Zhang Heng woke up and saw that Bell was really roasting the python that almost swallowed him last night.

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"Zhang, you're awake, just in time for breakfast." The explorer turned the bonfire with a small branch in his hand, adjusted the flame, and then pointed to the bloody thing on the side, "Snakeskin, I just peeled it off, and after cleaning it, I can use it to make a water bladder or something, it is much better than the sealing of a wooden barrel, or it can also be used to make a piece of clothing, which has a cooling effect, and it is still very useful when the weather is hot." ”

"Thank you for last night." Zhang Heng sat up from the ground and thanked Bell first, and he could still see the red mark on his arm.

"Hey, you're welcome, you saved me at sea, and if you want to survive in the wilderness, you have to help each other, don't you?" Bell handed Zhang Heng a piece of roasted snake steak threaded with a wooden branch.

The latter originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking that this might be the only chance in his life that he didn't have to sit through the prison for eating pythons, he still took it.

I took a curious bite and found that the taste was actually good, the fishy smell was not strong, a bit like chicken, but it was more chewy than chicken.

Remembering that it was this thing that almost killed him last night, Zhang Heng decisively decided to bring two more pieces.

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After breakfast, the two hit the road again.

Bell continued to play the role of a qualified guide, using a knife in front to open the way, while explaining to Zhang Heng the various creatures he encountered along the way.

"The python we met last night is not the only hunter in this forest, because pythons usually choose to swallow their prey whole from the head when eating, their eyesight is not good, and sometimes the prey is too big to burst their stomachs alive, but the digestion of snakes is very powerful, and often even the flesh and bones can be digested together, and the several animal skeletons we met before, some of which are relatively intact, do not seem to die in its hands."

Zhang Heng silently wrote down these cold knowledge, many things usually seem useless, but maybe they will come in handy at some point.

For example, Ed and the shorts boy didn't teach him how to use seawater to make salt, but he used a small video he saw on a barrage website to get relatively pure edible salt by heating crystallization and repeated filtration, which made the food delicious.

Speaking of which, when Zhang Heng was in elementary school, he once followed his grandfather to Xishuangbanna, where the forest park left a deep impression on him.

However, after all, it is artificially developed, and only a small part of it is open to tourists due to safety, and Zhang Heng has seen such an absolutely natural tropical rainforest for the first time, and according to Bell, the biome here is very rich. This also opened Zhang Hengda's eyes.

For example, he once saw a small frog with translucent skin on the side of the road, with a body length of only 1-2 centimeters, and its heart, liver and digestive tract can be clearly seen from below, which is very magical.

"Glass frogs, generally inhabit the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, and there are currently 134 known species of glass frogs in the world, of which 60 species are endangered." As he spoke, the explorer carefully put the small object in his hand back on the leaf.

"What about this?" Zhang Heng pointed to the protruding tumor-like part of a banyan tree, on which new branches had grown.

"Oh, staghorn ferns, epiphytes of the staghorn fern family, tender green when newborn and light brown when mature, they are usually epiphytic to the trunks or branches of other trees, quite common in tropical rainforests."

In addition, Zhang Heng also saw a cat monkey, but this thing was neither a cat nor a monkey, it had bat-like wings, wrapped its neck, limbs and tail, and after unfolding, it could glide in the air, and it looked very playful; Kipling Bahira jumping spider, the only vegetarian spider in the world, feeds on leaf buds, this name is too awkward, Zhang Heng confirmed it with Bell three times and still couldn't believe it; The bird of paradise, also known as the bird of paradise, has a cry very similar to a gunshot, which startled Zhang Heng when he first heard it, but its appearance is very beautiful, especially the tail feathers, and the color gradient......

Bell couldn't help but sigh, "This place is a biological paradise, it's the first time I've seen so many tropical animals and plants from different regions gathered together, it's incredible, biologists would love this land if they knew." ”

At this moment, Zhang Heng seemed to have stepped on something, he bent down and picked up a tooth of an unknown animal, and there was a circular hole at the bottom.

"It's like it's handmade, and the holes that form naturally aren't usually so regular." Bell took the tooth, looked at it carefully and said, "I know that some natives will use the teeth of their prey as ornaments to wear around their necks to show off their strength, the more powerful the prey, the more it proves their strength, so that it is easier for them to choose a partner they like, I have a friend who went to the grassland alone to hunt lions in order to marry the most beautiful woman in their tribe, but he did not come back." ”

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There is a reason why there are few foreigners, Zhang Heng did not comment on the wisdom of this behavior, but he was more concerned about another question, "So there is still indigenous life on this island?" It can't be a cannibal. ”

Bell shook his head, "It's unlikely, the area of this island itself can't be considered large, you said that you have lived on it for more than a year, if there are other people on the island, there is no reason why you haven't met until now...... And this thing looks a bit old. ”

"So there were indeed natives living here before?" Zhang Heng was also shocked into a cold sweat, if those natives were still alive now, maybe he and Ed would have been arrested by the other party to make soup on the first day on the island.

"Well, let's go down and see."

Bell was also interested, he was an explorer himself, and this lost civilization had an indescribable attraction for him, and he even forgot that he had come to find a way to leave the island and return to the civilized world, and the two continued to make their way to the center of the island.

So far, they have walked half the way, and as they continue to go deeper, more and more traces of human existence have been discovered.

Bell looked at the completely corrupted huts and the stone tools that covered the pagoda, and it was certain that an indigenous tribe had lived here in the distant past.

What happened to them, and why are they all gone today? Explorers are becoming more and more curious.