We found a few flat and exposed rocks to set up tents. Xiangyu was timid, so her tent carried us in the middle.
After having a quick bite, we planned to take a rest. At this time, the old man suggested that the three of us men should take turns to keep watch because there are more dangerous factors in the dark night.
Zhang Jisheng said that he would stay for the first half of the night, so I returned to my tent.
At night in the primeval forest, the temperature dropped significantly compared with the daytime, but it was a bit stuffy in the tent. I lay in the tent and felt very tired, but my mind was extremely clear and I didn't feel sleepy at all.
I'm still thinking about that photo.
This photo is really incredible. Even if I have been here, I have never heard my grandparents mention it in the past few years. If I have never been here, how can I explain the photo?
I suddenly remembered the strange words my grandma said that day in the study. She said, "It hurts to scrape the bones to cure the poison, but it will be cured once and for all." I knew that what she said at that time was to get my grandfather to agree to me and my classmates.
Entering Wawu Mountain, but I have never been able to understand the deep meaning of it.
My head was in a mess, and I couldn't sleep as I tossed and turned. I don't know how long it had passed, but I seemed to be in a daze when I heard something chewing on the green canvas of the tent.
I suddenly woke up and looked around hurriedly. Sure enough, where my head was when I was just lying down, there was something biting into my tent.
Could it be another snake?
I was really bitten by a snake once and was afraid of straw ropes for ten years. When I think of that silver-white two-headed snake coiled around my head, I still sweat on my back.
However, when I looked at the shadow carefully, I felt that it was not a snake, because the thing looked like an oval-shaped creature with a long tail, and it seemed to flap two huge wings from time to time.
Is it a bat? But the tail doesn't look like it.
I quietly opened the zipper of the tent and got out.
Someone pulled me from behind. When I turned around, it was Wang Zhishui. He made a silent gesture towards me and pointed at our tent.
At this time, I discovered that there were bats lying on several tents.
Everyone was outside the tent, and I was probably the last one to get out of the tent. Seeing this, I couldn't help but curse myself in my heart. In such an environment, my vigilance was really too low.
"Why do you think it's a vampire bat?" Zhang Jisheng looked a little serious.
Xiangyu's brows also frowned. She seemed to think it was a vampire bat. She covered her mouth and breathed a little heavily.
"Another one is here," Wang Zhishui said, looking straight at the little creature that landed on the tent and was confronting us.
These bats are larger than ordinary bats, especially the two wings, which are particularly uncoordinated compared with their body size. Their fur color is mainly dark red, the tips of their ears are triangular, and their snouts are short, cone-shaped, and long.
The sharp canine teeth are exposed and the claws are like sharp hooks. The whole appearance looks ugly and ferocious.
Looking at more and more bats, I started to beat a drum in my heart. I glanced at the old man. Although the sunglasses covered his eyes, I still felt that he was a little dignified.
Suddenly, with a "hoo" sound, all the bats took off collectively, as if under some command, and then circled above our heads.
"Ah..." Xiangyu is still a girl after all. The moment the bat took off, she was a little frightened and screamed instinctively.
"Shut up!" the old man shouted, scaring Xiangyu's shouts away. "They didn't attack us immediately. They seemed to be weighing whether they were our opponents. If you yelled like this, didn't you tell them directly?
Are you scared? All the creatures in this forest are spiritual. If we entered the Ecstasy rashly, we would have disturbed them. Remember, don’t scream!"
"The eyes of bats are invisible. They rely on sound waves to locate. We take out the ordnance shovel. If these things really attack us, the ordnance shovel can be used as a weapon and can also interfere with its movement trajectory."
After listening to Wang Zhishui's words, everyone took out the ordnance shovels from their backpacks and assembled them.
Only then did I realize that everyone had brought their own equipment with them when they left the tent, and I was the only one who came out empty-handed.
After everyone assembled the ordnance shovel, they realized that I didn't bring anything.
"Zhou Cang, let's cover you. Slowly move back to the tent and take out your backpack." Zhang Jisheng said.
I nodded a little sheepishly.
However, just as we were approaching the tent, the bats suddenly began to attack us.
A bat landed on the back of my neck. I felt the pain of its sharp claws piercing the skin, but before it could lick the blood seeping out of my skin, the old man knocked the bat to the ground with a shovel.
Already.
This move seemed to anger the group of little things hovering above us, and they suddenly made a sharp "squeak" sound, which was particularly harsh.
Then, like hailstones, they hit us one after another, biting our clothes.
There were a lot of bats, and we were no match for them. Within a few minutes, I felt that several bats were sucking blood from my body, because I felt numb in several places on my body.
We have to drive away the bats that have fallen on us and prevent the attacks of the bats that are hovering around us, which is very powerless.
"Zhou Cang, Jisheng," Xiangyu suddenly shouted.
We turned our heads at the same time and found that a bat actually got through Xiangyu's collar and got into her clothes.
Xiangyu immediately threw away the shovel, tore off his clothes and beat and shook them in circles. His face was pale, and he felt like he was extremely frightened.
We rushed over at the same time, but as the bat shuttled around Xiangyu's upper body, we felt unable to do anything.
Wang Zhishui also came over to help. While swatting the bats that kept attacking us, he shouted to us: "There is nothing to worry about at this time, help her take off her shirt!"
At this time, with my quick eyes and quick hands, I stretched out my hand to grab the bat that was running around in Xiangyu's clothes, and then squeezed down, and the bat fell out of Xiangyu's clothes.
Xiangyu also fainted immediately.
Xiangyu fainted. There were too many bats. We were already overwhelmed with care, but now it became even more troublesome.
At this moment, a bright light streaked across the night sky. Wherever the bright light passed, bats fled in panic.
I took a closer look and saw that the old man had taken out a hernia lamp at some point, and the strong light across the night sky came from the hernia lamp in his hand, which had a maximum power of 100,000 watts.
Wang Zhishui and Zhang Jisheng and I immediately understood, and we all took out the hernia lamps from our backpacks, turned them on to maximum power, and irradiated the light. The four 100,000-meter xenon lamps instantly illuminated the surrounding area as bright as day, and the bats all screamed in surprise.
Yelled and dispersed.
However, in the special environment of the primeval forest, the dense branches and leaves of the plants have swallowed up many light sources of the hernia lamp, making its range of illumination relatively limited. We can obviously feel that we have not subdued them, and they are still under the influence of the hernia lamp.
Hidden behind the branches and leaves, waiting.
"This is not the way to go. The hernia lamp is currently on at maximum power and will run out of power soon." Zhang Jisheng looked at the old man worriedly.
The old man looked expressionless and pointed to a tent, "Light it first."
We instantly realized that we all had alcohol cubes with us, so we used the alcohol cubes to light the tent, and a raging fire immediately burst into flames. Seeing this, we all turned off the hernia lamps in our hands, but the bat still didn't come, and we all felt a little relieved.
, all sitting on the ground breathing heavily.
"Let's find a way to wake up Xiangyu first." After a while, I looked at Xiangyu lying on the ground and said.
"I'll give it a try," Wang Zhishui said.
He stepped forward and pinched Xiangyu's body twice. Xiangyu said "Ouch" and then opened his eyes.
She might still be a little confused, so she looked at us and asked, "Where is this?"
"Xiangyu, you were so frightened by the bat that you fainted just now." Zhang Jisheng said.
"Have all the bats been driven away?" Xiangyu was silent for a while, apparently remembering the situation just now, and his expression changed.
"The bats haven't left yet. They are still dormant around us. They are afraid of fire. We lit a tent on fire, so they don't dare to attack us for the time being." I said.
Xiangyu nodded. She was so frightened just now that even though she woke up, she was still in shock.
"Everyone, check the wounds on your body, disinfect the stung areas with alcohol, and then apply some chloramphenicol. I don't know if the red bats in the primitive forest carry any unknown germs, but we still shouldn't be careless," Zhang Jisheng said.
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After we applied the medicine, we sat in front of the tent. The old man lit a dry cigarette and started smoking it. We sat in front of the tent, watching the red flames soaring high, with bewildered expressions on our faces.
"You guys, don't just sit here. Pick up some dry branches and dead leaves from around here." The old man gave the order.
After listening to the old man's words, we took action. First we picked up a few thicker branches and lit them as torches to scare the bats. Then we started looking for dead branches nearby with the lit tent as the center.
We used this method to suppress the red bats' attack on us. Finally, at dawn, the bats had to retreat to their caves. We moved forward gropingly according to the plan we drew up yesterday.
"Finally, I got through the ecstasy letter." Wang Zhishui said with emotion.
"How do you know that we have walked out of the Lost City? I don't see any difference between the jungle in front of me and the jungle behind me." Xiangyu asked.
"The fog seems to be gone." Zhang Jisheng looked around.
"Look at your watch." Wang Zhishui said to Xiangyu.
"The second hand has really returned to normal movement, but I don't know what time it is now." Xiangyu looked at the old man with some joy, "Should we continue walking in the direction of the water source now?"
We also looked at the old man together.
The old man didn't say a word, but kept walking forward. The direction he was going was the direction of the water source we determined yesterday.