Chapter 9 Hope and Disappointment
"I really don't understand why the people of the island country like to eat sashimi so much. Is it because of the ingredients?"
The bamboo raft was still moving along the water, and Liu Xiu sat above and said to himself with a melancholy expression on his face.
He wanted to vomit after eating raw fish. When he thought of using this thing to survive, he gritted his teeth and swallowed it. It really proved that people were forced to do so.
However, when Liu Xiu thought of eating raw fish next time, he suddenly felt that he had no desire to live.
It was dim and he routinely fixed the bamboo raft in the center of the river to spend the night. However, for some reason, Liu Xiu felt uncomfortable that night. Could it be that it was because he did not have the "companionship" of the black wolf?
Although it was safe, Liu Xiu's heart was empty...
The next day, Liu Xiu cheered up and continued on the road. He was not so leisurely after eating dried fish. He had to catch fish in the river to fill his stomach. Fortunately, with his skill in poking fish with bamboo poles again and again, he became more and more comfortable to catch fish in the future, at least he didn't have to worry about his stomach.
The river under his feet seemed to have no end. It was the fourth day. Liu Xiu's heart was sinking little by little. He didn't know whether he could walk out of this primeval forest, nor did he know whether he could find his kind. The reason why he was still persisting was just the obsessive-compulsive disorder in his heart.
I will hold on for another day and if I still can’t see hope, I will go back...
He said silently in his heart, after all, it was too far away from the cave, and going back was against the current, and it took more time. Although he had not encountered any other crisis except the black wolf, the roar of beasts from time to time in the distance still made him feel cold.
Only in the other side of the cave can he feel a little bit of security.
Judging from the current situation, I may have to find another way...
Liu Xiu clenched his fists. Although his physical fitness was still growing steadily by practicing Wuming's bodybuilding skills, the feeling of being unable to do so became stronger.
Under normal circumstances, if a person can exert tens of strength, he can now only exert at most eight points of strength. As time goes by, he will not be able to replenish salt, and this feeling of weakness will become heavier and heavier.
Another day was another day. Even if Liu Xiu had no hope, even if he had some obsessive-compulsive disorder, he was almost stuck to his limit. He decided that if he could still see hope before dark, he would rush back after a night of rest.
There is no way to do this, and it may be useless to continue moving forward.
However, often times, the surprise comes so suddenly. Liu Xiu, who was sitting on the bamboo raft, was bored, originally stared at the front with his eyes blankly. In a daze, he was stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked at the river bank on the right.
He just stared at a place with the bamboo rafts crossing 10 or 20 meters before he was so excited that he could lift the bamboo pole to paddle to the shore, staring at it tightly, Liu Xiu was a little excited and trembling.
There are no villages, cities, or even living people on the shore. It is still a primeval forest, but Liu Xiu saw a skeleton!
That is the skeleton of a human, he will not read it wrong.
Having human skeletons proves that there are similarities in this world. And seeing human skeletons at this location proves that they are not far from human society, and their five-day persistence has not been in vain!
Although he was excited to see the bones, Liu Xiu forced himself to calm down and look around carefully. Even if he was sure there was no danger, he did not rashly go ashore. Instead, he parked the bamboo raft about five meters away from the shore to look at the bones, so that even if there was an emergency, he could respond in time.
After observing the bones up close, Liu Xiu became more and more excited.
The skeleton is less than three meters away from the shore. I don’t know how long it has existed. It’s just a skeleton with a blackened skeleton, and the skeleton is not complete. Judging from the place where the bones are broken, this person should have been killed by some wild beasts, and even his flesh is eaten by the wild beasts because some broken bones are scattered around.
Seeing the tragic situation of the bones, Liu Xiu once again realized the terribleness of this forest.
There were some fragments of clothes scattered on the body and around the bones. The fabric looked quite rough, a bit similar to the linen in Liu Xiu's memory. This is enough to show that the dead man was not a savage, but a normal civilization.
There was a bow and a few arrows next to the bone. I don’t know how long it took, but the bows and arrows were rotten. Even the iron arrows had rusted into slags. There was an iron knife on the side that could not escape the fate of rusting into slags.
"Bows, iron knives, threadbares, there is nothing else, and there is no sign of high technology. Is this world still in the era of cold weapons? It needs further confirmation..."
Thoughts flashed, Liu Xiu looked at it for half an hour before he paddled the bamboo raft from the center of the river downstream. He was excited. Since human skeletons appeared, he was not far from human civilization.
If you don’t go ashore, you cannot determine the safety around the shore. In addition, you cannot get anything valuable from the bones. The iron arrows and iron knives are rusted into slag, which is no different from the soil, and it is impossible to even rebuild them.
With hope in his heart, Liu Xiu was not ready to go back. Even if he took another five days, he would go to human civilization.
However, God made a big joke for him.
Almost five hours after he left the bones, his face changed when he looked ahead of the river, and then he had to stop the bamboo raft.
The feeling of crying without tears is enough to describe Liu Xiu's mood at this time. A hundred meters ahead of him, the river suddenly disappeared. Of course, it did not disappear out of thin air, but a fault appeared in the ground in front of him, and the river formed a straight waterfall downwards.
I couldn't move forward, and a deafening roar came from the waterfall. If I carried it all over, it would definitely be a shattering end.
I saw my eyes across the waterfall, and I didn’t see any scene of human civilization until the end of my sight. Looking at both sides of the waterfall, I could vaguely see a steep cliff, and the drop was probably one hundred meters above!
There is no way ahead...
It is not impossible to detour, but how far you have to go? And can you really find human civilization alive in the jungle of crisis? What's more, you can't see the shadow of human civilization at all. God knows how long it will take, and it's not worth it to take this risk with your life.
"I can only go back and find a way to get a salt problem. Next time, you must be well prepared. Even if you take a detour and go down the cliff, you must find human civilization..."
Looking at the fault in front of him, Liu Xiu gritted his teeth and could only turn the bamboo raft with unwillingness.
In fact, it is a trivial matter for him to take a detour, and it is amazing to spend more time. However, the problem is a security issue. With his current state, he does not have any hope to find human civilization alive.
Liu Xiu was filled with awe for the surrounding forests.
Subconsciously clenched his fists, Liu Xiu felt that it would not be too long before he came here next time. Because he practiced the nameless body care skills every day, his physical condition was still growing steadily. If he continued like this, at most, he would 50% of him pass through the forest to find human civilization, provided that there would not be a beast that would make him irresistible.
A few days ago, he could have carried a stone as big as a millstone without much effort. Now, Liu Xiu feels that he can walk easily with one hand...
"Two months, at most two months, I have great hope of finding human civilization..."
Liu Xiu was full of unwillingness but helpless. He clearly saw hope, but nature killed his hope.
Going upstream is also boring, but because you know where you are going to go, you won’t be as confused as you were when you came.
Two days after returning, Liu Xiu actually saw the black wolf again. Seeing the other party, a strange sense of intimacy arose in his heart...
"Are you waiting for me specifically? By the way, things like wolf are very revenge, but I don't seem to offend you..." Liu Xiu, who was muttering at the black wolf on the shore.
Next, Liu Xiu continued to go upstream, and the black wolf on the shore stubbornly stared at him and followed him.
With the black wolf "accompanied", Liu Xiu was not bored. He talked to the other party along the way and said everything. At first, he said everything from all over the world, but in the end he couldn't find anything to say. Liu Xiu started talking from his childhood. Anyway, he couldn't understand it, so there was no possibility of leaking the secret.
However, after such days lasted for three days, Liu Xiu couldn't be happy, because at most he would return to the cave in another day, which meant that he was going ashore. The place where the black wolf was was where he went ashore...
"So, do you always fight with this black wolf?" As he approached the cave, Liu Xiu's face did not improve, and his mood sank to the bottom.
The only expectation is that as it did when it came, the Black Wolf could not hold on to leave in the end, but seeing the Black Wolf stubbornly following along the way, Liu Xiu felt that there was probably little hope for it to leave on its own initiative.
Touching the stone axe on his waist, Liu Xiu looked at the black wolf on the shore with a hint of madness flashing in his eyes. With his current physique, he would not have no chance to beat the other party!
"It would be fine if you just leave like this. If you still follow me until I get ashore, don't blame me for being rude. I have given you a chance and don't know how to cherish it. Then I will only blame you for knowing too much..."
Looking at the black wolf muttering to himself, Liu Xiu knew that he could only fight to the death if he had no choice. Although he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, he was not a weak person now.
However, Liu Xiu has never fought with the lives of wild beasts, and he is born with a sense of fear of wild beasts, especially a vicious creature like wolf, who can die if he can do nothing.
Before I experienced it, no one was born a warrior. Even if Liu Xiu is not the original self now, he still feels unsure.
It is one thing to fight to the death, and it is one thing to do it or not, and it does not conflict with the inherent fear of the brutal beasts in my heart.
In such a tense atmosphere, after a few days, Liu Xiu had already seen the lake at the foot of the mountain from afar.
Chapter completed!