At the Kaoshan Village camp, Shen Dafu was processing a wild boar, and the villagers were happily waiting to divide the meat. They had never seen so much meat during the Chinese New Year, and now they were drooling just by looking at it.
Chen Yanqing pulled a cart of processed wild boar meat with Qi Yanxuan to the open space to smoke the meat...
next day
Shen Yanqing was walking in front, pulling a cart of pork, with Qi Yanxuan carrying a bag and Shen Yanshan holding a crossbow next to him.
Yesterday, Shen Yanshan specially made a quiver out of bamboo. When Qi Yanxuan saw it, he gave him a cowhide case specifically for crossbow arrows. He tied it around his waist as a treasure, smiling happily.
Sure enough, no matter how old a man is, his passion for weapons remains undiminished, and the usually loving parents suddenly become little kids.
Today, everyone in Kaoshan Village has a happy smile on their face, and their steps are particularly brisk.
The team at the back was envious of the pork on the truck in front, but after yesterday's lightning strike, they probably wouldn't dare to have any bad thoughts for a while.
The dozen or so girls who had managed to escape the clutches of the devil yesterday followed closely behind the team from Kaoshan Village. They were more willing to follow this team than others.
Yesterday they saw the unity of this team. They would protect the elderly, the weak, women and children when encountering problems. This is very rare in a famine-fighting team. But they also know that in this famine year, no one would give alms to unrelated people for no reason. What's more, it would be difficult for women like them who have been abused to find someone to marry again.
***
Two days later
The group gradually entered the depths of the mountains. The tall trees were so tall that two adults could not hug them. The thick layer of rotten leaves on the ground emitted an unpleasant smell.
The sounds around gradually died down and there was complete silence. Before, I could hear various birds singing along the way, but now it was so quiet that it was a little scary.
Shen Yanqing noticed something was wrong and slowed down his pace "Dad, you come and pull the cart, something is wrong here!" Shen Yanqing looked at Shen Yanshan with an increasingly solemn expression.
"Okay! I have the same feeling. Even in areas where tigers are active, there will be birds. But the beasts here are afraid of even flying birds. It seems that they are not simple." Shen Yanshan took the cart and looked around vigilantly.
Chen Yanqing, holding the short knife in his hand, habitually pulled Qi Yanxuan behind him and said, "Axuan, follow me closely!"
"good!"
Qi Yanxuan looked helpless, but still cooperated with the other party. What a sweet burden!
When the people behind him saw this, they all picked up their weapons and kept alert, fearing that they would be taken away by wild beasts if they were not careful.
The further they walked in, the wetter the ground became, and there seemed to be traces of large beasts crawling on the ground. When they got here, Shen Yanshan and his son knew what kind of beast was lurking here.
As expected, it should be a snake, and judging from the crawling traces, the snake is not small. There should be a water source not far ahead where the snake appeared.
Sure enough, after walking for a quarter of an hour, they found a huge snake skin in a bush. The skin was big enough to fit an adult man.
"Oh my God! Such a big snake skin, how big must the snake be?" Shen Dagen was so scared that he trembled all over.
The other teams that were nearby also saw the snake skin and were so scared that they started talking about it. Some of the timid ones even started crying.
"Be quiet! Are you making so much noise in this place with a big snake? Do you want to die? You'll die if you attract it." Shen Kui walked to the back and lowered his voice to stop everyone.
"This is the only way to go now. Let's speed up and get out of the big snake's territory as soon as possible." Shen Yanshan said to everyone with a serious face, "Hurry up and leave."
Walking quickly through the dense forest, everyone was nervous and didn't dare to speak. Some children even covered their mouths for fear that their crying would attract giant snakes.
…
Wow
Wow
People from afar heard the sound of flowing water, and the crowd behind became excited.
"There's water! It's the sound of water!"
"Hurry! Let's go! We finally found a water source!"
The crowd was in an uproar. Some were dancing wildly with joy, some were crying with joy, and some were sobbing with their heads in their hands. They were all so excited that they were incoherent, completely forgetting that they were still in the giant snake's territory.
The village chief saw everyone rushing towards the place where the sound of water came from, and looked at Shen Yanqing hesitantly, "Yanqing, shall we go?"
"No, they are looking for death. Let's hurry up and leave!" Shen Yanqing looked at the departing people with cold eyes.
"Let's go!" After hearing what Shen Yanqing said, the village chief looked at the crowd leaving with sympathy, but there was nothing he could do. These were all his own choices. He just had to take care of his fellow villagers.
They traveled faster than before. The children were carried on their backs and the elderly were helped onto the carts. A group of people traveled at a high speed through the woods.
There were also thousands of people who had walked all the way from the desert with them. These people all believed that it would be safe to follow the mountain village, and that their leader's judgment was correct.
***
The other side
A small waterfall on the cliff slid like silk into the pool below, stirring up a roaring sound. The dark water seemed to swallow people in. But the people around the pool seemed unaware of the approaching danger.
Everyone was looking at the pool of water in front of them, crying and laughing.
"We're saved! There's a pond here, so we don't have to worry anymore!"
The crowd gathered around the pool, scooped up water with both hands and drank it in big gulps, then buried their faces in the water to wash.
At this moment, something strange happened...
A man was dragged into the water, but the people who were drinking water and washing their faces by the pool had not noticed it yet. The crowd behind only saw that the man was quickly dragged into the water by something. They all looked terrified and then began to riot.
The people near the pool heard a commotion coming from behind and turned around in confusion. The moment they turned around, two more people were dragged into the water.
Everyone looked back with vigilance at the rippling surface of the lake, which slowly turned bright red.
"Blood! Blood! Run!"
Someone yelled, but before anyone could do anything, the words came out.
Wow, wow, two giant black pythons as thick as buckets rushed out of the water, splashing water on the crowd.
Everyone immediately looked terrified and crawled to escape.
The giant python quickly swam ashore and chased the crowd from behind, with its long body completely exposed above the water for 20 meters.
Everyone was chasing each other, and some even pushed others to the ground in order to escape, hoping that the giant python would eat those people instead of chasing them.
"ah!"
A man was bitten on the head by a giant python and was swallowed into its belly before he could even scream.
It can be seen that the giant python has been hungry for a long time. It eats one bite at a time. These people are simply delivering food to its door.
Screams came one after another, and the people became even more terrified after hearing these sounds. They dropped their bags and pushed each other. Many people did not die in the giant python's mouth but died in the stampede of the crowd.
In order to avoid the giant python, the crowd began to flee in all directions...
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