20, unmanned gas station
In Wuling Hongguang, the three of them stared at each other, and Song Wenbin looked at the last bar of oil displayed on the oil meter, and secretly exclaimed in his heart. It turned out that the fuel gauge of this car was broken, and it looked like there was still a bar of oil left, but in fact there was no gas. This led him to misjudge the performance of his car.
"Strong, but not much stronger."
Huo Yu was the first to break the silence.
The tone was somewhat gloating.
"What to do..."
Sutina covered her face in despair, and laughed helplessly: "This is too funny." ”
"Cold salad." Song Wenbin sighed.
"I suggest waiting to die and letting a lion or hyena eat us so that the ratings can go up dramatically."
As she spoke, she climbed out of the window and shouted to the film crew behind her, "We're going to die!" You're satisfied!! ”
Song Wenbin covered his head, to be honest, this situation was the first time he had encountered it, and he had already known that he would have prepared more fuel in the car. Fortunately, the outdoor live broadcast in the past ten years made him react quickly, he looked at the sunset in the distance that had not yet sunk, and said: "We can't sit in the car, the ten kilometers road is not too long, we can walk over it, buy gasoline and come back." ”
"Is it too late?"
Sutina asked worriedly.
"Walking for an hour and five kilometres takes two hours, but if we go too slow, it will get dark. We'd be stuck in the wild, maybe that's what the crew wanted to see, but not what I wanted to see. Song Wenbin said and jumped out of the car: "Hey, you don't want to spend the night in this kind of place, right?" ”
Huo Yu looked at the sinking sun and said, "But it's getting dark, are you sure you want to go over?" ”
"This is the equator, and it won't get dark so fast." Sutina said: "What Song Wenbin said makes sense, let's hurry up." ”
As she spoke, she hunched over and drilled out of Wuling Hongguang and followed behind Song Wenbin.
Although he was very unwilling, and although he was about to be slapped in the face just after saying cruel words, seeing that his two companions had gotten out of the car, Huo Yu still chose to jump out of the car and follow Song Wenbin and Su Tina all the way forward.
And the photographer of the film crew turned out to be unusually single, seeing them jump out of the car and walking, he even jumped off Hilux, carrying the camera and following behind them.
At this moment, although the sun was about to set, the air was still hot, and Song Wenbin was sweating profusely before he had gone far, and the two girls beside him were also sweating. They didn't communicate much, they didn't even have the heart to see the scenery of the African continent, they just walked with their minds.
They hadn't gone far before the three of them stopped, and next to them was a skeleton of unknown things, which had been gnawed clean, but the red bones still showed that the animal had just been eaten.
Song Wenbin swallowed his saliva and asked Sutina, what kind of animal is this?
The college student went up to take a look, and said with affection: "It's an antelope, look at this horn, it's the same as a sword." ”
Song Wenbin couldn't help but feel a little dizzy when he saw that the horns on the skull were as long as his legs. He asked Sutina, "Didn't you say that this place is densely populated and there will be no large beasts?" ”
Sutina turned pale and said, "I don't know... There may be a West African lion .... That thing seems to be very few and far between..... There are rumors that it is extinct, or that it is critically endangered...."
"Rarely, but not nothing."
Huo Yu said softly, she squatted down, pointed to a footprint on the ground and said, "Look." ”
She spread her palm out and placed it in the footprint, which was nearly three times larger than her palm.
Sutina shook her feet and couldn't stand on her feet, she trembled, "I... I've just read some in books... Records... I've never really been to a place like this.... Sorry ....."
Song Wenbin looked at the footprints and was stunned for a moment, then picked up the antelope horn from the ground and handed it to Huo Yu and said, "When the lion comes, just lean on it." ”
Huo Yu's expression became extremely strange, she looked Song Wenbin up and down, and said, "Aren't you afraid that your fans know?" The dignified misogynistic anchor is actually begging for the protection of girls? ”
"I've been banned, and if we are really eaten by a lion, I'm afraid that this show won't be broadcast, I want to live and be hated." Song Wenbin said.
"Then you give me a gun, I can't save you when this lion comes."
That being said, Huo Yu still borrowed the antelope's horn and slammed it into the tree trunk on the side.
The skull shattered, and the antelope horn was grabbed by her with one hand, as if she had carried two long swords: "But it's still okay to protect yourself." ”
"Can you really defend yourself in front of the lion?"
Sutina asked, her eyes lit up.
"It's okay sister." Huo Yu comforted Sutina, "When the lion comes, we can stab Song Wenbin to death, and if it eats Song Wenbin's dying body, we can take the opportunity to escape." ”
Song Wenbin: ......
Having said that, after seeing the skeleton of the antelope, the three of them still leaned close together, looking around vigilantly as they walked.
Song Wenbin was even in a trance at a certain moment. Just three or four days ago, he was lying quietly in a residential building in China watching videos, and three days later he was in the wild in Africa to watch for himself to be eaten by lions. He felt like he was either crazy or God was crazy.
"The lion may be full... That bone still looks new... We're not far from our destination now, and if Baidu Maps doesn't lie to us, then this should be the border of its territory, after all, this beast shouldn't want to get too close to humans..... So maybe it killed it at the border by chasing its prey, if I were the lion... After a big meal, you should go back to the center of the territory to sleep, and you won't always stay at the border, right... It must be like this..."
As she walked, Sutina was still thinking about it, and she didn't know whether she was comforting others or herself.
Suddenly, with a short scream similar to a dog being trampled on, Su Tina, who was in broken thoughts, suddenly dodged and hid behind Huo Yu. But since she was half a head taller than Huo Yu, this posture looked very funny.
"What's that!?"
She pointed ahead in fear: "Red! ”
Something was shaking in the grass in the distance, red, and it was not very real.
Song Wenbin didn't move, if he wanted to say that he was not afraid of walking in this place, it was fake, Sutina's scream just now made his heart almost stop.
Huo Yu was very bold, and when Song Wenbin petrified Su Tina and cowered, she stepped forward and beat grass with the antelope horn as she walked. After beating the grass for a while, she turned back and said, "Monkey butts, it's a bunch of monkeys." ”
Song Wenbin lifted the petrification and relaxed a little.
Sutina opened her eyes, looked at her tiptoe a few times, and then became nervous again: "It's not a monkey, it's a baboon." ”
"What's the difference." Huo Yu said, walking in front with his head held high.
"Baboons are big and have very sharp teeth."
Sutina was still not reassured.
Huo Yu was surprised: "What is so terrible about baboons, you must know that you are the top animal on earth, your ancestors have defeated these things for hundreds of thousands of years and walked out of Africa, and they have the courage to return home." ”
Su tina was speechless, and Song Wenbin was also speechless, he couldn't understand how Huo Yu understood walking in the wild in Africa as returning home.
But the reality unexpectedly recognized Huo Yu's courage, those baboons did not attack them, but jumped onto trees or stones after seeing a group of them coming, and watched them from a distance.
After the three of them passed through the baboon's territory, the open plain gradually disappeared, and the ground was replaced by rolling foothills again, and tall palm groves could be seen everywhere, which made Song Wenbin breathe a sigh of relief, probably lions would not live in the woods.
After walking for about a kilometer, human activity became apparent, the most obvious of which was the ruts on the ground that had been rolled over by countless motorcycles. and the bonsai-like dirt pavement.
It's just that by this time the sun has sunk below the horizon, and there are no cars on these roads. In order to arrive before they completely lost their vision, the three of them picked up their pace and trotted all the way.
After running for about half an hour, it was completely dark, but Song Wenbin finally stepped on the solid cement pavement. It was a north-south road, and they ran straight into the road from the wild.
Looking at the navigation, Sutina led them all the way south for another twenty minutes, and finally, they came to a place where the lights were on.
At this moment, Song Wenbin was already panting, holding her legs like a dead dog and panting, Su tina was also leaning on the telephone pole and crossing her waist, out of breath, only Huo Yu was the same as no one, and was even pulling up, as if she was just doing a daily night run.
After a short rest, they began to wander aimlessly around the small town, and after leaving the wilderness, they were less anxious. Huo Yu was in a much better mood after exercising, and he talked and laughed with Sutina again.
Song Wenbin still remembered their task of buying oil, after all, their car was still parked in the field, and they had to send oil back.
Not long after, they saw a gas station on the side of the road, but strangely, this gas station with the Shell oil brand is now deserted, the gas station is overgrown with weeds, the fuel tank is rusty, and I don't know how many years no one has used it. And on the north-south road next to the gas station, cars whizzed past from time to time, one after another.
Song Wenbin stood in the gas station, felt very strange, and asked, "Why did this gas station go out of business?" ”
"It's not doing well."
Huo Yu shrugged indifferently, and then went to find another home.
So the three of them continued on their way, and before long, they found another gas station, which turned out to be even more broken, not only the fuel tank was rotten, but even the sign was down, leaving only broken walls and a pile of weeds on the side of the road.
And on the side of the road are cars speeding by.
Song Wenbin was a little confused, he didn't understand why the gas station closed down in a place where there were so many cars, and Su Tina frowned and kept touching her chin.
However, after all this, the closure of the gas station did not stop the three from looking for gas, and they continued to search. Eventually, they found a gas station that was open in the city, and the lights were on.
Song Wenbin was overjoyed and was about to go to refuel, but Sutina stopped him. I saw Sutina whisper vigilantly, "Don't you think it's strange? ”
"What's weird?" Song Wenbin asked.
"You see, this gas station is on the side of the road, but there are no cars in to refuel."
Song Wenbin stared at the gas station carefully for a long time, indeed, this gas station that was open for a long time had no customers, and there was no passing car to go in to refuel.