11. Waterholes
After a few minutes, the fat man also stopped breathing, he first glanced under the tree and saw that the wild man was still there, then sighed, coughed, got up and said to us, "Time is urgent, I'll make a long story short." ”
The fat man straightened his tone, put on a look of life and death, suddenly grabbed my hand, stared at me, and said earnestly, "Wait a while." ”
"Needless to say, you go up!" Wang Lei slapped the fat man's hand away and pointed up. "Time is urgent, please climb up."
"Fuck you, uncle." The fat man scolded indignantly, "Later, you will go and provoke the blame." ”
"Don't say it, it's a last word." Wang Lei sealed the fat man's mouth, I remember that we ran from the east, if the best remember to look at the place in the west, didn't you also look for it in the newspaper before? It is said that there are many waterholes in this area.
"I remember." The fat man patted and said, you prepare first and see how to attract him so that we have enough time to carry things and run, you must know that we have not even arrived at our destination now, and if we lose our equipment, I will have to cry for a lot of time.
"I know, you go up!" After Wang Lei finished speaking, he said to me, "Wait a minute, I will tie this rope to the trunk of the tree, slide down a little bit, your task is to help me swing the rope on it, the stronger the better, see how far it can throw me, of course I will be a buffer." ”
"Impossible." After listening to Wang Lei's words, I almost denied his idea, although this tree is big, but the branches are not very long, if you really make a buffer, this distance is probably not enough to swing! And there is also a point that the length of the rope is that according to what he means, he slides down a little, and I swing the rope a little bit with force, but in this case, there is a fatal key point. What if when I throw the rope, his height coincides with the point where I swing, under the tree? Shall I pull him up? It is impossible to do something without a pulley, and my hands are still aching.
"There's no way out." Wang Lei sighed, "Could it be that I should learn from Tarzan of the Apes, throw the rope and go to the opposite tree to swing again." ”
There is really no way, I looked around before the fat man and Wang Lei's location was very good, this forest and this tree is a relatively tall one, at that time their purpose was to let us have a place to hide, but now I didn't expect this to become a burden, and then I said to Wang Lei Is it okay if we can wait for a while, we can always go when it's dark.
Wang Lei said no, our food and clothing problems can't be solved, the food is in the backpack below, and we have nothing to do with breakfast, and after a lot of exercise just now, our stomachs have already surrendered.
After thinking about it, I still said to Wang Lei that it can't be risky, no, the fat man came down, I told him that we will wait for an hour to do it, I can't be so patient as this wild man, but then how do you know that this thing has such a name in the local area.
Wang Lei smiled, didn't he say that he had consulted the information? Five years ago, a geologist came to the area to investigate, and he saw something similar to an orangutan on the mountain that could run upright towards humans, and he gave it the common American name "Shasquach".
"The name of the United States?" I wondered, "Could it be that person is American?" ”
"No, no, no, it's Italian. He came here to find a source of water, which is said to have penetrated from the deepest mantle through geological changes, and has a surprising effect. ”
"What effect?" I'm curious, how could an Italian come here? Or looking for a kind of water? Nongfu Spring?
"But as a natural sleeping pill." Wang Lei said to me.
"It's hilarious!" I chatted with Wang Lei if I didn't have anything: "Anyway, how can you find this person!" ”
"I don't know!" Wang Lei said to me, and then lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious, "When I entered the fat man's house, he looked up this person on the Internet?" ”
"Check someone?"
"Ferrenchesco, that's the Italian."
"What?" I can't keep up with my thinking, "You mean that the fat man had a purpose, and he went to check it before he found this creature?" ”
"Perhaps!" Wang Lei arched his shoulders.
"But this person's name seems familiar!" A thought crossed my mind, as if I had heard such a name somewhere.
"Familiar with Mao!" Wang Lei took out a box of chewing gum from his pocket: "Foreigners have one name, don't you know!" What is big is Sharapova, what is rich is 10,000 Novich, what James, George, Jackson. It's a weak comparison to us. ”
"What the hell!" I was speechless, and then I saw the fat man hanging down from the tree with a rope, I patted Wang Lei's shoulder and signaled him not to say any more, as for why not let the fat man hear it, I didn't know what I thought at the time, I just felt that it was a matter of secrecy.
"Ready?" The fat man asked with a flick of his arm.
"What's the hurry?" I vacated a seat for the fat man to sit between me and Wang Lei. Then I told the fat man what I thought, but the fat man suddenly looked down at the tree and asked, "Look. ”
Wang Lei and I glanced at each other, and then looked down and found that the wild man was actually gone, "Gone?" Wang Lei asked.
"What about you!" The fat man said angrily, both of them are men, what are you flirting with when you go to such a high place, "It's okay now, go over there?" DID YOU KNOW? ”
"Anyway, it's gone." Wang Lei said, let's go down!
"There's no hurry." The fat man said, "Wait a little longer." ”
"What are you waiting for? Do you think the wild man is hiding? I want to engage in an ambush. I asked.
"We can't rule out the possibility that he has a wise surname. Even if it's a wild man, since he can stand upright, maybe he can really think like a human. ”
As soon as I heard this, I was small, and comforted, "You think too much, if this is the case, the earth would have been occupied by them a long time ago, do you think he is a strange species?" ”
But just in case we waited in the tree for half an hour, during which we checked the position of the wild man from all angles according to our condescending form, and finally found no trace, and then we slipped off the rope one after another, picked up our respective backpacks, and the fat man beckoned us to hurry up, there was a small waterhole on the left 30 meters ahead, and we would rest there for a while to eat, and if the wild man came again, we would jump down and dive away.
Wang Lei listened to the fat man's words and took out a steel knife from his backpack, do you think there are wild people everywhere!
The early bird gets worms, I haven't heard of this sentence! It is estimated that the savages in this winter are also hungry, who knows how many savages there are in the hanging holes of the mountain and dense forests, the fat man said and led us forward, this time we are very cautious Although it is unlikely that we will meet such savages again, but the minimum caution is still needed, the fat man walked in the first hand with a gun, he said that he has good marksmanship If you see a savage can shoot off its glasses, I nodded, I think it makes sense, after all, the eyes are the weakest place, but then Wang Lei also said, I will go the second, My marksmanship is also good, if the fat man misses the shot, I can also hit, this is a double insurance.
Damn, I scolded in my heart when I heard it, you must know that you let me cut off my tail, not to send me to death! First, in this kind of dense forest, the person at the back of the long snake line will definitely not see the situation ahead, if something really happens, I will be the slowest to react. However, about the situation in the back, you don't have eyes on your ass to put it bluntly, you are a cannon fodder, if something comes from behind the first time you are lifted off, the front self will be vigilant, so I will scold you! This is immoral! But the two guys didn't give me a chance to speak, and immediately pushed me to the last one and asked if you had any other good places to arrange.
“。”
I didn't speak, but at this time, I saw that Wang Lei stopped standing still as soon as he finished speaking, trembling.
"What's going on?"
"That thing." Wang Lei immediately opened his legs and ran forward, "That wild man is still there." ”
"What?" I was startled, and immediately turned sideways to see a completely black thing hiding in the dense grass in the woods on the left, and my heart beat and contracted, "This wild man is wise, he is waiting for us, and he knows our route." "Great fear is everywhere.
"Run!" The fat man suddenly fired a shot, and I don't know if I hit the wild man in the eye, and I didn't dare to turn around and run forward desperately.
"The old line, turn left after 20 meters to the west, just don't care about other people running." The fat man then roared, and then there was a crazy roar, and the humming of trees and grass, and the sound in his ears became louder and louder, as if the whole world was beginning to roar, "Hit, the fat man really hit, this wild man is angry, now it's going to be fatal!" I thought to myself.
Desperately running forward, I knew that my strength was running out, but the fear of the unknown in the face of everything still made me shout loudly. The voices continued, but my mind grew more and more messy, and at last everything in front of me was like the wreckage of a storm, and I couldn't tell anything. "Old." A short passage of the fat man's words came into my brain, but I could only feel his first word "old", and then only a crazy running command, physical strength passed little by little, the brain seemed to no longer exist, and the person was a little floating, feeling flying.
I'm not going to die here! No, I'm going to run faster.
Finally I saw a small waterhole in front of me, but at this time my foot was mixed with something and I fell down all of a sudden, the sound behind me became louder and louder, and I saw that the waterhole was in front of me, but I had no strength anymore, and I was unwilling! I banged the ground, and suddenly I remembered that I opened my eyes and saw a man jumping, who was it? Then there was the sound of water, my god I was the fastest runner, but when I looked around I was stunned, there were almost all corpses here, and there was even a man who was not completely decomposed and fell beside me, white maggots swirling in his eye sockets, and I was shocked.
"What is this place?" I thought about it, but suddenly my thoughts were interrupted because I saw a pair of big black feet standing next to me.
But this is nothing, although my body cannot move, but the only head began to look blindly left and right, and suddenly saw a stone tablet at the end of the waterhole in front of me, on which was written with a bright red brush a few words: "Do not drink." ”
At that moment, the feeling of "buzzing" came back miraculously, but there was nothing left on the soles of my feet, and then the cold liquid soaked through every piece of my clothing and I struggled to open my eyes. The thing in front of me had the body of a fish, the head of a snake, and six legs, and its eyes were shaped like the eyes of a horse, which I realized when I tried to reach out.
I'm underwater now.
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