This rope ladder is made of a common vine, which can bear the weight of at least three people, but because it seems that this rope ladder has been hanging here for some years, it looks a little rotten, and you can feel it when you hold it with a little force. There was dust rustling on the ropes and falling down, so Fang Sheyan seemed cautious when climbing, like clinging on thin ice, but fortunately, he managed to climb to the top without any danger in the end.
After climbing up the cliff, the front is still a valley sandwiched by the cliffs. There are still sparse pine forests growing in the valley. Terrified by the panic, he didn't dare to stay any longer, and after identifying the direction, he continued to run wildly forward.
It wasn't until Sheyan heard birds chirping on the top of the tree and saw buds growing on the pine branches that he stopped and collapsed on the ground from exhaustion, panting heavily, and it took him a long time to recover. Come.
Compared with the dead pine forest before, this pine forest is much more vibrant. The two of them hadn't eaten much since they were escorted to Xuefeng. Calculated, they only ate half a fish in one day and one night. Now that I got out of the dangerous place, I immediately felt hungry in my stomach.
After a little searching, the two found a lot of pine nuts. Because these pine nuts were grown in the severe cold, the shells were quite thick. If ordinary people would probably have to smash them with stones, Fang Senyan and reefs are like cracking melon seeds. Sure enough, fortunately, the pine nuts in it were quite delicious, and after eating it, it was barely enough to satisfy their hunger, so the two cheered up to search for prey.
In such a pine forest, the reef has also hunted in the real world, so the previous hunting experience came in handy. Sheyan was still trying to plot a thin bird on the tree, and it didn't take long for the reef to catch a fat snow bird. Badger over here.
This snow badger is very vicious. If you want to catch it in the real world, you need a shotgun. If you use your bare hands, it's hard to tell if you catch you to eat meat or it catches you to eat. Fortunately, Sheyan and Jiaoshi are neither. Ordinary people, if they catch it, they twist their necks directly, and kill it with a very crisp "click", without bleeding. Let the blood soak in the meat directly, and it will be more tender after roasting. (In reality, there are some people who like to kill pigs without bloodletting, so the smell of pork will be much stronger, but some people think it is delicious. I have a relative who likes this. Now I buy a pig without bloodletting every Chinese New Year. Butcher it.)
At this time, the reef's eyes were also green with hunger, and he didn't care about resting. He quickly opened his stomach and rubbed it with snow before roasting it. When it came into use, the two wolfed down the oily badger meat, barely swallowing their tongues, but they were finally full, and their physical condition roughly recovered to 80%.
After a full meal, the two gathered the blood, intestines, and bones together and prepared to bury them according to the customs in the jungle. The purpose was naturally to prevent the smell from attracting possible beasts and encountering unnecessary beasts. Trouble.
However, during the process of burying, Fang Senyan suddenly let out an exclamation, turned over the badger's viscera with a wooden stick, and picked out a bloody thing. Immediately changed.
That was a bloody finger!
The two looked at each other, couldn't help their stomachs churning, but still held back and didn't spit it out, just continued to rummage with bloody faces, and then found nothing new.
Encountered such emergencies, the two felt that this place was more mysterious and strange, and a huge question emerged in their hearts: look at the freshness of this finger—could there be someone in front? Where do you dare to stay longer, while you are full and refreshed now, hurry up and move on.
After the group walked a few miles, the pine forest also became sparse. Suddenly, the expression of the reef in front of the explorer changed drastically, and he fell to the ground suddenly, and then crawled and hid behind a pine tree. Fang Senyan's nerves were tense at any time, seeing the appearance of the reef, he immediately hid the elf girl, and found a place to hide himself.
The two carefully hid for a while, but found nothing unusual. Sheyan cast an inquiring look, and Jiaoshi solemnly gestured towards the east. Fang Senyan looked in the direction, and a chill appeared on his back. come out.
Just a few hundred meters away from the two of them, a simple camp appeared. Although the camp was built hastily, it can be clearly seen that this architectural style is unique to the orcs and tentacle monsters. And on an old pine tree next to the camp, leaning against a burly orc, he seemed to be watching vigilantly. There were seven or eight other orcs in the camp who seemed to be taking a nap, lying on the ground staggeringly.
After the two hid and observed carefully, they found that there was also a strong orc camp in the west. These two camps firmly blocked the narrow part of the entire valley. Lurking in the past, there is no way to escape the monitoring of the two camp sentries.
Sheyan and the two of them swam across the lake at the great risk of going mad and dying at any time. The purpose was to escape the hunting of the orcs. Who knew what they were really afraid of? They would encounter such a large-scale orc camp in this ghost place ! It seems that at least a dozen strong orcs have set up a temporary camp here! I don't know how they got through the pine forest!
The two of them held their breath, not even daring to take a breath, lying on the ground and tiptoeing back, but at this moment, the elf girl who was placed not far away unconsciously writhed After a while, I hit a pine tree next to me!
This pine tree is not thick, but there is a lot of snow accumulated on the crown of the tree. When Wuge hit it, the snow fell rustling, and it made a lot of noise. If it hit like this in normal times, it would be nothing. , but in this silent pine forest, unless the orc spies were blind, it was absolutely impossible to miss this kind of movement. The faces of both of them were ashen, and they lay on the spot and dared not even move.
However, the two of them had been guarding for a long time, what they heard in their ears was only the sound of pines and waves, what they saw in their eyes was the silence of the lonely forest, and the murderous enemy who was expected to chase and kill them did not move at all. At this time, Fang Senyan's heart moved, he probed out to have a look, and suddenly lowered his voice and said:
"The sentinel has never moved."
The reef also looked suspiciously, and said in doubt:
"Yes, is he asleep?"
Sheyan took a deep breath and said:
"The orcs lying in the camp haven't moved at all."
Fang Sheyan's eyes flashed with a crazy and clear light, while speaking, he stood up and walked out from the shelter, trying to get close to the dangerous camp. Reef took a deep breath:
"Could it be..."
There was a secretive sneer on Sheyan's face, he began to approach the orc camp undisguised, and the sentinel remained motionless. Fang Sheyan walked to his side, reached out and patted his shoulder, and the sentry kept standing guard, and fell straight down stiffly, and then shattered into several pieces, like a toppled ice sculpture.
Inside the two camps, there were frozen frozen corpses, and every knock made a bang bang sound...
These orcs should be the same as Sheyan and the others. They swam across the lake and came to camp here. The rope ladder left on the cliff by the lake was probably left by these orcs. After careful inspection by the two, they found that there were more or less strange triangular wounds on these corpses.
The strange thing is that the wounds are all distributed on the front of the body. These wounds are deep, but they are not in the vital parts. From a normal situation, it is absolutely impossible to be the cause of death of these strong orcs.
Fang Senyan and the two looked at each other. Although they uncovered the truth about these two camps, they suddenly fell into another huge mystery. At this time, Jiao Shi suddenly seemed to think of something, and frowned and said seriously:
"There are still living people here!"
Sheyan's pupils shrank suddenly, and he immediately thought of the key point of the matter. That was the bloody finger found in the badger's intestines earlier! The corpses in front of me don’t know how long they’ve been dead, they’ve all been frozen into ice corpses, their skin is as hard as iron, and there’s no trace of being eaten by wild beasts on the corpses. Badgers are hungry for food, and the fingers of these ice corpses will never appear in a fresh state of flesh and blood.
The two suppressed their fear, and then carefully searched the two camps. The most useful things they found were some animal skin clothes to keep out the cold. Although these things were tattered, they still kept warm well. It was unceremoniously put on the body.
In a wooden box next to it, two bags of spirits were also found—this is real alcohol that has not been mixed with blood. Drinking it was so spicy that it felt like a small knife had cut from the mouth to the stomach, and then the burning warmth extended to the limbs and bones.
In addition, they also found a very strange wooden product, which looked like an overturned stool with four legs upside down, and two long wooden sticks were tied to it in parallel. , seems to be used to lift something. The two studied for a while, feeling a little confused, but still couldn't find the answer they should have.