Chapter 151: The River Crisis
The navigation on the river is very boring, but you have to be vigilant at all times to prevent anything from jumping out of the water, and you must pay attention to the direction of the wind, and don't go back after a long day.
From the end of the rainy season, the day of departure, to the time before the double moon coincides, the safe time calculated by Shao Xuan is only less than thirty days.
Shao Xuan didn't know how wide the river was, so he could only go as far as he could, if after fifteen days, he still couldn't see the situation on the other side of the river, then he could only return, otherwise, the river level would drop sharply, and finally fall into a bottomless abyss, at that time, even if he wanted to fly, he couldn't fly.
The piranhas in the river are very active, because there is no suppression of other giant beasts, from time to time there will be some energetic fish that bite each other jumping out of the water, at first close to the bank of the tribal river, just some small piranhas, but as the voyage, Shao Xuan saw many larger piranhas jump out.
Wow -
A piranha, nearly four meters long, jumped out of the water, jumped high, from one side of the canoe to the other, and jumped up with a large mouth.
There was a jumping piranha before, Shao Xuan just avoided it and didn't make a move, but now this one, the target is obviously Shao Xuan.
Hold the sail with one hand and let the sail avoid the course of the big fish. At the same time, the toe picked up a wooden stick next to him, and after catching it with his free other hand, he hit the fish directly. The rapid friction of the stick against the air makes a whirring sound.
Instead of using a spear, he used a hardwood stick to whip the fish vigorously, but it couldn't make it see blood immediately, if the blood splashed, the other piranhas around it would be attracted, and it would not be something that Shao Xuan's hands could deal with.
Syllable!
Several scales were whipped out of the way, and the stick was deflected. The piranha that fell into the water again was surrounded by other people of the same kind before they could find a target for revenge. On its body, where it was whipped with a wooden stick, where the scales were detached, there were slowly oozing blood. These blood streaks act like stimulants. Stimulates the energetic piranhas around him.
After whipping to avoid the piranha, Shao Xuan put away the sail, and at the same time, the chirping in the air also flew down and grabbed a rope, and flew up again. The other end of the rope was tied to the canoe, and the chirp pulled the boat away, quickly away from the bloody river.
Now the wind direction is not very suitable for sailing, so. Shao Xuan directly put away the sail and let the chirp continue to pull, and when it was tired, he returned to the canoe to rest, borrowing the wind and the sail to continue walking.
Sometimes, in addition to these piranhas of different sizes, there are other fish, except that those fish are only active underwater. They don't jump up to find trouble, but if someone goes into the water. That's hard to say.
When Shao Xuan was controlling the sail, he also saw a fish that was much longer than the hull of the boat, slowly swimming over from the side, because it was close to the river, the patterns on the fish's body were clearly visible, and the erected spiny fins. Part of it is also exposed.
There are quite a few such fish, but as long as these fish do not attack the hull, it doesn't matter. There was a big fish before, probably curious about the canoe, and put its head on the hull of the boat. almost overturned the top of the boat, Shao Xuan asked the chirp to quickly pull the boat away, but the fish chased after him and continued to top until Shao Xuan asked the chirp to stop, and let the fish push the canoe a few times, and the fish felt bored and left.
Fish also have a variety of habits.
I was in a hurry during the day, and I couldn't sleep peacefully at night, Chirp stood in the boat to rest, and Shao Xuan had to adjust the sails after squinting for a while, and he had to stay alert.
Although it is difficult, there are always such and such troubles every day, but they are all small troubles that can be solved.
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Shao Xuan counted the number of days, and roughly estimated the distance he had traveled.
Eight days later, there was still no riverbank, no islands or other protruding places, all that came into view was a river.
He took out the roasted jerky in the animal skin bag, ate some of it, and saved the water he brought with him on the boat, and Shao Xuan would not drink the water from the river until he drank the water.
Sometimes when you catch a fish, you fly directly in the air, a little farther away from the hull of the boat, so that the dripping blood will not cause trouble to the boat.
While eating, Shao Xuan suddenly found a small island exposed from the river in front of him, and quickly adjusted his sails and went over there.
However, as he got closer, Shao Xuan realized that it was not a small island, but a huge fish, but the fish had died before it floated on the water.
Moreover, Shao Xuan also found that there were many holes in the body of this fish, which were bitten through.
Large fish with a body length of more than 20 meters were eaten until only a skeleton was left, and an incomplete layer of skin on the outside of the skeleton. Shao Xuan could also see from the holes that were bitten out that the fish was still eating and moving.
Inside are some small fish with slender bodies that are inconspicuous when viewed alone. And it was these small fish that had not yet grown into the palm of their hands that gnawed this giant fish with sharp teeth and thick hard armor in many places on its body until only the skeleton remained, and perhaps, after a while, even the bones and the skin full of holes were gone.
Shao Xuan quickly adjusted the sails, left the place, and gestured to the chirp that had just finished eating in the air, asking it to come down and see what happened to the giant beast.
"Be careful when you catch fish to eat in the future, and if you find such a small fish, throw it away. Shao Xuan said.
"Whew-"
Seeing the fate of the big fish, Chirp shook his wings, probably not expecting such a situation.
After the canoe sailed a little far, when Shao Xuan looked over there again, he found that the big fish that was originally floating on the surface of the water was sinking, and it was almost gnawed away.
Perhaps, sometimes, those fish with hideous shapes and huge sizes are not the biggest threat to people who sail on the water, and those who are inconspicuous are more likely to cause crises.
Shao Xuan thought that after resting for a while, he would continue to fly into the air to pull the boat, but unexpectedly, Chirp had been standing on the boat, like a quail, squatting there, bending his neck, but looking up at the sky, as if there was something in the air that scared it.
"What's wrong?" Shao Xuan asked, tapping the chirping bird's head. He didn't see anything in the air, but he also felt a great sense of pressure in his heart.
The chirp whispered, but his neck shrunk even tighter, and his eyes were still fixed on the sky, but he didn't fly.
The ship gradually stopped. For the wind that had been blowing the sails just now had also stopped.
Shao Xuan looked at the sky, and soon he found that the clouds in the sky had dispersed, revealing a large empty area. It's really going to be cloudless.
If it's usual. It would indeed be considered a sunny day, but here, there is a sense of fear under great pressure.
Not only chirping, Shao Xuan even had a feeling that he was so trembling that he didn't dare to move.
However, the current situation has to be resolved.
There seemed to be a lot less piranhas around, and even the large fish that swam by from time to time were gone, so it was really calm. But this phenomenon of calm and calm is too weird.
A scene suddenly appeared in front of Shao Xuan's eyesโa large fog rose from the surface of the river.
The fog looks very ordinary, and there is a sense of vastness, but it is definitely not an ordinary thing to be able to remind Shao Xuan in this way!
Shao Xuan took out the long-handled wood pulp in the boat and began to row vigorously.
"What are you doing there, hurry up and help!" Shao Xuan said to Chirp.
Chirp looked at the sky. Grab the two long-handled wood pulps next to you and turn over. With the way that many times in the tribe training, start paddling.
Under the vigorous paddles of Shao Xuan and Chirp, the canoe began to move quickly.
Shao Xuan now didn't care about anything else, he only held back his strength and paddled with all his might, not even worrying that the splash would attract the attention of other big fish.
There was a banging sound. The wooden boat moved quickly forward, and the movements of Shao Xuan's two arms became blurred, and when both arms began to feel sore, Shao Xuan picked up a stone needle and shot it into the air.
When the needle was about a hundred meters above the water. It made a "bang" sound, and instantly turned into powder.
Seeing this, Chirp was so frightened that he almost threw the oar away.
Shao Xuan also felt that his scalp was numb.
Under a clear, cloudless sky, this kind of hair-making thing is happening strangely calmly.
"It's time to come down! Hurry up!" Shao Xuan continued to paddle in his hand.
This time, Chirp was also in a hurry, and when he got up, he grabbed a section on the long handle of the wood pulp, and both wood pulps fell into the water.
Unable to go back and pick it up, Chirp grabbed the other two spare sticks of wood pulp in the boat, and he wished that he would grow two more nimble hands to paddle.
The boat was moving fast, like a speedboat with a high-horsepower engine, heading straight ahead.
Hurry! Hurry!
The pressure above his head was increasing, and the feathers on Chirp's body exploded.
When paddling vigorously, a feather fell from the chirping's body, but it was carried up by the chirping's violent paddling action, because there was no wind, the feather did not float high, about twenty meters, but it was at a height of about twenty meters from the water surface, the feather was once again the same as the previous stone needle, and instantly became shattered.
Shao Xuan and Chirp didn't look up, they didn't have time to care about anything else.
The pressure above is still there, and it's still falling. If Shao Xuan can't escape, he can only end up with the stone needles thrown out and the falling feathers.
Shao Xuan's whole body was sweating, the sweat on his forehead slipped into his eyes, a tingling sensation, and he didn't care about wiping it, he blinked his eyes twice quickly, still staring ahead, and the movements in his hands did not slow down at all.
He didn't calculate the time at all, and he couldn't calculate it, Shao Xuan didn't know what was descending and what the speed was, so he could only put all his attention on paddling, and control the direction to escape in a straight line.
I don't know how long it took to row, only to hear a bang behind him, Shao Xuan woke up from the state just now.
The pressure above my head was gone, and when I turned my head to look over, the water vapor rose from the river behind me, and the water vapor was still increasing, like a thick fog.
The boat was still moving, Shao Xuan looked at the bird in front of him who was lying on his back and grabbing the long-handled wooden oar, raised his foot and kicked: "Okay, it's over." โ
Chirp was still immersed in paddling, and was kicked by Shao Xuan, so frightened that he almost stretched out his wings and flew up, two wooden oars, if it weren't for Shao Xuan's fast hands, he would have to lose them.
The calm water was rippling again, and the wind was blowing.
Shao Xuan adjusted the sail and continued to move forward with the help of the wind. As for the chirp, let it rest for a while, and now it is estimated that it will not be able to fly. (To be continued......)