The Sacred Spring Chapter 23: Lantern Fire (2)

As if to verify my hunch, the originally quiet and pitch-black Hundred Ghost Pit suddenly lit up, and the four walls of the pit were full of small fires at some point. I gasped and scooped up the limp chieftain and shouted, "The bat is out of the hole, run!" -

Almost as soon as I was shouting, there was a bellows-like buzz above my head, and all that was whistling in my ears was a biting cold wind, and occasionally something furry and hard was scraping through my ears, giving me goosebumps. I looked up at the zenith, countless small bright spots were hovering and flying in mid-air, we seemed to be in the boundless sea of stars, but at the moment the sea of stars is not as beautiful as imagined, they are all lantern bats that eat people and do not spit out bones, and the glowing lantern on the head is not to illuminate and guide passers-by, but a soul-seducing murderous lantern-

Run! Run! Run to the exit! -Vulture, waving the torch in her hand, points us a shortcut to escape in the dark. However, he himself was immediately exposed to the attack of the bat swarm, which is an animal that is born blind and relies on ultrasound positioning to determine the location of its prey. Our torches are only a fleeting force, and they can't compare to the hordes of batsnipers. The fat man and I picked up our rifles and shot wildly at the bats in mid-air, whether we could hit it or not, just to fight for a moment and a half so that the others could escape from the hole.

Our suppression of fire played a decisive role, and Four Eyes and Wang Shao had already dragged the unconscious Mask Chief up the exit and into the Witch Doctor's Tomb on the upper floor. I fought and retreated with the fat man, the flesh on my arms and head was almost scratched by these ferocious ones, I took the torch from the bald scoop's hand, dropped the rifle, picked up the pistol and shot and waved the torch, those cunning lantern bats saw the moment of our sudden decrease in firepower, and swarmed towards us, the bald scoop crawled to the side, and most of the butt was exposed at the entrance of the hole, and was bitten desperately by the bats entrenched in mid-air, I pushed the fat man: "You hurry up, I'm at the bottom." After going out, pull the grenades, can't let them get out - the fat man refused, changed a magazine, and yelled: "**, you go first, Lao Tzu has a lot of firepower, I'll cover you-

The bats had already understood our escape route, and a large number of bats blocked the entrance of the cave, blocking the robber cave that could only accommodate one person up and down, and the bald scoop and the four eyes shot desperately on it, still unable to stop the crazy attack of the bats. I saw that the situation was not good, the people above could no longer hold on, raised their feet and kicked the fat man out, I threw the burning torch out, and then pulled out the remaining alcohol and smashed it out, the sparks that rushed to the sky burned all at once, many bats fell to the ground under the baking of the heat wave, the fat man gestured a middle finger at me, spit twice in the palm of his hand, and hugged the rope - rubbed - a few times and ran up. Under the influence of alcohol, the whole Baigui pit suddenly fell into a sea of fire, my hair and clothes were roasted out of the smell of burnt, I no longer dared to fight, chasing the fat man's ass all the way up, many thief-hearted lantern bats stared at us and tried to rush out of the cave, my thighs and buttocks were scratched and bitten by them, and I was almost dragged back to the hole by these beasts, but fortunately, the bald eyes were quick, and the fat man and the fat man desperately pulled me out of the hole, as soon as my feet landed, the four eyes rolled over with a rock in the tomb of the witch doctor, sealing the hole. After such a hoarse struggle, I could no longer raise any strength, and lay down directly, and the screams of the bats when they were burned by the fire continued to sound in my ears.

The Mask Chief had lost an eye to a lantern bat, and we bandaged his wound with herbs to barely stop the bleeding. This greatly affected the speed of our march and further demoralized the troops. After escaping death from the lantern bat's lair, I was able to roughly determine the location of the Devil's Bridge based on the natural landscape described on the map and the murals, and I had planned to travel north along the Amazon overnight. Unfortunately, the chief's injuries were so bad, and the rainforest was dangerous at night, that we had to set up camp in order to get things in order.

Since most of our camping gear is reserved for Yadong, there are only three tarps left to use at the moment. Fortunately, when we were soldiers, we often encountered the situation of staying overnight in the field, and a piece of tarpaulin was already a great gift, so I chose two trees that were half a man high, tied the two trees together with a rope, and then folded the tarpaulin in the middle, hung the rope, and cut off four short ropes to tie the stones on the corners of the tarp, and set up a simple triangular tent for everyone to rest. The jungle is full of snakes and mosquitoes, and it is almost impossible to really get a good night's sleep. We had no choice but to stand guard and rest alternately. The Mask Chief has been involved so far because of our relationship, and I really can't get enough of it. But it would be useless to send him back now, the health and medical conditions of the Cremo people are backward, there is no necessary medical supply, and there is no suitable environment for recuperation, a cold in the primitive tribe can easily take people's lives, not to mention that the mask chief was poisoned and had one eye taken.

Four Eyes walked out of the mask chieftain's tent, his hands full of pus and blood: "I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on, bats have lived in an environment full of corpse gas for a long time, and their bodies are full of corpse poison." That mouthful not only sucked his eyeballs, but also injected toxins from his saliva into his body. Look at the gauze that has been replaced, pus has begun to emerge on it, and there are not many antibiotics we carry with us, so we have given some to Yadong, and there are two left, if you don't think about it, it is estimated that it will only be enough to drag it out until tomorrow morning-

I asked the bald lady, "If we quit now, how soon will we be able to contact the medical team?" -

"It's been four days since we've been in the rainforest, and with the distance from the village of Titama to the town, it's going to take a week," said the bald. He might not even make it through tonight, and even if we got in touch with the medical team, it wouldn't help—the bald man spoke Yachuk and knew more about the chief's health than I did—his body temperature was rising so fast that he was already a little unconscious, and he was begging me to give him a shot. Brother Bayi, you are the team leader, I listen to you about this matter, but to speak a word of conscience, he will die wherever he is sent like this, according to my temper, I should give him a good time-

For a moment all eyes were fixed on me waiting for me to make a decision, and I said, "If the situation has reached this point, then I will naturally shoulder the responsibility—with that, I bent down and stepped into the chief's improvised tent. When I saw it for myself, I knew that what the bald lady said was true, the chief was lying on the tarp, his whole head was swollen to the size of two watermelons, although the injured right eye was carefully bandaged by the four eyes, but the pus and bubbling eye sockets still showed out part of the gap in the gauze, and the room was full of rancid smell, and he shouted some words and then fell asleep. I pulled out Walter and pulled the trigger, ready to give him a ride so that I could help him out of his misery as soon as possible. Suddenly, Wang Shao rushed in and shouted at me, "Yes, be saved!" -