Chapter 133: Someone Behind Me
At this moment, behind the big rock where Shen Lingning had been hiding, there was a sudden "crash" sound, as if something fell down.
"Over there!"
The two men immediately turned their guns around.
However, there was nothing behind the stone, only the sound of wind blowing through the snow.
“This is… weird…”
The short and stocky man's voice began to tremble.
Suddenly, Scarface felt a chill on the back of his neck, as if someone blew a breath on the back of his neck!
He turned around suddenly, and there was no one behind him! Only a silent snow forest.
"Who?! Who's there?!"
He screamed in horror and his hand holding the gun began to tremble.
The short and stocky man was also terrified, remembering the legend about mandrills: "It's...it's a mandrill! It must be a mandrill! It kidnapped that woman! Now it's targeting us! Run!"
Extreme fear instantly gripped the two of them, and the terrifying legend of Shankui strangled their hearts!
They no longer cared about looking for Shen Lingning and the "good stuff" she might have. With a strange cry, they rolled and crawled back, not even bothering to pick up the hunting rifle that fell on the ground!
After a long while, after confirming that there was no movement outside, Shen Lingning's figure slowly emerged from the "space" behind the bushes.
Her face was pale, and her back was covered in cold sweat. In a hurry, she could only use the space to move in and out to create strange movements to scare the other party away. This tactic was extremely risky. If the other party had been bolder and searched more carefully, the consequences would have been disastrous.
She walked over, picked up the fallen homemade hunting rifle, and threw it into the rushing glacial river without hesitation.
Then, not daring to stay any longer, he immediately walked quickly upstream.
Shen Lingning finally found the Black Dragon Pond marked on the map.
It was a deep pool in a dangerous area. A thick layer of ice had formed on the surface of the pool. Only a small area in the middle had not been completely frozen because of the fast-flowing water.
She took out her ice pick and began to chip away at the ice.
The icy river water soaked her cotton pants, and she was freezing cold, but she had only one thought in her mind: catch the fish and save Fubao!
While she was concentrating on chipping the ice, she didn't notice that in the woods on the other side, a pair of eyes were watching her every move through a telescope...
The ice layer of Heilongtan is thicker than imagined.
Shen Lingning swung his ice pick and smashed it hard against the ice surface again and again. The "dong dong" sound echoed in the silent valley.
The knuckles of his palms were numb from the shock, and the cold ice chips splashed on his face, bringing a stinging chill.
The calf part of the cotton pants had long been soaked by the river water splashing out of the ice cave, and a thin layer of ice quickly formed. The coldness penetrated into the bones like needles.
But she seemed to be oblivious to the cold and tiredness. Her mind was consumed by a single burning thought: Chisel it open! Catch the fish! Fubao was waiting for the medicine!
Sweat oozed from his forehead and soon turned cold.
After who knows how many times it was hit, a hole as big as a washbasin was finally opened in the ice, and the deep, cold river water rushed up, emitting a chilling chill.
Shen Lingning immediately took out a simple fishing net made of thick wire and gauze from his backpack, held his breath, and stared at the water surface under the ice cave.
Mr. Chen said that this black-backed silverfish is extremely alert and very fast, and only appears occasionally in the coldest times and deep water areas with the fastest currents.
Time passed minute by minute, and there was nothing in the ice cave except the flowing river water.
Shen Lingning's heart sank little by little.
Is the information wrong? Or is the fish gone?
Just when she was about to despair, she seemed to catch a glimpse of a very fast silver shadow flashing in the depths of the water out of the corner of her eye!
The speed is so fast that it almost seems like an illusion!
She perked up and stared at the water intently.
Another century seemed to pass before several small fish, only the length of fingers, with silver-white bodies and only a clear black line on their backs, suddenly jumped out from the deep water like a few silver lightnings and swam rapidly around the entrance of the ice cave!
That's them!
Shen Lingning's heart was beating in his throat, his hands were as steady as a rock. He watched the right moment, plunged the net into the water at the fastest speed, and scooped it up!
Water splashes everywhere!
When the net left the water, there were four or five small fish inside, struggling and jumping desperately!
The unique black back and silver body are extremely clear in the bleak winter sunlight!
Success!
Shen Lingning looked at the lively little fish jumping in the net, and the huge ecstasy and excitement instantly washed away all the fatigue and coldness!
Tears welled up without warning, mixing with the ice water on my face and sliding down hotly.
She did it!
Her Fubao is saved!
She carefully transferred these precious little silverfish into the thick cloth bag she brought with her, which had been filled with some cold river water.
She didn't dare to delay, so she carefully placed the cloth bag at the bottom of the backpack, padded it with other things to secure it, and immediately stood up to prepare to go down the mountain.
At this moment, she is eager to go home.
The fear and fatigue I felt when I came here seemed to be diluted a lot by the joy of success.
She walked along the bank of the glacier, stepping on the thick snow, quickening her pace, one step deep and one step shallow.
However, she didn't know that the pair of eyes in the woods on the other side, which had been observing her for a long time, also moved quietly after she left.
A slim man wearing a sheepskin coat and a dog-skin hat, like a ghost, stepped silently on his skis and followed her from a distance.
Shen Lingning was focused on getting on his way, but he did not completely lose his vigilance.
After walking for about half an hour, she vaguely felt that something was wrong.
It was so quiet that even the wind seemed to have stopped. She subconsciously looked back.
The white snow, the empty glacier, the whistling mountain wind, it seems like there is nothing.
But the string in her heart was tense.
She deliberately changed direction, deviated from the route she came from, and went into a rocky slope with more complex terrain.
She hid behind a huge rock and looked back quietly.
After a while, a blurry figure appeared on a snow slope in the distance, looking in her direction, as if looking for her.
Sure enough, someone is following us!
Are they accomplices of the two hunters before?
Or...the group of tomb robbers from Yaowang Valley?
Shen Lingning's heart suddenly tightened.
The other person had skis and was much faster than her on the snow. What's more, he was obviously a local and was very familiar with the terrain!
We can’t go back to the parking spot directly, as this will bring danger to Xiao Li!
She immediately made the decision that she must get rid of him!
She used the pile of rocks as cover and quickly moved towards the forest on the other side.
Trekking through the snow was extremely tiring, and her pace slowed noticeably. Meanwhile, the pursuer behind her, on his skis, was getting closer and closer!
You can even hear the rustling sound of the skis rubbing against the snow!
Shen Lingning gritted his teeth, spotted a bush in front of him where the snow was very deep and there might be potholes, and rushed over. At the moment when his body was about to sink into the deep snow, he moved his mind and hid in the space again!
The tracker quickly slid into the area and lost track of his target. He stopped in confusion and looked around.
There was only one set of footprints on the snow leading to the bushes, and when it reached the edge of the bushes... it stopped abruptly!
It was as if the person disappeared out of thin air!
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