Chapter Thirty-Six: A Primeval Jungle with a Peculiar Landscape
The man in black was quite surprised by our arrival, and tried to stand up but couldn't do it, and the soles of his feet slipped and almost sat in the dirt. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Linshuo quickly supported him, sat beside him and said to him, "Is there an altimeter?" ”
The man in black raised his eyebrows: "You also found out?" ”
Wang Linshuo's eyes showed a fleeting surprise: "This place doesn't belong to the mountains, the land is flat, right?" ”
The man in black nodded, dragged his bag over, reached out and took out a black palm-sized instrument from it, and spread his hand to show us: "The water is broken." ”
I didn't believe his words, so I grabbed it and looked at the blank screen carefully, and then pressed the buttons on both sides, but there was still no response.
I looked up and met the eyes of the man in black. He put on a very bad look, 'You see, I've said it's bad,' and looked at me innocently. I was tempted to punch him in the face, but I held back.
Wang Linshuo looked him in the eye and asked, "Do you choose to explore the jungle first or go back the way you came?" ”
The man in black pondered, "Let's follow you around here for a while...... Going back the way you came is a dead end. ”
Wang Linshuo stood up, nodded slightly, and turned to leave with me. Wang Zhen and Zhang Siyuan stood where we had just talked, their eyes fixed on the man in black. Wang Zhen greeted him and said in a low voice, "What did you talk to him about?" ”
Wang Linshuo stretched out his hands: "I asked him if he noticed the strangeness here and asked him to borrow an altitude." ”
Zhang Siyuan glanced at the man in black: "What did he say, is the altimeter bad again?" ”
"You're right, but this time he showed us something." I've been fiddling around for a long time, but I can't get any black from the blank screen, it looks like it's really broken. ”
Wang Zhen shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, this old fox is cunning and cunning, and he doesn't say a word of truth to us, you have to figure out what he says." ”
At a time when most of the instruments were not available, we were fortunate to have a compass. We deliberated and decided to walk a little south without knowing anything about the place, and get a feel for the time being.
While marching through the jungle with roots is not an easy task, it is quite easy compared to climbing an unusually steep mountain in the pouring rain. Although Wang Zhen reminded us to move forward cautiously, after walking five kilometers, all we saw along the way were some insects and common small birds, and we didn't smell the breath of fierce beasts.
We drank all the fresh water we brought, and everyone had dry mouths under the torture of the fast and rapid long journey, and Zhang Siyuan also closed his mouth in order to save saliva.
My legs were sore and painful, and I didn't have any strength to do it, and I didn't collapse on the ground with the support of my will. It was as if his throat was on fire, dry and painful, and he could feel the protest in his throat even when he swallowed his saliva. Li Qingling was tripped by the protruding tree roots, and when he got up again, his hair and cheeks were covered with wet mud, and he was dirty as if he had just crawled out of the garbage heap.
Li Qingling obviously fell in extreme pain, his face was distorted, and he turned his face away with his lips, as if he was trying to hold back his tears. I looked at her pitiful appearance, and thought to myself that it was a little more difficult for a girl to explore in the wild. I couldn't bear it, and it happened that I was also tired and panting, so I said to Wang Zhen: "Do you want to rest on the spot for a while, and then go back the same way?" ”
Wang Zhen nodded. I was very happy, I felt the strength of my legs being pulled out at once, and I just wanted to sit on the ground with my butt, but one hand suddenly grabbed my arm and held me from sitting down. I looked back suspiciously, facing Zhang Siyuan's face.
Zhang Siyuan explained in a hoarse voice: "Don't sit down, once you sit down, you will definitely not have the strength to stand up again in a short time." The density of trees here is much smaller, and I think we may be coming to an end. ”
I looked up at the trees around me, and indeed as Zhang Siyuan said, there was already a big gap between the trees, and each of them was standing in their own chassis. The sky in my field of vision has also become clearer, and I don't have to peep through the gaps in the leaves anymore.
I asked for everyone's opinions and decided to move on. Wang Linshuo kept looking left and right, always worried that something would jump out of a certain tree in the cold. I listened carefully to the strange noises around me, but I heard nothing but the sound of hurried footsteps and heavy breathing. I said in my heart that I hadn't even seen a slightly larger animal after walking so far, it seemed that Lao Wang's worries were unnecessary, so I patted him and told him not to worry.
After struggling to support the road with great difficulty, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed. The trees in front of me suddenly became tall and large, and the leaves were dense and long. The trees were tightly huddled together, leaf on leaf on top of leaf, branches against the trunk, and weeds more than half a man tall that I couldn't name.
Wang Zhen was very curious, took the gun from Li Qingling's hand, held it tightly in his hand, took a few steps forward cautiously, and after removing the weeds and leaves, he suddenly burst out in English, and stood there quite stiffly.
We were all taken aback by him, but seeing that he didn't make any defensive moves, and didn't turn his head and shout to run, we couldn't help but feel a little relieved, Zhang Siyuan asked worriedly: "What...... What's wrong? ”
Wang Zhen also ignored Zhang Siyuan, was stunned for a long time before turning his head and exclaiming to us: "Could it be that we have come to East Africa?" ”
I was stunned for a second, why did Xindao start talking nonsense? Zhang Siyuan became impatient, stepped on the weeds and rushed up, he saw the scene in front of him and burst out with a foul mouth, muttering in surprise: "The Great Rift Valley!" ”
I stepped a few steps to the two of them, and I could hardly believe what I was seeing, and I took a deep breath to make my tone not too exaggerated, and said in surprise: "How can there be such a landscape here?" ”
In front of me was a deep, dark, cracked in people's eyes but unable to see the end. I craned my neck to look at both sides, but I couldn't see the end of it. This bottomless crack splits the endless primeval jungle in half, and the fog on one side is so thick that the endless green hides in the fog and makes it impossible to see the whole picture. I couldn't help but guess that there was an expressionless figure hiding in the fog opposite, staring straight at us.
I bent down and looked down a little dizzy, the wounds in the jungle were crooked, strangely shaped, narrow and slender. The rift was only wide enough for three adults to stand side by side, and its depths were simply undetectable, pitch-black like the maws of monsters, as if they would be swallowed up forever if they jumped in.
Wang Linshuo calmed down and calmed down, and retreated several steps before saying, "You don't really think that the Great Rift Valley looks like this, do you?" ”
Zhang Siyuan shook his head in awe: "I haven't been to the Great Rift Valley, but I think both are masterpieces of nature, and I really want to conjure up a camera out of thin air now." ”
Wang Linshuo added: "The Great Rift Valley is completely different from this one, it is not known how many times bigger than the one in front of me. Moreover, there are many lakes at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, and it is not as deep and gloomy as the one in front of you. Its valley floor has many flora and fauna that live, and there are even volcanoes and forests. ”
Zhang Siyuan said: "Get a new posture, Lao Wang, I really didn't find that you know so much before, it's a walking encyclopedia." ”
I said dismissively, "Naive, I just know how these can be considered encyclopedias." ”
Wang Linshuo smiled at me and said, "Then you can memorize some knowledge that I don't know to me?" ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to him, rolled my eyes at him, and asked Wang Zhen, "How about resting on the spot now?" ”
Wang Zhen walked around the jungle with his head down, his speech intermittent, and when he heard it, he knew that he was concentrating on something else: "Wait a little longer...... You all came and helped me find it, I think there might be a water source nearby. ”
As soon as I heard the word water, my thirsty and itchy throat instantly flareed up, and I felt that the whole person was going to smoke, and if I couldn't see the water again, I would turn into a dry corpse and lie down in the jungle. Everyone ran in the direction of Wang Zhen, and he explained to us: "The soil here is obviously wetter than the ones we just saw, and the bugs and small animals here all have water marks on them. ”
He casually folded off a green grass beside him that was nothing special in my eyes: "When I saw this here, I immediately confirmed two things: first, we must still be in the mountains now, because calamus can only survive at an altitude of 1500-1750 altitudes. 2. There must be a water source nearby, as it only grows near the water's edge. ”
I sighed, "You're all very good, could it be that you did your homework before you came?" ”
Wang Zhen and Wang Linshuo looked at each other and smiled, and actually clapped their hands in mid-air. Wang Zhen said proudly: "Common sense. ”