Chapter 21: Survival in the Wilderness I
"It's autumn in May in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's a little cool even for Swim Trunk Island, which is at the crossroads of a tropical rainforest climate and a tropical monsoon climate.
Due to the effects of nuclear radiation from nearby Bikini Island, the volcanic basin of Swim Trunk Island is a barren wasteland filled with gravel and ravines. Ahh
However, the volcanic basin, which is only a mountain away, is prosperous. From high to low, it includes tundra climate, temperate plateau climate, tropical monsoon climate, tropical rainforest climate, and tropical swamps.
The original carnivores were all purged by the Night's Watch University, and humans were incorporated into the environment as the only carnivores. However, even humanity is not the only hegemon in this dangerous land.
I'm Grexiu S. Hao, a sophomore at Night's Watch, and I'm going to spend the next 7 days showing you the skills you need to survive here, and hunt some dangerous creatures, ah!
What's going on today? I just took anti-miasma medicine! Did I catch a cold? Hasn't my physique improved a lot recently? Or is it mosquito repellent irritating my nose? There can't be a group of people thinking about me, Edward, although the rules say you can't help me, it's still okay to chat, right?"
Hao Song, who didn't know that he had become an enemy of the whole people, wiped his nose and complained, and then shoveled the sappers into the grass in front of him, and only continued after making sure that he was on the ground.
Edward Mierro followed him with the "Guanxi Holder" and joked: "Since you want to survive in the wilderness, then I have to be a good Kevin, that is, no matter what you say, I only take pictures and don't speak!"
Hao Song said helplessly: "Okay, Bell spends most of his time talking to himself, so I should too." After saying that, he cleared his throat, and then continued in the tone of the host: "In the wetlands and swamps, you better bring a wooden stick or something, in addition to being a crutch to help you find out the situation on the ground, trust me, you don't want to fall into a dirty tropical muddy puddle." ”
At this time, the shovel in Hao Song's hand pierced through half a meter in front of him, and a piece of mud that seemed to be on the ground suddenly poured up, and the thing actually said excitedly: "Look! This is it! There are all kinds of bacteria, parasites, insect larvae, and fertile, in other words, disgusting humus mud!! This stinks! Let's bypass this section." ”
The duo, who continued in a different direction, walked cautiously for half a kilometer, and finally could faintly see the woods in the distance. "It's almost evening, we have to find a dry place to spend the night, if you spend the night in the wetlands, then you will have a sore body and rheumatism." On top of that, your companions may find out that you have become the excrement of some carnivore the next day. Of course, here we don't have to worry about this. ”
Then the guy turned back to Edward and said, "Come on, Kevin Edward, we need to hurry." Arrive in the woods before dark, and preferably make a fire. Then Hao Song took the lead and quickened his pace.
Just after walking a few steps, he stepped on a slippery mud ground, even special military boots could not stop the entire ground from sliding, Hao Song suddenly fell, and unfortunately his feet fell into a mud puddle on the side.
But when the thing fell, he was quick to see and stick the sapper shovel into the ground where he had been standing with one hand. Then he didn't move his feet, simply using the sapper shovel as the fulcrum, and pulled himself out with both hands.
Looking at the mud marks on his crotch, Hao Song was both happy and afraid, took a deep breath, looked at Edward who couldn't help but smile, and said: "Everyone sees, the wetland is such a worry-free place, and a set of clothes and pants with excellent waterproof properties is very useful here, otherwise my beep will be wet." ”
Edward finally couldn't help but complain: "What should I do when I speak with sensitive words? Why do I still think it makes sense, hey, I should let the girl read it?"
Hao Song shrugged his shoulders and said as he continued to walk: "Actually, if you completely fell into it just now, you can still get out of trouble with a wider wooden stick." All you have to do is place the stick flat on top of the mud with both hands without moving your feet, and then grab it in a pull-up-like motion. If you can't find a similar replacement, then congratulations on your early entry into the world's material cycle. ”
"Hehe! Congratulations on being a stinking inorganic substance again!, Mr. Belgresio, would you like to show us this?" said Edward, who couldn't stop.
"Which part to demonstrate?How to get out of trouble or how to become an inorganic thing?" Hao Song shook his legs as he walked, and the mud on his pants slowly shook off. It's quite like a puppy flathing.
"Demonstrated, I'll just take all your tools away while you try to get out of trouble. Edward didn't realize that he had completely violated the principles of a good Kevin.
Hao Song let out a strange laugh, swept away the last bush in front of him with a shovel, and entered the rainforest. Edward adjusted the shading of the shot, and then followed.
The coward stopped at the edge of the rainforest and said to the camera, "Okay, don't think about finding a dry place to make a fire or something, it's damp like otaku underwear." The most important thing now is to get fresh water to drink, and my kettle is almost empty.
In swamps and rainforests, you don't think the water here is drinkable. We have to use condensation to get pure, drinkable fresh water. As he spoke, he took out a small collapsible aluminum cover from his backpack, opened it layer by layer to form a cone, and set it up on the kettle, then secured it two meters above the roots of a large tree.
Speaking to the camera, he continued: "As the temperature drops at night, the water vapor in the air condenses into droplets on the hood, which eventually flows down the hood into my kettle. ”
Edward said impatiently, "Okay, okay, don't show off. I know your wilderness survival lesson has been self-paced online. After saying that, he lay down in the puddle by the root of the tree and drank from the cow.
Hao Song looked at this thing with a blank eye and complained: "The digestive system is close to the limit of human genes, it's amazing! This is completely just an animal! You can drink the water for washing your feet, can you? You're the man at the top of the food chain, right?"
Edward ignored him and continued to drink. Hao Song shrugged his shoulders and put down his backpack and tools, only carrying the "Blizzard" on his back, found a vine of moderate thickness nearby, bypassed it around the main trunk of the big tree, grabbed its two ends with both ends, and used the friction provided by the vine and his body to start climbing the tree.
Hao Song's movements are not fast, but they are very efficient, and each action is exactly the same, and it is obvious that the effect of "planning before acting" is in play. In less than half a minute, the creature climbed to the top of the tree and began to look around with the help of a little light in the evening.
Only then did he realize that the so-called rainforest was actually very small, only a sparse forest, and the real most extensive terrain was a swamp. In this place where the rainfall is so heavy that the water cannot be drained, the trees can only grow on slightly higher ground.
And the field of vision is very narrow except for the trees, and the half-human-tall aquatic plants obscure the view. It is likely that you will have to hunt at close range, and encounters are probably common. So he replaced the "Grim Reaper's Middle Finger" magazine in "Desert Death" with "Death's Laughter". Then he looked at the nearest herd for a while, and then went down the tree.
Edward had drunk enough water at the moment, and when he saw Hao Song coming down, he asked softly to the "whale roar": "Belgretius, it's time to find some dinner, right? Would you like to try this weevil larva?", he said, avoiding the camera, pointing to a yellow, fat bug on the trunk of a tree on the side
Hao Song looked at the insect with a tense face and said softly: "Forget it, it's not to the point of exhaustion, don't eat the insects, it's disgusting to look at!"
Edward pursed his lips, walked over and grabbed the weevil larva, threw it into his mouth and chewed it without looking. You can even faintly hear the sound of bug body fluids splashing.
Hao Song was dumbfounded, and his stomach was churning, and he said in his heart, Big brother, have you forgotten to remove your head! It is said that the head of the insect is hard and disgusting to eat, and it may be poisonous, hey! And Edward, you are not so good as a cameraman, right? Bell Grylls is wrinkled like a chrysanthemum when he eats this thing, and this thing actually has a calm face! Your taste system has degenerated into an anorectal!
At this point, Edward swallowed the worm and said, "Well, it tastes average, a bit like boogers." As he spoke, he showed his teeth yellowed by insect body fluids.
"Gross!" Hao Song finally couldn't help but vomit, this guy has no lower limit, it doesn't mean that he can accept this kind of thing as eating fat worms raw. In fact, at the beginning, Hao Song pretended to be Bei Ye to be courageous, hoping to face the 7 days with the mentality of Bel Grylls.
Edward had a serious face and whispered to the "whale roar": "This is a reminder, please prepare yourself for the worst, surviving in the swamp for 7 days is not as simple as making a documentary." ”
Hao Song was almost vomiting at the moment, his face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said to the "whale roar": "I understand, how do you know what the nose smells like?"
"Don't worry about the details, go find your dinner!" Edward said, closing the "whale roar". This conversation is too quiet to be caught on camera.
Hao Song stood up, took a long breath, looked at Edward with a serious face, and said in his heart that this thing must have eaten boogers sometime!
Armed with the sapper shovel and the "Blizzard", Hao Song walked in the direction that he had reconnoitred before. Edward Miero kept up as he picked his teeth.
A few minutes later, Hao Song began to make a detour according to the direction of the wind, after making a 90-degree circle. The two men bowed down downwind and observed the South American swamp deer herd dozens of meters away.
At this time, Hao Song said with a bitter face: "Hey, I suddenly regret that after activating the nervous system, the sense of smell is enhanced, it really stinks in this place!!"
"To activate genes, you have to convince your body that it has enough energy to make up for the surge in consumption. So most of the mind cultivators are either drunkards or big stomachs" - Edward Miero