Chapter 247: A Narrow Encounter
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"Whether you talk or not, what do you have to do with me!" replied as he sat back down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info She also wanted to know what was going on with Mu Mangzi.
A few years ago in the summer, it was a day with a heat wave rolling in.
The young Mu Mangzi, to be precise, is the son of Shui Rong, the owner of Longbao Village, and several people such as Shui Yun and Shui Hua, went to hunt near the Dry Dragon Cave a few miles away from Longbao Village - this hole had water flowing out many years ago, but then the water was broken, and it was called "Dry Dragon Cave".
The area is a typical karst terrain, with many karst caves and groundwater (dark rivers), and diversion sometimes occurs due to geological changes and erosion of water currents. Due to geological changes, water diversions, etc., some caves that were originally connected may no longer be connected, and caves that were not originally connected may be connected to each other. In short, it is not by human will.
At noon, the sun was shining brightly and it was surprisingly hot, so they went to the Dry Dragon Cave to cool off, and waited until the evening or evening before attacking.
This dry dragon cave was the place where they often came, and they knew that there was a place that was wider than the outside, and there was a spring that never dried up, nor overflowed water, and there seemed to be a hole in the top that was ventilated to the outside, and the smoke of the torches would drift to the top and then disappear without a trace, and if it rained, a few small streams of water would flow down. Undoubtedly, it is a good place to cool off.
When the boys arrived at their destination, they were each finding a good position, closing their eyes and resting their minds.
Mu Mangzi (Shui Yu) took a nap for a while, and when he woke up, he couldn't sleep again.
The people of Longbaokeng have a soft spot for caves and other caves, and Mu Mangzi has entered this cave more than once, and there has never been any danger. Seeing that his companions were sleeping soundly, he took a fire and lit a torch for the night hunt, and went deeper into the cave. He had been there, too.
About two miles into the road, Mu Mangzi was pleasantly surprised to find a new hole that was estimated to have collapsed not long ago, and he was overjoyed, and wanted to go back and call his friends to explore together, but he felt that they were sleeping, so it was better to have a sneak peek and invite them to watch.
Entering from the new hole, sure enough, the stone stalactites and stalagmites inside are like a girl raised in the deep boudoir, white and clean, and the scenery in the cave is much more beautiful than the one I have been to before.
Looking at the beauty of the environment, before he knew it, Mu Mangzi advanced more than three miles and found that there were five human bones.
Although Mu Mangzi's courage was not small, he was also shocked into a cold sweat, and was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly saw a very beautiful neck ornament hanging on the cervical vertebrae of one of them.
At the same time, he found that the skeleton had two broken right ribs, presumably from being injured and fled here and died there.
Mu Mangzi thought to himself, there must have been people here before, maybe it was a tribe's residence, maybe there was something better ahead.
Without thinking about it, Mu Mangzi was driven by curiosity and moved forward for another two miles, not discovering new good things, but finding some unburned parts of the torches left by his predecessors, and also finding whether there were any used torches, which were probably used by his predecessors as preparations for the return journey.
Mu Mangzi thought to himself, this cave doesn't know where it leads, but today alone, he can't go forward anymore, he must go back and come together.
Mu Mangzi turned to leave, and suddenly found that at some point, an adult leopard sprang out from behind him, staring at him, which meant that he was ready to attack him at any time.
The back road is broken, and Mu Mangzi is more frightened than when he sees the bones!
He was already holding a torch in his left hand, and his right hand immediately drew his sword, which did not need to be thought.
The second trick he came up with was to shout for help, so that he could both call his companions and scare the leopard away.
Shrill cries for help echoed through the cave.
However, it was impossible for the partners outside to hear it, and the enemy on the opposite side was not scared away.
The call for help is ineffective, and you can only protect yourself.
Mu Mangzi's third move was to drive the leopard towards the hole where he had entered, but he tried several times by roaring and throwing stones, and failed - originally, his throwing skills were very accurate, but he was not strong enough at the time, and he was afraid that he would hit it, but he could not seriously injure it, but would provoke it, so he threw it in front of it.
Hunting is the most important source of food for the Ba people, especially the backward tribes, and the men have begun to learn this survival skill since childhood, just like today's children go to school, the young "old hunter" Mu Mangzi quickly calmed down, and he observed that the leopard was a female leopard with an obviously large body, and her stomach was half full, indicating that it was not very hungry, which was undoubtedly a good sign in the current situation! Although it was a female leopard, Mu Mangzi knew that it must not be taken lightly.
Normally, leopards don't rely on higher animals with erect limbs as their main source of food, but if it's a hungry leopard, it's not necessarily the same, and it's not unlucky.
At the same time, he was also glad that he had met a leopard that liked to live alone, and if it was a wolf living in a pack, he would definitely die in the belly of the beast.
The strange thing is that the leopard did not immediately attack the "food", but stared at itself, and Mu Mangzi knew that it had some scruples about itself, and at the same time it was fighting with itself, and when it was exhausted, it would pounce.
Mu Mangzi's hope now is that his companions will wake up and find out that they are missing.
Who knows, the stalemate lasted for more than half an hour, and I didn't hear the shouts of my companions, but the leopard slowly pressed towards me.
Mu Mangzi wanted to make a way for it to go behind him at this time, and he turned around and slowly retreated towards the hole where he had entered, but the leopard obviously did not understand him, or thought that the road was too narrow to be a safe distance that it thought could be staggered.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins.
Although Mu Mangzi has seen and participated in hand-to-hand combat with powerful prey, it was the cooperation of several people, and today, it was a one-on-one fair duel, and he knew by feeling that he was not sure of winning, and if he was lucky, he would lose both.
With his life at stake, he realized that now, more important than bravery, is calm.
You must not turn around and run, nor can you sit down to show weakness, and even if you retreat, you can only retreat towards it.
Seeing that there was no hole to avoid, Mu Mangzi still wanted to force it in the direction of the entrance of the cave, so he had to beg his father to tell his grandmother, but the leopard seemed to be iron-hearted, and only advanced and did not retreat, although it was very slow—did it understand that there were human companions at the entrance of the cave—Mu Mangzi felt that he had encountered the smartest leopard in the world.
"A good man doesn't fight with the female leopard", "The enemy advances and I retreat", Mu Mangzi was a little weak on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was worried that it would suddenly launch, holding a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, and slowly retreated.
It was this retreat, in the eyes of the female leopard, that it was the "male" who admitted defeat and made it firm and confident to move forward step by step.
Mu Mangzi slowly retreated, paying attention to the remaining materials of the torches used by his predecessors under his feet, picking them up and throwing them behind him.
He knows very well that at this moment, fire is something that he absolutely cannot without: one is lighting, and the other is to make full use of the threat of fire to leopards.
The leopard still did not attack, but continued to slowly press towards Mu Mangzi.
Mu Mangzi knew that the leopard was a wild animal with a sudden attack speed, and he didn't want to provoke it before it attacked him, so he had to keep moving forward, and he had to continue to retreat and keep a relatively safe distance from it to avoid being attacked suddenly.
Mu Mangzi was highly nervous, and he didn't know how long it was, and he couldn't remember how many torches and firewood he had picked up from the ground, and how many turns he had turned, and he felt that he was about to lose his hand!
He thought that if it still didn't run, it would have to let go of it! Only then did he find that it had retreated to a place two or three times wider than the front.
Suddenly, the leopard screamed and pounced on itself!
Mu Mangzi ducked to the side, and the leopard rushed past him.
Mu Mangzi knew that if it missed, it would come again, so he turned around and looked at it, stunned!