Chapter 267: The Last Stand of Rebuilding the Camp

Lin Heng quietly took two steps back and kept some distance.

Then he quickly turned on the flashlight and shone it towards the thing entangled in the tree.

After seeing this thing clearly, Lin Heng shuddered again, and for a moment he felt as if he was about to die and was sweating profusely.

“Oh my god!”

Lin Heng was almost scared to death when he saw the thing wrapped around the tree with its tongue sticking out. It was a cauliflower pit viper, also known as a diamondback pit viper. It was very similar to a cauliflower snake but was a highly venomous snake.

If you get bitten by it, you're basically dead. Not to mention that there's no way to get to a hospital in this deep mountain area, even if you could get to a hospital, there's a high chance that you can't be saved. Medical conditions in that era are too backward.

His eyes were fixed on the distance and he almost didn't notice it. Fortunately, he suddenly noticed something out of the corner of his eye and stopped in time.

"Damn it!"

Lin Heng bit the flashlight in his mouth and shot an arrow from his compound bow to nail it to the tree. He felt that his trip was really unlucky. First, the red dates were almost stolen, and now he encountered the iron head.

And it was on a tree. Normally, this thing wouldn't climb trees, and he almost got in trouble.

"hiss!!"

After being nailed to the tree by Lin Heng's arrow, the cauliflower Luo Tietou twisted its body wildly, opening its mouth wide to bite the sharp arrow that pierced its body.

This scene makes people feel creepy and a little scared.

"What's up, bro?"

Lin Yue, who was not far away, heard the noise here and asked.

"Cauliflower iron tip, you'd better be careful too." Lin Heng said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Lin Yue quickly asked: "Are you okay?"

Lin Heng shook his head and responded: "It's okay, I wasn't bitten."

"That's good."

Lin Yue said something and turned around and walked away.

“Ouch~”

Xiongba made a circle in front and came back. He came to Lin Heng and looked at the twisted soldering iron head warily.

Lin Heng angrily slapped it twice and said angrily: "I told you to follow me to explore the way, but you didn't even find this thing. If I die, I wonder who will feed you!"

His heart was pounding now. This was more terrifying than encountering a black bear. The thing he hated most in his life was poisonous snakes. He was also very angry that Xiongba walked in front and didn't find anything.

“Ouch!”

Xiongba was beaten so hard that he lowered his head and whimpered, not daring to resist.

"Fuck, how did this thing get up the tree?"

Lin Yue also shuddered and asked in confusion.

"It should be because of this bird's nest."

Lin Heng shone the flashlight on the tree above, where there was a bird's nest made of branches. This guy should be planning to steal bird eggs.

After waiting for a while, the soldering iron head finally stopped struggling and its body drooped as if it was dead.

Lin Heng did not dare to be careless and poked the snake a few times from a distance with a wooden stick. After making sure there was no movement, he used another arrow to nail the snake's head to the tree, and then used the tempered steel dagger to cut its neck.

He stepped on it and poked it with an arrow, and sure enough, he saw two huge fangs. He dared to catch snakes, but that didn't mean he wasn't afraid. This kind of venomous snake that suddenly appeared could scare people to death.

"Then continue exploring?"

Lin Yue asked.

"Go on, I don't believe we'll encounter snakes again." Lin Heng said with a breath.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and walked forward carefully, always paying attention to what was in front of him, for fear of encountering a poisonous snake again.

Lin Heng pressed the snake's head with stones, put the snake's body into a plastic bag and roasted it at night as a midnight snack.

The two men did not go down to the river, but went up the mountain in an attempt to look for traces of prey, but they found nothing.

As he walked, Lin Heng suddenly spotted two bird-shaped black groups on the tree in front of him. The leaves were not very dense at the moment, so the figures of the two birds were easy to identify.

Lin Heng found a suitable position and shot an arrow. Under the moonlight, the sharp black arrow pierced through the bodies of the two birds, and some blood spilled into the air.

“Ga ga~~”

After just two shouts, the two guys lost their lives. Lin Heng turned on the flashlight and picked it up to check.

"A grouse. I thought it was a golden rooster."

Lin Heng looked at the two blue-gray grouse on the arrow and said with a smile, "This kind of grouse that eats pine nuts tastes very good, with a hint of pine nut fragrance."

There was no gunfire from his eldest brother's side, and it seemed that he had not discovered anything.

In a blink of an eye, the moon was at its zenith. Lin Heng looked at his watch and saw it was already ten o'clock. He whistled at his elder brother who was not far away.

This is an agreed-upon code. Compared to shouting, whistles are more penetrating and less likely to be exposed.

After a while, Lin Yue came down and met Lin Heng. He was holding a hedgehog in his hand, and he didn't get anything else.

"Brother, you shot two grouse. That's great."

Lin Yue gave a thumbs up and said.

"That's all we've gained. Birds are hard to hunt during this period," Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Yeah, I didn't see any. Let's go back and walk along the river, first go down to the river and then walk back." Lin Yue suggested.

"Can."

Lin Heng nodded, it was really rare to go into this forest.

They were now halfway up the mountain, and they found a path that quickly led them down to the river. Just as Lin Heng was about to speak, Lin Yue turned around and pointed to a tree fork in front of him on the left and said, "It's a pheasant. Go shoot it for me, brother, and I won't waste any ammunition."

"good."

Lin Heng took a look and nodded in agreement. The distance of more than ten meters was not a problem at all. He shot it with one arrow and it fell to the ground. Xiongba picked it up. The two of them saw that they had made a mistake.

"It's not a pheasant, it's a cormorant." Lin Yue was stunned. It clearly looked like a pheasant.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "It's a good opportunity to go back and try it. I haven't eaten this before."

"Yeah, it's all the same."

Lin Yue grinned.

The two walked back along the river, carefully, but unfortunately found nothing. The river here is turbulent, and it is not easy to find things like giant salamanders and turtles at night.

Soon they came to the confluence of two rivers. If they walked down another hundred or two hundred meters and then up the mountain, they would find the shelter.

"Let's skin the snake and use the internal organs to catch fish." Lin Heng said to his eldest brother.

"Okay, I think there should be other things here as well." Lin Yue nodded.

The two men skinned the snake, cleaned out the internal organs, threw them by the water and weighed them down with stones, and then set up a stone fishing trap with the internal organs as the center.

This trap is the same as the maze made of wooden sticks. It is similar to a circle made of stones, and then leaving an entrance that gradually shrinks from large to small. Once the fish comes in, they will get lost and find it difficult to get out.

Lin Heng and his team only made one circle. If conditions permit, you can put a circle inside the circle. The more complex the circle, the better the effect of trapping fish.

The two returned to the shelter at half past eleven. Lin Heng searched inside and out and made sure there were no snakes before starting to make a fire.

"Let's get a rattan bed tomorrow. It's too dangerous to sleep on the floor."

Lin Heng said as he was roasting the snake. He originally didn't think it mattered, thinking that it was relatively cool in the deep mountains and there wouldn't be many snakes. But the lesson he learned tonight made it impossible for him to sleep peacefully on the ground anymore.

"Yes, we must get a rattan bed."

Lin Yue also nodded repeatedly. This was a must. The iron head today had left a psychological trauma on both of them.

After a while, the snake meat gave off a meaty aroma. Lin Heng took it out and took a bite. Although the taste was a bit dry, it had no fishy smell and was very similar to chicken.

"Brother, do you want to eat?" Lin Heng asked with a smile.

Lin Yue hesitated for a moment, but still took a bite. After tasting it, he went to eat his grilled fish. He was still a little afraid of snakes.

Lin Heng didn't force it. He ate half of it and gave the rest to Xiong Ba.

"You better keep watch for me tonight."

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Lin Heng glanced at Xiongba and lay down on the pine needles beside him to rest.

“Woof woof~”

Xiongba called out twice, then finished eating the snake meat and lay down next to Lin Heng.

In the middle of the night, Lin Heng suddenly felt a little chilly. He opened his eyes and saw that the fire was still burning, but it suddenly started to drizzle outside. He didn't know when the sky had become dark, and the stars and the moon had disappeared.

"Alas, I will be delayed again tomorrow."

Lin Heng shook his head helplessly, added fuel to the fire, and continued to sleep while holding Xiongba.

The next day, the two brothers got up very early, not because they were not tired, but because it was too cold. The wind was too strong on the mountainside, causing this type of shelter to fail.

Lin Yue looked at Lin Heng and said, "Brother, I'll go cut some branches and you can get some vines."

"Can."

Lin Heng nodded and went to the woods below to cut kudzu vines. There were a lot of kudzu vines here, which were suitable for making rattan beds.

After cutting some vines in the drizzle, Lin Heng went to help pick up some dry firewood for the fire. Then they surrounded the shelter with tree trunks and covered it with thick layers of fresh leaves, making it difficult for the wind to get in.

The shelter was sealed up, and Lin Heng mixed some mud with stones to make a fireplace, which would keep the house warm and allow the smoke to be discharged outside.

After finishing these, the two of them made a rattan bed. They used four wooden sticks to make a rectangular frame, and then wrapped the rattan around it. The rattan bed was ready.

By nailing four tree branches on the ground to cross the rattan bed frame, the bed can be suspended off the ground, effectively preventing snakes and insects from getting close.

"Let's have some chicken soup and a steamed bun at noon. It's not convenient to go out anyway." Lin Yue said to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng smiled and said, "I thought so too."

After the rain, the water flow on the stone surface nearby became much stronger. The two of them fetched water, boiled it, and processed yesterday's grouse and cormorants and put them aside.

Lin Heng kneaded the dough and pressed it into a steamed bun with a diameter of ten centimeters with his hands, then baked it on a red-hot stone. The bun was a little hard after baking because it was a steamed bun made of unleavened flour without baking powder.

Afterwards, Lin Heng chopped up the pheasant he had shot earlier and stewed it into soup, adding morels. The two of them also wore raincoats to get some ferns and garlic and threw them into the soup.

It is a pleasure to eat steamed buns soaked in stewed chicken soup. The chicken soup is fresh and delicious, with the aroma of morels and pheasant. Tear the steamed buns into small pieces and put them in your mouth after absorbing the soup. It is perfect. It is a double enjoyment of taste and flavor.

This was the first meal of the day for the two of them. It was already past two in the afternoon when they finished eating. They had been busy building the shelter all morning.

After a short rest after dinner, Lin Yue asked, "Brother, are we going hunting this afternoon?"

"Go ahead, maybe you can make some interesting discoveries when it rains. I brought a raincoat anyway." Lin Heng nodded.

After saying that, he took out the raincoat hanging next to him and put it on. He went out to bring back the red dates and tied them under the tree to shelter them from the rain, so as to prevent them from being damaged.

In the evening, the two men went out to search in raincoats, but they did not find any trace of prey until dark. They came back disappointed, fried some white rice and meat with steamed buns, and went to bed to rest.

With the reinforcement in the morning, the shelter is now very warm, and there is no possibility of being woken up by the cold as long as the fire is not extinguished.

The next morning, the rain still did not stop, and it was even heavier than the day before. Lin Heng moved the door made of rattan leaves and looked at the sound of rain outside.

Before I knew it, it has been six days since I came here, and I still haven't caught any large prey.

Lin Heng picked up the raincoat and said, "Let's go out and take a look. Maybe the man's breath disappeared after the rain, and the black bear may appear again."

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and followed Lin Heng out.

The two men came to the river wearing raincoats. More than a dozen plum fish and a few mandarin fish had already got into the stone traps they had set up earlier.

These fish were all very plump and delicious. Lin Heng looked at his elder brother and said with a smile, "It's okay. If you can't catch them, you can just take a few hundred kilograms of fish back home."

"Haha, that's right." Lin Yue grinned.

After laughing, the two continued searching. After searching for a while in the morning without any results, they caught two fish, killed them and went back.

Lin Heng felt that he was late this year, or he came to the wrong place. There was a village under the river, and the hunters in the village must have been there, so the bear might have been scared away.

They had fish for lunch and continued searching in the afternoon. They climbed to the top of the mountain wearing raincoats and looked at the direction.

They found that the river where the black bears were found made a big S-bend and there was a relatively wide valley above it.

"Maybe we can go over there and look for it." Lin Yue said.

Lin Heng looked over there and said, "Of course you can, but it's too far and you won't be able to come back at night."

It didn't seem very far, but he estimated that it would take them half a day to walk there from the shelter, and coming back was not realistic.

Lin Yue gritted his teeth and said, "Then I won't come back. I'll find a place to stay for the night. I've given up on this place. I've been looking for so many days and found nothing."

The continuous disappointments made him a little overwhelmed. Hunting was so difficult.

"Can."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement. When he first came, he was thinking about hunting two black bears weighing four or five hundred kilograms. Now he would be satisfied as long as he could hunt a muntjac.

Dreams always fade away, life is too difficult. Lin Heng decided to give it a try, as long as it was not raining, it would not be too dangerous to sleep outdoors.

Especially when Xiongba is around.

On the eighth day in the mountains, the rain finally stopped. The weather was clear and refreshing, the sky was blue, the air in the forest was fresh, and even the dewdrops were lovely, like pearls.

After breakfast, Lin Heng and his companion left the red dates, white rice and porcupine jerky here, and set off with their tools and some steamed buns made of flour.

Moving in the direction set previously, they had already eaten grouse and cormorants in the past two days, as well as a lot of fish. They also made all the flour they brought into steamed buns, which were enough for two people to eat for a day.

If we don’t catch any big prey this time, we’ll have no choice but to go home.

With all their might, they reached the top of the mountain at around ten o'clock and began to walk down the mountain towards their destination. The distance was two or three times farther than going up the mountain, and the road was not easy to walk on.

“Ouch~~”

Not long after walking over there, Xiongba suddenly made a new discovery.

"What is it?"

Lin Heng originally thought it was a mushroom or something, but when he came over and took a look, he suddenly became excited and even trembled a little.

(End of this chapter)