Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen: The Second Night: Reunion

I thought it was Wen Jin who followed us into the camp, so I went in with stones to block him, but found that the person who entered the camp was a stuffy oil bottle covered in mud. His appearance made me speechless: he was covered in mud, which almost covered his whole body including his hair, and the wounds on his shoulders were all covered with mud. I don't know if it would be infected, but I didn't see him. With new injuries on his body, he must have had a more comfortable life than us last night. I couldn't describe the feeling at that time, so I froze there. He turned around, and I realized that I put down the stone and explained, "I thought you were...that..."

He ignored me and just asked me, "Is there anything to eat?" I suddenly remembered that when he rushed into the swamp, he didn't bring anything with him. Judging by his appearance, he probably hadn't eaten for more than twenty hours. I took him out, poured him tea, and he ate the dry food without saying a word, his face as cold as ice. After he finished eating, I wiped his hands with a cloth and asked him how he was doing. What happened after chasing him out?How did they catch up with us? With a serious face, he wiped off the mud on his face and said it intermittently.What he said was extremely brief, but I still understood.

It turned out that after he chased Wen Jin out the night before, he had been chasing Wen Jin for six hours, but it was too difficult to track the woman in the jungle. In the end, he didn't know whether the woman was hiding or ran away, so he chased her and lost her. When he stopped, he no longer knew where he was. Without any lighting equipment, he lost his target and couldn't even see the surrounding environment. He calculated the time he came here and his own speed, and knew that it would not be too far away from us, but if he continued to go deep into the rainforest, he would have to come back soon. Even more difficult, he huddled in the roots of the tree and waited for dawn to go back.

This is the same as what we thought at the time. The fat man speculated that he might come back after dawn in the morning, but after dawn, things changed. After dawn, he saw our signal smoke. At the same time, he also saw Third Uncle and the others A lit cigarette. He judged the direction of our smoke according to the distance, and when he returned to the place where we left him a note, he found that the place was flooded, so he had to return immediately to chase us, but just like us, chasing the smoke Walking, the route was not straight, and we never ran into us. Later, when we heard gunshots at night, we touched it, followed us all the way here, and found the camp.

After listening to my heart, it was a coincidence that if there hadn't been that big fight last night, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to find us.It's also fortunate that he can maintain such a clear judgment in such a harsh environment.But he can come back, I have already put down a stone in my heart, I didn't give any hope for this. At this time, I saw him wipe off the mud on his body, so I asked him, we were also running away, although we were also in a mess, but we didn't achieve your virtue, what happened to you to make it like this? "I didn't do it, I put the mud on it myself," he said.

I was even more surprised, thinking that you are rolling like a hippopotamus?Or have fleas?With your physique, even the fleas lying in the flea pile dare to kill you. He looked at the mud on his arm and explained, "It's because of those snakes..." "snake?" "Wenjin has been here for a long time. There are so many poisonous snakes here. There must be a reason for her to live for such a long time as a woman, and her appearance is really unusual. I feel that there must be a relationship between these two points. After thinking about it All of a sudden, I realized that the mud is the key." Poker bottle said: "I smeared mud on my body, and sure enough, those snakes seem to be unable to see me."

When I thought about it, it suddenly dawned on me, it turned out to be like this. I said why Wenjin looks like that. Snakes rely on heat to find prey. They smear their bodies with mud, which can not only cover the heat, but also cover the smell. It may indeed be useful. . I couldn't help but be ecstatic in my heart, this is really good news.In this way, our ability to survive in the rainforest is much higher, at least we are no longer at the mercy of others. Poker bottle roughly wiped the mud off his body, then looked at the surrounding camps, and asked me, "Is that how you came here?"

I nodded and told him about our experience. I started talking about being separated from him, trying to be brief but clear, until we arrived here not much earlier than him, there was no one here, and the situation here was a bit strange, all personal belongings were not taken away. There was no trace of violence, as if these people had calmly abandoned the camp and left without taking anything. He listened silently, glanced at the surrounding tents, and didn't say anything, just pinched the center of his brows, as if he was also confused. I told him that it would be good if you came back, because of Pan Zi, we couldn't leave here for the time being, and we were too tired and needed to rest, otherwise it would be like sending us to death.Now there is one more person to take care of.

He was noncommittal, looked at me and said, "In this kind of place, it doesn't matter if there is one more or one less." I was a little surprised that he would say such a thing, but after he finished speaking, he stood up, picked up a pail, went to the pool outside the camp to fetch a bucket of water, then took off his clothes and turned his back to me and began to scrub his body. The mud was washed down, and I knew he had nothing to say to me from his appearance, and I was a little depressed, but it was a happy event that he came back at last. After he finished washing, he came back to rest his eyes and closed his eyes. I didn't bother him, but I couldn't sleep anymore, so I took a bath too. After washing, I felt a little recovered, so I fetched water and went back to wipe Pan Zi also. After washing his body, his body was a little hot, and his sleep was a little restless. After I finished wiping him, he fell back into a deep sleep.

When I came out and saw the fat man, I thought he didn’t need me to wait on him. While sitting down and massaging his calf, he didn’t want to read Wenjin’s notes again. He turned to look at the oil bottle, and he fell asleep too. He must be more tired than us, even the hardened Arhat can't stand such a toss. I stayed on like this until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, when the fat man woke up, got up hazily and saw Poker Bottle, said "um", and it took him a long time to react, saying: "Damn, I should Not dreaming." Poker-Face woke up immediately, obviously not deep in sleep, looked at him, then at the sky, and sat up, the fat man rubbed his eyes and said, "It doesn't look like a dream. Comrade workers, peasants and soldiers, you finally joined the Red Army gone."

Poker bottle is really a miraculous person. Although he is reticent, his appearance is like a shot of stimulant. I can see that the fat man is really happy from the bottom of his heart.I just want to know what you are happy about, you didn't mean to do it alone. He stood up and sat next to me, spit out a few mouthfuls of bloody phlegm, and said: "That was before, when my brother came back, then I must do it with him, and have meat to eat with him, right?" I saw blood in his phlegm, so I knew he had also suffered internal injuries, but he didn't care, it shouldn't be too serious, so I told him to be careful. Poker bottle didn't answer, the fat man handed me a cigarette, he poured some water from the kettle to wash his eyes, and asked about Poker bottle's previous situation.I told Fatty what Poker-Face told me just now. The fat man nodded while listening, and when he heard the part that mud can prevent snakes, he also said happily: "Fuck, this is a good recipe. With this recipe, we can spend less energy in the swamp. Damn it, I slept just now." Sometimes I dreamed that there was a snake crawling on me, and I was stuck in my crotch and refused to come out, it scared me to death." I laughed, and felt that the fat man's jokes sounded funny only when Pokerfinger was around, and said, "I guess I just fell in love with the chick in your crotch. Speaking of which, have you hatched yet?" The fat man said: "Not yet, soaked in the water all day, they have turned into fish eggs, I have to take them out to dry in the sun later, so as not to mold them." I laughed out loud, and the fat man laughed too, and slapped me a few times, "You're laughing ass, I don't believe you did it, why don't we take it out and twist it?" I shook my head and said no, the fat man asked me to rest.Although I was a little excited, the fatigue of my body was irreversible. I fell asleep shortly after I lay down, probably because of the oil bottle. I fell asleep and felt very relieved. I woke up in the evening . The sky was already red at sunset, and when I got up, I could smell the fragrance. It was the fat man cooking something, and I didn’t know what it was cooking. The sore muscles became "bitter", which is indescribable. With no strength in his hands and feet, he almost climbed to the edge of the campfire and leaned against the rocks, his hands were shaking, and he heard the fat man talking to Poker-Face, who was asking Poker-Face what his plans were. I thought to myself that this guy started to engage in separatism again, Pan Zifei is gone, no one will force him to find my third uncle, he started to win over Poker-Face for his conspiracy, and immediately leaned over and heard that he was Said to Poker Bottle: "I said that Wu Xie must not let Wu Xie know about this, otherwise he must go crazy..."