Chapter Twenty-One: Ah, There Are Snakes, Can You Eat It?
Because they ate a lot of carbohydrates and proteins, and sealed the door with a fire, they were safe, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei slept very comfortably that night.
When they woke up the next day, the two were full of energy and high morale.
The weather seemed to be playing a role, and although the sun was not visible, the sky was no longer dark, as if to announce that the sudden heavy rain was finally coming to an end.
Roasted a few mangoes for breakfast, and boiled two jars of water to dry, Liu Danqing looked at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, and he took out the drone Xiaosan to start, officially starting the live broadcast of the new day.
"Good morning, audience friends, this is the live broadcast room of Weiwei and Danqing, and now the live broadcast for you is the Eighteen Villages-Wilderness Survival Couple File, I am Danqing. ”
"Good morning everyone, I'm Weiwei. ”
Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei acted as evening news hosts, and directly gave thousands of viewers who were waiting for the start of the broadcast a morning joke package.
"Qing Ye and Weiwei are like a news broadcast, I thought I was in the wrong live broadcast room. ”
"This live broadcast is finally a little high-grade, and it uses a news tone, and there is nothing wrong with it. ”
"As a graduate of the broadcasting major, it must be pointed out that Qing Ye and Weiwei's expressions are not in place, and the tone is not calm enough. ”
Liu Danqing poured the warm boiled water in the bamboo tube into the kettle, and talked about today's itinerary.
"Today is a good day, it's a cloudy day (OK?), and we plan to start preparing to leave the 18th village. ”
"Today we will go down to the bamboo forest near the valley, cut down some bamboo to make a bamboo raft, and when the water slows down, we will cross the waterway and leave here. The valley stream leads to Qinglong Town, and as long as we get there, we will return to human society. ”
"Originally, I was going to wait for the rescue activities to be almost carried out, so I sent the location and called the helicopter for rescue, but our Weiwei comrades put forward a different plan and wanted to get out of the eighteen villages on their own. In the face of this bold and adventurous request put forward by Comrade Weiwei, I quickly changed my stance and firmly supported it. ”
Xiao Weiwei listened to Liu Danqing's energetic words, and also came over and said: "In fact, Danqing proposed to take the waterway, he thinks that it is too dangerous to walk out of the eighteen villages now, in order to support my idea, I thought of making a bamboo raft and going out through the waterway." Sitting on a bamboo raft and walking on the waterway, it's exciting to think about it, hehe. ”
After Xiao Weiwei finished speaking, Liu Danqing continued to explain.
"Now we have plenty of food, a little beef jerky, ten mangoes, eight sugars, I put them in two bamboo tubes, and then put them in my backpack. Now we're going to take them to the bamboo forest, which is enough for us to consume for a day. ”
"We also have to bring some dry firewood so that we can go to the bamboo forest to make a fire, so that we can process food and boil drinking water. ”
While talking, the two were ready, Liu Danqing was carrying his backpack, on which was a bundle of dry firewood, fixed with a rope, and his right hand was holding a weapon spear.
Xiao Weiwei was also fully armed, carrying a backpack and a sapper shovel, and the side pockets of the backpack were stuffed with their canned treasures.
The two men began to walk towards the top of the hill, and they were about to climb over the ridge and come to a bamboo grove not far from the meadow where they had camped.
They are familiar with this part of the road, some of them have walked once, and some of them have already walked twice because they want to collect wormwood.
But at this time, the feeling was completely different, the first time was in danger, and the heart was full of panic, and the second time was in a hurry to collect biological products, and the psychology was also in a hurry, but this time, the two of them were much more relaxed, not only because the weather was better, but also because the way home was in sight.
Walking to the ridge, Liu Danqing pointed to the surging river below and sighed: "Look, that is the stream next to our campsite, which has now become a raging and turbulent river, and our campsite is no longer visible. However, the water level of the mountain stream rises and falls quickly, and if it does not rain today, its water level will drop at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the speed of the water will also drop rapidly. ”
Continuing to walk towards the bamboo forest, along the way, Liu Danqing very much hoped to meet a snake at the level of a non-protected animal, but the sky did not follow people's wishes, and he didn't see a snake.
Passing by the familiar wormwood bush, Liu Danqing collected some wormwood and brought it with him.
"Now I still have to bring some wormwood, and after a while, I put them in the fire, the mosquitoes in the jungle are not like in the city, they will rest honestly during the day, they are very industrious, as long as there is food, they work 24 hours without complaint. ”
"You can see that the vegetation on the slopes near the valley is still the same, and the trees are basically growing upwards, which indicates that the continuous heavy rains have not caused much damage to this slope, which means that there is no risk of landslides. ”
"If you see a hillside with trees that are growing upwards, many of which are sloping towards the valley, you must not go any further, which means that the soil and rocks that the roots are holding on to have loosened, and after heavy rains, the rainwater stored in it will bring a lot of downward pull, and such a slope may have landslides or even mudslides at any time. ”
It took more than half an hour for the two of them to finally arrive at the bamboo forest, which was lush and green, and the heavy rain brought them plenty of water, making them even more verdant than before.
"Weiwei, you go around and look around, pick up some dead trees and branches, okay? Bring a spear and be careful of snakes. ”
Seeing that Xiao Weiwei nodded in agreement and began to search, Liu Danqing walked into the bamboo forest to take a look, chose a place, waved the sapper shovel and cut it up, and explained while chopping.
"This bamboo forest seems to have existed for a long time, not only is the area much larger than the previous bamboo forest, but the bamboo whips on the ground are also dense. ”
"Bamboo is actually a very domineering plant, and what it is best at is to cut down differences. In the bamboo forest, there are few other trees to be seen, which is also related to the way the bamboo reproduces. Bamboo reproduces in two ways, one is flowering and fruiting, which is uncommon, and the other is asexual reproduction, where bamboo shoots grow from bamboo whips in the ground every spring and then develop into new bamboo. A single bamboo can easily grow into a bamboo forest and crush the trees within the range of the whip to death. ”
"I'm going to cut a vacant lot out of the ground now and use it as our makeshift camp, and then I'll raise the fire so we can be stationed here all day. ”
"You should also be very careful in the bamboo forest, because the bamboo forest is one of the favorite habitats of snakes, snakes like to live in shady, damp, inaccessible, overgrown, wooded places, bamboo forests can be said to meet all the requirements of snakes. ”
As she was talking, she heard Xiao Weiwei scream: "Ah!
Liu Danqing hurriedly got up and rushed to Xiao Weiwei's side, and the audience also pinched a cold sweat for Xiao Weiwei. Unexpectedly, Xiao Weiwei's next sentence directly made everyone feel that their worldview had collapsed.
"Come on, Qingqing, what a fat and big snake, enough for us to eat, hurry up, hurry, hurry. ”
"Mengmeng didn't give Weiwei a helicopter - I didn't expect you to be such a Weiwei sister, and you will be my idol in the future. ”
"Sister is a fighter jet given to Weiwei by the trench door - the world of foodies, we don't understand!"
"Xiao Qi gave Weiwei a helicopter - Weiwei pure masters, iron-blooded real men!"
Liu Danqing hurriedly walked a few steps, came to Xiao Weiwei's side, followed Xiao Weiwei's fingers and looked over, only to see a big snake with black and green swimming slowly in the grass five or six meters away, looking at the size, it was much bigger than the five-step snake that Liu Danqing caught yesterday.
Xiao Weiwei pointed to the big snake and asked eagerly, "Qingqing, is this snake a protected animal?"