Chapter 666 (1/2)
When Aoki woke up, he saw a young man carrying a bamboo basket feeding him water with a leather bag. Water is bitter, with a smell of fresh grass.
”Ah, you're awake!” said the young man. ”Have you eaten the cow liver umbrella? Fortunately, I know how to solve it.”
Although detoxified, Aoki's body is still very weak. The young man will carry him. He said:
”This place is not peaceful. Let's go north and be safe when we cross the Nangou river. Although our place is poor, we don't fight or eat people.”
After walking in the mountains for a day and eating two dry meals, Qingmu can go down to the ground and walk with a stick. He became familiar with the young man and knew that his name was enkun, who came from a small border dam in the north.
Aoki asked him what he was doing here. He said he was looking for someone.
”In recent years, Bazi has often been humiliated. Some have run away because of poverty, and some have been cheated. Both men and women have. Most of the men work in the opium poppy workshop in mazuba, and the women don't know where they are sold. I come here twice a year to find them. If I can meet them, I'll take them back. If I can't meet them, I can't help it. By the way, pick some herbs. We are short of medicine and the hospital is too small Far away, I can't afford to go. The herbs in the mountains are the best. I don't know how many lives have been saved! ”
Aoki leaned on his stick that had been with him for many years and followed enkun all the way north. When passing through the inflection ridge, I met a tiger with yellow skin and black stripes.
When people and tigers met, no one moved. For a moment, it was so quiet that they could hear the sound of leaves falling from the treetops.
Enkun said, ”hurry up, I'm full of tigers. Tigers are full and won't hurt people for a while. If you go north from here and see a big river, you can see the ferry more than ten miles east along the river. You say you're Chinese, and the people on the other side will pick you up.”
Aoki said, ”I haven't recovered yet. I can't go that far alone. Go and I'll stay.”
Enkun stubbornly refused and said, ”you go, you go. I saved you in vain and let the tiger eat you. It made you suffer twice. Good things have become evil!”
He said, taking out his firewood knife and blocking it in front of the green wood.
When the tiger pounced, enkun pushed the green wood aside with his strength and pushed forward with a firewood knife, intending to fight to the death. But life is not a novel, and enkun didn't drink 18 bowls of old wine. People with a hundred pounds and tigers with two or three hundred pounds fought head-on, which is basically a hundred deaths and no life.
But the miracle is happening right now.
The tiger didn't know why. At the last step, it stumbled. Although the power of the front flutter was still there, it tilted and bumped into the nearby tree, but the tiger's claws swept enkun's thigh.
Despite his leg injury, enkun stabbed the tiger in the neck with a knife. This is an instinctive response to a crisis and is not intended to work. It is also written in the novel that the tiger will attack, cut and lift, and will have a complete set of combined boxing. Although I don't know whether it's true or false, there must be a back move if the tiger doesn't hit, and it will never sit back and wait for death. Its neural response speed is unmatched by people. Moreover, the tiger has rough skin and thick flesh. Even if it is stabbed by a firewood knife, it will not die, but arouse its ferocity.
Somehow, enkun's firewood knife stabbed into the tiger's neck. But the tiger was sleepy, as if he were going to sleep.
Seeing that the opportunity was not lost, enkun tried his best to stab several times. In the meantime, the tiger suddenly struggled and seemed to fight back, but it fell to the ground and stopped moving. Enkun saw Aoki standing on his side. The stick in his hand pointed to the tiger's head. The tip of the stick was less than two inches from the tiger's forehead and was still trembling slightly.
After the tiger died, Aoki threw the stick and fell paralyzed.
Enkun held Qingmu and said, ”although your poison has been relieved, it has hurt your internal organs. You need to recuperate for a while before your qi and blood can be restored.”
Aoki gasped and said with a smile, ”I'm not in the way. Take care of your own legs first.”