The rest of the night was silent, and we slept soundly.

Due to the large number of people, everyone took turns to keep vigil for very little time. In fact, there are no trees around this season, so there are no prey, so there is no danger at night. I stayed for about forty minutes, and then I slept until dawn.

When I got out of the tent the next morning, I saw a fog all around, the grass near me floating in the morning mist, and farther away, the mountains that had been visible to the naked eye yesterday were now invisible. The golden grass was strewn with snow foam, and the tips of the grass were full of mist, and as soon as I stepped out of the tent, I felt a chill, which was extremely cold.

Half of the people in the team were washing by the stream, the other half was fetching water, and they set up a pot to cook breakfast, boiling instant noodles and dried meat, and stewed a pot full, the taste was strong, and the people who smelled it were hungry.

I went to the waterside to wash up, my hands and face were red from the cold, and when I came back, breakfast had been cooked, everyone had eaten something hot, and their bodies had warmed up, so they packed up their equipment tent and continued to walk. This should be the best road I've ever walked since the fight, I don't have to worry about any danger, and the surrounding scenery is like a fairyland on earth, so that people can completely ignore the fatigue of the long journey.

The further we went, the denser the dead grass became, and we were worried that we would really step on something bad, so we found a wooden stick and explored the way with it before we walked forward. As time passed, the sun rose, the surrounding fog dissipated a lot, and the mountains in the distance revealed a faint outline.

The meadow beneath our feet became denser and denser as the crowd advanced, and at last it was almost impossible to get off our feet.

These herbs are supposed to grow very tall, but because of the winter, they all appear to be yellow and decayed, and then they are pressed by the snow and beaten by the dew, and they are all bent over and spread together. At first glance, it seems to be an ordinary meadow in front of it, but as soon as you step into it, your entire thigh is submerged in the meadow.

The water in the meadow is wet, and there is a chirp when you take a step, and your feet have been walking in such an environment for a long time, and the frozen soles of your feet are numb.

Wen Min gasped and said, "Fortunately, we are here in winter, if it is summer, these grasses will straighten up, I don't know how tall they are, shuttling in it, insects and mosquitoes are all embraced, it is estimated that it is even more terrifying." ”

Team Liu is at the forefront, this woman looks like she often exercises in the wild, even in this cold situation, there are no adverse reactions, only the short-haired female doctor in the team is a little unbearable.

Fortunately, there are many old men in the team, and it is rare to have a beautiful and delicate girl, when I see that the female doctor can't walk, you can help me for a while, I will pull a hand, say jokes to amuse, laughter from time to time, and do not delay the progress.

I have always been vigilant, and experience has taught me that under the surface of security, there are often hidden crises, so I have always been very vigilant. A young man named Xiao Wu in the team saw that I had been silent, so he came over and said, "Brother Chen, why haven't you been talking?" What are you doing with a strained face, let's tell a story, do you want to have one too? ”

Storytelling?

This group of people is obviously very energetic, and it is almost the same to brag in front of the female doctor and girl.

One of the bald men with a hat was even more exaggerated, saying that he once went out to sea to play snorkeling and met a super large octopus under the sea. The octopus ate three people in one go, and when he wanted to eat him, he was clever enough to pull out a knife from the water and blind the octopus in the eye.

The female doctor was naïve enough to believe it, and immediately showed a look of adoration.

I was speechless for a while, and my heart said that it is difficult to draw a knife when diving in the water, with diving equipment, let alone draw a knife, ordinary people, even it is difficult to hold a knife, this kid also bragged that he fought an octopus when diving and swimming under the sea, which was pure nonsense.

Besides, the appetite of the octopus is actually not big, what kind of octopus does it take to eat three people in one go?

When everyone heard the bald man's words, how could they have any scruples, and they blew the gods one by one, making the beautiful female doctor dizzy.

At this moment, Xiao Wuyi spoke, and everyone's eyes focused on me, and the female doctor was also curious: "Brother Chen, I heard that you are a weapons consultant, so do you often come into contact with guns or something?" ”

I nodded, not wanting to talk to her more, so I changed the subject and said, "Don't talk about this, pay attention to your surroundings, and be careful of accidents." "I used to have a very humorous personality, but the experience of the past few years has made me really not humorous, my thoughts have become more rigid or realistic, and I am really not interested in these nonsense things.

These words undoubtedly poured cold water on the high spirits of the crowd, and one of the people with a small head was not happy, and said: "What is the danger, what danger can there be in the meadow in this winter, I say you should not pretend to be cool with a cold face." ”

This group of people is not vigilant at all, although Team Liu is in good physical condition, but obviously the mood is too relaxed, and I feel that this group of people is like going out to travel. I felt the need to give them a vaccination.

After glancing at the board, I said, "Don't you like to listen to stories, okay, I'll tell you one." ”

The bald head with a hat said; "It has to be true, it's not okay to brag."

I said that I promised not to brag and that it was definitely the real thing that I had encountered, and then I began to tell everyone about it.

"When I didn't work as a weapons consultant, I was a young man who had just turned twenty, and because I was poor since I was a child, I came out early. At that time, I was in the mountain goods business, and I once returned to the Xiaoxinganling area of Heilongjiang to collect mountain goods. Over there in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, the natural environment is superior, lakes, pine forests, meadows, and all kinds of wild animals are like a paradise on earth. ”

When I received the mountain goods, if I wanted to save costs, I naturally took the wild road. At that time, I contacted a local mountain man who often poured goods, called Xiong Dan'er, and we cooperated, and the time was mid-October. At that time, it was already very cold in Xing'anling, and the weather was about the same as now.

Bear Dan'er brought a companion, and we put on big bags and some tools to pick a local wild mushroom called roe deer fungus. This peculiar fungus, only in the middle of October to the beginning of November in the period of Xing'anling, is very precious, belongs to the price of no market, no matter how high the price is, anyway, the yield is so little, and there is no artificial cultivation technology, so the mountain goods, when receiving this kind of thing, will personally go out of the horse.

That kind of equipment bag, as long as it can fill the amount of one pack, it will make a lot of money.

At that time, besides me, there were naturally other mountain merchants, but I was delayed that time, and I went two days late.

Those peers were like wolves and tigers, and when I went, there was not even a scum left. Seeing that he was about to lose money, Xiong Dan'er was not the first to cooperate with me, so he said, "That's it, Xiao Chen, I can't let you come for nothing." I know that there is still a pasture past this ridge, but the conditions are not good and a little dangerous, but after the pasture, there is a pine forest, and there are roe deer fungi there. If you're not afraid of danger, go there. ”

I had just started doing business at the time, where could I afford this loss, and when I heard Xiong Dan'er say it, I hurriedly agreed, and thanked people. Xiong Dan'er is a straightforward Northeast man, the Northeast people are very righteous, so they went with me, as for his helper, he felt that it was a little dangerous, and the weather was cold, so he gave up.

The danger that Xiong Dan'er said comes from the meadow, because the water and grass are abundant, so the meadow will attract many wild animals to eat and drink, and mosquitoes breed in summer, ticks, leeches, long worms, and countless others.

Winter was better, but I can't say for sure, someone had gone missing in that area before.

Xiong Dan'er and I got ready and bought a pair of thigh-length waterproof rubber shoes. This kind of shoes are waterproof, but also anti-snake bites, the only bad thing is that it is not warm, wear it for more than ten minutes, and the feet will be cold. We stuffed some cotton in our shoes and changed into them when we trekked to the meadow.

At this time, everyone has been attracted by my story, after all, these are real experiences of mine, and they are very detailed and worth scrutinizing, where is it like chopping an octopus, it is unreliable when you hear it, so everyone listens very attentively, and even Team Liu is also attracted to it.

I had the heart to remind them, so I moved on.

The situation of the meadow is similar to that of us, the only difference is that the area of the meadow is not as large as here, it is in the shape of a long strip, lying in front of us, but it is not difficult to pass through, it is estimated that it is half a day's journey.

The scenery there is also quite beautiful, there are no insects and snakes in winter, I walked with Xiong Daner for more than an hour, and there were no accidents, so I relaxed my vigilance a little.

Unbeknownst to him, the change occurred not long after.

As I walked, I felt a sink under my feet, and I planted myself forward, but I stepped into a hollow covered with ice floe.

Because of the abundance of water and grass, there are many such water depressions in the meadow, small places are not tight, at most wet shoes and socks, but some large water depressions have a vast area, the surface is a layer of grass, but the bottom is water and ice, and the water is mud under the water, and if you step on it, the whole person has to fall into the water.

Xiong Dan'er and I walked one after the other, and I walked in front, unlucky, stepped on a big water hollow, and the whole person fell in. In the early winter, in the north, I fell into the water with thin ice, not to mention the uncomfortable energy, when I was pulled up by the bear egg, I couldn't speak coldly,

Xiong Dan'er said: "Your clothes are all wet, you must not go any further, you have to go back and change your clothes, otherwise you will freeze to death." Hey, we're out of luck, let's go. I took off my clothes and wrung them out, and Bear Dan gave me a piece of his own coat, which was better than wearing wet clothes.

At that time, there was not a single dry land in that meadow, and we didn't even have a place to make a fire to warm and cook clothes, so we had to give up.

Unexpectedly, within ten minutes of turning around and walking, the meadow in front of us suddenly trembled, as if there was something hidden in the grass.

It was a long strip of traces, and something long seemed to be crawling towards us.

My first reaction was snake, big snake!

But in this weather, snakes should have hibernated, how could there be snakes?