death to survive

A few people started to look for suitable trees to cut down in the forest. After a while, they dragged dozens of bamboo and wood that had been cut down, tied them with vines and tied them tightly, and made a large and strong raft. , and then use the remaining pieces of wood, fiddle with it a little bit, and make it into wood pulp for paddling, which will stay in the water and can be used to control the direction of travel.

The crowd pushed the big raft into the turbulent river with all their strength. Fortunately, a rope made of tree rattan was tied to a big tree not far away, so that the river didn't wash away the raft all at once.Several people quickly waded across the river and climbed onto the raft. Wang Yang took out his knife and slashed downwards, cutting off the rattan rope that fixed the raft, and the big raft rushed into the river immediately.

In the river, everyone started paddling on both sides of the raft with homemade wooden paddles. Not long after the raft drifted in the river, the downstream river gradually became gentler. It was not as turbulent as the previous river, and the river was quiet. Flowed over both sides of the raft.Everyone took turns paddling the paddles. On both sides of the river, occasionally a bird was disturbed and got out of the woods, flapping its wings and flying into the air.

Li You sat on the side of the raft, stretched out his hand to touch the river, feeling the closeness of nature.I have been walking for the past few days, and I rarely have a chance. I can move forward without moving, and I feel that I finally have a chance to take a breather and rest.The mood also relaxed a lot because of this.

Raising his head and looking at Xiao Yi at the front, Li You couldn't help asking, wondering how long it would take to get to the research institute: "Well, Xiao Yi, how long will it take for us to arrive at the research institute?"

Xiao Yi didn't look back, but stood up from the raft, looked at the mountain shadow that was getting closer, and replied: "It's not far away, go down a little further along this river, and you'll be there in the afternoon after crossing the river."

"Ah, that's really great." Hearing that he could finally reach his destination today, Li You immediately became happy. If everything goes well, can he go back to the city today?

He had never been to N land before, and he didn't know what it would be like. After he came, he discovered that N land still maintains the basic ecology, so primitive and natural, it is basically a place that has been abandoned. The area covered by primeval forest, although the scenery is beautiful, and many animals have been seen that have never been seen before.

However, the snakes, insects, ants, and beasts these days still tortured Li You enough. Now he only hopes to return to a stable city without mosquitoes with Zhihong, take a good rest and take a thorough bath.

"Xiaoyou, maybe we can go back tonight." Li You, who was heartbroken after a few days, lost a lot of weight. His original oval face now looked even skinny. Fang Zhihong held Li You's hand tightly. , saying something that cheered up both parties.

"Well, that would be great." Leaning his head on Fang Zhihong's shoulder, Li You replied with a slight smile.

"Hehe." Seeing Li You's smile, Fang Zhihong felt relieved a lot. Seeing the hot weather, Li You's forehead was covered with sweat, Fang Zhihong took out a handkerchief from his arms, and put the handkerchief into the river Wet, although the color of the water is cloudy, but the running water is still full of clean water, I want to help Li You wipe sweat to cool down after getting the handkerchief wet.

He was rubbing and washing the handkerchief in the river, when suddenly, Fang Zhihong felt a sharp pain from his fingertips, he couldn't help calling out, and quickly pulled his hand back from the river. A little blood dripped into the river.

"Hiss—"

Taking a breath, Fang Zhihong raised his hand, looked at the painful finger, and found that a small piece of his little finger was bitten off, and the handkerchief in his hand that was loosened because of the pain was no longer there. I know where I rushed to the river.

"Ah! Zhihong! What happened to your hand?"

Seeing Fang Zhihong's raised bloody hand, Li You immediately rushed forward in panic, grabbed his hand, and asked anxiously.

"Hiss, it hurts. I don't know. When I was in the water just now, I was bitten by something." Fang Zhihong didn't expect that he would be so unlucky. One finger was gone, and now blood was still dripping from the severed part of the finger, dripping onto the raft, slowly flowing into the river along the cracks in the wood of the raft.

"sky."

Qiao Feiyu, who came over quickly, saw the injury, and immediately took out the medical bandage from his backpack to Fang Zhihong to treat. Seeing Fang Zhihong's bite wound, Qiao Feiyu felt that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Qiao Feiyu's reaction, as if he had discovered something, Wang Yang asked strangely.

"This wound looks like it was bitten off by fangs. Look, the wound is full of uneven jagged marks." Pointing at the position of Fang Zhihong's finger, Qiao Feiyu shook off the bandage and handed it to Li You, preaching .

"Your blood, wipe it off."

Xiao Yi's voice suddenly rang above everyone's heads.

When everyone looked up, they saw Xiao Yi frowning and Fang Zhihong's blood dripping from the corner of the raft, earnestly ordering.

"What's wrong? Xiao Yi."

Feeling that the atmosphere seemed tense again, Wang Yang stood up from the raft and asked.

Before Xiao Yi could explain, Qiao Feiyu couldn't wait to answer: "Think about where we are, we are in land N, a creature that can haunt the water, loves to attack people and eats meat, think about it ,What will it be?"

piranhas...

This obvious answer emerged in everyone's minds, and after realizing what it might be, some people's faces turned pale.

Lin Jie quickly got down on the ground and found something around him to block the blood on the raft.

Li You, the only one who still didn't seem to understand, asked everyone with a confused face: "Yes, what is it?"

"Uh, you don't know yet? Of course it's a piranha. Fang Zhihong must have been bitten by a piranha just now. His blood flowed out just now. The piranhas near the river will definitely follow the smell. Groups of piranhas followed Those who came over will be stained with his blood on the raft, and those fish will not be lost, and will keep chasing us."

"Ah! Then, what should we do then? Can we go to the shore now?" Thinking that there was still such a big danger on the raft, Li You hurriedly asked if he could escape in another place.

"The river banks around here are all untouchable, full of sharp rocks, the raft can't get close, and there is no way to stop. We must find a place with a relatively stable bank so that we can go down." Looking at the surrounding river banks, There was no good place to dock right now, Qiao Feiyu spread his hands, expressing his helplessness.

"Maybe, those are not piranhas. There are so many piranhas. Maybe I was accidentally scratched by something, or bitten by some other animal. Maybe we scare ourselves "Fang Zhihong couldn't believe that there would be such things as piranhas in this river, convincing himself and others.

"It must be a piranha, that's right, just the tiny jagged marks on your wound, it's like a wound that only a piranha can bite."

"Uh, even if it is true, our river flows so fast, those fish can't follow it." Fang Zhihong still doesn't believe that a mere fish can have such a great ability.

"Their sense of smell is very sensitive, don't underestimate them."

Seeing Fang Zhihong's not very nervous appearance, Qiao Feiyu became a little angry. He didn't know who put his hand into the water for nothing. In this primitive area of ​​land N, you can't act rashly anywhere.

"Qiao Feiyu, that... Those, can't they be the piranhas you mentioned..." Wang Yang tugged on the clothes of Qiao Feiyu, who was still talking, and motioned him to turn around and look back.

In the turbid yellow river, near the tail of the raft, a group of black shadows began to wander around the raft.

After a while, it disappeared without a trace.

"...Oh, no! It's a piranha..." Covering his head, Qiao Feiyu said helplessly, really saying Cao Cao Cao Cao.

"Xiao Yi, is this fish delicious?"

Suddenly inspiration came, and Wang Yang thought of this question inexplicably.

At such a tense moment, everyone was shocked by Wang Yang's words at this time. Now it's not about him eating it, okay?It's because they want to eat them...

"Can eat..."

He didn't answer whether it was good or not, Xiao Yi just replied with a more practical sentence.

A piranha suddenly jumped out of the water at this moment and rushed into the middle of the raft. Wang Yang responded quickly with a paddle and slapped the fish on top of the raft. The piranha, whose tail was still moving, finally revealed its true face.

I don’t know if it’s because it’s infected or it’s just like this, but the body of this piranha is covered with white and yellow pustule-like circular translucent objects, one by one, all over the fish’s body .

After being patted and pressed by Wang Yang with wooden pulp, some translucent bags burst open, and white pus and black spots flowed out. It was disgusting to watch, and Wang Yang was still sick. The good complexion suddenly froze.

Just at this time, Xiao Yi suddenly asked Wang Yang: "Do you want to eat?"

Wang Yang, who has always had a good appetite, really couldn't accept such a fish, so he gritted his teeth and replied, "I won't eat..."

call

You are still human after all──

The people who were listening to the conversation between the two of them finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Wang Yang really dared to eat it, they believed that Xiao Yi would also really dare to make it for Wang Yang to eat.The two of them don't care, but those who are forced to watch, when they think of such a scene, they really want to spit it out... Fortunately, fortunately...

"Why does this piranha look so shabby?" Angry at the fish's ugly and disgusting appearance, which made him lose his appetite, Wang Yang dragged the dead fish back into the river with a wooden paddle, cursing.

"Well, this fish should be a fish with the scientific name of tiger fish. It is a kind of piranha. The things on it should be its eggs. They like to carry their eggs on their bodies, so they are named It's a tiger fish." After learning some relevant knowledge, Qiao Feiyu explained to Wang Yang.

"It looks disgusting with the eggs stuck to it...and the males too?"

"These tiger fish, most of the groups are females, and there are very few males."

"Then the fish that are going to attack us later are all female fish that look so disgusting?" Lin Jie couldn't help interjecting as he thought about the appearance of the fish he saw just now.

"Uh, I'm afraid that's the case. We just happened to be in their breeding season. In this season, they need more food to replenish the nutrients they consumed when they were born. For us, they will probably chase after us... ..."

"Don't talk so much nonsense, that school of fish is swimming over again..." Wang Yang stared at the seemingly calm river behind the raft, and warned everyone loudly.