Chen Xiuqing gently bent her waist, stepped back, thought for a moment, picked up the slingshot that Qi Wenkai had thrown aside, and then carefully touched the place where her Oroqen horse was tied.
Several horses were tied to the edge of the forest behind the shack built by Qi Wenkai and others.
What Chen Xiuqing didn't expect was that when he got close to the horse, because he was not familiar with it, the horses ridden by several people kept moving, snoring, and were very alert.
This movement, which was not a big noise on weekdays, seemed extremely abrupt on this night, which was already approaching dawn.
Suddenly, the guard who was dozing by the fire was awakened. He turned on his flashlight and shined it towards the place where the horses were. He saw Chen Xiuqing at a glance.
After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly reacted and immediately shouted: "That kid is going to run away!" Then he fired an empty gun in the direction of Chen Xiuqing.
At this moment, Chen Xiuqing couldn't care about anything else. She ran to the tree where her Oroqen horse was tied, fumbled and pulled open the slip knot of the horse's reins. Without caring about anything else, she turned over and rode, shouting.
Run quickly.
Horses are nocturnal animals, and their eyesight may not be as good as that of animals such as wolves, but at night like this, even if it is dark, walking through the mountains and forests is not a big problem.
When the Oroqen horse started running, he only noticed a few flashlight beams swaying around him.
"Bang bang bang..."
Immediately afterwards, several gunshots were heard one after another, and the horse Chen Xiuqing was riding neighed and rushed into the woods like crazy.
The gunshots from behind continued, and suddenly, he felt a sharp and heartbreaking pain in his calf. At that moment, he felt that everything he thought in his mind was instantly occupied by this strong pain.
Got shot!
At this time, he couldn't care about anything else. He just prostrated on the horse's back, protecting his head from being swept by the branches and leaves he couldn't see, and urging the horse to run faster.
Faintly, he heard the shouts of horses coming from behind him, and saw flashlight beams coming from behind him from time to time.
However, these sounds became weaker and weaker and gradually became inaudible.
The flashlight light is also completely invisible.
However, he did not dare to stop or relax at all.
At this moment, every second seems so long.
There was no thought in his mind, only the idea of escaping. Gradually, the pain caused his mind to fall into darkness and he fainted.
It seemed like he had been running for a long time, and the sky was already bright, until the horse suddenly fell and he was thrown away.
Hitting the ground hard, he rolled twice and was blocked by a pine tree.
This time I fell very hard, and I was a little discouraged from the fall. It took me a while to recover.
And it was this collision that made him wake up from his coma.
He struggled to get up, but as soon as he moved, the severe pain in his left leg forced him to grit his teeth and gasp. The veins on his face swelled, and his whole body was so painful that he couldn't help but tremble.
I got up and almost went into shock again.
But after passing out once, it's not that easy now.
It was like punishment, he had to be made to feel this extremely sharp pain clearly.
He looked down at his left calf, and saw a bloody hole directly running through it, right where the bone was. The blood stained the entire trouser leg, and even the yellow rubber shoes were filled with coagulated blood.
Broken!
"I don't want to die yet..."
He looked back at the Oroqen horse lying on the forest floor, struggled to stand up, jumped and crawled to the horse, and thought about riding on it and running away to see if he could earn his life.
Only when he got closer did he realize that the horse's belly was dripping with blood.
This Oroqen horse had been hit in the random shooting by Qi Wenkai and others.
Maybe this shot was not a critical injury, which was why the horse was able to carry him for so long under the stimulation of pain.
However, even if it is not a fatal injury, it is still a gunshot wound after all. During such a high-intensity run, the injury will only become more and more serious.
Now, the Oroqen horse struggled violently for several times. Even though Chen Xiuqing used all her strength to pull the bit hard, and then struggled to get behind it and push hard, trying to get it to stand up, it could not be done.
Seeing the horses constantly snoring, panting rapidly, and blinking from time to time, the look in their eyes gradually dimmed. At that moment, Chen Xiuqing felt desperate.
He couldn't bear it any longer and fell down in front of the Oroqen horse, holding the horse's head and howling, with tears rolling down from his eyes.
Until he could no longer hear the horse's breathing, he looked down at the dim eyes of the Oroqen horse, raised his hand and slapped his face one after another, shouting with each slap: "What are you doing... what are you doing?"
...What on earth are you doing..."
He slapped himself ten times in a row until blood started to flow from his mouth, and both sides of his face were visibly red and swollen.
Until then, he stopped and looked at the horses in front of him silently. After a few minutes, he got up again, glanced around, picked up a piece of wood and pestled it, and climbed up the mountain with all his strength.
, finally reaching the top of the mountain, he discerned the direction and found that the direction in which the Oroqen horse was carrying him was exactly the direction from Jingou to Tahe, the direction it had traveled three times.
The Oroqen horse knows the way and can carry its master out of the dense forest!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shed tears again.
Another horse was killed!
What made him feel even more miserable was that down the mountain, there was the swamp where the two brothers were buried.
He suddenly felt that everything was so ridiculous. It was like a reincarnation node that existed specifically for gold. This swamp seemed to be waiting for him to fall into it.
Bloodstains and footprints are hard to hide, and those people will definitely come after me.
He was extremely convinced of this at the moment. How could he leave safely after discovering the gold sand veins?
He knew better that his feet might not be able to support him out of the virgin forest, which was still dozens of miles away.
Do you really want to die in this mountain forest?
He vaguely heard the shouts of galloping horses coming from the woods at the foot of the mountain, which suddenly woke him up from his trance.
No matter what, life must go on, which is the tragedy of life.
Give birth, live...
Chen Xiuqing looked at the swamp, and then at the drops of blood behind him. He took off his coat, gritted his teeth, wrapped his calf, and tied it tightly with two sleeves.
He just hopes that footprints and blood will no longer become traces of being followed.
Perhaps, that swamp will be the key to his survival.
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and walked as slowly as possible towards the swamp below.
…
Qi Wenkai and others rode their horses to the place where the Oroqen horse fell dead. They jumped off their horses and took a look for a while. They found the traces left by Chen Xiuqing's pedaling of thick dead branches and rotten leaves among the forest trees when he climbed up.
In just a few minutes, these marks were extremely obvious.
Chen Xiuqing just wanted to escape for her life, and didn't care, letting the horse run wildly in the forest. They were pursuing them, and they had flashlights in their hands, but psychologically they didn't dare to ride a horse and run rampant in the forest like Chen Xiuqing did.
Although they were riding horses, their speed was much slower. When Chen Xiuqing could no longer be seen, they had to rely on the traces left by the horses to trace them, especially when they saw the blood stains on the ground.
A few people feel more confident.
It wasn't until the sky got brighter that their speed really increased.
Now seeing the death of the horse, and looking at the traces left by Chen Xiuqing, several people looked at each other and rode their horses up the hillside to catch up.
"We must not let him get away, otherwise, the gold in the golden trench will not be ours! We can't run far after chasing...him!"
Several people immediately rode their horses to the top of the mountain, and then followed the bloody footprints on the hillside to find their way down.
However, as they walked, they suddenly discovered that the blood stains and footprints were missing.
It's like disappearing into thin air.
None of them were hunters, and traces like bloodstains and footprints were easy to track, but Chen Xiuqing was a hunter with some experience. When he noticed these problems, he could still hide them if he wanted to.
The four of them searched around for a long time, even rummaging through the bushes one by one, as well as the big trees in the surroundings. They looked around, but they could not see any trace of Chen Xiuqing.
"Those bloodstains are still very fresh. It's obviously an injury on your foot. I don't believe you can still fly. Look for him. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find him. You must not let him leave alive. Spread out and expand the area. We have seen him.
Kill him immediately..."
Qi Wenkai roared loudly and rode his horse first towards the swamp below.
There, he saw many old horse hoof prints on the edge of the swamp. He couldn't be sure whether they were left by people who came here to prospect for gold or by safari people riding horses. He just felt that there might be other people in those gold mines.
Know.
Regardless of that, he first walked up and down the perimeter of the swamp. However, he saw no traces of being trampled on in the swamp, let alone sewage. However, many places with water were exposed under the sun.
, bubbles pop up from time to time.
Where exactly, where exactly...
He was getting more and more anxious.
They spent almost the entire morning in this area, but when the four of them came together again, they all shook their heads and found no one.
Qi Wenkai couldn't help but look at the man who was watching the night yesterday, stepped forward and kicked him to the ground: "You are such a bastard, you can't even do such a small thing, you are such a waste..."
"What should we do next?" asked someone next to him.
"What should we do? What can we do? Go and look at those horse hoof prints by the swamp. Many people must have been to this place. Those gold..."
"Brother Kai, this swamp is actually quite far away from Jingou. If you have been to this place, you may not have been to Jingou. The boy's left foot was injured. I don't think he can walk out of the mountain that easily. Otherwise, we should still
Don't waste your time here. If you have the time, why not hurry up and go back to pan for gold? If someone comes, we won't go back empty-handed."
“That’s all we can do now!”
Qi Wenkai took a long breath, glared hard at the man watching the night last night, turned around on his horse and walked back.
The other three people quickly mounted their horses to follow.
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