Back to the Wilderness

"Be careful." Ji Fuyun instructed He Zhongqing.

Although the snow last night was small, the mountain road was still muddy. Everyone had a hard time walking, wishing they could bend their toes to touch the ground.Climbing a mountain is already a dangerous thing, not to mention that it is wet everywhere now, the rocks are slippery, the soil is soft, and there is no strength at all. Occasionally, shrubs and weeds wrap around the legs, which is even more dangerous.

The uphill road when entering the safety zone has become a downhill road, and everyone needs to be more careful.Standing on the steep hillside and looking down, the line of sight swoops all the way down, making people dizzy and almost falling headlong.If it slips halfway, if you are not careful, you will slide all the way to the bottom of the mountain and be torn apart.

On the relatively gentle mountain road, Xie Cheng let Zhou Qiming, Ji Fuyun and others spread around to help others at any time.But on certain slopes that are particularly steep and almost at right angles, the team can only be separated. After one person goes downhill completely, the other person starts to prepare to go downhill.Otherwise, if they are crowded together and the people behind are bumped and rolled down, it will definitely have a domino chain effect, and all the people in the row will have to roll down.

Under Xie Cheng's strict control, there were no accidents on the steep slope, but there were frequent falls on the slightly gentle road.

"Ah!" With a scream, another person lost his balance.

Ji Fuyun, who was closest to Xu Huihui, immediately reacted, quickly jumped a few times, grabbed Xu Huihui who was in a toppled posture, and thrust the spear into the soil with his backhand, stabilizing the two of them.

"Scared me to death!" Xu Huihui patted her chest with lingering fears, "Thank you Ji Daxia for saving your life. There is no way to repay this kindness. The little girl can only..."

"Look carefully at the road, try to stay inside, and don't go sideways." Ji Fuyun pulled out his spear vigorously, wiped the soil on the wet leaves, stood back, and waited for the crowd behind to catch up.

Xu Huihui was dragged forward by Zhao Lan, still muttering, "There is no way to repay a great kindness, I can only wish you a good attack like Boss Xie..."

Such accidents happen from time to time. After Xie Cheng confirmed that no one was injured, he continued to lead the way ahead.

All the way out of the mountains without any danger, everyone couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. The heavy soil on the shoes was thrown off, and they stepped on the grassland, and they really felt the feeling of being down-to-earth.

Xie Cheng has been walking at the junction of the grassland and the mountains, just as the mountains extend to the west, and the volcano is also to the west.Generally, wild beasts are deep in the mountains and rarely wander around the edge. If there is any danger in the grassland, they can hide in the mountains in time, and they can pick up firewood nearby when they rest at night.

After the snow, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the sunlight was so clean and clear that it seemed that all impurities had been filtered through crystal.The grassland is affected by the cold weather, and the grass and trees show a dry state, but the water droplets after the snow melts reflect the sunlight on the grass leaves, but they are full of vitality. The whole grassland becomes more open. swing.

Seeing the beautiful scenery but not seeing the danger, the strings that had been tense in people's hearts were slightly loosened, and their steps gradually became cheerful, and they could talk and laugh occasionally.

The six people following the team became four people. Without the help of Xie Cheng and others, it was too difficult for them to get out of the mountains safely, and they were selfish, let alone people who unite and help each other. The fate of the individual can be imagined.

Gao Yiyang noticed that their numbers had decreased, and his original sympathy was completely gone. Even if he didn't save his last ally, could he still expect them to advance and retreat with the team?

"Boss Xie, you are so wise!" Gao Yiyang turned his head and flattered Xie Cheng. He thought that Xie Cheng was a little unreasonable before, and he didn't even give those people a chance. Now that he thinks about it, Xie Cheng might have been too early. Just see through their character.

Xie Cheng squinted at him.

Gao Yiyang grinned.

"It's okay to practice code words."

Gao Yiyang's face immediately collapsed, and then his eyes rolled, and bad water came out, "Boss Xie, I have heard of such a code word, when talking about a certain secret person, his initials can be reversed." Push one, recompose a word to replace the original name, so that others can't find it. For example, Xie Cheng, the first letter is xc, and it is yd after pushing it, ah, it is lewd! When we talk about Boss Xie, we can use this word instead Already!"

Old Wang laughed out loud.

Almost everyone who heard this remark held back their laughter.

Xie Cheng said blankly: "This kind of code language is no longer a secret. We can change it, for example, translate the name into Portuguese, then push one letter back, and then translate it into Ethiopian. If it is not secret enough, then Add the native South American language to it..."

"No!" Gao Yiyang shook his head resolutely, "I think the code words we use now are very good, and the other code words are compared to scum, there is no need to learn! Come on, sir, let's practice it now, Mr. Xie's exclusive high quality Secret language, beep, beep..."

After walking for a day, he didn't see the shadow of the volcano. Xie Cheng had already expected this, so he set up his tent immediately before the sun set.

The animal skin tents were paid by Luo Zongqiang, and there were only a few of them. Xie Cheng distributed them to the women, and five or six people squeezed into one tent. The men either kept watch at night, or directly used the sky as their bedding and the ground as their mat.

Zhou Qiming took people to the mountains to collect firewood, and Ji Fuyun was going to find some wild vegetables that could be eaten raw. He would die if he ate only salted fish at night.

"Brother Fuyun, I'll go too!" He Zhongqing has been paying close attention to Ji Fuyun's whereabouts, and seeing him leaving alone, he knew that he was going to pick wild vegetables.

Ji Fuyun thought for a while, and asked He Zhongqing to follow. He Zhongqing's level of botany is not low, and she should play her role in the wild world.

Seeing this, Chen Jia also said: "Then I will go with you."

"Okay." Ji Fuyun nodded with a smile. There are three botany students in their team. At least in places with abundant aquatic plants, they don't have to worry about starving to death.

The three of them came to the foot of the mountain where wild vegetables are easy to grow, and began to carefully search for them in the bushes.There are not many wild vegetables here, but they are not too few, but most of them need to be blanched to remove the flavor. Coupled with the weather, many wild vegetables wither and shrink. It takes a while to find wild vegetables that are suitable for eating raw and taste good.

Ji Fuyun circled around a few times, he seemed to see a black shadow out of the corner of his eye, and was startled, but when he turned his head, he saw Xie Cheng standing behind them.

"Go ahead." Xie Cheng lazily leaned against the tree trunk.

"Afraid that we will be in danger?" Ji Fuyun asked while kicking away the tangled bushes and vines.

Xie Cheng smiled, "The three of you are our treasures, I have to keep an eye on them to be at ease."

Ji Fuyun waved his spear, pretended to be angry and said: "You are underestimating people, can something happen to me here?"

"You've had quite a few accidents."

Ji Fuyun choked on words, and really couldn't find anything to refute.

"Ji Fuyun!" Chen Jia shouted from the side, "I found Chi Dili!"

Ji Fuyun was overjoyed, and hurried to Chen Jia's place, and sure enough, there were a group of verdant red ground lilies.Chidili is a semi-climbing herbaceous plant with inverted triangle leaves. It can be eaten raw directly. It tastes sour and sweet.

Chidili has tenacious vitality and a wide range of distribution. It is called pear thorn in Ji Fuyun's hometown. When Ji Fuyun was in the orphanage, he often went to the back mountain with his friends to pick a few pear thorn leaves. It tastes good.

"That's it!" Ji Fuyun said, there were patches of pear thorns growing around it, enough for fifty of them to eat.

He Zhongqing also ran up, and the three of them spread out, pulling the pear thorns directly, and they could pull out a lot with one pull.

After a long time, Ji Fuyun remembered something, turned his head and shouted at Xie Cheng who was still leaning there: "Come help!"

Xie Cheng straightened up, patted the fallen leaves on his shoulders, and strode neatly to Ji Fuyun's side.

"Be careful of the thorns on the stem at the bottom." Ji Fuyun reminded.

Xie Cheng nodded, but he didn't pay much attention. The soft thorns at the bottom couldn't hurt him.

They didn't stop until everyone held a large handful of pear thorns. After finding a stream to wash clean, they went to the station.

The resident has lit a fire, grilling kippers, and the aroma is tempting.Tired people who had been trekking all day stared at the grilled fish.

The four of Ji Fuyun divided the pear thorns, and each of them could have a small handful. If they were tired of eating fish and salty, they would eat a few slices of pear thorns, which were sour with a little bit of sweetness. Diluted the nasty taste in the mouth, and felt a lot more comfortable in the stomach.

On the first day after leaving the safe zone, the situation was not as bad as imagined, and everyone slept soundly.

The night watchman kept adding fire, and the man who slept outside was already in good physical condition, and he didn't feel too cold.

Many people even had the illusion that they were camping, if there were not hundreds of strange birds suddenly attacking in the early morning.

"Hide back in the tent!" Xie Cheng shouted to the women who had just woken up. With a flick of the dagger, a bird that was about to peck Zhao Lan's head was split in two.

Zhao Lan's expression changed, and she quickly dragged the others into the tent and pulled the tent curtains tight.

This strange bird with a red crown and black feathers is not big, only the size of a palm, but its beak is very slender, and when it pecks at a person, there is a blood mark every time it pecks.In particular, hundreds of birds suddenly flew out of the woods in groups, and they were overwhelming and menacing, making it impossible for people to avoid them.

Ji Fuyun rolled slightly, chased away more than a dozen strange birds that jumped on him, picked up Xie Cheng's dagger, and threw it to him from a high altitude. fell head over heels.

But there are still a few people who can accurately hit the flying monster bird. The monster bird has an air superiority. Most people can only passively wait for the monster bird to attack close to the body before counterattack. Those who are not flexible enough can hardly hit the monster bird and get pecked After a while, I couldn't help but feel the pain, and then I could only run away with my head in my arms, very embarrassed.

Hundreds of birds flapped their wings and made a sharp cry, which made people's eardrums swell.

"Continuing like this is not an option!" Zhou Qiming said in a deep voice, although it won't cause fatal damage, but it can't be driven away, and it can't be killed, which is really bad.

"Wait!" Xie Cheng stared at one of the strange birds, and suddenly said, "Let everyone stand back!"

Everyone didn't know why, but they followed Xie Cheng's words and immediately dispersed to the surroundings. Some even rolled away.

Everyone who thought that the strange birds would follow him was stunned to see the scene in the middle of the station. They saw those birds rushing towards the fire that had not been completely extinguished, their feathers were scorched, and they did not retreat.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of birds all occupied the fire, sending out the smell of roasting meat.

The atmosphere was eerily quiet.

"These stupid birds..." Someone scolded.

It's also Xie Cheng's unlucky luck. This is a moth bird, with the nature of moths jumping into flames. Usually there is no fire, so they have to get up early to catch insects and eat them peacefully.But this morning, the moth birds passing the established route suddenly felt the heat, and rushed over one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Everyone waited silently for a while, and when the strange birds were silent, the person who had been pecked the worst walked over cursingly, picked up a roasted and yellowed bird from the fire, and pulled out the remaining ones. Too much scorched hair, as if to vent, I ate it early.

Others couldn't help but nod their heads when they smelled it. It seems to be quite fragrant, so they may consider trying it.

Ling's nose, which was full of oil, suddenly moved its nose, as if smelling something, quickly threw away the strange bird, moved away from the fire, the scent and smoke faded, and the sense of smell became clearer.

Lingbi closed his eyes, his nose moved up and down, and he caught the smells flowing in the air one by one.

"Thank you, Boss!" Lingbi quickly opened his eyes, "It seems that someone is coming!"