Chapter 20: The Treehouse
Qin Zhen raised his head and looked at the treehouse that Tashi was referring to, and his mouth opened wide involuntarily. After looking at it for a while, he turned his head to look at Lao Gu with an expression of forced laughter and deep regret.
Looking at Lao Gu again, his face was blue. The green one is the same color as most of the rainforest......
The reason is that the tree house was actually built on a hundred-year-old tree canopy about fifty meters over!! No wonder it is said that the tree house is insect proof...... At that height, ordinary things will never go up!
Tashi said that only a few hundred years old trees can support a treehouse. But a hundred-year-old tree must have reached this height. Not only are the low trees not strong, but the rhizomes are relatively soft and unsafe when they are in the moist soil for a long time. Therefore, the treehouses here are almost all located at such a height.
Let Lao Gu sleep on a tree trunk of more than fifty meters, this matter is still more cruel. Qin Zhen looked at him with sympathy at first, but when he thought of the face he had just laughed at when he was mocking his mollusk phobia, he immediately put away his sympathy! And looked at Lao Gu with a look of "good and evil will be rewarded in the end" and sighed.
Then he turned to Tashi and said happily, "The height of this treehouse is simply amazing!" Anti-mosquito, anti-snake and water-repellent leech! It's completely possible to block out that series of disgusting things! What are we waiting for? Let's go! ”
Quietly glanced back at Lao Gu behind him, and his face was blue at this time......
Qin Zhen looked at Lao Gu's appearance like this, and couldn't help but feel a hint of joy in his heart. This is the legendary retribution......
Qin Zhen urged Tashi to hurry to the treehouse. But Tashi was visibly deterred by the treehouse, and hesitated for a long time before he could move his legs. Qin Zhen and the others all knew in their hearts that Tashi must be the same as Tsering, full of fear and jealousy for the mountain people in the tree house. It stands to reason that these two young men should not have been in contact with these indigenous mountain people, so why are they so afraid?
After Qin Zhen asked Tashi this question, Tashi replied truthfully: "Grandpa, like the old people in the village, will warn the children from an early age not to come to this jungle hinterland. It's not a good thing to mess with the indigenous mountain people of these rainforests. ”
Hear Tashi say that. Lao Gu was even more energetic: "It seems that there is a landlord bully here!" Come on. Today, your brother Gu is just helping you wipe out all the ruffians here!! ”
Jiang Qi stopped Lao Gu at this time and said to Tashi and them: "Don't worry, we will definitely respect their habits." But if they're really unreasonable, don't be afraid. Our brothers will protect you. I believe. The mountain people should not be like this. ”
Tashi hesitated for a moment and said, "They are all in groups of three or five. And never come into contact with outsiders. Very eccentric temperament. I guess it's going to be very difficult to communicate with them......"
Qin Zhen originally wanted to say something that would reassure Tashi and Tsering, but Lao Gu yelled in a temper beside him: "Brother! Don't be afraid! You Brother Jiang alone can knock them down a lot! What demons and monsters haven't you seen? How can we be afraid of this group of natives? ”
After an impassioned speech by the old Gu, Tashi finally mustered up his courage. With Qin Zhen, they walked towards the tree house.
The height of these treehouses from the ground is about 30 to 50 meters, and the tallest one is really more than 50 meters! Each treehouse is built on a separate tree, but their "foundation" is often made up of multiple trees. Those ancient roots and vines, thicker than a grown man's waist, would have no problem supporting a house. As for the additional support, it is provided by wooden columns.
The first step in building a treehouse is to choose a strong, old tree that will serve as a pillar in the center of the treehouse. That's not really a problem for this rainforest. After that, the top of the tree is cut off, the shape of the house is built, and the leaves of palms and other plants are covered with layers. The walls and roofs are also mostly made of this leaf, which is reinforced with tough rattan ties. In this way, a solid treehouse is built.
If you get closer, you'll see that a notched tree trunk hangs from the bottom of each of these treehouses, which acts as a ladder to get up the tree. Climbing on such a ladder will cause the ladder to shake with each step, so as to alert the residents of the tree that someone has come to "visit".
Looking at the crumbling "cloud ladder", Qin Zhen felt that even this tree had to be a technical job! At a height of 50 meters, it is really difficult to climb up from this trunk with bare hands and follow the grooves. It's hard to imagine how these residents usually get in and out of their "houses".
According to Tashi, the indigenous people here are a small tribe of hunters who survive on unbreakable traditional family ties. They almost never have any contact with the outside world and are an absolutely enclosed environment and space. In this primitive tribe, people would share what they had in order to survive. If the small village of Motuo is compared to this place, it is not at all closed.
After walking forward for a while, just as they were about to get under the treehouse, Jiang Qi suddenly shouted to be careful! After that, he immediately pressed the heads of Tashi and Lao Gu!
I saw a cold arrow fly over their heads with a "whoosh"! Qin was so shocked that he hurriedly looked up, but he didn't find the person who released the cold arrow at all!
It seems that the residents here are not just unfriendly, they are completely resistant and resistant to the outside world! When you see a living person, you will release a cold arrow without saying a word! It's really comparable to the cannibals of the Amazon. I just don't know, will the residents here also eat people?
With this arrow, they didn't dare to let their guard down anymore. Since these mountain people are all hunters, they must have a very unique way of hiding themselves and "hunting"! Qin Zhen and the others couldn't get the gist of it, and it would only be a dead end to go on so blindly.
Qin Zhen tried to raise his hands, indicating that he was no threat. He believed that behind the large vine trees, there must have been a pair of eyes watching their every move.
Qin Zhen raised his hand to look around, and asked in a low voice, "Tashi, is this the road leading to the Snow Mountain Lotus Secret Realm?" ”
Tashi also followed Qin Zhen's example, raised his hands and whispered, "Grandpa has already told me in detail, if you want to go to the cliff he said, you must pass through here." The rest of the way is mostly cut off by waterfalls and cliffs, so we have to go here. ”
When Qin Zhen heard this, he suddenly had such a thought: Could this primitive indigenous tribe have anything to do with the Lotus Secret Realm? If it was really like what Tashi said, then the place where they lived seemed to be the only way to the secret realm.
At this moment, from the top left of Qin Zhen's head, two more dark arrows flew in! This time, Qin Zhen didn't dare to go any further! He immediately stood still, stopped the others, and shouted in the most friendly voice possible: "Friend, there is something to say!" We don't have malicious intentions, come out and talk, okay? ”
Although Qin Zhen stood still and did not move, his eyes kept looking at all corners of the tree. Sure enough, after a while, I saw several mysterious figures emerging from behind those ten-meter-high tree trunks.
No wonder they couldn't find anyone to release the cold arrow! It turned out that these mountain people were not only hiding behind the tall tree trunks, but they also didn't know what they had smeared on, and it was about the same color as those tree trunks! They didn't have too much clothing on them, most of them were bare skin, and after applying those special paints, they climbed on the trees, so that people couldn't even tell that they were alone!
Lao Gu muttered softly at this time: "Oh, I'll go, are they chameleons?" Also camouflaged and the surroundings of a color! Eh, you see them with their arms and legs exposed, why didn't they let the leeches eat them? ”
Qin Zhen scolded: "Old Gu, are you stupid? Even a fool can see that what they smear on their body must have an insect repellent effect! ”
"Then don't hurry up and grab some! This has to be levied! Otherwise, how can we live these days! Lao Gu said anxiously.
At this time, a man with a long head and shoulders slipped down from the tree, walked towards Qin Zhen vigilantly, pointed at Qin Zhen with the arrow spear made of the branch in his hand and said, "What are you guys doing!" ”
Although it was not so standard, Qin Zhen still understood what he meant. So he hurriedly smiled in a friendly way: "We are travelers through the rainforest...... There really is no malice. It's late in the day, so I want to disturb and find a place to stay. ”
Qin Zhen felt that his rhetoric and attitude were quite "poor monks from the Eastern Tang Dynasty... Go to the West to worship Buddha and ask for scriptures... Passing by the treasure temple for a night ...... feeling......
The man looked Qin Zhen and the others up and down, left and right, and finally waved his hand and said, "Go back!" The front can't go any further! ”
When Qin Zhen heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”
The man looked resistant, and said impatiently: "The road ahead is not the way for people to walk. Seeing that you have no malicious intent, I will let you go and leave quickly! ”
It was probably the disgust and unwelcome love on this man's face that completely angered Lao Gu, so he couldn't help but say at this moment: "Hey, man, can you do this?" We just want to spend a night, how much should we give. We are also friends inside and outside the mountains! After all, they are all Chinese, why are you so unparticular?! ”
The man glanced at Lao Gu in surprise, and then didn't give any face, rolled his eyes and said coldly: "Hurry up!" You are not welcome here. (To be continued......)