Chen Xu looked at the crown of the big tree, adjusted the angle, and then continued to cut with the mountain opener. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The last knife went down, and the entire trunk was left with eighty-nine percent of the connection, and finally it was overwhelmed and broken.

In the next second, as Xu Ye said, this balsa wood really did not fall in the direction of the incision, but fell with the place where the crown was rich and there were many branches.

It smashed into the ground and made a "boom" sound.

Then, Chen Xu came to the canopy of balsa wood and cut off all the excess branches with a mountain opener.

Only then did the audience understand why Xu Ye chose to carry a mountain knife instead of a dagger.

Indeed, the chopping performance of this thing is much better than that of a dagger.

After cutting down all the branches, Chen Xu smiled, "Next, I will personally prove how light balsa wood is!"

With that, he packed his things, put on his backpack, and went to the middle of the balsa tree trunk.

It's not as big as balsa wood in the jungle, but it's at least twelve or three meters long and more than 70 centimeters wide.

Chen Xu held his hands in both hands and roared.

The next moment, an astonishing scene appeared, and the entire huge balsa tree trunk was directly lifted up from the middle by him!

"Hanging and hanging, is it really light, or is Xu Ye himself powerful?"

"Look at the way Xu Ye resists the trunk of the tree, it looks like the Monkey King pulling out the Poseidon Needle in "Journey to the West"!"

"Wu Xu: I want, what is the use of this iron rod?"

After being lifted to the open space on the shore, Chen Xu didn't even breathe:

"Don't be so surprised, don't say it's me, this balsa wood more than 10 meters long can be lifted even by a housewife!"

Then he began to use a knife to cut a little bark and tear it off one by one, like a snake's skin.

The balsa wood with its bark torn off is light yellowish and white, and it looks very beautiful.

Chen Xu used the mountain knife again, according to the distance of more than two meters in a section, estimated, and cut the entire balsa tree trunk into a total of five knots.

"Since we were going on a nearly four-day, 250-kilometre trip on the water, the raft had to be very strong. ”

"After all, the water system of Central America is not like other continents, there are piranhas, crocodiles, and the overlord of the water, the forest snake!"

"Once the raft suddenly disintegrated halfway through the raft and I stumbled into deep water, the result is easy to relate. ”

"Balsa wood has a very low density, light weight, large volume, and very good drainage, which means that I don't have to worry about it sinking after soaking in water for a long time, I just need to think about how to fix them!"

After explaining to the camera, Chen Xu returned to the jungle and began to look for these medium-height bushes.

Five minutes later, he came to a bush.

"When I used to make rafts, I used vines to fix them, but this time, I decided to add an ancient Chinese fixing method, riveting!"

"Riveting, as the name suggests, is to use rivets to drill holes to hold objects in place, and because balsa wood is very soft, I am going to make a crossbar out of this shrub, snap it into balsa wood, and then use it to cut out a few wooden nails and hold the crossbar in a criss-cross way. ”

"In this way, with the connection of the vines and the fixation of the rivet strips, the overall structure of the raft will be very strong!"

So, he used the mountain opener to look at a total of four or five branches of the thickest and hardest shrubs.

After taking them to the shore, Chen Xu cut off two of the leaves and uneven places, and stripped off the bark.

Then he arranged the five balsa logs side by side, and cut a coherent row of grooves with his knife near the end of the head and tail.

And these two grooves are just right to clip the stick into.

As for the remaining branches, they were cut into twenty short sticks by Chen Xu, and then one end was sharpened and made into wood rivets.

Then, as he had just said, he found a large stone by the river, and smashed the rivet into the balsa wood, crossing them in pairs, each of them, and just stuck the bars holding the balsa wood in place.

Finally, he found two finger-thick long vines, wrapped the crossbars of the raft at each end twice, and tied a dead knot.

Because the balsa wood was very light, Chen Xu directly grabbed the raft and dragged it, and shook it vigorously in the air.

As a result, there was no sound of activity.

"It seems that the fixation is not bad, there should be no problem!"

He threw his backpack and tinder directly at the stern of the boat, tied them with vines, and found a three-meter-long shrub branch from the jungle to use as a slurry to control the direction.

"Alright, now let's set sail!"

Chen Xu pushed the raft to the river's edge with a little excitement, walked up with light feet, and finally pushed the ground with water slurry, and with this reverse thrust, he still slowly moved towards the river.

Whoa!

After the raft was fully submerged in the river, it made a few splashes.

The yellow water of the river overflowed half the thickness of the raft and then stopped, and except for the occasional splash, the entire surface remained mostly dry.

"The boat of friendship is about to depart!"

"Master Xu: I once crossed the mountains and the sea, and also passed through the crowd of people, and finally they all sank!"

"Sit back and wait for Xu Ye to be flooded, I don't know what to do!"

"Don't curse Master Xu, if it really sinks, those ferocious piranhas in the water are not a joke!"

The whole raft was made, and it probably took Chen Xu more than an hour's time.

But judging by the current rafting speed, it is worth all the cost.

Although the speed of the current in this section of the river is not fast, Chen Xu conservatively estimates that it will still reach at least 123 kilometers per hour.

That's three or four times faster than walking in the jungle!

After a few moments, the river ahead suddenly forked.

"It's fast to walk by water, but it's easy to get lost before you know it, especially in the rainforests of the Americas, where rainfall is abundant, and there are many rivers that are intricate, like a maze, just like everyone sees this scene in front of you. ”

"So when we are paddling, we must pay more attention to the terrain on both sides of the river, as well as the sun in the sky, which can help us better distinguish the direction. ”

After explaining, Chen Xu looked at the sun in the sky, and then glanced at the shadow of one of the trees on the river bank, and then chose to cross it from the fork on the left.

By noon, the temperature was getting hotter and hotter.

Especially when he was still on the river, there was no shelter, directly exposed to the sun, and the whole back of his neck was roasted red.

This is already a precursor to sunburn.

Chen Xu wiped his sweat and grinned, "It's too hot, let's go to the rainforest to take shelter first, and then leave at two o'clock in the afternoon." ”