The Blue Mountains are still very beautiful at night, four big men sit in a circle around the bonfire, listen to Tex play harmonica music, Lao Xue and Howling Sky Dog lie quietly on the side to roast the fire.

The jungle fell silent for a short time, and the nocturnal animals began to come out and move. The lynx was originally a night killer and was trained by Emperor Wu to have a biological clock.

Facing the jungle in the dark night, Lao Xue was a little restless, and Emperor Wu understood its thoughts and went to the jungle by it.

The lynx may not be a number in the North American jungle, but it is definitely a top predator in Australia, and there are no animals that can match it.

This guy must have gone up to the tree to dig out the bird's nest, and the variety of birds that rest at sunset is the first choice for the lynx to hunt at night.

The James' Canyon Forest was right in front of you, and it was pitch black from the high ground, with the occasional flash of light, which was supposed to be the eyes of a nocturnal animal.

The four of them will not all go to sleep, and one person will take a shift, changing shifts every hour and a half, just in time for dawn.

There is only one road to the highlands, and there is no problem guarding the entrance.

The first shift is Patricia, the first shift is the most comfortable, you can sleep peacefully after the duty, and the nocturnal animals will basically forage for food in the first half of the night.

There is no moon tonight, just a starry sky.

Emperor Wu was lying in his tent looking at the stars, and the high ground where they were located was definitely a treasure of feng shui, overlooking both the canyon jungle and the night sky.

He patiently searched for the Big Dipper, but unfortunately he didn't find it, and after looking for a long time, he remembered that it was in the Southern Hemisphere, and he could only see the Southern Cross.

Sailors in the north rely on the Big Dipper and the North Star to determine the direction of due north, while when they run to the southern hemisphere, they need to rely on the constellation of the Southern Cross to determine the direction of due south.

Having lived in the northern hemisphere for more than 20 years, it is still a little difficult to navigate this corner.

The constellation of the Southern Cross consists of four stars, whose names are very arbitrary, namely Cross One, Cross Two, Cross Three, and Cross Four.

Because the countries with developed astronomy in ancient times were all in the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, and the Southern Cross constellation could not be seen, it was not observed and recorded, so it was naturally not named.

Later, it was found that the southern hemisphere "" has formed a conventional naming method, that is, the name of the constellation is added to the Greek letters α, β, and γ, which has no aesthetic sense at all.

Emperor Wu tried to find a few constellations in the sky, but found nothing, and he admired the ancient astronomers of the East and the West, who could imagine those scattered stars as various animals and the like.

The quiet evening is easy to recall, he thinks of the college days, the girl who chased from high school to college without results, and next January, she will get married.

From time to time, there will be howls in the mountains and forests, as if there are animals fighting in the jungle, or they may have encountered the night killer Lao Xue.

The two brothers, Brady and Turks, reminisced in the tent about their childhood. The two tents were head to head, and Brady finally got down for a moment as he talked about his time before Bendigo.

Brady was a freewheeling backpacker before he became a gold digger, following a few friends across half of Western Australia in a beat-up minibus.

Starting from Perth on the west coast to the northernmost port of Darwin, it slanted through the sandy desert of Western Australia, and did not encounter anyone except to refuel.

Brady said that it was the first time he had seen the desert, full of sand ridges and dunes, which could reach tens of kilometers and twenty or thirty meters high.

Their broken buses could not have done this difficult task, and they had ridden camels and hiked them.

Although desolate, the Great Sand Desert is a cornucopia, with tens of billions of tons of coal and various metal mines buried in the middle.

Emperor Wu thought that Brady's team was going to collect gold.

When no one spoke, the group fell asleep, and Patricia, who was on the first shift, leaned against the campfire with a bow and crossbow in hand, with a rifle and a musket beside him.

Tonight will be Christmas Eve, they quickly snored, and they consumed too much energy during the day, especially Emperor Wu, who wanted to replenish his aura well.

I don't know how long later, a dog barked and pierced the night sky.

Emperor Wu thought that the Xiaotian dog was hungry, so he got up in a daze and found that Xiaotian was outside the tent, its body slightly bowed, ready for battle.

Emperor Wu frowned, quickly shook Patricia next to him, took the musket and walked out of the tent.

Turks also came out, clutching the rifle in his hand.

It was Brady, and he looked nervously at the entrance to the heights by the campfire.

"What happened?" Emperor Wu asked in a low voice, Xiao Tian following behind him, roaring from time to time.

"Wild dog packs. Brady said, "I've met it in Leonora. ”

A row of dark shadows flashed in the bushes outside the heights, and Emperor Wu turned on the flashlight to shine over, and there were at least ten grinning guys.

Although the dingoes are a subspecies of gray wolves, their eyes do not glow at night like wolves, but packs of wild dogs are no less aggressive than wolves.

"Fake! How did these guys get there!" Brady held his musket and stared nervously at the bushes.

The pack of wild dogs did not seem to be in a hurry to attack, but only howled on the periphery, with a sound between that of a dog and a wolf, and was still intimidating in the dark.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, they should set up a defensive position centered on the campfire as soon as possible.

"Xiaopa, you go to the tree!" Emperor Wu pointed to the big eucalyptus tree not far away.

Patricia is emaciated, and if he fights, he is afraid that he will suffer, so let him take a sniper and use it as a battery in a tree, and it is best to find an opportunity to take out the wild dogs who take the lead.

There is a strict hierarchy in their colony, with only one pair of dingoes in each pack capable of breeding offspring, and the other dingoes help the leader to raise their young.

Xiaopa took a sniper rifle and ran to the tree behind him, and a wild dog showed his head and wanted to chase after him, but was shot by Emperor Wu and collapsed.

The muffled explosion of the musket made the pack restless, and there seemed to be a division within them.

The remaining three people spread out in an umbrella shape against the campfire, five meters apart. Wolves are afraid of fire, wild dogs don't know, they can only hope that this group of Australian overlords has the same weakness.

The wild dog pack has always measured the strength of friend and foe, they are smart and will not make unnecessary sacrifices, the one that was destroyed just now is the best example, which makes the wild dog leader a little jealous, but this does not mean that he will back down, but wait for more companions to join.

The more time passed, the less safe it was for Emperor Wu, because no one knew how many wild dogs would come over for the bonfire party tonight.

Patricia, who formed a formation in the eucalyptus tree, struggled to find the one that looked like the leader.

The wolf will stand in front of the pack and charge at the front, but the leader of the wild dogs is cunning, he is inconspicuous and blends in the ranks to command the pack through his voice.

Patricia did not dare to fire this shot, and the bullet rushed at the wild dog, which meant that the two sides were fighting.

Wild dogs have ruled the Australian continent for hundreds of years, and they have absolute confidence that they will attack any enemy rather than flee, and they will never retreat if they go to war.

Emperor Wu preferred the other side to retreat before the war, and the two sides had been at a stalemate.

The dino leader wants to exchange it for delicious food for the least cost.