Chapter 17: Encountering Wolves
It took a short time to bury the white crane, and when the two set off again, it was already in the afternoon, the sun was setting, and in the dense forest and mountains, a man, a woman and a donkey.
Ji Qiu knew that the nun did not want to speak, so he tried not to disturb her.
They have been separated from Ji Haoran and others for a whole day, and when they don't see Ji Haoran and others looking back, they are afraid that they will not come back, and the horseshoe prints left on the mountain path also show that Ji Haoran and others are indeed going south.
The friar's face was very pale and bloody, and the sweat on her forehead showed that she was very weak, and she was staggering and unsteady on the back of a donkey.
It was dark before he had gone far, and although he knew that the nun didn't want to talk to him, Ji Qiu still had to take the initiative to talk to the other party, it was already dark, and he had to ask the nun for advice on whether to travel overnight or find a place to rest.
"You can do it. This was the answer given by the friar.
After digging a pit for a day during the day, Ji Qiu was very tired, since the nun asked him to watch it, then find a place to camp, in this barren mountain and wilderness, there will naturally be no broken temples and ruined houses, if you can find a cave, it is better than sleeping in the wilderness.
However, the cave was not easy to find, and when she reached the second watch, the nun fainted again, and if Ji Qiu hadn't noticed it in time, the nun would have fallen off the back of the donkey.
In desperation, I had to sleep nearby, and the fire always had a bunch of them, one to drive away mosquitoes, and the other to prevent wild beasts.
After the bonfire was lit, Ji Qiu found that the monk's originally pale face had turned very red, and cautiously reached out to test it, and found that her forehead was hot and hot, which was a high fever caused by wound infection.
After shouting a few times, but not seeing the friar wake up, he dared to untie the cloth around the friar's waist and check her injury, which he guessed correctly, because she had been soaked in the lake before, and the friar's wound had become swollen and worse.
There was still some gold sore medicine, and at the moment he could not do anything else, so he could only reapply it and replace it with a clean cloth belt, which was not ready-made, but torn from his middle coat.
There was no stream nearby, but he brought a water bladder with him, pulled out the cork, fed the friars some to drink, and then gathered firewood and grass from the neighborhood to prepare for the fire vigil.
It was a wet summer day, and it was not easy to find dry grass and firewood, so I could barely find some, and then sat by the fire in a daze.
The nun burned very badly and was sweating all the time, and the only thing Ji Qiu could do was to wet the sweat towel and cool her forehead.
I don't know how long it took, Ji Qiu finally couldn't hold it anymore and fell asleep.
He was woken up by the sound of a donkey, and when he woke up, he found that the campfire had been extinguished, and the donkey, which was tethered not far away, was screaming restlessly.
Looking further away, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and a large number of green and faint eyes appeared in the dense forest in the dark night, densely packed, and there were dozens of them.
It's wolves, wolves to be exact.
"Hey, hey. Ji Qiu stretched out his hand to push the nuns.
After a few pushes, the friar did not react, and then she remembered that she was in a coma with a high fever.
Presumably he had woken up, and the wolves not far away began to move forward slowly, and the donkey was frightened and hissed more and more.
Fear is inevitable, but Ji Qiu knows very well that it is useless to be afraid, so in a hurry, he touched the kitchen knife from his baggage, ran to the donkey and picked up the iron pot, and hit the iron pot with the kitchen knife, while shouting loudly, trying to scare off the wolves.
The sudden knocking sound made the wolves frightened, and they stopped for a moment and did not continue to approach, but they could not leave, and kept watching from a short distance, looking for an opportunity.
Temporarily frightened the wolves, Ji Qiu ran back to try to put out the fire, the so-called firefighting is not to extinguish the fire, but to rekindle the bonfire that is about to be extinguished.
The bonfire was extinguished so completely that it could not be saved, so it could only be rekindled.
Just as he was relighting the campfire, the wolves attacked, and their target was not a man, but a donkey tethered to a tree.
Seeing that the wolves began to bite the donkey, Ji Qiu rushed over with a kitchen knife, chopping and chopping, the wolves were also a little jealous, and they didn't dare to come forward to bite him, but they refused to stop there, but circled around the donkey, and rushed up to bite when they got the opportunity.
The donkey was chained and could not run to avoid it, but could only trample indiscriminately and howl in panic.
Ji Qiu's aura cultivation is inferior, although he can see things in the dark, but he can't see clearly, and the wolves are not as good as the bandits, they are very agile in moving and jumping, because there are too many of them, although he desperately blocks and tries his best to rescue, the donkey is still drenched in blood from the bite of the wolves.
Seeing the miserable barking of the donkey, Ji couldn't bear it, and wanted to untie the rope and let it be free, but after thinking about it, he gave up, the donkey couldn't run away from the wolves, if the donkey was released, it would die faster.
Just as Ji Qiu was in a hurry and frightened to drive away the wolves, he tilted his head and was horrified to find that several vicious wolves had left here and moved towards the female monk.
"Hey, hey, wake up, wake up. Ji Qiu shouted anxiously.
The friar did not react.
Seeing that the evil wolf was getting closer and closer to the friar, for fear that the nun would be harmed, Ji Qiu had to give up the donkey and run over with a kitchen knife to drive away the bombardment.
Without his protection, the wolves rushed up and bit the donkey.
Hearing the donkey's screams, Ji Qiu was so anxious that he turned around and ran back in desperation, untied the donkey, and dragged it to the nun approach, at this time he could not do anything but shout loudly and wave his knife to drive away.
Seeing the wolves with a fierce look in their eyes and their teeth approaching, Ji Qiu sighed helplessly, he could only protect one, if the stalemate continued, the wolves would probably rush up and bite madly.
In desperation, he had to let go of the donkey and let it run away in pain, leading away the wolves......