Conway did not tell Gu Mengmeng about discovering Sam's trace. He was afraid that if he said anything, the girl would become stubborn and it would be terrible for him to run away from "home". She was most afraid of holding him back, and she also
She is most afraid that the country's honor will be damaged because of her.
Conway knew that she was a girl who regarded her work as her life. After he told her that the flare had the function of failure to abstain, she threw it into the bottom of the backpack without hesitation.
fail.
Unless it's a life or death situation.
She would never announce her cowardice with cold words.
On the seventh day, it rained again, and the rain was quite heavy. They found a small cave to escape the heavy rain.
As soon as they entered, they saw a python as thick as a bowl curled up at the end of the cave. Its gray-green body, after seeing the stranger intrusion, raised its proud head and spit out the red python in its mouth at them.
The human didn't seem to be very interested. After looking at each other for a while, it fell asleep again. Conway sprinkled some snake repellent powder outside the area where they stayed, and then the two took advantage of the heavy rain to start.
Got some rest.
Gu Mengmeng's soles and heels had been bruised with countless blood blisters. Conway was slightly stronger than her, but it was just as miserable when she took off her shoes. He first helped her pop the new blood blisters and let the pus drain out.
Dry the scab and then apply medicine. There is a green purslane-like herb in the forest. Chew it with your teeth and apply it to the wound. It will heal quickly.
"Shout out if it hurts! Look, you've bitten your lip until it turns into a hare lip." Conway held her foot, which was originally delicate and white but now bloody, red and swollen, distressedly, and breathed cool air on it gently.
"It's okay..." She smiled at him, frowned and bandaged her feet skillfully.
Then Gu Mengmeng patted the place next to her and asked Conway to sit down. Then she followed his example and popped the blood blisters on his big feet, then took the herbs and chewed them in her mouth.
The bitterness reveals the aroma of green grass.
The scent of him diluted the damp and obscure smell in the cave.
Just like she did when she was a child, she put the palm of her right hand to her mouth, and then spat out a ball of black and green stuff on her hand like spitting. She didn't look at the weird expression on Conway's face.
It was "pop!" and was applied to his wound, and then slowly spread layer by layer, allowing waves of cool feeling to penetrate from the soles of his feet into his whole body.
"Hey! I didn't expect that my wife is still very strong. Haha..." Although Gu Mengmeng's movements are not very elegant, the effect and speed are indeed amazing.
Gu Mengmeng also laughed. She said that she also treated Gu Jingxi in the same way when he was injured when he was a child. However, instead of using herbs and chewing them, she would just spit them and apply them to his wounds to reduce inflammation.
Gu Jingxi was so disgusted every time that he couldn't eat for several days. In the end, he took out the medicine box himself, cleaned the wound and applied red mercurochrome solution.
"You! You know how to bully others. You have been a lazy kid since you were a child."
"How can I be lazy...I..." She couldn't continue her defense. It seemed that she rarely did housework after getting married. Conway insisted on coming back after vacation to clean up, and there was also an aunt at home regularly to clean the house every week.
She seems to be quite...
lazy.
"I'm sorry...I've never been very good at housework." She scratched her head.
Conway's adoring eyes covered her, he came forward and scratched the tip of her nose with his fingertips, and said with a smile: "It's good to have me, silly girl."
"Well..." Gu Mengmeng blinked and smiled at him.
Early the next morning, the heavy rain showed no sign of stopping.
After a round of reconnaissance, Conway decisively decided to continue resting where he was.
Gu Mengmeng protested: "Do you want to lose?! This is a competition! Don't worry about me, I can follow you!"
Conway smiled calmly, and the handsome outline of his face flickered in the light at the entrance of the cave. He said with a touch of confidence: "They will not choose to move forward in this kind of weather."
Gu Mengmeng asked in confusion: "Why?"
"Because after walking 10 kilometers, we will enter the most difficult stage of this competition."
Gu Mengmeng stopped talking. She knew that there were terrible quicksands and swamps, as well as a large forest of poisonous miasma. The power of quicksands was as terrifying as the swamps. They were all invisible and terrifying killers, often killing lives in an instant.
Confined, and then watching them slowly lose a little bit of precious vitality under its lustful power. This is a forbidden area for the entire competition, but now there are four people trying to defeat nature, challenge the limits, and conquer this mysterious and cold land.
Taking advantage of the rain breaks, they got enough rest and were able to sleep for 8 hours a day. The rest of the time was to sort out the food, dry it again, get rid of the rotten food, and then Conway collected it from the woods.
He bought some fine and tough grass, and used it to weave two pairs of practical straw sandals, one pair for each person for crossing the swamp.
In the early morning of the third day, the rain finally stopped. When I woke up in the morning, the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves around the cave. It turned out that the lifeless forest was full of vitality. The animals had been out for two days and came out to bask in the sun to relax their muscles.
, cuckoo cuckoo, the clear chirping of birds, and the cheerful calls of running beasts, filling this pure natural world.
As if infected by Gu Mengmeng's enthusiastic and excited mood, the python that had been sleeping soundly in the cave also opened its mouth and yawned loudly, then leaned against the rock wall and went out to get some air.
It passed her silently, and it stayed at the entrance of the rock wall less than a foot away from her, motionless. In the end, Gu Mengmeng discovered this situation when she turned around to see if the fire was extinguished.
The hairs all over her body stood up, and even her breathing seemed to stop.
Conway said he would go out to investigate and let her wait in the cave with peace of mind, but he did not expect that the big python would suddenly wake up and swim to Gu Mengmeng's side and stop.
Pythons are not poisonous.
But if it doesn't like you, it will use its cold body oozing with mucus to strangle you tightly and suffocate you to death. It is said that the pain is very unbearable. Think about it, it is like a rope tying you up.
It's tightening, tightening...keeps tightening...
"Orochi...can I give you some dried meat?" In a hurry, she took out a handful of dried meat and threw it over.
The python looked at her with disdain, then smacked its red letter and continued to swim towards her.
"You...you...don't eat me, the meat on my body doesn't taste good, it's sour!" She yelled and began to talk indiscriminately.