I couldn't keep my balance because the incident happened suddenly, and I was a little scared. I struggled for a few times, staggered and fell sideways, and fell to the ground. However, I felt something soft under me, and the warmth of human skin, and the sound of someone's soft breathing.

When I was a child, my grandma told me that the man-eating monsters in the mountains would lure people by making baby sounds, taking advantage of people's curiosity and kindness, and then when they saw someone being fooled, they would eat the person's heart. If what I heard was correct, the monster I pounced on now must be some kind of monster. It must have the feeling of a human body to confuse other people. These mountain spirits are the most cunning.

I quietly searched for a stone nearby, intending to smash it to death before it devoured my heart!

However, just as I moved for a moment, I heard a soft and crisp girl's voice coming from my ear: "Zhou Bo, it's not appropriate to think about this now. We are in danger now. Why don't we deal with the current situation first?"

Why does this voice sound so familiar?

I propped myself up and raised my head. When the moonlight shone down, I could see clearly that the person who had pulled me and was accidentally knocked down by me was Yunwen. She was biting her lips, full of shyness. She coughed, and after standing up a little, she could only lower her head and dared not look at me.

I was wondering why I felt a little relaxed after falling down just now. So this is what happened. I felt a little embarrassed when I thought about the situation just now, and I was glad that the stone did not fall down.

"I thought it was some monster. Sorry, I didn't think that. It was pitch dark just now and I didn't see clearly that it was you." I said hurriedly.

"It's okay. Then? Can you go down first? I can't get up." Yunwen's voice was so shy that it sounded like the buzz of a mosquito.

I coughed, quickly stood up, and stepped aside, my face red to my ears.

"Shh! Let's not talk about this for now. Monsters do exist. Look over there, what is that black shadow? The baby's crying sound seems to be coming from it." Song Bailu suddenly popped his head out from the bushes and said to us.

My first reaction was extreme embarrassment, because there was actually a third person present. My second reaction was to pretend nothing had happened and go see what the "monster" she was talking about was.

Pushing aside the brush, Yunwen and I went over together, crawling over the fence, and saw a dark shadow in the distance, about half the height of a tree, with a strange horn on its head that looked like a dry tree fork, and an extremely long and sharp eagle beak. Its body was that of a four-legged animal, like a leopard, but its forelimbs were slightly longer, and its hind limbs were shorter, giving it a slight sense of standing.

When it opened its mouth towards the sky, the eerie and terrifying sound of a baby crying came out immediately, strange and terrifying.

"What is this thing?" I asked, swallowing my saliva and sweating on my forehead.

"No matter what it is, we can't provoke it. I told you, we have to move out quickly, otherwise there will be endless troubles." Song Bailu said.

Then, the monster did not stay here, but quickly ran to the other end and went to howl somewhere else.

The three of us hurried back into the house to catch our breath. Yingchun also came over and sat with us.

We sat by the campfire and began to re-evaluate the current situation.

"Are you still holding on to hope? I felt something was wrong a long time ago. I've heard the baby's cry two or three times, and I've always been able to associate it with something, but I never thought about whether it really exists. So I didn't want to spread these words and scare everyone for no reason. And everyone has seen tonight that the source of the sound is definitely not a good person. We'd better find a way to leave as soon as possible and not always stay in our comfort zone." Song Bailu said.

I have a vague idea of ​​what that species is, but saying it out loud will increase everyone's fear and add to the stress of the days ahead, so the best way is to stay away from it and avoid seeing it again.

"Okay, I was lucky this time. Fortunately, nothing happened to anyone. Let's get ready tonight. I will also go to harvest the wheat overnight. The sooner we leave tomorrow, the better." I said.

"What did you see? Why did you change your mind so suddenly? I don't want to go to that smelly place. I've just gotten used to it here, and you want to take me away again. It's obvious that you want to torture me, right?" Song Yingchun said.

"Yingchun, we met..." Yunwen was stopped by Bailu before she could finish her words.

I responded, "Anyway, it's something scarier than the deer that rushed into the house."

"Just shoot him to death! I don't want to go anyway, and I don't have a good impression of that place! Sister, can you please consider me, okay? I don't want to move away, I don't want to go there." Yingchun pleaded loudly to Bailu.

I thought Song Bailu would comfort Song Yingchun as usual, but I didn't expect her to say righteously, "No, you have to go!"

The matter is indeed serious. People are terrified just by talking about it, let alone seeing it.

"Okay, Yingchun, stop being so stubborn now. The most important thing is to survive. Let's not sleep tonight. We need to formulate a strategic transfer plan now. Let me tell you about the plan first. First of all, there is the issue of wheat harvesting. This will require more of our time to deal with, so we will take the brunt of it. Everyone will come and help process the wheat ears and put them into mud urns and earthen jars. The second big problem we will encounter during the transfer is that the way up the mountain will be blocked by wolves." I said.

"That's right, how do we solve this problem? Why take the risk? Just stay here, Zhou Bo, have you forgotten how badly you were bitten by the wolf?" Song Yingchun said again.

"What do you think about going up the mountain?" Bai Lu asked.

"We're taking a dangerous road. If the wolves come, I won't be able to protect you three girls. You'll die on this road, so there's only one other way. I'll climb to the top of the mountain barehanded again, then find vines to tie you up, and pull you up one by one." I said.

"This won't work. It's too dangerous. How can we let you do such a dangerous thing alone?" Yunwen said anxiously.

"It's a matter of life and death. There's no other way. It's okay. I'll go up once. I'm familiar with the route. It will be safer than the first time." I said.

"That won't work either!" Yunwen said coquettishly.

"Let him go. This is the only feasible solution if we don't want to encounter that thing we saw tonight." Song Bailu said.

"The last question is, we definitely can't transport the current supplies over there at once. Small items are okay, such as dried beef, bronze ware and the like, which can be put into backpacks. We can also make earthenware basins and the like there, but the rotten wood also needs to be carried away, otherwise we will not have the next batch of wood ears, and then we will be trapped on the top of the mountain, with many less food sources. Besides, the wheat ears will probably fill two or three large earthen urns and pots, which we can't carry away at once." I said.

"This is also a problem. It seems that we can only give up part of it." Bai Lu said.

"We can't give it up. After planting for a whole winter, it would be a shame to waste so much." I said.

"Then what do you think we should do?" Bai Lu asked hurriedly.

“The only way is to make a temporary carpenter’s cart. Tomorrow, as long as we can push the supplies to the bottom of a suitable cliff and carry them up one by one, we can solve the problem at once,” I said.

Originally, Song Yingchun wanted to continue saying something like "trouble", which could be predicted by her lip movements. However, suddenly a shrill cry was heard from outside, followed by a wild animal's tragic scream. The sound of the bitten animal was extremely miserable, and it kept groaning, and one could feel the desperate pain!

Song Yingchun swallowed her saliva, took back what she wanted to say, and said, "I don't know how to use a cart, but can I use Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse? I have learned..."