The jungle of thorns is gray, while the primeval forest is a lush dark green. The distinctly different landscapes are distinct, as if the Hand of God has randomly painted different colors on both sides......

It was already getting dark, and Chen Yin decided to give up looking for a way out for the time being. One of the rules of survival in the jungle is that you must allow time to build shelter.

In the dense forest, the sky darkens especially quickly. Once it starts to get dark, it means there's no time. The night in the forest becomes very dangerous, so a temporary shelter is indispensable.

Chen Yin thought about it for a while, and then chose the two thick branches of a big tree, ready to build a hammock here. This keeps out of the most headache-inducing carnivores and some of the large, grumpy herbivores, as well as small bugs on the ground.

The production of the hammock is very simple, cut a 2-meter-long, 1.5-meter-wide umbrella cloth, roll the long sides of the umbrella cloth inward several times with a width of about two centimeters, tie it tightly from the four corners with a parachute rope, and finally tie the two ends into a Ω shape. An improvised hammock is complete.

It's safe to hang a hammock between two branches, but there is a challenge in getting on and off the hammock in mid-air. Chen Yin's method is to build a rope ladder to hang from a higher position, so that the rope ladder hangs right next to the hammock.

The manufacture of rope ladders is also inseparable from paracords.

Take a sturdy branch and fold it into a stick of about the same length, roll it into two strands with six lines, and tie the ends of the stick to the line at the same distance. Such a simple rope ladder was built.

It doesn't seem to be much work, but when it actually works, Chen Yin is sweating. By the time he finally set up the shelter, it was already completely dark.

Climbing up the rope ladder to the hammock and covering the animal skin, in this cold and damp darkness, Chen Yin ushered in the second night after his crossing.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Chen Yin was woken up by bursts of birdsong.

Shivering, wiping off the dew on his face, Chen Yin went down the rope ladder down the tree. His breakfast was the same as yesterday's lunch: a compressed biscuit, a bottle of mineral water.

After enjoying this not sumptuous breakfast, Chen Yin put away the hammock, dismantled the rope ladder, and carried his luggage again to the intersection of thorns and forests.

Do you want to follow the path you think is right? Staring at the gray swamp of thorns, Chen Yin fell into deep thought.

In the silent forest, a little girl's voice suddenly sounded:

"Are you lost?"

Chen Yin was suddenly terrified!

The voice sounded again: "Don't go any further, if you go any further, you will be in the Forest of Death." ”

Chen Yin turned his head abruptly and looked at the source of the sound......

I saw a thin little girl sitting on a tree.

The clothes on her body were a little shabby, but they were cleanly washed, she was holding a strange-shaped fruit in her hand, and a pair of dark eyes were staring at Chen Yin curiously.

"Death, forest?" Chen Yin whispered these two words, always feeling as if he had heard these two words somewhere. Either the female thief said it, or the two natives heard it...... Yes, those two indigenous bigwigs mentioned it!

Chen Yin completely remembered.

At the time, it was judged that it was possible for the witch to enter the Forest of Death, but it was denied. What to say about the Forest of Death is not suitable for human existence. Now it seems that the Forest of Death they were talking about at that time was these huge thorn swamps in front of them, so ......

Chen Yin couldn't help but be scared for a while.

If it weren't for this little girl's reminder, Chen Yin would have entered the thorny jungle of death everywhere.

The little girl came down from the tree, put the fruit in her hand into a rattan basket, turned around and said, "You...... Are you a noble lord? ”

"It's not." Chen Yin lowered his head and looked at the little girl's harvest.

The basket was filled with all kinds of strange things, some like fruits, some like rhizomes, and some leaves that Chen Yin couldn't guess what they were piled up in a mess.

"I'm lost, I'm on the way. Can you take me out? I pay, I pay. ”

Chen Yin took out the dictionary and flipped through it, curling his tongue according to the words on it.

The little girl tilted her head: "Your voice is so low, it's not like us." The clothes you wear are so noble, aren't you really a noble lord? ”

“…… Of course, no. Chen Yin shook his head. I'm going out, going, you lead, road? ”

"Hehe, although you said that you are not a noble lord, you are not a pariah like me." The little girl scratched her head, seemingly struggling with the question.

"I'm from afar, not yours, nobleman."

"Then you are a noble lord from afar!" The little girl bowed her head, timidly stretched out her hand to salute, bent down lowly, and said very formally, "My lord, please allow the untouchables to lead the way." ”

Looking at the little girl who had just saved her life, humbly learning from the appearance of an adult, looking at her stained little hands, several wounds were slowly oozing blood, Chen Yin was silent for a moment, and asked slowly and softly:

"You, yourself, alone?"

"Yes, my mother is sick and can only lie down recently, otherwise her chest will hurt. There was nothing to eat at home, no one dared to come near the Forest of Death, there were so many good things to eat, so I sneaked over, hehe. Don't tell my mom! ”

A child is a child, and after he said it proudly, he didn't see the humility just now, and his big smart eyes blinked vividly, and he said the words of a child in his mouth, and put on a look of "I'm very good, come and praise me".

"You, father?"

"Dead. When hunting. A trace of sadness flashed across the little girl's face, but it quickly disappeared. It's okay, my dad taught me everything, and said I'd be a better hunter than him! In two years, when I'm a little older, I'll be able to catch bigger prey, and my mother won't have to work so hard......"

Halfway through speaking, the little girl suddenly woke up, hurriedly put on the humble look she had just had, and said in a slightly exaggerated tone that she didn't know where she had learned: "My lord, please allow the untouchables to lead the way for you, and it is my honor to serve you." ”

She's so cute that she looks like a little adult.

The corners of Chen Yin's mouth twitched, and he didn't know whether he wanted to cry or laugh, and finally sighed, put the backpack on the ground, took out gauze, anti-inflammatory spray, a clean airplane cushion cloth and a bottle of mineral water from the backpack, walked to the little girl, and knelt on the thick leaf humus.

The little girl was startled, like a frightened bunny.

"Your Excellency, ......?"

"Come on."

Chen Yin spoke in a soft voice that he had never heard before, and he was not proficient in language.

"First, help you, deal with the wound, mouth."

Grabbing the little girl's hand, Chen Yin unscrewed the mineral water, first wiped off the mud stains on her hands with a clean cushion cloth with water, and then wiped the white and tender little hands with freshly opened gauze.

Although Chen Yin's movements were very gentle, it was inevitable to touch the wound.

Although the little girl didn't know what Chen Yin was doing, she could feel Chen Yin's kindness, so whenever she wiped her wounds, she frowned in pain, bit her lips with her broken front teeth, and even had a trace of tears in the corners of her eyes...... But she held back and didn't make a sound.

"Woohoo."

Chen Yin sprayed the anti-inflammatory spray twice on her wound, causing the little girl to shrink back in pain.

"Sizzle...... It's so cool! ”

Chen Yin tore off the gauze that was wet before, carefully wrapped it around her wound with a clean part, tied a bow after wrapping it, and patted the little girl's head:

"The performance is very, good, and you are rewarded for eating, huh...... Sugar. ”

What do you say about chocolate? Chen Yin scratched his hair and finally decided to replace it with sugar.

As he spoke, Chen Yin took out a piece of chocolate and broke a small piece and stuffed it into the little girl's mouth.

"It's so sweet!"

The little girl cried out in surprise, and a pure little flower bloomed on her dirty little face.

"If you like it, it's fine."

Looking at her weak and strong smile, Chen Yin couldn't help but rub her little head vigorously, stood up, put on his backpack again, stepped on the shotgun, and ......

…… The little girl only felt a burst of clouds and fog - Chen Yin lifted the little girl to his shoulder and sat firmly, and asked, "Direction?" ”

"Big ...... My lord? You ......" the little girl panicked, "the untouchable...... Untouchables ......"

"Direction!" Chen Yin accentuated his tone, stuffed the remaining chocolates into the little girl's hand, and picked up her half-filled bamboo basket.

I don't know if it was Chen Yin's tone that played a role, or if those chocolates calmed the little girl's heart, and after a little panic, the little girl finally pointed out the direction of leaving.

"Well, over there. Find Grandpa Tree first, then turn the corner and follow the creek to get out. ”

"Let's go." Chen Yin shouted in Chinese, and strode forward in the direction pointed out by the little girl.

……

Walking lightly in the forest, Chen Yin suddenly asked:

"I, my name, ChenYin. What about you? ”

"Suzanne, my name is Susan."

Susan...... Susan, nice name. ”

On Chen Yin's shoulder, where he couldn't see, the little girl's face showed for the first time the expression she should have at her age - happiness.