Chapter 16: The Moon Rises and the Snake Tide
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When Su Lan found Susan, she was already surrounded by snakes. In front of her, the lake rose and fell in the middle of the night, a full moon crumpled in the reflection of the arc, and the waves crashed against the shore like waves. At first, Su Lan thought it was a simple tidal action, but then he found that countless water snakes were crawling out of the lake with every rise and fall of the lake!
Susan held a cane made of twigs in one hand and a torch in the other, pushing back the approaching snake. Seeing Su Lan, her face showed obvious surprise for the first time, but she quickly calmed down: "Is there a gun?" ”
Su Lan remembered that there was a handful in the middle of the tent, and she flipped down the tent on her back and touched it a few times, took out a pistol and threw it to her. Susan took it in his hand, dropped the torch and the branch and the cane and jumped to Su Lan's side, grabbed the gun in his right arm with the upper half, and grabbed Su Lan's tent with his left hand and carried it on his back. Then he took a gun in his free left hand and killed the two nearest snakes in two blows. The rest of the snakes were stunned by the sound of gunfire and slowed down for a second or two. Susan took the opportunity to climb onto Su Lan's back, wrapped his broken arm around Su Lan's neck, and wrapped his legs around Su Lan's waist: "Run!" ”
Su Lan didn't need Susan to say it a second time, spread her legs and rushed forward. It is probably the moment of life and death that stimulates the maximum potential, Su Lan feels that she has never run so fast in her life, and she can catch up with the national athletes in the 100-meter sprint. Susan crouched on his back and kept hitting the snake that was too close with his gun, and after rushing for a while, he saw a black and oppressive forest, which was probably the forest that Mr. Zhao said during the day. Su Lan ran in and rushed for another two minutes before stopping to hold on to the trunk of the tree and panting, and looked around: "Fortunately, these snakes didn't chase into the forest." ”
"I'll be coming soon." As soon as Susan's words fell, he heard a rustling sound mixed with the rustling of grass and trees approaching quickly, "Climb up the tree." ”
"You crow's mouth!" Su Lan snorted angrily, her fingers grabbed the trunk of the tree and was just about to use force, when her stomach was kicked by Susan on her back: "It's not this one." The one next to it. ”
Su Lan noticed that there were ancient characters engraved on the bark of the tree that Susan said, and she didn't care about so much, so she hugged the trunk and climbed up. It is said that he can't even be afraid of the playground flagpole in elementary school, and climbing a tree is simply a fantasy, but after all, he was trained by Zhang Xuan's devil for a week before he came out, and his body's explosiveness and agility have been partially improved, and the danger of his life made him cling to the trunk of the tree and not letting go. Susan still said lightly: "You are shaking so much, you are about to fall." ”
Su Lan held her breath and couldn't speak, scolding nonsense in her heart, you put it on my back so heavy, it's strange that I can climb up. I felt that the place where my arms and feet rubbed against the bark was hot and painful, and I could only endure this situation.
"It's going to fall if it goes on like this."
"****** if you can't find a way, I'll drop you down. I don't want to fall with you to feed the snake! Su Lan could almost smell the smell of blood coming out of her broken arm, and she began to speak ill of her mouth in a hurry. At this moment, I heard a sneer like a silver bell in the canopy: "I knew that I wanted to save people from heroes in the first place?" ”
"Zhang Xuan!" As soon as Su Lan heard this voice, she exploded, "Save me!" ”
A rope hung down from above, Su Lan grabbed the rope, and as soon as the people above used force, Su Lan and Susan were pulled to the canopy. Seeing the familiar shadow and expression among the leaves, Su Lan was almost moved to cry: "Sister, you are really my life-saving benefactor." ”
"Less flamboyant here." Zhang Xuan looked down at the bottom of the tree, now densely packed with snakes, at their height it looked like countless earthworms were wriggling, indescribably terrifying and weird, people with dense phobia would definitely have nightmares when they saw it, "Cut, disgusting to death." ”
"Aren't they really going to climb up?" Su Lan asked with trepidation.
"These trees with ancient characters are sacred trees at the end of the tree, and the roots of the trees are coated with special herbs made by the people of the city, so that poisonous insects will not approach." Susan explained.
Su Lan sighed, Zhang Xuan stared at Susan, her eyes slowly sharpened: "How do you know so clearly about the tribes, culture and customs here?" ”
"It's a mistake to know more." Susan replied unhurriedly, looking at Zhang Xuan's eyes with a defiant expression, "I'm kind enough to remind you two that if Miss Zhang thinks I'm talking too much, I won't say it." ”
"You two don't make trouble, we are now grasshoppers on a rope, and if something happens, no one can escape." Su Lan saw that the atmosphere was not right, and quickly stopped, and asked Zhang Xuan, "What about Mr. Zhao and Lao Qiao?" ”
"It's too dark in the woods, and the two of them and I got separated."
"Now like this, I can't go to them." Su Lan leaned against the branch, gritted her teeth and rolled up her sleeve to check her arm, and if she was really rubbed off a layer of skin by the bark, she was dripping with blood, "Zhang Xuan, you are carrying that first-aid kit from Mr. Zhao, right?" ”
"First aid medicine is not for this little injury." Zhang Xuan said, "What's more, it's useless for you to take medicine, and you will have to wear out when you get down the tree later." ”
What should I do if I get infected...... Hey, I don't know if this is a place where I'm dead or alive, so I'll think about it later. Su Lan pulled down the worn cuffs to cover the wound, and sighed: "I don't feel like I have a piece of good meat on my body from head to toe now." Alas, I don't know if Mr. Zhao and they found Xiao Ji ......"
No one paid attention to him, and Su Lan complained a few words, and her voice gradually lowered and she couldn't hear it. The scalp-exploding rustling sound lasted for a full hour before it faded away, and they tied one end of the rope to a branch, and Zhang Xuan went down to the halfway point and shone a flashlight around, shouting to the tree: "The snake has run away." ”
"Great!" Su Lan breathed a sigh of relief, held on to the tree with one hand and stretched out her hand to pull Zhang Xuan up, and asked her, "Shall we go down like this, or wait until dawn?" ”
Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment: "I think it's better to wait for dawn." Snakes are more active at night in places with a large temperature difference between day and night, and it is not known if they will come back. ”
"No, it won't." Susan, who had just been lying on a branch with her eyes closed, said, "They are migrating and will not come back until the dry season." ”
Zhang Xuan instinctively wanted to continue to ask Susan, but glanced at Su Lan and snorted and held back. Su Lan thought of her inexplicable expression when she went to find Susan, coupled with her calm attitude along the way, she felt that either this woman was either really not afraid of death after seeing everything, or she was confident, with her understanding of this place, it was not impossible for her to go out alive.
The more I think about it, the more I feel like I'm meddling. Should you really implement the law that Mr. Zhao said earlier, take care of yourself, and be responsible for the life and death of others, and it is not your turn to worry about it?
"It's still two hours before dawn." Susan looked at the moonlight through the trees and said, "You two should rest first, I'll wake you up if there's any danger." ”
"Then I'm bothering you." Su Lan said and closed her eyes. Zhang Xuan looked at Su Lan, who was lying on the branch on his back and snoring slightly, he was not smiling or laughing, and sighed at the end: "This guy has a really wide heart." ”
"What, you're not worried about me?" Susan's gaze fell from the sparse stars among the leaves to Zhang Xuan's face, and her soft voice didn't have much warmth, "Mr. Su finally saved my life, and with my current physical condition, it is impossible for a person to leave here alive." It won't do me any good to pit you. ”
"Now there are more people in this world who will take revenge." Zhang Xuan said coldly, but he also recognized in his heart that Susan did not have the ability and motivation to harm them, but he had to guard against others, "If I find out what you do, I will take care of you myself." ”
"Done." Facing Zhang Xuan's razor-sharp gaze, Susan just shrugged her shoulders and continued to look at the stars with her left hand holding the wound on her severed arm.
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