Chapter 23: The Trap
After dark, for safety, the fat man and I set up camp in the dense and damp banyan forest, and waited until dawn before departure. The fat man told me that he was going to make it easier, and it was gone. Fearing for his safety, I took my backpack and flashlight and walked through the dark and ghostly woods, and finally found him in a green meadow.
But when I got closer, I found that the situation was not right, the lower part of the fat man's body was buried in the earth, I quietly approached him, and asked him very worriedly, "What the hell is going on?" ”
I saw the fat man reply anxiously and slowly in a soft voice: "My dear Comrade Zheng, you are here, quickly find a sturdy branch and pull me up, this is a trap." ”
After listening to him, I breathed a sigh of relief and got up from the ground, he was not buried in the earth, but when he came out to make it convenient, he accidentally stepped on the empty turf in the ground, and as a result, he got stuck in the hole. He was afraid of falling, and he didn't dare to move casually.
The fat man was afraid that there was a trap below, but I didn't care, who would come here and set a trap to catch a wild boar. I laughed and teased him, "Why did the pigs fall into the trap of catching wild boars?" ”
The fat man saw that I was not nervous, so he stumbled even more: "Help me, I feel that under this trap, there must be a bamboo gun erected." ”
When I heard the fat man say this, I was shocked, and thought to myself how I had a brain pump, this place is very close to the mausoleum, and it is not surprising to set a trap. I couldn't just go up to the fat man and get him up, because the ground around me was very weak, and I used to easily step on the crust of the earth and fall into the trap with the fat man. I thought I had the stick, so I immediately turned around and ran to the woods to the side, looking for a branch for the rescue.
In the past, hunting in the Northeast was done with bows and arrows for slightly larger prey, such as rabbits and raccoon foxes, and slingshots were used to catch birds. Later, the development of a variety of styles and fine, the common are hunting dogs chase or shoot with guns, if you want to catch a ferocious, more dangerous prey, such as wolves, bears and wild boars have different ways and methods. Catching wild boars is usually set up traps, looking for places where fruit trees are dense, it is estimated that it often eats the location, and then knotting the rope on a few trees, so that the head of the wild boar will be trapped, and the more they fight, the more tightly they are trapped, and most of these traps rely on luck.
Then it is often used to dig a hole in the ground, and then put branches on it, and then spread some weeds on the branches, and put some wild boar's favorite fruits to lure it in the early weeds. However, such traps are usually dug not too deep in order to facilitate the removal of prey. Therefore, in order to prevent wild boars from jumping up, one or two sharpened arrow posts are usually inserted upside down at the bottom of the trap.
After I heard the fat man finish speaking, I was really frightened, and I was anxious to look for branches in the woods, and there were arm-thick vines and roots everywhere in the banyan forest. While comforting him not to worry, I said to him very cautiously: "When I finish shouting one, two, three, let's work together, don't be anxious." ”
The fat man nodded slightly in agreement, so after I finished shouting the slogan, I immediately used my arms to pull the fat man up.
As a result, I overestimated my own strength and underestimated the weight of a fat man. As soon as the word "three" came out of my mouth, my body was carried forward by the fat man. I screamed in my heart: no, miscalculated. If it falls like this, the fat man and I will have to be directly dressed as skewers. However, it is useless to worry, death is not terrible, what is terrible is that there is still a long process of death. I thought in my mind that sharp wooden thorns would pass through my body, blood would flow from my mouth, and endless pain would accompany me to close my eyes a little bit. Over the years, the corpses either decayed to the point of becoming a breeding ground for maggots, or were pecked into dry bones by birds and beasts, and often accompanied by this mysterious jungle.
The horror spread much faster and more ferociously than you think, and the moment I fell, I saw the fear on the fat man's face for the first time, and this expression was reflected in my eyes, and at the same time in my heart, making me want to open my mouth to say the last words to the fat man, but I don't know where to start.
The falling body continued to fall in the air of the pit, and I found that this was not a trap, but an endless pitch-black bottomless hell abyss, which would never reach the end, and I would disappear into the endless darkness, just when I had this thought, my back hit a hard object, which made my falling body be stopped, slowing down the speed of the descent, fortunately I was carrying a backpack behind me, otherwise the impact just now would definitely break my waist bone. When I fell again, I found that I had just hit the roots of the banyan tree growing underground, and then my body kept hitting the roots of the banyan tree that was out of the dirt and into the trap, hitting my eyes full of Venus.
Just when I felt that the bones in my body were about to fall apart, I fell into a dense web woven from the roots of a banyan tree, and in the darkness I felt that the fat man fell not far from me, so I turned over and crawled in the direction of the fat man. The roots of the banyan tree were covered with moist and smooth moss, and I didn't hook the roots with my feet and fall on the side.
I didn't know how deep the ground was, I didn't know where I was, I shouted twice at where I felt the fat man was, but I didn't hear the fat man answer, I could only climb the net roots and continue to move to the side. I almost slipped off the tree net several times, and I thought I must have climbed a long distance, so I shouted "fatty" twice in front of me, but I still didn't hear his answer.
I suddenly panicked, and it felt as if I was the only one left in the dark, but when I was falling just now, I obviously felt that something had fallen into this tree net with me, who else but the fat man? I couldn't help but mutter, could it be that there is some unknown creature living in this abyss-like underground, which happened to be bumped into by me just now, so it fell down with me. I hurriedly shook my head to deny the idea that any creature could survive in the abyss of endless black love, and I kept reassuring myself that the fat man must have fainted, so he couldn't respond to my shouts.
So, I continued to climb carefully on the tree web, the darkness tormented the nerves like a demon, especially in the gloomy and silent place, which showed the hideousness of the darkness. The distance forward is getting farther and farther, and my heart is getting more and more desolate. The hole I fell into wasn't huge, but I couldn't climb the distance in a straight line above the tree web, and I didn't know how many laps I could run around the hole in the ground, but I hadn't reached the end yet.
Black, endless black, immersed in infinite darkness on all sides, and without the tree web beneath me, I would think I was in a dark nothingness. Panic gradually came, because I felt the tree web in front of me tremble, which meant that something was crawling towards me, and it was obviously not fat, because of the character of a fat man, he had already shouted loudly, how could he crawl in the dark so quietly?
Also, what was in front of me seemed to move freely in the dark, and I could clearly feel that it was moving very fast above the tree web, and that it was coming straight for me. I panicked at this moment, hurriedly groped for the tree net around me, found a dense place and sat up, my thighs were inserted in the hole of the tree net, hanging in the air, and I could lose my balance at any time and fall into the abyss underground. But I couldn't estimate it so much at this time, I grabbed the shoulder strap of the backpack with my hand, tried to put the backpack on my chest, and then took out a flashlight from it, and it turned out that the above was just my thoughts, when I just sat down on the tree net, something rushed in front of me and knocked me down, and I didn't see anything in the dark, only felt a fishy hot breath rushing into my nose, which made my brain ache, and I couldn't help but think: the fox entered the house - the person who came was not good.
The moment I was hit by an unknown object, I slid straight down the tree net, but fortunately I wisely stuck my thigh in the hole in the tree net, so I didn't fall straight off the tree web. However, now it is even more dangerous in the tree web, and I am attacked by someone who can see me in the dark, but I can't find his stuff, and sooner or later there is only a dead end.
What is attacking me in this darkness, and how does it detect the figure of **? If it is a night vision animal, their eyes will definitely glow, and it is impossible to completely blend in with the darkness, and attack me silently like a ghost. But this thing was not a ghost at all, I felt the hot breath coming out of his mouth and nose, it was definitely a living thing.
Silent darkness, what could be more frightening than this? I can tell you unequivocally that there is, that in the silence of darkness, there is an unknown monster that is eyeing you, and it may take your life at any time and place.
I sat quietly on the tree web, waiting for the unknown monster to attack me again, but I held my breath and waited in fear for a while, but did not wait for the unknown creature to attack again. And I know it's not leaving, just hovering somewhere near me, waiting to strike again at the right time. At this time, I realized that it was the same as me, and it could not see each other visually, but could distinguish the direction through the sound of guò, which made my originally desperate mood suddenly feel a lot more relieved and emboldened.
I crept back onto the tree web, and then slowly continued to move forward, trying not to make a sound. But as I moved through the tree web, I felt the wind behind me, and something scurryed over my backpack. I couldn't help but scream that it was not good, the hearing of this unknown creature was really catching up with the radar, but fortunately I was crawling on my stomach just now, and it would pounce in the air, and next time there would be no such lucky thing happening.
After the unknown creature flew into the air, I lay motionless on the tree web, and I didn't dare to come out. The heavy backpack weighed on me, so that the web-like roots beneath me were about to dig into my flesh, and sweat continued to fall down my forehead, cheeks, nose, chin, and neck, disappearing into the endless abyss below. My dizzy eyelids began to fight at this point, and in order to strengthen my spirit, I forced myself to think about the master who was waiting for my rescue, and the fat man who might be unconscious somewhere in the tree net waiting to be found by me.
However, the silent darkness was eating away at my consciousness, and my body felt more and more weak, and at this moment, I felt something quietly approaching from behind my feet, and my heart was completely cold, and I thought in despair: It's over, he still has accomplices! Outflanked before and after, I have nowhere to escape, I am dead!