Chapter 66 Rui is so soft
It's raining in this world.
The rainy world is grey, dripping down, hitting the black asphalt road, the rusted and charred shells of armored vehicles on the roadside, and the green grass leaves sticking out of the cracks in the metal shells. Through the sparse rain curtain, Banxia can see the stacked buildings on the other side of the Crescent Lake Bridge, as if through frosted glass. Under the low clouds that solidify like an iron curtain, the cracked earth of Nanjing City looks like a dried corpse. It is difficult to tell whether it is dead or reborn. Everything about it is slowly collapsing, but small yellow and white flowers are sprouting on the roadside.
She was humming softly, she couldn't remember some of the lyrics clearly, she only remembered the melody.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The girl stood up under the doorway, with her legs together, standing very straight.
Then raise your hands, gently pinch your thumb and middle finger together, tiptoe slightly, and stand in front of the rain like a conductor of a symphony orchestra, facing the entire city.
She took a deep breath and began to sing:
“Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain…”
"telling me just what a fool I've been."
This is an English song that the teacher used to sing all the time.
“The only girl I care about has gone away……”
“looking for a brand new star.”
She couldn't remember all the lyrics. English songs were too difficult for Banxia. Even though the teacher had hummed them many times and taught her to sing, who was Banxia? She could only read elementary school English texts with an English-Chinese dictionary. Banxia often wondered if this thing was really a human language.
The sentences and articles pieced together with letters are really fragmented.
But the teacher said that Latin-based characters are still normal, but if you look at Arabic and Pashto, they are alien characters.
Banxia asked the teacher: "Can you do it?"
The teacher nodded and said yes.
Banxia: Then tell me what you want to hear?
Teacher: Allahu Akbar!
“when my heart somewhere far away……”
"Hey, Ounige, Aikan, hold the dog, hey—"
To be honest, she sang in both English and Chinese. No one in this world could define her language. She did not understand the meaning of the lyrics she sang, and because of her limited English, she had no idea what she was singing.
She was simply singing a mysterious song that contained the wisdom of the ancients, but whose true meaning had long been lost to history.
Banxia is used to using Chinese notation when learning English. Yes means "yes", bus means "baby" and when the teacher sings "I can't love another", for Banxia it means "Aikan Lofuan Nazer". She may not really understand the meaning of this line of lyrics, after all, no one can translate what "Aikan Lofuan Nazer" means.
In Banxia's eyes, "Rhythm Of The Rain" is "Rhythm Of The Rain".
Just looking at the title of the song, it sounds like something sung by orc shamans during rituals.
In addition to "Rui Zhen Oh Fu Ze Ruan", Banxia can also sing "Zha——Hmm——Dog Valley Where to Lick Xi Nuo Yo Ni——! Xie——Nian——Hmm Yo New Tile Mud——!"
Human languages have lost their meaning, leaving only the sounds, and songs have become mysterious chants, which sounds quite punk.
“Rain in her heart.”
“And let the love we know start to grow.”
"Rhythm Of The Rain" is a classic old song with a melodious tune. Banxia also sings it melodiously. She waves her hands while singing, as if she is conducting an invisible symphony orchestra.
In the heavy rain, this is her stage alone.
She is both conductor and lead singer.
"oh listen to the falling rain——"
The tune is high, high, high——!
The girl pointed her right hand at the grass beside the road, as if it was the wind band in an orchestra. She lightly tapped and raised her hand to indicate that the tune should be raised.
"oh listen to the falling rain!"
Lower the tone!
The last part of the original song had a rising pitch, but Banxia changed it because it was too high and she couldn't sing it, so she changed it to a descending pitch.
"in Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain."
Her hand then slid down, drawing an arc, rushing down from the highest point like a roller coaster, and after passing the low point, it reached the second high point again. Then Banxia clenched her fists tightly, and the music stopped abruptly!
Banxia proudly bowed left and right, thanking the invisible audience, then turned around and opened her eyes.
Her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
The doorway behind her was actually packed with spectators. More than a dozen pairs of big black eyes looked at her curiously, with their big ears pricked up. They were a group of sika deer that had come here to shelter from the rain.
Banxia suddenly smiled and bowed towards them.
"Thank you, everyone."
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Dragging the hunted sika deer back to the community, the rain had stopped and the hunting plan that Banxia had been planning for a long time was about to begin.
"Bengal tiger?" There was a shock on the other end of the radio.
"Yes, a Bengal tiger." Banxia nodded. "There is a Bengal tiger in Nanjing. We have encountered it before. I think this is the one causing trouble."
When I mentioned last night that there were tigers in Nanjing city, BG4MXH was really scared.
When I recall this now, Banxia still wants to laugh.
Is it really that scary?
"What should we do...Sister, please don't act rashly. This thing is too dangerous. Too dangerous. I'll ask them to send you a main battle tank..."
"You're talking nonsense."
"No kidding, that's a tiger! One of its palms is as big as your entire face! It's a monster that can kill a cow with one bite. Humans can't fight this thing at all."
“Is my face that big?”
"Well, one of its palms is bigger than your face. It's impossible for it to be a monster that humans can resist. Sister, you must not do anything stupid."
"You forgot to say OVER."
"OVER."
"I have a gun."
"No, even with a gun. It's too dangerous. OVER."
Banxia dragged her prey into the gate of Meihua Villa. It was already late. It had rained all day and the ground was wet.
Perhaps in the eyes of people of that era twenty years ago, tigers were much more dangerous creatures than jackals, so BG4MXH was not alarmed when jackals were mentioned, but he became panicked when tigers were mentioned. However, Banxia did not think so. Jackals are not Shiba Inus, and tigers are not necessarily more troublesome than a large group of jackals. Both are dangerous hunters.
She has seen a tiger.
She obviously knew more about tigers than the young student who sat at the other end of the radio station and never left his house.
The Bengal tiger's activity range is hundreds of square kilometers, and the entire Qinhuai District is only 50 square kilometers. That is to say, the activity range of a wild tiger can cover five or six Qinhuai Districts. She was almost certain that this tiger was the one she encountered last time. It was an old acquaintance.
"BG4MXH, I have seen tigers before. I am not afraid of them. I can handle them. I have made plans."
"You're not going to solve this problem! Don't mess around, don't confront it head-on, absolutely don't confront it head-on, just stay at home for a while and don't go out, wait until it's gone, OVER."
"What if it never leaves?"
"Then go, leave there and settle down somewhere safe. A wise man never fights a tiger. OVER."
"I'm not a hero, I'm a girl."
"You also know that you are a girl, don't you? Don't be stubborn at this time. I just hate that I can't get through the radio station and pull you back over here. Don't play with fire. You are not Wu Song, why are you fighting a tiger? You are a precious daughter, you can't have even a hair on your body damaged. What should we do if something happens to you?"
Banxia was pulling a small cart with a whole deer on it.
She seldom brings back her prey intact, because she has no use for it. But today, she didn't catch this prey for herself, it's a bait. The one active in the area near Meihua Villa is a Bengal tiger, a large tiger species second only to the Siberian tiger, with a body length of more than two meters and a weight of more than two hundred kilograms. It can eat sixty kilograms of meat in one meal, can cross rivers and climb trees, and it's like a piece of cake to knock down boxing champion Tyson with a slap. For this most ferocious, dangerous and versatile top predator in nature, small-scale baits will naturally not work, if you want to play, you have to play big.
The teacher once said that the baits used by ancient people when hunting tigers were whole pigs and sheep. Hunting tigers requires large traps and large baits.
When the teacher was young, tigers were extremely endangered animals. At that time, there were many people but few tigers, so people had to protect tigers.
But now, Banxia is the only human left in the world, and humans have become an extremely endangered species. There are few humans and many tigers, so logically, the tigers should protect humans.
Why don't tigers from all over the world get together, produce a World Wildlife Conservation List, and list humans as critically endangered?
"Ms. BG4MSR, please realize that you are the hope of the whole world. Your life and safety are more important than anyone else's. No matter what, you must not get into danger. OVER."
"I don't care."
"Please, I'll kneel down and kowtow to you, Miss, do you hear the bang bang bang sound? OVER."
“You’re banging on the table.”
"BG4MSR, why do you have to pick on that tiger? OVER."
“Because the opportunity is rare.”
"It's a rare opportunity, right? It's a rare opportunity for it to find an SSS-level top-grade precious food human girl in the wild. Scorpion poop is unique, there is only one in the world, there is no other semicolon... Miss, if you let it go, it will let you go too, right?"
"not good."
"Why?"
Banxia dragged the prey and carried a shotgun along the path into the community. Ever since she discovered a Bengal tiger near Meihua Villa, she has carried a shotgun with her whenever she goes out.
"Because I must kill it."
"Does it have a grudge against you? OVER"
"There is a grudge."
"What grudge?"
"It killed the teacher."
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"BG4MXH, you know tigers are creatures that won't rush out to attack prey they don't know. Although they are very ferocious and powerful, they are also very cautious. My teacher once told me a story called "The Donkey in Guizhou Has Run Out of Tricks," which is about a tiger that saw a donkey but didn't know what a donkey was. So it repeatedly tried to test it, and finally confirmed that the donkey was not a dangerous animal before it pounced on it and ate it.
So I thought back, the tiger must have been following us for several days, but its whereabouts were too secretive and we were too careless, so we didn’t notice it until that evening, when the teacher brought me back from the beach. Because the time estimate was not accurate, when we arrived at the community, it was already dark. ”
"And it attacked you? OVER."
"Yes, my teacher and I were about to enter the gate of the community. The teacher took off her backpack and gun and gave it to me. Suddenly, it jumped out from behind us, bit the teacher's shoulder and dragged her into the bushes. I was so scared at the time. I didn't know what it was. A huge black shadow suddenly appeared and took the teacher away. I stood there, not knowing how to move. I heard the teacher shouting: Run! Run! Then I knew to run. I ran home like crazy, closed the door and cried. My body was wet. I took off my pants and realized that I had peed."
"And then? OVER."
"I kept crying and crying until late at night when I heard someone knocking on the door. I went to open the door and found that the teacher was back. I was so happy. She said that the tiger dragged her a long way away, but she pulled out a knife and stabbed it into the tiger's eyes, and the tiger ran away. The teacher was really amazing. I hugged her tightly, but her body was covered in blood and the wound on her shoulder was terrible. I helped the teacher take a bath, cleaned her wound, applied medicine and bandaged her, and then let her lie on the bed to rest.
I thought the teacher would get better. After all, she was so powerful. Even without a gun, she could drive away the tiger with a dagger.
But in the next few days, the teacher started to have a high fever. "
"The teacher had a high fever and her face was pale. I was very anxious and wanted to cry. I didn't know what to do. I used all the medicines I could. I even went to collect herbs to make soup for the teacher, but the teacher's health was not good. I slept with her at night and hugged her, and I could feel her body was burning hot.
The teacher's appetite was getting worse and worse. She couldn't eat and even vomited. I cooked for her, including salted fish, wild vegetable and lotus seed porridge and smoked venison shreds, but she couldn't eat any of them.
She slept for the whole day, and I sat by her bed to accompany her. Then one day at noon, the teacher woke up and patted my shoulder gently.
She said, Yaya, I'm a little hungry.
I am so happy that the teacher finally wants to eat. She is getting better.
I hurried to the kitchen to cook for her. I cleaned the pheasant that I caught the day before and stewed a pot of soup. I thought the patient should drink some hot soup, which would make her feel more comfortable.
It took me a long time to cook the soup.
The meat was stewed until very tender, then left to cool for a while before being brought into the room and the teacher was asked to get up and eat.
I held the bowl and called out, "Teacher, teacher! Look at the chicken soup I made for you!"
“But the teacher never agreed to my request again.
I buried her on the lawn below."
Banxia decided to use a whole sika deer as bait to trap a Bengal tiger. She chose a good location and set the trap between two residential buildings. She decided to wait upstairs all night and all day, squatting on the balcony or windowsill with a gun. If the tiger fell into the trap, she would shoot it immediately.
"BG4MSR, if you must kill this tiger, then you must wait for me. I will go and consult an expert for you. OVER."
"Expert? Were there people who specialized in hunting tigers in your time?"
"Uh... no, it's a crime to hunt tigers at this time. We will go to jail. But there are experts who study tigers. I'll call the Siberian Tiger Park! Find someone to help you make a plan. I'll find someone tomorrow. You must wait for me to come back tomorrow night! Miss, do you hear me? OVER."
"Okay, okay."
Last night BG4MXH said he could help him find an expert, but Banxia knew very well that only old hunters who have been hunting outside for many years have the most experience in knowing what animal to hunt and what method to use.
When it comes to dealing with wild beasts, there were probably not many people in BG4MXH's era who were more experienced than himself.
But since he said he wanted to help, I might as well go back and listen to his advice.
After all, there is strength in numbers.
Banxia put the shotgun aside, squatted down to check the layout of the trap, then turned around to move the dead deer.
She was suddenly stunned.
My limbs were completely numb and stiff, and I could hardly feel my heart beating.
A rough estimate showed that the girl was only one meter away from the thing, almost face to face. At such a close distance, through the lush green bushes, she could even see her own reflection in the burnt yellow eye.
Yes, plans always cannot keep up with changes.
You have a plan, but the other party may not follow the plan. It may appear at any time, such as now.
Banxia's mind went blank.
The last thought that flashed through her mind was:
I can’t go back in the evening, sorry BG4MXH, she is going to break the appointment.
(End of this chapter)
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