Suddenly, there seemed to be the sound of some kind of animal running around in the deep forest, trampling on the dry branches and leaves "clicking", followed by more sounds, and then this sound spread throughout the deep forest, as if some animal drove them to form an encirclement around these people.

There was a "buzz" in everyone's heads, thinking that they were in trouble tonight. The eldest son was in a hurry, and suddenly remembered an example that his grandfather had told him, so he took two burning logs from the fire, kicked them with his foot, and kicked away the snow under the tree, and set fire to the thick, dry, finely broken branches and leaves that were exposed under the tree.

Suddenly, the fire borrowed the wind, and the wind borrowed the fire, and the flames scattered and burned like a fire dragon.

When everyone saw it, they understood what he meant, and they all picked up torches and lit the dry leaves around the house.

Although there is a thick layer of snow on the surface, under the snow is the dead branches and leaves accumulated for tens or hundreds of years.

After a while, the fire formed a circle of fire centered on the hut and radiating outward, and the sound of the animals running around was still clear at first, but after the fire burned a foot or two, the footsteps of the animals gradually became less and less, as if they were stopping to listen to the fire.

Gradually, the sound of burning leaves and bark bursting could be heard in the whole forest, and after a while, the sound of neat footsteps in front of them suddenly turned into a chaotic "pop", and these animals that had been reveling all ran away for their lives.

In the face of the power of fire, no animal can escape the catastrophe, only to run as fast as possible. Generally speaking, this kind of fire-like burning mountain will not burn the big animals, only occasionally one or two foolish eggs who run in the wrong direction will be trapped in the fire ring, no matter how fast the fire is, there is no way for the animals to escape, of course, there is no way for the little bugs.

In the footsteps of the escape, there were faint sounds of a few dull roars of some animal, but this roar seemed so vague in the thunderous wave of escape that it was quickly drowned out.

Everyone looked at the ring of fire that had gradually faded away, feeling that all these changes had happened too fast and incredible, and it seemed that it had stopped tonight, but the tools in their hands did not dare to relax for a moment. When you are in the mountains, you really can't be idle at all, and the dream of sleeping peacefully can only be done when you get home.

Everyone wanted to continue to stand guard, but my father smiled and said, "It's okay, everyone can sleep at ease, the fire has already stood guard for us." I don't think the fire will stop until dawn. Yesterday on my way here, I noticed the direction of the nearby mountains, and in the ravine where we came in, there were two rocky mountains in succession, very steep, and although some trees grew, they were not many, and the fire could not burn them. Behold, in the place where the ravine had gone up, a belt of stones was burned in the place where the fire had been burned, and the fire in front of the belt of stones had been extinguished. So I guess the fire will have a night to reach the bottom of those two rocky mountains. ”

When they heard this, they felt that the words were reasonable, and those who were already very tired immediately relaxed, went into the house, and when they had filled the fire with enough firewood, they all fell to sleep.

As soon as the tense nerves relaxed, the snoring soon began to sound one after another.

The dogs are born to worry about their lives, the owners are sleeping, except for two small ignorances, the others have taken the initiative to stand up for the masters.

There was nothing to say all night, but this night was as my father said, there was no danger for half a day, and the catastrophe was burned by fire.

After dawn, everyone had to go to the mountains to pick up animals to eat meat, and many people thought that they must have burned a lot of things, but my father and uncle laughed and said, don't go, there is nothing to go.

Last night, the fire burned, this place can no longer live, first of all, there is no firewood, and eating has become a problem, not to mention eating wild vegetables, even meat will become a problem, although I picked up a koala when I came yesterday, but people eat dogs to chew, and there is not much left.

Then keep walking—said my father. They went up the bottom of the ditch, over the stone wall, and near noon they reached the highest peak of the mountain, where there was no overfire, and everything was still the same.

The summit of the hill is a dome mushroom shape, and below the mushroom is a circular platform of one inclination, surrounded by a steep rock wall, and there is only a spine-shaped path leading to the platform in the distance.

The grass on the platform is deep and the forest is lush, and there is an irregular stone cave the size of a half-room under the mushroom roof, which can be spent overnight.

Everyone was talking about the benefits of spending the night on this platform, and the eldest uncle came over and choked everyone up: "Where can we find water to drink?"

Indeed, the conditions here are good, but there is no way to get water, and of course there is no food to find.

The eldest son felt that it was such a good place, so he gave up unwillingly, so he asked the second son to cooperate, he stepped on the second son's footsteps made of both hands, and jumped on the top of the mushroom with a boost.

The mushroom top is actually not small, the size of one or two acres of land, it is not all stones, there is a lot of soil, and what is even more gratifying is that there is a natural puddle in the middle of the mushroom top that is the size of five or six rooms!

Throwing stones into the water will cause blisters to appear on the surface of the water after a while, indicating that the water is not very deep.

When I came to the puddle, I saw that the puddle was crystal clear, and the water surface was so clean that there was no trace of ash, as if it was specially prepared for them.

All of a sudden, the worries of the eldest uncle were removed.

But whether this water is poisonous or not, and whether it can be drunk, still needs to be tested.

Then, a few more people turned over to see the strangeness.

My father also went up.

He looked around the puddle carefully, and saw that the water grass by the puddle was abundant, and many common grasses had grown, but they had withered, and from the time of view, it should be caused by the coming of winter, and the color of the withered grass was no different from the grass trunk of the same kind under the mountain, but the grass was smaller, probably because of the strong wind on the top of the mountain.

My father also saw a lot of bird droppings next to the puddle, which must have been done by the birds who often came to drink the water.

In addition, no dead animals were found at the watering hole. What is even more strange is that not far from the waterhole, there is a bird's nest, hidden in the dead grass.

This strengthened my father's judgment that the water here was drinkable.

But in order to make sure that it is necessary to use people to do an experiment, that is, one person to drink a little less and try it.

Generally speaking, the water in the backwater pool is not drinkable, even if the water itself is very clean, but after a long time, it will dissolve the toxic things in the stone into the water, resulting in the water body is poisonous, it can not be drunk, of course, there are also drinkable, that is only a few, it seems that today this puddle is one of the few.

Everyone was very happy, and they all competed for the water experiment, and in the end, the second son was fast, and he didn't say anything and just lay on the edge of the puddle and drank two sips.

Seeing that someone drank it, everyone stopped fighting, they were all members of their own family, and everyone was in the same mood at this time, and they all hoped that they could replace him to experiment.

Everyone slowly slipped down from the top of the mushroom and came to the platform, waiting for the second son to feel after drinking water.

Seeing that everyone was waiting quietly, as if there was nothing else to do, my father hurriedly divided the labor for everyone.

Two men and four dogs blocked the path out of the platform, and no animals were allowed to slip out, and if there were animals, it would be everyone's dinner.