Chapter 267 Lead the Way Home
There was another rustling of leaves, and two dark shadows leaped down from the tree.
Zhao Yeqing almost pulled the trigger, but fortunately she saw it clearly and reacted immediately, and quickly put the gun down.
I exhaled a breath that I had been holding in my body, and sat down with my relaxed body, looking at Huhu and Xuebing who were walking towards me. I hadn't seen them for a long time...
Looks like I can sleep well tonight.
These two haven't returned home since they killed a black bear and had a big meal.
Zhao Yeqing brought the two leopards, which had grown so big that they could hardly fit under the tarpaulin, in front of him and stroked them vigorously with his hands.
"You two, did you run to this mountain to escape the heat because it's so hot?"
I don't know if the two leopards understood or not, but they rubbed their heads against Zhao Yeqing's neck desperately. These two guys were quite heavy now, so she had to lean back continuously.
"Ouch! Stop, stop, stop! I'm going to fall!"
Mu Xi also looked relaxed, which was rare. With these two cubs guarding them, they were safe for the night.
Seeing that Zhao Yeqing was visibly happy, he stretched out his uninjured but weak right hand to support Zhao Yeqing who was about to fall backwards.
"Be careful... We didn't know where these two were before, but they probably heard the familiar sound of our gunfire and rushed over here."
Zhao Yeqing thought so too. When these two were still babies, they had heard the sound of gunfire when Mu Xi killed a wild boar. They were very familiar with it.
She scratched her head and said, "If you hear the gunshots in our house, you can come over, but don't rush over when someone starts shooting, or you will be delivering food to others."
Although there are probably only two of them in the mountain now, and it is unknown whether there will be others in this life, we still have to remind them.
But what’s the use of reminding? The two leopards don’t understand and will just keep rubbing against Zhao Yeqing’s face.
Now Mu Xi could finally sleep peacefully. Zhao Yeqing stayed up until the second half of the night to make sure Mu Xi did not have a fever. He whispered something to the two leopards and then fell asleep in a daze.
Mu Xi, who was injured, did not have a fever, but Zhao Yeqing, who was not injured, had a fever.
Mu Xi woke up at dawn and saw that Zhao Yeqing had also fallen asleep, so he thought about changing the medicine first.
After taking a closer look, he found that Zhao Yeqing's face looked a little abnormal. He raised his hand and touched his forehead, and felt a burning heat.
He hurriedly called Zhao Yeqing to wake her up softly, and when he saw that she had come to her senses, he opened the kettle and gave her some water.
Zhao Yeqing felt weak all over. Mu Xi saw that her symptoms did not seem like she had caught a cold last night. "You probably got scared yesterday. Rest for a while and don't worry."
When you are extremely frightened, the sympathetic nerves become overly tense, leading to increased secretion of adrenaline, and in severe cases, you will start to have a fever.
In this situation, the main thing to do is to calm the patient's emotions. As long as the fever is not very high, it is better not to take medicine. Moreover, most of the medicines you carry now are Western antibiotics, which can only be used in emergencies.
Mu Xi felt both distressed and blamed himself. If he had not suggested coming to the mountains, this would not have happened.
They wet a towel with water and put it on their head for physical cooling. Two leopards came over and, feeling the temperature on Zhao Yeqing's head, they wanted to lick her face with their tongues to cool her down.
Presumably, Zhao Yeqing didn't want to wake up with a face full of stinky saliva, so he quickly reached out to stop the two leopards.
There was no thermometer now, and when Zhao Yeqing woke up in a daze, he estimated that his fever did not seem to be very high, so he thought about hurrying back first.
But as soon as he stood up, his steps became weak, his knees went weak, and he almost fell to his knees.
She suddenly found it inexplicably funny. "You know, it's amazing that we can encounter such a thing while picking flowers. If you think about it carefully, you probably won't see a snake even if you spend money to go to the zoo."
I haven't found any zoo with such a big python. Maybe there is more than one in this mountain. It would be best if we can go back quickly.
But now both of them are patients, one is injured and the other is sick, and they can’t find a way out of the forest.
Zhao Yeqing's mind was also in a mess, and the speed of his brain's processing dropped by more than 50%.
The two leopards stayed there and didn't leave, as if they were worried about Zhao Yeqing. They lay beside her and their eyes never left her.
Zhao Yeqing suddenly had an idea and blinked, "Can you two lead the way?"
Seeing that the two didn't understand, Zhao Yeqing asked again: "How do we get home?"
I don’t know if it was the word “go home” that triggered the two leopards’ cognition, but they stood up and were about to move forward.
The two looked at each other instantly.
There's hope!
After packing up, Zhao Yeqing took out the python meat from the bag and said to Huhu and Xuebing, "You two should eat something first."
They both finished eating the food they brought, but she had no appetite now. She couldn't swallow the snake meat, which had no seasoning to remove the fishy smell, by the original roasting method. She wasn't that hungry.
Let’s go out first.
The two leopards seemed to be eating slowly, but it didn't take long for them to finish both pieces of snake meat.
Cats are all clean and will lick their fur after eating before moving forward.
The leopard could walk on the rugged mountain road almost as if it were flat ground, but the two men did not have that ability.
The path that Leopard led was not the original path they came from, so it was not that easy to walk on. After walking for more than twenty minutes, the two successfully stood at the foot of the mountain.
But the foot of the mountain here is not the same place as where they went up the mountain, so they have to walk a little further.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they knew the way and just followed the stream.
Their location seemed to be upstream of a stream, so it wasn't difficult to walk down, at least they didn't have to climb a mountain.
The two leopards did not leave either, and followed the two men along the water's edge.
As they walked along this path, they saw a rhododendron in full bloom.
I can see it but I can't pick it.
The flower did not grow on the ground, but was parasitic on a towering tree that was nearly twenty meters tall.
It was an epiphytic azalea, its roots not in the soil but in the moss on a big tree in the cloud forest.
The big white flowers were in full bloom, each one was the size of an adult's fist. Zhao Yeqing was amazed and said blankly without blinking:
"How did it survive the previous high temperatures at such a high altitude?"
Mu Xi did not answer, he could not understand it either, and could only attribute it to the magic of nature.
"Since there is azalea, it must not be the only one nearby. Let's go back first. After ten days or so, I will harvest the tea fruits and then look for one nearby."
Zhao Yeqing said with lingering fear: "Just look along the waterside. We can't go into the mountains. It's too dangerous."
The deep mountains where few people go are rich in species. This time it was a snake, but who knows what it will be next time.
It took the two of them half an hour to reach the place where they had climbed the mountain before.
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