89 Wilderness Survival
◎Suddenly, a wolf howled from the depths of the forest.◎
This wooden boat is not big and can only carry about three or four adults.
Ye Zhizhi pulled the vines above, and the inside of the boat was filled with thick silt, rotten leaves and green moss, as if it had been attacked, and only half of it was left.
The bottom of the wrecked wooden boat was submerged in the water, its hull covered in vines and tucked tightly against the mountain wall. To those unfamiliar, one might mistake it for a protruding rock. If it weren't for Ye Zhizhi's sharp eyes, he wouldn't have noticed it.
Ye Zhizhi reassured herself that she was heading in the right direction. The presence of wooden boats, a type only humans could have built, indicated that humans once roamed this river. Even if she never found her way out of the jungle, as long as she kept her eyes on this area, within a year or two, she would eventually encounter humans.
However, Ye Zhizhi will not pin her hopes on vague waiting, she will continue to search.
She turned her gaze back to the wooden boat at her feet.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't help but wonder what kind of wood this was. It had been soaked in water for years, and the wood looked fine. However, not to mention whether it could still be used, this damaged wooden boat couldn't even carry a wolf.
This did give Ye Zhizhi an idea. She could try building a boat. Of course, she wasn't good at making anything too complicated. But she could find trees and use vines to connect them together. As long as she made it big enough, even a wolf could stand on it and it wouldn't sink.
Ye Zhizhi thought about it and nodded affirmatively.
Acting as soon as he thought of it, Ye Zhizhi quickly climbed up and took the wolf and snake into the forest to look for trees that could be used to make rafts.
There was a relatively gentle slope not long after they passed by, and Ye Zhizhi decided to build a raft there so that they could take the wolf to the other side.
Ye Zhizhi told the wolves and snakes that she wanted to find some thicker wood. The wolves often helped Ye Zhizhi find dead branches for firewood, and they were already used to it. They quickly understood what she wanted. Isn't it just a thicker branch? Find it!
This was the first time that Xiaohua helped Ye Zhizhi find dead branches. It didn’t matter if it didn’t understand, it just had to follow the wolf pack.
For a moment, the wolf and the snake were competing, grunting and panting as they quickly searched for thick wood.
Ye Zhizhi went to look for vines.
The forest lacks everything except trees and vines.
The wolves and snakes dragged wood for her everywhere. Ye Zhizhi quickly found the flexible vines. She pulled them and made sure that they were not man-eating vines, then she cut them easily.
With the dagger, she could do anything very conveniently without having to use her hands to pry it open.
Ye Zhizhi cut a lot of vines, tied them into a big bundle, and then half-carried and half-dragged them to the riverside.
Xiaohua and the wolves quickly dragged the nearby broken wood around Ye Zhizhi and piled it up.
After Ye Zhizhi moved the vines three times, he felt that it was enough, so he removed the horizontal branches of the tree and left only the main trunk.
She needed a lot, and since the five wolves were so big, she could only estimate a larger amount.
It took me two days just to get the materials.
They rested by the river for the past two days, where the view was wide.
I have to say that with the wolves and snakes around, Ye Zhizhi feels very safe. He doesn't have to wake up at night. He can keep watch in the first half of the night without being attacked, and sleep soundly in the second half until dawn.
Even after dragging away all the nearby trees, it was still not enough and the wolves ran further and further away.
Ye Zhizhi worked diligently on processing the trees. She looked at a pile of processed wood, her hands on her hips, feeling a sense of accomplishment in her heart.
She should have enough wood in two days, and then she can make the raft directly.
She is really amazing, she can do everything!
Just as I was admiring my achievements, a wolf howl suddenly came from the depths of the forest.
Ye Zhizhi's expression froze.
She heard the warning in the wolf's howl and told him to stay away from the message.
Ye Zhizhi gripped the dagger tightly in her hand and quickly ran into the forest. She climbed up the high rock in a few steps, and her hearing and smell were fully activated. She smelled an unfamiliar smell of blood and heard rustling sounds in the jungle.
She heard the sound of wolves running in the forest from afar and could feel the wolves' breath getting farther and farther away from her.
But the rustling sound that made her scalp tingle was getting closer and closer to her.
What is it that makes the wolves feel dangerous and need to escape?
Ye Zhizhi almost instinctively jumped off the rock and ran forward desperately.
The sound of countless tiny animals crawling on the ground and moving through the bushes was getting closer and closer, and then their true appearance was revealed.
Ye Zhizhi only had one glance at the dense, fist-sized ants behind her, and her hair stood on end, her heart skipping a beat. This reminded her of the venomous spider that had devoured the monster in that jungle.
It was the same back then. A single creature could be crushed to death with just one foot, but when a group of them came out, even a giant creature would have no choice but to run for its life.
At first, Ye Zhizhi tried to run in the direction where the wolves disappeared, but dense swarms of man-eating ants had already spread over and crawled all over the ground.
The ants smelled Ye Zhizhi's scent and immediately changed direction and crawled towards her.
How did the wolf provoke such a terrifying thing? Ye Zhizhi's heart collapsed.
Ye Zhizhi was actually wronging them. This group of man-eating ants, which were like a swarm of locusts, were not provoked by the wolves, but of course that didn't mean they had nothing to do with the wolves.
A ferocious beast wandering in the jungle sensed the presence of the wolves and tried to escape as quickly as possible. Then it accidentally stepped on the nest of the man-eating ants exposed on the ground, which attracted the man-eating ants. The beast fled for its life in the forest, and as a result, all the animals in the forest suffered.
Ye Zhizhi's feet moved as fast as the wind and he tried his best, but the man-eating ants were not slow at all. They were chasing closely behind Ye Zhizhi and slowly spreading in an arc.
She unknowingly deviated from the direction and ran to the riverside.
Ye Zhizhi looked back and saw that the man-eating ants that were chasing her had surrounded her and were less than two meters away. Without hesitation, she inserted the dagger in her belt and jumped into the river.
She looked back and saw that the rapidly spreading man-eating ants did not stop, but crawled into the water.
This man-eating ant can actually swim!
Ye Zhizhi gasped, and his swimming skills improved dramatically, and he swam quickly towards the middle of the river.
Her potential was stimulated, her limbs left afterimages, and she swam across the river in one breath.
He probably didn't catch up, did he?
Ye Zhizhi swam and felt that she had been swimming for a long time. There seemed to be no danger behind her. Her hands and feet slowed down, she steadied her body and looked back. She was already far away from the shore.
She never looked back so she didn't know that except for the front part of the man-eating ants that crawled into the water, the man-eating ants at the back stopped by the river, the two antennae on their heads trembled for a moment, and they didn't chase after them.
They stayed on the shore for a while, and as the smell of food grew farther and farther away, they slowly retreated back into the forest and disappeared by the river in a blink of an eye.
Ye Zhizhi realized it later and felt her hands and feet go weak, but there was water all around her and there was no place for her to rest.
Ye Zhizhi didn't dare to swim back for a moment, in case this group of man-eating ants were smart and were lying in ambush by the river.
Wouldn't it be like she was delivering herself to the door by swimming back?
But she couldn't stay in the water forever, so Ye Zhizhi tried to relax her body and let herself go with the flow.
The surface of the river looked calm, but the water was actually flowing very fast underneath. Ye Zhizhi could feel that he was being carried far away by the water in a short while.
There wouldn't be anything in the water, would it? With water all around him, Ye Zhizhi felt he had to get ashore.
Birds flew over his head. Ye Zhizhi looked up, feeling that the birds would pick him up and take him away like a fish in the water.
Ye Zhizhi felt very insecure. She swam towards the shore, but she had just swam so far in one breath and had to keep herself afloat in the water, so her hands and feet unconsciously became tired and weak.
She wouldn't drown in the water, would she?
Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly felt something slippery under her feet?
Ye Zhizhi only had time to ask a question before he was lifted up and carried away by something.
Ye Zhizhi was startled at first and touched the dagger at his waist.
But soon she felt a familiar touch and smelled a familiar scent. It turned out to be Xiaohua who had entered the water at some point and swam over to her after noticing her movements.
When Ye Zhizhi saw that it was Xiaohua, she was no longer afraid of anything. She sat on Xiaohua's back and was hit in the face by the splashes caused by the speed of the car. She couldn't help but lower her body, squint her eyes and lower her head to avoid being hit directly by the splashes.
Xiaohua quickly carried Ye Zhizhi back to the shore.
Ye Zhizhi fell to the ground, shook his head, and a shower of water flew away.
She wiped her face, opened her eyes and looked around. Is the shore safe...?
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Ye Zhizhi looked at the completely unfamiliar environment around him. This riverside looked very strange, with unfamiliar scenery and an unfamiliar atmosphere.
Ye Zhizhi subconsciously turned his head and looked at the opposite shore and forest in the distance.
Did they swim to the other side of the shore?
Ye Zhizhi turned her head to look at Xiaohua. Xiaohua looked at her with a pair of innocent snake eyes, hissed with its cold snake tongue, and came up to touch her face gently.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't tell whether Xiaohua did it on purpose. Perhaps the opposite side of the river was still very dangerous. Originally, they were swimming closer to the shore here, so it was normal for Xiaohua to bring her to this shore.
Ye Zhizhi stood on tiptoe and squinted his eyes slightly to look at the opposite side.
There was no sign of wolves on the opposite shore. Ye Zhizhi only knew that they ran in the other direction of the river, but he didn't know where they went.
Being chased by such a terrifying creature, Ye Zhizhi was quite worried about the wolves, fearing that they would not escape.
Ye Zhizhi tried hard to recall. The smell of blood he smelled at that time was very unfamiliar. The wolves should not have been injured. At the speed they were running, it was impossible for them to be caught up.
Her raft had not been built yet, so even if the wolves came back, they could not cross the river to find her, so she had to go back to find the wolves.
With Xiaohua around, it was easy for them to go back.
only--
Ye Zhizhi turned his head to look at the forest behind him. Since he was already here, why not take a look?
She stood here for a while, but still didn't see any wolves. Ye Zhizhi thought about it and was still curious about the woods here. She climbed onto Xiaohua's body and let it carry her around.
After swimming for so long, she still felt tired. It felt like it consumed more energy than running in the jungle.
Ye Zhizhi felt she needed to practice her swimming skills. Originally, she only knew how to doggy-paddle to keep herself afloat, but she hadn't expected to be able to swim for so long in such a deep river. It showed she had a lot of potential.
She felt that if she practiced more, she wouldn't have to worry about drowning the next time she fell into the water.
But that will be discussed later. She will observe the surrounding area first.
Ye Zhizhi signaled Xiaohua to climb to higher ground.
This is Ye Zhizhi's habit. Whenever he arrives at an unfamiliar place, he goes to the highest point first and looks down at the surrounding environment from a height so that he has a general idea of the situation.
Ye Zhizhi observed and remained alert to his surroundings.
There is not much miasma in the forest here, and there are no rows of tall trees. Instead, there are mostly low bushes.
As Xiaohua crawled on the ground, there were dense bushes on all sides.
This jungle environment is also very dangerous because you cannot see clearly whether there are deadly jungle killers lurking behind the lush bushes next to you.
Ye Zhizhi could only use his five senses to try to sense whether there were any dangerous predators lurking nearby.
Xiaohua took her up and finally took her to a lonely ancient tree.
The huge snake's body snaked up along the tree trunk. Ye Zhizhi's limbs tightly wrapped around Xiaohua, with his butt hanging in the air. Ye Zhizhi looked down and saw that he was getting farther and farther away from the ground. If he fell down, he would be turned into meat paste.
Xiaohua almost climbed to the top of the tree, and the snake's head snaked over a horizontal branch, then stood still.
Ye Zhizhi sat on Xiaohua, straightened her back and looked into the distance. From this angle, she could see very far.
Just across a river and across a mountain, the terrain here is different from the other side which is all mountains, hills and canyons. In the distance here is a vast Gobi landscape with large undulations on the ground. The further out it extends, the sparser the green vegetation becomes, until in the distance there is bare rocky loess.
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