Chapter Eighty-Four: The Dark Shadow of Terror
(Today's mundane affairs are entangled, delayed for some time, and the update is late) the firewood in summer has a lot of moisture, it is wet firewood, and the sound of burning "Bibo" is very loud, especially some hollow trees or bamboos.
Hollow trees are actually not surprising, for example, after the tree gets into the worm, a bag is puffed up, and there is often a lot of gas in this bag, and when the gas bursts when it burns, it will produce a very loud sound.
Sleeping on the platform, there were no mosquitoes unexpectedly, and it is estimated that the smoke and fire under the tree drove the mosquitoes away.
The sound of firewood burning under the platform was inexplicably disturbing.
Everyone is tired, but the people who sleep and rest just can't sleep, so they roll over and over.
It was the first time that my father had been out for so long and couldn't sleep, and he became more and more upset, thinking about all the circumstances along the way, thinking about where he would go to find things tomorrow, and thinking of the big and small people in the family.
Everyone didn't speak, they just thought about things.
The eldest son and the second uncle had sparkling eyes, looking into the distance, carefully searching every place, some places had moonlight, it seemed that everything on the earth was covered with a layer of mist, and in some places the moonlight could not shine, it was pitch black, and the breeze drifted and swayed, as if some animal was moving, and it looked a little scary.
The eldest son sat around the railing of the platform, surveying the surroundings, until he reached the black shadow he had just seen, which was heading towards the river, and he vaguely felt that the shadow was closer than before. He rubbed his eyes and looked at them carefully, but he didn't find anything unusual, but the black shadow didn't move at all, only to realize that he was dazzled.
When he turned around for the third time, he deliberately looked at it again, and how he felt that the black shadow was closer. This time it shouldn't be dazzling, I immediately felt my scalp tingle, my hairs stood up, and I hurriedly called my second uncle to take a look.
At the beginning, the second uncle didn't see anything famous, and after insisting on watching for a while, he screamed softly, but the black shadow was really moving, but the front was far away, and it seemed to be moving slowly, but now that it was closer, the movement was more obvious.
Judging from the size of the black shadow, the eldest son and the second uncle should be big guys, at least a zhang long, but they are blocked by weeds, and they can't see how big they are. The other people who were standing guard heard that there was a situation and hurriedly came over to see what it was.
At this point, the animal moved more obviously, as if it still had a few legs crawling forward.
The second uncle hurriedly asked everyone to stick to their respective posts to see if there was anything abnormal in other directions, and at the same time woke up their father to discuss what to do.
My father was still rolling on the ground and couldn't sleep, but he was just asleep, dreaming, dreaming that he had found rice and rape, and was on his way home full of joy, and when he heard the shouting, he quickly got up and asked what was wrong, and touched the tools with his hands at the same time. Everyone looked at the moving black shadow under the tree, and they all wondered what it was.
It was still my father's sharp eyes, and he soon found out that it was a crocodile.
The eldest son and his cousin were holding a rope tied to a steel drill in their hands, nervously waiting for their father's orders.
The father and the second uncle each held a longbow in their hands and aimed at the crocodile, as calm as a pond of lake water. The more nervous they are, the calmer they become.
Life needs to be like this, and so is responsibility.
The crocodile came to the tree, and was stunned by the burning fire, and hurriedly took a few steps back, rolled on the ground, and looked angrily at the unknown thing in front of him, which had never seen fire, and did not know how powerful it was.
At this time, the crocodile had not yet seen the platform and the people in the trees.
After the crocodile stopped for a while, it turned around, came to the wood that had not yet burned, crossed the thorn wall, and continued to climb forward. The eldest son and his cousin hurriedly lifted the red-burned, "squeaky" and steaming steel chisel.
The cousin was so nervous that he came to his throat, and he dropped a wooden spear and smashed it in front of the crocodile.
When the crocodile looked up, he saw that there was a platform in the tree, and several animals looked at him with bony eyes, and became more and more angry, and raised their necks and slammed into the tree, shaking the people on the platform with fear, and they didn't know what to do.
When the crocodile looked up again and was about to take a mouth, the eldest son saw the opportunity, aimed at the crocodile's mouth, and put down the red steel brazing rope from his hand, let it fall, and snorted into the crocodile's throat, so painful that the crocodile rolled on the spot until the body rolled on the fire.
The crocodile was so powerful that it rolled on the ground for a while before stopping.
Just when everyone's nervous heart just stopped for a while, thinking that tonight could pass safely, the eldest son exclaimed, everyone found that away from the side of the river, a giant python swam over quickly, a few steps to the tree, it is estimated that it has just discovered the threat on and under the tree, only after the threat has passed a little, it came out of the direction that everyone did not pay attention to just now, entangled a tree, and the body went up, so frightened that even the dog and the little wolf couldn't help howling, and also frightened the cousin's hand holding the rope tied with the steel drill shook, and the steel drill and the rope fell down and fell on the open ground。
The giant head of the giant python, spitting blood-red letters, stretched out to the people and dogs on the platform, the father and the second uncle had already put down the big bow in their hands, only to see one with a killing knife in his hand, and the other with an ax in his hand, raised his hand and slashed at the python.
I only heard the sound of "help", and the axe cut off half of the python's mouth, and the killing knife cut directly into the python's head and embedded it in the bones, and then the python went limp.
The father and the second uncle hurriedly picked up the big bow, aimed it at the eyes of the giant python and shot down, an arrow hit the body, the arrow bounced directly from the body, and the other arrow hit an eyeball and sank into half of the arrow.
Father smiled and said, just now this crocodile should have gone to find a giant python to duel, confused and covered the fire, and fought with people for a long time, this giant python probably also thought that we killed the opponent and felt discouraged, so he came to us to vent his anger, and it was also confused and finished.
Tonight, there are these two giants standing guard under the tree, and it is estimated that no animal will dare to come and disturb it, it's okay, everyone can sleep at ease.
That night, as my father said, there was no sound, the fire under the tree was burning unhurriedly, and everyone slept soundly.
The next day, when the first rays of sunlight came through the clouds, my father had already woken up, and he saw that everyone was sleeping soundly, and wondered whether to wake everyone up, or let everyone sleep a little longer. The second uncle then woke up, and the elderly people were less sleepy.
Now this position is a full day's journey from home, if he can make something this morning, he can rush home before dark, he really wants to stay at home a large family, and that group of chubby little grandchildren and grandchildren.
However, my father never thought that he would have such good luck, and everything since entering the mountain has been on his own hands and two legs.
He thought about it again, if he looked at the place today, he could collect and dig early tomorrow morning, and return early tomorrow.