This time, Xu Mo woke up before the gentle breeze hit his face.
The first thing he did after he woke up was to look in the right direction and run towards the north of the Bajiao Pavilion.
Because I walked it once during the fourth cycle and paid careful attention to the route, this time it was obviously smoother and faster than the last time.
The situation is now very clear. The biggest threat at present is the man-eating colorful tiger.
Maybe he had been discovered by the tiger from the beginning.
How can an ordinary person defeat a tiger in the mountains and forests?
You can't fight and you can't run away.
This is a fatal outcome.
But if there are other people around, the situation will be completely different. If you think of some ways, you may be able to escape the fate of being killed.
For example, you can ask that person for help and find a hiding place.
Another example is that when there is one more person, the tiger has one more choice. After all, a tiger wants to eat two people, so no matter how fierce the tiger is, it can only attack one person at a time.
The other one can escape.
Maybe the tiger will stop chasing after it is full.
In this way, wouldn't my mortality rate be drastically reduced from the previous 100% to 50%?
It's a bit selfish, but it's about survival, not shabby.
The moment he was knocked down by the tiger, Xu Mo saw a light in front of him.
Wild animals cannot use fire.
Talent will.
At this moment, Xu Mo ran as fast as he could to the north of the Octagonal Pavilion. When he accidentally fell, he immediately got up and continued running. This time it went smoothly, and he arrived at the place where he died last time before dawn.
It's about ten minutes faster than before.
There was a roar of a tiger behind me, but it felt like it was still at least three to five hundred meters away.
Further forward, Xu Mo walked about a hundred meters, but he didn't see the light he saw last time, but he saw a dilapidated building in front of him. Looking closer, he saw that it was a ruined temple with broken walls.
The ground was overgrown with weeds. Xu Mo took two steps and almost tripped over something.
When I looked down, I saw a wooden plaque hidden in the weeds.
There are three words "Mountain Temple" written on it.
The original color of the wooden plaque can no longer be seen, and it has obviously been abandoned for a long time.
Xu Mo felt that the place where he saw the light before was right here.
"Will there be anyone in here?"
Xu Mo himself had doubts.
When I walked in, I saw that the temple was not big. One of the door panels was missing, and the other half fell to the ground. The statue inside was gone, and only the base was left. What I saw was a mess of spider webs and rags.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there are people here.
Time was running out, and Xu Mo knew that the big tiger would come at any time, so he asked.
"Is anyone there?"
The sound echoed in the temple.
There was only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the grass, but no one responded.
Xu Mo was a little anxious and asked again.
If there is no one, then sooner or later you will still be a piece of meat in the tiger's mouth.
At this time, Xu Mo noticed a rag hanging from the roof in front of him. There seemed to be something behind the rag. He walked around and saw a mummy sitting cross-legged there.
There is actually a corpse?
Xu Mo panicked a little and began to have random thoughts in his mind.
Look again, there is a lantern placed next to the mummy.
Although it is a bit worn, it looks very clean.
This is obviously not normal.
For a moment, Xu Mo's mind was wide open, thinking that the person holding the lantern last time could be this mummy, right?
It's a bit scary.
I plucked up the courage to walk over and take a closer look, and found that the corpse must have been dead for a long time. The skin was gray-brown and stuck to the bones, but it was not rotten and there was no smell of corpse.
The mummy was wearing an apricot Taoist robe.
A Taoist priest?
Although the robe is old, it is still intact.
At this moment, the sky has turned dark. Once the sun sets, it will get dark very quickly. At this moment, the surrounding light visible to the naked eye gradually dims until it finally disappears.
Xu Mo was in a state of confusion. He was a little frightened when he stayed in a ruined temple with a mummy.
But he thought about it and had no intention of going out.
A corpse is just a corpse, and it can't be moved, and it won't threaten you. After all, there are broken walls and a house here, which is definitely better than facing a man-eating tiger without protection outside.
Compared to being eaten by a tiger when he went out, Xu Mo felt that it was okay to stay in a ruined temple with a mummy.
But he should be panicked anyway. The instinct of self-protection made Xu Mo look for weapons that could be used to defend himself. But after searching around, he found nothing except a broken wooden stick.
At this time, the roar of tigers could be heard outside.
Getting closer.
Even Xu Mo's heart was in his throat.
I looked out, but couldn't see anything.
Xu Mo recalled the tiger carefully and felt something was wrong.
By the way, it's the body shape.
It's not that Xu Mo has never seen a tiger before. He has seen many in the wildlife park. What is certain is that the one chasing him now is much bigger than the one in the wildlife park.
The body size is at least double.
Anyway, Xu Mo has never seen such a big tiger.
Another thing that's wrong is the eyes.
I didn't react when I looked at a tiger before. Thinking about it afterwards, I always felt that there was an inexplicable wisdom hidden in the other person's eyes.
Or perhaps because he was overthinking it, Xu Mo felt that using the word 'wisdom' to describe a beast was a bit exaggerated.
After waiting nervously for a while, Xu Mo found that the tiger did not approach the ruined temple. Judging from the occasional roar of the tiger, it seemed that the tiger was just wandering around.
Xu Mo felt relieved and thought about how to get rid of this man-eating tiger.
After being eaten three times, it was impossible to say that he didn't have any anger in his heart. Xu Mo was also a tough man. He also thought about fighting the tiger with a real sword and a real gun.
But after looking at the wooden stick in his hand and the strength of his body, he suppressed this idea again.
With the size of a tiger, it would be useless even if he had two knives, let alone a stick in his hand.
Xu Mo has watched popular science programs about tigers and heard some jokes. Someone asked, "The strongest boxing champion in the human world is nearly two meters tall and weighs more than 200 kilograms. One punch weighs 500 to 800 kilograms."
If you fight a tiger, can you win?
The highly praised answer below is that I can’t win.
The person who asked the question also asked, what if three boxing champions compete together?
A more favorable answer is: Tigers can eat to their fullest.
It can be said that things like Wu Song's tiger attack, where humans rely on physical combat to kill tigers, are basically impossible to happen.
"Am I just going to be eaten to death by this tiger?"
Xu Mo was dissatisfied.
"If you still get eaten this time, you will have to explore the south next time."
I have already begun to think about the plan for the next cycle.
He knew very well that if nothing happened this time, he would still be killed.
Hey, that’s not right!
Xu Mo suddenly thought, since there is no one here, what was the dim light he saw before?
Is it because I am dazzled or am I hallucinating?
Looking back, I always felt that something was wrong in this eerie mountain temple.
As time passed, the tiger just wandered around and never rushed in.
This puzzled Xu Mo.
Why doesn't the tiger come in and eat me?
Could it be that there is something here that can scare even a man-eating tiger, so it doesn't dare to approach?
Thinking of this, Xu Mo suddenly felt another inexplicable chill behind him.
Not like a mountain breeze, but pure coldness, like the feeling you get when you suddenly walk into a large freezer.
Xu Mo turned around suddenly and swung the wooden stick behind him.
It was empty.
There is nothing behind you.
But is there really nothing?
At this time, Xu Mo noticed that the place where the mummy should be sitting was empty.
The mummy is missing?
This discovery was no different than a basin of cold water being poured over my head and feet, which instantly chilled my heart.
How come the body is missing?
Xu Mo has confirmed that there is no one else in Guoshan Temple.
Could it be that the body ran away on its own?
Before he could figure it out, a green light suddenly popped out beside him. Xu Mo's pupils shrank in fear. He turned around and saw the mummy carrying a lantern with green light.
Standing next to him with his head lowered.
You can reach it by raising your arm.
"Ah~~Mom~I'm CAO~~"
The next second, Xu Mo's screams came from the mountain temple.