We were very close to the edge of the rainforest. The grass under our feet was wetter than other places, and it had gradually climbed up to Ayun's calves. The soil is also softer and makes a slight crunching sound when stepped on. There are also more obstacles in the grass, most of which are strange ferns growing sideways or weirdly winding thin tree roots.
Walking became more and more difficult, as if the grass outside was a thick green swamp, and the rainforest surrounded by trees that reached straight to the sky was the land rising from the swamp.
There were only a few dozen steps left from the edge of the rainforest. The grass that originally only reached her calf had already covered A-Yun's thigh. She was a little uneasy. Although she knew that the touches touching her skin were just blades of grass, she still couldn't help it. Think about whether it could be bugs.
Submerged in the grass, there is a bright green rainforest in front of you. Ayun swallowed. The surrounding grass seemed to be a hunting net hidden under the soil. As long as she took another step closer to the rainforest, the green and soft hunting net would instantly close and trap her.
Complete the transformation from human to prey.
Sweat dropped on his forehead, and there was a numbing feeling extending from the top of his head to his back, which sounded like excitement and fear. She held the wooden spear tightly and approached the rain forest at a slower speed. This nervous feeling seemed to take Ayun back to a month ago, when she was thrown out of the settlement. Yes, she had only been away for a month, how could she seem so unfamiliar with the rainforest?
Sweat almost overflowed from the palms of my hands and dripped down to the soil. The memory of crawling and rolling in the rainforest a month ago surged out with silt and river sand from the long-silent river bed.
Ayun didn't particularly remember how many days she stayed in the rainforest. If she was counting the pain, she felt it was a lifetime. Compared with hunger and being unable to sleep, what tortured Ayun more was the ubiquitous sound.
The sound of birds chirping, the sound of footsteps, the sound of leaves rubbing against each other, the sound of water roaring, the roar of huge objects, the noise of birds flapping their wings and flying away, the sound of shells clashing
These sounds are mixed together like an overfilled iron shopping cart, which keeps hitting the wall. Time and time again, bloodshot threads are driven up from the deepest part of the body by the noise and cling to the spine, with red tentacles like parasites. They also covered the whites of their eyes.
When she was trying to escape the rainforest a month ago, she barely slept. At that time, as long as there was a sound, she would tremble and huddle in a hidden place, waiting for the sound to weaken or disappear, but it would take a long, long time. Being bitten by bugs or being chased by some strange creatures is commonplace. Thanks to this, Ayun was forced to learn to climb trees while crawling in the rain forest and climbed very well. The reason why I was able to hang meat and organs high in the tree was thanks to the training I received at this time.
When she was thrown into the rainforest, Ayun had thoughts of committing suicide. After sleeping for less than 3 hours for three consecutive days, she collapsed to the point where she kept banging her head against a big tree, determined to die. Yes, but unfortunately this method itself is rather lame. Under severe pain, the brain began to notify every cell in the body to resist A-Yun's decision. After less than three impacts, A-Yun covered his face and fell to the ground.
The blood flowed down from the dirty hair, slid down to the cheek, and then lightly touched the corner of the mouth. It smells so disgusting... Ayun lay on the ground dizzy. She covered the wound with her hands and curled up again.
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Fortunately, she escaped. Although her current life cannot be said to be particularly good, it can be regarded as progress in stages. Ayun changed the wooden spear to another hand, wiped the sweat from his palms, and continued walking towards the edge of the rain forest.
She stretched out her spear and moved forward to explore the path. She first pushed aside the grass to confirm the situation, and then walked forward slowly. Every step is taken very carefully and conscientiously.
The fragrant and hot and humid breath became stronger and stronger, floating in the wind and exploding at the tip of Ayun's nose. The familiar noises became louder and louder, and Ayun instinctively felt scared. The days she spent in the rainforest were too profound for her, and she could not straighten out her mentality immediately.
It was better to walk along the edge first and get to the small stream where Tisso took her. She could bring some food back to eat.
However, Ayun was still a bit too new. Walking in the tall grass was very tiring and she was always cautious and tense. She started to pant before walking half a kilometer. The ground in the grass is already
"Huh..." She held her wooden spear and stood leaning in the grass to rest. She looked like a middle-aged man who was too tired to walk in the rest area of a tourist attraction. It was still early, so Ayun swished a few times, pulling out some of the grass around him, then flattening it, and sat down in this man-made depression to rest.
She took out a thin slice and a few fruits from her pocket, quickly threw them into her mouth, chewed them and swallowed them to replenish her strength. The surrounding grass is like a natural curtain, surrounding Ayun airtightly inside. A coincidence happened... Not long after Ayun sat down to rest, a voice came from afar.
Very loud, as if calling for companions. Ayun could understand a little bit, and it was basically saying, "Over there, yes, in the cave." Ayun thought for a while, and then slowly poked her head in. She could only reveal her eyes and look in the direction of the sound. Near the wreckage, there were two tall locals waving and calling into the rainforest.
Not long after, another person came out. The person Ayun knew was one of the guys who had a brief conflict with Tisuo before.
After they met, their voices became so quiet that Ayun couldn't hear them. But she couldn't help but associate it with "in the cave", and the three of them started walking in the direction of Green Slope after they met. Then he must be looking for her.
Ayun was panicking. Should she be grateful that she decided to explore the rainforest, or should she regret not bringing out all the important things in the cave? Her coat, all her accumulation... What were these people doing in her cave? Ayun didn't dare to think about it in detail, since they were all negative anyway.
Are these people from the same settlement as Tisuo? There is little uniformity in dress, nor in skin color and appearance. If they were from a hostile community, that would be unreasonable. It would be understandable if they had to enter other people's territory because they were chasing injured prey. But what is the point of walking around leisurely like visiting a park in broad daylight?
However... one possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, Tisuo's settlement is actually a relatively weak settlement, so enemies can only tolerate it if they enter the territory to hunt or take a walk at will. It doesn't make sense, last time Tisuo reached out and pushed one of those people, and they didn't seem to dare resist Tisuo.
The social structure of these savages is really a mystery...
She retracted into the depression and hid, what should we do? Are these people really going to her cave, or are there other caves in that direction?
Ayun knew that to these savages, he was a deformed child, a strange and even deviant being, but now he was thinking about whether it was a little too late to kill her... No, not too late.
At first she did not pose any threat to these savages or hinder their lives. But things are different now, Tiso...yes, Tiso.
Judging from Tisuo's body shape, movements and sense of strength, Tisuo must be an excellent hunter in the settlement, but what has Tisuo done in the past few days? He ran over to find her again and again! The encounter at the bone remains a few days ago must have been the same. It must have been someone from the same tribe who warned Tisuo not to neglect his duties.
What now? Tisuo stayed up all night and got carried away playing with her on the green slope. If Ayun is equivalent to some kind of deformity and unknown object that should not appear in the ethnic group in the religious beliefs of the locals... then her situation may have become dangerous because of her cheap tether.
Why does the originally obedient and powerful hunter in the settlement no longer obey orders? Because he was seduced by the deformed witch in the cave. In order to save the hunter from the hands of the witch, the only choice is to completely eradicate the witch!
Well... forget it. After finishing the script, Ayun suddenly became free and easy.
These people already knew where they lived, and her coordinates were exposed from the beginning. Now that someone is coming to your door, you can only blame yourself for not being covert enough. I'm just glad that I'm not in the cave now. Personal safety is the most important thing.
The most important thing to her in the cave was the food, but she had completely mastered how to pick and prepare it, and she would make it after they took it away. So are fences and wooden gates. The only pity is the coat and some modern things. Although these things are not of great use, they are like a small spiritual support for Ayun.
But take it away, just take it away, as long as she is fine.
The tougher question might be whether she can go back to the cave tonight? They had to go back, and it was impossible for this group of locals to stay out all night. Even if Tisuo only spent one night and clamored to go back, it proved that it was a custom to return to the settlement at night.
If they can't find anyone or they finish causing trouble, they will definitely go back. Ayun comforted himself. At worst, he would just find a tree hole or a high tree branch to sleep in the rain forest like before, and then go back tomorrow morning. After resting, Ayun began to move forward according to the previously planned route.
A few dozen minutes later, she arrived at the entrance where she had taken yesterday's water. The reason she remembered it so clearly was because Ayun had marked the edge of the rainforest when she came here before. She drew a small mark on a certain tree. Follow this tree into the rainforest, go straight one hundred steps for Tisuo, eight hundred steps for her, and you should be able to see a trickle of water.
As she walked, she was still looking for any tree holes or branches suitable for spending the night. The dense woods and the explosively growing giant ferns slowly receded. Ayun walking among these plants was like a toy figure in a miniature landscape being put into the green belt, with strong tree roots rising from the soil. , like the back of a crocodile in a swamp, covered with thick moss.
The moss in the rainforest is so thick that if Ayun steps on it, he will leave a puddle. Insects were scurrying around, and she had to wave the wooden spear to keep driving them away. By the way, she killed several strange insects as big as her feet. Ayun pulled out the tentacles or tentacles of their silhouettes? Put it in your bag and feel that it will come in handy one day.
After walking forward for about 300 steps, Ayun found a thick tree. There was a tree hole about three meters above the ground. It was visually large enough for her to get into, but she didn't know what was inside. How big the space is. Ayun circled the tree twice. She couldn't hold the trunk of this tree by herself, so if she could squeeze into the tree hole above, she would definitely be able to make do with it for one night.
First, we still need to see if there are any indigenous people in the cave. Ayun stuck the wooden spear on the ground, rubbed her hands, hugged the tree trunk and ran up with her hands and feet like a monkey. The three meters were not particularly difficult for her, and she arrived at the entrance of the tree hole in ten minutes. There is a strong earthy smell inside the tree hole.
The space was quite large, and with the sunlight slanting in, Ayun looked at the bottom of the tree hole, and then at the top. It was about a meter high, so it was quite big. There is a lot of sedimented soil inside, and some small weeds grow there. There may be animal feces in the sedimented soil, but it was all from a long time ago and there is nothing fresh.
This is a tree hole that has been abandoned for unknown reasons, probably because the hole is too large and is not suitable for small animals with high needs for concealment. Ayun returned to the ground in a few seconds and stayed here tonight.
She herself was a little amazed at her free and easy manner, how should I put it... After living in Green Po for a while, her mentality improved a little! I finally adjusted my radio frequency to a point where I wouldn't cry and yell that I would hit a tree and die as soon as I entered the rainforest.
She began to quickly collect materials around to make a simple door to cover the entrance of the tree hole. She had often done this before, but at that time, because people's brains were still in tatters, she could only use big leaves to knead them into a piece. Tuan, covering the hole like a napkin stuffed into the mouth of a Coke bottle.
It's different now, she wants to make a simple but practical and sturdy door above the horizontal line!
First of all, leaves, sticks and vines are naturally an indispensable combination. They are very common in the rain forest, so it didn't take much effort for Ayun to get enough materials.
Based on the size of the tree hole, Ayun folded the stick in half and split it about 20 centimeters. This length and width were just enough to pass through the tree hole.
After the wooden sticks are arranged, sew them through the top of the broad leaf, just like sewing clothes, with one stitch outside and one inside, and then use the wooden stick to pass through the lower end of the broad leaf in this way.
Similar to a leaf scroll, after having the top and bottom, there are left and right. The leaves are like a canvas framed by four wooden sticks, but this is not strong enough. Ayun will wrap thin vines around the contact points of each wooden stick. A few turns to secure. A leaf frame is ready...
Ayun tied the picture frame with vines, then tied it around her body several times. Carrying the picture frame on her back, she came to the tree hole again. She took off the leaf frame door from her back and tilted it slightly. After stuffing it into the tree hole, she adjusted the direction with her hands and covered the tree hole from the inside.
very perfect!
