Thank you

  After being satisfied, we can naturally go on the road. Out of the cave, we walked towards the depths of the dense forest, with the positioning map and the curve that the red dot had passed before, so the direction was very clear.

  Due to the previous friction and quarrel between the two, no one spoke up, and they walked in silence all the way. Until they found unusual footprints on the ground, they stopped and looked at each other. It was a relatively muddy area, although it was overgrown with weeds, but there were clearly two pairs of footprints left on it. One pair of footprints was almost identical to the suspected wild man's footprint we saw before, and the other pair was obviously human footprints, still a man's footprints, at least 42 yards or more in length. Because they were trampled on the grass skin and sank into the mud, they were not clear.

  Up to this point, we can finally confirm that the incident is man-made and not just a wild man. This also means that the incident becomes more complicated. Why would normal people be with wild men? Can they communicate and cooperate with each other? Or have we misjudged it all along, and the huge footprint represents not a wild man but another kind of animal that can walk upright?

  This is secondary, the jungle behind is more difficult to move forward than we imagined, and even found that the other party had climbed up the tree, because the bottom was entangled with dense branches, forming a dead end, completely blocked. Helplessly, we also had to climb trees to walk, after a toss, both of us were very embarrassed, our foreheads were burning with pain, being scratched by the branches, and Lucheng's face was even more miserable, leaving several blood marks on his face.

  Halfway through, I almost fell from the tree and crashed into the thicket of branches. This was no joke - once you fall in, it's like falling into a spider web, and it's hard to climb back up. Luckily, Lu Xun's quick eyes and hands grabbed my backpack strap and pulled me up, and I sat on a sturdy trunk, panting silently, staring down at the ground below.

  "Hey, scared? Now you know it's better to travel in pairs. If I hadn't pulled you up just now, it would be hard for you to climb back up, and who knows what kind of venomous snakes are lurking in the dense underbrush below."

  I furrowed my brow and growled impatiently: "Are you done yet? Didn't we already walk together?"

  "This is just talk, no need to be so excited." He was still making excuses, and I had an urge to push him down, but the next moment I suddenly heard a strange noise behind me. My conditioned reflex made me turn my head around, and I saw a headless snake hovering in the air one foot away from me, its body still trembling. And then I saw that Lü's hand was grasping a small knife. He smiled wryly at me and said: "I wasn't being garrulous, it's just that earlier I was really tense, so I could only use talking to distract myself, or else my hands would go soft when I struck."

  As he spoke, the slender snake fell from the tree trunk. Judging by the pattern and color of its scales, it was clearly a venomous snake. It's not unusual for venomous snakes to appear in the deep mountains and old forests. We were lucky to have come this far without encountering one, but if we were bitten, we'd probably be dead.

  When he met my eyes again, he looked a bit embarrassed, his gaze flickering.

  "Thank you."

  Walking on a road of life and death, the previous moment may be safe, but the next moment may fall down. So, despite the previous quarrel with Lu Xun, even almost fighting, still thanked him for his rescue just now.

  He seemed to be about to say something, and without thinking, I preempted him by saying: "You'd better not say anything nonsense. I don't want to quarrel with you, nor do I have the mood." A group of people came in, one by one they had accidents, until now only he and I are left, really no heart to entangle with others anymore.