Listening to the woman’s light breathing, knowing that the girl was asleep, Charles did not allow himself to fall asleep too much, and although the door was locked from the outside, creating the illusion that no one had been inside, it was still not to be taken lightly.
Throughout the night, one group after another arrived, and several times Carlos carefully positioned himself behind the door with his pistol raised, only to be surprised by the dangling lock that fooled …..
After sunrise, there must be a return….
Micaela had a dreamless night and was at her best when she slept at dawn, but she opened her eyes quickly when she felt Carlos’ gentle nudge….
-Shhh!
Carlos gestured her not to speak, alarm written in his deep eyes, and helped her sit up, pulling her jacket into her hand over the top.
Micaela’s heart clenched and she unconsciously cooperated in getting dressed when she heard voices outside.
-We’ve been searching all night, and it’s already dawn! Has that man vanished into the bamboo forest?
-It’s like we’ve searched this place three times!
-Gee, we’ve searched here three times and we haven’t even entered this hut to check it out, so you guys, could you…?
Micaela’s heart went pitter-patter and she looked uneasily at Carlos….
Carlos lowered his voice and said:
-Don’t be afraid, get dressed and let’s go out the window. Micaela nodded and fastened her buttons, Carlos quickly got up from the bed, took the shoes and socks ready and helped her to put them on, Micaela didn’t mind being shy or anything like that, the voices of the men talking were already approaching….
Carlos helped her put on her shoes, took his own jacket and shook it off, put it on, took his phone, his wallet, his gun from the table, put it in his pocket, guided the girl to the window and opened it carefully, the morning chill with the coolness of the bamboo forest hit him….
The sill was more than a meter high, Carlos grabbed her from behind by the waist and lifted her up, Micaela cooperated by immediately putting her feet out of the window….
By the door, a small group of six men, one of them a little smaller, were already picking the lock.
-Look, the door is locked, how can they enter, there are snakes in the bamboo forest, the dwellings of those other rangers are not even designed with windows, just in case snakes get in through the windows in the middle of the night, can that person enter by himself and lock the door from the outside? The man behind him suddenly thought of something, what if this house was designed with windows?
A wave of the hand.
-Guys, check out the back.
The other four went out in two directions, left and right of the house, which was so small that they were back in less than a minute.
-There’s no one there.
-Nothing suspicious was found. When the two men returned to report, they picked the lock on the door and the man gave a gentle push, revealing the cabin.
-See, there’s nobody there, those guys are afraid to disappear into the ground! In fact, the house is clear to the naked eye, even under the clean bed, there’s no way anyone could be hiding?
-Hey, no trace of that search on the carpet, that’s strange!
-Could it be that they left Bamboo Hill yesterday afternoon?
-Impossible, wasn’t K’s group attacked yesterday? They were all still on the mountain at that time, so even if they didn’t meet any of our men until nightfall, they wouldn’t have reached the bottom of the mountain. the chief was adamant that they must still be on the mountain, otherwise they wouldn’t have sent so many extra people to search the mountain!
The man who gave the order disregarded their argument, entered the house and immediately smelled a faint fragrance in the air, then touched the bed, which was still warm, and was startled to see that there was a very hidden window in the wall in front of him!
The man slapped him on the thigh!
-Get after them! They definitely ran out from behind this house!
Several men saw that there was actually a window in the wall, and it was clearly open, so they knew they had been trapped and immediately headed to the back of the house in pursuit….
Carlos and Micaela ran a little to the back of the house to avoid the people coming from the left and right to look for them, but immediately went back around the front of the house through the cover of that tea tree that surrounded them and, at that moment, they were hiding behind it, watching them come out….
-Carlos, you are amazing…
Once again, Micaela can’t help but praise Carlos for being so predictable….
Carlos made sure they were far away and turned his head to speak when he suddenly made an astonished face….
The girl was in front of him, and to his left was the so-called tea tree, at that moment, a small green snake, coiled around the branch next to her, the snake’s head was triangular, the eyes were extremely split, and in the center was a splash of red, as if it had a vermillion mole moment, spitting red letters, only a dozen centimeters from the girl’s snow white neck….
Carlos has a shrunken heart, he’s a very venomous snake….
-Ca…
-Don’t move!
Seeing Carlos so nervous made Micaela stop unconsciously…
-How…
She hadn’t even finished the sentence when she saw Carlos reach out his hand to her left with a quick movement and then throw it with such force that it rattled the small tree next to her with a metallic noise, followed by a muffled grunt from Carlos….
Completely unaware of what was happening, she only felt a palm breeze in her ears and unconsciously looked in the direction of her raised hand to find a green snake thrown over a wilted bamboo leaf, writhing its slender, soft green body and quickly disappearing under the tea tree….
Snake…
Still so brightly colored snake….
Micaela’s heart raced and in her mind echoed what she had just heard the men in the hut say, that there were snakes in the bamboo forest, and with the choked growl that Carlos had just given, she hurriedly looked at Carlos and saw two bloody teeth marks on his right wrist, and he was trying to squeeze out the blood with his left hand….
Micaela panicked and reached out to help squeeze, her heart instantly swelling with fear.
-Carlos, is that snake poisonous or not?
-It’s okay, don’t be scared, take the tie out of my pocket….
Carlos spoke calmly and Micaela tried to force herself to remain calm as she watched him slip the tie into his pants pocket yesterday and immediately reached out and pulled it off, shaking his hand and pulling the sleeve up before tying it tightly around his arm a dozen centimeters from his wrist, tying it in a knot to prevent the blood from reaching his brain….
Tears fell, Carlos was bitten by the snake to save her, if he had not reached out in time the snake would have bitten his neck….
Thinking about that excursion, Ernesto helped Alba to suck the poisoned blood from her leg and she was about to follow his example when Carlos raised his hand to dodge her.
-No, Micaela no, don’t cry, it’s okay, come on, let’s get out of here right now…..
He stood up and took her right hand with his left, looking at the unharmed girl, glad that she had not been bitten by a snake; a bite in the neck would have made the toxins flow faster to the brain….
Micaela is full of anxiety and anguish, how can she not be worried, the snake must be poisonous, Carlos says she is fine, but he does not want her to worry….
What to do, what to do, how do they get out of this?
Carlos put his arm around the girl’s shoulders and reassured her in a deep voice:
-Dear, calm down, I went up to the roof before dawn and found the antenna that receives the net and contacted Nilson and told him exactly where we are, he….
Before he could finish his words, a male voice rang out abruptly:
-Carlos, are you sure you can live to wait for Nilson’s support?