I stopped, and for the first time I heard all sorts of strange sounds coming from the woods. There is the sound of insects crawling by, the sound of several birds flying over the canopy, and even the sound of various plants growing. These sounds were drowned out by the sounds we made as we went, and now they became more pronounced as soon as we stopped.

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Nothing strange, the sound of nature." ”

"Not the voice."

I listened nervously to Ah Xiang's tone, and when I looked back, Ah Xiang stared at the dense canopy of trees that were divided into several layers above his head, motionless. I can't tell if it's serious or scared.

It's not trying to scare me. I thought about it, and felt that he didn't need it, and that it didn't do him any good to scare me. So what sound would make him so nervous? I followed his gaze and searched among the trees.

The darkness in the woods is not easy to describe, at least not from the darkness of the sun after it sets, and the sunlight occasionally spills through the swaying leaves, like a blinking star. There was also water vapor or fog floating in the air, and the occasional sunlight shining through the vapor made it seem to me that there was nothing above my head except for the covered leaves.

"Did you hear the difference? What sound do you hear? ”

Ah Xiang retracted his gaze and looked at me, and said uncertainly: "It's a strange sound, like someone sighing." ”

Your sister, is it true that you are trying to scare me? As soon as I denied that he intended to scare me, I was confirmed by him himself.

I had to say to him seriously: "Brother is scared, don't play this game with me." We don't have that time, and I'm not in the mood to play. ”

With that, I swung my machete, cut off a vine in front of me, and walked up the hill with great difficulty. I hadn't walked a few steps when I heard Ah Xiang follow. It seems that this boring game doesn't have much appeal to him either.

At the top of the hill there is an open field of less than an acre, a complete stone, standing high on the top of the jungle, and its shape is extremely irregular. What I was very concerned about was that there was a dry place, the air in the jungle was soggy, and my clothes were soaked all the way, and sweat was only a small part of it. Standing on the top of the mountain, I could even feel the coolness of the wind, which was the first time I felt the wind blowing through this sultry valley, even though it was faintly imperceptible.

From the top of the hill, you can see the whole picture of the hill and some of the surrounding conditions. The hill is really not big, if it weren't for the vines and dense woods, with my physical strength, it would not take me half an hour to reach the top of the mountain, but I walked with Ah Xiang for two hours on this road. Now I can see it clearly when I get closer, the hills are covered with grass on all sides, and through the cracks in the grass you can see the water below, which means that we are surrounded by a swamp, and the hills are like islands in the marsh.

There are many small hills like this one at my feet, all separated by swamps, and they are all far from each other. Between the hills, in addition to dense aquatic grass, there are some bushes, and these shrubs should be some small areas of land.

I probably looked at it and my heart sank, and I couldn't move forward at all. I glanced at Ah Xiang, and his face was also cloudy and about to rain. I don't think he had the courage to go into the water anymore.

"Let's spend the night here, it's not safe by the water." I reminded him. "Go, bring them up before dark."

The obstacles on the way have been cleared, and the speed of going back is faster, and when we get back to the water's edge, we immediately pack our backpacks and set off for the mountain. The condition of the two mountain people was worse than we thought, the two of them had too many leeches attached to their bodies when they crossed the swamp, and the vampires not only swallowed too much of their blood, but also seemed to suck their energy, and both of them were listless all the time. There is also the fact that the wounds above the thighs are very troublesome, although they have been disinfected, but the humidity in this place is too high and the temperature is high, and the wound cannot be bandaged, so it is best to dry. It's okay not to walk, but when you walk, you will grind into wounds, and it will be difficult to go up the mountain, and you can't expect them to carry things.

Ah Xiang had a very bad attitude towards these two mountain people, and he was in an extremely bad mood at the moment, and he roared at them. The two mountain people were so scared of Ah Xiang that they gritted their teeth and were about to pick up their things and hurry.

I really can't stand it, these two mountain people are the most seriously injured, the wounds on their thighs and waist make them unable to even wear pants, it is difficult to walk, and they have to be forced to climb the mountain with their butts closed, is this still human?

I stopped the two mountain people and said to Ah Xiang, "They can't carry things like this, so the four of us can carry them separately." You're tired of them now, and there's still a way down there. ”

Ah Xiang looked at me, and then at the two mountain people. Perhaps because they felt that they were indeed too seriously injured to make it to the top of the mountain, they reluctantly agreed to my suggestion. It was already dark, and there was no time to think about it, so everyone carried as much stuff as they could and went up the mountain.

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was almost dark, and the last thing in the forest was firewood, and we quickly started a fire. It's not for heating, even after the sun sets, the temperature here is above 30 degrees, and the fire is made to dispel the fog. As soon as the sun went down, a mist rose in the woods and in the swamps below the mountain, and it grew thicker and thicker, as if it were about to swallow up the whole valley.

We walked on mountain roads, and it was extremely difficult to climb high mountains and valleys, and we had to carry a lot of equipment, so we didn't carry tents, but prepared some sleeping bags. In this hot and humid environment, sleeping bags were redundant, and we gathered around the fire and boiled a pot of water. The wild food prepared by the Vietnamese is vacuum-packed rice, which can be eaten after being heated and poured with gravy. I'm more used to eating noodles, so I brought a lot of instant noodles in my backpack, and the humidity was high, so I poured a spoonful of hot sauce into the instant noodles, cut a piece of vacuum-packed beef, and sweated after eating it.

I sat in a daze for a while, and then I heard Ah Xiang talking to the two mountain people.

Jack handed me a cigarette, took a burning branch and lit it for me, leaned over and asked, "Don't you think it's strange that I haven't seen an animal in such a big forest?" ”

Listening to Jack's words, I shivered, and my sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden. Not to mention, I really didn't pay attention to this matter, I climbed the mountain back and forth twice, the first time I made the vines and branches on the mountain mess, and the second time I carried a backpack close to my weight, tired like a dog, how could I care about other things. But now that I think about it, it seems that this is really the case, except for the sound of a bird flapping its wings once, I have never heard any animal sound, let alone seen anything.

This is really abnormal. How can this place not have its own ecological circle?

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