When the boat was built, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and the two of them quickly ate the smoked python meat baked by the fire, brought a bamboo tube filled with boiling water, the remaining smoked snake meat, and an aluminum pot, and prepared to set off.

The sticks on both sides of the wooden sticks were removed, and the two of them pushed the wooden boat together.

Under the wooden boat is a row of round tree trunks, two people push the wooden boat, the trunk will follow the rolling, this is the most basic pulley device, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Huaguo has a record of using this method.

Wisdom made it possible for the two to push the heavy wooden boat into the water without having to exert a lot of effort.

With a "boom", with a large splash of water, the wooden boat entered the water smoothly.

There are no flowers, no ribbons, only Liu Danqing, Xiao Weiwei and the cheers of the audience.

Not for anything else, just for this wooden ship that withstood the test of the first step and did not fall apart.

This means that the ship is successful, successful, and always exhilarating.

But after cheering, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei immediately went to Sparta.

Because of the inertia, the wooden boat plunged headlong into the dirt, stirring up a large area of turbidity, but this did not stop the trend of the boat, as the bow was upturned, the wooden boat drifted forward, and soon drifted several meters.

"Embarrassed, Weiwei, why didn't we think of this stubble, now, we have to enter the water, you wait on the shore, I'll pull it back." ”

As he spoke, Liu Danqing jumped into the water with a spear, walked to the side of the boat and climbed up, and then used the inverted spear as a penny to prop the boat back to the shore, and used the spear to prop it up on the bottom of the water to fix the boat.

"Weiwei, grab my hand and come up. ”

Liu Danqing held the spear in one hand, stretched out his other hand, and took Xiao Weiwei to the boat.

In vain, they found a very thick cypress tree, and now even if there were two people standing on the boat, it did not sink too much, and the rungs on it were still exposed on the water.

Liu Danqing stood at the bow of the boat and propped his spear on the bottom of the water, which not only provided power for the boat, but also controlled the direction well.

Xiao Weiwei sat on the rungs at the stern of the boat, spear in hand, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, especially behind them, to prevent an eyeless crocodile from coming to find fault.

In the water, the speed of the boat was much faster than the speed at which they walked, and the speed of the boat became faster and faster as Liu Danqing became more and more proficient.

Sitting on the boat, watching the boat flexibly pass through this cypress swamp water under Liu Danqing's skillful control, Xiao Weiwei sang easily.

However, the good times did not last long, and with the undulation of the terrain, the boat traveled to a relatively high bottom water.

Originally, this terrain was their favorite, because the water was shallow, and they would have a lot easier walking.

Now, the bottom of their boat was about exactly the diameter of the thick log in the middle, which was about fifty or sixty centimeters.

This kind of water depth can reach their knees, compared to thigh-deep or even waist-deep water, it will be much less effort to walk, and the speed will be much faster.

But now, the two of them are not happy, because the bottom of the boat hit something, and the whole boat body shook, if it wasn't for Liu Danqing's quick reaction, he used a spear to support him in front, and he would have been thrown into the water in front of the boat.

Xiao Weiwei, who was sitting in the back, was also a forward pounce, and if she didn't hold it up quickly with her hands, she would have staged a good show of face brakes.

If that's the case, she's going to break her appearance.

Stabilizing his body, Liu Danqing tried it in the water with the tail of the spear, and said: "It's really unlucky, it's a stump, we just hit it, it's okay, let's move on." ”

As soon as he finished saying that it was fine, in a few minutes, something happened, the terrain became higher and higher, and before he could row far, the bottom of the boat was on top of the bottom of the river.

"Weiwei, I'll go down and push it first, and then talk about it after this section of water, I guess this is also a small island, you sit on it and stare around. ”

As he spoke, Liu Danqing jumped into the water, held the rung on the boat with his hand and continued to move forward.

The boat lacked Liu Danqing's weight of more than 100 catties, and it immediately floated up a section and could continue to pass, and soon, the water became deeper again, and Liu Danqing could return to the boat.

It seems that Xiao Weiwei's character is good, and God didn't let her go into the water.

It took them only about an hour to reach the location of the creek, which they had expected to walk for half a day.

When they arrived at the river, the two immediately found that there were a lot more crocodiles.

Along the way, it is common to see alligators floating on the water, like rotten wood, where the water is deeper, and there are more fish, birds and other aquatic animals in size, which means more food for crocodiles.

Holding the boat to the middle of the river, Liu Danqing pointed to a crocodile not far away and said: "Look, there is a big crocodile there, even if it is smaller than what we hunted, it is not much smaller. ”

"If we swim across the river from here, it will be very dangerous, and the big crocodile will probably come and hunt us. ”

"When we swim, we lift our heads out of the water and paddle on all fours, similar to a creature turtle on a crocodile diet, and we are many times more likely to be attacked by a crocodile. ”

"Crocodiles, like many carnivores, will be very cautious about unknown creatures, especially those with relatively large sizes, and will not attack at will, just like the tiger in the idiom Qian donkey's poor skills, after it found the donkey, it did not dare to attack at first, and tried many times to determine that the donkey was not dangerous, and then hunted it. But once they spot a creature on their diet, they attack mercilessly. ”

"If we want to swim across the river, we have to dive quickly, so that the crocodile will think that we are unknown creatures, hesitate, and if we swim with our heads out of the water, it will be two big turtles in the crocodile's opinion, and they are the ones they love to attack. ”

Crossing the river without any danger, the two supported the boat all the way to the south, during which Liu Danqing also climbed a big tree, observed it, and found that their south was a dark green tree line.

"Weiwei, let's hurry up, there seems to be a large pine forest not far away, there should be land, we try to camp on land. ”

"It's not far from land? Xiao Weiwei heard the land, and her spirit was also full, although the crocodile tail was delicious, but the threat of the crocodile was not good.

The two rowed until the boat ran aground and could no longer move forward, then they got off the boat and waded forward.

As for this small ship, it can be regarded as having fulfilled its historical mission and was ruthlessly abandoned by them.

This is also the reason why they did not think about making a boat in the first place, in shallow water, it is impossible to move this ship with the strength of the two of them.

In other words, they want to make a boat on land, and when they are done, they don't have the ability to move to the depths of the water.

After walking in the water for more than half an hour, as the water level got lower and lower, the land finally appeared in front of them.

"Great, finally out of this damn blackwater swamp!"

Xiao Weiwei rushed to the land and jumped up happily, black mud splashed inside her shoes as she jumped.

For the past two days, she was really fed up with stepping her feet into the mud and pulling out this disgusting mechanical movement.

Thinking about this thing makes her want to vomit.

Anyway, she's also a little girl who loves cleanliness.

Liu Danqing followed ashore, stepped on the land hard, and sighed: "It's good to be down-to-earth." ”