Chapter 90: The Flood Strikes
The canoe turned into a narrower channel, and Tuta's machete came in handy, cutting in two the branches of the barricade that had escaped from the side.
The rain began to fall again, and the water began to accumulate in the canoe again, this time for two nights in a row, until the canoe came to a halt at a secluded abandoned pier.
The pier was built on a flat, rammed mud floor, made of completely hard logs, and the ground seemed to be inlaid with planks arranged in such a neat order that the gap between the two planks could not even penetrate the rainwater.
After getting off the boat, Tina couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Tuta, I really didn't expect that there was a dock in the Amazon jungle, who built it?"
"Duturu entered.
There are hundreds of such fishing docks in the jungles of Tattututu, and tens of thousands of fishing boats used to moor at these docks.
But now that the tribe has disappeared and Itodu has gone to the city, these docks have been abandoned. Tuta replied by tying the canoe firmly to a rough log in the dock.
"I didn't expect you to be able to build such a dock," Tina saw a tall wooden pole erected near the place where the canoe docked, and a few stone disc pulleys were cleverly tied to the wooden pole with bark ropes, and said in admiration: "That seems to be a pulley group, your white spoon ancestors are really smart..."
"That's not what our Tattutus ancestors used, it's the machinery that our fathers used thirty or forty years ago.
Miss, in the days when you have already launched airplanes, we have nothing to be proud of in pulling up our catch to dry with pulleys. Tuta gestured to his men as he stepped out of the docks and into the forest.
Tina opened her mouth and felt that she had nothing to say, so she could only walk beside Zhang Lisheng in silence, and followed the guide into the depths of the jungle.
As soon as they entered the dense forest, the light dimmed for a while, and it took them for their eyes to get used to the shadows before they could see the blurred shadows of the surrounding scenes, and their steps became much slower.
In addition to the sound of footsteps on the soaked muddy ground, there is the sound of insects and small beasts moving on the quiet woodland.
Occasionally, there was the sound of a tree branch being trampled on, and Tuta would inevitably stop and carefully observe the movement around him until he was sure that it was safe to do so.
"We can't even go five kilometers at this speed, and we may not be able to reach our destination for the rest of our lives. After walking for an unknown amount of time, Walter, who felt that his leg was sore, suddenly said irritably.
This is the first time he has complained since entering Amazon, and it seems that the endurance of the most motivated young man at Vortanley High School in New York has reached the limit.
"We're not walking around the city," Tuta, who walked in the middle of the procession, said in a scathing tone, "If you go too fast, you'll go straight into the belly of the python." ”
As he spoke, he suddenly let out an excited 'oh wow wrh whizz yam whizzo whizzy yam
Seeing Puguta smearing the leaves of the harvested trees and smearing them with the dung of the thousand dried beasts he carried with him, Tuta looked at Walter and said, "Hey, I didn't expect you to be lucky, just complained about the slow walking, and we can move forward quickly."
Remember to stop complaining about walking too fast and going hard. ”
As he spoke, he kept walking at the front of the group, and Duta, who was disappearing from time to time, ran to Puguta's side, took over the small tree with a faint smoke, and ran around the team with light steps, so that all those who entered were stained with a little foul-smelling smoke, and then flicked his arms, and ran to the front of the team, speeding up his pace and running forward.
"With the smoking, tiger dung-smeared Tubula tree, the usual poisonous insects and wild beasts will avoid us from afar, walk quickly, and step on our white spoon footprints. Tuta looked at Duta's vanishing back, spoke, and ran briskly along Duta's footprints.
The young ones staggered for a moment, and had to speed up their pace and staggered through the jungle.
A Tubula tree can be smoldered for about 40 minutes, burn one out, rest for more than ten minutes, and then light another tree, a cycle is controlled in about an hour, and the four Tubula trees dug up by Puguta are burned, just stuck in the noon time to replenish food.
When they were finally able to stop and sit under the tree and lean against the tree to breathe, the young people had already been squeezed out of their last physical strength, in fact, if it weren't for the treacherous area like the Amazon jungle, they would not have been able to persist in running in the woodland for so long.
"It seems that you have a little more strength than I thought, and it will make our journey much easier," Tuta said in a softer tone for the first time, looking at the young entrants who were slumped in the mud, looking like they couldn't even move their fingers.
The water is prepared by Duta, and after eating, I will ask Puguta to prepare some herbs for you..."
As he spoke, he suddenly heard a strange 'rumble' sound in the distance.
Tuta's face froze suddenly, and he shouted in astonishment: "There is such a sound of flood in this season!"
Duta went up the tree to see, didn't he..."
A rushing torrent rolled over the dense jungle, drowning out Tuta's roar, enveloping him and continuing into the distance.
In the face of the sudden disaster, the natives who are familiar with the jungle are as helpless as babies, in fact, not to mention the ordinary strength, even the supernatural strength seems so small.
Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting by the tree with Tina and panting, saw Tuta's frightened expression and immediately recited a witch spell desperately.
It's a pity that the island dragon hid its body, knocked out many trees, and when it rushed out of the dense forest, the sudden flood had already swept Zhang Lisheng inside.
After drinking a few mouthfuls of fishy muddy water in the water, he struggled to surface to summon witch insects, but unfortunately the huge impact of the flood made Zhang Lisheng powerless at all.
After a long period of raging floodwaters in the jungle, a huge floodplain of the Amazon River has been transformed beyond recognition, and finally it has come to a halt and gradually dispersed.
After the water supply dissipated, only a mess was left, and Zhang Lisheng, who was wrapped in it, was lying on the side of a fallen tree with a twisted body, and he did not live for a long time.
Suddenly, a mudflat not far away moved, and Tina, who was covered in mud, gasped for breath and sat up suddenly.
She was stunned for a long time, and after her body was replenished with enough oxygen, her head began to turn, and she slowly got up, looked around at a messy woodland in a panic, and was stunned for a while, and began to shout hoarsely: "Tracy, Celia, Lisheng, Mr. Tuta, where are you?"
Is there any, please answer, please..."
shouted a few times, but there was no response, Tina's emotions became more and more excited, "Hell, hell, hell, how can there be a flood in the jungle, God..."
"Tina, Tina, is that you?" Suddenly, a staccato female voice came from the distance.
"It's me, Tricy, Tricy dear, is that you?" Tina heard this, and ran in the direction from which the voice came from, and saw Tricy slowly rising from the ground in the midst of a verdant branch.
After the two girls converged, each other's emotions eased a lot, and they began to continue to look for their lost companions together, walking around, and soon they found Zhang Lisheng lying next to the tree.
Seeing that the boy didn't move, Tina suddenly ran to his side, and after probing his snort, he didn't hesitate to start breathing, while Tricy knelt on the ground and squeezed Zhang Lisheng's chest hard.
As Tina blew a mouthful of fresh air into Zhang Lisheng's stomach, and was squeezed out by Trisy, the young man's eyelids gradually began to turn, and he coughed violently, spit out a few mouthfuls of sewage, and breathed heavily.
Seeing that Zhang Lisheng was rescued, Tina breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the side.
Seeing this scene, Tricy was about to greet Zhang Lisheng for her, but suddenly saw that the thin boy lying down didn't even open his eyes, so he suddenly turned over and rolled away, and at the same time, a huge toad jumped out of the backpack.
After the toad appeared, it split its big mouth, whistling and inhaling a large amount of air, and its body was like a ball in just a few seconds, swelling to the size of a medium-sized bus, firmly guarding Zhang Lisheng under his abdomen.
Only then did the boy open his eyes, staring at everything around him with emotionless indifference.
Tricy was so shocked that she couldn't say a word at this time, and instinctively pulled the backpack behind her to her chest.
In the backpack was a historic Bible, a gift that the girl received at birth and baptism, and in the eyes of the devout bishops, it was undoubtedly resistant to all cults.
"Calm down, Li Sheng, it's me and Tricy, it's us. Tina was also stunned when she saw the mountain toad appear, but then shouted in a hoarse voice.
"Sorry didn't scare you. After seeing the surrounding situation clearly, Zhang Lisheng crawled out from under the belly of the mountain toad and said in a deep voice.
"Suddenly seeing a toad the size of a truck, do you think it will scare us," Seeing Zhang Lisheng come back to his senses, Tina was obviously relieved, "Lisheng, it seems that you not only have a big centipede that can bite a leopard, but also a, an 'ancient mascot' that can turn its body into a very large size." ”
The sudden flood swept through the Amazon jungle and now seems to be in no danger, everything is calm, and the actual situation is extremely bad.
Zhang Lisheng silently took out the satellite locator from his backpack and looked at it, and found that there was no position display on the screen, sighed and said: "It's called Mountain Toad, wait here, I'll summon another 'ancient mascot' here, so that we can be safer." Obviously, his poor situation has made him have no intention of hiding his strength.