Chapter 42 Lost in the jungle
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At some point, Zhao Yaoyao changed the call ringtone of Bai Ling on Fang Sheng's mobile phone to a harsh class bell, and the picture displayed was a tiger.
This is similar to Xiao Lan's point of view.
Just as he pressed the answer button, Zhao Yaoyao muttered, "Don't pay attention to her, you're accompanying me."
But Bai Ling said hurriedly: "Are you in Santan Town? A foreigner disappeared in the embankment area! Hurry up and ask a few people to help search the forest. We are on the way and we will arrive soon."
"I'm in Jiazigou, now..." Fang Sheng thought for a while, "There are limited staff on both sides today, and we can only organize a large-scale project on Monday..."
"He has been missing for three days and probably won't be able to get on Monday," Bai Ling said anxiously, "He can call as much as he can. There are five people here, so it's best to search in multiple directions at the same time."
"I'll try it."
Fang Sheng immediately called Zhu Zhengyang and asked him to ask Xiao Xiaojie for leave, and called the left-behind cadres and clerks in the town, as well as village cadres from two nearby villages. He hurriedly pieced together more than 30 people, entered the embankment forest from nine directions, and agreed to contact him every half an hour.
Fang Sheng advised Zhao Yaoyao to go back to the town first. She knew that Bai Ling would definitely meet him and would not leave, so she insisted on accompanying him into the forest.
"It's very dangerous inside. I said last time that I might not be able to get out if I come in. It's not that I scare you, really."
"Then I want to accompany you even more, die together," she said pouting, "unless you want to be with her alone."
Fang Sheng touched her face: "You, alas!"
While he was struggling, Bai Ling really drove alone!
Zhao Yaoyao naturally thought Bai Ling was air, and Bai Ling naturally turned a blind eye to her. He got off the car and said:
"If we can't find him, our task force will be criticized. Maybe Team Leader Qiu will have to be punished, so this matter is very important!"
"What do foreigners have to do with you?" Fang Sheng didn't understand.
Bai Ling sighed deeply.
A week ago, the provincial department issued a notice to the task force, saying that a Canadian named Jem came to the Huanghai from the provincial capital alone. This person has a very complicated background. He went to school in the United States since he was a child. After graduation, he worked in a think tank center in Washington for a few years and went to the UK to study. He only returned to his hometown in Vancouver to find a freelance photographer position as a photojournalist. He is also a well-known environmentalist and is said to have secretly joined Greenpeace in a few years.
The purpose of Jem's visit to the Yellow Sea was to hear that the province had established a project to develop a coastal tourist belt. He was worried that natural resources would be destroyed and wanted to conduct on-site inspections to obtain first-hand information.
Due to his complex background and the fact that there is a national defense highway near the embankment forest, the Provincial Department suspected that he had other intentions. The head of the task force happened to be stationed in Huanghai. Considering that the department was short of staff, he sent a notice to entrust Team Leader Qiu to pay close attention to Jem's movements.
Team leader Qiu was careless. In his opinion, Jem would definitely take a day off after arriving in the Huanghai, collect some information in the county, and then go to the embankment forest. The task force recently watched the dragon guarding around the clock, and was so tired that it was impossible to pull out people.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Jem arrived at Huanghai, he immediately turned to Santan Town and entered the dense embankment forest that evening!
The task force could not find Jem's signal the next day, and he didn't care. He waited until the third day, but he knew that something was wrong! At this time, the Vancouver evening newspaper commissioned the office in Shuangjiang Province to issue a formal letter, requesting assistance to find someone. The provincial department was furious, and Team Leader Qiu was scolded!
To be serious, it is called dereliction of duty!
Jem was obviously not kind and tried to find trouble in the Huanghai, but if he disappeared or died in the embankment forest, the Public Security Bureau could not explain it clearly, and if he didn't do it well, it would lead to a diplomatic storm!
Therefore, the task force only left one on duty, and the other five came to find someone.
The bad luck is that today is Saturday, and the county cannot organize it immediately. It promised to ensure a search team of about 100 people tomorrow. Fang Sheng is quite powerful, and he gathered more than 30 people in half an hour.
"We just walked straight from here from north to south. On the west is the team led by Zhu Zhengyang, and on the east are several village cadres. The terrain is relatively familiar, but it is hard to say when entering the deep forest." Fang Sheng said.
Bai Ling nodded: "Let's go!"
The three of them walked in silently for more than ten minutes. A snake suddenly jumped out of the grass. Zhao Yaoyao screamed in fear. Bai Ling picked it up and threw it to more than ten meters away, and said dissatisfiedly:
"If you are timid, don't follow me, you have many burdens!"
Zhao Yaoyao bit his lips tightly and pulled Fang Sheng's corner of his clothes. Fang Sheng smiled and said:
“Seldom are girls who are not afraid of snakes…”
Bai Ling looked unkind and said, "As you mean, I am a tomboy?"
"No, no." Fang Sheng said quickly, but thought to himself, if you are not a tomboy, who else is qualified to be a tomboy?
There was no way to find the deep forest, with weeds, vines and low trees everywhere. Bai Ling was exploring the way in the front, trying to find a place to settle down. Fang Sheng slapped the ground with branches to prevent insects and snakes from attacking and injuring people from among the grass. Three hours went forward only four or five kilometers, Zhao Yaoyao was so tired that he was panting. Fang Sheng was a little better, Bai Ling was the most relaxed, and he also expanded the search range from time to time.
At noon, I found a place to rest in the dry shade. Fang Sheng didn't bring anything. Bai Ling was prepared. The big bag he carried was water and compressed dry food, as well as a compass, maps, flashlights, etc. Zhao Yaoyao was so tired that he couldn't eat it. After drinking a few sips of water, he leaned on Fang Sheng's shoulder with a delicate and weak posture. His posture was intimate and natural, which was a unique tacit understanding among lovers.
Bai Ling felt sad for a moment when she saw this and thought to herself that she had a scheming bitch. During this period, she finally succeeded in her ties! She dared to bury her arms in front of me, and I don’t know how much slutty it is in private! Have you already gone to bed? So shameless!
Then he thought: If he had this opportunity, would he take the initiative to attack? Or would Fang Sheng take the backhand if he was impolite, and pressed him down and couldn't move at all? It was quite interesting to let him accept himself in a situation where he could not refuse...
Bai Ling blushed when she thought about it, and felt that she was a little shameless.
Fang Sheng glanced at Bai Ling's face and looked unpredictable, a little strange, but he didn't think deeper, so he took out his mobile phone to contact the various groups. Most of them were resting for a short time and found no clues that proved the traces of Jem's activities. Another good news is that the county public security bureau temporarily dispatched forty police officers to come from the township urgently, and it is expected to be able to start the search around 3 pm.
Even if there is no chance today, it will be fine if the large army arrives tomorrow.
After resting for half an hour, he continued to move forward, and his pace was much faster than before. Zhao Yaoyao was only concerned about moving forward at the end, but was mixed by the vine. Fang Sheng quickly turned around and helped her, and at the same time, Bai Ling shouted:
"Don't move!"
Hearing the unusualness in his voice, Fang Sheng turned his head and saw Bai Ling maintaining a strange shape of walking forward, with one foot standing in front, the other foot half bent and kicking back, and his arms flying in the air, his whole body was stalemate, and his face showed an extremely nervous look.
"Snake?" Zhao Yaoyao guessed softly.
Fang Sheng nodded understandingly, quietly adjusted his body to form a relatively comfortable posture so that he could persist for a longer time. The snake's ears and eyes have deteriorated, and his hearing and vision are quite poor. He can only see objects that are very close. It mainly relies on the skin to sense extremely subtle vibrations from the ground or air to judge the existence of prey. Moreover, the snake parades very fast and can easily catch up with people who flee in panic. Therefore, it is better to silently encounter a poisonous snake than to move, and to respond to changes in the same way.
The only strange thing is that Bai Ling's skills are so afraid of a snake? He caught a snake like a rope in the morning, and he threw it out without looking at it.
He knew the answer in a few seconds!
An inverted triangle-shaped snake head slowly rose from her side until near her waist, with humans and snakes being less than half a meter apart. The gray-brown snake head was twice as big as her fist, and the bulging snake neck was thicker than her legs.
This is not an ordinary poisonous snake, but a giant python!
According to the size of the snake's head and body, this giant python is at least four or five meters long and weighs hundreds of kilograms.
Fang Sheng and Zhao Yaoyao have never seen pythons of this size in zoos, the Internet or books! It is said that when encountering giant pythons, large beasts such as lions and tigers in the jungle have to give in. It can easily strangle a leopard to death within ten minutes. The strongman in the animals, the blind bear, often succumb to its power and flee in the wind.
The air seemed to solidify, and the three of them didn't dare to come out. They watched the snake's head circling around Bai Ling's body. It seemed to be a little suspicious of the target in front of them and refused to give up easily.
Time passed by little by little, and it seemed to be more powerful. Pan Heng was always around Bai Ling, which would test her patience and willpower.
Bai Ling had been cruel and rigorously trained, and even though she had been in stalemate for so long, her forehead began to sweat. The beads of sweat slid along her cheeks to her chin, and then dripped to the ground, one drop, two drops, three drops...
Once every drop, the snake's head would shake violently for a while, buried in search of the target. Obviously, it was becoming more and more interested in Bai Ling and was ready to move.
But at this time, Zhao Yaoyao on the ground behind him made a heavy breathing sound, accompanied by a slight movement.
Fang Sheng looked back and was so shocked by the situation in front of him that he almost screamed: a gray-brown snake nearly one meter long was slowly swimming towards Zhao Yaoyao. When she fell down, she leaned against the tree roots. At this time, she had no choice but to look at it approaching in horror and despair.
There is really a surround in front and a pursuer in the back!
The giant python sensitively noticed the movement here, stopped teasing Bai Ling, and stood still and listened.
The big snake went around Zhao Yaoyao's feet, crawled between her legs, and headed straight for her buttocks. Zhao Yaoyao was obviously patient and suddenly bounced up like a spring, running towards Fang Sheng desperately. However, the speed of running on the flat ground was not as fast as that of the snake? The big snake also bounced up in a "clang" and pounced towards Zhao Yaoyao in a straight line!
At the same time, Bai Ling raised his hand, a white light flashed, and the dagger cut off the snake's head in the air!
It was so dangerous. If Bai Ling hadn't taken the decisive action, Zhao Yaoyao would have died under the kiss of a snake.
Chapter completed!