Chapter 89: 'Monster'

"That leopard, that leopard is so strong, he killed so big a fish in the water. That's enough for the whole family to eat. Tina muttered as she looked at the leopard waiting quietly in the water.

"It was a brilliant and fatal blow, but unfortunately it wasn't necessarily the winner. Zhang Lisheng stretched his neck, pointed to a floating piece of four- or five-meter-long rotten wood and whispered.

As he spoke, the rotten wood had already floated down the river to the big fish, and suddenly, a huge mouth emerged in the river, biting the big fish that was still struggling desperately, and suddenly spun in the water.

Under the dual action of sharp teeth and huge centrifugal force, the body of the big fish was directly torn into two, and the blood stained a large area of the river red.

The prey was taken, but the leopard did not make any indication of attack, but rushed towards the shore in the water.

Not only the cheetah, but even the tuta on the canoe suddenly stopped, and together with his men, he stared intently at the river.

When encountering hunting black caimans in the Amazon rivers, caution is the most basic thing to do.

Fortunately, the crocodile, which swallowed a whole fish of tens of kilograms without hard work, obviously had no intention of continuing to hunt, and after filling its stomach, it turned into rotten wood, floated on the surface of the river and slowly floated away.

Seeing the threat go away, the canoe began to continue sailing, and after witnessing the cruel ecology of the jungle, except for Zhang Lisheng, the rest of the young people had no longer the relaxed mentality they had just now.

What made Jin even more depressed was that as Tina's mood turned from sunny to cloudy, the clouds slowly thickened, and it rained heavily after a while.

Although the expensive outdoor jacket is surprisingly effective at sheltering from the rain, the canoe's unique drainage system only works when the rainwater pours into the wooden boat and does not pass half the stern of the boat.

In other words, as long as it rains for more than 20 minutes or so, half of the passengers in the canoe will sit in the water.

It didn't matter if it was an hour or two, but after soaking in the river for seven or eight hours, Xitu, who felt that his body was starting to swell, couldn't help but shout: "Are we going to soak in the water like this for a month?"

Hell yes, Mr. Tuta, we paid 50,000 yuan for the tour guide, and we didn't ask for too good treatment, as long as we had a cabin that could shelter from the rain, do you have to save that little money on gas?

By the way, I forgot, your canoe also burns oil..."

"Shut up," Helia yelled irritably behind her boyfriend, "I knew you'd be the first to complain." ”

"Let your boyfriend complain for a while, miss, and after a few years, he will naturally not have such energy.

The first two days of sailing on the Amazon River were the easiest part of our journey, and I encourage you to complain while you can.

"The longer he was on the road, the more Tuta's temperament changed, and his words gradually increased, and he seemed a little more 'flavorful' than when he was in Tuyi Kano, but his words became more and more bitter.

Talents and abilities cannot be inherited, but the underlying temperament may be passed down from generation to generation with the bloodline, and with the development of genetics, biologists have even found the genetic code that determines character.

Xitu's great-great-grandfather was a self-made man who created the most legendary myth of the rise of the world's financial history in just 30 years, and a large part of the reason for his success was his paranoid tenacity.

The guide's words aroused the hidden tenacity in Xitu's character, and he stopped complaining, wiped the rain from his face vigorously, gritted his teeth gloomily, and did not say a word of nonsense until the sun went down and the canoe stopped in the middle of the Amazon River and dropped anchor.

After anchoring on the night-stained river, Tuta announced: "We will rest on the river tonight, and you can sleep after eating." ”

"But the boat is full of water, and if you lie down, you will drown, and we should at least go to the shore and camp. ”

"This is a wooden boat dug by the Wata Lulu tree, when the rain stops, the water in the boat will naturally be cloudy soon, before this you can lie on the boat and sleep, the road we are taking now, the waterway is safe, the land is dangerous, you can only sleep on the boat for the first two nights. ”

Tuta's words left the young ladies looking at each other and speechless, and after barely eating a little bit of nutrition bars and chocolates made from meat thousands, nuts, almond thousands, and dehydrated vegetables, they lay on the boat with a bitter face, staring at the dark sleep of the Amazon River, and forced themselves to fall asleep.

It is common sense to rest early to maintain sufficient physical strength in the wilderness, and sometimes sleep is more important than food.

It's a pity that in this almost harsh environment, it's not extremely tired, how can the young people fall asleep, and after looking at their own shadowy reflection in the water for a while, Tricy suddenly asked softly, "Tina, Helia, are you asleep?"

"Nope. ”

"I'm not sleepy at all, dear. ”

"I'm sorry to drag you guys to this kind of place. ”

"Don't be stupid, it's voluntary. ”

"Even so, it's also very nice here, at least you can enjoy the beautiful nature from the closest distance..."

Tina and Xie Liya hurriedly comforted their guilty friend, when Zhang Lisheng suddenly interjected weakly and said, "Trisy, it's too late for us to go back now." ”

The boy is also exhausted at this moment, in fact, he does not have a lot of experience in walking and jumping in the forest, when he lived in the village of Ouwo in western Sichuan, he only entered the dense forest twice alone after becoming a 'witch', and only once spent the night; the rest in Tattutu crossed the rainforest once, sitting on the back of a witch insect, flying over the top of the trees, and never suffered the hardships of sleeping in the jungle at all, and now I understand the difficulties of experiencing it myself.

It's a pity that Tina doesn't understand the young man's feeling of being tired now, she turned her head to look at Zhang Lisheng, "Shut up Lisheng, when have you been talking like this."

Besides, as a hunter in the jungle, shouldn't you have adapted to this kind of life a long time ago, why do you still seem so half-dead?"

Tina was talking when suddenly Tuta, who was keeping vigil at the bow of the ship, whispered, "Silence, a tiger is coming." ”

This warning was followed by a distant 'Woo-woo'.

Looking in the direction from which the voice came, a pair of bright flaxen-colored eyes appeared and disappeared in the jungle on the shore in the moonlight, and in the eyes of the beasts living in the deep mountains, they were huge and had a strange posture when they walked upright, and they generally did not take the initiative to attack.

However, as long as they try to attack an unarmed classified, the large carnivores will instinctively fall in love with hunting, which is slow, fat, and has little ability to resist, and even deliberately feeds on it in the future, which is the origin of 'eating tigers' and 'eating lions'.

Now that the tigers on the shore hunt at night, they always circle the canoes in the river, and it is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous signal to fall into the eyes of the earth, and Vataruru put three blowpipes into his mouth at the same time.

It is important to know that although the Amazon tiger is small, it is good at water, and in a sense, the entire jungle is its hunting range, and there are no dead ends.

But when everyone on the wooden boat was frightened, Zhang Lisheng ignored the guide's warning, and still whispered to Tina's question, "I'm a good hunter in the jungle, but I just found out that I still prefer to live in a classified society." ””

As he spoke, he looked at the jungle in the distance, his mouth squirmed slightly, and in an instant, the flaxen round eyes that were flashing with a chilling light in the woods suddenly disappeared without a trace as if they were swallowed by a black hole that suddenly opened.

A faint smell of blood came, and the faces of the earthdoers on the ship showed a shocking color, and they quietly leaned down, even Vatarururu, who had just made a battle stance.

"A monster bit off the tiger's body, but couldn't see anything.

Listen and lie down slowly, don't show your head so obviously, if you get the attention of that monster, we will surely die. Tuta said in a soft voice.

"Is it a crocodile or a python?" asked Tina in a whisper as she leaned down with a pale face.

"No, I said, it's a monster.

Stop making noise. Tuta lowered his voice and said in a solemn voice.

Zhang Lisheng on the side saw Tina's frightened gaze in the moonlight, nervous to the point that his body trembled slightly, hesitated, patted her shoulder gently, smiled and waved his hand, and then immediately made a zipper tightening action on his mouth with his face.

Tina was stunned for a moment, then suddenly opened her eyes wide, and silently opened and closed her mouth, "What the hell are you doing?"

Zhang Lisheng didn't answer directly, and said silently, "Don't be afraid." After this word, he lay his head on the boat, looked at the ignorant dense forest in the distance, and sighed.

The jungle expedition was far more arduous than he could have imagined, and he felt an unbearable sense of torment.

Unconsciously, the first night of the canoe passed with fear, into stability, and into irritability.

The second sun rises, diluting the fog in the rainforest.

When the first rays of sunlight hit their faces, they stayed up until the middle of the night before finally smiling and falling asleep on the cramped wooden boat, and the young people were awakened by the sudden shaking of the canoe.

Sleepy-eyed and looking around, they realized that the propellers of the wooden boat had been activated, and they had moved forward 'suddenly...".

"Wake up and wash your face, remember not to use the water from the river, but the rainwater from the boat.

It's the same with drinking water. As soon as the young people woke up, Tuta, who stood at the bow of the boat with a machete in his hand, reminded without looking back.

The young men with blank expressions, who had been tormented by a night on the water, nodded silently, washed their faces and refreshed themselves with the somewhat muddy rainwater at the bottom of the boat, chewed a disinfectant tablet in their mouths, and drank a few mouthfuls of rainwater with their hands.