The place to stay was ready. Ayun also used a wooden spear to drive away the insects in and around the tree hole, clean out the mud inside, and spread some leaves picked from the branches outside. Such a The single rooms of the temporary Shudong Youth Hostel are now available for sale.
She sealed the tree hole from the inside with her own delicate door and returned to the ground. The next step is to make a mark. In the rainforest, if you turn your head and take only two steps, you will get lost. First, I made a small circle with stones on the ground, then inserted a wooden stick into the nearby moss, and tied some dots on the head of the stick. Tree vine.
After making a mark near the tree hole, she began to slowly explore forward. Every few steps she would wrap stones with leaves or throw short wooden sticks on the ground to mark them. After walking slowly for about a hundred steps, Ayun is tired again...
The road in the rain forest is even more difficult to walk. The vegetation on the edge of the rain forest is still within the control range. The soil becomes moister as you go inside, and the dark brown soil turns into a very deep black. The plants growing on these black soil are As if taking an overdose of hormones, the leaves of the bushes and ferns are getting bigger and bigger, and the leaves of the shrubs and ferns are almost the size of a small bed, and the branches are stretched too much.
There were many palm-sized insects hanging under those huge leaves. Ayun did not dare to take a closer look, and had no intention of disturbing unfamiliar animals.
There were too many obstacles on the road, and he couldn't feel it at all when he was riding on Tisuo's shoulders last time... As he ran, he used his hands to tear up all the leaves and other things in front of him. Damn it, why is he so strong? Ayun lamented the unfair fate and sat on a nearby raised tree root.
As soon as she sat down, she jumped up like a spring. What looked like mud on the roots of the tree was not mud at all! What kind of soft insect is it? !
She took a few steps back in a panic, staring at the thing that she had flattened... It looked a bit like the skin of a slug, about as long as a forearm, and she couldn't tell the head from the tail. In short, there was a brush-like explosion at one end. tentacles? The thing was now drooping lifelessly.
After looking carefully, Ayun felt that his whole scalp was numb. What she thought was a "protruding tree root" was moving very slowly, and the little slug she sat on was just a larvae attached to a larger insect. And there's not just one, everything that looks like dirt on the "roots" is actually a soft-bodied insect the size of an arm.
After a brief squirming, the "roots" began to move forward slowly, dragging the fallen leaves on the ground with a sticky, numbing rustling sound.
Ayun moved slowly backwards with stiff hands and feet. Fortunately, the huge rootworm did not look aggressive. As Ayun watched, the huge bug gradually disappeared into the bushes, leaving a sticky and astringent paste on the ground where it crawled away.
I feel a little regretful, why not hide in the tree hole now and stay there until the next morning? Ayun's hands holding the wooden spear were sweating wildly. She was afraid that if she continued to move forward, she would accidentally encounter some camouflaged insects or wild beasts. Is it too hasty? Should we act more carefully...
By the way, act more carefully! !
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Ayun squatted on the ground, sweating profusely in front of a pile of leaves. After realizing that she was not careful enough... that is, she did not have a tactical concealment jungle jacket, she planned to make a leaf hat on the spot. Before the cave There was such a thing inside, but she didn't bring it over.
The leaves in the rainforest were so wide and thick that it was difficult to string them together and drape them around her body, so she had to spend time looking for smaller leaves. But the smallest leaves in this rain forest are as big as banana leaves... Ayun thought for a long time and decided to tear the huge leaves into strips, but not separate them from the stems, similar to the advertisements posted on the wire poles, with the phone number below It will be divided into strips for pedestrians to tear off and take away.
After tearing off a leaf, she raised a stone and started to hit the stem of the leaf to soften it so that it could be bent. After beating for about ten minutes, it felt soft enough. Ayun wrapped the leaf strips around his shoulders, and the effect was pretty good. I made a few more gourds in the same way, then connected them with vines like mahjong mats and draped them on my back.
Then Ayun found some relatively small ferns and dead grass leaves, and connected them with vines to make something like a grass crown and put it on his head.
Very good, now I may have completely integrated into this forest. She adjusted her crown and the leaf coat on her shoulders.
Lying on the ground, it was like a large, pathetic leaf that had lost its nutrients and fallen from a tree branch. Lying on the trunk, it's like a fern trying to steal sunlight from the bottom up.
Ayun's rainforest camouflage jacket is undoubtedly the most outstanding one among the simple productions.
After she put on the camouflage leaf clothes, she felt much more confident, and she immediately stepped out of the shadow where her hands and feet were stiff due to the giant mollusk. On the way down, once she noticed any strange sound, she would lie down on the ground motionless. After the sound subsided, she crawled forward on all fours like a penis. During this period, I did not forget to mark the marks left on the ground.
It was much slower than planned, but at least we arrived at the trickle we visited last time without any danger. She first lay down by the stream and washed her hands, then took a few sips of water.
When drinking water, she kept looking around cautiously. After all, she thought that although the river in front of her was small, it was still a qualified water source. There would definitely be other animals at the lower end of the food chain coming to drink water.
That's right. About fifty meters away from Ayun, there is a group of small animals drinking water. They are a bit like turtles with trapezoidal grass-green shells on their backs, but they can't see their eyes and have many fleshy spines on their bodies. thing.
The movement seemed to be very slow, and there were various sizes in the team. They obviously noticed Ayun's arrival and stopped drinking water. After Ayun straightened up, these turtle-like things left in a panic, at an incredible speed, almost disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"...Isn't it a turtle?" Ayun originally wanted to observe these animals more. Now she could only start looking around for something to eat.
There are many mushrooms growing around here, of all colors. Blue, yellow, red...everything imaginable is dyed on the mushrooms. Saying it is a mushroom is just a general name for Ayun. If you want a more precise description, it would be...
Drilled out of the black soil, strangely shaped solids come in all shapes and colors, just like those incomprehensible avant-garde art sculptures in museums.
There are even chain-like things snaking up from the soil. Some of them are very huge, maybe one meter in diameter, and some are very small, maybe half the size of a hand, but the number is extraordinary. One by one they can stretch and cover a large area of land.
The reason why these things that don't look like mushrooms at all are called mushrooms is purely because Tisso said when he introduced them to her: "Beautiful, but you will die if you eat them."
Moreover, these things break into pieces and spit out suspicious powder. They look like mushrooms!
It's such a pity that you can't eat even though you've grown so much. Ayun poked one of the light yellow round mushrooms with a wooden spear as if to vent his anger. As a result, the mushroom spewed out a small amount of fine powder, which quickly turned into an ugly yellowish brown and shriveled up.
"..." It was better not to touch these things, lest she be sprayed with poisonous things and faint later. She took a few steps back and away from the mushroom area, and began to look for other food near the river. Collecting food can be said to be the best way. It was a simple process, and it didn’t take long for her to fill her pockets with food. This will be enough for her to eat until tomorrow morning.
Next...when Ayun was thinking about what to do next. Tick tock, a drop of water fell on her forehead. She looked up and saw many water droplets dripping down from the leaves. It wasn't raining, it seemed that the continuous water droplets on the leaves suddenly fell together at this time. It slipped. Not quite sure what happened, Ayun just pulled up his leaf clothes to cover his head.
The water kept falling for about ten minutes. It was at this time that Ayun suddenly felt something was wrong. The ground... seemed to be shaking?
It was not an earthquake, but a more regular one after another, the sound of leaves turning, the sound of branches and vines intertwined and breaking, huge roars and heavy footsteps rushing towards Ayun's location like waves.
There is no doubt that the water droplets on the leaves were shaken by the movement. What happened? The unpleasant and long sound, like the sound of a huge iron tower falling in mid-air, had actually vaguely given the answer. Some giant creature was coming, and there was more than one.
The sound came from the south, which happened to be the direction of her tree hole. Ayun hurriedly tightened his pocket... What should I do? Should you run away into the woods, or hide further inside?
She only marked one path back to the tree cave and outside the rain forest. At this time, she did not dare to find a way to run around easily. The rain forest is not flat land, and a few trees can be circled around to prevent people from getting lost.
In panic, Ayun decided to run back to the tree hole. The shaking on the ground became more and more intense. She used her hands and feet, regardless of whether she would hit bugs or small animals, and just kept running ahead. After arriving at the tree hole, she hurriedly inserted the wooden spear into the ground, quickly climbed to the entrance of the tree hole and got in, firmly blocking the wooden door.
Unfortunately, the earthquake was even stronger inside the tree hole, as if it was placed in a dark cradle. Ayun felt that his heartbeat was synchronized with the vibration...were they a group of big dinosaurs? But giant carnivorous dinosaurs don’t travel together. In the documentary, only giant herbivorous dinosaurs are seen in groups. The sound was getting closer and closer. Ayun couldn't help but moved the wooden door a little out of curiosity and peeked outside.
She could hardly see anything from this angle, but she felt safe. He closed the door again and curled up his hands and feet to force himself into a comfortable position in the tree hole. It was like forcibly stuffing chicken breast into a small mismatched crisper. Although it was uncomfortable, Ayun quickly fell into a light sleep due to exhaustion.
I had only sat on the road for a while in the morning. I had spent too much energy on the long journey and in the rainforest. When I opened my eyes again after this sleep, the ambient sounds and smells outside the tree hole were no longer the same.
Ayun felt stiff all over, and it was really uncomfortable to curl up and sleep in a tree hole. She moved the wooden door a little bit, and it was no longer as bright as when she fell asleep. Because the tree canopy was too thick, time seemed to pass faster in the rain forest than outside. She wasn't sure what time it was...maybe three or four in the afternoon?
No matter what, she didn't plan to leave the tree hole again today. Now I need to go out and stretch my body...or I'll get cramps.
Opening the wooden door, he ducked out with his head first, followed by his shoulders and upper body. But when his thighs moved out, Ayun noticed something strange. He couldn't tell... It seemed like a few drops of sweat slipped from his thighs and fell down his calves with the movement. . She didn't pay much attention to it. It was already stuffy inside the tree hole. After a while, if the surroundings were safe, she would wash her body near the stream.
But something still wasn't right. As Ayun climbed down the tree trunk, he still felt something was wrong. My stomach feels a little uncomfortable, and sweat is still dripping down my calves intermittently.
What's going on... Could it be that there was some abnormal reaction after staying in the tree hole for too long? She speeded up and returned to the ground. After standing still, she looked at her calves.
"Ah..." It made people a little speechless, and something unexpected happened that was reasonable and unexpected.
She was menstruating... What she thought was sweat just now was actually small drops of blood, and there were already three or four thin blood stains from her thighs to her calves.
What? What? ? This time? ? Ayun was as surprised as when he had his first period in junior high school. I feel like I am ten years younger.
After traveling here, she was busy running around making a living, completely forgetting that she still had the special function of bleeding regularly... Not only did she forget, but her body also forgot about the mechanism due to the poor food and shelter and the sudden weight loss.
Adding up to the past few days, it was the middle of her second month here. Maybe it was because she had eaten well in the past few days and was in a good mood and slept well.
Mentality is really important. Even if she just encountered a strange giant creature passing by, she didn't collapse or get scared.
Ayun stood there silently thinking about what to do. The smell of menstrual blood was not good in the rain forest, very bad. Her stomach also hurt a little, but it didn't affect her movement.
And if the quantity was large, she would have to find a way to make something to cushion it. Hmm... Considering all aspects, the volume should not be large this time, right? It's better to wash it first to remove the smell.
Thinking of Ayun, he picked up the leaf clothes that he had taken off on the ground, took the spear beside him, and walked towards the stream again.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the sounds in the rain forest were much quieter along the way. Is it because the unknown giant creature passed by earlier and scared away the animals and bugs in the area? It was a good thing, as she felt more at ease when walking. This time it was much faster than last time. Within a few dozen minutes, she heard the sound of a trickle of water, and an unexpected sound sounded softly as she approached the trickle...
"Ayun?"
ah? What a coincidence! She looked in surprise at Tisuo, who was standing not far from the stream. He was a little dirty. Suddenly meeting his good friend Tisuo in such a place, Ayun was surprised and immediately felt more at ease: "Why are you here?"
Before she got an answer, Ayun was caught by Tisuo who rushed towards her: "What are you doing!?"
Tisuo's expression was one that Ah Yun had seen before. It was the same expression he had when killing birds before. At this moment, he was staring closely at the blood marks on Ah Yun's calf, and his six pupils seemed to shrink due to anger: "A Yun, does it hurt? There are other things? Place, are you injured?"
It was also at this time that Ayun noticed that the things she thought were dirt on Tisuo were not dust or mud cakes. It's the blood that dries up and forms a lump after it splashes onto the body.
"Ayun, I thought you were dead." Tisuo held Ayun closer. When he spoke, Ayun saw that under his sharp teeth, there was still blood swimming on the edge of the row of bright red gums. " I went to the cave to look for you, but you weren’t there and everything was destroyed.”
Tisuo held hands and held Ayun in his arms: "Does it hurt? I will find medicine for you."
After being held in his arms, Ayun realized that the smell of blood on Tisuo was very strong, and there were several new wounds on his body: "Why, the blood, what did the wounds... do?"
Tisuo looked down at her, and his terrifying eyes changed back to their original appearance after confirming that she was okay: "They destroyed your cave. I thought they let you die."
"So I let them die."
