Chapter 12: March into Dragon Mountain 4
I have been walking in the mountains and forests for more than ten days. If you are not paying special attention, it is really difficult to find someone walking in the woods.
The place where we walked today was covered with lush bushes and weeds. Some of the bushes were at least two meters high, almost as tall as the tall trees. Moreover, these bushes were very thick and tangled together. If Yi Ke wanted to cut the bushes to make a path, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to get out of this area even if he used his small arms and legs to cut for a year. It's not an exaggeration to say that the little Yi Ke could hardly move forward here.
There is a saying that smart people come up with solutions that ordinary people can't imagine. Our Yi Ke must now make full use of his advantages to pass through this area. Look, Yike made a basket with rattan and wore it on his head as a helmet. The vines at the eyes were pulled apart to prevent them from blocking his vision, and the rest of his head was contained in the helmet so that his head and face would not be easily scratched. He also made rattan armor on his body, and used the bark peeled from the trees as a shield, and used forked branches as "steel forks". Fully armed, Yike gave a thumbs up to his own cleverness.
You can use a machete to cut off three or four tree roots that are wrapped around the bottom of the shrubs, and then use a "steel fork" to fork the shrubs to both sides to form a small hole, through which you can crawl. In some places, you don't even need to cut at all. The upper part of the shrubs is tightly wrapped, but the part close to the ground is very sparse. If you can't walk through it while standing, you can crawl through it. At this time, the advantage of your small size is reflected. Anyway, we just wanted to drill around in this bush area like we were trying to dig a dog hole. Yi Ke bent down and crawled and climbed in some places. He was so tired and out of breath that he finally finished walking through this area full of bushes and weeds.
After Yike crawled out, he sat down with a thump, breathing heavily, as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders. Yike drank two sips of water from the bamboo tube, then lay on the ground, looking at the sky through the gaps in the trees. He guessed that it must be a beautiful scene with blue sky and white clouds outside. It might be difficult for him to see such scenery in this deep mountain forest.
After lying down for a while, Yike sat up, took the bamboo kettle, drank a few sips of water, and finally felt alive again. Peel the cooked duck eggs, chew and eat them with the shells. The eggshells are a source of calcium, so it’s not a waste, haha! Then chew the egg white and yolk and eat them. When I felt that I had regained some strength, I carefully observed the direction I was heading.
I almost got discouraged when I saw this. How could I face even more difficult situations after coming out of the bushes?
But five hundred meters ahead was a patch of thorny bushes, so wide that you couldn't see the end of them. One can climb up the tree to observe it, and estimate that it is several thousand meters long. The width ahead is about 300 meters. There is absolutely no way to get under the thorn bushes like you would through a bush. This patch of thorns is like a ravine that cuts off the way forward.
Yi Ke thought about it and realized that if he took a detour to bypass the thorn bush, it might take him a long time. Most importantly, it would be easy to get lost if he took a detour, so this method was not advisable.
If you look closely at the thorns in front of you, you will find that these thorns grow under big trees, densely packed together. She hit the top of the thorn with a stick. It was very hard and would not bend even when she hit it hard. Yi Ke thought about it, stood up, took off the bark on his waist and the bark hanging on his chest, and placed them on top of the thorns. He put the backpack on them, but the thorns still did not bend. He tried other places and they were just as hard. It turns out that this kind of thorn is so hard, so Yi Ke immediately thought of how to get through this thorn bush.
One way is to overlap and tie two pieces of bark to the soles of your feet to increase the contact area between your feet and the top of the thorn bush. This way your feet won't sink into it and won't be pricked by thorns. Then use your hands to grab the branches at the top of the thorn bush for leverage. For places without branches, throw a rope to the tree in front of you and hang it on it. Then use the rope to gain leverage and walk over. This should be feasible for you to walk over the top of the thorn bush.
"Haha! Here comes the flying man!"
Yi Ke climbed up the tree, tied the bark on his feet, put on the backpack, climbed the branches, stepped on the top of the thorn bush, and moved forward carefully.
Yi Ke performed his aerial acrobatic stunts carefully. Fortunately, there were big trees in the thorn bushes. The trees were thick and their branches were entangled with each other. The thorns also entangled the trunks, so Yi Ke had branches to gain leverage. After walking about five or six meters, she suddenly heard a roar of "Ah", which scared her so much that she almost fell on the top of the thorn bush. She looked back and said, "Oh my god! What a big tiger!"
Just to the left of where she had just stood, a huge tiger with drooping eyes and a white forehead was walking towards her with its head held high. The big tiger's body is covered with black stripes, and the word "king" on its head is particularly eye-catching. It held its head high, opened its bloody mouth, roared fiercely, and ran quickly towards Yi Ke.
In his previous life, Yike had fought with a tiger in the forest with his fellow brothers and sisters. Although they did not kill the tiger, they were not that scared. But at this time, Yike was so scared that his whole body was shaking like a sieve, his legs could not move at all, and his hands could hardly hold on to the branch. This was the original body's reaction. He grew up listening to stories about tigers eating people. This was a natural reaction and Yi Ke had no way of controlling it.
Yi Ke complained in his heart: "Oh my god! I'm going to be killed by a tiger this time. I'm going to die a short-lived ghost! I can't accept this! If my brothers and sisters knew that I was going to die by a tiger, they would definitely scold me for being useless and that all the Kung Fu I learned was in vain."
The big tiger's roar was getting closer to her. After it stopped where she had just stopped, it roared toward the sky in a demonstrative manner, and its roar shook the sky.
In my previous life, I saw tigers in the zoo. Apart from their appearance, the tiger in front of me was completely incomparable in terms of aura. The tiger was strong and majestic. Its body was as big as a calf, and its hair was covered with black stripes. It did not look beautiful at all, but rather dirty.
The tiger stared at Yi Ke with ferocious eyes, revealing its extremely sharp teeth and opening its bloody mouth as if it wanted to swallow her in one bite. Even from such a distance, Yi Ke could still smell the bloody smell.
A tiger will tear to pieces anything that dares to stand in its way of hunting its prey. So the big tiger swung its sharp claws at the thorn bush. Unexpectedly, the thorn bush did not give the arrogant tiger any face at all. The thorn bush stretched out its sharp thorns towards the tiger's claws, as if to say, "If you dare to take a picture of it, I will dare to stab you."
The big tiger stared at Yi Ke on the tree and roared, scaring Yi Ke so much that his heart beat like a drum, as if it was going to jump out of his chest and run away.
"Come down and be my meat!" roared the tiger.
"I won't!" Yi Ke thought to himself, as long as he didn't go down into the thorn bush, the tiger seemed to have no way to deal with him.
"Ao!" The tiger roared again and slapped the ground with its tail, causing weeds and dead trees to fly everywhere, as if ordering it to go down.
"That's a nice thought! I won't go down. Come up if you can." Seeing that the tiger could not climb up the thorn bush, it was no longer afraid and began to challenge proudly.
"Haha! I was so foresighted to think of going over the top of the thorn bush."
"Hey! Brother Tiger, can we talk nicely? Don't yell at me all the time. It's rude, you know?"
"Ahhh!" The tiger roared several times, "Little villain, get off quickly and let me eat you!"
"I'm sorry, Brother Tiger. I'm small and have little meat, not enough for you to fill your teeth. You should go find a big guy to eat." Yi Ke automatically translated the meaning of the tiger's roar and replied.
The tiger was so angry that he almost died. Perhaps he was thinking, “It’s all because of these damn thorn bushes that I can’t eat the meat that was right in my mouth.”
The big tiger couldn't deal with the thorn bush, and it was helpless. It couldn't give up the whole forest for a small human being. It seemed not worth it, so it roared at Yi Ke a few times, and swung its whip-like tail fiercely, shaking up a lot of dust. After showing off its power for a long time, the big tiger walked away with a swagger.
Yi Ke let out a long sigh, sat on the tree trunk, and lamented that he almost "died before achieving his goal."
This thorn bush is a great place. Even tigers can’t do anything to it. She decided to spend the night here and not leave. First, you must think carefully about the feasibility of going to Longshan, otherwise you will lose your life before you even reach Longshan.
If she had a strong body in her previous life, it would not be a problem for her to kill a tiger and escape. But now, with her little claws, arms and legs, she only had martial arts skills but no body to match. Her strength was greatly reduced, and it was difficult for her to escape from these ferocious beasts.
Life is important, so you should think about making a long-range weapon to protect yourself. If it is not necessary, do not fight animals at close range. The most primitive weapon is the bow and arrow, and the bow and arrow is the most familiar. In the previous life, it was an era of hot weapons, and hot weapons were strictly controlled, but these cold weapons such as bows and arrows were not controlled. Whenever Yike was greedy and wanted to eat wild game, her husband would accompany her to the mountains to shoot rabbits, pheasants, etc. with bows and arrows, and they also shot wild boars several times. Her husband taught her how to make the bow and arrow. Yike has been dexterous since she was young and can learn anything easily. She learned bow and arrow very quickly. He did it as soon as he thought of it. He put down the backpack, took out the hatchet and started chopping the thorns.
I don't know what kind of thorn this is, but it's very hard and can be used to make arrows. I'll have to find other parts for the bow elsewhere. She made a total of 50 long arrows and ten short arrows. She couldn't carry more than that, so she took some thorns from thorns. These thorns were hard and long, and perhaps they could be used as needles in the future.
After making the arrow, she climbed up the tree again to take a look. It was getting late and her arms were so sore that she couldn't lift them. She kept clinging to the branches with her hands to support her body and move. Although she walked on the top of the thorns, she didn't dare to exert too much force. Most of her body's strength was still relying on the branches her arms were clinging to. How could her arms not be sore when she was walking on the branches? It’s really too difficult.
Yike sat on a thick branch and tied his body to the trunk with vines. He took out the last four eggs from the basket on his backpack, looked at them, and ate two. Who knew how long it would take to get out of this thorn bush? After taking a sip of water, I resisted the urge to drink it again. I didn’t know how far I had to go and whether I could find a water source, so I had to pay attention to saving water.
When I was walking, I was paying attention to my surroundings and not my body. When I stopped, I felt as if my whole body was falling apart. After applying the medicine to repel snakes, insects, rats and ants on her body, she closed her eyes, leaned against the tree trunk, and slowly fell asleep.
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