Chapter 43: Who Knocks at the Door at Night?
According to the old hunters in the hunting party, the valley was very unsafe at night, so when it got dark, they closed the hollow of the tree. And found two thick logs against the wooden door, and a thick wooden latch was placed in the middle.
Poryu specifically instructed a few newcomers not to go out at night.
The people of the hunting team skewered the Tianhuang truffles handed over by Gongliang on the branches of the tree, and roasted them with animal oil. After a while, a fresh fragrance wafted out. The early baked Feng Han couldn't wait to take a bite, and it was so hot that he screamed, but the delicious taste in his mouth suddenly made him forget the feeling of being burned.
After eating up the Tianhuang truffle in a flash, Yu Han rolled his eyes and asked Gongliang with a shy face: "Ah Liang, is there any such thing?"
Gongliang glanced at him, pointed to the boiling helmet iron pot and said, "There is it inside, I'll eat it later." ”
Yu Han looked at the basket next to him, and there was obviously a pile in it. Yuan Rolling noticed his eyes, and the fangs of the food guard roared at him. Yu Han naturally wouldn't take this big beast in his eyes, but Gongliang didn't take it out, and he didn't have the cheekiness to ask for it. As soon as the white-scaled fish was cooked, he took a grilled fish and ate it. After eating this, he found that the taste of the white-scaled fish was not inferior to the Tianhuang truffle, and he immediately forgot all about the Tianhuang truffle and buried his head in eating.
Gongliang also picked up a grilled fish and ate it.
An old hunter is an old hunter, and he is very thoughtful. I know that the skin will be blackened when grilled, so I don't need to remove the scales at all, just wait for the grill to lightly scratch with something, and the scales will peel off in pieces, revealing the white and transparent flesh inside. When you bite into it, it's sweet and tender, and you don't need to add anything to it, it's a natural delicacy.
"Whoa"
The greedy round man had just finished eating the yellow truffle, and when he saw him eating fish, he screamed again.
He glanced at the little guy with a mouthful of oil angrily, cut a small half of the fish with a knife and gave it to him, and then buried his head in the head and hummed and ate it there.
After a while, the meat of the beast was ready, and the soup of the yellow truffle and the bones of the beast was also ready. Gongliang ate fish, barbecue, and drank soup while eating it, and the taste was really incomparable to that of the gods.
Grilled fish, barbecued meat, bone truffle soup, everyone ate happily and drank to their heart's content.
Suddenly, there was a sound of "snorting" outside and scratching the wooden door. After a while, the sound died down, and there was another loud knock on the door. I don't know what's going on outside, so I was so surprised that I wanted to open the door and take a look. It's just that the old hunters of the hunting team didn't make a sound, and even the sound of eating was a little softer, and the atmosphere became solemn. He hurriedly slowed down his movements and put the doubts in his stomach. Only the round guy is still not heartless, munching on food.
This night was destined to be sleepless, Gongliang leaned against the tree wall and squinted to rest, and specially counted the knocks on the door, there were more than a dozen of them, each sound was different, and I didn't know what was knocking.
He remembered that he didn't see any animals during the day, so why did there increase them at night?
I got up early the next morning and walked out of the tree hole. Gongliang was surprised to find that the bull-headed fire bee sting that was originally tied to the wooden door had disappeared completely, not only that, but even the corpse of the bull-headed fire bee that was laid on the ground was gone, probably dragged by something that knocked on the door yesterday and ate it. In view of the knocking sound at the door last night, he deliberately observed the ground at the entrance of the tree hole, and saw countless footprints, large and small, of all kinds.
"Uncle Dashi, why are there so many beasts in the valley?" Gongliang asked Dashi as he looked at the footprints.
"It's not just wild beasts, there are some very big bugs, don't look at yesterday's bull-headed fire bees, but some are bigger, bigger than your little beasts. ”
Gongliang glanced at the fat round and couldn't believe it: "There are such big bugs." ”
"That's something you haven't seen before. When I was hunting before, I saw a big insect crawling on the mountain wall, about this long, so big, with dense feet, very scary. ”
Dashi gestured with his hands, and saw that Gongliang would be suspicious. According to him, the worm must be five or six meters wide and twenty or thirty meters long, do you think he is talking about a fantasy? Seeing that Gongliang didn't believe it, Dashi hurriedly explained, until Gongliang reluctantly believed it.
After breakfast, the hunting team continued to set off.
Further on, the scenery in the valley is once again and again, there are no mushroom forests, no giant trees, no flowers, only a very ordinary low forest.
The woods are so rich in herbs that it is here that the hunting team begins to collect them. This time, instead of picking only a part of the herb as before, we took the whole plant. Gongliang and a few newcomers knew a few trees, and they also helped pick them. After about an hour, a large tree with broad roots appeared in front of me blocking the way.
The large trees resemble willows and emit a faint glow in the dull valley. Its side roots radiate as wide as an old banyan tree, and a tree resembles a forest.
The tiny roots of the trees are also fluorescent, fluttering gently in the breeze, like the neon lights of the city, sparkling and shining, which is very beautiful.
When they arrived, Kang Lang and Pa Yan took out an animal skin coat from behind their backs and covered their bodies tightly. The exposed eyes also seem to have something attached to them, almost transparent.
"Be careful. Wave Ryu said to the two.
"Yes. ”
The two of them answered, and walked towards the tree. The speed is very slow, as if a person walking has been slowed down countless times, and it hurts to watch.
"Uncle Dashi, why are they walking so slowly. Gongliang asked.
"You don't know, this tree is a man-eating tree, and there are a lot of hairy seeds on the tree, and if you move too much to drive the wind, the seeds on it will float down and stick to your body. If they accidentally touch the exposed body parts, the seeds will take root and sprout on the body, absorbing the essence of flesh and blood from the human body until they turn into a pile of white bones. ”
Hearing his words, Gongliang, Feng Han, and Jin glanced at each other, their hearts were full of Maomao feelings, and they couldn't help but move slightly under their feet, and took a few steps back, for fear of being touched by Maomao seeds falling from the tree.
Without driving the wind, Kang Lang and Pa Yan walked through the layers of tree whiskers, slowly walked towards the big tree, and gradually came to the root of the tree.
The goal of their trip was to parasitize the roots of the tree, a kind of crystal clear ice crystal jade dew that resembles water droplets, but layers of ice crystal jade dew like lotus platforms. When they arrived at the place, they hurriedly dug up, and they didn't dig much, but they dug three lamps and quickly withdrew from the range of the cannibal tree.
Wave Ryu stepped forward to take the ice crystal jade dew from their hands.
Others also stepped forward to help them take off their skins and clothes, and check them for seeds from the man-eating tree.
Bo Ryu came to Gongliang and the other three with the ice crystal jade dew, and each of them sent one, "One of you guys, eat it quickly, you can eat as much as you can, don't force it if you can't eat it." ”