Chapter 7 The Bear Infested Here
Nanyongguo is one of the southwestern countries of Shenzhou, located in the southwest center, while Linzhou is an important town in the western part of Nanyongguo, which is an important transportation hub and strategic location of the southwestern countries. If you want to go to Chu, you have to cross the Nanyong Kingdom and cross several surrounding countries before you can reach the Chu, a large country in the south.
After Luo Yin said goodbye to Shen Mo, he carried a book basket on his back, walked all the way to the east, crossed the state and county, trekked through mountains and rivers, spent more than a month, and finally came to the eastern border of Nanyongguo.
It was evening and the sun was setting.
Luo Yin came to a small stream, and saw that the sky was slowly starting to darken, and there was no village in front of the village, and there was no shop in the back of the village, and he didn't meet a family after walking for a day, so he decided to rest here for one night and wait for tomorrow morning before he went on his way.
He came to the brook and sat down, put down the bookbasket he was carrying, took off his shoes, and soaked his feet in the water, when a piercing pain hit him. Along the way, the soles of my feet have already worn out blisters several times, and every step is a pain in my heart.
I saw that he took out a needle from the back basket and picked up the blisters on the soles of his feet one by one, and his teeth were about to be crushed in pain.
I've done this several times along the way, and it's a familiar thing to do it again. It's just that the pain is still so painful, and it hasn't diminished at all because of proficiency.
Although he has been a slave in the Shen family over the years, as a scholar of Young Master Shen, he mainly accompanies the young master to study and serves him with food, clothing, housing and transportation, so he has not suffered much. This suddenly, he was alone and searched for immortals, and all kinds of hardships and hardships came one after another.
But when I think about the time when I first crossed into this world, I endured hunger and famine every day, and I had to avoid all kinds of dangers, and now I am much happier, at least I don't have to go hungry.
I brought a lot of money with me, and I was on the road for more than a month, and there were many towns, villages, and market towns on the way to buy food. And even if you come to the wilderness, with your own skills, you can catch a few fish and catch a few game to fill your stomach.
Moreover, because of the experience of starvation when he first came to this world, he always had a lot of dry food on his body. Just because if there is no food on the body, I always feel a faint fear in my heart, and there is a feeling that I will be hungry at any time, which may be the psychological shadow left by starving too much back then.
Shaking his head and no longer thinking about the past, he picked up the cloth shoes at hand and prepared to put them on, but found that the soles of the shoes were about to wear out, and the toe of the shoes had also opened a small opening.
"Hey, this is the second pair of shoes, next time I have to buy a good pair of shoes, and I have to buy a pair to prepare, otherwise if the shoes in the wilderness are broken, I can only walk barefoot." ”
The water of this small stream in front of me is crystal clear, and there are many fish swimming in the water.
"It seems that I don't have to gnaw dry food today" He suddenly became happy, he had eaten dry food for two days, and the bird was about to fade out of his mouth.
He put down his broken shoes, drew the short knife from the book basket, and walked down the stream step by step. Enduring the pain in the soles of his feet, he stood quietly in the stream and did not move, for fear of startling the fish away. I saw the fish swimming around at my feet, unaware of the impending danger. Luo Yin saw the opportunity, and the short knife was slammed down, and a fish was inserted through.
"Hahahaha, there are fish to eat......" Luo Yin slowly walked ashore, temporarily put the fish he caught in the grass, and went into the water to catch two according to the gourd scoop.
Seeing that three fish were enough, he stopped going into the water. He put on his shoes, found some dry grass and dead branches around him, took out the flint and lit a fire. Then he took three branches and lifted the fish, and roasted it on the fire.
Under the roasting of the flame, the fish on the branches slowly changed color, and bursts of aroma came, which made Luo Yin, who had only eaten dry food for many days, moved.
Then he took out an iron box from the book basket, and when he opened it, he put various condiments such as salt and pepper inside. I saw him pinch some with his fingers, carefully sprinkle them on top of the grilled fish, and sprinkle them one after another while grilling. Gradually, the aroma became more and more intense.
Watching the grilled fish gradually finish, I picked up one that was a little cold for a while, and then devoured it. The meat of this mountain fish is delicate and has few spines, and when you cook them yourself, you will want to swallow them on your tongue.
Luo Yin saw that it was getting late, and he had to get up early tomorrow to hurry, so he took out two pieces of clothes from the book basket, one folded as a pillow, and the other was draped on his body as a quilt, and he slept here with the sky as the bed and the ground as the bed.
Early the next morning, as soon as it was dawn, Luo Yin woke up. As yesterday, I made a big meal of grilled fish for breakfast. Then he filled the water bag in the brook, packed his things, put out the fire, and set out on his way.
Three years seems like a long time, but for a journey of 50,000 miles, it is also quite urgent. When he set out, he had calculated that he would have to walk at least fifty miles a day when he was in a hurry.
In addition, it is inevitable that people will encounter unexpected situations such as illness and injury, which will also delay a lot of time. In addition, if you encounter a place where you have to go over mountains and mountains, it is good to be able to walk more than ten miles a day.
All things considered, he had to walk sixty or seventy miles every day.
Therefore, since this time, he has set off at dawn every day and stopped to rest in the evening when the sun sets. For a month, day by day, although the body was exhausted, but with perseverance all the way through.
A few more days passed, in the evening.
Luo Yin trudged through a dense wood, holding a branch as a crutch, and walked with difficulty step by step. Behind him, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on him through the dense foliage of the trees, leaving a long oblique shadow.
"The sun is about to set, you have to get out of this forest quickly, otherwise there will be many poisonous insects and beasts in this forest at night. He muttered to himself as he thought of the dangers he had heard of for a night in the woods.
Time passed little by little, and the sky became darker and darker, Luo Yin finally climbed to the top of the hill in front of him, and then found the tallest tree and climbed the mountain, looking up from the top of the tree.
"Hey, I thought I could go out today, but who knew that this forest is really vast, and there are still dozens of miles of mountains and forests behind the mountain to the end, it seems that I have to spend the night in the forest tonight. With this in mind, he began to look around for a place to spend the night.
After going around the hill, a cave was found behind the hillside.
The cave is a great place to rest at night, shelter from the wind and rain, and at the same time defend against the wild beasts of the forest and hide from danger.
I remember that a certain novel I read in my previous life seemed to say that you can't enter the cave randomly, otherwise it will be tragic to encounter a beast or be blocked by a beast at the entrance of the cave. Therefore, Luo Yin cautiously walked to the entrance of the cave and looked carefully.
He opened the grass in front of the door and saw several paw prints the size of a palm on the dirt. At this time, a gust of wind blew, and a fishy smell came into the mouth and nose, making people feel sick and vomit.
These signs were telling him that the cave had an owner.
"I don't know what kind of beast lives in the cave, if it's a tiger or a bear who is blind, then it's miserable. Thinking of this, he slowly retreated, for fear of alarming the beasts in the cave.
He had just taken a few steps back when he suddenly heard the sound of a tree branch breaking behind him, and a sense of danger suddenly welled up in his heart.
He turned his head sharply, only to see a huge black shadow quietly approaching under the dimly lit tree.
The black shadow saw that the prey had discovered its movements, and no longer hidden, and rushed towards Luo Yin like a swift wind under his feet.
It was only then that Luo Yin Fang saw clearly that this was a giant bear!
Its massive body was as terrifying as a mountain, and at the same time, it was so fast that it was not at all like that of such a behemoth.
Luo Yin suddenly saw the giant bear attacking, and there was a panic in his heart, so frightened that his legs softened and his heart felt cold.
The giant bear was stunned when he saw his prey, his eyes flashed with bloodlust, and he opened his huge mouth and let out an earth-shattering roar.
Startled by the roar, Luo Yin came to his senses, and the giant beast in his eyes was only a few feet away from him.
He raised his hand and threw the branch in his hand at the beast, then turned sharply, and climbed up the tree beside him like a monkey in three steps and two steps.
By this time, the giant bear had already rushed to its feet and slammed into the tree, shaking the thigh-thick tree for a while.
As soon as Luo Yin's hand was loosened, the whole person slid down a lot, but fortunately, he used all his strength to hold on to the trunk tightly in an emergency, so that he did not slide to the bottom once.
And the giant bear saw the prey slip down, stretched out its claws and swept up, and the claws instantly cut several blood marks on Luo Yin's buttocks, and the blood gushed out and dyed his pants bright red.
Luo Yin only felt a pain in his buttocks, and when he looked down, he saw that he had been swept by the giant bear, and he had already hung the color. At the same time, seeing that the giant bear raised its paws again, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly hugged the trunk of the tree and climbed up.
Seeing that its prey was climbing higher and higher, the giant bear roared angrily, and took a few steps back and crashed into the tree. After doing this a few times, all I could hear was the crackling sound of the tree.
Hearing this voice, Luo Yin was frightened for a while, and understood that the big tree was about to be broken, and he had to hurry up and find a way, otherwise he would die if he fell.
In the midst of the crisis, Luo Yin had a flash of inspiration and thought of a solution. I have a box of spices in my back basket, which may be used to deal with the giant beast under the tree.
I saw him hugging the tree tightly with one hand, and leaning into the basket behind him with the other. I only got a few pieces of clothing and threw them down.
When the bear saw something floating down from the tree, he stretched out his claws and tore the clothes to shreds. As soon as I finished tearing it, I saw that there were books, iron pots, and so on falling in a mess. Sensing that the majesty of his lord of the forest had been challenged, the bear waved his giant palm and slammed the falling objects into the air.
At this time, an iron box was dropped by the prey on the tree, and the giant bear slapped it with the same palm as last time. However, before I could shoot it, I saw the box open in the air, and a pile of powdery things floated down. The giant bear, staring at its prey with wide eyes, was dumbfounded by the powder.
Roar!
A terrible scream suddenly resounded throughout the woods, and the giant bear covered its eyes and roared miserably, rolling on the ground, and the surrounding weeds and shrubs were razed to the ground by its huge body.
Luo Yin looked at the miserable situation of the giant bear, and laughed on the tree: "Xiong Er, how does the master's pepper bomb taste......?
He wantonly laughed at the miserable giant bear at his feet, and completely forgot the ugly thing he was chased up the tree, and was so happy that he forgot the pain in his buttocks......
Unfortunately, the giant bear heard his laughter, roared angrily, closed his eyes, and slammed into the place where the sound came from, and the whole tree shook violently, and it was about to collapse when he saw it......