The further you went, the more scarce the trees became, and as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but potholed pools and small patches of low bushes. But there was a faint mist floating above the swamp, and although Su Fei knew that it was not poisonous, it blocked everyone's vision, and they could only see the surrounding area of a few hundred meters.

The originally simple muddy road under her feet has also become dangerous, and any seemingly small pond may become a bottomless trap, Xie Yufei once stepped on the solid ground with one foot, and the next foot directly stepped into the air and fell into the swamp, and the muddy water instantly did not pass her waist, but fortunately, Su Fei and Hu Mang pulled her ashore in time.

"Huhu-it's so dangerous......" Xie Yufei didn't care about sitting in the muddy water, and looked at the quagmire that almost swallowed him just now. This quagmire is inconspicuous, and it is only half a meter before and after, who knows that there is no bottom at all when you step down.

"This is the swamp, don't be careless. Su Fei told Xie Yufei, and he was also telling Hu Mang. He took out his satellite phone to locate it, and at this moment the place where they were had reached the edge of the "forbidden area for humans", and it was no wonder that the road had become more and more dangerous.

"Here, let's change our equipment. ”

After Su Fei finished speaking, he patted the Sky Refining Stone on his waist, and four pairs of special shoes immediately appeared in Su Fei's hand.

It's not appropriate to say it's a shoe, it's more like an auxiliary equipment. Their outermost circle is rounded with a rattan buckle the thickness of a thumb, similar in size and shape to a ping-pong racket, but two laps larger than a ping-pong racket, just a little longer than an adult's foot. In the middle, a bamboo strip and rattan back cover were used to make a circle with small tough bamboo pieces upward, just enough to tuck Su Fei's shoes into and fix them.

This is made by Shi Luo for the villagers according to the size of the feet of the three people, and it is a foot aid specially used for walking in the swamp. The principle is very simple, it is to increase the contact area between the feet and the ground, so that people do not fall into the swamp frequently. This is the wisdom of the inhabitants of the swamps.

Su Fei and Xie Yufei are fine, but it is very troublesome for Hu Mang to return to her original form here, because she is not only large, but also more than 400 kilograms, not to mention that she can't wear this foot cover, even if she can bring it, it's useless, because it's too heavy.

There was no way, Hu Mang had to pout his mouth and reluctantly change back into human form, because he couldn't control his weight when he became a tiger form, and he was at least a little girl of less than a hundred pounds, and she wouldn't fall into the swamp casually.

But the clothes and pants are fine, and the boots have long been filled with muddy water, which makes Hu Mang complain. Xie Yufei watched from the side and giggled.

After having this piece of equipment, everyone is much better, and the three of them are still like falling in the gloomy sea, using their true qi to evenly distribute their weight to every point under their feet, so that there is no sagging, and Su Fei has also increased a lot.

After about half a day's journey, Su Fei finally found out again.

"This is the packaging bag of the rationed dry rations for the march. Su Fei carefully squatted down and scooped up a white outer package from a pond, raised his head and glanced around, but although he could see through the fog by opening the Insight Divine Eye, there was still nothing in the distance, he frowned and said, "I don't know if this was left by Yuan Qinghua or that Yuan Jie." ”

Yuan Jie is the cronies sent by Yuan Pengfei to carry out the mission this time, and Li Meiyin overhears their conversation.

"It doesn't matter who he is, at least it means that we are not going in the wrong direction. Xie Yufei was holding Su Fei's satellite phone in his hand, with the location of Yuan Qinghua that Li Meiyin helped Su Fei find

The positioning information that had just been refreshed in the morning, Yuan Qinghua and the others should be about fifteen to twenty kilometers in front of Su Fei, and most of the gaps that had been pulled down before had been caught up by Su Fei.

Hu Mang looked around and muttered: "Is the one that Yuan Pengfei buried next to Yuan Qinghua still quite powerful, there are only a few shrubs here except for the quagmire and pond, and I don't know what kind of mark he used to guide Yuan Jie and them to follow." ”

"Indeed, even if there is anything left, I am afraid it will have been washed away by the heavy rain long ago. Xie Yufei looked up at the dome, there was only a thick dark cloud, and the light rain had not stopped, and it had been raining continuously for a day and a night.

"I feel that Yuan Jie must be following closely behind Yuan Qinghua, at least not far. Otherwise, they would have lost it. Comfortable and stood up and threw the bag back into the pond. Pointing in a certain direction: "I can see a big tree in that direction, and we will spend the night there tonight." ”

"Yes, there is a big tree at last! You can sleep on the tree!" Hu Mang danced excitedly.

Now even sleeping on a tree is a luxury, and since the tree can take root, it means that the ground below is quite solid, so you don't have to worry about stepping on something soft and falling in.

In the uninhabited swamp, as Shi Luo and the others said, Su Fei saw many sand with a considerable age along the way, and these samas grew together with other shrubs, and some of them were even connected into patches.

Seven or eight meters in front of Su Fei's left side, there was a small piece of saozi, these sao were at least ten or twenty years old, the crown of Suo Zi had grown old, and the white thorn needles were almost covered with a thick layer of snow white on the texture, like a sao was covered with a layer of hoarfrost.

Although according to the characteristics of the sano, there must be relatively solid soil underneath, but the toxicity of this kind of suozi from the previous year is not easy to grasp, even Su Fei doesn't want to provoke this kind of thing.

However, the sharp-eyed tiger reckless saw a small hole in the root system under the Suozi tree, and a black head was drilled out of it, which made Su Fei instantly remind him of a cute little creature that appeared in the information he lived.

Swamp mongoose.

Meerkats like to inhabit swamps, reeds, and estuaries near rivers. Solitary animals, territorial, and when in danger, they make high-frequency calls. They are highly skilled swimmers and are also a smart little guy.

If you don't have a concept of the swamp meerkat, you should know when it comes to animals of the same species as it: the African flathead.

The swamp meerkat is much more docile than the flat-headed brother and is not aggressive towards people, but the appearance of the swamp meerkat made Su Fei a little unhappy.

Because since there is a swamp mongoose here, there must be his natural predators here. And the natural predators of the swamp mongoose are all feared large swamp predators!

Wolves, leopards, crocodiles and even swamp pythons......

According to the classification of swamps, this should belong to peat bogs, so large mammals are relatively rare, and the rest can only be ......

Su Fei was about to bypass this small piece of water, when he suddenly noticed that a small waterhole about ten meters in front of him on the right was not quite right! A very shallow ripple came from the water to the photo album Guosan, as if something was slowly squirming forward from the bottom of the water.

Then Su Fei saw a piece of soft dirt in front of the waterhole lined up on both sides, and it was obvious that something was constantly swimming forward from under the silt. The direction of travel happened to be the home of the swamp mongoose.

"Retreat, retreat slowly. ”

Su Fei whispered, gesturing to Xie Yufei and Hu Mang at the same time, and the three of them retreated backwards at an even speed to distance themselves from this piece of saozi, and at the same time paid great attention to the movements under their feet to avoid causing sudden vibrations or sounds.

Su Fei still doesn't know what it is from the mud, but judging from his size, I'm afraid it's really not small.

The swamp meerkat still didn't know what was about to happen, and when it saw Su Fei and a few people retreating, it deliberately came out of its own cave and stood at the entrance of the cave to watch, its action was like a groundhog, and it seemed that it was still swearing to Su Fei its sovereignty over this territory.

"Squeak-"

The swamp mongoose screamed, but at the moment when it screamed, a blood basin suddenly opened up in the mud behind it and roared, and it bit at the swamp meerkat like lightning!

The swamp meerkat screamed as if there was some hesitation between burrowing back into the cave and escaping, although it dodged in time, it was still bitten on the right hind leg, only to hear two clicks and the right hind leg was broken, and then the whole piece of mud suddenly churned, and a swamp worm that was almost the thickness of an adult's thigh and an unknown body was drilled out of the silt, and its huge body immediately rolled towards the swamp meerkat .

The swamp mongoose screamed loudly, and even bravely tried to gnaw at the huge body of the swamp python with its sharp front teeth, but to no avail.

With the sound of cracking bones, the swamp meerkat has completely wrapped the swamp mongoose tightly, and the body bones of the swamp meerkat are also broken under the huge pressure, and the huge swamp snake began to enjoy the fruits of its victory, opening its blood plate and swallowing the swamp mongoose into its belly little by little.

Su Fei and the three of them witnessed everything from the side, judging from the size of this swamp python, it is estimated that it is at least seven or eight meters long, and this is still its swamp home, even if it is a master of the Minghe Realm, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be hated.

"Let's go, get out of here. ”

Su Fei didn't want to provoke this swamp python, and this swamp python had already noticed that there were inexplicable creatures around it when it came out of the water, but it also seemed to feel the strange aura emanating from Su Fei and the three of them, and it was also unwilling to approach Su Fei and them, so it just watched Su Fei leave.

Hu Mang had never seen such a large snake in the Falling Forest, and she gestured and found that the swamp python's grown mouth could almost swallow itself effortlessly.

"Woo woo, the swamp is terrible......" Tiger was pitiful.

Xie Yufei patted her forehead: "Don't be afraid, didn't you see it just now, it is also afraid of us, in fact, as long as you are careful, the large animals in the swamp will not threaten us." ”

"Hmm. Su Fei nodded.

There were dark clouds in the sky, and it felt like it was going to be dark at four o'clock in the afternoon, but fortunately, Su Fei and the others rushed to the big tree in time, this tree had no dense branches, and the whole tree was bare, only a layer of emerald green moss grew on the surface. The tree is long dead.

"We spent the night here today. Su Fei tried his best to chop the ground twice with his foot, and the ground was really quite strong, and there was no sign of other large animals inhabiting, so there should be no problem.

The three of them climbed the tree, Xie Yufei took out dry food from the Sky Refining Stone and distributed it to Hu Mang and Su Fei, and Su Fei took out his mobile phone to refresh the location and marked the location of the landing in his notebook. There was no formed map of this "human forbidden zone" at all, and Su Fei only found a very rough framework in the ancient books in the village, which was the accumulation of their ancestors in the Jiang Dynasty.

Now Su Fei is also following this rough map as he walks and identifies, fortunately, there are no mistakes in the several places marked on the map so far, this tree is one of the objects highlighted on the map, and it is also the first foothold that Jiang Chao and his village people most often choose after entering the "human forbidden zone" in the past.