Chapter 262: The Strange Lake (15)
It was only at noon when the light and vision were at their best that they began to do their work, and the shadow looked for a drier place, cut off the branches that covered the roof, and then removed all the thick fallen leaves on the ground, and made room for a place to camp and rest at night.
After a day of tossing, the spare torches were ready, but the food was not found at all, to say that the bird in the forest does not poop is still a compliment to it, how can there be bird poop if there are no birds here.
I don't know why, except that they couldn't find food, they didn't encounter any danger at the end of the day, and it seemed that as long as they didn't continue on their way, then there would be no trouble with this forest.
However, the tranquility lasted only until midnight.
A gust of cold wind blew, Zhuge Fan opened his eyes, he first rubbed his sleepy eyes, and then muttered unhappily, "It's so cold."
Just as he was about to get up and find something to keep out the cold, suddenly he realized that something was wrong!
"Damn!" Zhuge Fan scolded, then immediately sat up, and as far as the eye could see, there was endless fog and darkness in front of him.
He still clearly remembers the scene when he was bitten by that thing in the water, and then a shock hit, he fell into a coma, and I don't know how long later, he gradually regained consciousness, but the fatigue of his body made him unable to wake up.
He could feel himself ashore and that he had been bandaged, he could hear the voice in his ears, but he couldn't hear the contents, and then he fell back into a stupor, only to wake up just now.
Originally, in the woods in the middle of the night, the smoke was thick and the darkness was a very normal thing, he had been used to it when he had been to various hills to collect medicine before, but at that moment just now, he realized that he was not alone in the woods now, there were many people around him, so it was not normal to have no fire.
This group of people won't just leave me and leave, will they? Zhuge Fan thought about it and felt that it was really possible. With his character, being abandoned or something has long been a matter of course.
"It's so unjust!" Zhuge Fan just cursed, and quickly denied this idea, because if you really want to abandon him, you won't bandage his wounds, since you have bandaged the wounds, then at least you will wait for him to wake up and then abandon him, otherwise he will die if he is not bandaged, so the current situation can only show one thing, there is an emergency.
He sniffed around with his nose and could smell the burning smell of a charcoal fire, and sure enough, as he expected, it was not that there was no bonfire, but that it had been extinguished.
Then there is probably no one in the camp now. If there were people, the muttering sound he had just woken up from would definitely be heard, and in such a quiet place, the sound of breathing was extremely clear, let alone the sound of talking.
So what's going on? Will the people in the camp leave quietly, or even abandon him, or, perhaps, not not to wake him up, but not to wake him up?
Zhuge Fan habitually wrapped his right hand around his chest, raised his left hand in front of his face, and spread out his five fingers to cover half of his face.
This is his habitual action when thinking about problems, he likes to see the world through the gaps between his fingers, as if that allows him to see different things, but in fact, before he developed this habit of thinking, this action was just so that others could not see what he was.
There are no messy footprints on the ground, and the bonfire is naturally extinguished (if it is artificially extinguished, only soil can be used to extinguish the fire here, then the smell of fire and charcoal will have an earthy smell, and when Zhuge Fan smelled it just now, there was no earthy smell), there was no noisy sound, and there was no smell of blood......
"Alas!" Zhuge Fan sighed, put down his left hand, and shook his head, "It's really a hell of a life." ”
Thinking of the strange things in the lake, it is not surprising that it is like this now.
"That day in the village, the old man said that my Yintang was black, and he would definitely encounter something ominous, was he right?" Zhuge Fan stood up and said to himself, "I should have listened to him if I knew it, and I bought that three hundred children's songs with him...... After a pause, he continued to talk to himself, "Anyway, can that book really drive away evil spirits?" ”
As he muttered his thoughts, he drew a branch from the extinguished fire, which was still smoking, and then he blew it with his mouth on the smoking branch, and in a short time the branch began to turn red, and then slowly became on fire.
Luckily, the fire was not extinguished for a long time, Zhuge Fan raised the torch and walked around the camp, and then stopped at a place with the most footprints, those footprints were messy and uneven, of different shades, and it could be seen that they were footprints stepped on by different people at different times.
"So they're going this way?" Zhuge Fan squatted down and held a torch to follow the footprints, when he used to go up the mountain to collect medicine, in order to avoid encountering wild beasts, he had carefully studied the footprints of various animals and people.
As for why he wanted to study human footprints, his thought at the time was that humans were more common than wild beasts, and both were dangerous anyway, so let's start with the most common ones, and in this way, he included humans in the ranks of wild beasts and studied them carefully.