Chapter 55: Moving On
Zhang Siyuan swaggered over in an extremely exaggerated posture, put his arm on the shoulders of the two of us and said, "What are you whispering......" Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed: "Why did the giant bird die so miserably?" β
I shuddered as I watched it fall to the ground, its broken and bloodstained feathers, its scarred corpse, the mutilated beak on its neck bent at a strange angle, and the spurting of blood on the wall, and I couldn't help but shudder, feeling that there were countless pairs of peeping eyes lurking in the dark in the gray building, ready to rush out and eat us.
Wang Zhen gasped, touched the pistol on his waist, and pulled us away with anxiety: "Don't look at it, hurry up, if the monster that killed it really comes out, a hundred full shotguns will not be enough." β
It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on us, extinguishing the burning hearts and the light in our eyes. We began to calm down, cheer up, and vigilantly continue to move forward.
At first, everyone didn't think anything about it, but the cold wind drilled into the cracks of people's bones one by one, and even if I put the yellow robe on my body, I couldn't stop the obscenity of the cold wind even if I accelerated my pace. Zhang Siyuan's clear nose flowed out like water, and almost fell to his mouth several times. Wang Linshuo's upper and lower teeth kept fighting, and the squeaking sound made me can't help but shrink, my teeth moved like eating popping candy, and every cell in my body resisted.
Zhang Siyuan couldn't help but scream, and complained: "I think the broken desert is like the frozen layer of a refrigerator, we are poor beef and mutton (he obviously swallowed his saliva when he said this), and had to endure the severe cold of freezing every cell thoroughly, and the meat was so tight that it couldn't stretch out." β
Wang Zhen pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I still think it's like you say this, you are put in the refrigerator at night, and you take it out to bake under the scorching sun during the day...... I said let's stop talking about it. β
I swallowed my saliva and tried to get the images of skewers and beer and steaming barbecue stands out of my head, and my stomach began to rumble again. Hunger consumed my heart, and there was no comfort in my whole body, and I wanted to beat up the person who brought up the topic and aroused the cravings.
Katsuko took out the dry food and reluctantly stuffed it into his mouth with a frown, maybe it was because the thing was too unpalatable, maybe he couldn't swallow the dry thing at all, his hand trembled, and a large piece of compressed biscuit fell into the yellow sand. He snorted and hurriedly bent down to pick it up, but when he stood up, his center of gravity was unstable and he fell to the ground.
I couldn't laugh or cry, so I hurriedly walked over to help him, and at the same time took out the biscuits buried in the sand, patted the soil on them, handed them to him, and said, "Why can't you even hold a biscuit steadily?" β
He bit his lip and looked pained, struggling several times and unable to get up. I put my arm around him, and he pointed to the wound at the base of his thigh and wrinkled, "Wait a minute, the wound seems to have cracked again, rest for a while." β
The gauze covering his wound had been stained with blood and exudate, and it was already a little sticky when I tried to remove it and make a new discovery. Katsuko gasped, twisted her face and said, "Can you not change the gauze for the time being?" β
I stared at his distorted features, knowing that he had made the wound like this in order to catch up with our rapid pace, and I couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Wang Linshuo wiped the secretions on the surface of the wound and said casually: "Bear with it, if you don't change the dressing, the wound will grow together with the flesh." β
Although I was still anxious, I couldn't say anything to urge my teammates to keep going, looking at their frozen pale faces and shivering bodies, as well as their legs trembling slightly from overwork and Katsuko's pale face. I sat down on the ground, looked at the round and big moon in the sky, and said helplessly, "Why don't we rest for an hour or two?" If you force yourself forward with exhaustion, it will only slow down. β
Zhang Siyuan seemed to have been waiting for my words for a long time, his face stretched out, and the smile that was about to overflow his face bloomed involuntarily. He lay on the ground with a big grin, pulled over his cotton coat and covered his body, sighed comfortably, squinted his eyes and said, "As long as I am allowed to sleep for an hour, I can travel eight hundred miles a day." β
I'm already used to his mouth running on the train, and I took out my sleeping bag and smashed it on him: "You better get into here and sleep, be careful of getting cold and straining your ass is yellow." β
Zhang Siyuan let out a long sigh of comfort, and the sound he made was floating. He curled up in his sleeping bag and sighed in a low and pleasant voice, "I've never felt so warm in here...... What is at Katsuko's feet, and how does it shine? β
Everyone looked at Katsuko in unison, the blood-stained jade at his feet glowing softly in the moonlight. I recognized at a glance that this was the imitation he had stuffed in the wound, my face suddenly dropped, my heart sank, and I pretended to be indifferent and asked, "Isn't this thing with Hu San, why is it on you now?" β
Katsuko's face was flushed, and he was at a loss, so he picked up the jade in a panic, put his hand behind his back, and muttered uneasily: "This, this is what he threw at me when he fell into the trap." β
As soon as I heard it, I knew he was lying, straightened up, put on a straight face, and pretended to believe him, "Then did he say anything else?" β
He stared at my mouth, his eyes flickering, and he pretended to be angry and said in a rough voice, "Why do you doubt me? How could I have stolen such a piece of broken jade. Because of the urgency of time, he didn't have time to say anything, just hurriedly threw the jade up. I thought to myself, this must be something very important, grab it and run. I wanted to ask you what this jade was for, but I forgot. β
Wang Linshuo and Zhang Siyuan tacitly exchanged a look, Wang Linshuo nodded and asked, "Since everything is as you said, then why were you so flustered just now?" β
Katsuko was in a state of confusion, he was hesitant, trying to say something to justify, but there was no word in his head. Wang Zhen couldn't bear it, stood up and walked in front of him, stared at his eyes and said word by word: "Don't lie, you stole it from his bag, didn't you?" β
Shengzi's frightened face was like gold paper, sweat broke out on his forehead, he was frightened by Wang Zhen's fierce momentum and stepped back again and again, waving his sign and saying incoherently: "I didn't steal, don't beat me......"
I sighed, walked over and pulled Wang Zhen away, who was clenching his fists, and said with a serious expression: "We all know what you did before, if you know each other, you should be honest and discerning, otherwise...... Don't forget that you are a person who will not be saved, if we are willing to settle the old and new accounts together, you have nothing to say......"
Before I could finish my sentence, he interrupted me, and he let out a low moan, hugged his head and said, "I said." I took this piece of jade from Hu San's bag when he wasn't paying attention. When I buried my brother, I hid his body and head, and I wanted to resurrect him with this piece of jade. β
I looked at Wang Zhen helplessly and sighed, "Do you really believe their nonsense? None of us know if these are real or fake, or if the imitations are just as useful as the real thing. β
Zhang Siyuan sat up suddenly, revealing a rare serious face, and said with a glare: "I know that you pretended to be unconscious that timeβwhat you just said is your true thoughts, it won't be made up to fool us, right?" β
Katsuko's head shook like a wave drum, and he waved his hands and said, "Bosses, you must believe me!" I really don't dare to lie to you! β
I frowned, still not believing his words, and said with a blink of an eye: "I ask you a few questions, you must answer them truthfully, otherwise you will wait to be with Huangsha." First question: Where did you go when you showed me the swollen bag on your back and cried about your pain by the big bunker? Why run? β
Katsuko looked at me timidly and whispered, "The swollen bag on my back is definitely not faked by me, it is really torturous, and I don't know what virus it is contaminated." But I always feel like you're ...... Not good people, each with his own ghosts, and there are so many monsters that I have encountered along the way, and the people in our village have been into the desert hundreds of times, and we have never heard of these things. β
I snorted coldly, and said in my heart, you think I want to hunt for curiosity, and I don't know that the turtle grandson in the team has a special physique, and he can always attract all kinds of things. Wang Linshuo asked, "Then you ran away while we were talking to avoid us?" β
Katsuko nodded: "I'll hide in the cave first, dig up the yellow sand and hide in the sand while you are looking for me above, and then poke your head out after you are all far away, and I almost didn't suffocate me to death for a while." Another reason is that I want to go looking for my brother alone, and I am always in a hurry with you, so I don't have time to rummage through it. β
I rolled my eyes and said coldly, "Then why did you come back later?" Chased by a big lizard, there is no way out, so I have to go to us who have weapons? β
Katsuko's face turned red, and she raised her voice in defense, "No, how could I be like this!" Believe it or not, it was a pure encounter! I panicked, I didn't even look at the direction and just ran, who knew I met you again. β