Chapter 35: A Strange Clearing
You Gui was killed by a red-tailed pipa scorpion, and I wanted to collect his body, but from his corpse, many small red-tailed scorpions came out, and everyone had to leave and retreat lightly, so as not to disturb the scorpion group.
Fortunately, everyone is in danger, and I am safe away from the red pine tree cave where the guide is buried, although I am shocked, but it is inevitable that there are some regrets, and I can't help but pray in my heart, other lost teammates, don't make any more mistakes.
The red-tailed pipa scorpion deprived the team of a guide who was familiar with the terrain and landforms, and at the same time made me realize that the wound on the cigarette man's arm was much worse than I expected.
The canine teeth and cracked teeth of the wolf's teeth can bite the prey to death, causing huge lacerations to the prey. I neglected the smoke man's injury, it seems that I will have to let Zha Ling'er take care of the smoke man more in the future, after all, for ordinary wound healing, Zha Ling'er is more skilled than the smoke man, the witch doctor.
Now that the guide has died tragically, everyone is quite surprised and in danger, and they immediately began to search for other lost people in the dense forest.
The fat man wiped the sweat on his forehead because of the rapid walking, and said to me: "Lao Zheng, I don't think this blind search is the way, I have a good idea, do you want to listen to it." ”
I saw that everyone was sweating because of the rapid search, and Zha Ling'er was even more sweaty, constantly flowing down, obviously gritting her teeth to check. I had no choice but to let the team rest in place and ask the fat man, "Do you have any good ideas, tell me quickly." ”
The fat man sat down on the thick roots of a tree protruding from the ground, and then said to me, "Follow the example of the ancients and smoke from wolves." ”
"Wolf smoke" is the signal beacon of the ancient border military alarm. Because it is smoke burned from wolf dung, it is named wolf smoke.
Wolf smoke is now being used in a living way. It has the purpose of warning and replacing the flare to inform the location. The fat man wanted to use wolf smoke to inform the lost teammates where we were. That's a good idea. Although there is no wolf dung around us today, the use of dead grass and fallen leaves and damp wood can achieve the effect of billowing smoke.
Zha Ling'er shook her head very disapprovingly and said, "Don't attract people, but invite wolves." ”
Zha Qiye also felt that it was not safe, in the deep mountains and old forests of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, in addition to wolves, there were also bears and blind beasts, and the method of releasing wolf smoke was indeed a bit risky.
After fighting the wolves, I am not afraid of beasts now. Rather, they are worried that they will cause wildfires.
But I didn't have to wait to find my teammates, so I decided that digging a deep pit and putting wolf smoke in it would be the most effective way to attract my scattered teammates here.
After the pit was dug, we dug a protective ditch outside, and everyone gathered in front of the pit to shelter from the wind and prevent the lit fire from being blown away by the wind. Igniting a fire. But fortunately, there was no strong wind in the dense forest, and the wolf smoke was successfully ignited, and then we had to wait in place. Hopefully, the lost teammates will see the wolf smoke and find our place.
Time passed in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, twilight had fallen. None of the lost teammates arrived.
The fat man anxiously asked me, "Is the smoke not thick enough, and everyone hasn't seen it?" ”
It's getting dark. The wind began to blow in the woods, and I immediately called to the people to put out the fire. When the wind blows, the burning fire is too dangerous.
Tonight, everyone can only rest here, with eagerness, hoping that the lost teammates can show up one by one and tell each other the pain of parting.
The silence would have been so annoying, and the night would have passed away quietly, leaving everyone feeling depressed and lost.
As the hour drew to a close and I was ready to set up camp, the wolf smoke had no effect, so I had to continue to search for my lost teammates on foot in the dense woods.
Everyone packed up their equipment and was just about to leave, when the cigarette man suddenly said, "Someone." ”
Everyone immediately hid behind the trees and stood on guard, though I didn't hear anything. However, the smoke man can hear a small voice far away, it must be that someone is coming, and I am just hoping that the person who is coming is a lost teammate.
The sky has eyes, we hid behind the tree for a while, and saw the three of them supporting each other to come out of the depths of the woods, it was Duan Erye, the monkey and the sunspot.
The smoke man and the night owl were naturally very happy to see that their junior brother Kuroko was fine, and I was very happy that the three of them were able to turn around safely, so I immediately asked them what happened to them after they were separated, how did the three of them meet, and why did they find the team until now?
After the monkey poured a pot of water to quench his thirst, he began to tell what had happened to him. I heard his voice speak hoarsely as if spitting sand, and it took me a long time to prick up my ears before I understood what he was saying.
After eating hallucinogenic villain mushrooms that night, the monkey went to chase the ginseng dolls running all over the place, but then somehow climbed into a mountain stream underground, and then hung on the cliff of the abyss underground, unable to go up and down, and after waking up, his legs and feet were so frightened that he did not dare to move half a step. I could only stay trapped on the cliff below the ground, constantly shouting for help, thinking that I might become food for the vultures here, and I couldn't help but be grieved. And just when his voice was about to shout hoarsely, Duan Erye and Heizi happened to be passing by nearby, and saw the crow vulture flying low and hovering on the ground, so they approached and looked at it curiously, and found the monkey hanging in the mountain stream underground, so they rescued him with a rope.
Kuroko, like the fat man, hallucinates and falls asleep in the woods deep in the depths. After being woken up by Duan Erye, the two immediately rushed to the camp, and met a monkey on the way, and the three of them turned around together. When they arrived at the camp and found that there was no one left, they knew that everyone had gone out to look for them, so the three of them stayed where they were and waited. Later, when they found wolf smoke, they came non-stop, and everyone met again.
I heard that Second Master Duan and the others had returned to their original camp to look for us, which made me worry that the Sixth Young Man and the Zhuge Locksmith King, who had not yet returned to the team, would also have the same idea and would return to the previous camp.
But Second Master Duan said that this was unlikely, it had been two days since he was poisoned by eating mushrooms, and normally speaking, if there was no accident, the two of them should have returned to the camp long ago. But it hasn't appeared yet, and it's probably like a monkey, so it's better to look around. Now it's useless to go back to the camp and wait.
Everyone thinks that Duan Erye's words are reasonable, and I am worried that if the remaining two people really have an accident, I just hope that they can be like monkeys, just trapped somewhere and waiting for rescue, but don't have an accident like Guide You.
However, it is common sense that the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes. We walked through the red pine forest in front of us, and soon found the corpse of Liushao in a very strange clearing, to be exact. The reason why it is said to be a "weird open space" is because the corpse of Liu Shao is lying on a red dirt floor with a diameter of more than three zhang and no grass.
On the mountain ridge of the Little Khing'an Mountains, dense trees and clumps of weeds grow on the fertile black soil, and the open space in front of you, except for the lack of weeds, is still red muddy land, as if it has been stained red by blood.
And I was surprised to find that the appearance of the corpse of the six young people was very strange, and the face was so white that there was no blood, as if the blood in the body had been drained. But there were no obvious wounds on his body at all, and he lay on the ground as if he had fallen asleep peacefully.
However, in the right eye socket where the crow pecked away the eyeball, a five-colored flower actually grew, with the color of red, blue, yellow, green, and purple, which was extremely delicate and enchanting.
When everyone saw the strange and strange corpses of the six young people and the scarlet and terrifying dirt ground, they were so frightened that they stood in the woods and stopped.
I looked at the terrifying corpse of the six young people in horror for a moment, and then I wanted to set foot on the red earth and take a look forward.
As a result, I was grabbed by the man standing next to me, and he whispered to me: "The corpse is too strange, it's better not to approach it rashly." ”
The others also nodded one after another, and Seventh Master looked at the strange corpse of the six young people and said: "The corpse looks like it has been dead for a long time, and there is no half beast around, and even half a fly and insect are not born, which is very strange." Especially the five-colored flower, which is so enchanting, must be a strange monster. ”
I saw that what everyone said was reasonable, so I didn't dare to take a half step forward rashly, but I was a little unbearable to expose the corpse of the sixth young man to the wilderness. But I also know very well that if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and a momentary mistake may harm others and yourself.
The fat man who was standing behind everyone and checking the location of the map suddenly called me with a not very good-looking face, so I took my eyes off the corpse of Liu Shao and asked the fat man, "What is the matter?" ”
The fat man did not reply, but handed me the map, and I said to myself: Fat man who has something to say, why is this so. When I took the map and looked at it, I couldn't help but gasp, and everyone couldn't help but gather around to watch when they saw my different faces.
There is such a coincidence in the world, the extremely strange scarlet ground in front of me is actually the location where we are struggling to find the second tomb, which makes me immediately look at the six young people lying on the ground, and my heart says: The body of the six young people is here, is it just a coincidence?
The destination that they were looking for was close at hand, but everyone felt as if they were far away in embarrassment, the scarlet ground was obviously strange, and they couldn't get close at all, and everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and they had no idea for a while.
When I saw that everyone was frowning, I smiled and encouraged everyone, saying, "Just fight in the woods, just spend a little more effort, and then you should exercise." ”
Since the trip to the north, everyone only had the first day to enjoy the scenery and rush leisurely, and they had a more relaxed and comfortable time. Then he ran around non-stop and tired, constantly fighting with terrifying foreign objects and cunning animals, not only injured, but also poisoned, and did not get a good rest at all, physically and mentally exhausted. Now it takes time and effort to dig the thief hole, which can be described as painful. (To be continued......)