Alexander's Memoirs - The Trailblazers Chapter 4 Who bleeds?
"We were not injured, but Noli's wolf was injured. We took the opportunity to kill the snake, and now we suspect that there is something wrong with the snake. Maybe we should see a doctor or something. I remember there is a technician who knows medical skills.
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After a pause, Alexander continued, "We have dragged it a quarter of an hour away from the camp. Freya, please stay in the camp for now. When the doctor comes back, we will take him to have a look. Let's get a shovel and go back to the lake to clean it up."
Bloodstains.”
Alexander turned his head: "Captain, are there any shovels in the camp?"
"As for shovels, there are a few tools at the back of the carriage. It seems that the edge of the forest is not flat now, cough cough cough..."
"I think we should go together and drag the body out... Captain, you have been coughing, is it okay?" Freya looked at the old man worriedly.
"Don't worry about me, this is an old problem." The captain slowly returned to the original place with a cane and sat down. At least he looked much better after sitting down.
"Okay, I just feel that the python's body makes me uneasy. Let's go together. Let's clean up the blood stains upstream first. Captain, you don't have to wait for us for lunch. We will try to find a way to see if we can get there from
Got some game from the other side of the lake."
The captain nodded, "Then you must be extremely careful next time, everyone's hopes are pinned on you."
Alexander hesitated for a moment, but finally said nothing, turned around and went to the back of the carriage to find a shovel.
There was a crate stuck on the rear wheel of the carriage, which contained shovels, hammers, rakes and other tools, and even a few bags of nails.
After picking up the shovels, the two turned around and walked in the direction of the other adventurers.
"I really don't know how this snake grew so big..." Noli couldn't help but found some branches and opened the snake's mouth to see if there were any traces inside.
Susie on the side tilted her head curiously to observe the owner's movements, but Noli did not notice that there was nothing special in the giant snake's mouth.
Noli's guess that the branches were corroded did not appear. "Is it possible that it is natural?" Noli walked aside and threw away the branches, returned to Susie and continued to wait, looking at Susie's wounds distressedly.
Alexander walked up to Sherlock and Noli first and said, "Let's go back and clean up the blood first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
"Okay. Hey, I wonder if there is any sick leave." Sherlock tilted his mouth. "So, did the captain say anything?".
Next came Noli's inquiry, which was much more serious.
Freya, who was a few steps slower, organized the information she had obtained before and briefly explained it to Sherlock and Noli.
"Okay, let's go to the lake to see if those frightened beasts have returned. By the way, clean up the blood stains by the stream and then return to the camp." Alexander said as he walked towards the lake with a shovel.
When Susie saw her master leaving, she naturally endured the pain and followed Noli toward the lake.
The adventurers resumed their journey to the lake, and the sound of flowing water in the creek, which was pleasant at the beginning, became irritating.
Arriving at the destination lake, this time there were no animals drinking water, and the traces of the battle were still there.
"Ouch?" Susie was obviously a little disappointed when she saw that all her prey had disappeared, and she rubbed her paws on the ground anxiously.
Alexander glanced at the lake in disappointment and began to clean up the traces with a shovel. He dug out the blood stains in the creek and covered them with other soil.
Noli looked at the lake from a distance and tried to measure the depth, but there was no way to tell how deep it was without getting closer. The only information she had was that it was definitely not shallow.
It was already a scorching sun, and the adventurers were unbearably hungry. Sherlock's stomach growled loudly. "Why don't we go back to eat first..."
Noli returned to the tree where the snake had attacked and looked for other traces of the snake's movements.
But from this angle, you can only see the creek, and you don't know how the huge snake moves through the intricate forest.
After handling the blood stains, Alexander wiped his sweat, then held the shovel in both hands and said, "Should we get closer to the lake and have a look? Maybe there are bird eggs or something like that by the lake." And the adventurers were in the creek.
The source is mostly a rock gap on the side of the lake that acts as an overflow.
"I think we need to get closer to the lake and have a look. Standing still is not a good thing." Alexander looked at Sherlock who had his mouth open.
"But it's time to eat," Sherlock muttered, "Why don't you go back and have a meal first? I'm so hungry."
The three of them ignored him. Alexander took out an enchanted adamantine arrow from his quiver, put it on his bow and prepared for battle, approaching the lake.
Noli climbed up a tree at this time. The adventurers were currently on lower ground. Maybe they could go around to the side of the lake to observe the lake better.
Susie looked up at her under the tree. "How about changing the direction? That side seems to be higher."
"Be patient for a while, I'll see if I can find some bird eggs, snake eggs or something to add to the dish." Alexander said to Sherlock without looking back.
"Okay, we must cooperate... Uh, what are you cooperating with?" Sherlock couldn't remember where he had said this.
"I hope it can be eaten." Freya didn't understand what her teammates were talking about, maybe it was the sequelae of amnesia. She had a pessimistic attitude towards both.
Alexander took the lead and walked to the lake first, observing the lake and its surroundings while walking around the lake towards higher ground.
Nolly jumped down from the canopy and followed with the others.
Susie must be hungry... Others need to eat too, maybe I should eat less. Thinking this, Noli looked around.
Everyone's vigilance was very high now, and during the march, the female wolf smelled the smell of blood and looked in one direction.
"Ouch!" Susie suddenly howled in that direction, while gently biting the corner of her master's clothes, trying to pull her over there.
Sherlock looked in this direction and keenly spotted a trace of blood on a bush a little far away from the lake.
"Hey, there's blood over there." He pointed but was not the first to move. The other adventurers cautiously got closer and then followed.
Several people followed the blood stains and took a closer look. Deeper in the dense forest, there were many scratched blood stains on the grass blades and tree trunks. The highest blood stains reached an adult's shoulder.
Freya frowned, walked carefully towards the blood stain, stretched out her hand to confirm how long it had been done, but it could be said that it was still very fresh.
Noli came near the tree and looked at it carefully and said: "The blood stains at this height should be from large animals, right?"
Alexander saw a touch of red on the grass-covered soil a little further away. He walked over and pulled it open, and found that it was an ordinary-sized human footprint.
She pointed at the footprints with an arrow: "Let's take a look. It seems that at least we can find the people who came first before they find us. Follow?"
"He's a human, but why are he barefoot? It looks like there are other people hunting nearby. Should we follow the footprints? Maybe there will be a warm reception." Sherlock imagined a sumptuous lunch.
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"Did this person get into a fight by the river?" But Noli didn't think so, subconsciously she felt otherwise.
The blood stains shouldn't have been left for too long, as they haven't dried up yet. Susie sniffed them gently, then stepped into the bushes with her wolf legs.
"Follow me, I hope he is just an ordinary survivor." Noli did not stop Susie.
Alexander nodded: "No matter what, we will have to deal with you in the future. Let's go and see the situation now."
"Follow me...but be prepared to fight. I feel like the enemy is at least as threatening as the giant python before." Freya followed her teammates when she saw them taking action, trying to remember the path they took along the way.
"With such a large amount of bleeding, the weapons used by these people must not be small, although it may also be human blood." Alexander speculated from the direction of combat effectiveness.
"Perhaps the prey he tried to hunt was dangerous, and he was injured and covered in blood?" Noli thought reversely and gave an example.
The adventurers thought as they walked through the dense forest along the blood trail. This journey is likely to encounter poisonous insects, man-eating plants, etc. Only those who are aware and fully prepared can come out intact.
A few of them didn't know that the jungle they were in was a tropical rainforest. They chased in based on their consciousness as adventurers. It's hard to say whether this was bravery or recklessness, but it was indeed a direction.
Following the blood trail, the adventurers discovered that the path the blood trail took was very messy, and there were even traces of detours, long pauses, running, and collisions with tree trunks.
These blood stains did not diminish even after they walked a long way - the huge amount of bleeding and the speed of the blood drying were too unusual.
Freya stopped, and a feeling of uneasiness enveloped her, because let alone a human being, even a bear would not be able to shed these pools of sticky blood. "It can seriously injure such a creature..."
....I don’t want to continue tracking in this situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark.”
"It's not that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark, it's that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark." Alexander corrected, "We are all going to run into each other sooner or later in this forest. If we don't take advantage of this person's tired state after fighting to distinguish between the enemy and us, we will only be able to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the future.
It will be more troublesome."
"Alexander... you don't understand. Just one place has the amount of bleeding of a bear. Combined with the bleeding along the way, his physique is at least three times that of a bear." Freya shook her head.
But judging from the size of the footprints and the depth of the mud, there was only one person. However, the weight should not be low, and it was obviously not the normal movement trajectory of ordinary humans.
Noli thought for a moment, and the inexplicable image of a person carrying half of a brown bear, with scratches, footprints, impact marks, and a resting moment appeared in her mind, but even so, the amount of bleeding was very strange.
"But we need to stay here. If we encounter him again in the future, I'm afraid it will be more dangerous. In short, it may not be a hostile creature. If it is hostile, it also needs to be studied..." Noli supported Alexander.
"I think it's better to have a meal first." Sherlock touched his belly and leaned against the tree next to him. In this situation, no one had the time to eat.
"Follow me first. No matter what, we must find this person before he recovers completely." Since there was one vote against, one vote to give up, and one vote to support, Alexander still took steps forward.
Noli returned to the front to clear the way, but her steps became softer and gentler. Freya had no choice but to follow the team. After all, being alone in the wilderness is fatal. Sherlock rubbed his belly and hung at the end of the team.
Seeing her master's movements become more cautious, Susie also tried not to make any noise, moving forward slowly, lowering her head to sniff from time to time.
"What are you going to eat?" Noli said, without stopping, and continued to carefully chop the weeds.
Before Sherlock had time to answer, several people saw a new situation after Noli split a bush.
A strange area appeared in the direction of the bloodstains - there were purple-red thorns full of spikes on the ground, and there were a lot of scraped bloodstains left on these thorns.
Thorns blocked the path of the adventurers. How it got through the thorns was not clear to some, but it was hard to believe how much pain it would cause.
At this time, the adventurers have been chasing for about half an hour, but there is no timer, and the sun cannot be seen now, so they cannot determine the specific time.
Alexander walked past Noli and wanted to get closer to examine the thorns. But in an instant, several thorn branches ten feet away suddenly hit Alexander's body.
Alexander had no time to get out of the way and could only block and retreat. Although some of his strength was reduced, his arm was still seriously injured: "This thing is alive!"
"Ouch!" Susie was suddenly startled and backed away a lot.
After Alexander stepped back a few feet, the thorn branches retracted again. "Wow! Is it a piranha!" At this time, Sherlock followed up.
Noli subconsciously took a step back when she saw the plant active. Although she tried to identify what kind of plant it was, she had no impression at all.
This terrifying thing blocked the road in a large mass with a diameter of more than twenty feet. The trees on the side were also very dense, so adventurers had no choice but to take a detour.
Alexander's blood stains on the thorn branches were quickly absorbed, but the blood stains from the previous scratches were not absorbed, which was also strange.
"So let's eat first, I'm so hungry..." Sherlock rubbed his stomach.
"It's so bad now, there's almost no possibility of continuing to chase." Alexander's eyebrows almost twisted.
"Let's retreat first and go back to the lake." Alexander collected a few blood-stained leaves nearby.
But how to store and carry these leaves? Bloodstains will be rubbed off when walking, and they will get dirty if placed in a shoulder bag. A good container is very important. Alexander thought for a while, took out a handkerchief from the shoulder bag, and wrapped it
these leaves.
I saw that the blood stain was quickly absorbed by Alexander's hand towel. Maybe the towel in the shoulder bag was made of a material that can easily wipe off sweat, which was counterproductive.
It was at this time that Alexander wrote
Following the cuts of weeds and thorns along the way, the mercenaries retreated to the lake. They could take this opportunity to cleanse the blood. If the blood was not cleaned, it would be very bad, such as wild beast attacks, mosquito bites, etc.
"First wipe the blood off your feet." Alexander said, finding a patch of grass that didn't look dangerous and started trying to carefully wipe off the blood on his feet.
Several people tried, but the grass couldn't be wiped clean. "We can't just go back to the camp, let's treat it with water." Freya tried and found that it didn't work, so she started walking back.
Susie tilted her head curiously to watch the movements of several humans, and then rubbed her paws on the nearby grass.
After wiping off the large pieces of blood, Alexander put the arrow on his bow and carefully returned to the lake while paying attention to the movements around him.
Returning to the lake, he planned to go around the lake and continue his previous exploration to the heights of the lake. At this time, Alexander, who was exposed to the sun, felt weak, as if there were some small bugs squirming in the wound and sucking blood. If it weren't for the sun,
The irradiation stimulation still does not feel the numbness in the painful wound. This chapter has been completed!