Chapter 6 - The Law of the Jungle (Crossing)
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The fire had gone out, and in the early light of the morning light we could see the fog floating in the jungle, white and invisible.
Jiang Yan woke up in a cold autumn, and as soon as he turned his body, he immediately noticed something unusual.
He could not move his lower body or waist, especially his legs, which were completely wrapped in the snake's tail.
The python seems to have learned from previous acts of human vulnerability, and this time it does not curl him up from the neck.
Even though the lower part of the waist has been wrapped almost numb, but at least can not breathe?
Jiang Yan laughed like a pleasure in the midst of pain, and the tone was helpless: "My leg is numb, can you loosen it?"
Python raised his head, the light colored animal pupil stared at him, the pressure was full of close, the snake letter son along the soft and delicate cheek licking, excited a burst of goose bumps.
He repeatedly told himself not to panic, just slide the snake over his face like a cabbage.
Patience for a while, Jiang Yan face white, not only can not put the snake letter son as cabbage ignored, gas dare not come out.
The scales were like the armor of a python, hard and dense, making Jiang Yan uncomfortable all over.
This uncomfortable let Jiang Yan suffering to the extreme, he could not help but stretch out his arm to push the python's head.
"Don't... Can you loosen it?" '
Jiang Yan showed weakness: "My leg is going to lose consciousness, like disconnected."
For a moment he was released.
Freed, Jiang Yan, wrapped in a muddled deerskin, lay on the grass to calm the breath. When he struggled to stand up, his waist and legs were weak and he nearly fell to the ground.
The roots of legs, waist and abdomen, and even the back of the thigh, were still touched by the snake scale. Jiang Yan's face was red and white for a while, and he peered at the python from the periphery. I am afraid that this wild animal did not know the embarrassment of human beings.
He exhaled, wondering what to do with a python? The other person does not regard himself as a person, just a food that will not be eaten for a while.
Think, embarrassment and embarrassment slowly dissipated.
Jiang Yan said to himself, "It's another day."
In this desolate jungle, he did not die. He survived for almost half a month.
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During the day, the python was still not in the cave, and Jiang Yan cleaned the boar with similar treatment several times, planning to clean several pig leg bones, and then hollow out the middle, one side is empty, and the other side is the bottom, which can be used to load things after being dried.
Determined to do so, Jiang Yan picked up a few heavy pig leg bones and shook his body as he carried them.
The boar's leg bones were thicker than his arms, and it took a lot of time to chisel them off and take them to the river to be washed.
Jiang Yan lifted the pig leg bone, which had been treated almost equally, and brought it to the most ventilated part of the platform to be exposed to the sun.
As well as last night wrapped in sleeping deer skin, also take the side together to sun, ventilation for a long time, the taste will slowly spread.
The sun baked the deer skin warm, Jiang Yan a little tired, lay down on the deer skin, rest at the same time also sunbathed himself.
Unconsciously, he took a nap, woke up the day is full of light, quiet everywhere, the valley of the autumn wind dry smell.
He was a little thirsty, went back to the cave to drink water and eat two fruits, looked down to sniff his arms, and planned to take a bath by the stream while the weather was clear.
Jiang Yan took his clothes and went straight to the stream.
The water splashing down from the mountain spring is cool, and when gathered in the pool, it has some warmth after the strongest sunlight of the time.
Jiang Yan filled the water, used to the temperature of the water to remove the clothes, across the shallow bank of the stone, until the stream did not exceed the waist above the position, this did not stop moving forward, standing in place to wash his face and hair.
Jiang Yan natural body/hair light, half a month has not long, but the hair has been some long, to the ear, both sides fall soft and curly black hair.
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Looking at his appearance on the surface of the water, Jiang Yan pinched his thin cheeks and began to carefully wash his shoulders and hands and feet.
Several feathered blue and white birds fell to drink water by the stream, not afraid of life, and even jumped close to Jiang Yan with their PAWS, cocking their small heads to see him.
Jiang Yan smiled, cleaned himself as quickly as possible, put on his clothes, and walked slowly along the downstream direction of the water source instead of going straight back to the cave.
He did not dare to go too far, but at last he stopped around a puddle of mud and water. He walked around in a roundabout way, picked up a long stick from nearby, and rammed it straight under the puddle.
There were no cooking utensils to use in the Python's lair. He did not even have any utensils to contain animal blood. It was too much work to chisel the utensils with stone. He decided to try pottery.
Jiang Yan did not burn clay pottery, in the village has seen the older generation of people to do this kind of work, and impression.
He may have to live in this place for a long time, and he wants to prepare some basic living equipment, at least to make his life less difficult.
Making sure there were no snakes and insects under the mud, Jiang Yan lay on the bank and began to draw mud.
Ignoring the top layer of mud, he took out the bottom layer of tawny soil with some stickiness, and dried it in the sun before carrying it all back to the cave.
That day, Jiang Yan did not idle, put all the things that should be used on the platform to dry, after the evening saw the sun everywhere, and all the things moved into the hole, several efforts, folded/stretched his waist almost could not straighten up.
The wind rose, and a chill began to pervade the whole body.
Jiang Yan wrapped himself in warm deer skin and roasted some meat over a fire.
Dried pig bones with the dry smell of the sun, Jiang Yan bowed his head to sniff, wash with clean water, see almost, crush the surface of the fruit, the extruded pulp water into the bone cylinder.
The crude homemade juice, slowly drinking with the barbecue, finally alleviated a little cloying taste.
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After dinner, Jiang Yan squatted on the ground, patiently and carefully handling the sun's mud by the fire.
Clay with sticky soil is best for pottery. After the impurities are removed, the remaining mud can be used directly for utensils.
The current conditions are simple, there is no kiln to burn pottery, Jiang Yan can only use open fire to burn.
Open fire pottery is very particular about the control of temperature, and the color and texture of the burning are not as good as kiln firing.
But for Jiang Yan, the use of the pottery is the main thing, and he can't wait to use the cooker to make a fresh soup instead of eating the grilled meat every day.
Jiang Yan with a few plans in his heart early wrapped deerskin waiting for sleep, tonight the sky does not see the autumn moon, only from the hole in the roof to see a few obscure twinkling stars.
In a daze, there seemed to be something thin, hard and cold attached to him. Jiang Yan reached out to touch it, and the strange touch made him try to open his eyes.
Knowing that the python had come back, Jiang Yan was a little accustomed to being wrapped by the python's tail. He did not struggle this time, his face tilted slightly, and he continued to sleep on the hay.
The giant python saw Jiang Yan sleeping in ignorance, the animal's brain was close, the small white face of the human was smothered in the hide, and the fire was steaming, and his eyelids and face were a little thin red.
The giant python stared, the light-colored eyes of the snake as if there were two cocoons of fire jumping. Snake son licks/licks the corners of Jiang Yan's eyes, touched the two lips, soft abnormal, exudes a sweet and sour atmosphere, and linger for a moment.
Python just obey the instinct, did not expect to be it licked Jiang Yan looked surprised to open the eyelids, covering the lips of a face incredible.
Jiang Yan did not think about other aspects, only thought that the python was as usual, he was sleepy and had to resist the close proximity of the python, and the cool touch came from his cheek.
Jiang Yan was startled: "Go to sleep quickly!"
Then he said, "And... Don't wrap it too tight, it will easily cause my legs to lose blood circulation and my legs will be very numb, so don't be so tight, OK?"
The force of the snake tail wrapped around his legs loosened a little, and Jiang Yan felt a little comfortable. He wanted to turn around, but his whole waist was locked and unable to move.
Such a huge snake body can not be ignored, Jiang Yan recognized the situation, can only be forced to warn himself to adapt.
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The next day, Jiang Yan woke up before dawn.
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Life in the jungle is monotonous and repetitive, lacking modern entertainment and leisure, and there is no other activity to pass the time after night except sleeping.
After going to bed early and getting up early for more than half a month, although the food was poor and the lodging conditions were not good, he felt that his spirit was much better and that he was not tired when working.
The python curled up on its side like a mountain caged before his eyes.
Jiang Yan move, snake pupil immediately opened and looked at him.
"I got up early," Jiang said. "If I finish today's work early, I can rest early."
There is no one around, there is no object to communicate with, Jiangyan can only talk and communicate, only python.
After not so afraid of it, Jiang Yan will talk with it to relieve boredom, after all, talking to himself for a long time, can not avoid feeling lonely.
Freed from the bed, Jiang Yan moved his legs and feet slightly, checked the clay that had been sifted out of impurities last night, felt satisfied, and then went to tinker with what he had eaten in the morning.
The grass trees outside the cave were covered with autumn frost, and even the stone walls outside were covered with a pale layer.
Jiang Yan felt that the speed of the cold day was getting faster and faster, and the white breath between the lips and teeth.
With a shiver, he quickly wrapped his buckskin, covered the grass more tightly, and ate briefly in the lee corner of the cave.
The east valley sunrise, Jiang Yan after breakfast to the stream to wash, no conditions, cleaning teeth need to pay attention to care.
After this, he took water back to the cave and mixed it with clay to make pottery with his own hands.
Slightly larger pot, bowl, can pinch out a few models, wait for air dry and then burn with open flame.
Jiang Yan picked up a lot of firewood, piled it into the hole, and dug out a special pit for burning pottery.
With the python out, the cave looked empty.
The sun penetrated into the hole, and Jiang Yan dug a hole and sat outside to bask for a while.
Waiting for the drying process of the clay, Jiang Yan started a fire in advance to heat the pit, and until the sunset set, he buried the air-dried model into the pit wrapped in the fire.
Standing next to the fire pit, Jiang Yan was smoked by the fire, and he added more crude wood to ensure that the fire could last a long time, which packed things up and took the fruit to the stream.
Jiang Yan burned pottery process to make himself sticky sweat, while the sun did not completely fall, hurriedly undressed water, hair and body sweat stains wash away.
With a comfortable sigh, Jiang Yan's voice was blocked, and the familiar wrapping of his ankles made him smile bitterly, looking down at the snake tail that was getting higher and higher until it wrapped around his waist and even his chest.
The giant snake curled up on the shore, dived into the water at one end, and lifted up the man, who was as white as a lamb, with his damp vapor, and carried him to his eyes.
Jiang Yan forced himself to look up, to meet its dark and pale snake eyes, softly said: "You so my bath washed in vain."
The voice fell, Jiang Yan felt the scales behind him quickly close to the skin, his face first strange, abnormal.
Jiang Yan's face was white.
"You..."
With a white face, he shouted, "Let me go!"
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