Zhang Siyuan gasped, and his voice came intermittently from below: "It's not my physical strength, no, it's true, I don't have food in my stomach, and I don't have any energy at all." Your ass is blocking my view, how long will it take? ”

I was flustered, and I craned my neck to look up, and the towering, sturdy trunks of the trees squeezed through the hands of the trees in their way, and soared into the clouds with such vigor that one would not suspect that it was headed for the sun. The dense interweaving of branches of different sizes and colors covered my eyes, preventing me from getting a glimpse of the truth.

When he saw that I had not spoken for a long time, he dragged my feet impatiently, but he almost pulled me down from under the tree. In an instant, I broke out in a cold sweat, and all my wandering thoughts instantly returned to their places, and I subconsciously hugged the trunk of the tree tightly, and my legs were clamped, and finally I stopped myself from sliding in the last few seconds, so as not to fall into a meatloaf. I couldn't pull out my hand to wipe the cold sweat from my head, I could only tilt my head to keep it from getting into my eyes. The culprit didn't say a word at this time, and even the sound of his breathing was deliberately lightened, as if to cover up his existence. I froze and gasped and scolded, "You're going to kill me, why did you pull me so hard just now?" ”

He smiled and said, "Xiao Xuanxuan is really sorry, I was a little panicked just now, and I didn't grasp the strength of my hand." But in fact, your legs are weak, so let's rest here for a while. ”

I squinted and glanced down, the ground we had turned over was a mess of disorganization, and the stone was staring at us with a half of its body as large as a black spot. My already panicked heart beat even harder, and I was a little dizzy in front of me, and I hugged the tree tightly and reprimanded: "Look down for yourself, is this a joke?" Don't you know that we haven't eaten and we're tired? Thankfully, my shoelaces are tightly tied, and if you pull one of my shoes down, I'll have you jump from here to pick it up for me. ”

He apologized again and again: "I solemnly apologize to you here, because of my negligence, Comrade Zhang Xuan almost fell into a meat patty......" His voice suddenly paused, frowned, "No, how do I feel that it is me who suffers?" If you don't stop the slide in time, your ass will definitely be in my face. At your tonnage, I'm going to have to be knocked out. ”

I said, "Fuck you." Don't patronize nonsense, you have good eyesight, can you see how tall this tree is? I was blocked by the branches of other trees, and I couldn't see anything. ”

I leaned down, he craned his neck and squinted his eyes, looked at him like a turtle for a long time, shook his head and said, "No, there are too many obstructions, and I don't have a clairvoyance." Can you free up your hands and break off some branches? ”

I glanced at it in embarrassment, clamped my legs, and stretched out my arms to break them. The thick branches have a thick layer of ice, which is always slippery when broken, and it is easy to be scratched by ice slag, which increases the difficulty of breaking. Zhang Siyuan saw that my body kept shaking sharply, for fear that I would fall, so he climbed up and grabbed my calves tightly with his two hands.

When a layer of fine and dense sweat appeared on my forehead and a layer of fine ice formed on my gloves, I finally felt much brighter in front of my eyes, and before I could lift my sore neck, Zhang Siyuan burst out with a cracked exclamation, and even patted my feet, and his excited voice trembled: "God, it's dawn!" ”

I hurriedly looked up, the sky was already white, the sun had not yet jumped out, the edge of the sky was intertwined with pale blue and white, and a few clouds floated in the air. The sky is immensely high, but it seems to be within reach. The thick trunks of the trees pointed straight to the sky, but the canopy covered with fluffy white snow like cotton could be faintly seen. I narrowed my eyes and estimated, "We'll be there in about twenty minutes of climbing." ”

His gums leaked out: "I'm afraid that this tree is too evil and grows all the way to the sky." Now that my doubts are gone, this is a great place for the two of us to take a peek at the route in mid-air without climbing to the canopy. ”

We picked ourselves up again and gritted our teeth and climbed up. When hope is in front of you, people are extraordinarily motivated and can even burst into potential. Clumsy, he used his hands and feet together, and not only stopped begging me to slow down, but also urged me to speed up.

It seems to me that time does not flow coldly and evenly forward from moment to moment. Otherwise, why explain that it should be 30 minutes away when we only take 10 minutes? When the sky was covered in black, I felt like the air and time were frozen, and the whole forest was surrounded by suffocating pain. When the big hand of light brushed away the black, I felt like time was flying by for a while, and then I felt as if it was slowing down and waiting for us deliberately.

I hugged the trunk of the tree and gasped, not daring to move my hands and legs, only daring to roll my eyes slightly to look down on everything. The branches of the trees, which had been crushed and somewhat deformed by the snow, were densely intertwined, covering the entire forest like a net, so that no one could see the slightest stretch of the web, which was covered with undulating web of brown and white, boundless, even if the field of vision was exhausted, the eyes could not be seen. I was secretly amazed at the magnificence of this marvelous spectacle, and was about to sigh when I realized that something was wrong. Even when he saw a giant tree, Zhang Siyuan, who would chatter and admire for a long time, why was he speechless at this time? I looked down apprehensively to see him staring straight at the unkempt canopy a few meters away, his face gray, and his lips pursed.

My heart skipped a beat, and I scarcely dared to look at the canopy, and I said uneasily, "What do you see again?" ”

He said in a deep voice, "There is a black thing hidden in the branch, which seems to be a human hand. ”

My eyebrows drooped, and I said to myself, sometimes I wish this guy didn't have a sharp eye. The corners of his mouth twisted around, and he said hesitantly, "Do you want to go and see?" ”

Without the slightest hesitation, I blurted out: "No, no, no, more is better than less." I don't have to think about it to guess, it's probably the ...... in Uncle Lu's team" Speaking of this, an alarm bell suddenly rang in my ears, my heart was cruelly pulled up, and in an instant, fine sweat broke out on my back, and I muttered: "Or go ......"

He patted me on the foot: "What needs to be faced still has to be faced." But we don't have enough bullets, so be careful. ”

Every inch I approached the canopy, my heart tightened a little, and I couldn't breathe well. According to the battle plan we have just drawn up, I am going to grab the dead man's hand to prevent him from falling from the tree at the moment I get close to the canopy. The next thing is to shoot a ball of bullets at lightning speed, and no matter what is in the canopy, it will have to hit it dizzy.

My hands and legs began to go limp, trembling slightly, and my heart was beating as if it was about to leap out of my throat. I took a deep breath and reprimanded myself, it's not like I haven't experienced a big scene, what it looks like to be so nervous. I took a deep breath and looked up, and the dense and unkempt branches and the gray-black human hands hidden inside were clearly visible to me. The hand was so thin that the wound was frozen when it was halfway through the decay, and there was even the corpse of half a maggot in the ice blood.

I got goosebumps all over my body, and a wave of vomiting came up from my stomach. I looked at my hands wrapped in thick gloves rather embarrassed, and I still felt my hairs stand on end, and the muscles in my body tense and tremble. He slapped my leg down and gave me a thumbs up, as dedicated as a cheerleader. But my mind went blank, and I wanted to kick him down when I saw him like this, and after hesitating for several rounds, I stretched out my hand tremblingly, and kept silently saying in my heart: I was only pulling a branch, just a dry branch.

Through the thick gloves, I couldn't feel any sensation coming from its hands. I gasped and clenched the branch, brushed my gun up, fired indiscriminately into the canopy, and then bent my head sharply.

After a crackling sound like fried beans, there was a deathly silence all around. I clutched my gun and looked up, an indescribable stench entering my nostrils. Most of the branches that obscured the view had been knocked off, and a corpse in a tattered camouflage uniform and hat was curled up in a branch, with nothing but broken branches around him.

He eagerly tugged at my trouser leg and called in a low voice: "How is it, is there a threat, is it from Uncle Lu's team?" ”

I shook my head and said, "There is no threat. He couldn't see it clearly, but judging by the rot of his clothes and the dust on his body, he must have died at least a month ago. Uncle Lu, when did they get here? ”

He breathed a sigh of relief, "They seem to have been here a week or two ago." It's okay now, it's none of my business, hang it high, there is Comrade Lao Zhangxuan, let's go down. ”

It stands to reason that I should have a big rock in my heart and I can't wait to get out of here. But at this time, I didn't know what I was obsessed with, and I always felt that something was wrong with this corpse, and while asking Zhang Siyuan, who was constantly noisy, to wait for me a little, I reached out and lifted his hat in a ghostly way.

At that moment, I felt like everything was frozen. The roar in my ears grew louder and louder, and the blankness in my mind swallowed everything, and I couldn't even remember who I was. I forgot my fear, ignored the stench, and stared blankly at the rotten, blood-soaked face of maggots crawling in and out of my jaw.

My brain was so chaotic that my legs lost strength, and my body was crooked, and I almost slipped off the tree. Zhang Siyuan's sharp cry seemed to come from a very distant place, and I didn't seem to feel his hands holding my hands tightly. The dead man's face kept shaking, distorting, magnifying before my eyes. At the moment when I was almost suffocated, someone seemed to ring the bell in my ear, and Zhang Siyuan's words rang in my mind: they seemed to have come here a week or two ago.