Chapter 68: Xiao Wu is gone

If it is in the north, it must be a solar term for all things to recover, but in the south, except for the temperature rising, there is really not much change in nature, the only obvious thing is that all kinds of flowers are competing for half of the flowers. Many plants in the mountains and forests have also bloomed, red, white, pink, blue, and even black, Liu Qing will occasionally walk around the mountains with Xiao Wu, and take a look at the spring scenery by the way.

Counting that he has been here for more than half a year, from being at a loss at the beginning to living a basically stable life now, everything is the result of Liu Qing's hard work. He believes that no matter what kind of environment it is, as long as he works hard, at least he will not starve to death. According to the mark he marked the day, two days later is the death day of his father, his parents died less than two months after he got married, which was the darkest day of his life at that time, but fortunately after returning to the army, the training intensity was very high, and he was tired like a dog every day, so it was a muddy nightmare.

Liu Qing took a fancy to several kinds of flowers, and planned to pick them at that time and worship them for his parents at that time.

Sometimes, Liu Qing also feels that his life is very good now, harvesting fish every day, picking some wild fruits in the giant tree forest, and then digging ginger beans at the beach. Of course, these are just to avoid encountering those fierce beasts, Liu Qing now basically grasps the rules of the animals in this place, and can generally avoid direct encounters with them, unless Liu Qing intends to hunt.

That night, Liu Qing and Xiao Wu had just laid down to sleep, when there were sudden bursts of thunder outside, from far and near. The sound was very loud, waking Liu Qing up from his sleep, Liu Qing got up and walked to the entrance of the cave, looked outside, from time to time there was a bright light of lightning piercing the night sky, and then there was a spring thunderstorm, it is estimated that there will be a rain!

There was really nothing to see outside, it was pitch black, there was no moonlight at all, and only the moment the lightning appeared, you could see the shadows of the trees outside. After standing for a while, Liu Qing went back to sleep on the leather blanket.

I don't know how long it took, but it must have been the second half of the night, Liu Qing suddenly felt in a dream that he was surrounded by fire, and his mouth and nose were full of choking smoke, as if he had entered hell. The unpleasant smell of choking made him unable to sleep anymore, turned over and woke up, Xiao Wu felt him get up, and he also woke up smartly, half lying on the bed.

As soon as he woke up, Liu Qing suddenly felt that something was wrong, this choking smoke was really there, but the taste was much lighter than in the dream. Liu Qing was a little puzzled, and hurriedly got up to look at the fire, and it was pressed well, although there was light smoke, but it came out along the gap in the hole, and did not float into the hole, which was also one of the reasons why he set the fire at the mouth of the hole, otherwise he couldn't stand it when he slept smelling smoke every night.

Now, however, he only felt that the air was full of the smell of smoke, and it seemed to be getting stronger. Climbing up the stone pile, I put my head out to take a look, the original dark night was gone, and the sky felt like it was cloudy, and there seemed to be some signs of burning clouds.

Just as he was wondering, he heard a lot of gibble outside the cave, sounding like animals running. The careful probe went out to take a look, and sure enough, there were many animals running outside, some big and small, some eating meat and some eating grass, and even some dinosaurs were also running.

Liu Qing's spirit immediately tensed, he knew very well that once the animals collectively had a commotion, there would generally be no good things, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other catastrophic things happen, and the animals would often know in advance and flee in advance. However, why didn't Xiao Wu react? Liu Qing didn't know what was going on outside, and Xiao Wu didn't know when he followed him to the entrance of the cave.

Liu Qing looked at the colorful clouds outside, and suddenly felt that those clouds seemed to be beating, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately shouted: "It's not good! Xiao Wu, let's go quickly!"

As he spoke, he immediately turned around and went back to the cave, because of the urgency of time, he didn't dare to bring more things, only put the satchel and water bottle on his back, the dagger in his waist, and then threw small things such as sapper shovels and fishing lines into the rattan basket, took a bundle of arrows and threw them in, and quickly picked a few large pieces of meat from the wall, made a few ginger beans and threw them into the rattan basket, hung the longbow around his neck, and finally covered a large piece of fur on the ground as a quilt on the rattan basket, and ran out of the cave with his back.

Liu Qing ran to the entrance of the cave, picked up the rattan rope hanging on the wooden stake with his toes, untied the rope, walked to the door and directly opened the fence door with his shoulder, Xiao Wu ran out first, and Liu Qing followed closely out of the cave. A man and a tiger ran to the open space outside the cave, looked back, and scared Liu Qing a lot.

I saw that on the mountain behind the cave, a fire was rising into the sky, and it was spreading violently, and it was estimated that it would not be long before it burned to their cave. This guy, if Liu Qing hadn't woken up in time, he would have roasted the two of them when the mountain fire burned to the top of his head. No wonder the animals were running towards the beach, and it turned out that the back was on fire.

When Liu Qing saw that the situation was critical, he called Xiao Wu and ran towards the beach at a trot. Forest fires are not a joke, a careless may be surrounded by the fire, at that time, even if you want to run, I am afraid you don't know which direction to run, if you are lucky, you may be able to rush out of the fire, but if you are unlucky, you may be roasted to death if you don't rush out.

Carrying dozens of pounds on his back, Liu Qing's running speed was not too slow, at least the spread of the fire could not catch up with him. While running, Liu Qing was thinking, why did it catch fire? I'm afraid this is inseparable from the previous thunder and lightning, really, it would be nice if it could rain heavily now. But at the moment, there is no meaning of rain at all, but there is a strong wind, and the so-called fire borrows the wind, and the wind helps the fire, and the fire that burns can be ignited even if it is several meters away from the tree.

In addition, the growth of trees is stunted after winter, and they do not absorb much water, so the water content of trees is much smaller than that of summer trees, and they are easier to ignite. Once a small flame is started, it can quickly become a large fire.

After running downhill for more than half an hour, I finally came to the edge of the tall grass, and along the animal path in the tall grass, I soon reached the beach. At this time, many various animals have gathered on the beach, and Liu Qing has really opened his eyes here.

There are big-eared flying squirrels that I have seen before, there are many groups of weevil-nosed pigs, there are also a few groups of coyotes, and some small animals with strange appearances, anyway, if Liu Qing has not seen them with his own eyes, he can't imagine the appearance of these animals at all. In addition to these small animals, there are many dinosaurs, not to mention the velociraptor rex, not to mention the large herbivorous dinosaurs I have seen before, there are actually many small dinosaurs, one of which looks about the size of a chicken, with two hind paws on the ground, two small claws in front, and a mouth like a duck, which looks very funny.

Moreover, Liu Qing actually saw another saber-toothed tiger that looked the same as Xiao Wu a few hundred meters away on the right side, but the size was much larger than Xiao Wu, and he didn't know where that guy usually lived? What was even more peculiar was that dozens of meters away from Liu Qing's left, there were actually seven or eight strange animals with six legs, and Liu Qing recognized them at a glance, that they were the kind of animals that went to drink water outside the cave that night, and were shot by himself but ran away. Now the distance is not far, Liu Qing observed, six legs, a dog face, but there is still a layer of scale armor on his body, from a distance, it is shiny, no wonder the bow and arrow are shot.

Liu Qing and Xiao Wu stayed on the edge of the beach, did not go to the sea, the entire coastline stretched for thousands of meters, through the faint morning light, you can see all kinds of animals everywhere, or scattered, or in groups of three or five, occasionally some animals with their heads down and wandering around, and some half-squatting on the sand, staring at the firelight in the distance.

Liu Qing looked around and found that it was really strange, so many animals, some were prey, some were prey, and some were predators, and now they were together quietly and peacefully, which felt indescribably strange. I don't know that these animals are frightened, the mountain fire is coming, and at such a high temperature, they have already been scared out of their guts, and some of them have been burned by the fire, and from time to time they bury their heads and lick the burned positions on their bodies, where do they still have the heart to hunt prey.

From this position, you can roughly see the open space of the cave, and now it has obviously been engulfed by the mountain fire, Liu Qing saw it, and also felt afraid for a while, fortunately he escaped in time!

Liu Qing didn't have a clue in his heart, this fire came too suddenly, all the efforts made by Liu Qing before seemed to be burned with this fire, besides, the forest is the home of these animals, the forest is destroyed, these animals will also migrate to other places, and they will not be able to hunt and survive here in the future, what should I do?

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, but the fire did not dissipate. You must know that there is no barrier on all sides of a forest fire, and when a fire comes down, it will burn in all directions, and unless it encounters heavy rain or other non-flammable factors, it is very unlikely that it will extinguish itself.

Alas! Liu Qing sighed, he knew that there was no way to survive here in the future, and for the sake of now, he could only find another place.

The sun has risen and a new day has arrived.

Some of the animals were already walking aimlessly along the beach with their heads down. Liu Qing touched Xiao Wu's head and also began to walk north. The reason why we know that it is the north is that the sun has risen, and it is easy to judge the direction. Many animals are going south, but Liu Qing didn't, what he was worried about was that there was a giant tree forest in the south, and once the giant tree forest was also burned, I didn't know what kind of terrifying creatures would emerge from it, so Liu Qing was heading north.

Xiao Wu also followed Liu Qing's side to move forward, compared to the animals that had just escaped from the fire, Xiao Wu basically didn't feel much fear, except that Xiao Wu didn't feel the super high temperature of the fire, Liu Qing often lit a fire in the hole, which also gave it some immunity to fire, and was not as afraid as other animals.

At the extension of the beach, a man and a tiger walk slowly, pulling out a long back under the morning sun.

PS: The temperature has changed a lot recently, everyone must pay attention to keeping warm, don't catch a cold like me, it's uncomfortable to death.