"Dear viewers and friends, welcome to the wilderness survival couple - Beast Paradise, this is our third day in Africa, and we have officially entered the Okavango River Delta......"

The next day, the energetic two packed their bags, ate some roast snake meat, and prepared to set off again.

Yesterday's bulging-bellied viper had a lot of meat, and the two of them deliberately restrained themselves, only eating one-third of their dinner, and one-third of today's breakfast, and the remaining two were going to keep it first.

Anyway, after the snake meat is roasted, it is smoked on the fire for a whole night, and even in the hot Africa, smoked meat is a food that can be stored for a long time and is not easy to spoil.

The elephant poop is very resistant to smoking, and only two were used in one night, and there were two left, Liu Danqing used one of the drier ones to make a fire fold again.

After all, it's the rainy season, and no one knows how long the sunny days will last, maybe in an hour or two, a dark cloud will drift in, and the grassland will usher in a torrential rain.

And now, they are faced with the question of how to cross the river.

Yesterday they had already discovered that there was a Nile crocodile in the river, and it must be very dangerous to venture into the water, and the two of them would not do it unless they had to.

Standing by the river, Liu Danqing looked around, and finally, his eyes lit up and he said, "Weiwei, I thought of a way to cross the river." ”

Xiao Weiwei immediately asked, "What way?"

Liu Danqing pointed to the riverbank hundreds of meters away and said, "See, there is a tree over there, which happens to grow by the river, let's go there to cross the river." ”

With Xiao Weiwei, who was confused, walked to the side of the tree, Liu Danqing pulled out the mountain opening knife.

"I'm going to cut down this tree now and put it on the river, it's about twelve or thirteen meters tall enough for us to make a small bridge. ”

"The key now is that the tree must be tilted in a directional direction, otherwise, the two of us will no longer be able to adjust the position of the fallen tree, after all, it is simply too heavy. ”

Walking to the tree with a knife, Liu Danqing cut it down on the side of the tree with his back to the river.

"I'm going to cut a groove out of this position now, not too deep, this is to make sure that the direction of the tree is broken, okay, almost. ”

"Next, I'm going to start cutting on the side of the river, this time going inside until the trees start creaking. ”

When the creaking sound sounded, Liu Danqing hurriedly walked around behind the tree and began to push the tree hard against the river.

When Xiao Weiwei saw it, she also temporarily put down the spear in her hand and came over to help push it together.

"One, two, three!"

With Liu Danqing's call, the big tree began to fall towards the river, and finally in a "click", the tree body was completely broken.

One end of the big tree is next to Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei, and the other end is on the other side of the river.

Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei pushed the tree hard, not moving.

"Because there are a lot of branches on the opposite side, the big tree is firmly anchored, which is obviously good news, and we don't have to worry about the trunk rolling when we cross the river, causing us to fall into the water. ”

"Next, we're going to walk across this single-plank bridge like an acrobat walking a tightrope, and hey, it's apt, it's made of a tree, isn't it a single-plank bridge? ”

Liu Danqing said, knocked the spear horizontally, held the middle with both hands, and said to Xiao Weiwei: "Weiwei, watch my movements, use the spear to maintain balance, quickly cross the small bridge, I'll go first, give you a sample." ”

After speaking, Liu Danqing walked briskly towards the opposite side, six or seven meters of the river, in the case of a bridge, it was just a matter of ten or twenty steps.

Arriving at the opposite side, Liu Danqing turned around and just wanted to speak to Xiao Weiwei, but saw that Xiao Weiwei had already walked behind him with a spear.

Well, sometimes his girlfriend is too powerful, which also makes Liu Danqing very depressed, and he has no chance to show his male charm.

"This is the first river we spent in the Okavango Delta, where there are countless small rivers along which the rainwater pours down during the rainy season to form the real Okavango River. ”

Liu Danqing tied the auxiliary water tank to the tail of the spear again, stretched it into the river and began to draw water, and explained: "Although the water resources here are relatively abundant, we still have to bring such a box of water, although it weighs nearly ten catties, but it is worth it." ”

"Carrying fire and water with them is standard for many African tribes when they migrate, so that they can have basic survival guarantees in the event of an accident. ”

"We continued to set out towards the west, and the way to determine the direction was relatively simple and crude, which was to set a reference in the opposite direction of the sun in the morning, and then we headed towards it. ”

"If we arrive at the reference object relatively early, we can look for a reference object again according to the starting point and the extension direction of the reference object, and this method can ensure that our direction of progress is basically west. ”

"If it rains, then we won't be able to move forward, and as for the cloudy day, we will show everyone when we encounter it, after all, there are not many cloudy days on the grassland. ”

Xiao Weiwei seemed to be very fond of complaining for a while, and interjected: "Qingqing, you will be in the delta and the grassland for a while, I am so confused!"

Liu Danqing smiled and said: "Blame me, blame me, I didn't make it clear, the Okavango River Delta is part of this African grassland and desert, so it is difficult to define it clearly." ”

"I'll go up a tree to see if there's any reference to the west, and then I'll go that way. ”

After speaking, Liu Danqing unloaded the things on his body, climbed a tree of about ten meters, stood on the branch, and looked in the direction with his back to the sun.

"There's a little savanna on the higher ground, and there's a few tall flat-topped acacia trees on the grassland, so let's use that as a reference. ”

Returning to the tree and carrying the belongings on his back, Liu Danqing introduced as he walked forward: "The Okavango River Delta is also called the Okavango River Marsh, if you look at the satellite map, you will find that there are yellow and green here, the yellow is the savanna, and the dark green is the grass under our feet." It's just the rainy season, but the heavy rain hasn't come yet, so we're still grass under our feet, and after two or three months, we'll have a patch of land under our feet. ”

"Hehe, yesterday I met the first brother and the second brother in Africa, and today I met another brother in Africa. ”

Liu Danqing stopped and pointed to the place seventy or eighty meters away in front of him on the left and said.

"What brother?" Xiao Weiwei, who was blocked by Liu Danqing, stepped forward and looked in the direction of Liu Danqing's finger.

"The African flathead, known for his tunics, flat head, dyed gray hair, short-tempered and bold, is a legend in the African savannah. ”

"In society, my badger brother, people don't talk much!"

"Life and death are downplayed, if you don't accept it, you will do it!"

Xiao Weiwei was enlightened when she heard this, and said, "Is that a honey badger, a flat-headed honey badger." ”

"That's right" Liu Danqing nodded and said, "That's the honey badger who punched the Nanshan lion, kicked the northern slope hyena, and took the black mamba as a snack." ”

With the close-up of the mistress, the honey badger appears on the screen.

I saw that its fur was loose and very rough, and its body size was comparable to that of the dog badger that Liu Danqing captured last time, its body was thick, its head was broad, its eyes were small, its ears could not be seen, and it had a blunt nose.

On the opposite side of it, there is a black mamba that looks like it is about two meters long and nearly three meters long, coiled up in a snake formation, with its head erected, and a flying saucer-shaped circle rising out of its neck, which is the most typical black mamba defense formation.

However, this snake formation did not have any deterrent effect on the flat-headed brother, and he stared at the black mamba for a while, and the hair on his body stood up more and more straight, as if it was continuing to be angry.

After less than three minutes of stalemate, the honey badger lunged at the cobra, and as it pounced, it stretched out a right grasp and swung it towards the cobra's outstretched neck.

As the black mamba bit the honey badger's neck, the honey badger also wanted to shake desperately on the black mamba's neck.

It seemed that the scene of losing both sides turned into a feast for the honey badger in less than a minute, as if the black mamba had just bitten the honey badger at all.

Liu Danqing looked at the flat-headed brother who lowered his head and gnawed fiercely, and exclaimed: "This flat-headed brother is really a cow, in addition to his high defense, he also has his own passive skill of toxin immunity, the toxicity of the black mamba can kill 20 adults, but for the flat-headed brother, it is basically equivalent to a shot of amino acids." ”

"Let's go, let's go around this guy and move on, alarming this guy, that's a guy who doesn't die, this guy is two and two, and the lions, leopards, and hyenas don't want to mess with it. ”

Xiao Weiwei was puzzled: "If you don't die, you won't die, at most, we will kill and eat meat, we are still afraid of this little guy." ”

Liu Danqing said with a smile: "It's not that I'm afraid of him, compared to the lion hyena, it basically doesn't pose a threat to us, but as a foodie, we have to pay high respect to the originator of the food festival." ”

"Is it the originator of the foodie world?" asked Xiao Weiwei suspiciously.

"Yes, do you know why it is called a honey badger?" Liu Danqing asked rhetorically.

"Does it love honey?"

Liu Danqing nodded and said: "It doesn't love honey, but it loves honey very much, there are many animals that love honey, but it is the one who eats honey with its life." ”

"They are called honey badgers because people often find their corpses near the hive, and even inside the hive, even if they are about to die, they are still eating honey, which can be seen from the posture of their corpses. ”

"In order to eat honey, they have also formed a very interesting partnership with the black-throated honey eagle. As soon as it sees a honey badger, it will keep chirping to attract the honey badger's attention, and the honey badger will follow the sound of the honey badger, and at the same time make a series of echo sounds. The honey badger uses its strong and powerful claws to open the honeycomb and eat the bee larvae and pupa, while the honeycomb can also share a delicious meal, because the honeycomb itself cannot break the honeycomb. ”

(End of chapter)