"Boss... Ugh... You're still... Guwaa..."
Gu Lang's voice came from behind. Wang Ping lay on the ground and listened for a long time, but he couldn't hear what he said. His little ears were filled with the sound of him vomiting, which made him want to vomit.
At this moment, the badger was in as miserable a state as possible.
Not counting the wounds and bloodstains, the sweat from his body and the resin from rubbing against the trees had covered him in layers. Add to that the dirt from the previous fights, and not only was he covered in dirt, but as the wounds got stuck with debris, they started to itch and swell, and there seemed to be signs of inflammation.
"By the way, isn't there a river next to this place..."
Wang Ping stood up by supporting himself on the soft ground, first walked towards Gu Lang who was still vomiting behind him, slapped him on his raised butt, then turned and walked out of the woods to the south.
At this time, you can't care whether the wound is wet or not. If you don't wash off the mess in the wound, it might be even more fatal.
Gu Laosan followed behind tremblingly, vomiting as he walked, his face covered with traces of tears and snot. He looked so miserable that if you didn't know him, you would have thought it was him who had just fought with the bear.
In fact, at this time, the anchor had nothing to vomit. His stomach was already empty, even the acid had been vomited out, leaving only unconscious spasms, and his mouth drooling uncontrollably, like a mentally retarded person.
After stumbling to the river, before Wang Ping could get into the water, Gu Laosan crawled on the shore, dived into the water, and drank big gulps of river water.
After all, it was his own fault, so Wang Ping didn't feel like blaming him. He just went around to the upstream, went into the shallow water near the shore, and rubbed his dirty hair.
The river water here is very clear, without pollution, aquatic plants, or silt. The bottom of the water is full of river pebbles and golden sand. Wang Ping just rubbed it lightly in the water and could see a stream of black muddy water flowing in the direction of someone drinking water and rinsing his mouth.
"Ahem..."
Wang Ping curled his lips, turned around and pretended not to see it.
Although the sun had long since disappeared from the valley, the sky was still bright. Large white clouds floated through the gaps above the river. The wind blew from both sides, bringing all kinds of sounds from the mountains, which echoed on the river surface along with the gurgling water.
Wang Ping lowered his head and took two sips of the water, and discovered that it miraculously had a sweet aftertaste.
For some reason, the badger thought of the tea mountain at Grandma Sheng's house.
If we set up a small bamboo table by the river, boil the river water, and brew a pot of tea, sipping the fragrant tea and watching the white clouds floating in the sky, it would be a fairy-like day, right
Wang Ping looked up at the sky, lost in thought, when he heard the sound of Gu Laosan gargling his mouth behind him.
“Gurgle~~~Kuchi Kuchi~~~~~Halalala~~~~Kuchi Kuchi…Puff…”
Wang Ping's face was filled with black lines. He turned around and saw Gu Lang scooping up a pool of clear water and pouring it directly on his face. While washing his face, he also blew his nose into the river.
"Fuck... this really ruins the mood..."
Wang Ping raised his leg and kicked the water surface. Due to the length of the badger's legs, a splash of water less than five centimeters in height was made on the water surface, which was not as much as the splash that Lao San was pouring on his head.
Wang Ping: … Never mind, I’ll let you off this time!
Just as he was lowering his head to continue washing his fur, a badger fixed his eyes and looked towards the bottom of the water.
In the fine sand among the pebbles, there is a half-exposed transparent stone. At first glance, it looks like a bubble appearing at the bottom of the water.
"What is that?"
Wang Ping bent down and reached his claws into the water.
However, the water here is nearly half a meter deep. Before its claws could reach the bottom, the badger's head dived into the water first.
Now I could see it more clearly. The exposed part of the transparent stone was a little yellowish and had a regular round shape. If it wasn't half buried in the sand, it would not be easy to find in the water.
Wang Ping grabbed it and held the sand in his claws. Driven by the water flow, the fine sand flowed away from the gap between his claws, and he felt as if he had grabbed a bead.
Standing up from the water, a badger shook his head vigorously to get rid of the water droplets on his face.
“Oh my god…”
Gu Lang's voice came from the side.
Wang Ping turned his head and saw someone dodging the water he had thrown at him. It seemed that he had recovered, but his face was very pale and a little listless.
Ignoring Gu Laosan, Wang Ping shook his paw in the water to wash away the sand in his paw, then raised his arm. With his paw spread out, a one-centimeter-sized waxy yellow bead lay quietly on the small pad in his palm. Once out of the water, the color became darker.
He gently held it, and the bead was a little hard, and he didn't know what it was made of. But at this time, Wang Ping already felt that it was not stone, but perhaps a glass marble that someone dropped when passing by.
Just as he was about to throw it away, he noticed that there seemed to be something inside the bead.
Wang Ping looked up at the sky, pinched the bead on his claws, and brought it close to his eyes. In the light of the sky, he could see a small white flower with five 3mm petals sealed in the bead.
"Huh? What did you pick up?"
Gu Laosan came over curiously and reached out to take it: "Let me see..."
"roll!"
Wang Ping held the beads and dodged Gu Lang's outstretched hand, then turned around and bared his teeth at someone.
"Ah! Your head is bleeding!"
Gu Lang suddenly screamed, and his hand subconsciously reached for Wang Ping's head.
It is said that people’s thoughts and actions are sometimes contradictory. Although the brain was thinking: “Oh, it’s so serious, it must be painful, right?”, the hand moved directly to touch it, as if to test whether it really hurts.
This time Wang Ping failed to dodge and was caught by someone.
"Hiss..."
After being soaked in river water and touched by Gu Laosan's big hand, the wound on Wang Ping's forehead suddenly felt a sharp pain, and the badger-haired face twitched twice in pain.
Gu Lang quickly withdrew his hand, turned around to touch his back, and then turned back with an embarrassed look: "Uh... the first aid kit is here, it's... ahem... it's down the mountain..."
"mdzz!"
Wang Ping glared at him unhappily, then couldn't help but look at the beads in his hand.
"? Is there something in there?"
Gu Laosan learned his lesson this time and did not dare to reach out to take it. Instead, he squatted over and looked at it with Wang Ping.
"Oh? Is this amber? I've heard that in forests with many pine trees, pine resin often drips from the trees. After a long time, it becomes as hard as stone, which is amber. When some pine resin drips, it will wrap around small insects or something."
Gu Laosan showed off the knowledge he had heard from somewhere and talked to Wang Ping.
Wang Ping knew about amber, but with such a regular shape and without a trace of impurities in it, he always felt that it might be artificially synthesized.
"Forget it, let's take it back first. If there's a chance, I can give it to Anna as a small gift!"
Wang Ping subconsciously raised his paw and stretched it towards his waist. What he touched was not a pocket, but a piece of fluff.
Wang Ping: …
An inexplicable sadness suddenly surged through my body.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Gu Laosan on the shore was already laughing so hard that he sat down on the ground, pointing at Wang Ping and said with a smile: "Haha, why don't you show it to me? Didn't you forget that you left your waist bag behind? In the end, you still want me to keep it for you? When the time comes, I can see it however I want..."
"Fuck you! If you hadn't grabbed me and ran around, would my wallet have fallen off?"
A certain badger bared his teeth and was about to get angry when he saw Gu Lang as if someone had suddenly grabbed his neck. He swallowed back all his words in an instant and his face turned pale.
"What the hell are you seeing?"
Wang Ping turned and looked in the direction Gu Lang was looking. Not far behind him, on the river surface, a dishevelled figure was lying in the water, floating downstream.