Chapter 138: Old Man of the Wilderness
"Won't it?"
The speakers were already incoherent and incoherent, and everyone couldn't imagine what could be more dangerous than a crocodile.
He hurriedly squatted down, drilled hard, sank to the bottom of the water, and saw what was in the bottom of the water, it didn't matter, he was so happy to see it, it turned out that the fish in the water were not when they hid, but just swam around them, and sometimes they went to them to kiss with their mouths, which was really fun.
"Hey, why do these fish have so many teeth, the teeth are quite sharp, it's really troublesome when eating fish. β
Thinking to himself, he swam to the side again to take a look, and there was nothing in the water anymore, but the tiny swimming fish he saw earlier were gone, and there were such small fish with teeth everywhere, the size of a palm.
He stood up and said, "I've looked closely, and there's nothing dangerous in the water." β
"Really?"
"Nope. β
"Take a closer look?"
"No, there are only stones in the water, and there are fish!" he became a little impatient.
"Fish?
"A small fish is a big palm, but it's ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the eldest son grabbed the conversation: "But what?" said Zize nonchalantly, "But these fish have teeth." β
The eldest son was a little angry, "It's really rare and weird, grass carp has teeth, and it hurts to bite." "The grass carp is a fish four fingers wide, at least a foot long. β
The third son had a faint feeling in his heart that something was wrong.
As soon as he finished speaking, the eldest son also felt that something was wrong, and he described the size of the fish as a palm, and said the size of the whole fish, including the length and width. And the third son said that it was indeed four fingers wide and a foot long, which is obviously not the same thing, that is to say, the fish he said was round, at least close to round, while the third son said that the fish was long.
What are the long fish, the fish they have seen since they were young are all long. If there is any other kind of fish, if there is, there is, that is, the group fish, but this thing, how can it be considered a fish?
Since it's different, it's unusual, and it's not often a demon!
So what kind of fish is this, the eldest son's heart couldn't help but tense for a while, and at the same time he felt that these fish seemed to kiss and touch him. It's tickling on my body.
"The python is coming!"
The eldest son was thinking about something, so he heard a shout, and couldn't help but look upstream, and sure enough, he saw a bucket-thick green worm fluttering from the upper reaches of the whirlpool, which frightened several people who were already panicked and immediately at a loss.
When everyone looked closely, they found that this green snake was not a head, but a body, which should be a dead body. If you are a living thing, you will definitely put your head on the water. At least there will be movement, and this truncated thing is just motionless on the water.
When he was pondering, the thing that couldn't move turned over and made another mistake, and sure enough, half of the body was broken, and the bright red snake flesh and bone spurs pointed at the sky. It's particularly alarming.
It seems that the green snake did not swim back in the end, but was washed down by the torrent and was eventually torn into several pieces by the strong water pressure.
This is, the rope of the green beetle turned around again, and its head, which was bigger than the basin, turned up. An eyeball bursts open, and the hollow eye socket looks very abrupt.
This is the python in front of him that was broken by a boat oar, and it seems that after being injured, it has no strength to swim back, or it can't withstand the impact of the torrent.
Immediately, the python seemed to sink a little lower, and then all sank.
What is going on? I quickly dived into the water to see, and it turned out that some small fish were circling around the python, no, not circling around, but eating its meat, and those sharp teeth were used to eat meat!
Then, more and more small fish gathered together, and some of them could not grab meat to eat, and they tore each other apart, stirring up the water on the entire river surface as if it were boiling, churning, and the more they looked at it, the more terrifying it became.
Since he didn't dare to look at it anymore, he quickly floated up and told the eldest son and the third son about the situation, and they didn't believe it after hearing it, so they quickly got into the water to see what it was, but as soon as they bent down, they were squeezed by a bunch of mailbox green worm fish and couldn't get out anymore, and they felt that their bodies were being carried forward by these fish.
I don't need to look at it anymore!
Usually people eat fish, but I didn't expect that fish would eat people today!
The eldest son didn't think much about it, and beckoned everyone to leave quickly.
At this time, going downstream was far more difficult than going upstream in front of them, and some fish were desperate to eat snake meat, and the force of the impact was terrifying, and several people had stomachs and chests that hurt.
Everyone struggled to move around, thinking about what kind of fish this was, so dangerous.
The eldest son said that it seems that these fish do not eat all meat, but only snake meat, and there are so many green worms upstream, maybe one of them will be enough for these fish to eat downstream.
"I don't think so, because the fish seem to be only interested in the flesh that has been wounded, and I see that at first they are only biting the wounds of snakes, and then they are biting other places." You see they swam past us and didn't bite us. β
The third son hurriedly said, "Don't you dare to say that! I remember, when I was in Yuanchang, I heard Master Geng say that there is such a fish in the rivers in some very hot places, called piranhas, not that this kind of fish specializes in eating people, but that even people can eat it."
They keep an eye on the river and see animals crossing the river, and if these animals are injured and leave a little bit of blood in the water, it's over.
If a cow with a wound on its leg, even if it has only been bitten by a gadfly, crosses the river, it usually walks into the middle of the river, and there is only one skeleton left for a cow. β
He went on to say, "That's why we didn't receive attacks. However, this does not mean that we are safe to stay in the water now. Or hurry ashore. β
The eldest son couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder these crocodiles don't dare to come to the river!"
Today, the dangers that are constantly encountered are really not as dangerous as they are at this moment in the sum of the things encountered in this life.
The three of them waded down the water, trying their best to avoid attracting the attention of the piranhas that kept swimming, and they had to watch the ill-intentioned guys on the shore!
After walking about half a mile, the sand on the riverbed was noticeably less, and many places under the soles of my feet were mud, so I stepped on them. It's not as deep as your calves. "Ahh
Suddenly, there was a scream from the third son, as if something had happened. The eldest son and Zize hurriedly asked him what was wrong.
The third son said that he might have stepped on something sharp and pricked his foot.
"Wounds?"
"Hurt!"
"Run!"
They don't care what kind of injuries they have, how big they are, and they have to get out of here as soon as possible. When they came to the shore, they grabbed one of the arms of their three sons and ran to the shore, and then they felt some fish swimming nearby, especially in front of their heels. "Run! The fish are biting my foot!"
The third son screamed again, feeling the biting pain of the piranha's bite, and then more and more fish began to bite.
The eldest son let Zize pull him on, and he stopped. Squatted down and hit the fish as hard as he could, some of them were knocked off, and they still had a piece of meat in their mouths. However, it's not far from the shore.
Hearing the screams in the river, several crocodiles on the shore seemed to be startled and retreated a few steps back.
The three of them took this opportunity and rushed ashore at a rapid pace, even so. On the surface of the third son's foot, he was still bitten by a piranha with a finger-sized hole. It was bleeding, but it didn't seem like the wound was too deep, just a little epidermis.
The eldest son quickly tore off his sleeve and tied it around the third son's foot, so that he would not bleed again, so that it would also reduce a little pain.
"Crocodile!"
Everyone has just wrapped up the wound on the third son's foot. And I heard him cry out.
Perhaps the crocodile was frightened by their cries just now, and when he saw that they were injured, he came back to his senses and thought about making fire and robbery. The eldest son was furious and picked up a stone from the riverbank. It smashed it hard, hitting the crocodile door, so big that it was stunned.
Before he could react, a fist-sized pebble flew over, smashing a row of teeth and rushing down his throat. The crocodile was startled by the sudden change and stopped.
After a pause, the silent crocodile suddenly became angry, and as soon as its two front legs were raised and its head was raised, it jumped out. The two of them took the third son and ran away.
After wrapping the wound, his foot no longer hurts, especially at this critical juncture, where does it still hurt, he in turn pulls himself up and runs, but leaves his eldest son behind.
Climbing up a high slope, the third son and Zize turned around, grabbed the eldest son's outstretched hand, and pulled him up, so angry that the crocodile stared at the wall below, and scratched the wall with a snort!
Just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, two more crocodiles rushed out of the plantain forest in front of them, even larger than the one below.
After all, the crocodile is huge, and although it is a good swimmer in the water and can approach its prey quietly, on the shore, its big belly and stubby legs have become a burden, and it can't outrun people at all.
While running through the coconut grove, they encountered several more crocodiles, all of which they skillfully escaped.
They didn't dare to go up the mountain anymore, and they couldn't climb up because their feet hurt, so they had to continue downstream along the river, hoping to reach a place where there were people's homes.
After walking for a while, the scenery on the river bank slowly changed, those banana trees and coconut groves decreased, and finally disappeared, and then there were some trees and flowers in the hometown Ziyanping, and the climate was not so hot.
"Someone's house!" was the first to notice that there seemed to be some thatched huts on a small hillside far ahead, and the three hungry people suddenly gained confidence and walked towards that side with their support.
After a while, they came to the bottom of the hut, and heard a dog barking.
The three of them were happy in their hearts, and a dog barked, indicating that there was someone here.
At this time, they had no strength left, and could only sit against a stone at the bottom of the hill and gasp for breath.
As the dog barked, an old voice floated down from above, "Where did you come from?"
Everyone hurriedly used their clothes that had been torn into strips of cloth to cover their exposed flesh, and struggled to stand up, looked up, and found that it was an old man with fluttering hair standing there, next to him was a small brown and yellow dog, constantly wagging his tail, looking curiously at the three unclothed people.
He said, "Old man, we are in trouble upstream, passing by here, and we want to ask for something to eat." β
"Come up, boys!"
The old man said tremblingly, seeing that he was not young, "Poor one, he has even been to the dead and cause evil." β
His gentle sigh sounded like thunder to a few peopleβthe place where he had just experienced nine deaths and a lifetime finally knew its name!
Then they followed the old man up with great difficulty to the thatched hut.
It was a thatched hut a little more than one man tall, and there was a small lawn in front of the house, on which three or five chickens were clucking and pecking.
There are several fruit trees on the edge of the lawn, including peach trees, pear trees, bayberry trees, and a chicken claw candy tree, which is ripe at this time, and the fruits hang on the branches, swaying in the wind, and everyone is drooling when they see it, and they can't wait to eat these fruits and even the trees.
However, after all, the people of the Xiyan family are cultured people, and even in such a desperate hunger situation, they will not reach out and pick one, unless they have the permission of the master.
When the puppy saw that the owner greeted these people, he stopped barking, but followed the three of them with their tails behind their buttocks, like long-lost old friends, sniffing on this foot and rubbing on the strip of cloth on the trouser leg.
Everyone looked at it as if they were seeing their own dogs, and they were very kind.
The room is simply furnished, and the entrance is like a small hall, with a square table in the middle and three benches next to the table. At the door, there was a tall and round king, loaded with some buds, beans, and sorghum.
On the walls of the hall hung several brown striped robes, as well as two straw hats.
Everyone looked at the appearance in the house, and couldn't help but recall Ziyanping's hometown, yes, this trip out, after nine deaths, even if it was a disaster, but the people at home may be mourning for their disappearance.
"Sit down, I'll get you something to eat. β
The old man pushed open a door at the back of the hall and stepped inside. Three people, you look at me, I look at you, only sit down silently.
The eldest son untied the strips of cloth on the third son's feet and saw that the wound had healed a lot, and some places had begun to scab.
Seeing this, he simply removed the strip of cloth and let the wound naturally be exposed, which might grow faster.
After a while, the old man staggered out a retort bowl with some soup and water that was too thin to be thinner, put it on the table, and said, "That's all, you will be done." (To be continued.) )