Chapter 139: All for the Mexican Straw Hats
On the other side, Qianxue ate a lot of breadfruit on the road, and her stomach was half full, so after drinking a bowl of spicy fish soup, she leaned back on the sofa, spit out her little pink tongue and gasped, then took out an ice cream from her pocket, squinted her eyes and licked it in small gulps with happiness on her face.
This is a 'super-good' ice cream with 5 survival points produced in the Futu Tower. Although the portion looks like the size of an ordinary person's fist, the price is not low. What makes it special is that the ice cream is made with Madagascar vanilla as the main ingredient with Iranian saffron and Italian black truffle, sprinkled with a layer of New Zealand sunshine fruit on the surface, while the porcelain bowl and spoon for the ice cream are made from Versace in a delicate royal style. It is a delicate work of art, but also a delicious snack, and it is a must-have for home travel and fatigue.
The little boy in the plot character suddenly looked over, Qianxue thought about it, and was about to grit her teeth and take out one for a 'bribe', who knew that the fifteen or sixteen-year-old, it was the older boy who was too old for dogs to sneer casually:
"I've heard that the vanilla flavor of ice cream is extracted from the urine of beavers, and it seems that the vanilla flavor is artificial and the anal glands of the beavers are first dried first......"
Qianxue's brows suddenly furrowed high, and after stiffening for three seconds, she put away the ice cream and moved her mouth expressionlessly:
"Hehe......"
After talking nonsense, the others had no appetite to eat anymore, so they dispersed to prepare for departure.
The adventurers get together and start talking.
"How?" Qin Fen looked around at his companions, "What I mean is to attack here directly." ”
Qianxue shrugged her shoulders and licked the ice cream slowly, "I'm okay with that. ”
Nina said with some apprehension:
"If you go there, will you run into some powerful genetically mutated dinosaurs? Or even other hostile adventurers? ”
Miss Yinzi said lightly:
"Wealth and danger are sought, and the enemy has no shadow yet, so look forward and backward, and be timid, what can you gain? It's better to learn from an ostrich and bury your head in the sand! …… I support the raid on the secret research base codenamed A, not only because this mission fails and is not punished, but also because Dante and his party capture dinosaurs, apparently for the purpose of research, which can be said to be the opposite of our mission. And this mission, called the 'butterfly effect', can have an unpredictable impact on the current world...... Although Dante's purpose is not known for the time being, he can still add to the gamble for them. ”
The silver wolf also said lightly:
"Lao Tzu's life was saved by you, and I owe you a favor, so I will be mixed with you for the time being."
……
Sona Island: 207 km west of Costa Rica. (Central America, between 10 degrees north latitude and the equator.) )
An island that does not exist in the real world, it is now located in the Atlantic Ocean, part of Costa Rica, with 200 square kilometers of tropical rainforest stretching on it, and until the 19th century, it was the last uninhabited 'pure land' on earth.
But by the end of the 19th century, colonists had already arrived and captured a giant orangutan on the island, which, incidentally, had climbed to the top of the Empire State Building to fight/plane. In the centuries since, so-called civilized people have begun to destroy the ecology. Until one day, an archaeologist excavated an amber ball with mosquitoes wrapped inside in a dead pine tree......
One day 70 million years ago, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was blue. A mosquito flies through the jungle after a full meal, and when it passes by a centuries-old pine, a yellow transparent "teardrop" falls from the sky, and it is very unfortunate to condense it in this amber.
In its belly, which had just been fed, there was a drop of ancient dinosaur blood.
So the scientists went crazy. Under the action of powerful genetic technology, this drop of blood has derived infinite possibilities, and the overlord of the earth 70 million years ago has reappeared on this earth. But the only difference is that they are no longer fierce beasts at the top of the food chain, but have become ornamental pets in captivity for primate humans......
After simple preparations, the group set off for Research Base A, which was not open to visitors. Claire, the woman, did not listen to the dissuasion and took the two children with her, saying that she felt guilty and had to protect them next.
The journey was tedious, with Owen driving the first leg of the journey, but the latter part of the journey had to be measured on the feet of the crowd.
"I'm sorry, but since Base A doesn't have a road connection, and all the supplies are transported by helicopter, so we'll have to walk through the rainforest to get there." Claire said.
There is always an oppressive silence in the rainforest, but there are also small and trivial sounds coming from time to time, and from time to time there are a few strange noises in the shadowy trees, whether it is the chirping of birds, the hissing of snakes, the drum noise of insects, or the breathing of a toad or something, or of course, two species in close proximity to each other in the food chain.
This journey is much more difficult than taking a car, the hot and humid air is like a steamer, and the sweat gushing out of the body will be soaked all over the body in a short time, and it is extremely uncomfortable to stick to the body, and hard products such as leather boots and watches make the friction parts hot and painful. The ground was covered with dead branches and leaves, and it was as soft as bread. If you are not careful, you will step into the fallen leaves, make a 'poof' sound, and when you pull out your legs, you will bring up a foul-smelling black humus......
It didn't take long for the big boy Gerry to start complaining, "Hey, why don't we stop and rest for a while?" It's so hot, you're going to get heat stroke! ”
Claire said resolutely: "No, continue to hurry." We've only been on the road for less than ten minutes, and we'll have to hurry up to get to the research base before dark. The jungle at night is far more dangerous than during the day. ”
"Well, who made you a 'big aunt'."
After another half an hour of walking, Claire finally allowed to stop and rest, and everyone took out cold water with salt and drank it in large gulps to replenish the lost physical strength and the salt evaporated by sweat.
The rainforest was too tall and grass to determine its direction, so Owen took two mouthfuls and came to a broken trunk, which had some water in the half-emptied, and plucked a thorn sunflower leaf slightly smaller than the palm of his hand from the low bushes around him. He took the tie out of his pocket, removed the metal pin from the tie, rubbed it on the silk tie in the same direction for a while, and then lowered the leaf to the small pool of smooth water, and the pin to the vein in the center of the leaf.
It is a compass-like gadget, with a pin carrying a leaf floating on the water and gradually deflecting to point out the north-south direction.
Owen laughed:
"I served in the military, and these are some of the things I learned during wilderness survival training. When you don't have a compass in your hand, you can use this method to determine the north and south poles, or depending on how wet the moss is on the back of the tree or even the growth rings. Hundreds of trials, Bao Jiao Bao Hui. All for the Mexican Straw Hats! ”
Qianxue asked curiously, "Why do you say that?" ”
"Although I am a U.S. citizen, I lived with my grandmother as a child. She is Mexican, a very kind, kind, wise old man, she is the mentor of my life, the helmsman of my soul...... She taught me how to be a human being, and regardless of nationality, I was more like a Mexican, and naturally I had to fight for the Mexican Straw Hat. ”
At that moment, Gerry suddenly let out a scream and jumped up from the root of the tree where he was sitting, like a monkey whose butt had been burned by fire.
"There's a corpse here!"
When everyone looked at it, they saw that under the bushes, there was a dinosaur corpse roughly similar to that of a velociraptor in shape, or it could not be called a corpse, because it was a white and miserable skeleton of bones, with not even a trace of flesh and blood on the surface, and even the brains in the skull were devoured clean.
Owen frowned slightly:
"This dinosaur must have just died, and the grass stalks that were crushed by it in the vicinity have not recovered. And there is no rancid smell either, indicating that it will definitely not die for more than thirty minutes. I just don't know what made this unlucky dinosaur so clean. ”
Gerry lazily leaned on the banyan tree beside him, listening to everyone's discussion, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a red ant coming out of the crack in the trunk of the tree, this is a rather large ant, the size of a human knuckle, in the ant family, it is almost the level of the Tibetan mastiff among dogs.
He didn't care, he crushed him to death with his fingers, and continued to shake his head and listen to the song, and soon felt a sharp pain in his neck, as if he had been bitten by something! It's like someone dug out two taels of flesh with a scalpel!
He suddenly screamed "ah", reached out and touched his back, in addition to feeling the blood dripping from one hand, he also saw two red ants with the length of joints in his palm.
His screams attracted everyone's attention, Qin Fen and the others turned their heads to look, and found that this guy seemed to be covered with a thin layer of "red veil" because he had stayed by the banyan tree for too long.
Qin Fen frowned, and quickly said, "It's a man-eating ant in the jungle!" ”