I stared with my eyes wide open, as if I had already witnessed Song Bailu's death. The Gu Eagle stood still, and its throat made the same shrill sound that I heard last night, like the sharp sound of a plane making an emergency landing, not only harsh but also revealing the excitement and excitement.
"Hurry up!" I shouted.
Yunwen and I immediately sped up and pulled up. Yingchun didn't try to climb the rock at all. It was all up to Yunwen and me. Therefore, we couldn't speed up and could only pull stiffly.
I looked at Song Bailu facing the huge creature, the ancient ferocious beast from the legendary Classic of Mountains and Seas, and I couldn't help but feel ashamed for her. Not to mention that she was a weak woman, even if I was standing at such a high place now, I would be affected by the hideous appearance of the Gu Diao. It was a bloodthirsty smell that could be smelled in the air.
When he was finally pulled up, Song Yingchun immediately criticized him: "Why are you so slow? I was almost strangled to death in mid-air. Can you please consider other people's feelings?"
However, we had no time to pay attention to her, because right below, the Gu Diao had already moved and was heading towards Song Bailu!
Song Yingchun followed our gaze and looked down. She immediately widened her eyes and bit her fingers hard with her teeth!
I threw down the vine again and told her to climb up quickly, but she hesitated. She shouted upwards, "Zhou Bo, I leave my sister to you! Take good care of her for me. This is the last time I'm begging you!"
After shouting, she stared at the Gu Diao and did not climb up the vines. Instead, she chose to run directly along the mountain wall in another direction. She ran away and disappeared from our sight. As she ran away, the Gu Diao also chased after her in a strange running posture. The bottom of the mountain became quiet and silent in an instant.
The three of us dared not move, for we were afraid to hear the next screams, but also wanted to know what was happening to Song Bailu. This conflicting mentality made us stand there like sculptures for half an incense stick of time.
Unfortunately, I heard nothing. There was no more strange cry of the Gu Diao, and no more voice and movement of Song Bailu. Everything seemed like an illusion and has now become a thing of the past. I was a little overwhelmed and couldn't adapt for a long time.
Song Yingchun burst into tears. Perhaps at this moment, she finally understood why her sister said those words to her that she didn't like to hear.
We didn't dare to say a word about Song Bailu, but everyone knew clearly that the Gu Diao could eat a wild jackal. It could easily catch and eat the wild jackal, which lived in the wild and depended on nature for survival, at night, when it was usually hunting and was most alert.
Song Bailu was such a delicate girl, born in a civilized world, and had no ability to survive in the wild. Could she have a better fate than a wild jackal? I dare not think about it, nor do I dare to face it. The only lucky thing is that she did not make the final scream.
There is no time to be sad. We have to take care of our own survival. The only thing I can do to Song Bailu is to take good care of her beloved sister. Apart from that, there is nothing else I can do to help her.
"Hurry up, now that everyone is here, let's clean up the place and pick up some firewood. We can make a bonfire and sleep here at night. As for the things we brought, I will go down the mountain and tie them to the vines when they are no longer dangerous, and you can pull them up one by one." I said.
The girls were absent-minded and began to deal with the corpses around them. It seemed that vultures had come here many times. Only skeletons of the bison and Bigfoot were left, without any flesh left. Besides the animal skin tents and other animal skins hanging on the trees, the rest were basically skeletons. It was so gloomy and creepy that it made people shudder just by looking at it, let alone staying here.
After all, the Bigfoot has saved me once or twice. Although it may not be sincere, I can't be too ungrateful. As for the final life-and-death battle, there was no other way. Only the fittest survive. My fight with it cannot be regarded as a vendetta, but only a kind of natural selection and elimination, so I don't hate it.
Out of respect for my opponent and because it had saved us unintentionally, I carried its body down the stone steps, down from the solitary peak, to the flat mountain area below the solitary peak. Between the mountain roads, I found the center of two trees, where I dug some soil, buried it, and erected a monument. Just as I was about to leave, I saw two stone statues in front of the mountain road where the burial site was.
One of them was holding a bronze spear, the other was holding a bronze halberd. A mountain road extended in front of them. However, if you go a little further in this direction, you will reach the fault where the solitary peak meets. It should be a dead end. I don't know why there were two stone statues there.
After burying the Bigfoot, I went back along the stone road, only to see Song Yingchun squatting on the ground, crying heart-wrenchingly, while Yunwen was comforting her with tears in her eyes. When she saw me coming, she hissed at me and looked at me with pleading eyes.
I nodded at her and went to collect the other bones.
I have to say that Bigfoot is very powerful. It has killed countless ferocious beasts. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a top hunter and the king of the jungle. I can recognize some of the bones, but not some. However, what I can be sure of is that there is no corpse of the Gu Diao here.
One or two larger skeletons were left behind, and the rest were basically thrown down the mountain. The large ones could be used to dry clothes, but the small ones were of little use and just added to the burden.
Yingchun cried for a long time, probably because she remembered her sister's last instructions. She came up and cleaned up some things for me. In order to survive, I had to swallow my tears and keep working hard.
We have cleaned up all the mess, leaving a lot of space here. It doesn't look so dirty anymore, and the smell is much less. However, there are a lot of bugs on the animal skins, and I think there are a lot of fleas and lice. So I asked Yunwen to take Yingchun to the spring pool, pick some soap beans nearby, wash them, and dry them so that we can use them to keep warm.
Here are the furs of vicious beasts and wolf skins used as tents. I think they are from some ferocious beasts, but they have been reduced to animal skins.
After they left, I went to the cliff and looked down, thinking about when to go down and bring up all the things in the cart, and also to find some dry firewood or something to make a fire. Now without Song Bailu's farsighted glasses and no decent stones here, I would have to rely on drilling wood to make fire.
He took some hay, put it on a piece of dry wood, drilled a hole in the wood, and then used the wood to rotate it back and forth vigorously. He did this dozens of times before there was some improvement. In the end, his hands were bleeding before white smoke finally came out and a fire was started.
As it gradually got dark, the three of us sat around the first campfire in this residence.
Maybe everyone had the same lucky mentality as me, thinking that Song Bailu would escape and come back, but after dark, this fantasy was shattered.
"Brother Zhou Bo, can I take a break? I'm a little tired..." Song Yingchun asked crying, unable to hide her tears.
I nodded and said, "Crying will also consume your energy. Let's go to the hay and get some sleep."
Song Yingchun was sobbing, her body still shaking from crying for so long, sniffing, curling up timidly, and collapsing on the ground without even a straw to spread out.
The animal skin was still drying and baking on the skeleton and could not be used for the time being, so Yunwen took off her own coat and put it on the shivering Yingchun.
After the girl fell asleep, Yunwen came over and leaned against me. Seeing that she had treated the wounds on her hands and feet, she asked, "What do you think we should do? Should we go look for Sister Bailu?"
I shook my head and said, "Acting on one's emotions is the most taboo in surviving in the wild, even though I really want to find her."
"Then what will Sister Yingchun do in the future? She will definitely be very miserable without her sister." Yunwen also seemed to be able to understand the other party's pain.
"In the wild, life and death are determined by fate. The fittest survive, and the unfortunate will be eliminated. I can't do anything about it. The only way is that Yingchun should learn to face her sister's death on her own," I said.