I was awakened by a sound of rustling. When I opened my eyes, I saw Li Dabao climbing up from below.
There was a look of exhaustion on his face, and Leng Yue was still there in the room.
I asked him what was wrong.
Li Dabao wiped his face and said, "You slept so hard, didn't you hear it's raining outside?"
"I'll come in and rest for a while. Let's wait until the rain stops before setting off. There's rhubarb down there, so it's not a big problem...!"
I just opened my eyes and my mind was still in a state of confusion.
Seeing Li Dabao fall down to sleep directly after coming in, I also lay down again and wanted to continue sleeping.
But after lying down, I couldn't fall asleep. I wonder if it was because no one was on duty, so I still felt a little insecure.
I thought about it for a long time, but in the end I didn't fall asleep. On the contrary, I didn't feel sleepy at all.
I simply stopped sleeping, got up and sat at the door of the wooden house, staring at the patter of rain outside in a daze.
The rain in the forest was also very strange. It came and went quickly. It took about two hours for the rain to stop.
I looked at the time on my watch and found that it was already early nine o'clock, so I told Li Dabao to get up and go on his way.
Li Dabao was a little reluctant at first, but when I told him that when he got to the place, he would be asked to choose the underworld weapon first, he immediately sat up like a carp.
In the forest where it had just rained, the air was filled with a post-rain fragrance, and the ground began to become muddy. However, you could occasionally see some small animals swooping past, making the big yellow dog bark in surprise. stand up.
After continuing to follow Dahuang to the south and west for more than two hours, Dahuang stopped and barked several times toward a place, then stood in front of us and walked in circles, and finally lay down without moving.
Seeing Dahuang's move, I turned to look at Li Dabao.
"Why, is this what Granny Ka calls the inner ring?"
Li Dabao snorted and said, "This beast doesn't want to go any further. He told us to keep going in this direction until there is no more road, and then we can figure out the rest by ourselves."
As he spoke, he took out the rabbit meat that he had not eaten yesterday and threw it to Dahuang who was squatting on the ground.
"Eat, you'll be ready to go on the road when you're full..."
"Go back and tell your monster master that your mission has been completed. Wait for our triumphant return...!"
The way Li Dabao touched Da Huang's head looked very much like Da Huang's owner.
Dahuang no longer grinned at Li Dabao, but squatted there obediently and ate rabbit meat.
After eating and drinking, Rhubarb barked in one direction again, then wagged its tail and prepared to go back.
After taking two steps, he stopped and looked at us. Li Dabao smiled and scolded: "Don't worry about the rabbit meat I have left. Hurry up and wait until I go back to bring you better game..."
That Dahuang was really understanding of human nature. After being scolded by Li Dabao, he disappeared from our sight without looking back.
The surrounding scene is still the same except that there are more flowers and plants.
If there is something different, perhaps it is that the further you go inside, the more towering the trees become, and less and less light comes through. If you don’t have a compass at this moment, it is easy to get completely lost in this endless world. In the vast mountains.
As we continued to go deeper into the hinterland, the path under our feet became narrower and narrower. For this reason, Li Dabao even scolded Dahuang for not doing something good before leaving.
I smiled and said, "Li Dabao, you're almost done. Rhubarb is a dog, not a GPS satellite. It would be nice to have a road in this deep mountain and old forest."
So as we continued to move forward, the surrounding mountains became higher and higher, and in the end there was really no way to go.
In the end, we had no choice but to find some wider tree gaps and groped our way through the forest.
This kind of aimless walking adventure is the most torturous. As for the clues Granny Ka said, who knows if they can be found in the year of the monkey, horse and month.
So I told them both to quickly find the highest mountain nearby. I wanted to check the situation of the surrounding mountains.
Although my Feng Shui attainments are not very good, they are still more practical than this kind of blind man trying to figure out the elephant.
We made many twists and turns in the forest, but in the end we did not reach the so-called highest mountain peak even with a compass. Every time we reached the end, there was either a deep pit or a cliff, which made Li Dabao complain repeatedly.
Even the mule we were holding had small wounds on its body from some thorns and vines, which made the mule howl in pain.
"Okay, you bastard, stop moaning and screaming. I don't know, I thought your grandma was in heat."
Li Dabao panted and patted the mule's butt, then found a fallen tree and sat down.
"No, let's take a break. It's not a good idea to walk like this. Master Bao, I'm exhausted. I can't walk at all."
I looked around at the surrounding environment and found that the dense branches and leaves of the surrounding trees blocked the sky. When I looked up, I basically couldn't see the so-called sky.
I said: "We seem to have gone deep into the hinterland of the primeval forest of Shiwanda Mountain. There is not much space here. Dabao, please insist that we continue to move forward and see if we can find a cave to rest."
Li Dabao waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Come on, Master Bao, I can't survive. I'm so panicked that I can't walk a little..."
After saying that, he put down his backpack and took out a bottle of strong wine from it like magic.
When I saw Jinjiu, I was dumbfounded.
I saw Li Dabao unscrewing the bottle of Jinjiu and taking a big gulp directly to the mouth of the bottle.
"ha……"
"It's really exciting, comfortable, and a good thing..."
"Jiuri, do you want to have some together?"
As he said this, Li Dabao handed me the remaining half of the bottle of strong wine.
I took it and took a sip. The spicy and exciting taste made me feel bad all over.
I really couldn't get used to drinking this kind of traditional Chinese medicine wine, so I casually gave it back to Li Dabao.
Li Dabao smiled and said, "I don't know how to enjoy it."
Seeing Li Dabao pouring strong wine into his stomach, I asked him why he came out with these things.
Li Dabao said: "This is a tradition left by Old Biden. Drinking can not only relieve fatigue, but also strengthen courage. It can also deal with zombies at critical moments."
While he was talking, half of the bottle of strong wine was left.
I quickly stopped Li Dabao and said, "Although strong wine is good, don't drink too much!"
Unexpectedly, Li Dabao pointed to one of the waterproof bags on the mule and said, "It's okay, there are several bottles inside...!"
"Also, after opening this powerful wine, it will lose its taste if you don't drink for a long time..."
With that said, Li Dabao threw the bottle of strong wine aside as he took the last sip from his neck.
Then he touched his belly and burped.
"Ah...! It feels so comfortable..."
"It would be nice if I had some peanuts or something. It would be better to have some cucumbers and preserved eggs..."
Seeing that Li Dabao had begun to fantasize, I didn't pay attention to him, but began to pay attention to my surroundings.
As I looked at it, I could clearly feel that something was wrong.
Judging from the surrounding terrain, we should be in a valley with relatively gentle terrain. We can guess this from the cliffs we passed just now.
At the same time, because there are so many types of plants here, the vegetation is relatively lush compared to other places.
The reason for this is actually very easy to know. This is because there must be more water in the valley than in other places.
That's why all kinds of flowers, plants, and trees around it grow very densely, so densely that it's even a bit weird.
But it was precisely because of these seemingly normal scenes that I noticed an unusual problem.
Normally, in a place with dense vegetation like this, there must be many wild animals. Even if there are no wild animals, there will be some insects and birds.
But after several hours of our long journey, I discovered that since we parted ways with Dahuang, or since we took a detour, we had completely entered the depths of the jungle.
It seemed that no animal activity was seen anymore, and even some of the shriveled feces that were everywhere when we first came in were gone.
What is even more strange is that in the originally chirping mountain forest, apart from the slight sound of wind blowing through the trees, other sounds can be heard at this moment.
I was about to open my mouth to ask them two questions, but Leng Yue leaned against a tree and spoke first.
"Have you noticed anything is wrong around you?"
Li Dabao's mind was not focused on this at all, and he said casually: "What's wrong? The environment is beautiful and there are no wild beasts to disturb you. It's a good time to rest."
I stepped forward and patted Li Dabao and said, "No, we haven't heard those chirping sounds for a long time. This is very unusual in the entire mountains and jungles."
"This is totally unreasonable. Dabao, has this happened to you in the old forests of Northeast China?"
Perhaps my reminder had some effect. Li Dabao, who was originally going to lie down and rest, also sat up.
He first looked around at his surroundings, and then, very comically, he leaned his ear against one of the big trees and listened.
Finally, his face also changed slightly.
"Oh my god, it's really weird..."
I asked him what was wrong, had he discovered anything?
Li Dabao frowned and shook his head: "This kind of situation is usually rare, but if it happens, there is only one possibility."
"What's possible? Don't tell me if you can keep half of it or not?" I urged.
"Why are you panicking? I'm a little dizzy after drinking. I won't be able to remember for a while. Just wait a minute..."
But just when Li Dabao asked me to wait, Leng Yue said: "In this primitive forest, there is something that can restrain all living creatures!"
"Ah! Yes...that's right!"
Li Dabao slapped his forehead and said, "Sister, you are right. I was just thinking about it."
While speaking, Li Dabao also added something to Leng Yue's words.
"If there is no movement from the people around, there must be something that can restrain the factors here. This thing can be an animal or something else!"
