Chapter 32: The Running Tree and the Tiger Girl 1
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The sunset is infinitely good, just near dusk.
Although the sunset is very beautiful, it is a pity that Tao Xiaozhi is not in the mood to watch it (because he is hungry, there is no poetry and mood), and he can hardly see it, because the pine trees in the forest are particularly tall and lush, and the sunset is almost covered here, so the shadows in the forest are heavy, and people with a little imagination can think of such an atmosphere: gloomy, terrifying, and deathly silent...... The last thing that comes to mind may be this one word - ghost!
But what Tao Xiaozhi thinks of is not this word, but "hungry"! When he thinks of the word "hungry", he naturally thinks of many professional terms for food, even if it is a delicacy that cannot be named, his brain floats up such a painting, the corners of his mouth are flooded with white foam, and the deep taste that has been left on the taste buds...... Thinking of these, who still has a terrifying environment such as the rebirth of the black shadows in the deep forest of the air traffic control, the silence of death, or the cold wind sweeping the leaves?
Although Tao Xiaozhi was thinking about these unknown foods, he never forgot what the stupid star commanded: to leave markers along the way so as not to get lost.
Along the way, in addition to paying attention to whether there was any prey around, Tao Xiaozhi also left some markers, that is, some arrows on those pine trees. The most in this forest are pine trees, except for the bark is particularly thick and hard, they are no different from other pine trees, so Tao Xiaozhi's work is full of hardships and sweat, and Tao Xiaozhi is in awe of their tenacity and vigorous vitality at the same time, but also full of curses......
"It's the first time I've encountered such a thick-skinned one!" Tao Xiaozhi complained, "What a shameless pine tree......
In the middle of complaining, a very strange pine tree appeared in front of him: he was probably a very old and tall pine tree (because the waist circumference was much thicker than similar ones), but only seven or eight feet of trunk remained, apparently broken for some reason (typhoon, human felling, etc.), and a lot of delicate branches and leaves grew on the truncated opening, just like Tao Xiaozhi's explosive head, and there was a bird's nest on it, and two or three chicks stuck out their heads and "squeaked". None of this is too strange. It also grew four stout branches, two on the left and right, almost symmetrically. The average pine tree grows very straight, the trunk is thick and the branches are relatively small, but its branches are curved and curvy, especially thick, three to four times larger than other pine trees, and the four branches also grow many branches, and the leaves are luxuriant! This pine tree also has many strange characteristics, the bark is not as thick and hard as the others, and the color is not that bronze, but muddy yellow, and the roots are particularly developed, like a banyan tree, like a macho man showing off his muscles......
Overall, this strange pine tree resembles a giant scarecrow!
Tao Xiaozhi's eyes widened, staring at this strange pine tree. While he wondered why it had such a strange appearance, he was also wondering if he should have carved the arrow that led him back to the silly star in his "tender" skin.
Tao Xiaozhi scratched his head with one hand, patted the strange pine tree with the other, and sighed: "Brother, you really have a character, if you sound good, you can call it 'personality', and if you don't hear it, you can call it 'alien' or 'freak'...... I guess I don't get along well with your compatriots, I must be very lonely and unhappy! People call me 'freak' or something, but I have a lot of friends, all kinds of things, and I am not lonely......"
Tao Xiaozhi kept patting the tree, as if he was looking for a friend to come out and complain about his grievances at night when he was unhappy, and it made a "bang, boom", like beating a drum!
"What's wrong?" Tao Xiaozhi said sadly as he touched the tree, "It turned out to be hollow...... When you are old and strong, you can actually rejuvenate the second spring, although the leaves are not lush enough, there are still birds nesting on their heads, it seems that the birds are also freaks......"
Tao Xiaozhi was like meeting a fox friend who he hadn't seen for a few years, constantly beating each other's chests, venting all the grief of the past few years or the huge debt owed by his friend and leaving away...... As a result, the strange pine tree was not only "booming" by the mallet, and the leaves that were not rising were shaken down, but also unfortunately, the bird's nest on the tree dropped an egg and hit his head, and the protein splashed all over his head, it is worth noting that the egg was spoiled and expired, and it was full of bad and smelly water!
Tao Xiaozhi touched the smelly, slimy glue, a bird breath surged into his heart, flew up and kicked the strange tree a few times, kicking it almost uprooted, broken a few times, but the most serious thing was not this, but his toes - the kick was almost broken, swollen and big, and the shoes were swollen!
With these few kicks, he turned the "bird spirit" in his heart into "grief", and grieved his unfortunate toes! It was also these few kicks that something fell from the tree, not leaves or eggs, but the bird's nest, which fell on his hand!
"Squeak Squeak......"
There were three just chicks in the nest, and they had just grown a few hairs, and when they saw Tao Xiaozhi's embarrassed, terrifying, and iron-blue face, they shouted louder than the eagles that came to eat them! It seems that a person's image is very important, especially those who laugh very strangely, pay attention......
Tao Xiaozhi pulled the smile closer to their eyes, wiped a handful of saliva, and said with a dark smile: "Little birds, hello~ My stomach is louder than yours, you also heard, your delicate skin, so that I have to have the idea of killing! Although with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, people's awareness of environmental protection has also made a qualitative leap, and the concept of protecting wild animals has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. I'm a heinous guy who kills birds without blinking, but a perverted guy who kills birds without blinking and is so hungry that he goes crazy!Hehe~ It's not your misfortune to meet, but my honor!I won't say anything to scare you, lest your meat turn sour and not delicious~ However, I'm not so cruel, in order to show my respect for many birds, and at the same time to give you a chance to escape from the tiger's mouth, that is, if you don't immediately after I count three times. If you squeak and squeak, I'll let you go, okay? Needless to say, seeing how happy you are, you must have agreed! Then let's start now~~"
Brother Bird screamed even harder, as if it were a strong indictment of the rules of the game of death!
"One~~" Tao Xiaozhi touched his chin with a sneer.
"Squeak!" said the bird innocently.
"Two~~" Tao Xiaozhi has already stretched out a hand to the nest.
"Squeak!"
"Three!"
Brother Bird suddenly stopped screaming, his eyes widened, looking at Tao Xiaozhi's surprised mouth, showing strong interest!
"Little birds, why don't you scream!" Tao Xiaozhi scareled with a grimace, "Are you kidding me?!!!
No matter how much Tao Xiaozhi scared those birds, they all opened their eyes wider, as if they had never seen such a cute person!
There's no way, these birds are all freaks, Tao Xiaozhi has to fulfill his promise, although they are just little bird children who can only squeak, but it is not a glorious thing to deceive children, it will affect their physical and mental health growth, so they have to let them go.
Of course, they were put in their original places, but they were so high, Tao Xiaozhi was so hungry that he couldn't show light effort, so he had to climb trees.
Tao Xiaozhi held the bird's nest in one hand, and the other three limbs hugged the tree trunk, and after several attempts, they all slid down, not only broke the crotch of his pants, but also fell to the ground like a frog once, if there were people around, he would definitely laugh off his big teeth!
However, someone did laugh "fluttering", Tao Xiaozhi looked around, but he couldn't see the figure, could it be a ghost laughing......
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore, just just let it be a "hallucination", which was the best excuse at the moment.
Tao Xiaozhi put the bird's nest on top of his head, so that there was room for the master's fists and feet in the kung fu of climbing the tree, in fact, it showed that this was not a stupid idea, but those birds were not stupid, and they pulled some and urine on his head, probably the product of fright.
Under the guidance of the snail-like tree climbing method, his hands wore several layers of bark, and the pine tree was peeled off several layers of bark, and the tree was swayed so that most of the leaves fell off, and he finally reached the top, and carefully placed the nest on it.
In fact, in the process of climbing the tree, it seems that he is not shaking the tree, but the tree is shaking him, and almost fell him down, which can only be blamed on the old pine tree's footing is not stable enough, and it simply loses the indomitable spirit of the pine tree......
Tao Xiaozhi finally fell down like this.
Another person laughed loudly, but there was still no one around, only the tree was still swaying slightly from side to side......
"Who?!" Tao Xiaozhi exclaimed while holding a gun, "If you have a kind, come out, what kind of a good man is sneaky!"
No one answered, no one came out of the shadows of the trees, and there was only a deathly silence around them......
Is this another hallucination?!
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became, Tao Xiaozhi's hair stood on end, cold sweat soared, and now what he wanted most was to escape from here, but his legs were weak without obeying!
Tao Xiaozhi looked at the pine tree, not because it was strange, but because he wanted to leave an arrow mark on the tree.
Due to careful observation, he saw a few words engraved on its trunk, and carefully identified it: Lao Huang visited here.
Lao Huang? There are so many Lao Huang in the world! When you come here, this is not a scenic spot, but just an ordinary forest......
Just as he was thinking, there were suddenly a few "woo" sounds from behind, Tao Xiaozhi turned his head, glanced around, and several night birds flew up with a "woo".
It turned out that this dead bird was doing ghosts!
When Tao Xiaozhi turned his head again, the strange pine tree disappeared!!
That strange pine tree is so strange, strange and different, not only the skin color and shape are different, there is a bird's nest at the top of the tree, and the trunk is engraved with a few words, but there is no such tree around at all, and there is no feature on the face!
Is it all an illusion?
However, the stinky bird egg juice on Tao Xiaozhi's head has flowed to the corners of his mouth and nostrils, and the smell is indeed extremely stinky......
Could it be that the tree has long legs and runs?