured them into the pot, and dug out the packets of beef from the fat man's backpack. The corners of the fat man's mouth twitched and he jumped up and scolded: "Damn, that was what Lao Tzu took into the bucket to eat." As he spoke, he came over to grab it, but was stopped by the three of us. The fat man immediately wilted as soon as he saw Junko's bulging muscles, and his big ass twisted and sat on the ground to smoke a cigarette, and we ignored him when we looked funny. At this time, Qin Feng walked over and kicked the fat man's buttocks, "Fatty, why don't you eat your two pieces of beef and it will be hot." This black bamboo ditch is full of miasma, poisonous snakes and insects must be indispensable, and when they will go down the mountain into the ditch, then there will be no peace. Eat more now, it will definitely be difficult later. The fat man tilted his head and thought about it, and he smiled and came over to stretch out his chopsticks.

By the time we finished eating, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, so we packed up our gear, tightened our cuffs and trousers and started to descend the mountain. The way down the mountain is much easier, but for some reason, the slopes on the eastern side of Kamezhushan have become much smoother, and the further down the mountain, the fewer shrubs there are, and the fallen leaves on the ground have been decreasing. When I reached a position about a hundred meters below the mountain, there was no vegetation in sight, and a large area of land was exposed to the outside, all of which were bloody soil, and the color was getting darker and darker, and by now, it was as red as blood.

We are all depressed and have no one to talk to, and in such an environment, it is difficult to adjust our mood. The closer you get to the entrance of the black bamboo ditch, the wetter the soil. By the end of the day, the blood, which had been dry at first, had become sticky, and each foot was like stepping on the blood, and the water squeezed out from the sides of the soles was like blood.

I have to say that in front of nature, human beings are still very small, these primitive forests, human development is only the marginal area, and even birds and beasts will avoid the deepest part. We stood at the entrance of Heizhugou, all looking at each other. On the mountain, I couldn't see clearly through a layer of gray gas, and now when I stood at the entrance and looked inside, they were all dense woods more than ten meters high, and there was no sunlight at all, and the ground was full of shrubs and vines, which were intertwined with each other like countless black pythons.

Junko couldn't help but be vigilant, turned to us and said, "You are all following me, there are many holes in this kind of forest, don't make a mistake, if you fall into it, you have to fold here." "I heard Junko on the road talk about how when he used to fight in Vietnam, he was often introduced by the Vietnamese into this kind of dead man's pit. Those pits in the rainforest, as long as you step into them, you can bury all a person in ten minutes, even if you can be rescued, the place where you fall in, pulled out are all dense blood holes, all of them are bitten by grass and locusts, these insects get into the flesh and crawl along the blood vessels, you can't catch them at all, and they basically don't live for a few days before they are sucked into dry corpses.

In fact, the black bamboo ditch is not very deep, only more than 1,000 meters, but in this kind of rainforest where you can't discern the direction, once you get lost, you can't get out. Qin Feng grabbed the trunk of the tree and climbed a tree at the mouth of the valley, and began to locate it with a compass. The real Tufuzi is rarely used to locate the compass, first, it is too inconvenient to carry, and it is not clear in the tomb and at night, and secondly, those real old rivers and lakes, as long as they rely on a compass, they can find the dragon point according to the star map and the territory that they have memorized in their hearts, and it is much faster.

Qin Feng fixed the direction, like a monkey, grabbed the trunk of the tree left and right with both hands and swung down, to be honest, among the four of us, I was the most useless one, and I don't know why I came here in a daze at that time.

At that moment, Qin Feng explained a few words to Shunzi, and Shunzi nodded, took out the AK on his back and held it in his hand, checked the bullet, and loaded it with a click. This kind of people who have been soldiers are in this mood, they feel that holding a gun in their hands feels steady, and loading a bullet is to give themselves courage. When we have done this ourselves, we will all take our weapons in our hands, and don't let the torches go out. In this kind of forest, the torch is our talisman, which can illuminate us, and secondly, it can also drive away some poisonous snakes and insects, after all, most animals are still afraid of fire.

With that ready, we started into the woods. Calculating the time of descent from the mountain, it is already past four o'clock, and it is only two or three hours before dark, and we must cross the forest before dark, otherwise we will have to march at night, which is the most taboo in the rainforest.

The road in the forest was not easy to walk, the ground was full of silt, slippery and greasy to step on, coupled with the obstruction of shrubs and vines, we walked for half an hour, and we walked more than 200 meters. The fat man said in a low voice: "Hey, I said Shunzi, at this rate, we will have to walk for at least four or five hours, and when the sun sets, we will be blind." Junzi led the way in front, all the way was highly nervous, and there was no sound in the silence in the forest, listening to the fat man's words, he was frightened, and turned his head and scolded: "You fucking little noise, don't provoke anything." The ground is full of mud pits, and even if you want to be fast, you can't get up quickly. ”

When the fat man heard that he didn't please him, he muttered and stopped talking. At that moment, we heard the sound of leaves next to us, as if something was flying by. We were immediately startled, Junko reacted very quickly, and had already aimed the muzzle of the gun at the place where the sound was made, and there was silence after walking for so long, and now there was a sudden sound, and my nervous hand trembled, and the dagger in my hand almost fell to the ground.

After waiting for about ten seconds, there was no movement just now. I trembled and said to Junko, "Junko, over there, what's going on, did we hear it wrong?" "I am also comforting myself at this time, I heard it wrong, one person may hear it wrong, and the possibility of four people hearing it wrong at the same time is too small. Junko didn't answer me either, gave the fat man a gesture, motioned for the fat man to go over and take a look with himself, I hurriedly grabbed Junzi, "No, since it didn't come, let's leave it alone, let's go." Junko shook his head and said, "No, I don't see it clearly, if I am followed all the time, I don't know when I was hit, so it's better to strike first." "As soon as I thought about it, I went over with Qin Feng with a torch, we walked very slowly, a distance of more than ten meters, walked for two minutes, and walked to the front of the tree that made a noise just now, the fat man gave us a look, we quickly stretched the torch to the back of the tree, and the Shunzi and the fat man pointed directly at the back of the tree with the muzzle of the gun, but there was nothing behind. A few of us looked at each other, but we didn't find any traces of anything, so we slowly retreated.

"Let's hurry up, pay attention to our surroundings later, don't be targeted." Qin Feng whispered, I thought to myself, how can I not be targeted, this rainforest is full of cold-blooded animals, and they can't see sunlight all year round, their eyes have long been degenerated, and they basically determine the target according to sound and heat, we are playing torches, that are a few fireballs, we must have been targeted since we entered this forest, but the torches that were afraid of us did not attack us.