Chapter 4 The Jungle
In the primeval forest with high mountains and ridges, there are misty clouds and fog, and deserted. However, on the sheep-hearted path among the dense forests, a group of people are walking, and they are the special training team where Li Ming is.
It has been traveling through the dense forest for seven days. The bushes in the lush primeval forest have brought great trouble to their progress. The words of Shi Yunlong before entering the mountain are still deeply remembered in the minds of each team member: "You must be divided into three groups, and the instructor will lead you to different temporary bases in the deep mountains. You must live there for a month. Remember that the temporary base has no supply, and you must live there for a month with your own strength. After the instructor takes you there, he will return with the soldiers who escort you (Li Ming thought: It is better to call escorts). We will go to the base to pick you up in a month."
Turning over a mountain, your eyes suddenly became clear. A stream flowing happily at the foot of the mountain. The instructor pointed to the foot of the mountain and said, "We have arrived. There is the temporary base of your first group. I announce that the personnel of the first group: Wang Yuchen, Wang Shan, Zhang Changjiang, Li Ming, Li Chaoyang, Qian Zhonghua, Tang Fang, Liu Weizhong, you eight are in the first group. Now you leave the brigade and go down the mountain. Pay attention, we will pick you up at the temporary base. If you get lost, we will not look for you. Okay, go down and the others will continue to follow me." After the instructor finished speaking, he led the other people to the deep mountains.
Seeing the instructor leading the others slowly disappearing from sight, the eight people from the first team began to walk towards the base.
This is an open valley. There is a dilapidated wooden house next to the stream. This is the so-called temporary base. However, the wooden house is too small to squeeze out eight people at all. Everyone looked at each other and was a little confused.
Seeing that everyone was not talking, Li Ming couldn't help but speak: "We are all on the same boat at the moment. In order for everyone to survive together, I suggest choosing a captain between us to coordinate all aspects of things. What do you think." The tall and mighty Wang Shan nodded and said: "Li Ming is right. I hope we can work together and overcome the current difficulties together. Although we don't know what will happen in the future, at least we should survive at present. Who has it?
Please recommend yourself to experience camping in the mountains. I definitely can’t. I have never left the city since I was a child.” After saying this, everyone remained silent again. After a while, Tang Fang spoke: “I used to participate in self-guided tours in the wild. If everyone has no experience, then I will be the captain.” After hearing what he said, everyone became excited, and finally agreed that Tang Fang would be the captain of the first group. Everyone took off their backpacks and put them together, because these days, they all had their days.
When we were rushing in the jungle, we didn't have much dry food. After Tang Fang counted it, he received all the dry food together. He stood up and said to everyone: "At present, our dry food is only enough for two days. In these two days, we must be able to find food, otherwise we will not be able to live. I also saw it along the way. There are not many foods to find in this primeval forest. It's still June. There may be no edible wild fruits in the mountains, and I didn't find them along the way, so now our love
It is very difficult. In order to solve the food source as soon as possible, I suggest that we will assign our work from now on. Wang Shan, Li Ming, Zhang Changjiang and I are responsible for finding food. You should stay at the base for the remaining four people and cut some trees on the surrounding mountains. We should build more wooden houses, one is to facilitate living, and the other is just in case, none of us knows what beasts will appear around us. It is better to be careful. Try to build the wooden houses as strong as possible. Okay, let's take action separately."
The dense forest in summer was stuffy and hot, and Li Ming waved the machete in his hand vigorously to open up a road to move forward. Before entering the forest, everyone was equipped with a German-made machete, which is really useful now. It has been two days since the food has not been settled. Every day, everyone returns to the base with a dejected look. The dry food brought yesterday has been eaten, and today, everyone will be hungry if they can't find food. There is a rumbling thunder sound on the top of the mountain, and it seems that it will rain heavily soon.
Tang Fang's shout came from afar: "Li Ming, come on, you must go back today. It will rain soon, hurry up."
Li Ming was about to answer, but suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of his eyes. He instinctively blocked the knife in his hand. A small green snake was swung out by his knife. The snake flashed through the bush twice, and was dodging in no way. A cold sweat broke out from Li Ming because he knew that this kind of snake was a highly poisonous bamboo leaf green. In this case, if you bite it, you can only wait for death. Li Ming hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, there is bamboo leaf green here, please take it carefully, don't be bitten by it." As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Shan in front screamed: "Snake!! There are a lot of snakes here! I'm bitten, come and save me!!" Everyone hurriedly ran towards Wang Shan. When Li Ming ran, the other people were already standing far away near Wang Shan. Li Ming walked forward
At first glance, he couldn't help but gasp: Wang Shan had already fallen to the ground, twitching constantly, and could not say anything. There were no less than a hundred bamboo leaves in his body. In front of him, there was a 3-4-meter-long red snake with its head raised, spitting out a long snake core and staring at the people surrounding him. Behind the snake, hundreds of bamboo leaves were rushing towards Wang Shan. The snakes on Wang Shan seemed to find the people rushing up, and they were climbing down Wang Shan's body and rushed towards everyone. Tang Fang shouted loudly: "Don't worry about him, everyone hurry up, we meet the snake's nest, go!" After that, he turned around and ran back. Li Ming was stunned by the situation in front of him. Seeing that several snakes crawled towards him, he instinctively turned around and ran away.
Li Ming ran along the road he had opened. When he returned to the base, he lay on the door of the base and gasped heavily, ignoring the inquiries of several people at the base, and looked at the road he was running in horror. Fortunately, maybe he ran in time, and the snake following behind did not catch up. Li Ming sat on the ground. At this time, Tang Fang and Zhang Changjiang also ran back in panic and fell to the stream for a long time without getting up...
After the few people slowly calmed down, Tang Fang immediately organized everyone to move the unbuilt wooden house on the base to the other side of the stream. Although I don’t know if the snake can cross the stream, everyone can at least feel at ease. No one dares to go to the jungle on this side.
The sky gradually darkened, but today's dinner was not yet settled. In just two or three days, the first group lost one person, which made everyone's heart extremely heavy. Tang Fangqiang was energetic and organized everyone to build two wooden houses, picked up some dry firewood and raised a ball of fire.
The flashing fire reflected on everyone's faces, and everyone sat silently around the fire, and no one was in the mood to speak. The thunder in the sky became closer and closer.
Tang Fang raised his head: "Although we lost a partner today, we must live more strongly. It's already late. Everyone should go to the house to rest. Tomorrow morning, all of us will go to the mountains on this side to search again. There is no way out. Don't be discouraged. There will be bread and milk. Now, let's go into the house, it will rain soon."
Li Ming was lying on the branches in the house and hadn't eaten for a day. The empty abdomen was filled with colic, which made him toss and turns and couldn't sleep. Looking at his sleeping partner beside him, he stood up helplessly, opened the door and walked out.
It had already started drizzling outside, and the fire had long been extinguished. The dark night sky reflected the blurry outline of the mountains. From time to time, the howlings of unknown animals came from the forest, which seemed particularly desolate in the quiet night sky.
The rain slowly got heavier, and Li Ming shivered in the rain. He hurriedly opened the door and entered the hut.
Chapter completed!