Chapter 111: Low Skull Hole
Andy had difficulty moving, so the Bunier people lifted him on a simple stretcher made of two pieces of wood wrapped around thin rattan. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The four English nestlings were temporarily handed over to Bruno for safekeeping, and the Alpine Burnier, who had just dressed as a little fat monkey, followed the back of the group with the bundled rattans on his back.
Andy was lying on a stretcher, tilting his head and calmly looking at the mountain peaks reflected in the setting sun. When the orange-red sunset finally put away the last rays of light, the unique mist of Cloud Mountain began to wander through the forest. The dense jungle envelops life like an emerald in a cliff valley, and countless birds perched under the canopy of the trees put away their loud songs and jump into the warm nest.
The Bunier team lit torches, and as they slowly marched across the babbling stream through the narrow crevices of the rocks, Andy could feel the satisfaction of these fur-clad and cute-looking friends in their staccato tunes.
When the coolness of the night soaked Andy's whole body, he sincerely sighed: "It turns out that only the rebirth of life can really see the scenery of nature clearly." ”
The procession made its way through the rocky mountainside, and the Buniers, carrying Andy, began to walk quickly on the flatter paths in the jungle at the foot of the mountain. Before the moon rose, the beasts of the woods began to move around, and from time to time there were a few wolf howls around the ranks of the Bunirs. They didn't talk and laugh like they had at the beginning, and everyone's facial expressions became very serious.
The Alpine Bunier people walked for a long time in the mountains and forests, and at last they stopped in front of a steep mountain. The torches were extinguished, and two sturdy Bunirs climbed the rocks on either side of the road to inspect them. When the scouters returned, the four strong Bunier men placed their bags on the ground and ran behind a rock. With the sound of the dull grinding of the stones, a low hole appeared in the stone wall in front of the team.
The Bunier carried Andy into the cave quickly, and the four strong door openers activated the mechanism to close the hole behind them. It was pitch black all of a sudden, and Andy was lying on a stretcher, overwhelmed, and he asked in a low voice, "Have we reached the low skull hole?"
Bruno pressed his hand to Andy's lips and whispered, "This is the Low Skull Cave, the base camp of our Alpine Buniers, please keep quiet, the most important rule here is that you are not allowed to make loud noises, let alone make fires for cooking." ”
Andy looked at the black shadow shaking in front of him and asked curiously, "It's so dark around and you don't have a torch, how do you see the road?" Bruno ignored Andy, he ordered the team to set off again. This time, the group of more than a dozen people only walked for a short time before stopping.
There was silence all around, and there was still no one in the team talking. Andy was lying on a stretcher, looking around, desperately longing for someone to come forward and explain the situation. A faint white light gradually lit up around them, a dim light similar to the energy emitted by fireflies.
Andy was finally able to see the buildings around him, and it turned out that the team had come to a place that looked like a square, and the stretcher under him was resting on a flat rock. The Bunirs in the group were talking to each other in extremely small voices, and he looked at the strange behavior around him and muttered quietly, "It seems that you mountain people are really very different from the forest people on Storm Beach. ”
After a few moments, the ranks of the Bunirs dispersed. In the corner near the plaza came a very old Bunier. Bruno cautiously followed the elder, and as the people around him gathered, the elder leaned down and began to check on Andy's leg injury.
Elder Bunier pinched Andy's right leg a few times with his small dry hand, and the pain in his heart caused him to scream immediately, and the area around the square immediately became pitch black.
Someone broke Andy's mouth in the darkness, and he thought Bruno had delivered delicious food, so he opened his mouth in obedience. How did he know that what was in his mouth was actually a large mass of rag-like stuff, his mouth was completely gagged, and the crowd returned to calm. It didn't take long for a white light to reappear around the square.
Elder Bunier crouched beside the stretcher and stared at the purple-haired Auston boy, who held down the claw wound on Andy's leg with his withered left hand, and unfastened the bandage on Andy's leg with his right hand. The elder then spread some of the bitter powder evenly around the claw wound on Andy's right leg, and he covered the powder with some mashed herb crumbs. After the dressing was over, Bruno put the finishing touches on Andy's wound with a clean linen.
After the leg injury was treated, Bruno ordered the Buniers who were watching around to flip Andy over, and the elder began to apply a small wooden board dipped in ointment on Andy's blistered back.
Two cool sensations spread from Andy's right leg and back, respectively, and the originally hot wound began to slowly lose consciousness. He felt that the burn on his back didn't hurt after being touched by the elder, and he twisted his head back and stretched his neck to look at the elder who was concentrating on healing.
With the penetration of the drug, Andy's consciousness began to appear in a trance, he smiled and looked around, and stretched out his right hand to point to the object hanging on the stone wall in front of him and asked, "Whose robe belongs to?" Before he finished speaking, he heard a "snap", and Andy's raised arm collapsed to the ground.
When Bruno noticed that Andy was asleep, he immediately bent down and prayed to the elder. After a few brief admonitions, two able-bodied Bunier men carried the heavy, almost naked outsider into a stone house near the square.
When Andy wakes up, he finds himself lying on a cot in a stone house. His body was covered with soft, dry thatch, and his body was covered with whole animal skins, and the cloth stuffed in his mouth was long gone. Looking at the furnishings around him, he became tired again, and his languid arms were raised upward, followed by a long yawn.
He lowered his arm, rubbed his dusty eyes with the back of his hand, and looked around to see that the stone hut was small in size and very simplely furnished. Except for the two small wooden beds under him, which were joined together, there was a small wooden table and two small wooden benches in the center of the room, and a short bow and an old quiver hung from the dimly lit walls.
Andy coughed involuntarily twice, and the sudden noise caught the attention of the guards outside the stone house. As the small wooden door slowly opened, a chubby Bunier man walked in from outside the room, holding a wooden bowl in his hand.
The Bunier handed the bowl to Andy, who had been hungry all day, took the crudely crafted vessel and looked at the soup carefully, but he did not drink it all as he expected. The chubby Bunier motioned for Andy to drink the liquid from the wooden bowl, and he grinned and lowered his head to take a sip of the fragrant soup.