Dense Fog

At five o'clock in the morning, the search team set off again.

The forest is still sleeping in a hazy dark blue, there is no light in the sky, and thick dark clouds press down on the treetops, covering the moon and the whiteness of the coming day.

In yesterday's group, Lin Wu and Ge Liang followed the eldest of the three fellow villagers.But this time the route changed direction, and all three groups headed for a new area that had not been searched yesterday.

The early morning wind howled, shuttled and flapped among the fir branches, and piled up layers of surging waves in the bushes.

"It's going to rain today..." The old fellow took the Wang Ye T-shirt he had been holding in his hand, and sniffed it again to the wolfdogs who hadn't found it.

Ge Liang and Lin Wu followed suit and stopped.

"Impossible." Ge Liang looked at the gloomy trees around him, and had no idea where he was going. "I checked the weather forecast, and it didn't say it was raining."

"God in the mountains is sure." The fellow said.

Lin Wu remained silent.

Like a real little wolf, he is always sniffing and looking for Wang Ye's breath.

It will rain.

The wild genes in the body have sensed the damp water droplets in the air.

Lin Wu was more scared than ever.

He was afraid that it would rain and he would not be able to continue searching, and he was afraid that the rain would wash away the smell Wang Ye left in the forest.

The wolfdog seemed to have finally sensed some clues, and continued to walk forward to the left.

The three hurriedly followed, stepped over the thorn bushes, passed through the spiky needles of fir trees, and probed deeper into the dense forest.

Day gradually came.

But the sky was still dark, with thick clouds covering all the sunlight, and the forest turned a deep dark green.

Time loses clarity in such an environment.

After searching blindly for an unknown amount of time, the wolfdog suddenly stopped, its wet nose pressed to the ground, and a low howl of "woo woo" came out of its throat.

Immediately afterwards, it burst into a fierce cry, and its strong body suddenly jumped up, running at a high speed in one direction.

"Yes!" the fellow yelled, his dark face brightened up.

The strong middle-aged man was extremely agile, and he chased after him with a single stride.

Lin Wu's heart was beating wildly, the activation of his body was completely ahead of his brain, and he almost rushed over with the fellow.

Ge Liang: "Hey, wait for me—"

"Boom--"

Thunder pierced the dull sky, black clouds flowed in the strong wind, and everything in the forest seemed to be activated by the sudden change of wind and cloud.The tip of the grass danced wildly, the bushes climbed and folded, and the flocks of birds were startled and flew to the ink-splashed sky.

Finally, the wolfdog stopped and kept spinning in one place, barking rapidly.

The three of them stepped forward panting.

It was a destroyed bush, the weeds were trampled down, there were messy and indistinguishable marks on the ground, and there was a torn coat lying quietly in the mess, stained with blood.

Wang Ye's coat.

Both Lin Wu and Ge Liang recognized it.

The air froze for a moment.

The wolfdog stopped barking under the shout of the fellow, but was still a little nervous and restless.

The fellow squatted down to check.

"It belongs to your classmate?" Although the dog clearly smelled Wang Ye's breath, the fellow asked Lin Wu and Ge Liang again.

Lin Wu opened his mouth, but couldn't make any sound.

"Yes, yes..." Ge Liang hurriedly replied, his voice completely flustered.

The fellow's face darkened, and while continuing to check other traces around, he took out the walkie-talkie: "I found a piece of clothing on Xiongxiazipo, with blood..."

Zhao Li's reply quickly came from the walkie-talkie: "Wang Ye's clothes? Confirmed?"

The fellow said: "Just following the smell, both children recognized it."

Zhao Li was silent for a moment: "In your opinion..."

"It's probably a little bit injured, but there's not much blood, so it shouldn't be a big problem," the fellow said a little to reassure the employer, but it's not without objective evidence, "Don't look at this place called Xiongxiazipo, it's 20 There will be no bear blind in [-], and wolves are rare, most of them are wild boars. Didn’t you say that the child has a good physique and can fight thieves? If you really encounter bobcats and wild beasts, as long as they are not in groups, you should be able to run away... "

"And I checked the surrounding traces, there are not many..." The fellow stopped reporting without warning, and his hands frolicking with the grass froze, his face changed again and again, his pupils first were shocked, and then slowly turned into fear.

Lin Wu was the closest and could see the most clearly. His breathing even gradually stopped following the changes in the expression of the fellow.

"What's wrong?" He asked hard.

"Impossible..." The fellow murmured in disbelief.

It was not only Zhao Li who had been listening on the walkie-talkie, but also the other two fellow villagers, who immediately became alert and asked after him.

"Old lump, what's the matter?"

"What's the situation..."

The fellow called Lao Geda didn't answer immediately, but after carefully checking the traces on the ground, he got up and checked the nearby trees, as if he was looking for something.

After a while, he stopped in front of a red pine tree, and his rough palm touched a few fresh claw marks on the trunk.

Then, Lin Wu heard his dignified voice: "It's Blind Xiong."

"What the hell?" The fellow on the walkie-talkie didn't believe it at all, "Don't make trouble for me, what's the matter?"

As soon as the fellow's voice stopped, Zhao Li's voice sounded in the noisy electric current: "Don't talk yet, let him speak clearly."

"There are footprints on the ground, which are the same shape and size as a bear, and there are traces on the tree." Old Pimple looked up. "It's a big thing that can climb trees. What else can it be if it's not a bear?"

Zhao Li asked, "Are you sure?"

The old lump said: "I saved my life in front of Xiong Xiazi. I was only a teenager at that time, and the faces of the children with me were all licked. What about Xiong Xiazi and bear paw prints? I will remember it all my life."

Before Zhao Li could answer, Old Geda said again: "There are bears in the woods, none of us can deal with them, hurry up..."

Before the word "withdraw" was uttered, a strange sound suddenly came from behind the three of them.

Lin Wu's hearing was the keenest, and he was the first to turn around. He couldn't see anything clearly, and was bumped head-on by a black shadow.

Lin Wu dodged to the side with an extremely fast reaction speed, but his arm was still hit, and the huge impact made him stagger violently.

The black shadow rushed over and didn't stop, but continued to collide with Ge Liang and Lao Piopao.

"Bear——" Ge Liang howled out the movement of the husky.

The old lump quickly grabbed him and pulled him aside, avoiding the impact of the shadow: "I think you look like a bear!"

The black shadow completely flew into the air and almost hit the tree in front of it.

Only now did Lin Wu see clearly that the one attacking them was a dark brown wild boar with stubby limbs, sparse guard hairs on its back, an arched proboscis and small eyes. If you didn't see it clearly, you could easily mistake it for a bear. .

The wild boar parked under the tree quickly turned around, showing no intention of withdrawing.

The wolfdog, who was eager to protect the master, rushed forward and bit the wild boar's neck, refusing to let go.

Old Geda took out the agricultural knife he carried with him, and shouted at Lin Wu and Ge Liang: "You two go up the tree!"

Ge Liang's mind immediately flashed the common sentence pattern of "however you want, sows can climb trees", and instantly understood the scientific way that pigs can't climb trees. Start climbing.

Kaka.

Click again.

Ge Liang lowered his head and tossed and tossed for a long time, his feet were at most ten centimeters off the ground.

Pigs can't climb trees.

Neither will the Huskies.

Lin Wu, who also belonged to the canine family, was able to climb trees with half of the human sports genes, but before he found a suitable trunk, he was alert and heard more chaotic running sounds, and they were getting closer.

Subconsciously follow the sound.

In the hidden shade of the trees, a large group of black shadows that were approaching at a high speed gradually revealed their clear outlines.

"Wild boars—" Lin Wu exclaimed.

Before the sound fell, the herd of wild boars had roared towards them, at least seven or eight of them, as if they had been startled by something, they rushed forward regardless.

Old Pidao hasn't seen this kind of battle in the mountains for many years. He can still deal with a pig, and a group of pigs. He can only save his life: "Run——"

Lin Wu's mind was blank, only his survival instinct remained, and when he heard the old lump shout, he ran away.

The wind howled, the black clouds weighed down even lower, and the gloomy mountains and forests couldn't tell the difference between south, east and north.

Lin Wu panicked and ran wildly with all his strength, mobilizing almost all the sports genes of the Timberwolves.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Lin Wu's sprint strength reached its limit, and his lungs were about to explode, so he had to slow down.After a while, I realized that there seemed to be no sound behind me.

He stopped a little bit, turning his head out of breath.

There are dense fir forests everywhere, and there are no wild boars, and it is impossible to see where they came from.

The brain began to cool down, Lin Wu slowly calmed down, and then he knew that it was bad.

He immediately took out the walkie-talkie—in order to save electricity, he used to communicate with Lao Ge’s walkie-talkie before, and he hadn’t used his own—as soon as he turned it on, Zhao Li, Ge Liang, and others came out alternately from the walkie-talkie. Two groups of voices.

Zhao Li: "Speak slowly, what happened to Lin Wu?"

Ge Liang: "We met a herd of wild boars, he ran away!"

Ren Feiyu: "Lin Wu, Lin Wu, can you hear me?"

Xia Yang: "Lin Wu——"

Lin Wu breathed a long sigh of relief, thanking modern technology.

Although I got lost, but with the communication in hand, I didn't panic.

Press and hold the intercom button, Lin Wu immediately reported safety: "I'm fine, I'm now..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

Sensing a certain breath, Lin Wu let go of the button and turned around slowly.

An adult black bear is right behind him.

Following his movements, the black bear suddenly stood upright, its huge body like a mountain, completely covering the forest fog in shadow.

Perhaps because of the previous hasty escape, the brain's stress response was enhanced in a short period of time, what Lin Wu thought of at this moment turned out to be the knowledge points about bears in the family-related class.

2.1.3 What should I do if I meet a bear in the wild?

First, don’t pretend to be dead, because a hungry bear will gnaw at you regardless of life or death, and a full bear, driven by its playful nature, will most likely pat you over and over with its paws, or lick you with its barbed tongue You, or sit on your ass.

Second, never run away. Running away will completely stimulate the bear's hunting instinct. Even if you run faster than a bear after awakening, you must also consider that the human body is not adapted to the wild. Bears will not be tripped in the wild. but you will.

The correct posture for encountering a bear: do not shout loudly, face the bear, and slowly back away.

back slowly...

Lin Wu said silently in his heart, gently raised one foot, and slowly, slowly put it back.

The black bear didn't move.

Lin Wu quietly moved his other foot.

With the retreating steps, the body also moved back a little bit.

step.

two steps.

Three steps...

With a slow but effective gesture, Lin Wu successfully pulled the distance between himself and the black bear to five or six meters.

Persistence is victory.

Lin Wu held his breath and took another step back, but he didn't even notice that there was already a slope behind him.

Only the toes of the retreating feet touch the ground, and the rest are all in the air.

Lin Wu, who was defenseless, had his body's center of gravity backwards, and the point of focus on his toes was simply not enough, and his feet slipped all of a sudden.

With him losing his balance, he fell heavily forward, facing the mountain, and slid down the sloping soil slope.

[This area is called Xiong Xiazi Slope, because there is a steep and steep slope in front of it, and it is still hidden. In the early years when there were many Xiong Xiazi, Xiong Xiazi who fell to death could be found at the bottom of the slope every few months, so...]

Not long ago, when I first entered the Xiongxiazi Slope area, the old lump had mentioned it.

But now let’s talk about the lack of vigilance, it’s too late to regret.

During the extremely fast slide, Lin Wu desperately tried to grab something, but there were only some thorny vines and shrubs left on the slope, and they were torn apart as soon as they were caught, unable to hold up the momentum of the slide.

Lin Wu's hand was scratched, and his nails were attached to the flesh, but he couldn't pick up the hard soil and gravel on the slope at all.

In just a short moment, the bloody fingers were already numb, and there was no pain, only dull friction with the soil and gravel.

The body seems to start to lose weight in the fall.

Or, when people are on the verge of death, they will have such a floating feeling. It may be that the consciousness is in a trance, or the soul is coming out of the body.

But why... the bones will replace the fingers, and I will start to feel sharp pain.

Lin Wu woke up in pain from his daze.

He felt the moist air entering his nostrils, it was the forest, the mountains, the wilderness, the unfettered taste of all freedom, they were so warm and fresh, spreading from his sense of smell to his limbs, surging The jumping chest cavity activated new vitality and strength in the body.

Lin Wu's hand began to deform.

The knuckles shrank, the hair and nails regrown, and in a very short time, the scarred hands turned into gray wolf claws.

The brand new and sharp claws hooked the mountain deeply, greatly slowing down the speed of the fall.

At the same time, his body began to deform.

The bone was in severe pain as if it was broken. Lin Wu gritted his teeth and endured it, but finally couldn't help it, and let out a painful cry: "Aww——"

With a "plop", the body finally fell to the bottom of the slope at a speed that was not fatal.

Lin Wu rolled a few times before struggling to get up.

In the horizontal line of sight, there are shrubs.

Rain is coming, and he's a real coyote now.