Chapter Twenty-Three: The White Shadow Under the Tree

Yuan Xiaobai baked a lot of vegetable cakes for the three of us, and the goal of entering the mountain this time was very clear, that is, to make a tiger. To be honest, none of us have ever seen what a tiger looks like, but we have seen it on the New Year's painting, and the fat man said that the tiger is nothing remarkable.

In the eyes of Shi Fatzi, no matter how high his kung fu is, he is afraid of kitchen knives, as long as he has a gun in hand, he can fight invincible opponents all over the world.

The West Mountain, as the locals refer to it, is not a mountain but a whole area, this mountain is located on the west side of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and you can barely see a few peaks from the village, and that piece of land is considered forbidden by the locals. No one has verified whether the story Miao Lan told is true or false, but that day seemed to be a little unquiet when she set off.

When I got up early in the morning, Yuan Xiaobai made a meal of cabbage batter for a few of us, and when she cut the cabbage, she cut her hand, and she was bloody. But these little things are nothing in our hearts, in those years, a little injury is not enough to worry about the teeth, and when we work, we don't take off a layer of skin at the end of the day.

There was only one gun, we didn't have a hound, and I pulled out a red tassel gun from the warehouse, the head of the gun was a little rusty but it still worked, and it was better to carry it on my body than to be empty-handed. Cha Wenbin went to the tractor warehouse in Tunli and found a roll of steel wire, the kind of drawing wire with a lot of tiny steel wires screwed together, which is the brake line. There is also a shovel, the kind of sapper shovel that can be folded, which is said to have been left by Little Japan back then, and it has been in the hands of the villagers for so many years without a curl, and the quality is really speechless. Each of us had a woodcutter pinned to our waists to go into the woods, which was necessary to open the way and defend ourselves.

Seven or eight miles west along the river from Savage Tun to the west has begun to enter the boundary of the West Mountain, but occasionally you can see a little bit of the foundation left by the predecessors when they opened up the wasteland, and the blackened stones show that there were once people here. Further we have to go through a dense forest, and it is when we reach this forest that the road is gone, in fact, it is not called a road, at best it can be walked.

The current of the river was very fast, and the bottom of the water was full of big mossy stones, and the depth of the water was unpredictable. We decided to walk along the river, because the fat man's theory was that the tiger was an animal, and if it was an animal, it had to drink water, and we would go down the river to see if we could find anything.

The truth was always different from what we thought, and after walking less than two kilometers along the river, we broke off our heads, and a waterfall forty or fifty meters high appeared in front of us, and below the waterfall was a pool, so green that we could not see the depth, and the area was the size of a basketball court. We couldn't climb any further, the steep cliffs were covered with slippery moss, and we had to climb over a mountain to get to the top, and it was already noon, so we decided to rest here.

In the autumn season, the pine needles of the larch have begun to turn yellow, and the ground is covered with a thick layer, and I leaned on the ground and stared at the waterfall in the distance and felt the urge to sleep, and slowly my eyes closed unconsciously.

When I woke up again, it was already dark, and I rubbed my eyes, and there was no one around.

Cha Wenbin and Shi Fatzi are gone!

At first, I thought they were just hanging around and should be back soon, but I was alone until the owl's call sounded in the woods. During this time, I shouted and searched, but finally returned to the same place, and they were nowhere to be found. The water in my ears is still ringing, my heart is very confused, although I have been bold since I was a child, but I will inevitably feel a little scared when I stay alone in this deep mountain and old forest, and what makes me panic even more is that I have no fire source, and only a red tassel gun and a firewood knife are left by my side.

There is no reason for these two people to leave me alone, what can I do in the dark night when I can't see my fingers? I don't have a better option than to wait. The night in the woods was not human, and all kinds of sounds I had never heard before made me feel like I was going to collapse.

Before I came, Miao Lan said that there are wild people here, as well as tigers and bears, fat man, fat man, don't you keep emphasizing that everyone is a revolutionary comrade-in-arms, why did you leave me at such a critical time?

In the dark, I felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at me all the time, and the more I paid attention to that feeling, the more real that feeling became, and I kept twisting my head around trying to find it, but those eyes seemed to react that they would be one step ahead of me, always changing positions just when I was about to see it.

This feeling became stronger and stronger, and slowly, I had an urge to run.

"Run!" The word popped into my head, but where could I run? It was so dark that I couldn't even see my feet and ran, but the oppressive feeling kept urging me to make a choice.

There you have it, climb the tree! I remembered that bears were said to not climb trees, and behind me was a large tree, and the trees here were all tens of meters high, and the straight larches only began to slit at a very high point. I unfastened my belt and kicked a set of feet on the trunk of the tree, and then moved the belt up a little, and continued to push hard, slowly, I have begun to leave the ground, this ability is what I have learned since I was a child, there are many pecans in the northwest of Zhejiang, most of the people there know this technique, and I am no exception.

After climbing more than ten meters, I began to encounter tree branches, and I tried to make them very strong, with three branches, just enough to sit on them. In order to prevent me from falling, I tied my hands to the tree with my belt.

Every minute I sat there was hard, I felt like I was still staring at those eyes, and it was waiting for me below, and I kept reminding myself that I couldn't sleep, that I had to wait until dawn, and that the red tassel spear was clenched in my hand, and I fantasized that if there was a wild man, I would stab it in the heart before it tore me apart.

At about ten o'clock in the night, I hugged the trunk of the tree and heard a sparse sound in the woods, and suddenly I woke up again, and following the sound I saw two fires coming from the woods, and a person said: "I don't know how Xiaoyi is, I didn't expect to chase so far." ”

"It should be fine, even if his two or two ribs are caught by the savages, it is estimated that he will poke his teeth, but this is not to blame us, who told him to sleep so dead, I didn't respond when I put a gun in front of him."

I could hear that this was the voice of Cha Wenbin and the fat man, and now I could loosen the strings that had stretched me for a long time, but these two people left me here alone in such a reckless manner, and I decided to take revenge on them.

I saw that the two of them had arrived at the place where I had slept during the day, and the fat man took the torch and spun around and said, "Hey, what about the people?" ”

Cha Wenbin seemed to be a little worried: "It shouldn't be something wrong." ”

"No, that kid isn't quite ghostly." The fat man was actually comforting himself by saying this, because he was already trembling when I heard the second half of this sentence.

"Xiao Yi!" Cha Wenbin shouted, "Xiao Yi, where are you, we are back, Xiao Yi, did you hear it!" ”

Nonsense, can I not hear it? I'm right above you, but I've decided to keep silent about who told you to sell me this teammate first.

Cha Wenbin and Shi Fatzi shouted several times but I didn't answer, and the fat man became anxious at this time: "It seems that something is really wrong, let's hurry down the mountain to find someone, we are not familiar with this forest, and the place is so big, God knows if he has met a tiger or a wolf or something." ”

"Then you go out and find someone, and I'll continue to look here." When I heard Cha Wenbin say this, I suddenly had an infinite affection for him, this fellow is still reliable, and he has to be his own person at a critical time, just when I was about to answer the sound of the tree, I suddenly saw a black shadow flashing behind Cha Wenbin, I am very sure that it is a black shadow, because he was talking to the fat man with his back to him, and the torches of the two people can be illuminated very clearly, and the fat man's eyes only stayed on Cha Wenbin's body.

"Are you doing it alone?" As the fat man finished saying this, I saw the black shadow again, and it was extremely fast, and it went around the side of the two of them to the back of the fat man, and this time I could see it more clearly than before.

By the faint light of the torches, I saw that the shadows of a pair of huge arms had opened up, and the shadows were slowly moving towards the stone fat man.

It's not good, something is going to happen! At this time, I didn't care that I was going to play tricks on them, and I shouted to the bottom with all my strength at the top of my throat: "Be careful! There's something behind you! ”

"Xiao Yi!" Cha Wenbin raised his head and shouted, and then he probably saw something, and yelled at the fat man: "Squat!" ”

Although Shi Fatzi looks very brute, but the reaction speed is really not covered, he didn't know anything but did it according to Cha Wenbin's instructions in the first time, I only saw a thing like lightning over Shi Fatzi's scalp, and then rubbed Cha Wenbin's body.

The fat man felt only a gust of wind pass over his head, and he stood up with his gun and shouted, "What the hell! ”

At this time, I also slid down the tree, and before I had time to explain to them why I went up the tree, I gasped and said, "It's dangerous, we can't stay in this place." ”

"You were in a tree just now?" Cha Wenbin asked me.

"It's good that I'm in the tree, and I happened to see it, otherwise the fat man would have hanged."

The fat man asked with trepidation, "Is it a wild man?" ”

"I don't know, all I saw was a white flower flying over your head, probably that big." I gestured with my hand, and indeed, it was about the size of a calf, so fast that I couldn't see it at all.

Cha Wenbin looked around and said, "It's white, I also saw it, but what I saw didn't seem to be a wild man." ”

"What's it?" I asked.

"It's like a fox, and it's snow-white."

The fat man said: "You talk about it, where is there such a big fox, besides, wild beasts are generally afraid of fire, we both have torches in our hands, and a fox dares to attack people behind their backs?" Let me catch me skinning it! ”