Chapter 19: Overnight in the primeval forest
After sending Mr. Wang and Mr. Xiao Hei, the five of us each prepared our own equipment, Ai Qin had to follow us in this time, this was also her first time participating in the actual battle, and she was extremely excited.
I couldn't help but tease her, "I heard that the mosquitoes in the forest are the size of a bowl, and the whole body will swell for a few days if you bite it, Ai Qin, are you afraid?" ”
Ai Qin smiled "grin", "What are you afraid of, who bites who will not necessarily when the time comes?" Since they are the size of bowls, they can be grilled and eaten on skewers! ”
Lao Wu boasted: "Good woman, courageous!" ”
Ah Fang said, "Ouch, Ai Qin, can you say anything more disgusting!" ”
"You have to take this thing with you wherever you go, if it weren't for its power last time, I'm afraid we would have been swallowed alive by that big snake." ”
Speaking of the serpent, we fell silent for a few moments.
As soon as Quanzi saw that he had said a sensitive topic, he quickly changed the topic and said, "What, the primeval forest doesn't have to worry about anything else, there are more wild fruits, we won't starve this time." ”
Ah Fang continued at this time: "Quanzi is right, I also specially checked the relevant information, I heard that there are wild fruit papayas in the forests around Midtown, and we have to take some back to eat when we encounter them!" ”
I stared at her flat chest and said with a smile, "Okay, just your airport, and when you retire, go to South Korea to stuff silicone!" ”
After saying that, the four of us laughed, and Ah Fang smashed a glove over, I'll hide!
Ready to go, we followed Mr. Black into the canyon.
It is worthy of being a national scenic spot, only to see the clouds and mist overhead, a clear and wide mountain spring stream flows slowly from our feet, the steep and straight cliffs on both sides occasionally a few towering trees are unusually abrupt, the mountains are full of clouds and mist, it is really a fairyland on earth.
But we're not here to see the scenery, and we can only glance at them and quickly forget about them.
After all, we are more professional than those ten people, and Mr. Xiao Hei has already walked twice, so it only took half a day to reach the place where they camped this time.
They camped on a small lawn, the weeds around it were not very deep, and the view was very good. It seems that Mr. Xiao Hei is still very professional in the knowledge of survival in the wild.
I took out my binoculars and looked around me, and noticed that about 400 meters below the camp, there was a stream that seemed to be in the same vein as the one in the canyon.
The camp is flanked on either side by a gentle hillside that stretches deeper into the canyon, surrounded by rocky rocks and lush vegetation, and the trees at the end of the camp near the forest have begun to flourish. The green of the primeval forest becomes darker and darker the deeper you go, and at this point you can't see further into the forest, even with a telescope.
I packed up my binoculars and noticed that the other four were already looking for clues around the woods.
As I searched the grass around the tent for clues, Quanzi, who was close to the woods, shouted, "Come here, they're coming in from here!" ”
I looked up and saw that Quanzi was about thirty meters away from the southwest corner of the camp, and we hurried over to see that there were a lot of scattered weeds around his feet, obviously vandalized, and one of the small trees had knife marks on it.
We didn't need a guide, so we left Mr. Hei where he was, and told him that if we didn't come out within five days, he would go out of the mountain on his own and ask for help again. Ai Qin took out the positioning system and marked it accordingly, and then we began to follow the initial clue.
Since the grass here gradually increases and decreases from tall to low, we can still clearly track the footsteps of those people at the edge of the forest. They left a long alley in the grass, and it seemed that there were also professional mountain travelers among the group.
This trace continued to the outer part of the dense forest, and when we entered the dense forest completely, the trail of footprints was broken as the ground vegetation became scarce and the fallen leaves on the ground gradually thickened.
To make matters worse, the weather became a little drowsy, and after a little further walking, it was getting dark.
We made a fire ditch in a safe place, lit a campfire in the middle, and cooked something to eat, and there was no point in continuing the search after dark, all we had to do was to take a break.
Because of the heavy humidity in the woods, the three of us men agreed that there would be no need for girls to keep vigil, and that the three men would be able to reach dawn in three hours each.
Since I scheduled it between three and six in the morning. In addition, it was still early, and he didn't feel sleepy at all, so he chatted in a low voice with Ai Qin, who couldn't sleep as lying on the side.
Ai Qin had experienced some actual combat in the Maoershan Tunnel last time, and he used to always face a bunch of instruments and virtual images, and he didn't participate in our outwitting of the big snake and spider, so he didn't know the importance of rest at this moment.
"I always feel that this matter is not so simple as it seems." I said to her.
Ai Qin answered, "What's wrong? Do you also think that this group of people acted in an organized and premeditated manner? ”
"Looks like you're thinking about it." ”
Aichen said, "No, I know what you're thinking when I look at your eyes!" ”
I knew she was joking, and sighed, "I don't know, I just think these guys are weird!" ”
She said: "You think, five college students, even if they have a soft spot for travel, can't they take such a risk to come to such a place, right?" ”
I said, "There must be a reason for coming here, and we must ask them carefully when we find them." Could it be that there are some legends of savages in this place, who came here to study them? ”
Ai Qin sighed and changed the topic, "Alas, I don't know, are they all alive?" ”
"Don't be so pessimistic, they must all be alive!" I replied.
"Yes, they must all be alive." Ai Qin also said to me.
At this time, Ai Qin and Quanzi also inserted our topic, and the fifth child saw that everyone couldn't sleep, so he simply leaned over and chatted with us.
As a result, we chatted until midnight, and when we were about to fall asleep again, suddenly a sound of "coaxing and coaxing" and "grinning" came from the depths of the forest, and we were suddenly startled, and we heard that the formation seemed to be like some thousands of troops and horses were rushing.
The sound lasted for about two minutes before it finally calmed down. Because the sound was far away from our position, I didn't pay too much attention to it, and the two eyelids fought, and I slept with my eyes closed.
When Quanzi woke me up, I was dreaming that Aichen and I were on our honeymoon in the Grand Canyon. This guy disturbed my good dreams, and I sneaked a glare at Quanzi as I crawled out of my sleeping bag.
Quanzi didn't pay attention to me, I thought I was angry when I got up, and yelled at me, "Why are you staring at Lao Tzu, get up and stand guard." ”
"Lao Tzu likes to stare at you."
Quanzi didn't pay attention to me at the moment, and went to sleep in the sleeping bag.
It is normal for me to scold and scold him, and it belongs to the kind of scolding that is more fierce and iron. I got dressed, checked my equipment, added some firewood to the campfire, looked up at the shattered sky obscured by tree branches, and listened to the occasional wolf cry, owl call, and all kinds of birds and insects from a distance, and suddenly I felt a feeling of deep in the animal kingdom, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in my heart, this situation is not something that everyone will experience.
At dawn the next day, a thin layer of white mist floated in the forest, and visibility became very low. A few of us cleaned up and started a new round of searching, and I focused on the side where the voice came from last night.
Sure enough, my guess was correct, and nine times out of ten they came for those things, because it was in this dense forest that I found a path cut with a machete.
The five of us walked along the road they cut out to the depths of the forest, and couldn't help but change the sentence of an old gentleman: There is no road in the world, and the more people who cut it, the road will come out. Although we followed in their footsteps, we were not idle, and kept widening the road. Because the sense of crisis tells us that there will definitely be people injured in them, and there is more than one, we have perfected the retreat route, which can be regarded as preparing for our own future.
After walking for a morning, we walked out of the "forest path", after the dense forest area ended, what appeared in front of us became a towering ancient tree, any one, at least three of us can be hugged together, the density of the trees decreased, but the branches and leaves that shaded the sky made the forest unusually dim.
There is a thick layer of rotting leaves on the ground, and if it is in the afternoon, the rotting leaves will produce a deadly poisonous gas, which is mentioned in many novels.
In addition, there are many poisonous snakes in this rotten leaf, so we became very cautious and walked deeper into the woods step by step. After walking around the woods, the sight suddenly became clear, and to be specific, the scene in front of us was almost impossible to believe our eyes.
Well, I'll admit that we're back in a Jurassic-like era, even though instead of hordes of dinosaurs, we're seeing something else – wild boars.
In the depths of this wood, there are wild boar dens, pig nests made of leaves and branches and thatch, like miniature thatched houses, and they are row after row, so large that you can't see the boundary at a glance.
The ground was covered with rotting leaves and dirt, and there was a huge puddle around which a dozen or so little wild boars were chasing and playing, not noticing our presence or not paying attention to us at all.
The habit of wild boars is mostly to gather in three generations of female wild boars, at most there are only a few dozen, and it is rare for hundreds of them to gather into a herd like in front of us, and the five of us stayed in place, never taking the second step.
"My God, are we here at the second senior brother's hometown?" Ah Fang whispered to the side.
"So, those people are here for these wild boars?" Jeonko said.