I couldn't lift my hands at the seams of my trousers, my neck hung weakly as if it was broken, and I barely managed to squeeze out a few words from between my teeth: "Let's go, Zhang Prophet." ”

Zhang Siyuan's lips were pale, he lowered his head and crushed the snow on the ground with his feet, and said with a wry smile for a while: "Our lives are really good, we will always encounter the worst results." The house leak happened to rain overnight, and it was us. ”

I sighed and didn't know what to say, but looking at Zhang Siyuan's face that was whiter than a dead man, my heart, which had been like being immersed in stagnant water, suddenly jumped a few times for some reason, and then an indescribable emotion suddenly rose from the bottom of my heart, and my internal organs trembled a few times. I gritted my teeth and looked at the huge moon above my head, and said fiercely to my heart, even if there is no light, Lao Tzu will find his way back! You must not starve to death in this broken forest!

I grabbed his arm, patted his shoulder vigorously a few times, and said, "Don't be in a daze in this cold place, go, go and sit in the snow cave." Didn't we pick up bear ears and Wang Zhen's watch, and go back to study it carefully. ”

He raised his head and looked into my resolute eyes, his gaze gradually becoming less dazed. He turned around and said as he walked briskly: "Your father and I have never encountered any danger, can you still be afraid of this?" If I can't get out, I can use a knife and gun to make all the trees lie down and see if they can confuse me. ”

I laughed and said, "I'm afraid it won't work, cutting wood here is punishable." ”

We braved the cold wind, struggled to pull our feet out of the snow, and moved step by step to the mouth of the snow cave. The blood-soaked hair had long since frozen into a curved strip of ice, and it looked much smoother than usual. Zhang Siyuan sat in the snow and exclaimed, "My stomach has begun to corrode itself, do you say you can swallow it by eating tree bark?" ”

I said, "If you chew enough, you can swallow anything - take out the bear ears and watch and show me." ”

He threw the backpack over: "Take it yourself." But I remember looking inside our ears and there was nothing, and so did our watches. If you insist on dismantling the watch, don't give me the pot when you see Wang Zhen. ”

I pulled out the bear ears and looked around carefully, but I still didn't find anything. Grab the watch and look at it, the shell is not damaged, and there is no abnormal sound when you put it next to your ear. What is it that makes it inexplicably stop working?

Zhang Siyuan looked at me thoughtfully and muttered, "Could it be a metaphor for the dead bear's ears that are a little tired?" ”

My heart tightened, and I looked up at him. He was about to speak excitedly, but suddenly he remembered something, and the faint flame that had just risen in his heart was ruthlessly extinguished in an instant. I sighed, "It's very likely, but the bear corpse isn't there anymore, have you forgotten that strange wild man?" ”

He patted his head in annoyance and stared at the ground in silence. I hesitated, "It's not a good idea to stay here all the time, why don't we go out and take a look in other directions?" ”

He nodded, stood up and stepped his foot out when he shuddered, bared his teeth for a few seconds, and stepped out with his fists clenched and a tragic aura. The whole person hugged his arms and shrunk into a ball to shiver in the cold wind, and said in a trembling voice: "Mrs. is too cold, why don't we go back and sit in the snow cave first." ”

Although I was also cold and fighting with my upper and lower teeth, and my limbs were stiff and painful, I still endured a slap on his shoulder, and scolded tremblingly: "Bear with it, as long as you can go out, you will have meat to eat." ”

In fact, the temperature is not much lower than before, but the most annoying thing is that the wind is blowing. The wind slammed down on me like a blade, and even though I was wearing a thick cotton jacket and armed from head to toe, I still felt like I was unclothed, and the wind screeched mercilessly through the cracks in the fibers, mixed with snowflakes to suck away what little warmth I had left.

After a short discussion, we decided to walk back to the bear-bloodstained snow before deciding which direction to go. I clutched my nose and mouth tightly in my fur collar, leaving only one pair of eyes staring at the ground. Zhang Siyuan covered his mouth tightly, for fear that his teeth would freeze out as soon as he opened his mouth. I was secretly worried, the sun would definitely not come out, and if it was so cold all the time, then we might not be able to get out of here. There was no food in our stomachs, we were tired, sleepy and hungry, and if we barely marched at high intensity, I am afraid that it would not be long before we would fall into the snow.

I raised my eyelids in despair, and was about to grumble a few words, when I caught a glimpse of a chubby black crunch lying on the snow in front of me, like the corpse of some large animal. I was half surprised and half delighted, and turned my head sharply to look at Zhang Siyuan, and saw that his eyes were round, and his hand was unconsciously grasping the scarf, forgetting to cover his face. His lips were slightly open, not even afraid of the cold wind, and his eyes were staring straight at the hairy thing.

I rushed over in a few steps, gasped in disbelief, and a lot of question marks welled up in my head, and I hesitated to touch him and said, "Is this black bear the one we killed, or the other?" ”

He pulled out his gun and stomped hard at the black bear, who shook his movements a few times and didn't make any more movements. My heart was still hanging in mid-air, still a little worried that it was playing dead, so I held my breath and put my foot under its belly, lifted my foot and turned it over, and a hideous, bloody, very familiar bear face appeared in front of me.

Zhang Siyuan exclaimed in a low voice: "Why is this guy's face so familiar?" Before he finished speaking, he immediately lowered his head, as if he was giving himself a booster, and said to himself, "No, no, no, the bears in the world look the same, and the wild people will not come back." I didn't see him, nor did I hear any footsteps......"

I forced myself to calm down, trying to remember as I counted the wounds on its body. A long, deep knife wound on the buttocks, and countless dense bullet holes in the back of the heart and head. The flesh and blood on his feet and legs were blurred, exactly like the scarred bear corpse in my memory. I looked around vigilantly and pointed to the big black handprint on the bear's forearm: "This is indeed the one dragged away by the wild man, this black and large handprint fits well with his hand." ”

He clutched his gun tightly, his eyes kept shifting, and he said in a panic, "Could it be another wild man, or something else dragging the bear corpse here?" ”

I examined the bear again and shook my head, "I didn't see any handprints left by it. The bear was covered with old wounds, and there were no new trail marks. It's like...... It appears here out of thin air. ”

He scratched his head in bewilderment, frowned and sighed, "This is beyond my comprehension as a materialist. But there's nothing here that I can understand, and since there's nothing around, let's study bear ears first. ”

I had been looking down at the bear, and I frowned and said, "I noticed that the bear's right ear was missing." ”

He gasped, and as he looked at the bear, he shuddered and took out his stuffed ears from his pocket, and put them on them to compare, but his face became longer and longer, and his face became more and more ugly. He muttered, "It's not what I thought it was, the bear lost his right ear, but this stuffed ear is also his right ear." And the bear's wound was very smooth, as if someone had chopped it off with a knife. ”

I bent down in the moonlight and carefully compared, and the truncated section of the plush ear was an oblique plane, and the right side was obviously longer than the left side. I couldn't think of anything more, and I couldn't look around and I couldn't see the trailing blood or the carcass of the bear, probably it really appeared out of thin air.

Zhang Siyuan, who was rubbing his chin, suddenly raised his head, and there was a hesitant light in his eyes: "These two directions are on the right, does that mean that we can go out by walking to the right?" ”

I nodded, "That's possible." But don't forget that as soon as your body turns around, the left and right sides are all reversed. ”

He stared at the bear and hesitated, "This bear is lying square...... Why don't we take the direction that the bear's head is pointing in the positive direction? Anyway, I can't think of anything stupidly standing here, so it's better to take a risk. ”

I turned in the direction of the bear's head, my eyes half hesitant, half tentative, looking at the path that winded into the dark jungle. There was a dead silence, not a single sound could be heard, nothing moving, and the cold darkness was a bit like a road to hell. But now we are not like this, as long as there is a glimmer of light fainter than fireflies, it will grow in our eyes and become a light in the darkness. Zhang Siyuan pulled out the knife on his waist, his eyes were resolute, and he clenched his fists and said: "I don't have much impression of this road, but I think it is likely to be the road of hope." ”

I held the knife in one hand and the gun in the other, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I have already given up my life, and when I meet a monster, I will give it a few shuttles, and if the road is not clear, I will walk back and come back." With this little broken forest, I really can't do anything to Lao Tzu. ”

He nodded and walked forward a few hundred meters, suddenly burst out laughing, turned his head and said: "Don't always talk big, this little broken forest can really do you what, look at the blood on your face and your belly like a cloth bag." ”

I scolded, "You're addicted to demolishing my platform, aren't you?" ”

We cheered each other on our shoulders, stumbling forward with the pain of our legs and the slashing wind. We didn't touch anything along the way, nothing that could move or make a sound except for the two of us, the trees just straightened up and stared at us with expressionless expressions.