However, as they finished their meal and were about to hit the road, the weather changed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Thomas heard the cries of the animals, looked up at the sky, looked at the occasional gap in the canopy, and then said to Li Sheng, "Maybe we should stay here for the time being." We'll have to find a little higher. ”

They quickly walked back and forth where there was a place where there was a heightened place, and it was good for pitching a tent or something.

"Lee, you go find firewood. I'm going to pitch a tent. ”

Li Sheng did not object.

When he found some firewood and returned, Thomas had built a simple shelf between the two trees. And put some large leaves like plantains on top: "Lee, come and help, tie these leaves first." Otherwise, it will leak when it rains. ”

Li Sheng put the firewood on the shelf below, picked up the strips of bark that had been torn off and tied the leaves.

With the two working together, they finally put the shelves together before the rain dropped.

In the jungle, there is no need to worry about the wind blowing water droplets sideways. But the torrential rain is still very powerful. The water quickly melted on the ground, and it looked like a river.

Luckily, Thomas was fast enough, otherwise they would have turned into reservoir chickens by now.

In the rainy jungle, the temperature was still relatively low, and Thomas lit a fire on the shelf.

Lighting a fire on a wooden shelf requires a lot of skill, otherwise it is likely that the shelf will be lit together. First, make a simple brazier made of mud underneath, and then light a fire on top.

Thomas washed his hands with the water dripping from the leaves on the shelf, and said, "I'm afraid it's going to rain for a while." ”

"Why?"

"It's not convective rain. Because there are no thunderstorms. ”

Although the frontal rain will also thunder in advance, the strong convective weather is basically accompanied by thunder and lightning, and this time there was no thunder before the rain. This suggests that this is most likely frontal rain. Frontal rain usually doesn't show lightning until it rains for a while, or even no lightning at all.

"Hopefully, the flood water won't rise more than two meters." Li Sheng looked at the rain outside and made a joke.

Two more meters of water? That's no joke. If that were the case, I'm afraid most of the Silent Farm would be submerged and they would be flooded. Of course, perhaps the area of the entire rainforest that is flooded will more than double.

Thomas smiled wryly and said, "I think if this rain goes down into the evening, we will have to go back to the farm when the rain stops." "Although the flood water has receded before, I don't know how big the rain will be, and if the precipitation is large, the flood that has just receded may come again soon.

However, the heavy rain did not last long, and the front advanced very quickly to the west, and the rain basically stopped after about two hours.

"It seems that God thinks it is time to grant my wishes." Thomas said with a smile when he saw that the rain had stopped.

It was still early, and they packed their bags, but the shed didn't care about it. Thomas didn't walk along the river, but inside the forest. "It's just raining heavily, and it's dangerous to walk along the river, and there may be flash floods that slope down," he explained. And even if there is no danger, the road by the river is more difficult to walk. ”

Li Sheng felt that it was better to listen to him, who was an expert in rainforest life.

The air in the jungle after the rain is incredibly fresh and very cool, not as hot as usual. The speed of the two of them also went a lot faster. In the evening, amid the roar of the howler monkeys bidding farewell to the sunset, the two built two more small sheds and prepared to camp.

In the first half of the night, Li Sheng kept vigil. For him, the vigil was not only a matter of staying up late, but it was also quite mentally draining.

He needs to be in full control of the area around him to be at ease. In the rainforest, there are occasional beasts such as nocturnal jaguars, and he does not dare to take them lightly. So he sensed the situation around him all the time. It's just that the continuous sensing of air is also very exhausting, and he only senses a range of about fifty meters around him. It's too big for him to survive the first half of the night.

By the time Thomas kept vigil in the middle of the night, he was already very sleepy. The two only said a few words, and Li Sheng went into the tent to rest.

The next morning, he was once again woken up by the roar of howler monkeys welcoming the sunrise. He got up and complained, "This howler monkey has a really good throat structure." Is it true that their throats don't get inflamed? ”

"They're natural singers, so they have to work on their throats sooner or later." Thomas had boiled the water and prepared breakfast.

After Li Sheng washed up briefly, the two had breakfast, packed their bags and continued to travel north. By this time, they had entered the hilly area. The undulating terrain lengthens their paths,

This morning, they encountered a lot of animals on the road that came out to feed, but most of them were tree animals. There are macaws, and there are monkeys. There are many species of monkeys in the rainforest. There are many types of long-tailed monkeys, spider monkeys, and so on. Snakes, insects, rats, ants, and the like are many more numerous. Li Sheng felt that entering the jungle was like entering a zoo, that is, the place was a little bigger.

Li Sheng even saw a one-meter-long pink insect walking under the dead leaves on the road, and he didn't know whether to be disgusted or curious. In the morning, it was a paradise for predation, and along the way they encountered several snakes hiding among the dead leaves. And there may be more that has not been discovered.

When Li Sheng was startled by a dead leaf snake that was scared away by the huge size of the two people at his feet, Thomas said happily: "Fortunately, the snake is still very principled." As long as it's not something they can swallow, they usually choose to conserve their venom. ”

"The color of this thing looks like a leaf, especially its head, it's just a leaf." The head of the dead leaf snake is leaf-like in shape and color, and there is even a petiole-like protrusion on the snout. When they hide their bodies in dead leaves and only show their heads, perhaps only a thermal imager can easily find them.

Thomas finds two branches to use to scare the snake. He handed one of them to Li Sheng and said, "It's not easy to survive in the jungle, so camouflage is important. Perhaps there are hundreds of camouflaged animals within ten square meters of the periphery. It's just that we can't make it with the naked eye. Thomas teased at the end. People also learn a lot of skills from it. That's also a type of biomimicry. ”

In the Amazon jungle, bugs and reptiles have quite a few masters of camouflage. It's just that they didn't study animals, and they didn't deliberately look for those things along the way.

By noon, they had penetrated deep into the hilly area. There are quite a few small rivers and streams between the hills, and yesterday's brief heavy rain did not allow them to continue to flood, but the traces of flash floods are still clearly preserved. The traces of the flooding on both sides of the bank are obvious.

But now as long as the two of them want to go through these streams, there is still a way to get there, and it takes more time to just find the way. It also makes them have to rely on GSP navigation to determine their direction.

In the afternoon, the two climbed over a hill and descended to a col. They heard a voice, and they couldn't understand what they were listening to.

The two glanced at each other, Thomas was surprised, but Li Sheng was a little surprised.

It turned out that the two of them had been walking for almost three days, and before they knew it, they were already close to the indigenous tribe. Li Sheng took a look at the GSP instrument, and sure enough, it was not far from the place where he had found the indigenous tribe before.

But there seem to be a lot of people below, could it be that tribe relocated here?

Thomas whispered, "Go see?" ”

Li Sheng was also curious, nodded and said, "I hope they don't feel that being spied on is an unforgivable offense." ”

The two quietly reached forward. They must have been several hundred meters away from the natives, separated by a forest, unable to see each other, and quiet. Li Sheng didn't immediately activate air induction.

Li Sheng pushed aside a piece of grass and was really startled. There were three children hiding inside.