Nothing unusual happened afterwards, except that Shen Bing kept grinding her teeth behind me, making a continuous creaking sound. Teeth grinding usually occurs during sleep, with the upper and lower teeth biting each other, which is a bad habit. But now we are climbing in broad daylight, why are you grinding your teeth
I turned around and asked her, "What's wrong? Why are you grinding your teeth there?"
Shen Bing was also very distressed. She covered her cheeks with her hands and said, "I don't know what's going on. My teeth keep itching and I can't feel comfortable unless I grind them."
I laughed and said, "Did you have any sequelae from the shock you just received?"
"Maybe you're too nervous. Relax a little." Qu Mo said.
Shen Bing gritted his teeth twice and said with a sad face: "I'm not nervous at the moment, I just feel something is wrong with my teeth. Oh, it's okay, don't look at me, it's important to hurry on."
After crawling forward for a while, the grinding sound turned into chewing sound, as if she was chewing something. Shen Bing didn't eat enough just now and was hungry again? I looked back and frowned immediately. She was holding a dry branch with both hands and biting it in her mouth, just like chewing a goose leg. It tasted delicious. Wood chips flew out from the corners of her lips. It seemed that her teeth were in good condition.
Chen Ming and Qu Mo stared at her in surprise. It was clear that she was possessed!
I reached out and took the branch from her mouth and threw it away, then grabbed her right wrist, pulled her into my arms, and carefully examined her forehead. Damn, she was quite fair, without any signs of black qi, and there was no evil spirit on her.
Shen Bing was very clear-headed. He frowned and looked at me and said, "What are you doing? Others are watching us."
I looked her in the eye and asked, "Are you hungry or something? Why are you sticking a branch?"
Shen Bing wiped the sawdust from the corners of her mouth with her slender little hands and said, "It feels good to chew on a branch. What's wrong?"
She looked mentally normal, not confused at all, but she felt more and more abnormal. She was usually a clean person, and would never eat a dirty dead branch like this, so what happened today
If you want to make your teeth feel comfortable, you can bring some crispy beans in your bag. That thing is more chewy. Why do you have to chew branches? I handed her a bottle of water and asked her to rinse her mouth. Then I gave her a bag of crispy beans and asked her to chew this. Branches are so unhygienic.
"A country bumpkin can actually be considerate." The little girl took the crispy beans and ate them, smiling brightly.
Oh, when have I ever been inconsiderate? This girl just likes to talk nonsense. Seeing that we both smiled, Qu Mo and Chen Ming were relieved. Although it was a bit strange to grind teeth with a branch, Qu Mo knew that Shen Bing often did things unexpectedly. Gnawing a branch was incredible, which was also Shen Bing's usual style.
She stopped chewing the branches, but she kept chewing crispy beans along the way, the sound of them crunching made me feel flustered. I don't know why, but ever since Shen Bing started grinding her teeth, I've always felt uneasy and suspicious, as if there was an evil spirit following me, which made me unable to calm down.
The sky gradually darkened, but we were still climbing the hillside, and we still hadn't seen anything beyond the forest. We couldn't help but feel a little anxious. At first, we thought we could reach our destination in the afternoon, but now it was almost dark, and we hadn't even walked halfway. It seemed that this hillside would never end, and the top of the mountain would be as high as the sky.
Chen Ming looked down at the compass in his hand and said unhappily, "The compass seems to be broken."
Damn it, I couldn't help but feel a surge of anger when I heard this. I wanted to beat this guy up and let Shen Bing gnaw on him. It turned out that we had walked on the mountain road for half a day and had gone astray. This is not the way to torture people. You must torture me to death.
I quickly took out the compass from my bag and looked at the needle in the middle. Damn it, we were climbing due west. Even though we were not heading in the wrong direction, we were still taking a big detour.
Fortunately, we didn’t climb to the top, otherwise we would have to come down again. We adjusted the direction in time according to the map so as not to go back to the way we came, and climbed up diagonally in the southeast direction again.
It was dark, and we hadn't walked out of the forest yet, but we saw a simple mud house in the forest ahead. Chen Ming said that it was unsafe to climb the mountain at night, and it would be easy to flee if we encountered wild animals, so we should stay in the mud house ahead for the night.
What else could we do? We had no choice but to agree. However, under the light of the flashlight, the small mud house was hidden among the trees alone, and it was foggy everywhere, which looked a little weird!