Dali looked at the pitch-black forest in front of him with horror in his eyes, his legs trembling so much that he couldn't move.

Suddenly, I felt a chill on my waist, and a sharp, hard object pressed against me. In my ears, I heard Li Yuan's sinister voice, like a demon collecting a debt:

"What are you still standing there for? We've already gotten you here. Do we really need to 'give you a ride' again?"

As he spoke, the hand holding the knife moved towards his waist again.

Dali felt a sharp pain in his waist and hurriedly trotted forward.

"No need to send me off, I'll go, I'll go right away."

Hearing the ruthlessness in Li Yuan's words, Dali knew that if he didn't go now, he would be either dead or injured if he stayed here. At this point, he could only gamble on his luck. If he was lucky enough not to encounter a bear, he could still come back alive.

Li Yuan and his companions stood where they were, watching Dali's back disappear into the dense forest. Then they took off their pants and urinated, laughing at Dali's cowardly look.

The guy with the buzz cut looked at the dark surroundings and couldn't help but shudder. He quickly pulled up his pants.

"Brother Li, what if that kid gets unlucky and really encounters a bear?"

Li Yuan glanced at him unhappily:

"Why? Worried about him? How about you go in his place?"

The guy with the buzz cut shook his head like a rattle and tried to distance himself from the matter:

"I'm not worried about him. I'm worried that if something happens to him, will it involve us brothers?"

Li Yuan showed a cruel smile:

"It's best if nothing happens to him. What does it have to do with us if something happens to him? His legs are on his body. If he wants to leave the shelter on his own, he can only blame himself if he encounters a bear!"

The man with the crew cut raised his eyes and caught a glimpse of Li Yuan's creepy smile. He was so scared that he quickly looked away. His heart felt like a bucket hanging in the air, neither rising nor falling.

At this moment, he sincerely hoped that Dali could return safely. With Li Yuan's ruthlessness, without Dali, these bad lucks would befall them. He didn't want to die in the bear's mouth!

Dali ran out of the sight of Li Yuan and others in a panic, and the next second he squatted down with weak legs. He didn't even dare to breathe heavily, and his heart couldn't stop beating wildly.

He tried to open his eyes wide and looked around vigilantly. Every hair on his body stood up. It took him a long time to adapt to the thick, inky darkness before he could see nearby tree trunks, roots and other obstacles in the moonlight.

He was so scared that he wanted to cry, but he was afraid that making any noise would attract the black bear, so he could only bite his lower lip tightly and let the tears flow down his cheeks, thinking about what to do next.

If he quietly slipped away from the refugee area and sought help from the PLA comrades, Li Yuan and his men would not actually take any action to harm him. At most, he would be criticized and educated by the PLA comrades.

But if he did this, even if he completely offended them, even if he couldn't take action in the refuge area, he would definitely be beaten to a pulp by Li Yuan and his men when he returned to the town after the flood receded!

If you don't want to be retaliated against, you can only listen to them and go into the flood to fish out meat for them. If you encounter a bear along the way, you will also be in danger of death!

Taking a step back means death, but taking a step forward seems like a chance of luck.

Dali couldn't think of a better way, so he could only grit his teeth and fight to the death. He propped up his legs and hooked his waist, straightened half of his body, groped in front of him with his hands trembling, and took difficult steps forward.

The crunching sound of dead branches and leaves under his feet would scare him half to death. The sound of wind blowing the leaves sounded to him like the footsteps of the Black and White Impermanence coming to take souls away, making his heart beat suddenly in his throat.

After struggling forward for an unknown amount of time, he finally reached the water's edge.

The relatively empty shore made him even more nervous. He felt like a naked prey exposed to the air. In the next second, the man-eating black bear would suddenly rush out from the darkness and bite off his head.

Dali's mind was full of those horrible images. He didn't want to stay here for even a second, so he quickly found a sturdy branch from the shore and fiddled with it by the water with the forked end of the branch.

During the day, he was taken by Li Yuan to observe. There were indeed many animal carcasses floating down the flood. A lot of debris floating down the river piled up on the shore, which also blocked some drowned animals.

His goal was to fish out a few animals from the debris by the water and bring them back to the refugee area. Only in this way could he complete the task assigned to him by Li Yuan and avoid being targeted by him in the future.

Dali looked around nervously and rummaged through the debris with a branch. Unexpectedly, after just a short while, he actually found a lamb.

The lamb looked to be about two months old, and it was obvious that it had not been weaned yet.

Dali was delighted and used a branch to paddle the lamb to the shore. He threw away the branch, picked up the lamb and ran up the mountain, completely forgetting Li Yuan's request that he bring back at least two or three lambs.

It was not known whether the black bear was driven away by the People's Liberation Army or ran to other hills to find food. In short, Dali's luck on this trip was really good. Not only did he not encounter a black bear, but he also caught a lamb so quickly. He finally felt a little happy in his heart.

Unlike when he came, Dali ran all the way this time and was about to reach the place where he had separated from Li Yuan and the others. As agreed before, he hid the lamb under the roots of a big tree, covered it with some dead branches, and marked the tree trunk. Then he pretended nothing had happened and walked towards the shelter.

The patrolling soldier shone his flashlight over, and Dali quickly raised his hand to the soldier with a flattering smile:

"Comrade, I just got back from the bathroom."

The patrolling soldier did not suspect anything and nodded at him and let him in.

Li Yuan and his companions were already snoring in their sleep. Dali looked at them with hatred in his eyes, but he dared not do anything. He could only put on his clothes and lie down in the corner.

I originally wanted to close my eyes and take advantage of the time to get some sleep, but after coming back from this adventure, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep. I forced myself to stay awake with my eyes closed until the six o'clock count.

He closed his eyes and listened to the soldiers quietly counting the number of people:

"One, two, three, four, five... all together."

I heard the squad leader report after counting the number of people:

"Second Company, Second Platoon, Third Squad, assembled!"

After hearing this voice, Dali, who had just been through the gates of hell, breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that his heart had finally settled down, and he gradually felt sleepy.

Who knew that just after I fell asleep for a while, I suddenly felt a pain in my leg.

He opened his eyes drowsily, only to find that Li Yuan and several others had formed a circle and were looking down at him. One of them was kicking his thigh.

Li Yuan saw that he had woken up and twitched his lips:

"You slept soundly. How did things go?"

Dali hurriedly got up and said in a low voice:

"Done, done, Brother Li, the things are outside under the big tree."