Chapter 4: The Nameless Valley (3)
After that, each distance forward, the fog became a little thicker and the chill a little stronger.
In the end, the field of vision was full of thick white mist, lingering with his hand, and even the rock wall that was clinging to it could hardly be seen clearly, so he could only stick to the rock wall with one hand, and what made Ma Yun jealous was the cold air, which made him feel like falling into an ice cave, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
In this environment, Ma Yun's body consumes a lot faster energy, and he knows that he will not be able to hold on to it soon, and if he still doesn't reach the end or find a warm place, it will be difficult to walk back.
After weighing the pros and cons, Ma Yun decided to give up the exploration of the bottom of the valley, walk back while he still has the strength, and get out of the fog first. At the time of crisis, if there is a decision, it must be implemented immediately, Ma Yun did not hesitate to turn around and touch the cliff and walked back.
He calculated, from getting up in the morning to now walked about seven or eight hours, if it was six or seven o'clock, it should be two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when he came to worry about the danger, he walked more carefully, now he felt the cliff and walked back, the speed can be much faster, about five hours to walk to the place where he rested last night, and it should not be a problem to get out of this fog before dark.
After taking a few steps, Ma Yun suddenly remembered a question, lowered his body and began to grope around on the ground. Sure enough, there were no plants such as plants or trees on the ground, only a few stones were occasionally touched, and it seemed that the depth of the fog was no longer suitable for the survival of plants and trees.
The soil on the ground was very soft to the touch, so I hurriedly took out the small piece of iron on the outside of the package, squatted on the ground and dug up the soil, the soil was really good to dig, and a large piece of soil could be dug up under the small piece of iron. Soon, a small pit about a meter long and a meter wide but only 20 centimeters deep was dug in the ground against the cliff face.
"The next time you come here, you'll step into this pit, which means that you've been here before, and you'll have to explore it carefully. ”
Bidding farewell to the small pit, Ma Yun quickly followed the cliff wall and returned along the way he came. After walking for less than an hour, as the fog faded, his vision improved a lot, and he was able to see two or three meters clearly, and soon returned to the place where he found the gourd, because the small tree he had replanted came into view.
The valley floor here is covered with a lot of grass, but it is very low, not as tall as the grass in other places, and it seems that this place can already allow plants to survive. After walking for another three or four hours, the fog finally disappeared, the grass and trees at the bottom of the valley returned to their normal appearance, and the chill on Ma Yun's body gradually disappeared, and everything returned to its original appearance.
It's just that by this time it's already dark. I guess it's about an hour away from last night's straw bed. It was as inconvenient to rush in the dark as it was in the thick fog, so he stopped, looked for a piece of dry grass, found a vacant lot, and as the spark of the flint fell on the dry grass, Ma Yun blew lightly, and the spark gradually turned into a faint flame, and the faint flame gradually turned into a frenzied flame.
In fact, Ma Yun didn't have much use in lighting this fire, but it has been three days, and there is a strange emotion in his heart, loneliness, loneliness, fear, confusion, doubt, excitement, it seems to be all, and it doesn't seem to be either, in short, this fire can make him temporarily say goodbye to that strange feeling, make him feel warm, and let him have a strong strength in his heart to face this strange and strange everything.
The fire of the dead grass burned and extinguished as quickly as possible, and the bright flame lasted only a minute or two before dimming. Ma Yun smiled, and did not continue to add dead grass, but found a place where the dry grass was thick, untied the gourd vine wrapped around his waist, and lay down directly.
There were four more fruits in the package, so I took out two of them and ate them lying down. After today's exploration, this valley has also been explored, and from the current known situation, there is no way out for the time being. In terms of food, relying on the strawberries and fruit from the trees found so far, it will be no problem to sustain for a few days, but once the wild fruits are eaten and the situation does not improve, then there will be danger.
As for the exploration of the cold fog at the bottom of the valley, Ma Yun temporarily gave up the idea of continuing to explore, first, because he intuitively felt that the fog was strange and even dangerous, and second, it was too time-consuming, and now time is precious, so it is still used to do something more meaningful and important.
"Tomorrow I will go and look for some food, it will take more than a day to get to the fruit tree, and I will go in the direction of the fruit tree while looking for food. After smoothing out his thoughts, Ma Yun quickly fell asleep.
Like the previous two days, Ma Yun was woken up by a small stone again, but this time he woke up and finally saw the initiator clearly: a small gray monkey climbed on a small tree on a cliff wall seven or eight meters high, and was chirping at him with its teeth and claws.
"So it's it!" Ma Yun couldn't help laughing, this little monkey was the only creature he had seen here in the past few days, although he had repeatedly played tricks on him, but it gave him a little hope: maybe this monkey had a way out of the valley.
He quickly came up with an idea: he took out the only two fruits left in the bag, gently put them on the ground, and then retreated to a far away place from the little monkey, looking at the little monkey while pointing to the fruit on the ground, making a nibbling appearance. Ma Yun's actions made the little monkey very puzzled, stopped showing his teeth and claws, and turned his eyes around the fruit on the ground and Ma Yun.
Ma Yun was not in a hurry, he just looked at the little monkey quietly, and the loss of two fruits at most was nothing compared to gaining the trust of the little monkey. After only a few minutes, the little monkey lost his breath, jumped down from the small tree on the rock wall, and then slowly walked towards the fruit on the ground. Just when he was two or three meters away from the fruit, the little monkey jumped up and landed next to the fruit, grabbed the two fruits and quickly ran away from Ma Yun.
Ma Yun still quietly watched the little monkey's every move, and did not chase or shout. The little monkey finally jumped fifty meters away on a tree four or five meters tall but with dense foliage and stopped, eating the fruit while looking at Ma Yun.
Ma Yun didn't seem to care about the little monkey's actions, just walked to the package, carried the empty package on his back, wrapped the gourd vine around his waist, and set off in the direction of the fruit tree. It happened that the location where the little monkey escaped was on the side of the cold fog, and Ma Yun was going in the opposite direction, and soon Ma Yun disappeared from the little monkey's field of vision without looking back.
In fact, Ma Yun understood that since he was woken up by this naughty little monkey for three consecutive days, it must have followed him nearby, but he was wary of him and didn't dare to appear. Only a little bit of the little monkey's trust can be determined whether it knows the way to go out of the valley.
After walking for about two hours, I passed the straw mat where I had stayed for the night. A plant more than one person tall caught Jack Ma's attention, because the plant was composed of many slender leaves, each leaf was about two meters long, according to his common sense, such thin leaves are generally very tough, and are a good material for making rope.
Although he has a gourd vine that is seven or eight meters long and extremely tough around his waist, it would be more convenient if he could have a longer rope in case he needed it.
If you have an idea, you will immediately implement it, take out a small piece of iron and start cutting the fine leaves from the roots. The thin leaf was even tougher than expected, and it was cut off several times after using a small iron piece, and Ma Yun was even happier to see that the thin leaf was so tough.
While harvesting, Ma Yun calculated in his heart: a leaf is two meters long, and it is also two meters long to tear it into several filaments, and the filaments of four leaves are wound together to make a rope, if you need a rope of twenty meters, only 40 leaves are needed, plus the waste of the connection, 50 leaves are enough.
It took about half an hour for Ma Yun to collect more than 50 thin leaves, but the rest of the work is a time-consuming task: it is necessary to evenly divide each thin leaf into eight filaments, and then dry the filaments half-dry, and then wind the filaments in pairs, and then wrap the filaments in two and two to form two new rope wires, and then wrap the two new rope wires again, so that one thin leaf is processed, and four thin leaves will be processed at the same time to obtain four rope wires, and then the four rope wires are wound in pairs until they finally become a rope completely, and then a section of rope is completed, which is about two meters longAfter repeatedly processing more than 50 thin leaves, more than 10 two-meter-long rope segments will be obtained, and then they will be connected end to end in turn, and finally a rope of more than 20 meters long will be obtained.
According to preliminary estimates, it will take at least two days to make this rope, but now that there is no food, it is more important to find food.
Just when Ma Yun took the cut leaves aside and prepared to spread them on the open space to dry, he found that some clear liquid flowed from the roots of the dozens of thin leaves he had cut, which looked no different from water.
Ma Yun's heart moved, carefully dipped his fingers in a little liquid and put it in his mouth, carefully tasted it, and found that there was almost no taste, only a little faint smell of plants and trees;
Ma Yun hurriedly dug down the roots of the thin leaves, and after digging half a meter deep, he determined that the large thin leaves were eventually grown from a huge white tubular rhizome buried in the ground. Ma Yun accidentally touched the white rhizome with a small piece of iron in the process of digging, and the rhizome was immediately touched with a slender trace, and transparent juice gushed out from the wound.
Ma Yun hesitated slightly, lay on the ground and sucked the liquid flowing out with his mouth. Fang just dipped a little bit of his finger and put it in his mouth, but now he was sucking the juice in a big gulp, only to feel that the juice was extremely fragrant, and it was still very smooth after entering the mouth, and it felt very wonderful.
However, Ma Yun was still very careful, and after a few big sips, he stopped sucking and began to observe the condition of his body. Beautiful and beautiful things are often poisonous, I remember Master Jin Yong once wrote in the book: Beautiful women are the most deceiving, and this juice may be really poisonous.
After Jack Ma stopped sucking, the juice flowing out of the broken rhizome gradually decreased, and it seemed that most of the juice had been sucked by him. This time Ma Yun was really careful, after a long time, not only did his body not have any discomfort, but he was a lot more comfortable, the feeling of thirst disappeared completely, and he didn't feel hungry anymore, especially the whole person seemed to be a little refreshed, and his thinking was a lot sharper.
After resting for a while, the juice flowing out of the broken rhizome increased again, and it seemed that the juice from other parts of the rhizome was automatically replenished here, Ma Yun hesitated slightly, lowered his head and sucked it up, this time he sucked more than a dozen mouthfuls in a row, until he felt that the juice flowing out of the rhizome was much less, and then he stopped, and there was no juice flowing out of the broken rhizome at this time.
"I'm so sorry to suck some juice from your roots to hydrate some water. Ma Yun laughed at himself. A broad blade of grass was plucked from it and pasted on the broken rhizome, and the excavated soil was backfilled.