Volume 3 Hundred Sons of the Earth Chapter 84 Misty Swamp (End)
"Let's show us how to make a fire with a rattan ...... make a fire", Parker looked at Murphy, who was still whispering with his friends in the audience, and suddenly became angry, and didn't even ask if there were any volunteers, but directly named Murphy. With that, Pike lifted the white cloth on the lectern in front of him, revealing dead wood and other materials he had brought from the agricultural station.
Murphy was stunned for a moment, but perhaps feeling the same pressure in Pike's sight as his twin brother Triste, he left his seat a little unconvinced, walked directly to the podium, and busied himself with the materials that Pike had prepared.
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As the sun sank, there was a "click, click" sound on the slopes of the northern part of the misty swamp, and as the knives and flint struck each other, sparks burst out and splashed on the cashmere cloth that Trist had prepared, and a wisp of fire grew from small to large, and gradually ignited from the cashmere cloth and the pile of wood that lay beneath it. A bright flame always gives a sense of security at night, Trist thought as he roasted the fire. Both flint and cashmere came from tribes, and although civilization regressed, the tribesmen apparently adapted better to nature.
Trist squatted down on a high dirt slope and noticed that the yellow poisonous mist in the direction of the sacred lake forest had completely dissipated, so he got up and took off his helmet. After three hours of walking, he gradually reached the northern edge of the Misty Swamp, where the swamp and the white mist that permeated the swamp were already behind him. However, the terrain in front of him rose sharply, blocking Trist's view. Thanks to the devastating acid mist of the mountain people, Trist wore a spacesuit brought down by the Ark to weave through the bushes and wetlands along the way, but did not encounter any more attacks from mutated creatures. On the contrary, he saw the corpses of many mutated creatures along the way, including the fire-breathing lizard he encountered a few days ago, the giant scorpion dying with only half of its pincers exposed, the black fish that had evolved two legs and could go ashore to hunt, and some snakes that were not easy to mess with at first glance...... It's just that when these dangerous creatures appeared in Trist's sight, they were already dead under the poisonous fog of the mountain people.
Trist chewed on the jerky brought from the tribe for food, and as for the animals that died miserably in the acid mist along the way, looking at their festering skin, Trist didn't have the slightest idea of trying.
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The acid mist cleared, and a figure in a mountain man's hazmat suit poked its head out of the pile of leaves. A flock of birds skimmed the treetops overhead, which made him finally sure he was safe. The "patrolman" took off his hood, revealing the faces of the tribesmen. Inside his protective suit, there was white leather armor characteristic of the Ice Country, and the neck of the protective suit was vaguely visible with red dried blood. He was the Ice Nation soldier who attacked the Mountain Man Patrol yesterday, and the suit he wore was his trophy.
At the first moment of the poisonous fog, the warrior immediately put on his captured protective suit and lay down in a low-lying pit not far from him, while completely covering himself with the leaves of the surrounding ground. When he was young, he had seen the horrific situation of his people who died under the poisonous mist, festering and suffocating to death, so this time he was prepared in an instant. His preparation proved to be successful, and he was unscathed in this sour mist of mountain people.
Originally, the mountain people regularly released acid mist to expel and kill tribesmen who might be lurking around the base, but this release of acid mist was obviously inconsistent with the previous frequency, and was more like a temporary intention. In addition, the range of the poisonous mist released by the mountain people this time was completely three times that of the previous one! The acid mist started from the base of the Meteorological Mountain, spread outward in a circle, and even reached the misty swamp area at the northernmost point of the Sacred Lake Forest, which was where Trist was at the moment.
As for the reason, a sneer appeared on the corner of the warrior of the Ice Nation, it seemed that the mountain people had discovered the patrol he had killed. In this sense, the mountain people are not slow to react. It's a pity that what the mountain people didn't expect was that he managed to survive with the protective clothing of the captured mountain people.
He quickly got up and headed north.
As an experienced warrior, it is natural to find traces in the forest, not to mention that the horseshoe marks left by Trist are also relatively obvious. A voice in the heart of this warrior of the Ice Nation told him, keep up! There is no reason for the patrol of the mountain people to spy on a tribal boy like this, but since he has done so, it can only mean that this tribal boy has something or secrets that the mountain people want! Since the mountain people want it, they must not let them get it! If it's good for the Ice Country, that's even better.
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"Thank you Murphy for the great demo," Parker nodded slightly in surprise.
On the demo table in front of Murphy, a flame burned quietly, perhaps too close, and Murphy's face was a little reddened.
It's just that he still looks like a bear child, and walks back to his seat with his head held high, receiving the adoring glances of his two new companions, Jasper and Monty, and the smug look on his face can be felt from afar.
If the original plot is followed, Murphy will definitely not do this, on the contrary, he will be ridiculed by everyone for his poor performance. It's just that Trist, who was reborn in this life, took precautions and dragged his twin brother to the agricultural station every day to learn various and surface survival skills at the agricultural station, from planting, to hunting, to making tools, setting up tents, and so on. At first, Murphy refused, but after several "persuasions of love" from Trist, Murphy had to take classes seriously and do well in those classes. Murphy has told Jasper and Shirley more than once that he is just curious about these things that are destined to be useless, and that he is not succumbing to Trist's fist~~
"The next thing we're going to talk about is to go as high as you can – and look far!" Pike didn't notice Murphy's careful thoughts, or even if he did, he wouldn't care, he hurried to talk about the next link: "The so-called stand high, look far." Standing on a high place will first get a wide field of vision, which can help you plan the next route, maybe you will directly see human civilization from a high place, so that you can avoid the wrong route to continue walking in the depths of the wilderness and miss the chance to survive! ”
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At dawn, Trist stretched and stood at the highest point of the nearby area, carefully observing the terrain around him.
When I arrived here yesterday, it was getting late, and Trist didn't have a chance to get a full picture of the terrain around him. At this time, the eastern sky was already white, and the visibility around him gradually increased, which also made Trist's vision wider. Behind him was the misty swamp that he had passed through yesterday, and in front of him was a slope about forty meters high, and this column of slopes of almost the same height was like a wall, blocking the young man's view forward.
It's just that at the moment, Trist didn't care about this, he was looking at the mound of dirt where he sat yesterday in amazement. After stripping away the clods and moss on the outside, Trist discovers that it is the wreckage of a car before the nuclear war! It was only when Trist opened the rusty door that he found that the interior of the car had long since decayed, and could not give him more useful information. However, the destruction of the world by nuclear war a hundred years ago erased most of the surface traces on the earth, and the discovery of this car made Trist more confident that he could encounter the ruins of the city before the nuclear war.
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After a night of tracking down the Ice Nation warriors, they found the horseshoe prints disappearing at the southern edge of the Misty Swamp. 'This boy can't really go to the Misty Swamp to die, right? The prey that had been following them for a day disappeared without a trace, and the warriors of the Ice Nation were a little frantic at the thought of this. Regarding the Misty Swamp, the Ice Nation is actually a dangerous death forbidden area from generation to generation, and for more than 20 years, the Ice Nation warriors who have gone on an expedition have basically never returned.
Further on, the horseshoe prints are noticeably a bit messy. The warrior of the Ice Nation did not give up, he wanted to go a little deeper into the Misty Swamp and explore possible traces.
Until, in front of his eyes, a woodland covered with brown and dried flesh, and half of the body of a giant python on the ground, the mark disappeared completely.