Su Hong devoured several portions of slate-fried crocodile meat. Although the taste was average, every bite relieved the discomfort in his body and made Su Hong feel refreshed.
After you have eaten and drank enough, you have to continue your journey.
Although he really wanted to stay here for three days, the smell of blood on his body was really disgusting, so he continued to look for a source of clear water to wash away the blood stains on his clothes and body.
But where to find clear water?
Logically speaking, the water upstream should be clearer, right?
Su Hong picked up a leaf and threw it into the river. He planned to determine the direction of the river by relying on the direction in which the leaf floated. In whichever direction the leaf floated, he would just walk in the opposite direction. This was something he had learned from before.
When he learned the method, he usually likes to read some strange and useless knowledge.
Su Hong does not hate knowledge. Learning knowledge itself is not painful. What is painful is that you have to take exams. You have to do this for a living. You have to understand the incomprehensible parts. If it is just a popular science level, it can satisfy people's thirst for knowledge.
Desire does not make people feel painful.
However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny. The leaves drift neither forward, left, nor right. The leaves float sideways, and they float to the other side.
There is always a gap between theory and practice. Often the theory is wonderful, but in practice there are always some unexpected problems.
How about judging the level of the terrain...
Forehead...
It seems to be flat ground, it seems to be higher on the left, and it seems higher on the right. It is impossible to observe with the naked eye which part of the uneven land is higher and which is lower. The slope here is very gentle and uneven, and the towering trees make Su Hong.
Without a full view of the surrounding area, it becomes even more difficult to determine where to go.
When you are in doubt, you should ask more questions. Although others may not be able to answer, you won't lose anything by asking: "Xiaobai, where should we go?"
"Hehe~" Xiaobai glanced at Su Hong and muttered: "That's a good question, but I don't know either."
"ε=(′ο｀*))) Sigh..." Su Hong sighed. It seems that he may not have the chance to wash off the blood stains on his body, but to be honest, the blood has dried now and the smell is much lighter.
Su Hong has almost adapted to the smell. Even if he doesn't wash himself, it's not completely unacceptable. "Then let's camp here, right?"
"No problem, but we still face the problem of food shortage. If you get the hunger debuff, you will become weak quickly, so don't think about going hungry for three days."
"Isn't there crocodile meat?" There was a lot of smoked crocodile meat before. Su Hong thought it was enough. A person only eats about a pound of meat in one meal. If it only lasts three days, the bacon should be enough. After all, these
Crocodiles are not small.
"Ahem...you have eaten all the crocodile meat, and the rest cannot be eaten due to various unexpected factors. After all, this is a virgin forest, and there are many environmental factors that can cause food to deteriorate." Xiaobai rolled his eyes.
, looking at the tree beside him, he said to Su Hong, looking a little guilty.
"Yeah." Su Hong nodded, this is not incomprehensible.
However, in fact, the crocodile meat did not deteriorate due to environmental factors, but Xiaobai wasted a lot when seasoning it. After all, if you want to make a proper taste, you need to experiment. After countless failures, Xiaobai finally
Bai Cai created a taste that was barely delicious.
The smoke itself was only enough for two people to eat for three days. After being consumed a lot by Xiaobai's experiments, there was almost nothing left.
"So, do we need to go hunting?"
"right."
Su Hong frowned. It was not that he had never seen wild animals when he came here. Most of them were herbivores, which meant that the danger of hunting was actually not high. However, there was a big problem. Those animals
Before Su Hong could get close, he ran away, showing a lot of vigilance.
Su Hong couldn't beat the animals that Su Hong didn't run away from. Those that Su Hong could beat ran away when they heard the noise. It can be said to be an unsolvable problem. Trying to catch up with a wild animal in this primitive forest.
Deer or other animals, it is simply impossible to reach the sky, it is better to hope that the predators will take the initiative to come to the tip of his sword.
How about catching fish?
However, the water was too turbid, and it was difficult to see whether there were any fish in it.
"Xiao Bai, why don't you take a walk along the direction of the river?"
It’s not easy to get lost while walking along the river. It would be better if you could walk upstream to a place with clear water. Even if you make a mistake, you can return here. If you walk into the woods, you will probably lose your direction after walking about a hundred meters.
After all, the surrounding environment all looks the same.
"Okay, it's a good choice."
Hearing Xiaobai's affirmative answer, Su Hong stood up and started to leave, but was stopped by Xiaobai again: "Stop, stop, stop, you're just leaving like that?"
"Um...shouldn't I walk like this?" Su Hong scratched his head in confusion, lowered his head and looked at his feet, not knowing how to walk appropriately.
"Hmph~" Xiaobai patted the big bag on the side, pouted and said to Su Hong: "Can you bear to let a cute and petite girl carry such a big bag?"
"..."
All right...
The bag was a little heavier than Su Hong expected, but it was not unacceptable. He picked up the bag and started walking along the river with Xiaobai.
Su Hong was very lucky as he kept walking along the river. After a while, the water became clearer and clearer. This was the direction upstream. There was a lake nearby, and the water in it was also relatively clear. At least
There is no problem visible to the naked eye, and the clothes should be able to be washed.
The surrounding trees are not as dense as before, and there is a lake, so the view is relatively good, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Choosing one of the two, Su Hong was lucky and got it right, but there are parts of good luck and parts of bad luck.
Su Hong took a few steps as usual, but felt that the ground was a little soft, but to his surprise, Su Hong soon sank in. This was a swamp.
"Xiao Bai, can you help me?" Su Hong didn't panic. Anyway, with Xiao Bai here, he shouldn't die. He believed that Xiao Bai would definitely not let him die like this, no matter what Xiao Bai wanted.
Whether you use him or treat him as a pet, you won't let him die like this.
Xiaobai was very lucky. She had been walking with Su Hong, but she just decided to go see what fish there were in the lake, and Su Hong decided to find a better place to set up camp, so they split up and didn't go far.
Just fell into a swamp.
"Throw the bag out. The rope is inside. I'll use the rope to pull you out."
Su Hong did as he was told, but as soon as he threw the bag out, Su Hong sank a little further. Originally it was only submerged to his knees, but now his thighs were almost submerged. Even without struggling, Su Hong continued to sink.
To be honest, the feeling of being swallowed by the swamp is quite magical.
Because the chest has not yet submerged in the swamp, there is no chest tightness. Su Hong has a feeling of slowly falling. It may be a bit outrageous to say, but Su Hong has an inexplicable feeling of flying, fighting against the center of the earth in the air.
The gravity is the same, and when you close your eyes, you feel like a lonely hero.
Su Hong shook his head, no, he must be out of his mind. He has never heard of anyone feeling like this when they fall into a swamp. Most people fall deeper and deeper into the swamp and then die.
"What are you doing?" Xiaobai looked at Su Hong in confusion. She had already thrown the rope, but Su Hong did not grab the rope. Instead, he closed his eyes with a strange expression.
"I feel like I'm a reed now."
"?" Xiao Bai looked up at the sky, almost writing a question mark on his face.
"Haven't you heard that a man named Pascal once said that man is a thinking reed? Now I understand a little bit more."
In the past, Su Hong couldn't remember whether it was in elementary school or junior high school textbooks. Anyway, there was this sentence in an article. Su Hong couldn't remember what else was written, but this sentence alone made Su Hong
Hong remembered it very clearly, perhaps because the words sounded unclear.
"So you want to die here and be reborn as a reed?"
"No need, I'm just a reed, I don't need to be reincarnated." Su Hong said seriously.
Yes, I am not a human being, but a reed, a thinking reed.
Xiaobai waved the rope as a signal, and the other end of the rope was tied to a nearby tree to prevent Su Hong from dragging her directly into the swamp: "If you don't grab the rope, you will become a dead reed."
Su Hong was submerged up to his abdomen at this moment, but he still didn't panic at all: "Xiao Bai, let me ask you a question."
"Can you come out first and ask?" Xiaobai said speechlessly. She didn't understand it. In all her years, this was the first time she saw someone suddenly have a look of enlightenment on their face when they fell into a swamp. Even if they died,
You shouldn't have such an expression, right?
"If you come out and ask, you may not feel anything. Can you help me stay here and have a meeting? I feel an inexplicable sense of relaxation." Su Hong changed his posture and became half-lying on the swamp, letting his chest and head rest.
Expose it so that you won't feel chest tightness. Apart from the discomfort when your hair is stained with mud, it's actually quite comfortable to soak in the swamp, but it may kill you.
"..." Xiaobai squinted his eyes and looked at Su Hong in confusion.
However, Su Hong still pulled the rope and couldn't ask the question. It's better to say that he didn't ask the question. Now that he has come back to his senses, he feels that the question he just wanted to ask may be more shameful. After all, people are in the state of a sage who is fully enlightened.
I will think about some very high-end issues, such as life and death, war and peace, etc.
The dip in the swamp was quite comfortable just now, but now that I'm covered in mud, I feel a little uncomfortable, and my body feels a little heavy, as if it's stuck.
"Why can't you think about it all of a sudden?" Xiaobai circled around Su Hong a few times, but she didn't mind that Su Hong had some whimsical ideas. If everything was within her expectation, then it would be meaningless at all.
.
"Haha, it's just something I feel. I'm moved by the scene."
Su Hong smiled awkwardly. He didn't feel it just now, but looking back, even Su Hong himself felt that he was a little seriously ill. He couldn't do such a thing without suffering from cerebral thrombosis for 10 years.