The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is continuous, as if it wants to make up for all the rain that has fallen less in the past few years.
You can't hold on like this!
Ren Ning looked around, grabbed a pickaxe, and started digging on the mountain bank.
Youmeng looked at him blankly, "Brother Ning, what are you doing?"
"I don't know how long this rain will last. It's all naked. I have to dig a hole to hide from the rain. Otherwise, the cold can kill people."
"The problem is that the pit is full of water, how to hide?" Youmeng was even more confused.
"After digging in, dig the tunnel diagonally upward."
The eyes of the men who gathered around him brightened up, and they all found tools and started working.
It was just a hasty evacuation, and most people only had a meat-cutting or wood-chopping knife in their hands, which was of no great use. But no one hesitated, and they all worked hard to help dig the soil.
The grassland has been dry for several years, and the hard soil is very difficult to dig. But luckily there were no rocks in the soil, so digging went smoothly.
The human will to survive has always been strong. Two hours later, a dirt cave that could fit about twenty people was dug out.
It rained non-stop, and the tall Youmeng's lips turned white from the cold.
He was a little embarrassed, "Brother Ning, go in and rest. We will do the rest ourselves."
If Ren Ning had only dug his own holes, it wouldn't have taken him two hours. It probably won't take him an hour to finish, and then he can get in and have a nice sleep.
But he didn't, and he kept working hard silently with the Lanmang people.
Youmeng saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.
Ren Ning nodded and did not refuse.
After being soaked in the rain for so long, he was also tired and cold, and the wounds on his body were burning and painful, reminding him of the limits of his body.
Get into the hole quickly.
The cave was dry and there was even a warm earthy smell.
Ren Ning checked around and quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
The numbers displayed on the gold finger are all yellow 0s. Obviously, this "cave dwelling" will not collapse for a while.
He sat down and rested.
After a while, a group of shivering children got into the hole. The older children at the back also dragged in two dirty sheep carcasses, filling the entire "cave dwelling" to the brim.
Ren Ning glanced at them.
The leather shed outside was sewn together in a hurry with animal skins and was not practical. It kept leaking. The old man and the child hiding in the shed are no better than the man standing in the rain, but they have no escape either.
The children were all wet, and their faces were all pale from the cold. After entering, they tried to huddle together to keep each other warm. However, from time to time there were still people chirping and snoring.
"What are you doing? Don't you know it's cold?" Ren Ning took off his clothes and was treating the wounds on his body. He couldn't help shouting: "Why don't you take off your clothes quickly and wipe off the water on your body?"
The boys snorted and Congshan Ruliu immediately undressed and took off his belt.
The girls looked at each other.
"It's already here, why are you so shy?" Ren Ning shook his head speechlessly.
"The boys are facing this way and the girls are facing the other way. Dry yourself and wring out your clothes before putting them on."
"Your fathers and grandfathers let you go into caves to hide from the rain because they wanted you to survive. If you get sick and die, who will care whether you are a boy or a girl or what you look like? Are you worthy of your parents and grandparents outside?"
This is the truth.
The children looked outside worriedly and started busy.
Ren Ning ignored them.
There are not many life-seeking grasses in his hand. Fortunately, except for a few particularly large wounds, most of the other injuries have become scarred. If you squeeze it, the life-seeking grass is barely enough.
It's a pity that there was such a big fire outside just now. It won't be easy to find some life-seeking grass for backup in the future.
Ren Ning carefully applied the medicine and bandaged the hideous wounds again.
After finishing all this, he looked up.
The children had already changed their clothes at some point and were staring at him in amazement.
On the grassland, both men and women have often been riding horses and wrestling since they were young, and they have many scars on their bodies. But they had never seen a person like Ren Ning. His body was covered in tatters and scars, and there was literally no piece of flesh that was smooth.
The bold ones couldn't help but say, "Brother, Yun Chui people often say that people who are killed by a thousand cuts are extremely evil, are they talking about people like you?"
Ahem!
The older child next to him was startled, coughed a few times, and hurriedly came over to cover the kid's mouth.
Ren Ning chuckled and didn't bother to pay attention.
"Don't be in a daze. Find a way to make a fire, both for heating and for barbecue. Your parents and grandparents outside have been exposed to the rain, are cold and hungry, but they can't last long."
After saying that, he ate some of his rations and closed his eyes to rest.
No matter where you are, falling asleep instantly and recuperating your energy is what the soldiers are capable of. He soon fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long it took before Ren Ning woke up.
The small cave dwelling in front of me was filled with choking smoke, mixed with the aroma of barbecue.
The children actually made a fire and were roasting mutton in silence.
Someone finally roasted a piece of meat, and the children around him were croaking with hunger. However, they just looked at it eagerly, but no one said a word.
A little girl about ten years old didn't care about the heat, grabbed the piece of barbecue, and quickly climbed to the entrance of the cave.
She shouted at the rain screen, "Grandpa, my granddaughter roasted mutton. Please stop collecting firewood and come back to eat something to escape the rain."
The little girl shouted several times with a cry, but there was only the sound of heavy rain outside, and no one answered.
After a while, she gave up.
The little girl crawled back with tears streaming down her face and put the meat into the hands of a little boy, "Grandpa can't come back. Little brother, you can eat it."
Ren Ning looked at all this indifferently, and he could figure it out without going out.
The elderly people outside knew that even if Youmeng and the others tried their best, they would not be able to dig enough caves for nearly a hundred people to shelter from the rain, so they took the initiative to leave the leather sheds to collect unburned shrubs or weeds.
Some successfully collected some things and returned, but many more fell hungry and cold on the road or were washed away by floods, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The rainstorm was crazy and kept falling.
Ren Ning, who had had enough rest, also went out to help several times. Everyone worked together and finally dug out two more cave dwellings in the middle of the night, allowing all the remaining Lanmang tribe members to hide in them.
The heavy rain lasted for three days and three nights, and they stayed in the cave for three days and three nights. It wasn't until the morning of the fourth day that the rain slowly weakened and finally stopped.
Ren Ning climbed out.
He raised his head to look at the clear blue sky, then looked down at the grassland that had completely turned into the sea. Listening to the sound of floods in his ears, he suddenly felt that he had traveled through time again.
"Oh my god! We finally survived." Youmeng walked over with swollen eyes open and full of emotions.
"Yes, I finally survived!" Ren Ning nodded.
They say that what cannot be killed becomes stronger. However, as early as yesterday, Youmeng had counted the remaining population of the entire clan.
This statistic made his heart bleed.
The Lanmang tribe, which originally numbered nearly a hundred people, now has less than sixty people left. None of the elderly people showed up again.
"The rain has stopped. Brother Ning, are you leaving?" Youmeng bent down and washed his face in the turbid sewage on the ground.
Ren Ning glanced at him.
It turned out to be a pretty handsome man, not much older than Ren Ning. There's just an obvious scar on the corner of his right eye, which makes him look a little colder and calmer.
Ren Ning did not answer directly, but asked: "What are you going to do?"
"There is nothing left, what else can we do?" You Meng raised his hand and pointed to the south, "I am going to take my people to visit the Kailun tribe over there."
"Their three patriarchs and I have a somewhat fatal relationship. It shouldn't be a problem to borrow some food and some cattle and sheep. I can just pay him back in the future."
"Of course," he sighed, "provided they don't suffer these two disasters."
Ren Ning nodded and looked southward.
The Kailun tribe?
