Chapter 27: Wait silently

Walking to the bottom of the innermost hill, she pointed to the back of the two big trees and said: "It's behind this, we can climb up the tree. There is a small cave inside, which is very hidden."

I looked at her in amazement, how can she climb the tree to find the cave in such a dangerous situation?

She thought that I was questioning her abilities, so she just rubbed her hands, hugged the tree trunk, and climbed up with agility. After climbing to the branch and sitting down, she proudly said: "I knew it when I was a child. My cousin in my hometown taught me that."

She stepped on the rock with one foot, holding a stone in her hand, and disappeared as soon as she bent over. I only saw her after I climbed up the tree, seeing that she was smiling and hiding in a cave that was only half a meter high, the diameter of which was less than a meter wide. She got inside when I was there, and it was only two square meters in size, so it was no problem to accommodate three people. The big trees outside the entrance of the cave are very lush, hiding the cave very concealed, but the outside situation can also be seen from the cracks in the branches and leaves.

"It's much safer here than on your boat," she said.

I nodded and got out of the cave, and only after falling to the ground did she follow me down.

I asked her to go to the woods with me to collect firewood. We collected a lot of firewood, and it was getting late. In order to confuse the aborigines, I took her to the nearby beaches and opened spaces for a while, leaving intricate footprints.

After the incident, I paddled a canoe and returned to the previous shack. I took out the remaining wild sweet potatoes and roasted them on the spot. Holding two coconuts, I went back to the harbor from the woods.

She was nowhere to be found, and after shouting several times, she came down from the small cave, said she was scared here alone, so she hid in the cave.

We piled firewood outside the woods in the northwest of the camp. After a big fire was built, the sweet potatoes were roasted. After we two ate them, and we added some not very dry firewood to it to make the smoke more serious. Then I led her detour from the woods back to the small cave.

"Brother Lu Fei." She poked my arm: "I want to tell you something."

"You say."

She pleased and smiled: "If, I mean, if they can all escape from the aborigines, I don't want to stay with them anymore. Can I stay with you and sister Wanxue?" When I didn’t reply to her, she immediately said: "Don't worry, I won't disturb your private life. You can just build an independent shack for me. It can be a little farther away from you, but it must be in a place where you can see it. Otherwise, I'm afraid that if there were an accident, you would not have time to save me."

I nodded, yawned, and let her stare for a while. I have to sleep for a while, otherwise I won’t have the energy to follow the aborigines after a little late.

When I was sleeping well, Zhang Yutong woke me up. I just wanted to complain, my mouth was covered by her.

She pointed outside, leaned into my ear and said, "Brother Lu Fei, they are here."

"What time is it?" I yawned, observing the movement outside through the cracks in the branches and leaves of the trees outside. The fire is not so vigorous anymore. There were about a dozen people with torches turning around in the camp. They didn't wear much clothes.

I looked back at Zhang Yutong. She shook her head and said, "I don't know what time it is, it's late anyway. I have been struggling without waking you up."

I told her to stop talking and stare at the situation outside quietly.

The aborigines, after searching for a while, didn't mean to stop there. Maybe the muscular men confessed Zhang Yutong under the pressure of the aborigines. After they got together for a while, they split into several small teams and searched in different directions.

Two people kept walking inside, and when they got under the big tree outside the small cave, I hurriedly hid inside. When Zhang Yutong opened her mouth, I stretched out my hand to cover it.

The two aborigines grumbled for a while below, and then there was the sound of leaving. I took my probe out and saw that they had walked back to the fire, and they took the initiative to add firewood to it. There is no doubt that this is a bad sign, and they may be waiting here for a while.

I asked Zhang Yutong, "You won’t pee in the middle of the night, right?"

She shook her head and asked in a puzzled way: "What's the matter? Why did you actually asked me this kind of question?”

I said: "The aborigines don't seem to plan to leave soon. We can only squat in here, we can't go out."

She made an OK gesture, indicating that there was no problem at all. Seeing her yawning constantly, I put her to sleep, and when the people left, I woke her up again.

She nodded, and after leaning against the cave wall for a moment, she rubbed the back of her head: "Brother Lu Fei, it’s hard to lay here."

I stretched my legs as straight as possible and patted: "Let on my legs."

She grinned and lay down, with her back facing me, and she leaned down. The small cave was not deep enough, and she could only slightly bend her long and slender legs.

After the other aborigines returned, they left something beside the fire, and then dispersed towards the woods on both sides.

I originally thought the aborigines were all stupid, but I didn't expect to be so treacherous. The thing left is to act as bait. As soon as we went out, they rushed up from the left and right to catch us.

It seemed that they would not leave tonight, so I closed my eyes and slept peacefully.

After a long time, I was awakened by a cool breeze. I saw that it was bright outside, but the sky was gloomy and the clouds were thick. We have been on the island for half a month, and we haven't rained once.

After waking Zhang Yutong up, I pulled away the leaves and saw that the things near the fire had been taken away.