Chapter 778 Escape (1)
"I can't run anymore, I really can't run."
Jiang Feng had just entered his memory and was still in the fog when he heard a strange and hoarse male voice shouting breathlessly. The adjective "whispering" may be a bit strange, but Jiang Feng felt that this old man's tone and state of using his life to say this sentence were indeed shouting, but his voice was really pitiful.
It can be seen that this person is very close to him, and he is indeed exhausted.
In addition to these words, he also heard the sound of clothes rubbing against leaves, grass, and a sound similar to the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground. Maybe this guy just sat down on the ground.
"Run, if you don't want to die, keep running in."
The fog cleared.
It's the woods.
A very dense forest, surrounded by trees, some tall, some short, even shorter, with weeds and shrubs, blocking almost every gap through which sunlight can penetrate, so that the light in the woods is very bright. Dim.
Jiang Feng was standing behind Xia Mubing. Xia Mubing still looked like he was when he was young, but he looked very embarrassed, even more embarrassed than the first time Jiang Feng saw him covered in blood in his memory.
Although the Xia Mubing that Jiang Feng saw for the first time in his memory was covered in blood, none of the blood on his body was his own. Xia Mubing looked like someone who robbed others, so he couldn't be considered embarrassed. Now Xia Mu Bingran was not covered in blood-stained clothes, but was still wearing tattered thick cotton clothes, which gave people a completely different feeling.
It looked like he was being hunted.
There were many cuts on the cotton-padded clothes. It was obvious that the small cuts were made by branches. Some of the cuts looked like they were very sharp. Some looked like they had been permed and some looked like they had been burned. Jiang Feng couldn't figure it out. What on earth did Xia Mubing do before that allowed his cotton-padded clothes to have such a wonderful experience?
Xia Mubing also had frostbite, lacerations and scratches on her ankles and wrists, and her calf seemed to be injured with blood oozing out. Although she was wearing a cotton coat, it didn't fit her and was much too small.
There were only two people beside Jiang Feng, one was Xia Mubing, and the other must be Chen Shi, the owner of the memory.
Chen Shi lay on the ground with an exhausted look on his face, holding a small tattered cloth bag in his arms. He looked miserable as if I really couldn't walk and would die of exhaustion if I continued walking. The tight cotton-padded clothes he wore that were obviously smaller than his size were scratched to pieces, and the stiff cotton that could still keep him warm was exposed from inside. There were also several wounds on his face that would probably disfigure him if not treated in time.
Jiang Feng looked around and made sure there was no one. It was just a forest, not even small animals. However, these two people just seemed to be running for their lives, as if if they were slower, the King of Hell behind them would catch up and claim their lives.
"No one has chased us for a long time. There are so many people running away and they won't chase us back." In order to prove the authenticity of what he said, Chen Shi, who was lying on the ground, struggled to get up and pointed to the empty woods behind him. , "Look, there's not even a human figure there. Why are we running in such a hurry?"
"It will be dark in three hours at most. There are everything in this forest, including wolves, foxes, tigers, and maybe bears. Once it gets dark, you won't be able to see anything clearly. Even when climbing a tree, you may be caught by those... The animals picked it up and ate it, not before dark You will die if you run out of this forest." Xia Mubing said with an expressionless face, "We will kill Qian. If you go back, you will definitely be shot. If you want to sit here and wait for death or go back to find death, please do it yourself. Let’s go first.”
Chen Shi was so frightened by Xia Mubing's words that he jumped up and stood up, struggling to move forward even though his legs were weak.
"Let's go slow, okay? It won't get dark for three hours, and even if it gets dark as long as it's not so dark, you can still see the road clearly. If that doesn't work, let's just light a fire and climb higher. I originally thought I heard from people in our village that if you can't walk out in the woods at night, just find a higher tree and climb up. As long as you climb higher, the beasts won't pull you down." Chen Shi tried to discuss it with Xia Mubing. .
Xia Mubing didn't say anything. He obviously didn't want to waste any more words and energy and walked straight forward. He didn't go too fast, so he obviously agreed.
Xia Mubing walked in front, followed by Chen Shi.
They are both walking, but their movements and states are completely different. Xia Mubing is only a little over 1.7 meters tall. Logically speaking, this height is not considered tall, but compared with Chen Shi, who looks to be only about 1.6 meters tall, he looks particularly tall.
Mountain roads are difficult to walk, and it is even more difficult to walk on a road that is not even a road in the woods. There are not only weeds, dirt, piles of rocks, but also pits on the ground. It is very uneven. If you take a wrong step, you may get injured. He broke his foot or fell and lost half of his front teeth. Both of them were wearing old cloth shoes, the kind with holes in the bottom. They looked like they were not wearing them. They could at most protect the soles of their feet from being cut by stones.
Under such difficult conditions, Xia Mubing walked as if he were walking on flat ground, while Chen Shi behind him looked normal. He stumbled and was very cautious because of his frivolous steps.
Jiang Feng kept following the two of them like this. Perhaps because the authorities were obsessed and the bystanders were clear, Jiang Feng felt that the two of them seemed a little lost.
The light in this forest is very dark, and you can barely see the sky when you look up. It is full of trees and weeds. Some weeds can even grow to half a person's height, making it difficult to identify the direction. The types of weeds are also very fierce, sharp and can cut people's legs. If they were not wearing cotton clothes and pants in winter, their legs would have been cut with blood.
It is precisely because I wear a lot of clothes in winter that it is difficult to walk slowly. .
Sure enough, Chen Shi and Xia Mubing got lost.
Xia Mubing was the first to realize that the two of them might be lost. He stopped and looked around, then looked up at the sky, obviously trying to figure out the direction but to no avail.
Chen Shi was so tired that he couldn't tell up, down, left, south, east, and west. Seeing Xia Mubing suddenly stop, Chen Shi felt that the tight string in his head suddenly broke, and he collapsed on the ground without caring about his buttocks. It's just a big sharp stone that makes me nervous.
Xia Mubing lowered his head and glanced at Chen Shi, who looked like a useless man, then stood on tiptoes and stretched his neck to look ahead, as if he wanted to see what the terrain was like ahead.
"Get up, walk a little further, and rest on the flat place in front. You go pick up some firewood and I'll find water." Xia Mubing said.
"Ah? Oh." Chen Shi had completely lost the ability to think independently. He stood up numbly and took two steps forward before reacting belatedly, "Rest?"
Mrs. Chen raised her head and glanced at the sky, feeling that it was starting to get dark: "Isn't it going to be dark soon? Why are we resting? Aren't we going to get out of the woods today?"
Xia Mubing had already started to move forward, telling Chen Shi the tragic news in a tone of talking about what to eat tonight: "We can't get out, we are lost."
"Oh, we are crazy..."
"We're lost?!" Chen Shi's face finally showed such a rich expression again, with panic and despair, and despair with "I'm dead today", and while I was dead, it was revealed that I didn't actually think that way. die.
Xia Mubing had already walked at least eight meters forward, and Chen Shi quickly caught up with him. This was probably the fastest he had seen Chen Shi run since Jiang Feng entered his memory.
"How did we get lost? Didn't we walk around the edge of the forest? We wouldn't have walked into it, right? It's over, it's over, I heard them say that this forest is really big, and there really is everything in it. If Once we get inside, we will never get out. We have nothing. We had no guns but only knives, and we had no food or even water. If we had known better, we would have taken that path, at least we wouldn't have died of hunger and thirst, and they would have captured us and shot us. It’s better than starving to death or being eaten by a wolf!”
Xia Mubing frowned, obviously being disturbed by Chen Shi.
"Give me the kettle." Xia Mubing stretched out his hand.
"Oh." Chen Shi obediently opened the cloth bag and handed the kettle inside to Xia Mubing.
Jiang Feng noticed that in addition to the kettle, Chen Shi's cloth bag also contained a knife wrapped in thick cloth, two strings of beads, a little money and two boxes of matches.
"You see the flat land in front of you? Go collect firewood and light the fire. We can rest here tonight without climbing into the trees." Where there are no trees, there are grass and stones on the ground, and it is not flat at all.
"What if we don't climb up the tree and are snatched away by a wolf at night?" Chen Shi didn't know why he was so afraid of being snatched away by a wolf. "This wolf will disembowel a human being, and then the intestines will flow all over the floor." You can’t die in a good way.”
"There shouldn't be any wolves. I just paid attention. We did go the wrong way into the forest, but we didn't go very deep. Let alone wolves, there weren't even rabbits along the way. Even if there were, as long as it wasn't Even if the wolves are on fire, the beasts won't dare to come near. If you climb up into a tree to sleep and fall headfirst into the ground because you haven't slept well at night, you don't have to wait for the wolves to come and kill yourself first," Xia Mubing said. .
"Then what should we do at night? We can't stare at the fire without sleeping."
"Sleeping in turns, sleeping alone and guarding by one person, what are you afraid of with a knife? You have killed people, why are you afraid of a few beasts?" Xia Mubing was in a hurry to find the water source, not wanting to talk nonsense with Chen Shi with a kettle Then he went to find a water source and asked Chen Shi to stay here to collect firewood.
After Xia Mubing left, Jiang Feng thought that Chen Shi would be scared because of his timid behavior just now, but it turned out that he was not. Chen Shi very calmly started to pick up the wood, carried the package, and skillfully built a bonfire and lit the wood pile. . After finishing everything, I ran around to explore to see if I could pick some wild fruits to eat. In the end, to no avail, I had to go back to Xia Mubing and find water.
Only then did Jiang Feng realize that Chen Shi was not timid, on the contrary, he was very courageous. In fact, it can be seen from the conversation between Xia Mubing and him just now that he and Xia Mubing fled into the woods in such a mess without daring to look back. In all likelihood, they were deserters, and the way they did so was quite... He was quite rebellious, and he ran away as a deserter after killing the little boss above.
How could such a person who went to the battlefield and became a deserter during the war years be so timid? The timid person died as early as the first time he went to the battlefield.
Chen Shi was simply afraid of death. (End of chapter)