Life is a Game

"I can't run anymore, I really can't run anymore."

Jiang Feng had just entered the memory and was still in the fog when he heard a strange and hoarse male voice panting and shouting in a low voice. The adjective "shouting in a low voice" might be a little strange, but Jiang Feng felt that the old man's tone of voice and the state of saying this sentence with his life were indeed shouting, but the voice was really pitifully small.

It can be seen that this person is very close to him, and he is indeed exhausted.

In addition to these words, he also heard the sound of clothes rubbing against leaves, grass, and a sound similar to a heavy object hitting the ground. Maybe this buddy just sat down on the ground.

"Run, if you don't want to die, keep running inside."

The fog cleared.

It is the woods.

A very dense forest, surrounded by trees, some tall and some short, and even shorter ones have weeds and shrubs, which almost block every gap where sunlight can penetrate, so that the light in the woods is very bright. dim.

Jiang Feng was standing behind Xia Mubing. At this time, Xia Mubing was still young, but he looked very embarrassed, even more embarrassed than the first time Jiang Feng saw him covered in blood in his memory.

The first time Jiang Feng saw Xia Mubing in his memory was covered in blood, but the blood on his body was not his own. Xia Mubing seemed to be the type to rob others, so he was not in a panic. Now Xia Mubingran didn't have blood-stained clothes, but was still wearing tattered thick cotton padded clothes, but the feeling was completely different.

It looked like he was being hunted down.

There were many cuts on the cotton-padded clothes. The small cuts could be clearly seen to be cut by branches. Some of the cuts seemed to be very sharp, some seemed to be hot and some seemed to be burned. Jiang Feng couldn't figure it out. What did Xia Mubing do before to make his padded clothes have such a wonderful encounter.

Xia Mubing's ankles and wrists also had frostbite, lacerations and scratches, and his calf seemed to be injured and blood was oozing out. Although she was wearing a cotton padded jacket, it didn't fit her body well and was much smaller.

There were only two people beside Jiang Feng, one was Xia Mubing, and the other must be Chen Shi, the owner of the memory.

Chen Shi was lying on the ground with an exhausted face, with a tattered little cloth bag in his arms, as if I really couldn't walk, and if I walked, I was going to die of exhaustion. The tight cotton padded jacket on his body was clearly a size smaller, and the tight cotton padded clothes were scratched to pieces. The hard cotton was exposed from inside, and there were several wounds on his face, which would probably be disfigured if not treated in time.

Jiang Feng looked around and was sure that there was no one, it was just a forest, not even small animals, but the two of them seemed to be running for their lives, as if the King of Hades was about to catch up and claim his life if he took a step too slowly.

"No one has been chasing them for a long time. There are so many people running away that they won't chase us back." Chen Shi, who was lying on the ground, struggled to get up and pointed to the empty woods behind him in order to prove the truth of what he said. , "Look, there is no one, why are we running in such a hurry?"

"It will be dark in three hours at most. There are everything in this forest, wolves, foxes, tigers, and maybe bears. Once it gets dark, you can't see anything clearly. Even if you climb a tree, you may be killed by those You'll die if you don't run out of the woods before dark." Xia Mubing said expressionlessly, "We killed the one named Qian. If you go back, you will definitely be shot. If you want to sit Wait here to die or go back to find death, please feel free, I will go first."

Chen Shi was so frightened by Xia Mubing's words that he stood up straight up, struggling to move forward even though his legs were weak.

"Let's walk slowly, okay? It will be dark in three hours, and even if it's dark, as long as it's not so dark, you can still see the road a little bit. If it doesn't work, let's light a fire and climb higher. I originally I heard people in our village say that if you can't get out in the woods at night, you should find a taller tree and climb up, as long as you climb higher, the animals won't pick you off." Chen Shi tried in vain to discuss with Xia Mubing .

Xia Mubing didn't say a word. He obviously didn't want to waste his energy and walked straight forward. The slow speed obviously agreed.

Xia Mubing walked in front, and Chen Shi followed.

Both are walking, the actions and states of the two are completely different. Xia Mubing was only about 1.7 meters tall, which is not considered tall in theory, but compared to Chen Shi, who seemed to be only over 1.6 meters tall, he seemed very tall.

Mountain roads are not easy to walk on, and this kind of road in the woods is even more difficult to walk on. There are not only weeds, mud, stone piles, and pits on the ground. Broken foot or fell and lost half of front tooth. Both of them were wearing old cloth shoes, the kind with holes in the bottom, it was as if they were not worn, and at most they could protect the soles of their feet from being cut by stones.

Under such difficult conditions, Xia Mubing walked as if walking on flat ground, but Chen Shi behind him was normal, stumbling because of his weak footsteps, he was very cautious.

Jiang Feng followed the two of them like this, probably because the authorities were confused and the bystanders were clear. Jiang Feng felt that the two of them seemed a little lost.

The forest is very dark, and the sky can hardly be seen when looking up. It is full of trees and weeds, and some weeds can even grow to half the height of a person, making it difficult to identify the direction. The weeds are also very ferocious, sharp, and cut people's legs. If the two of them were not wearing cotton clothes and trousers in winter, their legs would have been cut with blood.

It is precisely because of wearing a lot in winter that it is difficult to walk slowly. .

Sure enough, Chen Shi and Xia Mubing lost their way.

Xia Mubing was the first to realize that the two of them might have lost their way. He stopped and looked around, then looked up at the sky, obviously trying to find out the direction but to no avail.

Chen Shi was so tired that he couldn't tell the difference between up, down, left, right, south, east, and north. Seeing Xia Mubing suddenly stop, Chen Shi felt that the tight string in his mind was suddenly broken, and he sat down on the ground without caring about his buttocks. It's just a big, sharp rock.

Xia Mubing looked down at Chen Shi, who looked like a cripple, then stood on tiptoes and stretched his neck to look forward, as if he wanted to see the terrain ahead.

"Get up, walk a little further, and rest in the flat place in front of you. You go and gather some firewood and I'll find water," Xia Mubing said.

"Ah? Oh." Chen Shi had completely lost the ability to think independently, he stood up numbly and took two steps forward before realizing it belatedly, "Rest?"

Chen raised her head and glanced at the sky, feeling that the sky had begun to darken: "Isn't it going to be dark soon? Why rest, aren't we going out of the woods today?"

Xia Mubing had already started to walk forward, and told Chen Shi the tragic news in a tone of talking about what to eat tonight: "We can't get out, we're lost."

"Oh, we're fans of..."

"Are we lost?!" Chen Shi finally had such a rich expression on his face again, panic filled with desperation, desperation with today I'm dead, I'm dead and revealed that I actually didn't think so die.

Xia Mubing had already walked at least eight meters forward, and Chen Shi hurried to catch up. This was probably the fastest time Jiang Feng had seen Chen Shi run after entering his memory.

"How can we get lost? Didn't we walk around the edge of the forest? We won't go inside, right? It's over, over, I heard them say that this forest is huge, and there is really everything in it. If If we go inside, we will never be able to get out again. We have nothing, we have a knife without a gun, and we have nothing to eat or even water. The two of us will definitely die this time. If we had known earlier, we might as well leave That path, at least you won’t die of starvation and thirst, and being caught and shot by them is better than dying of hunger and thirst or being eaten by wolves!”

Xia Mubing frowned, obviously disturbed by Chen Shi.

"Give me the kettle." Xia Mubing held out his hand.

"Oh." Chen Shi obediently opened the cloth bag and handed the water bottle inside to Xia Mubing.

Jiang Feng noticed that in addition to the kettle, Chen Shi's cloth bag also contained a knife wrapped in thick cloth, two strings of beads, a little money and two boxes of matches.

"See the flat land in front of you, go and gather firewood, and then light the fire. We will rest here tonight without climbing up the tree." Xia Mubing pointed to the flat land in front, saying that the flat land is actually a small piece of land Where there are no trees, there are grass and stones on the ground, which is not flat at all.

"If you don't climb the tree, what if you are taken away by a wolf at night?" Chen Shi didn't know why he was very afraid of being taken away by a wolf. You can't die in a good way."

"There shouldn't be any wolves. I just noticed that we did go wrong and went into the woods, but we didn't go very deep. Let alone wolves along the way, there wasn't even a rabbit. Even if there were, as long as it wasn't The wolves didn't dare to get close to the animals after they set fire to it. If you climbed up a tree to sleep, and you didn't sleep well at night, you fell down on your head, and you didn't have to wait for the wolves to come and kill yourself first." Xia Mubing said .

"Then what should we do at night? You can't just stare at the fire and stay asleep."

"Sleeping in turns, sleeping alone and guarding alone, what are you afraid of with a knife? Even if you kill people, are you afraid of a few animals?" Xia Mubing was in a hurry to find the water source, and didn't want to talk nonsense with Chen Shi while holding the water bottle So I went to find the water source and asked Chen Shi to stay here to collect firewood.

After Xia Mubing left, Jiang Feng originally thought that Chen Shi's timid behavior just now would scare him, but he didn't. Chen Shi calmly picked up the wood, carried the package, and skillfully built a bonfire to light the firewood. . After finishing everything, he ran around to find out if he could pick some wild fruits to eat, but in the end he had no choice but to go back to Xia Mubing and find water.

Only then did Jiang Feng realize that Chen Shi was not timid, on the contrary he was very courageous. In fact, from the conversation between Xia Mubing and him just now, it can be seen that he and Xia Mubing fled into the woods in such a state of embarrassment and did not dare to look back. In all likelihood, they were deserters, and the way the two of them were deserters was very different. Rather rebellious, he ran out as a deserter after killing the little bosses above.

How could this kind of person who went to the battlefield and became a deserter during the war years be timid, and the timid one died as early as the first time he went to the battlefield.

Chen Shi was simply afraid of death.