Chapter 126: Surprise
Eating fragrant roast chicken with clear water, Laura felt that her luck was not so bad. Before she came here to meet Louie, she also found her partner's lost backpack, which was of little use to other things, but there was a walkie-talkie, which she could try to use to get in touch with her friends.
"What's your plan next?" Laura looked at Louie sorting through his 'backpack' there, guessing that he was counting the supplies in his hand, "We can figure out a way to get out of here together." ”
"I don't know what to do next, the communication device for distress has fallen into the sea, maybe we should find a way to send a distress signal?" Louie continued to make up lies so that he could legitimately act with Laura.
It's not that he is hungry for Laura's body and wants to lie next to her, but the key to leaving the island this time is to eliminate Queen Himiko:
Queen Himiko has been looking for the right container to resurrect herself. After countless years of waiting, the best vessel Sanmantha finally arrived on the island, and was captured by the Brotherhood of the Sun, who 'served herself', and delivered to Queen Himiko.
This Sanmantha is Laura's good friend, and Laura can't sit idly by and watch her friend become a vessel for Queen Himiko's resurrection, which means that she will try her best to find trouble with Queen Himiko and save her best friend from the Queen who holds the power of evil.
That is to say, Laura and Louis are naturally in the same camp, and no matter how you look at it, the two of them are more reliable to work together than to run around on the island alone.
"I have a communicator, we can try to contact my partner first. Laura took out the communicator she had picked up, and without waiting for Louie to react, she began to try to contact her partner in front of Louie, but after a few minutes of trying, there was no response from the communicator.
Laura looked a little disappointed, and Louie had to comfort the young young adventurer: "Maybe it's too far away from your companion? ”
Louie's original plan was to find a high place and figure out the overall environment. No need now, he already knew where he had been, and was ready to take Laura directly to the beach to join her companions.
While comforting Laura, Louie also 'hung' some of the equipment that he would definitely need, such as a short knife, flashlight, gun holster, etc., and then took out a kettle and a few pieces of chocolate and handed it to Laura.
"You carry these with you, and they can be used in case of separation. ”
"Thank you, you are really, really good people and I am so lucky to meet you at such a time. Laura's English accent sounded nice, but what she said was something that Louie always thought was weird.
"You're welcome, the rain has stopped, let's take a look around. "The two of them roasted chicken here, bandaged their wounds, and rested for a while, not only did the rain stop, but the dark clouds in the sky completely dispersed, and the bright sun shone on their faces again, making the whole person feel warm...... Hot batch.
Louis had begun to feel the strange climate change of the island, but instead of taking off his leather jacket, he put it on his body openly, and walked back to the same path he had walked the way he had walked before.
"Watch your step. "The jungle that has just been rained is not easy to walk, and it is easy to slip when it is deep and shallow, and the muddy water splashed is not a big deal in comparison.
Fortunately, Louis wore training pants and military boots, and Laura also wore cargo pants and boots that were easy to move, which was the most suitable equipment for this environment, and she suffered a lot.
After walking through the jungle for a while, I soon saw a small stream, and on the other side of the stream was a military structure that resembled a pillbox.
"What the hell is this place?" Laura looked diagonally upward, on the branch of the big tree next to the bunker, where a dried corpse was hanging.
"It should be a military fortress built by the Japanese army during World War II. The fort was clearly a modern or modern military building, and given the location of the island, the answer was obvious: "But I don't know what happened to the corpse with the bow and arrow on his back." ”
Laura and Louie stepped on a few stones to cross the stream, standing under the big tree and looking at the corpse above, Louis quickly withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look at Laura, who was still staring at the corpse: "What are you thinking?"
"That bow might come in handy. Laura learned to bow and arrow with her father since she was a child, and she also wanted to bring a weapon to defend herself on this strange island and in the treacherous jungle: "We can also use bows and arrows to get food." ”
Laura thinks that Louie's backpack can't have too many supplies, maybe the chicken is the last food reserve in the backpack, even if there are edible things in it, that is, chocolate, energy bars and the like - those things can only be used for emergencies, not for meals.
Glancing around, Laura figured out the right path in a matter of seconds, knowing what she could do to get the simple longbow hanging from the tree.
"What are you going to do?" Louis could have helped Laura remove the longbow, but now Laura didn't want Louie to help.
Maybe Laura has her own genes in her bones that don't rely on others and everything, and after making sure that she can easily get this thing, she didn't think that she was still injured, but simply climbed up the fortress next to her, jumped from the roof of the fortress to the stone platform on the other side, and then from the stone platform to the branches of the big tree, and walked to the side of the dry corpse.
"Forehead ......"
Laura felt the distance and found that it seemed difficult to touch the dried corpse hanging upside down on another branch, but she was unwilling to give up at this time, after all, she was only a little bit away from success.
The consequence of trying to reach out and force her body out was that Laura successfully grabbed the longbow and dragged it off the branch and dropped it to the ground along with the dried corpse.
The cost was that she herself fell off a branch and experienced a short free fall.
Laura, who closed her eyes and was ready to bear the impact, did not feel any pain, and opened her eyes in surprise to find that her whole person was being held in Louie's arms.
"Are you alright?" After Laura opened her eyes, Louis lowered Laura's legs and allowed her to stand on the ground by herself.
"I'm fine. Laura looked at Louis in surprise, she didn't expect the other party to be able to catch her, and she was so stable: "Thank you...... It seems that after meeting you, I have been saying this word all the time. ”
"You don't have to be so polite and keep saying thank you. Louis bent down and removed the quiver from the corpse and handed it to Laura.
Laura took the quiver and just opened her mouth to thank her, but when she came to her mouth, she temporarily changed her words: "Then I won't be polite to you." ”
I pulled the bowstring, checked the condition of the improvised longbow, and tried firing a few arrows at the tree next to it to figure out the situation of the longbow.
"The power is okay, enough for hunting. "This kind of simple longbow and arrows made from local materials cannot be expected to have too much power and accuracy, and they can be lethal within a certain range, which is already a good weapon. In this case, Laura can't be too demanding.
Recovering all the arrows into the quiver, Laura and Louie stood by the fortress, looking at their surroundings and wondering what to do next?
"Follow the creek, maybe go to the beach?" Louis looked around, vaguely remembering that in the game, Laura was going from the tunnels in the fortress to the next area. And in this real world, they have more options: "Or do you want to see what's useful in there?"
"Let's see what's here. Laura thought it was a good idea to follow the creek, and her idea was to go as far as possible to the sea, where it would be easier to find her companions.
At this moment, the dark clouds that had completely dispersed gathered again, blocking the bright sunlight again in the sky, and at the same time sprinkled cold droplets of water.
"Damn, it's raining again. Louis didn't feel so hot and uncomfortable just now, it turned out that it was going to rain again, and the climate of this island was really unpredictable, and it made people feel broken.
"What now?" said Laura, looking at Louie, who preferred to ask for other people's opinions rather than make her own decisions.
"Two options, retreat to the mountain wall where we were sheltered from the rain before. On the way back, they could gather more firewood and re-raise the bonfire to wait for the rain to stop: "Or we can gather firewood on the spot and rest in this fort." ”
Louis pointed to the fortress next to him, the fortress also has the function of sheltering from the wind and rain, but the two of them haven't checked inside yet, and they don't know what the situation is.
Laura looked at the fortress in front of her, looked back at the direction they had come, and finally did not make a choice, just looked at Louie with wide eyes, and her meaning was clear: let Louie have an idea.
"It's good to shelter from the rain here, there's no need to toss back and forth. ”
Louis walked to the gate of the fortress, pulled the rusty iron door open, leaned in and looked inside, and saw that the inside of the fortress was clear at a glance: there was nothing empty, and the only thing that people cared about was the tunnel entrance that did not know where it led.
Laura stood next to Louis and leaned in as well, "Where does that tunnel lead?"
"I don't know, we can go down and have a look. "Louie is not in a hurry to go to the 'next map', but reminds Laura that they need to light a torch before going into the tunnel.
As an adventurer and archaeologist, even a rookie, Laura knows that when entering tunnels, caves, and the like, torches are used for more than just lighting.