Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hurtful Woods

The first night was inevitably a little nervous, so the people who lay down did not fall asleep. In order to alleviate the tense and dreary atmosphere during the march, Zhao Li said: "I found it! There's something strange about these plants, you haven't noticed? He shook his head many times: "No." Zhao Li asked Helali again: "What about you?" Helelli also shook his head: "I didn't pay attention! How? Zhao Li: "You can shine a lamp on these plants!" Helary took a picture casually: "It's nothing! "You don't look closely! Look carefully, think carefully. Helary was indifferent: "I've seen it, I've thought about it." "If you compare them with the daytime, what's the difference!?" Many times: "I'm not in the mood to pay attention to this, so don't sell it." Zhao Li was proud: "I found that the leaves of the plants here are open during the day, and at night, some of them will shrink into a roll, and some will shrink and wrap around the branches. Before the words were spoken, several people used their lighting equipment to search for the surrounding plants, or observed the plants they had already seen. Lao Zhao is quite attentive, yes, it's quite interesting. Helali praised Wan Zhaoli for his good habit of careful observation, and explained, "We used to collect them during the day, and they are dead, so we can't see how they change during the night." Zhaoli: "That's important, isn't it?" Is it worth looking into? "Any information about these plants is worth studying, especially those biological varieties with the surname of Reading, which is even more valuable for study." "Hey! Aren't all the specimens you collect with a common surname? Why did another special surname research pop up? "We need to study the universal surnames of living beings, and we must also study the special surnames, no matter which one they are, the ultimate goal is to serve us human beings." "Oh for us! Quite right. "Let's use a simple analogy! Well! For example, carrots, which have a high content of carotene, and after we eat them, they have many benefits for the human body. The high carrot surname of carrots, a special plant, is not worth studying. Study how its carotene is generated, how we can learn from our own artificial synthesis, etc." Got it. This lesson is a good one" "Hurry up and rest! At night sentry, Chad and I were worth the first two hours, followed by Dokik and Tamin, and finally me and Lao Zhao. "I've reminded you many times that it's time to rest. Helelli: "Why not me?" What about me? "You rest!" "I can't be special than others? Anyway, I can't sleep, I'll be with you in the first shift, and Chade and Lao Zhao will be in the last shift. He hesitated for a moment: "Can you do it?" Helali: "It works." Many non-negotiable tones: "Okay! Everyone else slept. "Fortunately", it was the first time that Zhaoli had calmed down and stared at the stars in the sky. The stars here are not much different than those seen on Earth, a little different, just from a perspective of 40,000 light-years from Earth. A cool breeze hit, and he shivered, and quickly retracted the two hands outside the sleeping bag, and sealed the sleeping bag, leaving only one face exposed. He thought to himself: It's good that Eleni is here at this time, how warm it is to hug her! Hey! She's my hot bed. Someone on the left nudged him, looking at him sideways. Chade smiled: "I see the silver smile on your face, do you miss your sister-in-law's hot quilt?" Zhao Li was a little annoyed when he saw through his thoughts: "Why don't you sleep and look at my face!" Are you a night vision eye? Can you see it in the dark? Chad pointed to the bonfire: "The bonfire is reflected." I can't sleep, I'll talk to you. Zhao Li: "People who don't have wives, hehe! Feeling lonely now, right? Cha said proudly: "Am I lonely? Have I ever been lonely! "You say! Whose bed are you thinking about now? "Chad", "Desla's?" Or Abeka's? Cha said stiffly: "No one thought about it." Zhaoli: "They all broke up?" Zhao Li wanted to provoke Chad, turned his face sideways to Chad, and said, "Eleni and I are still going to have a few more children, what do you think?" Not far away, he sat on the ground next to Helaili: "Don't speak! Sleep, you're busy tomorrow! I don't know if he heard many words or Zhao Li's words, he also retracted his sleeping bag with both hands, and after sealing it, he said in an angry tone: "Sleep!" "Ahaha! Ahaha!" A burst of laughter startled both Dokik and Tamin on night watch. They followed the laughter and shone it with a flashlight, and when they saw that Cha De was laughing, they thought he was laughing in sleepwalking. "Ahaha! Ahaha! Chad began to kick his sleeping bag with his foot. Then Chad shouted, "Who's picking at the soles of my feet?" As soon as the words fell, there was a "whoosh" accompanied by a "smack" of plant friction, and Dorkik shone again, and the flashlight irradiated the aperture and disappeared. Chad shouted again, "Help me!" Hurry up and save me! Oops! Something bites my foot! Chad's cry woke up all the people who were asleep, and some of them opened their sleepy eyes and asked, "What's the matter?" "Some have fully woken up, looking for flashlights and shining at the place where the sound is coming from. Dorkik and Tamin followed the sound with a flashlight to find Chade, only to see that half of Cha's body was on the ground, the lower half of his body was no longer visible, and his sleeping bag was very messy and piled up next to him. They hurriedly walked over and stretched out three hands to lift Chad, but there seemed to be something pulling him down, pulling his body down to the ground. "Oops! Hurt! Don't pull hard, there's something biting my foot down there. Chad's face was a little distorted. The two hesitated for a moment, and saw that except for the two arms supported on the ground, the rest of the body was buried below the ground. I can't see anything below, so how can I bring it up? Dorkik hesitated and asked, "Does it hurt?" "There's something that keeps biting and doesn't let go, and when you pull it, it hurts terribly." Tamin: "We can't see what's down there, we can't handle it." If it hurts, just bear with it! What if I don't drag you out? Continue like this until dawn, and then figure it out? "Alright! Drag it now! "Bear with me!" Dorkik and Tamin were so strong that they lifted Chad out of the hole under him little by little. He was also awakened in the middle of the night, and he got out of his sleeping bag and came over with a flashlight and a rifle: "It's scary." What happened? As soon as I took a look at the foot of the search, I saw that a monster was still biting the foot of the check with a big mouth: "What the is this?" Dokik yelled, "This guy doesn't want to let go at all. Lao Duo, don't hurry up and solve it with one shot. "After hearing the sound many times, according to the monster's bald head, there were two or three rifle butts, and now, the monster may have been stunned by the heavy blow, and it hung on the ground. After thinking about it many times, I was afraid that it would bite again, so I shot it in the head again, "Bang," the gunshot with a silencer device was not loud. Dorkik and Tamin, dragging Chad away from the hole. Zhaoli and Helaili, who were awakened, also gathered around Chad. Zhaoli: "What's wrong?" What happened? "Let it go, it's all right." Chad sat on the ground and began to look down at his feet: "Oops! Chad's right to Dokik and Tamin: "Borrow a light, shine a light, right foot". Chad looked up and said, "There are holes in my pants." It hurts a little! He said many times: "Hurry up and take off your warm clothes and take a look." Chade took off his warm coat and socks, squatted down and lifted his feet many times, shone it with a flashlight, and looked around with his feet again. I saw that on the feet and ankles that were found, there were some marks of different shades, some of which were very deep, and they had pierced the skin, and blood flowed out. comforted him many times: "It's no big problem, just scratch some skin." Dokik: "Thankfully, it was pulled out in time." He looked at the warm clothes he was wearing many times, and said, "Hurry up and find the medicine to treat the wound and put it on him, and put it in my backpack." Zhao Li took the socks worn by the bitten right foot, looked at the broken and wounded places, and cut a hole around it: "Don't take off the socks, otherwise the wound will be moved." "I took the medicine and applied some anti-inflammatory drugs to the wound, and then did a simple bandage. Several people looked at Chade with concern. Tamin: "Didn't you see a hole before you went to bed?" Cha Du rolled his eyelids: "I can't see such a big hole!" There was no hole at all! How could a hole suddenly appear! Strange thing!" Helary pondered, "It seems that the animal had sealed the entrance to the cave before, so that it had become a trap in case it could kill its prey. Chad: "Make a trap?" Halley: "Yes! I have seen the carcass of this animal in the laboratory, and I can tell from the outside that it does not have the ability to travel long distances and move quickly, and in order to survive, it can only dig a trap to catch its prey. When Zhao Li heard this, he walked up to the animal carcass and shone it with a flashlight: "I have seen this animal in the laboratory, why did you let you run into it!" Helary smiled: "Chad has done an experiment with himself, and now we can know how this animal lives, haha!" Cha De shook his head helplessly: "Unlucky! Many times: "There will be an hour before dawn, Lao Zhao and I will continue to be on duty, and everyone else will sleep!" Helali said, "Where can I still sleep!" Many times: "Dorkik, Tamin and Chad, you can sleep!" Chade sighed: "I don't sleep!" Zhaoli: "The injury is not serious, sleep for a while!" Chade: "The sleeping bag was bitten with a big hole, how can I sleep?" Many times: "Use mine!" Chad: "No need, I'll raise the bonfire and let's talk." Many times: "If you are a wounded, don't move!" At dawn, the six of them began to pack up, and after they were done, they repeatedly informed the base to transport the animal carcasses back, and then continued to set off. He hadn't gone far when he heard the sound of a flying machine behind him - a collector that was picking up animal carcasses. After searching for more than five hours during the day, there was still no trace of the child, and there was no news from the detectors and collectors dispatched. It was the second night, and when camping, they learned the lessons of the previous night, and in addition to the surrounding trees, shrubs, and grass, they also carefully inspected the ground. Helali's mood became more and more depressed, and he didn't say a few words all day, and he had already said a few words of comfort to him many times. Near noon on the third day, we received a message from the communicator: "About seven or eight kilometers north of your location, we have sensed sound waves emitted by humans through our detectors. Please come over as soon as possible. Many times he said eagerly: "No images?" Communicator: "It's moving towards the source of the sound, so we can't get too close to it so as not to alarm the hijackers." You'll be notified when it's approached. "Then send a probe to guide us!" Communicator: "Hmm! Send it now! Many times: "It's all mountain roads, and it's almost dark when I arrive." Communicator: "Yes! The collector will help you survey and prepare the campsite first, and then go to the place to rest, and then talk about the rest tomorrow. Duofan: "Okay! After the conversation, he pointed to the opposite direction of the north many times, and said to everyone: "Move forward quickly, and strive to get to the camping site before dark." He saw Chade walking with a slight limp, frowned, and said, "Is it okay?" Either let a collector take you back to base. Chad: "It's okay! Hurry up! So saying, he walked forward quickly, and after many times, he gave up. Ten minutes later, a probe appeared in the air twenty or thirty meters in front of them, and it fanned a red light to guide several people in the direction of travel. In order to get on the road as soon as possible, they have relaxed their vigilance around them. And the detectors in the air ahead made whistling sounds from time to time. After many breathless explanations: "That's the sound of the detector, it's driving away animals that are thought to be dangerous on the road ahead." No one answered or asked him, just walked briskly. Half an hour after dark, they arrived at the camping site, and after the probe designated the location, they quickly withdrew from their sky and flew higher into the air. For safety, no bonfires were lit. A man who had hiked all day and was not a night guard fell asleep in his sleeping bag. It will be a little brighter, and I will get up after many times. The portable communicator instructed him to go in one direction for about 100 meters, and that was the best place to observe. He did so many times, but it was still a little dark, and he couldn't see anything, so he told everyone to sleep a little longer. The tops of the mountains in the distance are dyed orange by the rising sun. The plants on the hillside may have begun to open their leaves, thinking a lot, and with the telescope on his rifle, he looked at the sun-illuminated trees on the mountain for a while. A shrub on a small plateau from the side, sitting Zhao Li, while on duty, while napping. After reading the terrain map on the communicator many times, I turned off the communicator, and felt that the time was almost up, so I went to everyone and woke them up. It's dawning. At the observation point, look around the surrounding terrain several times: the observation point is in a shallow ditch, in the direction of the target, near the edge of the ditch near the resting place, with small trees and sparse shrubs. The place is ok and easy for people to hide. All of them - their target points and their observation points - were in an irregularly shaped depression with a radius of several square kilometers. According to the three-dimensional map on the communicator, the target point is estimated to be more than 200 meters away from the observation point, and it is visually determined that it is at the highest point of the mountain, and the bottom of the depression is nearly 70 degrees above the steep slope, in fact, the target point is halfway up the mountainside under a cliff. Because the observation point is too low, and the entire steep slope is covered with vegetation, the location of the target can only be determined by the probe's instructions. The communicator connected to the probe shows the entire target area taken from the air by the probe's probe: the steep slope is almost densely covered with vegetation - trees, shrubs, weeds, etc., except for the top, bottom, left and right of the hole, all the rest of the place is covered with vegetation up to the top of the mountain. At the entrance of the cave, there is also a stream of clear water that cuts down, first a waterfall, and then falls to the ground, and then merges into a turbulent stream, the stream is full of foam and water vapor and pours down to the bottom of the valley, and at the bottom of the valley a zigzag stream is formed, and the stream dodges small highlands and stones, and flows to the left, that is, to the south. Communicator: "You can't see in the low-lying place, see the video I sent you, look, here, there's a hole". The image is gradually zoomed in and enlarged. Communicator: "See? "See, it's about to be at the top of the mountain." "Yes, there is a small platform near the entrance of the cave, estimated to be about twenty square meters." "Hmm!" "How to implement it, you come up with a plan, Ivan and I are here, let's think about it together." "Good!" Gather a few people to surround at the bottom of the ditch. Many times: "If you find it, you won't be involved, go to your designated location now, and use the telescope to observe the movement of the cave at all times." "Good!" I found a shrub limping towards the ditch. Chade stopped Chade with concern: "Wait a while! You seem to be more lame, come and have a look! Tried many times to take off the shoes that were found, and found "Oops! Tap! It hurts a lot! He wondered many times: "It's getting more and more serious, it seems that it's still infected." I'll call a collector to come and send you away. Chad: "Don't scream, that thing is too big a target, and the movement is too big, don't alarm the guy up there." As he spoke, he pointed to the mountain. Zhao Li frowned and said, "Didn't you take anti-inflammatory drugs and take anti-inflammatory injections?" Why is it still serious? He explained: "Our anti-inflammatory drugs are not aimed at the virus here. A vaccine adapted to the virus here will not be developed in a few months. He emphasized: "A few months is still a short time!" Chade frowned and said, "It's not serious." Seeing that the mission is about to be completed, the child is rescued, and when it is done, it will go back! He instructed him many times: "You just hold on for a while!" Or! You're rested, Dorkik, you go to the observation post. Chad pushed Dokik in place: "I'll go, my eyes won't get tired of seeing things." Duofan and a few others watched with concern. Chade suddenly exclaimed, "Look! Somewhere came out of the hole. The others were startled, thinking that they could not find out, but when they saw him waving, they all rushed to the ditch and looked in the direction of the cave with their binoculars. Chad: "One, yes! Two of them, flying into the woods, were blocked by the trees and could not be seen. Zhaoli: "What kind?" "It's fast, I can't see clearly", "Look, there's another one." "Everyone else just started looking, and their bodies were still moving, and they didn't notice anything unusual about the hole. Withdrew to the bottom of the ditch many times: "Let him continue to observe, let's discuss the rescue plan!" He was resourceful many times, but every time he elaborated, he always said, "I think." Zhao Li knew his habit. It's not coming again. Many times: "I think so! Zhao Li smiled. What to laugh at? Zhao Li quickly put away his smile: "It's nothing." "I'll think about it! Only by hiding around the entrance of the cave and then attacking suddenly can the goal of safely rescuing the Helari child Jana. Why! One is that the sudden action will catch the animals off guard and panic, and the other is that those animals can fly, and it will be troublesome if they catch the child and fly away again. Hurelli has been worried about the safety of his children, and his consideration is to settle it once and for all: "I think there are a little less people. Many times: "Consider it!" What I think is that the six of us rushed forward, two of us guarded the entrance of the cave, and the other four rushed into the cave to rescue us. Khaleli: "I think there are fewer people outside the cave, and we don't know what the inside of the cave is like or how big it is." In case the hole is very large, there will be fewer people for four people to go in. He fell into deep thought many times, and for a moment: "That! Just ask the base to add some more people? Helary nodded: "It has to be done the first time." It's better to have more people. Looking at the others many times, Zhaoli and Ta Ming also nodded. Repeatedly: "I'll inform the base." "I told the base the results many times. Communicator: "We've got ten of us in preparation, but we only have four weapons. "It's okay, other weapons are fine." Communicator: "Is there a knife shop for splitting wood in the laboratory?" "Too short, yes!" Bring it with you, huh! It is also possible to sharpen it with a long log. Communicator: "Hmm! All right! Duo Fan shook his head and turned to the others: "There are only four rifles, and the others can only use wooden sticks." Zhao Li smiled: "The weapon of primitive society." Communicator: "We'll leave as soon as we're ready, and we'll arrive in an hour or two." "Good! Got it. ”

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