Chapter 21 This is not Loch Ness
Dark, quiet, and depressing, these are all conditions that can make people nervous, so humans yearn for light.
Luo Chong also needs light. It would be a lie to say that he is not nervous under such conditions. Don't forget, this is not the modern world with few wild animals. This is a real primitive jungle.
He chopped a piece of dead branch with a stone axe, split a cross-shaped gap at one end, put some thin branches and hay in it, and then spread a layer of lard on it. He picked some fire and blew on it. It lit up in a whoosh. The bright torch finally made him feel a little safe.
The lard on the torch crackled and burned, and there was finally some sound and light in the silent forest.
Luo Chong packed up all his things and climbed up the natural bridge with the torch.
The branches of the black tree are very thick and strong, but there is one bad thing, it is too damn slippery. It may be affected by the fog. The bark, which is not rough to begin with, has a thick layer of moss.
It was impossible to walk, but fortunately there were many branches above, so I could hold on to them to keep my balance, and just keep moving forward bit by bit.
But the good times didn't last long. Just when Luo Chong climbed to the middle of the river, something strange happened. The lard on the torch burned very vigorously, crackling and making a lot of noise. A drop of burning lard fell into the river.
There was a loud splash of water, as if some huge monster had turned over in the water. The mist on the water surface also shook, which scared Luo Chong.
Damn, fortunately I didn't choose to swim across the river. Who knows what monsters would be in this prehistoric primitive river? I'm so smart.
I continued to crawl forward. When I reached the junction of the two trees in the middle, the branches doubled. Luo Chong had to put the torch aside and use a stone axe to clear the way.
The branches of the black tree were very hard and had little elasticity. The axe hit the trunk and made my hand numb, and the unlucky torch was also shaken down.
In Luo Chong's shocked eyes, the bright firelight penetrated the mist, reflecting a dazzling silver light under the water.
In an instant, the silver light flashed, and a bloody mouth full of triangular teeth jumped out of the water, swallowing the burning torch directly into its mouth.
Ao plop, splash.
"Ah, oh, shit, is this a fish? How can a fish scream? Whose fish can scream when it is scalded?"
The owner of the big mouth just swallowed the torch, and then screamed, and then fell back into the water with a plop. The huge waves stirred up directly knocked Luo Chong off the branch. Fortunately, he grabbed the tree trunk and could still hang on the water and curse.
But the big brother in the water was not happy. He rolled over and over below, stirring the waves. Luo Chong was so scared that he kicked his legs up hard, swung back and forth several times, and then hung his legs on the tree.
As soon as Luo Chong hung his legs up and hadn't even had a chance to catch his breath, the monster in the water came up again.
The water surface shook violently, and the silver light jumped out again. Luo Chong used all his strength to pull his body up, but the monster still bit the backpack and dragged Luo Chong into the water with a splash.
"Fuck you." He
was afraid that the backpack would fall off when he climbed the tree, so he tied it tightly. Now he and the backpack were pulled directly into the water, causing Luo Chong to choke on a big mouthful of water.
The mouth of the water monster was not very big, and it was stuck in the backpack. He wanted to vomit but couldn't, and he wanted to bite it but couldn't. He could only shake his head back and forth, hoping to get rid of the broken thing stuck in his mouth. Luo Chong was also swayed left and right in the water, unable to break free.
Nonsense, this is a backpack made of beech branches. If it was so easy to break, why would Luo Chong go to the trouble of cutting branches?
The violent swinging almost made Luo Chong vomit. This was more exciting than riding a roller coaster. Luo Chong struggled to pull out the bird-beak dagger from his boots, and cut off one side of the strap and the rope tied around his waist, and then he could turn around with great effort.
In the dark river water, it was impossible to see what the thing was. Luo Chong turned around, desperately pulling the remaining strap with one hand, and stabbed the water monster's head with the dagger in the other hand. After
stabbing twice in a row, the water monster swung even more, and it jumped out of the water again, pushing Luo Chong, and then smashed Luo Chong down heavily, making Luo Chong dizzy and dazed, and he drank several gulps of water in succession.
The water monster was not feeling well either. The two foot-deep wounds on its head were bleeding profusely. It rushed around in the water with Luo Chong.
Seeing the rocks by the river ahead, Luo Chong turned over from the side and rode on the water monster's head. Looking at the two eyeballs without eyelids on the side of its head, he stabbed them fiercely with a knife. Without pulling out the knife, he also inserted half of his arm into it with this force, stirring it up randomly.
The crazy water monster froze for a moment. Luo Chong took the opportunity to pull out the knife, and a stream of red and white paste spurted out of the black eye sockets.
Taking advantage of the moment when the water monster froze, he stabbed it again with a knife, and the other eye socket was also stabbed blind, directly opening a hole on both sides of the head.
Blood and brain matter continued to gush out from the two eye sockets, muddying a large area of the river water. The strength of the water monster's struggle became weaker and weaker, and finally it turned into convulsions.
Luo Chong was exhausted and lying on his back on the water, not wanting to move at all. He didn't believe that there would be such a thing in such a small river.
After resting for a while, the water monster was dead, and its silvery belly turned directly onto the water surface, but Luo Chong's backpack was still firmly stuck in the mouth of the water monster.
There was no other way, Luo Chong could only swim to the other side by himself, find a strong vine, pass through the eye socket of the water monster, and drag the water monster to the shore with great effort. The strength he had just recovered was once again exhausted.
Luo Chong lay beside the water monster, panting, and only then did he have time to look at the monster carefully.
It turned out to be just a fish, with a body shape somewhat like a catfish, a red head and a silver body, no scales on the body, a body length of about five meters, and a body diameter of more than one meter. I don't know what kind of fish it is.
After resting for a while, Luo Chong took off his clothes and boots, picked up a stone axe and began to knock the big fish's teeth. There were more than 50 triangular teeth as big as a child's palm. He took out the backpack after knocking them all out.
After checking the contents, fortunately, the peppers and salt were packed in snakeskin bags and no water entered. There was no loss of other things, except that the half chicken left over from lunch could not be eaten. What
made Luo Chong happiest was that the fire tube did not get wet. The opening of the tube made of pig leg bones was blocked with a wooden plug, and the sawdust inside was still smoldering.
Just when Luo Chong was thinking about lighting a fire and roasting his clothes and boots, he suddenly heard footsteps from the woods.
Luo Chong turned his head and saw a woman with disheveled hair and pale skin, with a little girl, looking at him in horror.
The two people screamed and ran away. A round object fell on the ground. Luo Chong walked over and saw that it was a wooden barrel.
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1. Multiple choice questions (100 points)
1: If Qingshu wants to ask for recommendation votes and collections, will you support it?
A: Must give (European Emperor)
B: Cannot give (African)
(End of this chapter)
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