Chapter 700 Trap
With Tangyuan's reminder, Baozi and his companions bypassed the villagers who were guarding the intersection and wanted to catch them.
Because of this, they walked around half the mountain before finally getting back to the original direction.
When he was hungry, Baozi would climb up the tree to touch bird eggs and identify wild fruits that he had known on the road.
The two children were losing weight at the fastest rate.
Baozi and Tangyuan were holding two homemade sticks in their hands. After Tangyuan was bitten by a poisonous snake, the two reacted quickly. Fortunately, they had pills in their bags. After swallowing a pill, they were fine, but both were shocked.
After all, they are still children, and they are three or four years old.
The two little brothers had no choice but to break off branches and use them as sticks to beat the grass on the road, scaring away the wild animals and poisonous snakes.
The two of them walked and stopped like this.
Tangyuan could no longer walk. The straw sandals on his feet had rotted away, and even his toes were rubbed and blistered.
There was blood on his feet.
Neither of them dared to waste the pills, because they didn't have many pills, and if they encountered poisonous snakes or other dangers on the road, these pills would be saved to save their lives.
If I take this pill now because of the blisters on my feet, it would be a real waste.
But Tangyuan can't walk now.
Baozi looked at the blisters on Tangyuan's feet and took off the pair of straw sandals that had long been rotten and could not be worn.
The straw sandals were stuck to the skin on my feet.
Even if Baozi used the gentlest movement, Tangyuan still sobbed in pain.
Baozi took off his cloth shoes, whose big toes were already exposed.
But this won’t work.
Tangyuan's feet are in this condition now. Even if he wears cloth shoes, the skin and flesh will still stick to the shoes.
Baozi hesitated.
"How about this, we take a break for two days."
They didn't know how many days they had been walking, but according to the count of sunrise and sunset, it had been about ten days, but they still hadn't gotten out of the mountains.
No one knows how big or deep these endless mountains are.
Because the two people had little to eat, they drank raw water on the way. If it weren't for the pills, they would have fallen ill long ago.
Even Baozi himself couldn't handle it.
Together they were only seven years old.
Tang Yuaner nodded. He was so tired that he really wanted to lie down and fall asleep.
I feel like I have walked all the roads in my life in these few days.
This mountain seems endless and there is no way out.
Every night when he falls asleep, he dreams of his parents.
But when I wake up from the dream, I will still return to the current situation.
Tangyuan is crying.
Baozi hugged Tangyuan tightly and wiped his tears with his black and dirty little hands.
"Don't cry, Tangyuan, we can definitely get out. You think the two of us together can definitely get out. Mom and Dad must be looking for us. Just sit here and don't move. I'll find a tree hole or a cave where we can live for two days, and then find something to eat."
Baozi felt sad too, because he had brought his brother out with him, but if they continued like this, the two of them would starve to death.
The weather was getting a little colder, and the clothes they were wearing were simply not enough to withstand the cold at night.
There is neither food nor drink.
He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the pills his mother had given him, they would both be dead by now.
It was not because of good luck, but because Tangyuan's eyes served as a guide for them. Otherwise, they would have avoided danger countless times.
Maybe they encountered a black bear head-on, because Tangyuan once actually saw a black bear behind the bushes not far away.
If the two men had not been alert and hid quickly, they might have been fed to the bear.
From this time on, the two of them became more careful.
Tang Yuan shook his head. "Brother Baozi, don't look for it anymore. I have seen a cave on the stone wall not far ahead. There is no one or animal in the cave. I also saw a trap behind the bushes. There is a wounded animal in the trap."
Tangyuan felt that his eyesight was becoming more and more powerful. Before, he could only see things within a range of fifty meters, but now it seemed that this range was getting larger and larger.
He used to get a severe headache after watching it for a while, but now he can watch it for half an hour at a time without any problem.
Baozi was surprised. Could it be that there was a trap set by a hunter nearby, so there was an animal in the trap?
If there are animals, then they have food.
After feeding Tangyuan a pill, his feet have now recovered, but he can't walk without shoes.
Baozi took off his shoes and handed them to Tangyuan.
Tangyuan shook his head. If he wore shoes, his brother would have to go barefoot.
Baozi smiled and said, "You silly brother, I have a way, just watch me."
He climbed up the tree and picked a few thick leaves, then wrapped his feet with the leaves and tied them up with vines.
Although it looks very rough, it doesn't hurt your feet at all when you walk on it.
Tangyuan smiled and clapped happily around his brother.
"Brother Baozi, you are so smart."
"Come on, little fool, let's go and see what kind of animal is in the trap and see if we can get it out. Who knows, maybe we can get something to eat."
The two of them immediately started drooling at the thought of having a barbecue.
It had been a long time since they had eaten something to fill their stomachs, and bird eggs were limited in number. In addition, some of the wild fruits were so sour that they made their stomachs sour after eating them.
Some of them can even make people vomit after eating them.
And as they went further out, the weather became colder and there was less and less food in the woods.
If they could eat meat, it would feel like they were in heaven.
Baozi supported Tangyuan and followed the route Tangyuan told them. After twists and turns, they finally saw the trap at the bottom of the hill.
Seriously speaking, this trap cannot be considered a trap.
Baozi knew at first glance that this was not an artificial trap but a natural pit.
It’s just that there are some stones and branches in the pit, and the pit is indeed too deep.
The animal must have fallen in accidentally and tried to escape, but it probably didn't have the ability to do so.
When Baozi saw the animal in the trap, he gasped.
There was actually a wounded wolf inside.
This wolf has bad luck.
It must have fallen into the cave from above without paying attention. Outside the cave, a tree was struck by lightning and a branch was stuck in the cave. The wolf was pierced by the branch on its hind legs and abdomen.
He fell into the trap, covered in blood.
Seeing someone coming, the injured wolf still stared at them fiercely and let out threatening growls.
When Baozi recognized it as a wolf, he completely gave up the idea of eating meat.
He didn't know whether wolf meat was edible, but faced with such a ferocious animal, the two of them wanted to eat it.
Even if the wolf was injured, it could easily bite both of them with its sharp teeth.
They just let it go.
(End of this chapter)
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