Chapter 240: Mosquitoes and Leeches

After a short rest, the two began to walk around the mountainside.

Walking on the mountainside is not much easier than going up, because it is difficult for the two of them to go in a straight line, and they have to follow the terrain up and down, winding up and down.

But they didn't have to go around half of the mountainside, and depending on the topography, they only had to walk about a quarter of the way up to the ridge.

So it's still cost-effective for the two of them to walk the mountainside.

As soon as he bypassed the horizontal protrusion, Liu Danqing couldn't help shouting "bitter".

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Xiao Weiwei hurried over when she heard this.

"Ah, it's so deep here, these two mountains aren't connected!" Xiao Weiwei looked ahead and muttered.

Liu Danqing pointed to the valley and introduced: "Look, the mountain we are in is separated from the ridge, and there is a deep valley below. ”

"To be honest, I really don't want to go down, but I have no choice but to go down into the valley, hoping that this is on the outskirts of the Savage Mountain area, and the situation is not so bad. ”

After a pause, he pointed to the prismatic ridge and said, "Our goal for today is basically impossible, but we must hurry as soon as possible and camp at a higher place at night. ”

"Finally" Liu Danqing paused again, and in everyone's expectation, he said:

"Weiwei, let's eat, and then hurry when we are full. ”

The comment section was suddenly filled with disdainful language and expressions.

After simply eating something and padding their stomachs, the two packed their bags and began to descend the mountain.

Before leaving, Liu Danqing looked at two small trees, cut off the bark, and made two trekking poles.

"As the saying goes: it's easy to go up the mountain, but it's hard to go down. Liu Danqing handed a trekking pole to Xiao Weiwei and explained: "Especially in the lower part of the hillside, where there is more water, so the vegetation is dense, and there are more creatures such as snakes and insects. ”

In the direction of the ridge, the two slowly walked down an oblique line.

Halfway through, Xiao Weiwei began to slap herself constantly, making a "pop" sound.

"Oh, there are so many mosquitoes here, it's still daylight, where are there so many mosquitoes. These mosquitoes are so powerful that they can bite people through clothes. ”

With the close-up given by Xiao San, it can be seen that Xiao Weiwei has many mosquito corpses hanging on her body, and these mosquitoes are huge in size, with black and white on their bodies, and they look very hideous.

Liu Danqing opened the road in front of him, looking around, looking for something.

Hearing Xiao Weiwei's words, he said: "This is the first pest in the Savage Mountain area, mosquitoes, these mosquitoes are nothing, because this place is located on the periphery of Savage Mountain, and there is some air circulation, so it will not generate miasma, if it is a mosquito in the miasma forest, it is called a poison." ”

"It's nothing, I've been bitten I don't know how much, Qingqing, didn't there be a mosquito biting you?"

"Yes, but I'm looking for eucalyptus trees right now, and I don't have time for mosquitoes. ”

"Eucalyptus?" Xiao Weiwei wondered, "What is the use of eucalyptus?"

"Mosquito repellent, eucalyptus can kill bacteria and repel mosquitoes, where there are eucalyptus trees, no mosquitoes will go. ”

As soon as Xiao Weiwei heard that eucalyptus trees can repel mosquitoes, she became interested, and hurriedly asked, "What does eucalyptus Zhang look like?" ”

Liu Danqing thought for a while and replied: "The eucalyptus tree grows, well, the trunk is white, long and straight, you just need to find this kind of trunk." ”

"White, long, and straight?" Xiao Weiwei immediately looked around when she heard this.

"Qingqing, there seem to be a few white tree trunks over there, but I can't see it clearly, you see. ”

Liu Danqing was stunned when he heard this, he searched all the way, but he didn't find it, could it be that Xiao Weiwei just found it?

Looking in the direction of Xiao Weiwei's finger, it was still a forest, lush, and there was no white trunk in sight.

However, Liu Danqing did not question Xiao Weiwei, but beckoned: "Xiao San fly to that place, let me see if there are eucalyptus trees." ”

This guy is starting to get lazy.

took out his mobile phone and looked at the video taken by Xiao San, and sure enough, hundreds of meters away, a large tree with several white trunks grew there.

Xiao Weiwei's eyesight is really strong, not only to see far, but the pixels are much higher than ordinary people.

Liu Danqing's eyesight, after the exercise of the carnivorous method, is already very good, but when he sees the location of the eucalyptus, it is already a blur, after all, in the jungle, the light is not good, and there are many obstacles.

But Xiao Weiwei can still see the white tree trunk, this physical talent, and the passive skill of practicing a carnivorous method can also show that the eyes are like electricity, which makes Liu Danqing unconvinced.

"Let's go!" Liu Danqing put the phone back in his pocket and took Xiao Weiwei in the direction of the eucalyptus tree.

Although the eucalyptus trees are still located above them, it is worth it to alleviate the dense attack of mosquitoes.

Walking to the side of the trees, Liu Danqing patted the white trunk and introduced: "This is eucalyptus, and it is also the most adaptable tree, there are more than 600 varieties in the world, from minus 22 degrees to 40 degrees, can grow." ”

"There are a lot of people who say that eucalyptus leaves are poisonous, so they can kill bacteria and insects, but in Australia, there is a silly creature called koalas, and their staple food is eucalyptus leaves. ”

Xiao Weiwei was also pleasantly surprised at this time: "The eucalyptus tree is really useful, alas, when you walk among the eucalyptus trees, there will be fewer mosquitoes, and there will be no more bites. ”

Liu Danqing nodded and replied: "Mosquitoes don't like the smell of eucalyptus, even if they are close to the human body, they lose their appetite, so they don't bite people, which is the same as lighting mosquito coils, the current mosquito coils are not fatal to mosquitoes, but there is no desire to bite." ”

"Now, I'm going to climb up the tree and watch some eucalyptus branches come down so that I can collect the leaves and make anti-mosquito clothing. ”

These eucalyptus trees are not small, the trunks of the trees cannot be hugged by one person, and the height is also twenty or thirty meters.

The most important thing is that the bark of eucalyptus trees secretes a layer of oil wax, and yes, the skin is smooth.

So Liu Danqing directly took off his hiking shoes, wore only socks to increase the contact surface and friction, and crawled towards the top of the tree.

The branches of eucalyptus trees are few and high, but now they grow in the jungle that competes for sunlight, so Liu Danqing has to climb more than four-fifths of the way to be able to cut the branches.

In line with the principle of more than less, Liu Danqing cut more than half of the branches of this large eucalyptus tree, and stacked a thick layer of eucalyptus branches and leaves under the tree.

Slowly sliding down the eucalyptus tree, Liu Danqing peeled the bark on a few eucalyptus branches, rubbed a few ropes, and then stuck the small branches with a dozen leaves in the gaps of the ropes, and then wrapped them around his body.

Each person had three around his body, one at the waist, one under the armpits, and one on the shoulders, and the last person made a straw hat with a fixed eucalyptus.

Two jungle primitives alive.

"Speechlessly, I hope that the sky will give Danqing and Weiwei a spaceship - you are dressed like this, absolutely amazing, leading the trend of the season. ”

"Xiaoshan Titica gave Danqing and Weiwei a spaceship - brothers and sisters, come and see the primitives!"

"Liqiang Oba gave Danqing and Weiwei a spaceship - wild people are infested, please pay attention!"

"The speechless lone wolf gave Danqing and Weiwei a spaceship - I only saw a sense of déjà vu between the king of the mountain and the lady of the village!"

Wearing the original version of the mosquito shelter suit, the two adjusted their direction from the new direction, and continued to move forward in the jungle towards the original goal.

The closer you get to the valley, the more lush the vegetation on the ground becomes, and there was originally a place to stay, but now you need to chop it with a mountain opener from time to time to move forward smoothly.

When he was about to reach the valley, Liu Danqing stopped again, pointed to a branch in front of him and said, "Look, the second dangerous creature in the Savage Mountain area has appeared. ”

Following Liu Danqing's fingers, everyone looked over and saw a gray-brown, yellow-green mollusk lying on a branch.

"This is a leech" Liu Danqing affirmed everyone's speculation and continued: "A leech climbing on a tree. I'm going to do an experiment and see how scary this thing is. ”

He walked to the bottom of the branch, only to see that the leech immediately fell from the branch, fell towards Liu Danqing, fell on his backpack, and then shrugged towards Liu Danqing's neck.

"I'll go, this leech is an airborne soldier!"

"This thing can't be guarded against!"

"It's so numb, just thinking about it falling from the sky gives me goosebumps. ”

Liu Danqing asked Xiao Weiwei to use a branch to get the leech to the ground, and then said: "Don't think that this is enough, its horror is far more than that, I'll do another experiment." ”

Liu Danqing squatted down, then put his hand on top of the leech and waved it left and right.

I saw that the leech immediately raised its upper body, and the mouthparts with the suction cup moved with the movement of Liu Danqing's big hand, and the pointed mouthparts kept pointing at Liu Danqing's hand.

"These leeches are very sensitive to detect the flow of blood and thus persistently move towards the blood, so they are called bloodthirsty leeches compared to ordinary blood-sucking leeches. ”

"They can spend more than a dozen hours climbing on the branches of trees, just waiting for an animal to pass under the tree, jump on the animal, and make up for a meal. ”

"When they suck blood, they will dig their mouthparts deep into their blood vessels, and when they receive a fright, they will drill into the human body, which is very scary. ”

Using a tree thorn to stick the leech on the ground, Liu Danqing stood up and continued: "The Chinese Expeditionary Force that survived from Burma, when talking about those terrible years, will grit their teeth and mention these bloodthirsty guys, and every survivor has a lot of scars on his body that cause skin necrosis and form because of these guys. ”

"There are many soldiers who were bitten by bloodthirsty leeches, and their wounds became infected, and they died in this mountain before they survived. ”

(End of chapter)