They came to the shore and were relieved at last.
Poppy Green who was exhausted and lay on the ground while panting.
Kenny silently examined large or small wounds on his hands, waist, and thigh.
Poppy Green looked around at the strange surroundings and asked him, "Do you know where this is?"
Kenny didn't even raise her eyebrows. "I don't know."
Poppy Green noticed that he was sitting there and very quiet all the time. She came close to him with the faint light and saw that his hand seemed to have some blood. She grabbed his hand and observed it carefully. Then she was surprised, "Why are you bleeding so much?"
She recalled the sharpness of the rocks and he had to use his hands to hold these rocks at every landing point. Her mood became complicated again.
"It doesn't matter!" Kenny said with ease and began to open his backpack and turn everything out one by one.
Poppy Green was a little surprised. This backpack had all kinds of tools for survival in the wild, such as ropes, Swiss Army knife, torch, liquid lighter, first aid medicine bottles, compressed biscuits and protein sticks, metal kettle, simple medicines and medical tools, garbage bags and so on
Fortunately, the backpack was a waterproof special bag, these things were intact.
Kenny was not in a hurry to deal with the wounds. He stood up and walked around. It was dark and he could only see a little shadow. There was heavy fog around, which might be caused by the heavy dew and water vapor near the water source.
His feet made a sound from time to time while stepping on the ground. He said, "We are in a tropical forest. Are you hurt?"
“Just a little bit of a cut on the foot, it's nothing." Poppy Green stood up neatly, walked up to him and asked, "Are we going to find a place to rest now?"
Kenny nodded. "I think it's just ahead. It seems that the terrain there is flat compared to this side, and it's close to the river."
"Well." Poppy Green took the initiative to pack everything into his backpack and was just about to carry it up, but Kenny took it over, "I'll do it."
"Don't look down on me!" She didn't grab it and strode ahead.
Kenny followed her while smiling.
Poppy Green found a lot of fallen leaves nearby and swept away some broken leaves. "You just sit here and have a rest. I'll find some firewood to make a fire."
She was quite experienced in living in the wild and knew what kind of wood to pick up to make a fire, which wood would be the easiest and most vigorous.
“Let me do it?"
"Kenny, Do you think I'm disabled or missing my arms and legs? Will you die if let me do something?"
"OK, you go." Kenny was too lazy to argue with her.
Poppy Green went to the side. Kenny who was sitting there was not idle and took out the kettle and compressed biscuits, then the medicine.
A quarter of an hour later, Poppy Green came back with a lot of firewood in her hand and told him, "You make a fire. I'll go there and pick up some more."
Kenny had made a fire when Poppy Green came back again. Their place was lighted up at last and they could finally see each other's faces.
Poppy Green sat next to Kenny who handed over the kettle. "Drink first."
She didn't pretend and took a big drink, and then she directly crossed her hand to help him disinfect wounds when she saw him start to deal with it.
"Let me do it!"
"I can handle it myself."
“Your arms and legs are cut so much, and your hands and feet are not flexible. Can't you let me who is a healthy person treat your wound?" Poppy Green was so annoying.
"I don't need your help because I'm not disabled or missing of arms and legs." Kenny was as stubborn as she was. He patted her hand and disinfected himself with one hand.
“Good-heartedness is not recompensed."
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