Chapter 362: The Plague of Pythons

The whole night passed in such wind and rain.

"It's lucky we were able to find such a shelter-like cave in time, otherwise we might have to be like these animals down there!" The guide, Balu, stood outside the cave and looked at the flood below, which had come to the foot of the mountain.

In one night, the entire jungle seemed to be flooded.

You can see a lot of mud and grass floating on the water below, tree branches, and some large fish that have died, and even crocodiles.

These animals, which originally lived in the water, should have been stoned to death by the flood.

There are also carcasses of other animals floating on the water.

Now Balu is very lucky, glad that he and others don't have to be one of the people below.

The longer people live in the jungle, the more clearly they understand the dangers of the jungle. Yesterday their situation could almost be said to be to the point of nine deaths.

I looked up at the sky, where the rain was still falling, and through the cracks in the trees, I could see the dark clouds in the sky that almost pressed down on the treetops.

The dark clouds rolled, like thousands of troops and horses galloping, stirring the heavens and the earth.

The light was still dim, and there was an oppressive feeling in the air.

"We can't hurry, there will definitely be heavy rain falling in this weather, and rushing at this time is no different from looking for death!" Balu found Lin Xia and said to her.

He definitely didn't want to go through the situation of yesterday a second time, and now they were in the right position for them to take shelter from without fear that the flood from the torrential rain would wash them away.

Lin Xia's face was as gloomy as the sky today, dripping gloomily.

She came in this time to save people, if she stopped here, then what was the point of spending so much manpower and material resources into the jungle this time?

What's more, if he couldn't see his father for a day, Lin Xia's heart was panicked all day long.

Especially after learning about the dangers in the rainforest, can my father, who is already in his fifties, really withstand such difficulties?

So for Balu's words, Lin Xia directly refused without thinking about it, and decided to set off immediately.

Because their speed is not fast, they don't know how long they will have to wait until they want to find the scientific expedition team.

Lin Xia, as the employer of this operation, it was impossible for either Lin Dong or the guide Balu to ignore her opinion.

And it is impossible for Lin Dong to give up this mission, it will only appear once in an S-class mission, and the reward is still the summoning opportunity that Lin Dong hopes to get the most, and Lin Dong will not tolerate an accident in this mission.

The end result was that Balu compromised, and he agreed to continue on his way. And Lin Xia paid another $10,000 commission for this.

You have to admit that sometimes money is really the best way to get there.

The trip continued, and Lin Dong and his party walked into the jungle again in the rain.

Naturally, it was impossible for them to go down the mountain directly, and the flood below the mountain had blocked their way. At such a time, no one dares to walk through waist-deep water.

Just look at the carcasses of animals on the surface of the water that are being eaten by crocodiles.

Lin Dong even saw a huge python with a body length of more than seven meters, which was two times thicker than the one Sophie had cut off in the cave yesterday.

Pythons are arguably one of the biggest predators in the rainforest, as they can grow until they die.

For example, the anaconda they saw in Lin Dong was just an adult anaconda of normal size, which was not very unusual.

Although there are many pythons in Africa, none of the giant pythons that have proven to exist in the world have emerged from the African jungle.

More often in the Amazon jungle in South America, or in places like Indonesia. The largest snake in the world is a reticulated python found in Indonesia, which is 14.85 meters long and weighs 447 kilograms.

This is the largest python that humans have been able to prove to exist in the last hundred years. As for some rumors, it's hard to be convinced.

Following the direction of the mountain range, Lin Dong and the others walked directly on the high place, because the bottom had been flooded.

When the group came to a huge rock protruding, they were finally able to see the sky that they had not seen for a long time.

Less than 500 meters below them was the river they had passed through yesterday, and the river had risen so much that many of the trees had been flooded more than halfway up.

Lin Dong looked towards the surface of the river, and the scene he saw made him a little surprised in his heart.

At this time, the surface of the river was filled with crocodiles' outcropping backs, swimming back and forth in the water, devouring the carcasses of animals on the water. Or prey on animals that have unfortunately fallen into the water.

The whole river came alive and became a hunting ground for those crocodiles.

Of course, crocodiles aren't the only ones in the river. There are other large predators that will also make the appearance.

For example, the giant anaconda that lives here!

In Lin Dong's gaze, he saw a huge snake head on the surface of the water, biting the corpse of a crocodile, and then dragging it to the shore and swallowing it slowly.

The crocodile was at least two meters long, and it was supposed to have been killed by a tree or rock that had been swept away by the flood, and ended up being a meal for other creatures.

According to Lin Dong's eyes, this anaconda is definitely the largest creature he has ever seen, with a body length of more than ten meters, and in front of it, the pythons he saw before looked too weak.

Looking at this "giant dragon" in the water, Lin Dong said softly: "This is really a giant python, the length of the sight alone is seven or eight meters, if it is all out of the water, it will definitely exceed eleven meters, and the weight can reach more than three hundred kilograms!" ”

Sophie was also looking in that direction at this time, and with her eyesight, she could see the situation on the other side as clearly as Lin Dong.

Listening to Lin Dong's words, Wall and the others suddenly became interested, and used the telescope they carried to look at the place where the python was, and suddenly an exclamation sounded, obviously they were also startled by this giant python.

Unlike Wall, Lin Xia was not excited after seeing this scene of the snake swallowing a crocodile, but his face was a little pale.

It was the first time she had seen such a huge python, and it was less than five hundred meters away from her.

This isn't in a zoo, it's a primeval jungle!

Seeing Lin Xia's reaction, Lin Dong smiled and said, "Don't worry, such a big crocodile is enough for this python to digest for a week, so it won't hunt anymore before this time."

And this giant python has a strong sense of territory, since there is such a big one living here, then there will be no more such a giant python.

As for the rest, under modern weapons, these things can only become human food too! ”

(End of chapter)