Chapter 2: The Hope of the Ugush
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The Ughush had one woman missing, and on the fourth day there was one less woman, and on the sixth day there was one less man, and there were six men in the corner of the sand, five men and one woman, and two boys supporting each other in the middle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Another day without any food had brought the four adults closer to each other, and the Ugush walked in the forefront, alerted by three pairs of seemingly casual gazes, while the woman walked in the middle, shrinking her body as hard as she could, smiling at the men, her eyes constantly surveying the two boys.
This atmosphere was very embarrassing, so silent that the hungry Bao'er and Xiaoshun didn't dare to ask for food anymore, so they could only look down at their respective toes, sandwiched in the line and rely on following.
"Brother Bao'er, where has Mama gone?" Xiaoshun's voice was very soft, and it could be heard that his personality was very shy.
Bao'er has changed a lot in the past few days, the strange taste left in his mouth after waking up, the impatient avoidance of questions by adults, and the continuous attrition of the team, made him gradually silent, holding his younger brother when he slept, and holding Xiaoshun's hand tightly when he walked. He was afraid that when he woke up that day, Xiaoshun would also disappear.
"Mama, she ......"
"What are you two little cubs calling!, annoying or not!" The woman on the side suddenly screamed, causing the other three men to turn their heads.
The shrewd scolding made a look of understanding flash in Ugush's eyes, he understood what this 'smart' woman was planning, two days ago, she had relied on the same means to provoke the anger of another man, and finally under the pull of everyone with inexplicable looks, the man was 'accidentally' injured, 'accidental' died, and then 'accidentally' disappeared from the team.
Like air, food and water are the biggest addictions of human beings, and when the body accidentally tastes something in the midst of hunger and thirst, a similar food source immediately comes to mind when the body shows signs of hunger again.
And this woman was hungry, and she didn't disappear in hunger like the other two women, so she began to find a way for someone else to replace her disappearance.
Right now, her target is Bao'er and Xiaoshun.
Bao'er looked up at the woman, her young eyes were swollen and frightened, she hugged Xiaoshun and whispered: "Bao'er Xiaoshun is not talking, ...... is not talking"
The three men all watched in silence, making the woman a little flustered.
The woman miscalculated, and sure enough, the child's personality was still different from that of the adult, which made her not know how to continue.
The smile on her face changed to flattery, she moved closer to Ugush, swallowed a few mouthfuls of dry saliva, and said in a low voice: "Brother Wu, these two little guys are really too cumbersome to carry, anyway, Sanniang is gone, it's better to ......"
Although the voice was low, only Bao'er and Xiaoshun, who were huddled at the back of the line, did not hear clearly, but the other two men heard it very clearly, and they couldn't help but look at the Ugush, waiting, looking forward to it.
These three glances made Ugush bow his head and seem to fall into deep thought: "I promised Sanniang. ā
It seemed to be refusal, but the woman's eyes lit up, and she shrewdly heard the different meanings, which made her look at another man.
Under the woman's constant instructions, the man finally understood what she meant, evoked a cruel smile, and said to the Wugush: "Brother Wu made a promise to Sanniang, but I didn't, if I let me come, it won't be considered Brother Wu's broken promise, right?"
The woman nodded again and again, this man could understand what she meant, and she was really pleasantly surprised.
Ugush drooped his head and didn't give any response, but this attitude made the man seem to understand something.
So the man's laughter became even more hideous, his fierce and greedy gaze swept to Bao'er and Xiaoshun, and a grunting laugh came out of his throat, and he began to approach the two little boys step by step, but the extremely short shadow under the three suns was elongated at this moment, gradually enveloping the two thin figures.
"Uncle Ga, you, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Shun shrank in Bao'er's arms and trembled, while Bao'er looked at the approaching man in horror, asked in a trembling voice, and leaned back slightly.
"Hey, Bao'er, uncle knows that you are well-behaved, so don't blame uncle, uncle is also for everyone...... Ugh!"
Half of the words were stuck in his throat, the man's outstretched palm paused in mid-air, the fierce eyes turned into shock and pain, and he turned back in disbelief, only to see Ugush standing behind him with a cold face, holding a sharpened wooden thorn in his left hand and inserting it into his waist.
"For ...... Why ......" The intense pain made the man think he was hallucinating, but when he saw the stunned eyes of the other man and woman, he still asked in disbelief.
Ugush's expression was terrifyingly serious: "You actually want to kill children to make food, you are no longer worthy of being a human being, so you should die like this!"
That kind of righteous words, that kind of justice and awe-inspiring, made the few adults present have strange emotions, as if the warm Sanyang in the sky has lost its effect, and a chill from the depths of the body makes their skin have pimples.
The woman knew, it turned out that the Ugush was several times smarter than her, and the other man also knew, and the initial silence was just waiting.
And the man who understood best was the man surnamed Ga, and the pain in his back could not hide the absurd laughter in his bloody throat, laughing at himself and at Ugush: "Excuse...... I see......"
Ugush frowned, and the wooden thorn slammed upwards again, and the man surnamed Ga immediately spurted out a few mouthfuls of blood, and his throat gurgled and could only make a muffled sound.
Bao'er was sprayed with red blood on half of her face, with confusion and fear, the figure of the Ugush was very tall in his eyes, but it was a little terrifyingly tall.
"You will all ......" The man surnamed Ga began to look back, desperately saying the last few words, and cursed viciously: "Don't die well!"
The curse quickly subsided, and she fell silently on the yellow sand, emitting a smell that seemed familiar to Bao'er.
"Wait here, we'll bury him and come back soon......"
The woman waited with the two boys, and for some reason, Boa felt her expression full of panic and hesitation, and paced unsteadily, but before the men returned with the prey they had just hunted, she sat down on the sand as if she had resigned herself to her fate.
The five of them, who had replenished some energy, began to move forward again, as if because there was one less person, the atmosphere in the team was more silent, and the distance between them was widened.
Bao'er pulled Xiaoshun and prayed silently in her heart, praying that the homeless gathering place that Mama said would appear earlier, maybe only in this way would the people in the team not decrease again.
As the dusk dissipated, the night sky in the quicksand was shivering colder than noon, Bao'er and Xiaoshun hugged each other tightly, listening to the strange sounds of the other three behind the low stones not far away, closing their eyes, waiting for sleepiness to dispel the tension.
But this night, it seemed that the group of only five people was too lonely, and a faint sound began to appear around them.
Oh!
With a wild roar, three wolf-like beasts burst out of the night and swooped down on the boulder.
"Damn it!"
"Ahh
Bao'er dragged Xiaoshun to sit up in horror, he couldn't see the scene behind the boulder, but he could hear the screams coming from the woman and the man who didn't talk much.
With a roar of rage, Ugush jumped out from behind the stone in a scattered single robe, his face was full of panic, and his eyes swept away, and he immediately ran towards Bao'er and Xiaoshun.
"Uncle Ugush saves ......"
Bao'er's voice was cut off in half, and the Ugush grabbed them by the neck and began to run wildly, the force so great that they could not speak.
There were three beasts attacking, but only two corpses were left, and the fleeing figure of the Ugush immediately made the three beasts unwillingly chase after them. The beast's speed was fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was close to the footsteps of the Ughush, and the speed of the two could not be compared at all.
Turning back to see the three beasts close at hand, Ugush's panicked gaze flashed with a hint of ferocity.
At the moment when Xiaoshun couldn't see it in his left hand, Ugush's right hand suddenly let go, Bao'er exclaimed, and fell to the ground in a daze, and before he could scream, he was bitten on the neck by a beast, leaving only two disbelieving eyes looking at Ugush's back without looking back.
However, in the consciousness of the beast, running away is the act of the prey, a symbol of weakness, a sign of continued pursuit, something that the Ughush has not yet learned.
One of the three beasts was left behind by Bao'er, but the other two seemed to be stimulated, and their speed increased again, and with a roar, they leaped high and pounced wildly towards the Ughush.
Whew!
The sound of danger was about to come close behind him, and the heart of the Ugush pounded violently, and the blood surged wildly in the veins, and it seemed that his breathing was also staggered.
"No, you can't die...... Can't die!"
The vitality between heaven and earth suddenly rioted, surging madly towards Ugush's body, and the two beasts that pounced on it suddenly whimpered, and the figure immediately slowed down.
At the moment of death, the Ugush actually broke through the threshold of the soldier level and stepped into the category of the capable!
Beasts were beasts after all, and the sudden rise in front of them immediately frightened them, and their bodies rolled to the ground slightly, and they no longer pursued the Ugush, but turned back and fled the way they came.
A brief moment of change left the Ugush's life, and he watched the three beasts disappear into the night with Bao'er's corpse in their mouths, and then looked at his right palm, and the sense of power he had never felt before made him tremble irrepressibly.
"Uncle Wu, where's Brother Bao'er?"
The Ugushi froze and fell silent for a while: "Your brother Bao'er was captured by wild beasts......"
Xiaoshun's expression seemed to want to cry, but his throat was blocked by fear, and finally fell into silence and didn't say a word.
Ugush's eyes flickered, and he didn't speak, but simply took Xiaoshun and continued on the road to find the gathering place of the homeless people he had heard of.
Perhaps, with this power, life can really change after that......
This idea seems very reliable, even after the Ugush dragged Xiaoshun in the quicksand and endured hunger for another two days, this thought still did not change.
Until, the body of the second-level brute beast Sand Knife Beast suddenly stabbed out of the sand, and the terrifying aura pressed on his body, and the reliability of that idea suddenly became ridiculous, and the so-called power was really just a dream.
He didn't think about struggling to resist, nor did he think about throwing Xiaoshun who was originally left as spare food as bait, these actions were meaningless in the face of the difference in strength.
He sat down on the ground, ignoring the frightened Xiao Shun beside him, and just stared blankly at the sand knife beast, waiting for the attack of the second-level brute beast to take his life that had survived for months.
When he was on the verge of death because of lack of food, he learned the many uses of human beings, and when he was on the verge of death because of the approach of wild beasts, he gained the power of the powered, which seemed to be a joke played by the god of the abandoned boat.
It was not until this time that he was on the verge of death that he understood one more thing: he was fortunate and favored by the heavens.
Because a moment before the sand knife beast released its attack, an axe, a young man, such a simple combination appeared in front of the Ugush, and slashed down indifferently.
The Ugush laughed at the slash.
I, Ugush, have hope again!