Gu Qingqing looked down and saw that Ke Xun had pushed several thick and long branches from the tree and threw them down.
Ke Xun jumped off the tree, broke off the miscellaneous branches on these branches, and then took them one by one, wrapping the two ends with torn clothes to form a branch dozens of meters long, and finally tied his mobile phone to the tree. the top end.
"I'll climb as high as possible, and then you hand me the branch." Ke Xun said and climbed up the tree again.
Gu Qingqing understood his intention and hurriedly asked, "Can the phone be able to illuminate it clearly? It's green everywhere, it's hard to tell if it's mixed together?"
"My mobile phone has 40 million pixels, which is equivalent to five times the zoom, so the resolution should be no problem." Ke Xun said, and crawled to the highest place as possible, Gu Qingqing handed him the long branch, Ke Xun turned on the camera mode, held the branch, let the end with the phone attached to it stick out of the entire canopy as high as possible, and then slowly and steadily turned 360 degrees.
Withdrawing his hand, Ke Xun took the end of the cell phone tied to the tree and asked Gu Qingqing to untie it: "Click on the picture you just took to see if you can see the kapok tree."
Gu Qingqing clicked open according to the words, carefully and continuously paused to check, and then shook his head: "No."
Ke Xun got down from the tree and pointed in the direction where the two were going: "Then we can go directly to the farthest place on the screen without having to look carefully, and then take a picture there again, which is more economical. time."
Gu Qingqing looked at him in surprise, and felt that his idea was really flexible and very good.
The two people just ran and stopped, quickly climbed the tree to shoot, and went down to check, which really saved a lot of time.
However, time waits for no one.
The sky was getting dark, and gloomy shrouded the overhead. The silent trees in front of them gradually turned into black silhouettes in the dim light. There was no wind, and the branches and leaves were motionless, only in the depths of the dark dense forest. Occasionally came the melancholy cry of birds and beasts.
"It's the appointed time..." Gu Qingqing reminded Ke Xun in a low voice that everyone had to go back to where Qin Ci and Wu You were before it got completely dark, and then go back to the residential area together.
The sweat on Ke Xun's face was like water that had been opened, and it kept falling down.
Gu Qingqing can't count how many trees he has climbed. He has already reached the limit of his physical strength, but he is still searching for it all the time.
Gu Qingqing was a little scared, afraid that he wouldn't go back, that the stubbornness in his eyes never wavered from beginning to end.
Ke Xun wiped his face, the method of using his mobile phone to take pictures in the distance is no longer available, the sky is dark, and it is difficult to distinguish the shape of the leaves on the screen. He can also see the worry in Gu Qingqing's eyes, not only worrying about herself. , worried about Qin Ci, and worried about him.
Ke Xun closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
If facing the death of his comrade is also a kind of courage, he must muster this courage now...
"Let's go, let's go back." Ke Xun's voice contained an indiscernible nasal tone.
Gu Qingqing was about to turn back, but Ke Xun pulled him: "Let's not go back the same way, let's walk a long distance to the side, the farthest left we saw on the phone just now, just From there, go back."
This way, when you go back, you can search another area.
"Can you hold on? We might have to run when we go back." Ke Xun asked Gu Qingqing.
Gu Qingqing moved her calf, which had been twitching twice, and bit her teeth: "Yes."
"Okay, follow me, watch your steps." Ke Xun started to run to the left, Gu Qingqing followed with gritted teeth.
The two of them ran and searched in the darkening forest. Gu Qingqing wanted to cry a little, because the sweat that kept slipping had blurred her spectacle lenses and eyes. She kept wiping it to no avail. It was soaking wet, and the lenses wiped with it were all water stains.
She was so short-sighted that she couldn't even see Ke Xun who was running in front of her when she took off her glasses, let alone to tell which tree was the kapok tree.
Gu Qingqing choked as she ran, hating why she was short-sighted, and why she was useless at the critical moment.
She was so choked that she couldn't restrain herself, when she suddenly felt a hand stretched out and grabbed her. This hand was as sweaty as hers, but it was broad and powerful. It held her tightly and led her to run forward.
"Don't cry," Ke Xun's voice came from her tearful eyes, "We have done our best."
Gu Qingqing let out a crying "um" and tried her best to speed up her pace, but physical strength is not something that can go on indefinitely. When crossing a small slope with high terrain, his legs fell to the ground with a soft knee.
Ke Xun turned around and came to help her, but her legs were shaking so much that she couldn't stand up. Ke Xun turned to carry her on his back, but she knew that his physical strength had already been exhausted, and his legs were actually too weak when he was running just now. trembling.
"Leave me alone..." Gu Qingqing picked up the dropped glasses tremblingly and put them on the bridge of his nose again, "leave me alone... Go back, I don't want to drag you down, I'll just do it... I tried my best, I'm dead Nothing..."
"Shh—" Ke Xun suddenly pointed not far away, "Look at those trees, are they Kapok?"
Gu Qingqing looked in the direction he pointed, and in the haze, there was a very thick and tall tree towering into the sky, and in the four directions not far from it, there was an equally tall tree in each direction. A trapezoid surrounds it.
"I-I can't see clearly-" Gu Qingqing tried to clean his glasses, but the lenses became more and more slick.
"Don't worry." Ke Xun patted her on the shoulder, took a picture of the five trees with his mobile phone, and held it in front of her.
Gu Qingqing held the glasses in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, his face almost sticking to the screen of the mobile phone, Ke Xun enlarged the photo to show her, Gu Qingqing struggled to distinguish for a few seconds, and raised her eyes excitedly: "Yes! It's a kapok tree!"
Ke Xun wiped his face, shook off the sweat on his hand, and turned his head to look at the five trees.
These five trees do not know that they are hundreds of years old. The canopy covers the sky and towers high into the blackened sky.
They are indeed inconspicuous, and there are many equally tall and sturdy trees around them hiding them.
But they are indeed very conspicuous, because from the direction where Ke Xun is standing, without considering the perspective and depth of field, these five trees are like a big hand that has broken out of the ground and is desperately reaching out to the sky. The branches that have been bent by the wild wind and rain for thousands of years are like five twisted fingers, struggling, desperate, unwilling, and praying to the sky, to be able to survive in this already riddled Continue to live on the earth that Kong but still loves deeply.
This is the hand, the hand in the picture that is eager to survive.
Ke Xun asked Gu Qingqing to touch the tree in the middle, Gu Qingqing turned to look at him as he walked over there doubtfully.
"You leave the painting first, and I have to go back and bring everyone here."
Ke Xun said that he was about to leave, but heard Gu Qingqing bewildered: "I touched the trunk of the tree, but it doesn't work... How do I leave the painting? What should be the reaction under normal circumstances?"
Ke Xun frowned, "Is there no Abel's name on the tree trunk?"
"No." Gu Qingqing shook her head anxiously.
"What about the other four trees?" Ke Xun didn't dare to touch it, for fear that he might accidentally leave the painting.
Gu Qingqing quickly circled around the four trees, and shook her head again with a bad expression.
This discovery without any discovery was like a blow to the head.
If these five trees are not... then all hope today is gone.
Ke Xun pursed his lips tightly and tried desperately to think about any possibility, while Gu Qingqing kept checking the trunks of these trees.
What form will Abel's signature take? Ke Xun stared at these trees, at the top of the trees? on leaves? Carved on the bark? Buried at the root of a tree
-Do not. Abel is an environmentalist. It is impossible for him to carve his signature on the bark or bury it under the roots of the tree. He will not do anything to harm the tree - "Take off the fallen leaves under the tree!" Ke Xun raised his voice to Gu Qingqing road.
—If Abel is a foreigner, I don’t know if he has heard of the Chinese poem “Turn into spring mud to protect flowers”, or he has the same idea as this poem.
He's an environmentalist, and he wants to protect the last guardians of the planet, so his signature is likely to be—
"Found it!" Gu Qingqing shouted in a trembling voice.
Under the thick fallen leaves, the name Abel appeared in the form of a slightly raised mud ridge surrounded by the five trees of life. The Tomb of the Soldiers of the Source.
"Put your hand on the signature!" Ke Xun told Gu Qingqing.
Gu Qingqing put her hand up as she said, a white light lit up, and her figure disappeared instantly.
Ke Xun turned his head and sprinted towards the place agreed with his companions.
It was already dark, the night birds no longer chirped, the forest beasts no longer whistled, and in the forest without a shred of wind, there were countless chirping sounds from far and near.
Something rubbed the ground, passed through the dense forest, and rushed towards this side.
"Yan-Yan-" Ke Xun roared wildly, "come here--to the east--I found the signature--follow my voice--"
He roared as he ran wildly, his extremely tired body seemed to no longer belong to him, all his movements had become subconscious mechanized behaviors, sweat fell from his forehead like a waterfall, and his vision was blurred to the point of He couldn't see the trees just a short distance away. He lit the light with his mobile phone and turned the music inside to the loudest. He hoped that his companions could hear it as soon as possible, and come first before those things arrived.
Ke Xun stumbled and tripped as soon as his legs softened. His body that was about to fall apart could not help but slumped in place and never got up again. He gritted his teeth and tried his best to stand up, shaking and moving forward.
too tired. He had never been so tired in his life. Even the devil training under the devil coach before has never been so tiring.
He couldn't hold on any longer, and staggered forward several times with great strides, before falling headfirst.
This time, he may not be able to stand up again. Ke Xun's mind was already blank, and he couldn't even turn around the word "Sorry" to Mu Yiran.
He fell forward, but was unable to plant himself in the soil where worms and ants were crawling with rotten leaves in his mind.
He fell into a familiar embrace, a familiar smell and a familiar power. He was hugged and lifted up, and then carried on his strong back.
"Go east and follow." He heard him instruct his companions as calmly as always.
Then he ran fast with his back behind him, followed by a series of footsteps, and the crawling sounds that were getting closer and closer.
Everyone was tired, and everyone had no strength to speak. All Ke Xun could hear was heavy breathing and heavy footsteps.
Everyone is trying their best to fight where their lives are on the line. Everyone's mind is full of longing for life. Everyone is like the hand that is struggling to break through the ground, desperately reaching out to the last hope. .
Until he heard Shao Ling's hoarse voice suddenly sounded: "Old Qin he—started to vomit blood—"
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Shao Ling: Lao Qin—he started vomiting blood—
Reader: Hahaha, it's useless to vomit, who is it to scare
Shao Ling: …Anyone spoilers? !
Bao Yue: You have nothing to do with me.
Qin Ci: ... looking at you with a bloody face.