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Mu Qing is 25 years old and a tour guide in a travel agency.
The day was exactly like any other. She and a colleague took a tour group to their destination, a primitive forest. The outer parts of the forest have been developed as tourist routes only a few years ago. Being in the forest, with deep soft moss and fresh fallen leaves underfoot, noses sniffing the fragrant and moist air, ears listening to pines and birds singing, wild forest mountain wind blowing on their bodies, and looking at the lush trees in their eyes, the group members seemed to have entered another world. Some people even shouted that they would rather live in a wooden house here forever and never return to the reinforced concrete city.
After hearing this, Mu Qing smiled slightly. She had already turned a blind eye to this situation. Compared to those others, in fact, if she had a choice, she would rather sit on an iron chair in the central square of her city, leisurely watching a few pigeons cooing on the dome of the glass-and-steel frame building in the middle of the square.
Mu Qing returned to the hotel at the edge of the forest after a tiring day, feeling as if his body was falling apart. I took a shower and dried my hair. Not long after I lay down, I heard someone banging on the door.
An old lady in the group brought her thirteen-year-old grandson and sneaked out, but she has not returned yet. The old lady was so anxious that she burst into tears.
Mu Qing immediately called the forest patrol team near the scenic spot. Then he tried his best to comfort the old lady, saying that everything would be fine.
“It’s not your grandson, so of course you are not in a hurry!”
The old lady choked on her words and couldn’t breathe. Seeing that she insisted on going out to look for her, she had no choice but to throw on a pair of jeans, carry her own backpack, and go with her. Her colleague comforted the remaining group members and told them not to go out casually in the dark, lest they get lost. trouble.
In addition to her wallet and mobile phone, her bag also contained a solar flashlight, a compass, a survival whistle, a Victorinox Swiss Army knife, and a small telescope with a power of up to ten. These were all things she had kept in her backpack for a long time. Although she might only need a flashlight later, she just carried them out habitually.
Mu Qing has been leading the team here all year round and is very familiar with the road. After searching for a while with the old lady, I met a patrol member, dragging a child behind him, who was the grandson of the old lady. He sneaked in to play because he was being naughty. Seeing the old lady hugging her grandson and screaming heartily, Mu Qing also breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to walk back, a few flashes of lightning flashed across the sky, outlining the undulating outline of the forest, and then there was a dull roar of thunder.
Thunderstorms often occur in summer, not to mention that this is a forest area.
Mu Qing saw that the old ladies were already moving forward, and was about to run back to the hotel with them, when suddenly a dazzling lightning flashed over his head like a ghost, and when Mu Qing heard the weird sound of tearing the air, , it’s too late.
The lightning struck the ground and disappeared instantly.
Hearing the sound of lightning, the patrol team members and the old lady turned around and were stunned.
Mu Qing disappeared out of thin air. It evaporated like a drop of water with the lightning.
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Mu Qing regained consciousness.
She was struck by lightning. Now awake.
She opened her eyes suddenly, and the first thing she saw was not the white fluorescent lamp on the ceiling of the hospital ward. But the sky.
The blue sky is high and distant.
Weird blue, blue without any impurities. It is also extremely high, so high that it seems to have reached the extreme of the universe.
Moreover, she is now the frog sitting in a well looking at the sky.
Mu Qing slowly sat up and looked at the well that trapped him. The bottom of the well was less than two meters in diameter. Judging from the appearance of the well wall, it looked like a trap dug manually to catch animals. The mouth of the well was overgrown with weeds. .
Luckily for her, the hunter didn’t have a sharp weapon stuck in the bottom of the well, otherwise he would never have let her sit so comfortably.
She lowered her head and checked herself. Except for a few burnt holes in her shirt and pants, her body was unscathed, and not even one of her eyebrows was burned off.
It’s so weird.
She was struck by lightning and woke up in a trap unscathed.
Mu Qing leaned weakly against the wall of the well, pressing his backpack behind him. Then he came to his senses and hurriedly pulled it off.
The backpack is made of strong, thick canvas, but there is a layer of smoke marks on the surface.
Mu Qing took out his cell phone. The phone was miraculously intact and still had power. But…, there is no signal.
Mu Qing refused to give up and turned it on and off several times, but the signal bar was still blank.
She lost her cell phone, took out the survival whistle again, put it in her mouth, and blew lightly, and the sharp whistle sound came out.
The survival whistle is just an ordinary military whistle, but it is a good thing. If ordinary people tried to shout to attract the attention of rescue workers, they would be hoarse in fifteen minutes. But this little plastic whistle, as long as there is still breath, can blow out sound that can travel farther than the human voice.
Mu Qing blew the whistle according to the Morse code SS.
She blew for a long time, but could not hear any reaction from outside, not even the sound of wind.
Mu Qing’s mouth was a little dry, and she began to regret why she didn’t put a bottle of water in her backpack.
She leaned against the wall of the well, and the whistle gradually became louder and louder.
A long time passed. It was quite strangely long.
Mu Qing just checked the time on his phone, it was 12 noon. She remembered correctly.
Three hours have passed now.
Her whistle gradually became lower and finally fell silent.
When the sky finally turned from bright blue to dark blue, the time on her phone read 6 pm.
The phone is out of battery and shuts down automatically.
Mu Qing is very hungry, which is bearable. If he can’t bear it, he is thirsty.
She really felt like she was dying of thirst, and she was so sad that she almost wanted to cut herself with a Swiss Army knife.
Drinking my own blood, I wonder if it will quench my thirst.
She finally gave up and couldn’t bear to be so cruel.
Mu Qing grabbed the whistle, stuffed it into his mouth, closed his eyes, and blew it again with all his strength.
Just when she felt that her ear drum was about to be pierced by the sharp sound, something suddenly flew down from the well, hit her head, and fell to the ground with a pop.
It’s a piece of mud.
Mu Qing suddenly raised his head and saw a man’s face peeking out from above the mouth of the well.
The man’s hair was very long, tangled and hanging down the well mouth. His face was covered with beard, and his appearance could not be seen clearly. He could only look at Mu Qing with one unblinking eye.
Mu Qing thought this man was very ugly, not only ugly, but also very weird. But at this moment, no matter how ugly or strange a person is, in her eyes they are like gods descending from the sky.
She didn’t know where she got the strength, so she jumped up, raised her head and waved her hands, shouting excitedly: “Help me, help me out!”
The man was stunned for a moment, made an unknown sound, and then disappeared.
Mu Qing was stunned, picked up the piece of mud that the man had just left, threw it out with all his strength, and said loudly: “Hey, don’t leave, come back!”
There was no movement for a long while.
Hope suddenly flashed through despair, but that hope was shattered in an instant. Such a blow was cruel.
Mu Qingruan fell to the bottom of the well, having already cursed the ugly and sloppy man ten thousand times in his heart.
When she was completely desperate, a rope suddenly hung down from the well.
Strictly speaking, it is not the nylon rope Mu Qing usually uses for mountain climbing, or even hemp rope.
It was a rope twisted with bark. Judging from the marks on the bark, it seemed that it had been cut and rubbed together temporarily.
The man just now stuck his head out again, opened his mouth and said something to her.
He should be talking to her. But Mu Qing couldn’t understand it at all. Not Chinese, not English, nothing, a completely unfamiliar string of symbols.
Mu Qing didn’t care anymore, Feidi packed up his backpack, put it on his shoulders, and tightly grasped the rope with both hands. She was a little worried about whether the man would be strong enough to pull her up, but almost in the blink of an eye, she was lifted out of the well and fell to the ground.
Mu Qing sat up, raised his head and hurriedly thanked the man. Before he could say anything, he was stunned.
To describe it as stunned is not an exaggeration at all.
The man standing in front of her at this moment, let’s call him a man, was huge, so tall that she had to look up. He was completely naked, with brown muscles and abnormally tight knots. His chest and lower abdomen were covered with thick black hair, and only his lower abdomen was covered with thick black hair. -The body is covered with a piece of animal skin.
These are all okay, and they won’t shock her.
What really scared her was his hands. The palms were unusually thick, and the nails on the tips of the five fingers were as thick and sharp as iron hooks. There were still some bark remnants on them.
The rope bark just now was probably torn off by this man with his fingernails.
Mu Qing stared at him, unable to look away for a long time.
What is this place and why does such a strange person appear?
The man bent down slightly, stretched out his hands like cattail leaf fans, lifted her onto his shoulders easily, and ran forward.
Mu Qing almost vomited as her abdomen was pushed by his hard shoulder. She closed her eyes uncomfortably, with the sound of wind whistling in her ears. When he finally threw her heavily to the ground, the sky was completely dark.
Mu Qing looked around and saw that he had been taken into the forest by the man and sat on the ground covered with fallen leaves and decayed branches. The moon was full, and the light shone through the gaps between the trees, making it completely possible to see. There are unknown trees hanging down to the ground everywhere around us. One of them requires five or six adults to work together to surround the ancient tree. At the fork of a branch, there is a tower that seems to be hastily built with bark and wood. A simple wooden house.
The man left Mu Qing and left on his own.
Mu Qing put his hands on the ground, slowly climbed up from the ground, and looked around.
Although the man kidnapped her here, so far, he didn’t seem to mean to hurt her.
Should I take this opportunity to escape?
Mu Qing was hesitant when he saw that the man had come back from behind the big tree, holding a pile of firewood and several things wrapped in large leaves. After putting it down, I dug a hole in the ground with my hands, put the pieces wrapped in large leaves into the hole, covered them with a thin layer of soil, and then stacked the first firewood into a cross shape. Everything was ready. He reached out and took out a handful of dry moss-like things from the hole in the big tree behind him. He piled it into the cross-shaped middle hollow of the firewood. He hit two pieces of flint against each other with his hands. Sparks flew everywhere and they hit each other more than a dozen times. , the pile of moss-like things burst into flames.
The man lowered his head and blew on the fire carefully, and soon the fire was burning brightly. After burning for about ten minutes, he used branches to move the fire to one side and opened the hole. After it cooled down a bit, he spread these packages of baked goods in front of Mu Qing.
Mu Qing smelled the smell of burnt meat. But she had no appetite at all.
There were a few piles of things in front of them, one pile was a large black mass, with a layer of burnt hair remaining on it, and the pile looked like caterpillars and earthworms.
Mu Qing just wants to drink water.
She raised her head and saw the man staring at her closely.
Mu Qing mustered up his courage and made a gesture of drinking water.
The man was stunned for a moment, then stood up. When he came back, he already had a few more round things in his hand.
Looks like a coconut, but definitely not a coconut.
The man broke it hard, and the thing cracked, and then handed it to her.
Mu Qing hurriedly took it and sucked the juice flowing out from the slit. It was slightly green, but it didn’t matter.
She was so thirsty that she took three or four breaths in one breath before letting out a long breath.
The man pointed at the piles of food in front of her and motioned for her to eat.
Mu Qing didn’t care that her hands were hot, so she took a small piece of barbecue-like thing, put it in her mouth and started eating it slowly, even though she didn’t want to eat it at all.
Fortunately, compared to how thirsty she felt just now, she could now swallow anything.
The man seemed satisfied, and then he picked up the remaining large piece of meat in front of him, ate it all quickly, and then brought the pile of roasted worms to her mouth.
Mu Qing hurriedly shook his head and pointed at his stomach to show that he was full.
The man glanced at her and didn’t force himself. He raised his head and chewed up the pile of things in a few times. He stood up and put out the fire.
Mu Qing became a little worried, not knowing what he was going to do next.
But she knew it soon.
The man threw her back on his back, grabbed the trunk of the big tree with all four limbs, and climbed into the wooden house.
Mu Qing was thrown onto the ground again and was spread with hay and leaves.
It was very dark inside the wooden house. After a moment, Mu Qing saw the outline of the man.
He seemed a little curious about her, kneeling in front of her and staring at her for a long time.
Mu Qing held his breath and remained motionless.
He finally stopped looking, only tied her hands and feet with a rope, and lay outside her.
The snoring became very loud.
Mu Qing finally let out a long sigh of relief, but his back was already a little sweaty.