Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei walked to the stream, which should be called the river now.

The river has swelled by almost two meters, and the river has doubled in width, almost seven or eight meters, and many of the trees along the river have been submerged in their roots.

But the good news is that their rafts are still there.

Yesterday they tied the raft to a large tree with two 550 lines, and now the trunk of the tree is partially submerged in water, but the sturdy lines are still holding their posts.

The bamboo raft floating on the water was slightly swayed by the current, but it did not break free from the ropes.

"The bamboo raft is still there, great, Weiwei, let's get on the boat and continue to set off, taking advantage of the big water today, we can rush a little more. ”

Today's raft work is very different from yesterday's.

Yesterday, while controlling the direction, Liu Danqing wanted to speed up the bamboo raft so that the bamboo raft could move forward quickly.

Today, Liu Danqing is mainly dodging the branches and trunks on the water.

Fortunately, the heavy rain made the water much wider and gave him more leeway, otherwise some of the thick branches would have been too much to handle.

"Today's river finally has some jungle highway vibe. ”

While controlling the bamboo raft, Liu Danqing said: "Now our speed should exceed three or four kilometers per hour, which is a great speed in the jungle, and we don't need to rest, we can keep moving at this speed." ”

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, without warning or preparation, their bamboo raft rushed out of the stream and into a river.

The river is about 10 meters wide, the current is rapid, and the water is turbid yellow.

Liu Danqing looked at the river bank and said: "Look, although the water level here has also touched some tree roots, it is obviously only barely touched, and there is still a relatively large slope distance between the two banks. ”

"This shows that the river has been less affected by this rainfall, the water level has not risen very much, and yesterday's rain did not cover the upper part of the river, or most of it. ”

Saying that, Liu Danqing turned around and said: "Weiwei, if my guess is correct, then this river should have been seven or eight meters wide, then it is very likely that there are caimans and forest snakes here." ”

Xiao Weiwei took over the science popularization work and said: "Caiman is a kind of alligator unique to the Amazon, which is smaller than the alligator in the United States, but larger than the Chinese alligator. ”

"And the forest snake we have mentioned many times, the largest snake in the world, can weigh up to 300 kilograms. ”

Liu Danqing continued: "Cypriots generally don't like to move in this kind of turbulent water, but caimans are different, this kind of turbid water is their favorite. ”

"Oh my God!" Liu Danqing, who was talking, suddenly poked the bamboo pole into the bottom of the water, slammed it a few times, and then adjusted the direction a little before continuing to support the bottom of the water.

The bamboo raft became faster and faster under his constant push, like a sharp arrow off the string, moving rapidly forward.

"Orinoco crocodile, how is it possible, this is Brazil, not Venezuela, I'll go, you sit tight!"

Liu Danqing shouted while accelerating.

Then, he pushed the bamboo pole hard, and the raft sped along the riverbank on one side.

On the other side of the riverbank, a large splash was violently stirred, and then a gray-brown figure rushed into the water from the shore and chased towards the bamboo raft.

It was a huge crocodile, seven meters long from head to tail, and when it entered the water, its head was already in the middle of the river, but its tail was still on the shore.

It was lying on the shore basking in the sun, but when it saw the bamboo raft of the two people coming, it turned its head to stare at this side.

Liu Danqing saw its huge head looking towards them, so he hurriedly accelerated.

At that time, he just wanted to dock, but he couldn't stop the car for a while, so he could only rush past the big crocodile.

Once the Orinoco crocodile is in the water, it is not visible, but you can see the undercurrents rising in the water from time to time, and it is the greatness of the giant crocodile that shakes in the water, providing a powerful impetus for its massive body.

Xiao Weiwei was also extremely nervous at this time, after all, the huge size of the crocodile was very intuitive.

This guy looked fat and fat when he was just on the shore, but when he got into the water, the speed was indeed extremely fast, even if Liu Danqing was crazy about speeding, but the distance between the two sides did not lengthen at all, but had a tendency to shorten.

"His sister's!" Liu Danqing couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

"Who said that the Orinoco crocodile only appears in the Orinoco River Basin, this is Brazil, there are still these guys, it's a big trouble, slightly, if we can't get rid of that guy, we're ready to jump on the shore. ”

"When we get to the shore, we still have the strength to fight, and in the water, we are the ones who deliver food. Visually more than seven meters and weighing more than a ton, that crocodile was nothing short of an armored vehicle. ”

While the bamboo raft was galloping, Liu Danqing's eyes suddenly lit up.

In front of it, there is a gray-black rotten log floating on the water, and it looks like a caiman.

At this time, he immediately came up with the idea of causing trouble.

Accelerating again, he directly added to the speed of the bamboo raft that he couldn't even control it, and when he was close to the rotten wood, he slammed it and drew an arc to bypass the rotten wood that was sinking at great speed.

Within a minute, a loud roar suddenly came from behind him, apparently the Orinoco crocodile began to attack the crocodile that had been cleared by Liu Dan.

This is Xiao Weiwei, who was sitting in the back, looked at the splash and said: "Qingqing, it doesn't seem to be a caiman, and the new crocodile is not small, I'm afraid it is five or six meters long." ”

No longer accelerating, and controlling the direction of the bamboo raft, Liu Danqing hurriedly glanced back.

"It seems to be a black crocodile, next year those sub-experts are lazy, they didn't come to the depths of the Amazon, they will say that caimans will encroach on the territory of black crocodiles, and they will say that caimans will invade the territory of Orinoco crocodiles, we have not seen a caiman until now, but both black crocodiles and Orinoco crocodiles have seen them. ”

"I don't know if this Orinoco crocodile is native or if it is from the Venezuelan side, and if it is a native species, then the danger of this jungle has increased a lot. ”

"To get fast, we have to walk up the waterway, and these Orinoco crocodiles can overturn our raft with just a single stroke. ”

"Or, we need to make a bigger raft that will make the Orinoco crocodiles feel like we're too big and not on their diet. ”

As the raft moved forward rapidly, more and more tributaries flowed in, and the width of the river became wider and wider, ten meters, twelve meters, and now more than fifteen meters.

"Weiwei, there is a bamboo forest in front, let's dock first, make a big bamboo raft, and then continue tomorrow, wider and deeper waters, which means suitable for the survival of large-sized creatures, if the Orinoco crocodile is a native species, then there will be more of this kind of water, dizzy, how do they fill their stomachs?"

Liu Danqing said as he leaned the bamboo raft to the shore and went ashore with Xiao Weiwei.

(End of chapter)