Chapter 14: Wolves! More than one!
"There was a train whistle in the distance, and the sound of the flute was low and long, like a song, and it sounded so sad, so sad."
In Archie's ears, there was a long whistle. He even "saw" that the train not only whistled, but also emitted white steam, clattering through the woods.
With this excitement in his heart, he suddenly felt no longer afraid.
"We rustled through crunchy snow, leaving small gray footprints."
There was a rustling sound of dead leaves on the ground, and Archie had thought these small shredded sounds were weird. Now, think of them as snow-white snow, and every step he takes is brave and powerful.
"I've been looking forward to following my brother to see owls together, and I've been looking forward to it for a long, long time."
Archie suddenly settles down, thinking that they are not lost, but going on an outing in the night.
"We walked to the pine forest area, and in the bright sky, the pine trees looked black and pointy.
My brother raised his hand and made a gesture, and I immediately stopped my steps and stood there waiting.
The elder brother looked up, as if he was looking for a natural star, and as if he was looking at a map in the sky. The moonlight made his face look like he was wearing a silver mask. ”
Archie listened attentively, holding his arm up to make his imaginary gestures, and looked up into the sky, touching his "silver mask" by the way.
"My brother began to cry out: Hoo, hoo. I learned the call of a bighorn owl. ”
Archie covered his lips with his hand, half-folded, and his voice was high-pitched and distant: "Huh, huh, huh, huh." He shouted.
Guoguo couldn't help but shout "Wang" and agreed.
The woods, dominated by the chirping and rustling of insects, seem to be woken up.
The quiet background sound gradually moved.
"We walked into the woods, and the shadows of the trees were darker than anything I've ever seen. In the middle of the night, will there be something hiding behind the black tree? I didn't even ask, go out to see the owl, you must be brave! ”
Ah Qiao's voice exudes some kind of power.
Archie straightened his chest, contempt for the darkness in the woods.
After Archie shouted, there was a response in the forest. The sound of response was quickly approaching, and the tail note was already close at hand, which frightened the little brother and sister at the same time.
After a terrifying shock, Ah Qiao's calm voice slowly sounded: "Suddenly, the shadow of an owl separated from the shadow of the big tree on the ground and flew towards the top of our heads. We watched, our mouths were hot, but we didn't make a sound, and we didn't say a word of what we wanted to say. The black shadow that flew over made another scream. ”
Archie suddenly stopped, instinctively directing him in one direction.
Sure enough, an owl rushed out of there, and Hula flew in front of them.
If it weren't for Ah Qiao's early narration, the two would have been scared half to death. But at this moment, the owl that suddenly flew out and flew over just added fun to the two of them.
Then the owl stirred its great wings and flew away, and like a silent black shadow, it flew back into the woods.
Archie nodded. The owl flew away. The owl glanced at them, they glanced at the owl. That's all. Nothing to be afraid of.
He took his sister's hand and continued walking.
Between the overlapping trees, a pair of green eyes flashed.
Archie happened to catch the flash of green eyes when he turned his head to look at his sister.
Wolf!
In his heart, a name popped up for no reason, and the blood around his body coagulated.
Wolves, never alone!
The fruit next to him must have smelled something abnormal and began to become irritable. It whined in warning.
Archie's mind was clearer than ever. He quickly pulled his sister forward, and she was staggered by him.
Finding a stout tree in the dark, he held his sister and told her to climb up the tree quickly.
"Why?"
"Quick! Don't talk nonsense. ”
In the shadowy forest, there is an extra pair of green eyes.
Ah Qiao must have seen it, at least heard the warning sound of Guoguo's abnormality.
Archie held Ah Qiao and desperately lifted her, but Ah Qiao was calm and climbed up.
The green eyes in the forest were divided into four pairs, five pairs, and they were getting closer and closer in a flanking way.
"Brother, what should I do with Guoguo?" Ah Qiao's voice fell from the top of his head.
Archie, who climbed to a height of two meters, slipped down when he heard the sound. He hugged Guoguo and prepared to carry it up the tree as well. But Guoguo swayed her head and walked away, struggling to dodge. It whined, and its fur exploded, as if it had decided to protect its little master to the death.
"Brother!" Ah Qiao's voice contained crying. She is only six years old, even if she has hundreds of books in her head, her actual experience is only a little, and she has never experienced a moment of life and death.
The wolves narrowed the encirclement, and the air pressure was frighteningly low.
"Brother!" Ah Qiao shouted bitterly.
Archie had no choice but to abandon the fruit and quickly climb the tree.
He had only climbed a meter high when a hungry wolf pounced on him. At the last moment, Guoguo pounced head-on. A wolf and a dog, biting together.
Archie gritted his teeth, taking advantage of the time that Gogo had bought him, and climbed up in a muffled voice.
The tree is very thick, and it is difficult to put his hands together, and the thickness and stability of the tree give him a sense of security that he can rely on in the night.
After the first wolf started the battle, the second wolf followed and pounced on Archie.
Luckily, Archie's shoes protected him, and the hungry wolf jumped viciously, narrowly brushed Archie's foot, and fell. Its sharp claws scraped off Archie's shoes.
Archie's lips pursed into a line, and he kept climbing up.
"Whew, huh, huh, huh." A large owl, flitting its wings and flying low in the air.
The wolf howled, wild and breathtaking.
Archie had climbed his first branch, and in terms of height, he was safe.
"Sister!" He called to Ah Qiao urgently, "Be sure to hold on to the trunk." ”
Ah Qiao's face was wet and full of tears. She trembled unbelievably, and her little hands were cold with fright.
Archie slowly touched it, put his foot on the first branch, wrapped one hand around the trunk, and the other around his sister sitting on the second branch. The thin little body of his sister trembled in front of him.
"Tell me a story." Archie said.
He wanted to divert his sister's attention. On the ground, the sound of Guoguo fighting with the wolves was in my ears, and there was even the sound of skin tearing and blood gurgling.
"I'll tell you ...... "The Story of a Good Wolf." Ah Qiao's voice trembled faintly.
"Good!"
Once upon a time, there was a wolf who lived in a large forest.
His fathers told him that it was the duty of the wolf to keep the forest safe.
If the rabbit was to hop around in the grass at night, the wolf would bark out its snow-white teeth and howl fiercely. The little rabbit was frightened and would hide in the bushes like lightning.