94 Wilderness Survival
◎Ye Zhizhi always felt that something was following them.◎
Ye Zhizhi was about to go down, Yin Yi came over and stopped her.
Yin Yi paced for a while, raised his head and sniffed, analyzing the smell in the air. His animal eyes darted around, and then he lowered his head and walked around, sniffing the ground.
Ye Zhizhi also felt that something was wrong, but the wind was very strong here, and any unusual aura was blown away, making it difficult to capture.
Erzhong and the others also came over. They ran around the soil and rock, but due to blind spots, they did not notice the black hole under the rock.
Hiss——
Xiaohua sensed the moist, higher air below and began to hiss frequently. It was used to the humid environment of the jungle, but now it had been crawling in an increasingly dry environment for several days, and its scales had become dry and dull.
Now that the water source has been found, Xiaohua's hissing is light and cheerful.
It also wanted to go down and soak its body.
“Hiss—”
Ye Zhizhi was also a little uncomfortable. After all, the jungle environment was more comfortable compared to the others. The dry climate and increasingly high temperature here caused the human body to lose moisture quickly, and the body became sticky.
Seeing how uncomfortable it looked, Ye Zhizhi wanted to persuade Xiaohua to go back, but Xiaohua still liked staying with Ye Zhizhi. Although it was not used to the environment, it exuded a happy aura.
Ye Zhizhi stopped Xiaohua from moving. She thought she could go down and take a look by herself first.
Ye Zhizhi took a thick braided vine from Yin Xiaohui, and seeing that there were no convenient stones or trees nearby to tie it around, he tied it around Xiaobai's hind legs and threw it down.
The vine was not short, but it still needed to be longer after hanging down. Ye Zhizhi asked Xiaobai to stand and not move too frequently.
Yin Yi also wanted to go down with Ye Zhizhi, but Ye Zhizhi also refused. After soothing Yin Yi for a while, Ye Zhizhi reluctantly agreed to go down.
Ye Zhizhi had a wooden barrel hanging around his waist, a dagger in his hand, and he was pulling the vine while walking down quickly, holding his breath.
This is a long steep slope. It doesn’t look very steep visually, but when you go down, the slope is very steep, and it is difficult for the wolf to get up after going down.
The wolves and Xiaohua stared closely at Ye Zhizhi who was quickly falling down.
When she reached almost the end of the vine, the slope slowed down. She let go of the vine, steadied her body, and walked down slowly. When she reached the edge, she realized that her position was still a long way from the small pool at the bottom. Fortunately, she did not rush down rashly, otherwise she would have fallen directly.
Ye Zhizhi sniffed the surroundings and found no other animal scent. She lay down at the edge of the rock layer and leaned down slightly. She couldn't see clearly. She only saw the rock layer slanting inward. She raised her head and looked at the opposite side. She could go down directly there, so she walked in that direction.
As Ye Zhizhi changed her perspective, she saw the huge dark cave. The small pool was not as small as she had initially thought.
She looked carefully and saw a pool of water under the cave. The water looked very deep, and when she looked further inside, it was pitch black.
Ye Zhizhi looked carefully and found that the water surface was very calm.
She looked down at the water source in front of her. There was a circle of plants growing on it, with a few small trees sparsely standing there, almost as tall as Ye Zhizhi. She originally wanted to draw water directly from the edge, but there was wet soil underneath and a shallow layer of water. Looking at this situation, she still had to walk down and draw water from the middle.
Ye Zhizhi carefully climbed to the edge, stretched out her short legs, and then stepped her feet into the mud, slowly sinking in. She stopped sinking when she reached her calf. She stepped hard, made sure she could keep steady, and then walked slowly down.
As Ye Zhizhi walked over, he would look up at the cave from time to time, paying attention to the movements over there.
She always felt that there was something over there.
Ye Zhizhi could only hope that the things in the cave would look down on a tiny girl like her.
She tried hard not to make any noise, but walking on the water-soaked mud inevitably made noises, which were unusually clear in this quiet environment.
Ye Zhizhi's heart was in his throat, and his whole body was tense and alert to the movements around him, especially the deep pool in the cave.
Fortunately, everything went well until she reached the center of the water, where the deep pool remained calm.
Ye Zhizhi stepped on the stone protruding from the water. She looked up at the cave in the distance, then took off the wooden barrel from her waist and began to fill it with water.
Ye Zhizhi pretended very quickly, and soon his waist felt heavy.
When Ye Zhizhi started to fill the water, Xiaohua could no longer hold back and began to climb down secretly.
It was impossible for Ye Zhizhi not to notice, but Peanut was afraid that Ye Zhizhi would refuse, so she slid down very quickly. She had not finished filling the last wooden tube when she heard the noise and looked up, only to see such a huge python falling down and directly into the small pool, making a sound of splashing mud and water.
Xiaohua was even happier when she found a deep pool of water in the cave, and she dived in quickly.
It was too late for Ye Zhizhi to stop it. She was afraid that Xiaohua would fight with something in the pool. As a result, Xiaohua rolled around in it several times, but there was no movement.
Is she overthinking it?
Ye Zhizhi was still a little worried. She hissed a few times, urging Xiaohua to come up quickly. She also returned to the edge of the rock and began to climb up.
Xiaohua was reluctant to leave, but still crawled out obediently and followed Ye Zhizhi.
rustle--
Xiaohua stopped halfway up the snake's crawl, turned its head around, and hissed with its tongue, as if it had smelled the scent of its own kind.
Ye Zhizhi noticed Xiaohua's pause and thought she didn't want to leave yet, so he hissed twice, urging her to come up quickly.
Xiaohua turned her head and continued crawling.
Under the pool in the cave that they didn't see, a huge dark shadow slowly floated up, revealing black scales and a cold animal eye on the water surface.
After only a moment, it sank silently again.
Nothing happened.
Ye Zhizhi, the wolf pack and Xiaohua set out again and continued to move forward.
However, since fetching water that day, Ye Zhizhi always felt that something was following them.
Not only did she feel so, the wolves and Xiaohua also had a vague sense of it.
They patrolled frequently, looking back from time to time, but they never found each other.
In the end, Yin Yi carried Ye Zhizhi on his back and ran faster with Xiaohua from the wolf pack.
They ran for a whole day and night, and the vague gaze behind them finally disappeared.
Ye Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Although I don't know what it is, it has such a strong ability to hide, so it must be very powerful. It would be great if I can get rid of it.
They slowed down and found a shady place to rest.
Ye Zhizhi found some dry plants nearby, picked some and brought them back, then picked up stones to build a small stove and make a fire.
Knowing that the plants here would be scarce, she would pick up dead branches and leaves along the way so that she would have firewood when she wanted to make a fire.
When she had the ability, Ye Zhizhi still cherished her life very much. She did not dare to gamble with the probability. She would not drink raw water if she could avoid it. Who knows how many bacteria there are in the water outside.
Ye Zhizhi poured the water into the fruit shells, made a fire to boil it, and then looked for food nearby.
Dried fruits and meat are only eaten when you are at your wit's end. When you can still find food, try to eat fresh ones.
This Gobi Desert looks desolate, but in fact there are many animals living there, and some of the plants you occasionally encounter are edible.
Ye Zhizhi found the highest rock nearby, climbed up nimbly, and stood up to look into the distance.
They had been walking for a long time, and the view was still full of loess and rocky mountains. Even the green mountains on both sides that they could see at the beginning had disappeared, and the road ahead still had no end.
This time she deliberately calculated the time. They had already survived in this area for twelve days. It could be said that they had not encountered any attacks along the way. Ye Zhizhi believed that their walking speed was not slow, but they were still in a vast wasteland.
If she hadn't been absolutely sure that they were moving forward, Ye Zhizhi would have thought they were just going around in circles in the same place.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't understand why the mountains seemed endless. How could this place be boundless? Could she be stuck? Or was this direction still wrong?
…Even if that’s not right, she should be able to see humans, right?
But no, she was the only human being in the vast wilderness.
A feeling of loneliness suddenly welled up in her heart, as if she was the only human being in the whole world.
“Ouch—woo—”
A loud wolf howl suddenly sounded, pulling Ye Zhizhi out of his inexplicable emotions.
When Ye Zhizhi heard Yin Yi calling her, she hurried over.
From a distance, she saw Yin Yi standing next to a low rock. His silver hair seemed to be shining, extremely dazzling in the yellow environment.
Ye Zhizhi ran faster. She stopped in front of Yin Yi and made a questioning sound.
Yin Yi moved away, and then Ye Zhizhi saw the skull head exposed on the sand behind Yin Yi.
Ye Zhizhi led the wolves to scavenge for a while, and they knew that she was looking for such animal bones.
When Yin Yi was looking for prey, he vaguely saw something strange hidden in the fine sand, so he dug it out and then summoned the wolf sister.
Ye Zhizhi had seen so many human bones that she had long been calm. As usual, she and the wolf pack searched the area to see if there were any other scattered bones, and to see if there were any inheritances.
Then she dug a hole and buried the skeletons. These bones looked fresher than those she had buried before, so they must have died in recent years.
Then she dug out a broken box from the mud and sand. She blew away the mud and sand on it, took a closer look, and saw that it was colorful with a lot of words written on it.
Ye Zhizhi found that he couldn't understand what was written on it. It was like a worm, neither English nor Chinese.
She opened it and sniffed it. It was a medicine made with human ingredients, but it should have expired after such a long time.
Ye Zhizhi searched the area with the wolves, but only found some odds and ends, and the place looked completely destroyed.
Yin Yi walked a little further away, then dug out something, picked it up, ran to Ye Zhizhi and put it down.
Ye Zhizhi looked down and saw that it was a weapon with a blade longer than the dagger in her hand.
She squatted down and touched it carefully. The quality was no worse than her dagger, but she didn't know what it had pierced, and it was bent into a U shape.
Ye Zhizhi stood up and looked around.
This person was attacked nearby, which means there is something here and it is not safe for them to stay here.
But now the sun was setting, and the orange-red sunset was approaching the horizon. If they continued to move forward, they didn't know if they would be able to find a suitable place to stay.
Ye Zhizhi yelled at Yin Yi hurriedly, then quickly ran towards where he was staying.
Yin Yi also ran after him, and let out a high-pitched howl, calling the wolves nearby to come back.
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