86 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi was instantly dragged to the ground.◎
Yin rushed to Ye Zhizhi in an instant, and his sharp eyes scanned the surroundings vigilantly. After making sure there was no danger, he looked at Ye Zhizhi to see if she was injured.
Ye Zhizhi hugged Yin Yi's front legs, and his wildly beating heart slowly calmed down.
She was still frightened and stood on tiptoe to look again. After making sure that she was not mistaken, she held Yin Yi's hand tighter again.
Yin Yi noticed Ye Zhizhi's gaze and looked over. After seeing what had frightened the wolf girl, a small question mark hung on his big head.
It's just a bone from some unknown animal, why is it so scary?
The other four wolves also appeared around Ye Zhizhi. After checking that there was no danger nearby, they also looked over curiously.
What scared the wolf girl? Let them see it too.
Ye Zhizhi's jungle experiences over the past few years have been incredibly dangerous. If she were a timid person, she would have been frightened to death. The fact that she remained alone in the jungle at night without being frightened or disturbed speaks volumes about her courage.
Ye Zhizhi had seen many animal skeletons and was accustomed to seeing wolves eating their prey alive, but this was different.
What Ye Zhizhi was stepping on just now was a human skull. When she was caught off guard and saw the empty space where the eyes should be, she was naturally frightened.
Ye Zhizhi was fearless, but she was instinctively afraid of the corpses of her own kind. When she saw them, she felt an indescribable chill in her heart.
Yin Yi and the others didn't quite understand the reason for Ye Zhizhi's fear, but they knew that the wolf girl was scared because of the animal bones in front of her, so they used their claws to move them around and covered the skull with the surrounding dead branches and leaves.
It took Ye Zhizhi a while to accept the fact that he had discovered human remains.
After the initial shock, Ye Zhizhi regained his courage.
She picked up a branch and walked over, gently pushing away the fallen leaves. The human skull lay there quietly. The color of the skull had become dull, and the surface was covered with traces left by the years.
It looked like it had been buried in the rotten soil for a long time, and was dug up by some animal before Ye Zhizhi accidentally stepped on it.
The first thing she thought of was a murder case, where someone had dumped the body here to destroy the evidence.
But then she thought about it and decided it wasn't necessary. She had been wandering around this area for quite some time and hadn't found any signs of human activity. Instead, there were plenty of venomous insects and ferocious beasts, indicating that this area was still a dangerous, uninhabited place. Even if someone had dumped a body, they wouldn't have taken such a huge risk by coming here.
It should be the remains of humans who came to the jungle for adventure and died unfortunately. She dug deep into the rotten soil nearby and found a few broken bones. It seemed that the person was killed by some wild beast.
After Ye Zhizhi got used to it, he no longer felt scared when he saw the broken human bones.
Instead, she wondered, since she could see dead humans here, was there any hope for her to encounter living humans?
She had lived here for more than four years, which she felt was so long, so long that human society seemed very far away from her. Sometimes she even forgot that she was a human being.
Now I feel that time passes so quickly, as if it has passed in the blink of an eye.
Ye Zhizhi dug out a piece of torn cloth from the rotten soil. The fibers of the cloth had already rotted, and she couldn't see anything. She just felt that this human had been dead for more than ten or twenty years.
For the sake of our encounter, just be kind and bury him.
In order to prevent the pit from being dug up by animals, Ye Zhizhi dug the pit deeper.
Yin Yi tilted his head to look at Ye Zhizhi's actions, then looked down at his claws.
The wolf didn't want to dig any more holes.
It can be said that after digging that tunnel, Yin Yi was injured and he didn't want to use his claws again except for hunting and fighting.
But it doesn’t matter, it still has younger brothers.
So Yin Yi glanced over, and the other four wolves immediately put their front legs on the ground and quickly started digging a hole.
In an instant, rotten soil and dead leaves flew all over Ye Zhizhi, and she could not help but move away silently.
Boom!
Someone's claws dug into something and it flew over and fell at her feet.
Ye Zhizhi lowered his head and poked it with his toes, and found that it was a weapon covered in mud.
She looked at it carefully and found that it should be a dagger. It had been buried for an unknown period of time and was covered with a thick layer of rotten mud.
Ye Zhizhi scraped it with a branch, rubbed it with dead leaves, and then found a few broad leaves to wrap it up and put it aside.
She looked up and saw that the wolves had dug a very deep pit, so she howled to stop them. Then, under the gaze of the wolves, she put the bones into the pit and buried it.
The wolves seemed to be thinking about something, some of them understood but some were also confused.
Wolves do not eat all of their dead mates. When food is not scarce, they will bury the bodies of naturally old wolves underground to prevent them from being dug out and eaten by other beasts, and they will also bury them very deep.
However, the wolf recognized that these were not the skeletons of its own kind. Why did the wolf girl do this?
Ye Zhizhi was unaware of the wolf's confusion. After burying it, she took the dagger to a nearby stream to wash it clean.
This dagger may look plain and simple, but it can actually cut through iron like mud, and it's not rusted at all! It's obviously a good weapon! Ye Zhizhi was delighted. He swung the dagger and cut the vine branches, easily cutting through them. If a human weapon works well, it should be able to handle wild animals as well.
But it must be very dirty after being buried next to the corpse for so long.
Ye Zhizhi burned it with fire and boiled it with water for a long time, and finally felt it was a little cleaner.
She didn't dare use it to cut food, but it was very convenient for hunting and self-defense.
Ye Zhizhi also practiced with a dagger when hunting, and he killed the prey easily, much more easily than before.
She couldn't let it go for a moment.
Ever since she discovered the first incomplete human skeleton, Ye Zhizhi paid special attention to her feet. While wandering in the mountains and forests, she encountered several more of them. After seeing them so many times, she became calmer.
Anyway, she just helped to bury it.
Ye Zhizhi helped bury the human corpse. At first, it was just out of kindness. He wanted to let the corpse rest in peace for the sake of being a fellow tribesman.
But when she helped to find as many skeletons as possible in the surrounding area, she always found some "legacy" left behind.
What's more, she also found a dusty backpack.
She rummaged through the contents and found a working lighter and a trussed-up tent.
With the lighter, she no longer had to work hard to make fire by rubbing two sticks together! And the tent could also shelter her from the wind and rain on rainy nights, and it could still be used after washing.
Ye Zhizhi unknowingly began to enjoy the pleasure of treasure hunting.
Although they are all things of the dead, they are still things that belong to humans.
Only after seeing these things did she feel like she was still in modern society.
Unlike before when I was in the jungle, I often had the illusion that I was in a primitive society.
The increasing number of human skeletons also proved that this direction was correct. If she continued to move forward, she might be able to get out.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to smell the air, but there was still only the unique smell of rotten branches and leaves and animals in the jungle.
Ye Zhizhi was still wondering whether he would encounter humans.
On the one hand, I can't help but look forward to it, but on the other hand, I am very conflicted.
Ye Zhizhi's direction this time was both wrong and right. The direction she was heading in was not the closest to the edge of the jungle.
In fact, we are still wandering in the jungle.
However, this is also the outskirts of the forest that humans can occasionally reach.
It was a bit like a dividing line. She had reached the deepest point humans could reach, and humans could basically not go any further once they reached this point. Therefore, over the years, there were a lot of human corpses in this area.
Few humans who arrived at this place could escape, and most of them stayed here.
Ye Zhizhi felt that the dangers here were far less than in other places. But for ordinary humans, there were many dangerous things.
There are all kinds of ferocious beasts roaming in the jungle, seemingly harmless but actually deadly plants, and poisonous insects living under the rocks.
Perhaps because of the jungle covering the mountains, this area is filled with thick miasma.
If you are not careful, you can easily lose your way and end up wandering around in the mountains and forests.
Therefore, Ye Zhizhi didn't go out for a while.
During this time she fell in love with scavenging.
She remembered that there were many explorers in the world who liked to explore the jungle. Maybe they would leave behind something that would be very useful to her?
After all, we are going to explore the jungle, so the things we bring are all necessary for survival, basically things that Ye Zhizhi can also use.
In return for picking up the relics, she would bury any human corpses she saw.
But the forest was too big, so Ye Zhizhi mobilized his friends to help search everywhere.
The wolves are very smart and they found it faster than Ye Zhizhi.
For a time, Ye Zhizhi's living conditions improved. With these things, she could live comfortably even if she stayed in the jungle all the time.
But obviously, Ye Zhizhi relaxed too quickly. When she was "treasure hunting" in a place, her feet were suddenly entangled by a vine.
As soon as Ye Zhizhi lowered her head, a vine pulled her and quickly went deep into the jungle.
Ye Zhizhi was instantly pulled to the ground and dragged forward quickly.
Her hands subconsciously wanted to grab the vines and branches that were passing by her quickly.
But the vines that held her were strong.
Ye Zhizhi felt a huge pull on his ankle. Although he didn't know where he would be pulled to, it was probably the nest of plants.
Ye Zhizhi calmed down.
The other foot that was not being pulled was placed against a protruding tree root that happened to be passing by.
Then her body paused, but only for a moment. The vines were pulling her with no less force. If they continued to pull like this, her legs would be broken.
So there was only a moment's pause.
But this time was enough. Ye Zhizhi bent down, grabbed the vine that was pulling her with one hand, then pulled out the dagger and slashed directly at the vine.
A mark was cut on the vine. When Ye Zhizhi wanted to cut it again, other vines lurking nearby suddenly wrapped around her hand.
Ye Zhizhi felt a numbness in her wrist and suddenly became weak. The dagger in her hand fell to the ground, and she continued to be dragged forward.
Ye Zhizhi tried to break it with her other hand, and tried to pull out the green thorn on her waist and pin it to the ground, but it was useless. She saw herself being dragged farther and farther away.
“Ouch—”
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