Chapter 400: Into the Jungle
All the members of this, except for Big Boss Tang, have lived in the wild all year round and have rich experience. Not far from the campsite, there was a small river, and a few people took the prey in their hands and took it to the water's edge to clean it up. Then we started making dinner. A large pot of broth was cooked, and all the rest was grilled.
Not long after, the thick smell of meat came to my nose. Everyone did a lot of preparation for this archaeological expedition. Due to the remote location, we have prepared a lot of seasonings, including salt, spices, monosodium glutamate, etc., there are many types, and now they are just using it.
Everyone gathered around the campfire and started together. After a long day of walking, everyone is tired, and it is necessary to replenish enough nutrients and get a good night's rest. When I get up tomorrow morning, I'll be a good man again.
After dinner, Professor Derick took out a map and studied it with a few members of the security guards. After a full day of trekking, the team has advanced more than ten kilometers in the jungle and has gradually penetrated into the depths of the jungle.
At the current speed and line, a large tributary will be reached by noon tomorrow. Once there, you can make some rafts that move from the water down the river with less effort and time.
For this suggestion, the security guards don't care. Anyway, their physical strength is very good, whether it is walking or taking a boat, there is no problem. The key is that the archaeological team members, their physical strength and endurance are obviously more than a step behind these masters who have achieved cultivation, and they are mainly taking into account their actual situation when they move forward by boat.
Boss Tang even thought that if they were all his own people, it would be so troublesome to make a wooden raft there. As long as you let your subordinate change into the shape of a boat, you can go directly into the water, which is convenient and fast.
They deliberated. Everyone sat around the campfire and gossiped casually. By this time, it was completely dark. In this place far away from human beings, not only is there no TV, movies or anything like that. There are no electric lights, so they rely on campfires and flashlights to make people feel as if they have returned to ancient times.
Soon after, everyone dispersed. Climbed on top of their respective hammocks and rested. Looking at the hammock hanging between the two big trees, swaying, Boss Tang felt very strange. Moreover, with his current cultivation, even if he doesn't sleep for ten days and half a month, there is no problem.
The last few security guards who stayed behind extinguished the bonfire, and the order of duty also went over to rest. Big Boss Tang didn't go with everyone. Instead, he quietly said hello to a few of them, and left the camp to go farther away to collect samples of plants and animals.
Fearing that he would get lost in the darkness and not find the location of the campsite, Big Boss Tang didn't dare to go far, so he had to move around the camp. The animals that appear at night are very different from those during the day, and they are all kinds of ferocious predators. One after another.
It's just that when they met Boss Tang, they could only consider themselves unlucky and were accepted one by one. Tested by the Magnum Butler. It's not too far from the edge of the jungle here, and there are no spirit beasts that have awakened their spiritual wisdom and know how to cultivate. But Boss Tang always felt that in such a large jungle, there might not be no spirit beasts, and maybe they had to go deeper.
Go around the perimeter of the campsite. After walking a big circle, Big Boss Tang finally collected his troops and returned to the camp, quietly returned to the camp, climbed on top of his hammock, and rested a little. The harvest of this night is still very impressive, without the drag of those ordinary people, Boss Tang can speed up and do whatever he wants.
Early the next morning, as soon as the sun rose, everyone got up. If you rest early at night, you will naturally wake up early. After washing up by the creek and having a light breakfast, everyone packed up and continued into the jungle.
Walking in the primeval jungle is a very difficult task. No matter how strong the sun was outside, it was obscured by many tall trees. In the interior of the jungle, it is always eerie and dim, which makes people feel more oppressive.
If that's all there is to it, that's fine. But in this place, it rains a lot. Often without warning, there will be a torrential rain, drenching everyone all over, and there is no place to hide from the rain. Fortunately, the rain here usually doesn't last long, so everyone has to brave the rain.
By noon, the team arrived near a river as scheduled. This river, a tributary of the Amazon River, is about 10 meters wide. The river is very abundant, but the current is not very fast, and it is estimated that the surrounding terrain does not have great ups and downs, and the drop is not large.
According to the plan discussed yesterday, after arriving here, everyone stopped advancing, and the archaeological team members rested and cooked. A few members of the security team went to the surrounding forest to cut down some large trees and prepare to make a raft.
With the cultivation of a few of them, it is not easy to cut down a big tree, just a few knives down, you can bring down a big tree. Soon, they cut down a dozen large trees, cutting off all the branches and everything on them, leaving only the bare trunks.
Many of the big trees here are tens of meters high, and only a few people can hug them. The trees they chose were not so tall, only a dozen meters high and half a meter thick. After some simple processing, everyone dragged the timber to the edge of the river and began to tie the timber together to make a simple raft.
The rope or something has been prepared a long time ago, and a few of them, when they do this, they all seem to be quite skilled, and it seems that they have done it many times before. Boss Tang has no experience in this kind of thing, so he has to work on the side and help a little.
Soon after, a simple raft was set up. The whole raft is about ten meters long and five meters wide, enough for everyone here to sit on, and it looks very loose. They even erected a row of logs in the middle of the raft so that everyone could fix their backpacks and other things in this place, so as not to lose them by accident.
Next, several people worked together to push the raft into the water and fasten it to the shore with ropes to prevent it from drifting away with the current. At this time, the person in charge of making lunch has also prepared lunch. Everyone washed in the river and went over to eat together.
For the high efficiency of the security guards, Professor Derick and others can't help but appreciate it very much, and feel that this choice is really very correct. Originally, according to their estimates, it would have been necessary to make such a raft for a dozen people. Even the simplest one can take half a day, or even longer.
Who would have thought that in such a short period of time, these security guards have completed all their work, and they are really capable. After lunch, everyone can go straight to the boat and set off without any delay.
Time is efficiency, and being able to reach the location of that ruin as soon as possible will definitely have a head start over others. Professor Derick wasn't sure that the explorer who first discovered the ruins would tell many people about it. After all, something like this is not top-secret information, as long as you are willing to ask, you can always find the right person.
With this raft, the expedition's itinerary was significantly faster. After all, at night, everyone needs to rest, but rafts have such an advantage, you can travel day and night. As long as you arrange a person, grasp the direction, and when you encounter any obstacles, use a wooden pole to prop it up, and you can continue sailing.
Since it is downstream, it is very easy and convenient to let the raft drift downstream with little effort. After two days of drifting life, the group arrived at the predetermined location. Once here, you can't continue to drift in the boat, it will get farther and farther away from the goal, and you will have to get off the boat and walk through a large jungle.
The detailed line of action, Professor Derick and others, has long been studied repeatedly. The current approach is the least time-consuming and fastest one. Of course, there are countless routes that can get to the vicinity of your destination, as long as you are willing to take the time and not be afraid of the dangers of the jungle.
Several security guards worked together to tow the raft to the shore and hide it. When they're done and return, they can still use it. However, they did not return to the place of departure as they had been.
If you go upstream, it will cost a lot of manpower and time to make such a simple raft, which is not cost-effective. They had to continue on a raft and go down the river to another nearby country, where they would take a plane and return to the United States.
Now, they have reached the depths of the Amazon jungle, a place that is rarely visited by ordinary people. Compared to the place they first entered, it was obviously not a concept, after all, it was close to the gathering place of humans, and from time to time, some people would enter the jungle to explore.
Not only are there more types of plants and animals, but also many species that have not yet been discovered by human beings will appear from time to time. Unknown things are always scary, everyone cheered up, did not dare to be a little careless, and no one wanted any accidents to happen when they were about to approach the goal.
Speaking of which, it was also Derick and others who were lucky enough to hire them to take on the security of the team. After the efforts of Boss Tang, the current ** security company is very strong. Every security guard has at least the strength above the gas refining period, which is obviously not a level compared to those ordinary security companies.
It's just that they have just started to open their business to the outside world, and their reputation is not so loud and not well-known to the world. Boss Tang firmly believes that as long as time passes, the best security company will inevitably become the leading boss of the security industry in this world. Not only can they perform ordinary tasks, but even cultivators' tasks can be undertaken. (To be continued.) )