Chapter 7: The Cave
"Mommy, Mommy, I'm back!
"Go wash your hands, let's eat braised pork today. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Really, great, haha, mom, you're the greatest!"
"Get over there, damn child, watch out for the oil spilling on you!"
"Where's my dad?"
"I'll be out of the car and come back in a while, go and clean up the table, and we'll have dinner when your dad comes back." ”
"Great!"
Humming King Zhou's nunchucks, I began to set the table and spread the dishes and chopsticks, waiting for my father to come home for dinner. This is the ordinary life of my family of three, simple and happy, ordinary but happy.
The sound of a quick knock on the door made me irritable.
"Zhidong, come out quickly, something happened to your father!!"
I knew it was a voice from the kitchen, "Open the door and see what's wrong with your dad?"
I quickly opened the door, and a blinding light burst into my field of vision, as if I had returned to the real world. When I got used to the light, I found that I was lying at the bottom of the valley, and it was ten o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was shining straight away. It turned out to be a dream, but now maybe only in a dream can I see my loved ones.
Suddenly remembering my friends in the tribe, I struggled and found that my foot was broken, but my life had been saved. And there are many corpses lying all around, some of them are unlucky, they fell down and broke their hands and feet, and some of them were pierced through the chest by tree branches, and they died with a whimper, this may be fate.
In my examination one by one, I finally found that there were other survivors, the big tree had a dislocated arm, and could only barely return to its original position, and found a branch to fix it, hoping to heal the injury without leaving sequelae; the little potato was lucky, maybe there was a branch in the process of falling to cushion the descending force, but he only fainted, but unharmed; his father patriarch was not so lucky, when he fell, his back just hit the stone, and now he is dying, and only has the strength of one breath left.
The three of us gathered around the patriarch, and Dodge Payne, the little potato, was like a child, hugging Daddy's waist and crying.
The patriarch stretched out his hand with difficulty, wanting to touch the child's cheek, and the reluctance in his eyes was even more sincere. But there was no strength left for him to make this action, and when his hand was halfway out, he fell silently, and could no longer support his eyes that were nostalgic for the world, so he closed his eyes and left.
For a moment of grief, the patriarch's bits and pieces of us began to replay in our minds, and the figure of him leading his people to break out of the encirclement and win the honor of the tribe with fearless courage in a desperate situation will remain in our minds forever. But this is not the time of sadness, maybe those soldiers have not yet searched the bottom, we must get out of here quickly, we must live, so that we can avenge the patriarch, for the sacrifice, for so many people!
Immediately, we simply buried several tribesmen in a natural shallow pit, bowed three times, and then took the scattered weapons and walked towards the depths of the valley with a somewhat crying Dodge Payne.
The depths of the valley grew darker and wetter. But we didn't dare to turn back, maybe the exit of the valley was waiting for us with a butcher's knife that had already been erected, so we could only go deeper and hope to get out of this damn valley.
Syllable!
I killed an unknown bug that was lying on my shoulder, greedily sucking blood, and there was a bloody stain on my shoulder.
"Brother Alin, it's good if you dare to take these bugs, it's more troublesome to kill them, and the blood that comes out will provoke more bugs. As he spoke, the little potato grabbed a piece of grass and wiped it on my shoulder, wiping the blood away.
"I know, it's this bug that is so annoyed that I can't help but kill one. Okay, don't hold me, my feet are not heavy, it's almost fine these days, you look at the big tree, he's seriously injured. "With the escape of the past few days, Little Potato temporarily recovered from his sadness and took care of the two of us.
"Nonsense, who said that I was seriously injured, isn't it just that my arm is a little weak, it will be fine in a few days, no one will help me, I will open the way for you. So saying, he ran forward.
I don't know what's wrong, after this catastrophe, although the big tree is burly and powerful, but he lacks practical experience, and seems to think that he has not helped much, so his self-esteem is very sensitive, and he refuses to admit that he is weak.
"Okay, the three of us can be regarded as sharing weal and woe, we have to support each other in the future, no one can abandon each other, let alone abandon ourselves, we have to live well, and we will have to avenge the clansmen in the future!"
A little emotion made the little potato's eyes red, and he saw that the tears were about to stay. Come on, count me too much, and I was about to say a few words of comfort, when I heard the panicked screams of the big tree.
"Come on, little potato, come over and help, I'm about to fall in!!"
There was a hurried shout, and I didn't care about my feet, which were still a little painful, and followed the steps of the little potato, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
I was a little dazzled by the sight in front of me, and I didn't expect that there would be a swamp in the depths of the valley. The tree roared anxiously, his face was bloodless with fright, his whole body had dropped to his waist, and his chest and arms were lying on the swamp plane as much as possible, but he was still slowly descending because he had struggled to fall into it at first, and his weight was not light.
I grabbed the little potato who was about to rush in to save him, and if he had been trapped, I would not have been able to pull both of them out in a short time with my strength. In my anxiety, I saw that there were a lot of vines growing on the edge of the mountain wall, so I asked the little potatoes to pull them down to make ropes, and on the other hand, I kept shouting to the big trees, telling him not to struggle, to keep leaning as much as possible, waiting for us to save you.
I finally managed to get a long enough vine, and the big tree, which was already anxious, was almost sucked in, and only the top of the neck was still outside. In a panic, it took a few throws to reach the position, and the big tree clung to it.
"Hard, one, two, three!"
"Again, one, two, three!"
After a lot of effort, the big tree was finally pulled back from the ghost gate. Everyone was scared, but they didn't expect this swamp to be so sinister, and the three of them were all out of strength, lying on the ground panting over and over again.
"I said, how did you get in?"
"Don't mention it," the spirit of the big tree seemed to recover, "Lao Tzu is like exploring the road in front, I feel that the bottom is a little soft and I don't care, I think it is a relatively deep pile of fallen leaves, who the knows that it will suddenly sink in front, and who knows that it will fall deeper and deeper, and he will not dare to move but dare to shout when he panics." ”
"Fortunately, I rescued you, I won't die, and there will be a blessing in the future, if you are missing, who will be this pathfinder in the future?" I teased, trying to make the big tree feel more cheerful.
Sure enough, "Just be it, who's afraid of whom?" It's a big deal, I'll be fine if I walk slowly and be careful." This time I planted it for my grandfather, and there will be no next time! Absolutely not!" The big tree's mood has improved, and it has begun to return to its original appearance.
"Okay, okay, Brother Big Tree, hurry up and get rid of that stinky mud on your body, this smell is too big"
"It's, it's so smoked that we don't have the strength to go. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, I'll stay away from you, and go to explore the road by the way!"
"Be careful, don't go in again, the vine just now should be broken if it is used again, haha!"
"Fuck off!"
Hehe, the three of them were happy again, as if the dangerous situation just now was just a passing cloud, and it was dissipated by the wind.
"Good news, bad news, which one do you listen to first?"
"Let's start with the bad news. "I prefer to leave the good news behind.
"The front is all swamps, and the entire mouth of the valley is sealed, and it will be difficult for the three of us to get through. ”
"And the good news, is there any way to get there?" said the little potato urgently.
"I don't know if I can go there, but there's a cave over there, it's quite deep, and it's weird. Well, over there. The tree pointed to the side of the valley.
When the three of us went there, we thought the cave was a little strange. The whole side of the valley was covered with vines, and they were not vigorous, but the vines hidden on the cave were withered and dry. This is really strange, I feel that there must be something unusual inside this cave, but according to the situation of the vines outside, it is not clear whether there is any real danger inside.
There is the possibility of soldiers chasing behind, and the way is blocked by the swamp in front, and there is finally a cave, and it is so strange and mysterious, stay here, that is, the soldiers will not kill them, and in this place where the birds do not, they will be bitten to death by insects if they do not starve to death.
Forget it, I gritted my teeth and stomped my foot, "Let's go in and take a look, if there's anything wrong, just run out immediately." If there is a way out, and you are too scared to move forward, then you won't let people die of laughter!"
"Come in, who is afraid of whom?"
"I'll listen to you, let's go"
The three of them walked into the dark cave.