448 Step-by-step

The forest at night is extremely dangerous, for the monkey is a nimble and weak animal, during the day they can fly and arrogant, but at night, they can face the threat of death at any time, leopards, birds of prey, pythons and even weasels, honey badgers, etc. can use them as prey to fill their stomachs.

The monkeys have poor night vision and can't see predators clearly in the faint starlight, and although it is slightly safer to stay in the trees, most of the predators in the jungle are expert climbers, so the monkeys' tree-climbing advantage is gone!

A safe habitat is important for the monkeys to survive, and there are also dedicated monkeys to keep watch. A hill like the Monkey King is an ideal place of safety, with steep walls that are too steep for ordinary leopards and poisonous snakes to reach.

But now, the two monkeys, Mordin and Lancôme, have been delayed by the gorilla's hunt, and they cannot return to the mountain in time. And if you want to force your way to the other side of the mountain at night, you will encounter more dangers on the way.

Now the only way they can do it is to climb a tall enough tree, while keeping the highest vigilance, sleeping, don't even think about it, and survive the night!

The pain in Mordin's body was slightly lessened, he tried to move his body, and found that except for the palm on his back, there was no injury anywhere else, and most importantly, his spine was not broken, it was estimated that his back was swollen, and it hurt when he moved, and if he gritted his teeth, he could still move.

Reluctantly freeing himself from Lancôme's warm embrace, Mordin stood up and clung to a tall walnut tree to climb up the tree.

"Squeak!" Lancôme probably understood what he meant, and she was in a very good mood when she saw that Mordin could move, so she staggered up the tree from the other side of the trunk, and in a few clicks she reached the first branch, but suddenly jumped up and fell to the ground with a thud.

Mordin had barely climbed up halfway up when he saw Lancôme suddenly fall down, and he didn't understand what she was playing!

Lancôme got up and rubbed the aching monkey's buttocks, squeaking at it, and it looked like there was something in the tree.

Mordin looked closely at the tree in the faint moonlight, and vaguely saw something dangling from the branch.

"What's that?" The piece of rope was as thick as its own arm, and it seemed to be slowly crawling down!

"Snake?" he was shocked!

The snake had crawled less than a meter away from the trunk of the tree, and Mordin saw its true face:

The head is triangular, the neck is flat, the body is the thickness of a teacup, and the length of the foot is 4 meters!

The black viper, the cobra genus, is the most poisonous snake in the dense forests of Africa, the common is more than 2 meters long, this black viper is more than 4 meters long, and it is definitely the king of snakes!

The black viper stuck out his tongue and held his flat head high, and approached Mordin little by little.

Lancôme saw it, and jumped and squeaked on the ground in a hurry!

In front of such a large poisonous snake, the weak monkey could only choose to escape, so Mordin hurriedly climbed under the tree, but before he could climb to the ground, he suddenly heard a noise in the jungle, and something rushed out from Lancôme's back.

Mordin didn't even have time to rescue, he had already rushed behind Lancôme with something, only a slight bump, and suddenly knocked Lancôme into the sky, but the thing still didn't slow down, ran under the tree in a few steps, grabbed the trunk and climbed up.

Mordin took a closer look, and saw that its fat body had a pointed head and a striking white hair on its back, which was very characteristic.

"Honey badger!"

The honey badger is usually not interested in monkeys with less meat and more bones, and it has a special preference for snakes, especially venomous snakes!

The black viper in the tree attracted it here.

The honey badger scurried in front of the black viper in a few steps and immediately attacked.

The black viper knew that it had met a strong enemy, and it made a threatening sound, and its two huge fangs were exposed, as if trying to scare off the honey badger, but its body kept retreating from the tree.

The honey badger didn't eat it, it saw the opportunity, grabbed it, buckled the head of the black viper, and forcibly dragged the big snake more than 4 meters long from the trunk and fought together on the ground!

Mordin pulled up Lancôme, who was still in a daze, and quickly climbed up the tree, those two animals are not something that monkeys can afford to provoke, so it is safest to quickly climb to the tree.

The battle on the ground lasted for several minutes, and finally the honey badger bit the black viper's head to pieces, and then, before he could enjoy the meal, he passed out.

It turned out that when the honey badger was attacking, it was bitten by the black viper a few times, and now the poison has attacked, and the honey badger is lying in the grass with its feet facing the sky, and the fat black viper is next to it, but it is dead.

Everything fell in the forest, and the black viper, which was a predator just now, was killed by the little honey badger!

The honey badger lies there motionless, and if a leopard or hyena comes over at this time, the honey badger will also fall prey to other animals!

There was an eerie silence in the dark forest, and a few owl calls could be heard in the distance, and the rest was the staccato sound of some unknown insects and birds coming from afar.

A breeze blew and rustled the leaves, and Mordin looked up nervously, he feared leopards jumping out of the darkness, pythons, prairie falcons, etc., all of which were beasts that could eat him.

After an hour of silence, the honey badger on the ground suddenly woke up, rolled over to its bones, and began to feast on the meal.

"It's amazing, I've been bitten by a black viper a few times, and I just need to get some sleep!" Mordin sighed in his heart.

A small hand grabbed his arm, and Lancôme looked at the honey badgers crunching and eating under the trees, and her monkey face showed a look of horror. Mordin stroked her back with his hand and patted her lightly a few times, as if to tell her that she was there, don't be afraid!

Lancôme took advantage of the situation and snuggled the monkey's head into Mordin's arms, as if to feel safer in this way.

The honey badger's feast lasted for an hour, and before it was finished, half of the snake was left there, and it disappeared into the grass!

"Gurgling......" Mordin's stomach suddenly rattled.

"Gurgling......" Lancôme's stomach made the same sound.

Both monkeys were hungry, watching people eat and drink, they hadn't eaten for half a day, how could they not be hungry?

This walnut tree has not even bloomed, let alone borne fruit, and if you want to eat the fruit, you have to move to other trees to find it slowly.

"Forget it!" Mordin dispelled the thought, there was danger everywhere under the tree, and it was better to be hungry than to lose your life!

He put his hand tightly around Lancôme's shoulder, and the two monkeys sat on the branches, staring blankly at the half-cut snake body that the honey badger had eaten.

The frightened leopard did not appear, nor did the other predators return, and they spent the second half of the night in terror, and it was almost dawn.

The morning mountain wind was unusually cold, and the two monkeys hugged each other to keep warm, and the night was really difficult, they were cold and hungry, and they were scared.

Seeing that it was already dawn, Mordin let go of Lancôme and climbed up to the top of the tree, trying to see the direction of his surroundings so that he could find the hill where he could settle and return to the camp.

At a glance, he was greatly disappointed by the surrounding scene, the fog in the mountains and forests obscured all vision, and he couldn't see anything clearly!

The sky was overcast, the fog did not know when it would clear, and there was a rustling sound in the jungle not far away, which seemed to be the sound of leopards or wild wolves.

"Maybe it's the smell of the honey badger's uneaten snake meat that attracts the foragers?" Mordin speculated.

"You can't stay here, you have to find food to fill your stomach first, and then look for any familiar signs that will allow you to clear your way and find your way home!" he thought.

After looking around at the path, he patted Lancôme on the back, got up and began to leap towards the nearby branches, Lancôme understood, and jumped after him.

The two monkeys seemed to have had bad luck, jumping several large trees in succession, but did not find a single food to satisfy their stomachs.

The surrounding scenery is becoming more and more unfamiliar, and there is no familiar environment to be found.

They got lost in the fog!

In this way, the two monkeys became more and more confused in the jungle, hungry, tired, and depressed, and felt that the monkey's life was really not easy.

Suddenly, Lancôme behind her squeaked, and Mordin looked back at her, only to see Lancôme excitedly pointing to a big tree not far away.

When Mordin saw it, he was also amused, and saw that on the branches of the big tree, there were berries that their monkeys loved to eat.

"Finally found food!" the two monkeys immediately refreshed their spirits, and they rushed to the tree one after the other, and the food was at their fingertips, and Mordin reached out to pluck the bunch of berries, but the bunch of berries did not need to be picked at all, as if it were placed on the branch like that!

"No!" he was startled, and was about to escape, but unfortunately it was too late, only to hear a "pop!", a big net "hoo!" came up from under the tree, and put the two monkeys into the net at once!

It turns out to be a trap set up by the monkey catchers in the forest especially for those greedy little monkeys!

"It's over! it's over!" Mordin's heart felt a pang of despair, Lancôme was still struggling in the net, but he knew it would be in vain.

After struggling for a while, Lancôme also lost her strength, and she shivered against Mordin's body, her eyes full of horror!

Mordin stretched out his paw and patted her on the back, trying to calm her down, and after a while, the little female monkey also began to despair, knowing that it was useless to struggle, so she had to look at Mordin with expectant eyes, as if hoping that Mordin, the monkey king, would think of a way.

Mordine reached out and grabbed the bunch of berries and brought it to the mouth of the little she-monkey.

"Eat it, if you come it, you will be safe, this string of bait, if you don't eat it, you won't eat it in vain!" he grinned at the little female monkey.