What is it like in the jungle at night? The tall, densely-packed trees' outstretched branches and lush green leaves almost completely blocked out the moonlight from the sky. Without this sole source of light, all that could be seen was endless darkness, with not a finger in sight.
The night wind blew from all directions, the small branches at the top swayed and danced, and the leaves rustled.
After Yang Feng escaped from the cave, he plunged into the darkness. Before deciding to spend the night in the cave, he checked the nearby terrain and prepared a retreat route for himself in advance. However, at that time he imagined that the accident might come from wild beasts in the forest. He did not expect that things would develop unexpectedly. He did not even see the hair of the wild beast, but was found by someone.
Fortunately, they were just two brainless idiots who mistook accidental luck for strength and tried to treat him as their prey.
dream!
If those two idiots didn't have some skills and couldn't avoid the hot coals and crossbow arrows, he could just take care of them one by one and add some fun to the journey. There was also rope in the backpack, enough to tie up two people. When he was fiddling with the fire just now, he suddenly thought of the ancient torture of burning with fire. Although he didn't have special torture instruments now, he could put a spoon in the charcoal fire and burn it into a beautiful red color, and then use it to kiss the delicate skin. Imagine a sizzling sound and a puff of smoke at the moment of contact. There must be a smell of barbecue in that curl of smoke...
Yang Feng had a ferocious smile on his face, but unfortunately no one saw it in the dark.
Following the direction he remembered, he soon ran out of the range he had previously explored. It was quiet behind him. The two idiots actually didn't chase him. He slowed down without any worries, changed direction, and moved forward by groping with his hands.
But as he walked, he felt something was wrong.
The forests in Changchuling are endless and the environment is well protected. There are many kinds of insects, birds and animals. Nighttime is when they are active, but he rarely hears even the sounds of birds and insects. And last night when he was spending the night in the tree, he fell asleep to the sounds of birds singing and insects chirping.
What happened in just over ten hours? Or has he entered a special place? However, based on what he had learned before, this section obviously had not yet entered the depths of Changchu Mountain.
Yang Feng was very cautious. After walking for a while, he estimated that he was far away from the cave, so he stopped. He took the backpack with him when he escaped just now. He always keeps the most important things within reach, just in case. There was a lighting tool in the backpack, but I didn't use it just now because I was afraid of exposing my whereabouts. The little light in the darkness was too conspicuous, as if silently shouting - I'm here, come and catch me.
Without the cave as a natural tent, he could only spend the night in the tree like he did last night. He covered the flashlight with his palm to prevent the light from traveling too far. He briefly swung it in a circle, and his sight also followed it. Then he used his excellent memory to recall the surrounding terrain and features, and finally picked out a suitable tree.
He climbed up the tree, hiding his body between the branches and the trunk, lurking like a hunter, listening attentively to the movements around him.
Not long after the demon left, an owl flapped its wings and flew in from the cave entrance. After circling over the cave, it landed accurately on Jing Ling's shoulder.
-Run, run, Twoleg, your prey has escaped!
It was more anxious than Jing Ling.
"We are playing hide-and-seek. Let him hide first. Could you please help me follow him, Xiaoyi?" Jing Ling said with a smile.
-Okay, okay, I like playing games too!
The little owl was so excited that after agreeing, he flapped his wings and flew away.
After a few minutes, another one flew over. In Song Xiuyuan's opinion, this was the owl from before, but Jing Ling called him Daimao. When I looked closely, it was true. There was a strand of hair on his head.
"Don't be afraid, Daimao. Little Gray won't eat you. I won't forget the little house I promised you. I'll come and build it for you in a couple of days. Now, I'm going to go find Little Gray and Little Flower. The game won't be fun without them."
Finally, the owl named Daimao stood on Jing Ling's shoulder and set off with them.
On the way, Song Xiuyuan asked, "Who are Xiao Hui and Xiao Hua?"
"A snake and a tiger." Jing Ling replied.
Song Xiuyuan didn't think much about the snake, but he immediately had an idea about the tiger. "Is it the South China tiger we found last year?"
Jing Ling nodded, "Yeah."
The Song family of Shuangyue Island is not only rich but also powerful. Song Xiuyuan expected to spend the night in the woods when he went out on this mission, so he brought military night vision goggles with him. However, he only brought one because he didn't expect to have any companions at that time. He was originally worried that Jing Ling might have difficulty moving, but he found that he could walk freely in the dark. Although he was confused, he felt relieved.
The two men walked about seven or eight meters away from the tree where the demon was hiding. The sound they made as they stepped on the dead leaves was almost negligible. After walking for about half an hour, Jing Ling suddenly stopped.
"Xiao Hui, don't be nervous, we are friends."
Song Xiuyuan followed his gaze and saw a huge head suddenly emerge from the pool of water next to him, hissing and spitting out a snake's tongue.
Yang Feng was cautious at first, but as time went on, he gradually relaxed. Looking for someone in such a dense forest, especially in the pitch-dark night, it would be impossible to find him. As he was thinking this, suddenly a creepy cry came from above his head. It was the sound of an owl, giving people the illusion that it was laughing. He always remembered that his father told him when he was a child that hearing the cry of an owl meant someone was going to die. Later, when the only old man in the village died, he heard the cry of an owl for several days in a row, and the same thing happened on the night his father died.
Although he later realized after going to school that such a statement was just superstition and had no scientific basis at all, he still hated the sound of owls from the bottom of his heart.
"Just wait, when daybreak comes, I'll catch you, rip you open, pluck out all your hair, and roast you on the fire!" He squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
The owl continued to hoot, its sound becoming more and more terrifying.
The wind blew through the woods, and the branches began to sway wildly. There was a rustling sound coming from the bushes on the ground, which got closer and closer and became louder and louder.
Yang Feng knew very well that this was definitely not caused by the wind. It looked like a large wild beast was coming. What is it? A wild boar, a bear, or maybe a tiger? After all, last year’s news was all about the discovery of wild South China tigers in Changchuling.
However, the sound disappeared a few meters away from him.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that he smelled an indescribable fishy smell.
"Hiss...hiss..." A strange sound came from the side, and the fishy smell became stronger.
This is the sound a snake makes when it swallows its tongue. Yang Feng is not afraid of snakes, but that doesn't mean he is not afraid of being bitten by snakes. Now is a special period, and we are in the deep mountains and dense forests. If we are bitten by a poisonous snake, our life will basically be over. Thinking of this, he didn't care that the light would expose his whereabouts, and turned on the flashlight to the direction where the sound came from.
Almost at the moment when he saw clearly what was in front of him, his blood seemed to freeze.
Most people have seen snakes. Their eyes are very small, most of them are only the size of green beans. Snake eyes almost always have vertical pupils, but the eyes are so small that they are impossible to see clearly without a close-up.
In the light of the flashlight, the first thing he saw was a huge vertical pupil, the size of an adult's fist, glowing green. The eyes are surrounded by fine and dense scales. It took him a long time to realize what the eyes were.
snake.
A huge, totally unimaginable python.
It straightened up and raised its head a few meters above the ground, staring at him quietly in the darkness.
"I got you!" A voice suddenly came from above his head, and at the same time a black shadow fell down and subdued him. His arms were grabbed and handcuffed behind his back. A hand groped around his wrist, and after a moment, he felt the crossbow on his hand being removed.
"I forgot about this thing just now. How can you bring such a dangerous thing to a simple game of hide-and-seek?"
It was the older young man who was in the cave just now.
During this time, the flashlight fell under the tree and landed in the pile of dead leaves, and most of the light was blocked by the leaves. The huge head and the terrifying vertical pupils disappeared into the darkness in an instant, giving Yang Feng the illusion that this was an absurd dream. How could there still be such a large snake in the world? It is completely beyond the scope of science.
"You lost. According to the rules, you need to leave something behind." Another voice came from under the tree. "Let me think, what should I leave behind? A hand or a foot? No, no, we can't play the game this way. How about this, I'll leave behind a finger. To prevent you from bleeding to death, I won't force you to cut it off, just break it off."
As the man finished speaking, the person who was restraining his hands suddenly touched his left little finger, pinched it, and then bent it back with force.
"Ah——" Yang Feng screamed. Then he picked him up by the collar and threw him down from the tree.
The flashlight came on again, and the surroundings were full of bushes and trees, dense and tall. The big snake he had just seen was gone, but now he felt that those shadows all looked like snakes.
"The game continues. This time you'll be given twenty minutes to hide," said the young man with the wound on his hand. Then a flashlight was thrown next to him.
"What? You're giving up and don't want to play anymore? Are you willing to accept this? We'll arrest you, handcuff you, send you to court, and finally sentence you to death."
"No!" I don't want to die!
Yang Feng grabbed the flashlight, turned around and ran in the opposite direction, diving into the dense forest.
"I got you!" This sentence was like a spell, always appearing in his ears soon after the game time. Accompanied by the familiar and creepy cry of an owl, the huge monster always only reveals the tip of the iceberg, but the fear it brings is always increasing.
The five fingers of his left hand were broken off, and then they found a new way to play. They handed the knife to him and let him choose where to leave marks. The wolves came smelling the blood and surrounded him, licking his bleeding wounds. He could even feel their sharp teeth tentatively biting his skin, but in the end they did not bite him.
Screams continued to be heard in the forest. When two plainclothes armed police officers followed the sound and came over, Yang Feng was almost collapsed. When he saw them, he almost crawled over and begged for help incoherently, "Snake, big snake! Call the police! Help...help me!"
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