Chapter Seventy-Five: Equatorial Tracking
The equator, the island that the green yarn spoke of, is somewhere on the equator.
With the help of General Psimon, Captain Akon hunched over the shin of a strong, huge black sailfish. Relying on the streamlined body of the sailfish and the powerful swing of the crescent tail, it advances at lightning speed in the sea. It's like traveling through a time tunnel, with a long tail of small bubbles dragging behind you. If the sea were a sky, it would be like a meteor heading towards the equator. If it weren't for the responsibility, the captain really didn't want to miss the scenery and streamer-like space artistic conception along the way.
And with the help of the powerful intelligence backing in the imperial city, he was able to find the escaped liar Akentero in such a short time. The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the planet, and it's huge. There are more than 10,000 large and small islands scattered across the ocean. If you look for them one by one, you are looking for a needle in a haystack. Maybe after people prayed to God for good luck and everything, God really helped behind their backs.
Around dusk, the captain showed his head out of the sea. In the sunset, you can see a green island with high mountains and a pleasant scenery. This is the small island that Green Yarn refers to on the map, Garo Island. After using his magnetic field positioning ability to perceive and confirm the correct position, the captain left the sailfish and landed on the island on his own.
In the dim glow, a not too tall and thin figure appeared in front of the captain. Two eyes that shimmered with a faint light green light made the captain suddenly excited:
"Titans! Is that you? Have you grown so big? Look at your new complexion, it's black and yellow, I can't even recognize it! ”
It turned out that the captain met a friend he had known many years ago.
"Yes...... It's Uncle Akang! Vomit! I'm so glad to meet you here, how are you? ”
"It's alright, hey! By the way, why are you here? ”
"Ordered by Commander Midori to keep an eye on Arcantero here, and to answer the detectives who came to hunt him down, that person didn't expect it to be you."
"Hmmm! It's me, take me to Arcantero. ”
"Uncle Kang, my task is to tell you where he is hiding, and you have to set off to find him on the island yourself. Scouts like us don't belong to the combat sequence, are not good at fighting, at least not very good at fighting for now. After informing you of his location, my next task is to gather tens of thousands of snakes to surround the island and prevent Acantero from escaping. And the headquarters of Chuanxun waited for the next instructions. ”
"Well, you scouts are very thoughtful. Tell me where that guy is. ”
"Don't worry, it's getting dark. The island is not our territory, and it is not safe to operate in the dark. Tomorrow morning, I'll bake some food in a nearby cave. Let's go to the cave and talk about the situation on the island while eating. ”
"Well, I'm a little hungry. When you have enough to eat and rest, you have the strength to work. ”
As they walked and talked, they approached the cave, and the smell of cooked food came to their nostrils, and the captain was hungry......
The sky was getting brighter, and a glimmer of early morning sunlight was digging into the hole. Only a few wisps of green smoke were still dancing in the fire, and the Titans were gone. A few lines of words were left on the sand, and it was a message he left. The content is that you can't wake up, so you have to go on your own business first, Titan word.
The captain rushed out of the cave like a spring, for fear of missing an important mission. Run on the path indicated by the Titans last night. The island is a tropical rainforest region with a hot, humid climate with lush vegetation and surrounded by freshwater rivers. In the middle of the mountain, the highest altitude is more than 4,000 meters, and the mountain stretches from the inside to the outside. There is a lake at the foot of one of the mountains, and the destination of the trip is there.
The captain didn't quite believe the Titans' descriptions of the dangers that existed on the island: territorially minded apes, venomous snakes, aggressive scorpion centipedes, and primitive cannibals...... Is it that exaggerated?
As I walked, I suddenly saw a large flower bush in front of me. Nearly a hundred giant yellow-green flowers exuded a strange disgusting smell of decay, petals about two meters in diameter, and jagged thorns on their edges, like an arrogant face. Isn't this the cannibal flower mentioned by Titans? He asked me to take a detour when I met this flower, but I didn't go around. See what I do with these weird stubbles. The captain looked left and right at the ground, some branches and stones. So he picked up the stone branch and threw it into the "mouth" of the flower, and the flower really reacted, and the petals closed together. In this way, the big flowers that passed along the road in a few moments were all hit. The captain gloated and laughed as he trotted through the flowers:
"It's a long time to take a detour, see if I don't choke you little ones to death with stones!"
I haven't run out of the flowers yet, and I don't want to be knocked down by anything and fall to the ground. Before he could get up, he heard a rustling sound behind him. Looking back, it's amazing. The dense vines stretched and writhed like a demon and came towards the captain. The speed is too fast, and the eyes have not yet seen that the body has been wrapped in layers and cannot move.
I saw that the spherical vine pile shot out a dazzling bright light from the inside out, and then the vine ball shattered and scattered. The captain crawled out of it, clapped his hands and muttered, "It's okay, I've evolved smarter than you." "I really didn't notice that a flash of bright light just now alarmed a group of small birds in the nearby mountains and forests, and they flapped their wings and fled farther away.
The frightening of the small island also attracts the attention of many crocodiles hiding in some damp and dark corner.
Captain Akon thought that there was still a task to do, so it was better to be cautious. Trotting all the way up, catching Akandro wherever he was hiding.
Relying on the muscles cultivated by years of exercise in the water, the merfolk have relatively little air resistance when moving on land. So much so that the captain can bounce and run in the rugged mountain jungle. Let the gorillas and gibbons who are good at jumping in the bushes stop crying with low self-esteem, and they are secretly shocked in their hearts: "Running and jumping are so exaggerated, it's not a person, it's a freak, right?" ”
But after all, he was eager to make a meritorious effort, and the captain thought that the route that the Titans had guided him was too far. There's a large stretch of gentle jungle in front of you, interspersed with a calming river, so why not take the waterway? That would at least save many kilometers of travel. So the captain jumped into the river and swam quickly in the direction of his destination.
This island is said to be the third largest in the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 20,000 square kilometres are tropical rainforest, and the island is rich in biodiversity. Whether it is flying in the sky, swimming in the water, running on the ground, jumping on the tree, climbing in the grass, or drilling in the soil, it is all varied and strange. But there are few good stubbles in Titan's description, is that really the case? I remember that when I ran in the woods, I only saw huge moths and squirrels, tree frogs, and then orangutans and proboscis monkeys, and some different birds, in the water, bigeye sea bream, sucker catfish, and different kinds of betta fish. Just avoid the terrestrial people who still hunt with spears.
When he was swimming at high speed, he heard the terrible scream of some animal on the land on the bank of the river. So he showed his head on the water to find out. It's better not to look at it, but the captain was startled when he saw it. I saw an elephant and a rhinoceros fighting on the shore, and a large area of blood fell on the surrounding grass and trees. And that's not all, the shallow water on the bank of the river is full of crocodiles watching the battle, waiting to reap the benefits of the fishermen. The crocodiles had blocked the way, leaving the captain ready to go ashore. When he turned around, he found that several crocodiles had appeared behind him, and one of them floated up to expose his back to the surface.
"Oops!" The captain was alarmed, because he knew what the crocodile would do: the crocodile would make its back vibrate and send infrasound waves to get the attention of his companions. Sure enough, countless tiny droplets of water burst out from the crocodile's back like an innumerable explosion, and I didn't expect that the crocodile's courtship tricks would be used like this to call for companions, and I had never heard of such a thing. The captain jumped out of the water to the shore, he didn't dare to underestimate the death rolling of crocodiles while hunting, let alone the swarms of crocodiles.
Still on the road in the jungle on land, a strange figure appeared in front of him.