Chapter 24: Danger in the Mountains

Winter has passed and spring has come, but the mountains and fields in early spring are indifferent to the call of spring. The earth still hides in the thick cotton snow blanket and refuses to wake up. Yi Ke, a cat who hibernates in a cave, continues to train with her short arms and legs, striving to improve her martial arts because she wants to hunt more prey this year. Yi Ke had almost no free time. Besides practicing martial arts, he was also working hard to make bows and arrows, especially short sleeve arrows. At the same time, she ground the herbs she collected into powder so that she could carry it with her when she went out. She also specially made some nerve-paralyzing drugs and slow-acting or quick-kill poisons. Although she had no intention of harming animals, she still had to be on guard against them, and some of the poisons were specifically targeted at large animals. She thought: "If I can't win, I'll use these medicines." But she forgot one sentence: in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are futile.

Yike has been staying in the paradise cave for a whole winter. Since she has no cotton clothes or trousers, she only has a rabbit skin coat made of n rabbit skins and trousers made of pig skin. So she has not left the cave for the whole winter and feels like she is going to moldy.

Now that spring has come, although the snow in the forest has not melted yet, she still decided to go out and take a look. Yike wore the stolen clothes of his sister Han Guihua inside, and put on a kudzu shirt woven with kudzu fibers, and then put on a rabbit skin coat and pig skin pants outside, and leather shoes (made of unknown animal skin) on his feet. She pushed open the door of Tunnel No. 1 and walked out, standing on the observation tower, overlooking the mountains and forests. I saw icicles of various shapes hanging all over the mountains and trees outside. Occasionally, a little green would peek out and peek at this snow-covered world. An unknown bird chirped and flew to the distant sky. Yi Ke thought: "Perhaps the sky has the warmth it needs."

The crooked-necked pine tree on the top of the cliff still stands crookedly, the skin of the main trunk is as rough as cracked soil after drought. The crown of the pine tree is wearing a white velvet hat, and the pointed tips of the pine needles are condensed with little white ice beads, which seem to be dripping. Although this tree is not standing straight, it still stands tall and grows tenaciously in such a harsh environment. Such tenacious vitality is awe-inspiring!

Yike saluted the pine tree with an unstandard military salute and said to it, "Grandpa Pine Tree, thank you for standing guard for me all winter! Thank you for your company all the time! Haha! I, Yike, will also live tenaciously in this mountain like you."

Yike dragged the bamboo ladder out of the cave and lowered it down, fixed it with a rope, and went down the cliff along the ladder. She first went to the vegetable garden to lift the hay covering the vegetables, letting the vegetables say hello to the air. The warm air rushed into the leaves, and the vegetables stretched comfortably.

Yike used the spring water to water the vegetables. The vegetables gulped down the water, and their leaves, still covered with water droplets, swayed gently, as if to say, "Thank you, sister Yike!"

"Haha! No need to thank me, I don't have any good intentions. You guys grow up quickly, and when you grow up I will..." Yike made a face as if he was eating, and couldn't help laughing. After watering the vegetable garden, she spread the hay on the bent bamboo sticks again. The green vegetables happily grew tall under the protection of the bamboo sticks and hay. hehe! If they knew they would be eaten if they grew taller, would they still try to grow taller?

Yi Ke stepped on the thick snow and found all the traps nearby, only to discover that the traps were full of snow. She dug out the snow and found some dead branches to cover it up to camouflage it. Large leaves were used to cover the pit to prevent snowflakes from falling in, and the rope was not set up again.

After she reset all the traps, she started making skis, preparing to explore farther places the next day. The weather was cold now, and most of the wild beasts were hibernating. The only ones that came out to look for food in the ice and snow were the weak animals. If these small animals met each other, who knows who would eat whom?

The current Yi is no longer the skinny little girl she was last year. After leaving Yang Huaihua, she often had pheasants, wild rabbits, wild ginseng, ganoderma lucidum and other foods to nourish her body in the forest. She didn't finish eating all the wild vegetables, sweet potatoes and fruits in the whole winter. This life is so much better than when she was outside the mountains. In addition to growing taller, her dry and yellow hair has become soft and smooth, her dark yellow skin has become white, her body is no longer just two pounds of bones, and she can now pinch flesh on her cheeks. Now Yi Ke is definitely a petite beauty.

Yike has been isolated from the world for too long, so she thinks she is very powerful now and wants to find a beast to test her skills. She had the mentality of a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger. But when she actually met a tiger, she realized what the king of the forest was.

Yi Ke's snowboard is made of bamboo. First, cut a bamboo and cut it into bamboo sections that were 1.2 meters long. A total of three such bamboo joints are prepared, and then two symmetrical holes are cut at both ends of the three bamboo joints. A wooden stick is taken, both ends are sharpened, and inserted into the holes of the bamboo joints to string them together. The three bamboo joints are fixed by hammering hard, and the bamboo is tied with a rope to reinforce it. This simple ski board is ready. The ski poles are made of small bamboos.

At dawn the next day, Yike's biological clock rang the alarm clock on time. She rolled over in bed for a few times, trying to stay in bed longer. These are all the aftereffects of the previous life. In her previous life, she got up at 6 o'clock every morning to practice martial arts. If she got up late, her master would punish her severely. Later, she developed a habit of getting up on time at 6 o'clock, and she could not change it in her entire life. It is still the same now. She knows what time it is without looking at the time. This is something she cannot change in two lifetimes. One can wear clothes woven from kudzu fiber, a leather coat on the outside, and shoes made from bamboo rat skin. All the bamboo rats in the bamboo forest were killed by Yi Ke, just for a pair of shoes. He killed the whole clan, and the bamboo rats had no way to seek justice. In fact, the shoes are also wronged. The bamboo rats are not killed for the shoes, but because the meat of bamboo rats is delicious.

Yike’s breakfast is very rich: a plate of fried chicken with black fungus, a plate of fried bamboo shoots with chili peppers, a plate of mushroom and egg soup, and three baked sweet potatoes.

After breakfast, Yi Ke felt full of energy and began to quickly prepare food for going out: six hard-boiled eggs, ten sweet potato pancakes, a bag of dried meat, a large bag of cooked bamboo shoots, and two bamboo tubes of water; weapons are divided into hardware weapons and software weapons. Hardware weapons include hatchets, bows and arrows, and ropes; software weapons include poisons that can knock people down immediately and in three steps (this should be avoided if possible, because the meat of animals that have eaten it cannot be eaten); and a large bamboo tube of dried chili powder.

She went to check the traps first, but none of them contained prey. She was not disappointed at all. It was so cold that all the animals were hiding. Who would come out for a walk for no reason? She excitedly skied on her skis and headed deep into Longshan.

Although it is early spring now, the forest still looks like winter. The deeper you go into the forest, the more desolate and sad you feel. The dry and cold air froze the trees stiff, standing in the silent snow. There was only a trace of the skateboard behind me, and a feeling of sadness rose from the soles of my feet. In the vast mountains, a person is so insignificant. "When will days like this end?" Yi Ke's mood became increasingly depressed.

"Ah!" A tiger roar shattered Yi Ke's sadness. She quickly took off her skis, threw them behind a tree, and climbed up the tree nimbly.

A white-browed tiger with hanging eyes emerged majestically from behind a tree, with black and white stripes on its body and a tail like a steel whip. It opened its bloody mouth, revealing its sharp teeth, and the big word "King" on its head showed its status in the forest.

Yi Ke bent his bow and drew his arrow. With two "swoosh" sounds, two arrows shot towards the tiger's eyes. The tiger lowered its head swiftly, and two arrows hit the tree trunk behind it. The tiger roared, and its thick tail swept the bushes, making a rustling sound and causing snowflakes to fly everywhere. It pounced towards her as fast as lightning, pressed its two front paws on the ground, leaped up, and swung its claws to grab Yi Ke. Yike quickly climbed up again. This tiger could jump so high in an instant. It was too powerful. He dared not to provoke it. His life was at stake. He quickly climbed up.

The tiger didn't catch anything and roared continuously. The forest shook with its roars. The tiger held the tree trunk with its claws and climbed up.

When he saw the tiger climbing a tree, he was so scared that he quickly climbed to a higher place. The tiger climbed about five meters high and then stopped moving. It raised its head to look at the thing above its head, roared unwillingly, and jumped down from the tree.

Yi Ke was relieved when he saw that the tiger would not climb up. Yi Ke, who was feeling relaxed, suddenly remembered: Didn’t I want to find a beast to test my skills? This is not free sparring. But seeing the mighty and domineering tiger, I still felt a little nervous. It looked like a very hungry tiger. I might end up falling into its mouth instead of practicing.

Let it bleed first, don't show off and scare people. Yike bent his bow and drew his arrow again, and shot a few arrows, one after another, at the tiger. The tiger's huge body could dodge one arrow, but not more than ten. There were at least five or six arrows stuck in the tiger's body, and blood was flowing out. This time the tiger's whiskers were really pulled out. The tiger's huge body slammed into the tree trunk violently, causing the tree to shake as if it would break at any time. Yi Ke's hands that were holding the tree trunk were almost shaken off, and he almost fell off the tree. The tiger kept hitting the tree. Yike held the tree trunk tightly with both hands and was completely unable to shoot the arrow. He had no choice but to take out the secret weapon, chili powder from his bag and throw it at the tiger's head. The tiger was so spicy that it shook its head violently. Taking this opportunity, Yi Ke climbed higher up the tree, hoping to find a branch to sit on so that he could free his hands from the trunk and shoot arrows.

The tiger might have been really angry, or maybe not enough chili powder got into its eyes. In any case, the tiger tried to pounce on the tree again ferociously. Although it couldn't pounce that high, it made Su sway constantly. But he didn't dare to let go and take the arrow to shoot.

Imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel. This is the current situation. She thought she could use the poison she made if she couldn't defeat the beast, but it turned out to be a joke, she didn't even have a chance to take out the poison. Looking at the tiger's ferocious appearance, it would have little chance of winning even if it jumped down from the tree to fight. This is really dangerous!