At night, the moon emerges from the thick clouds, illuminating the mysterious and deep rain forest.
After nightfall, the temperature gradually became colder. Zeng Yingying and Wei Lan curled up next to the fire to sleep. The soldier sat far away, slapping mosquitoes on his face from time to time. His eyelids drooped without blinking, as if he was extremely sleepy.
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Gong Xue stood quietly by the lake. The cool night breeze, mixed with the smell of lake water and moss, blew in her face, making her feel refreshed.
The night was already deep, but she did not feel sleepy at all. The quiet lake water was glowing with a light blue sheen, and through the mist on the water, the outline of the rainforest not far away could be vaguely distinguished.
The world she had lived on on the plateau made her feel inexplicably familiar. Being here was like walking all over again along the path she had taken on the plateau, and she felt a strange sense of intimacy.
Thinking of Zeng Yingying and the others saying that this place was hell, a demonic realm, and an abyss of eternal destruction, she couldn't help but want to refute it. She wanted to tell them that this place was not a terrible place, but a holy place in the hearts of the people she loved deeply.
Heaven..
Thinking of the plateau, my heart still feels a twinge of pain.
Although the pain is not as sharp as before, it still hurts. When I think of him, I can't help but get red eyes.
Her fingers subconsciously touched her chest, and the empty touch made her expression freeze on her face. Then, her pupils darkened, showing deep disappointment.
"A Yuan..." Thousands of words turned into a long sigh and disappeared with the lake...
In the end, she couldn't keep anything, whether it was people or tokens...
I can't keep them all...
She closed her eyes heavily and stood by the lake for a long time, as if she was deeply repenting to the moonlight.
In the dead of night, Gong Xue walked alone across the moon field and walked into the nearby woods to see if the trap she had set before had any results.
A rope and a piece of fish meat can capture the energy source for the next few days. This is a simple hunting method that Gao Yuan once taught her.
Walking into the grove, the knotted old vines stretched towards the sky, but they could not cover the shadow of the crescent moon. In the grass about half a person's height, a group of summer insects were singing their joy lively.
There is actually something in the noose.
A huge rainforest ground rat actually got into the trap she set and became tightly entangled in the rope.
As if he had predicted his fate, the gopher stared at the strange intruder with his gray eyes in fear, trying desperately to escape.
Five o'clock in the morning.
After Gong Xue buried the leftover food scraps from last night deep into the pit, she woke up the team members on time and set off.
After a night's rest, Zeng Yingying and Wei Lan seemed to be in much better spirits. Da Bing was originally a man of few words, but after setting off, he took the initiative to chat with Gong Xue, who was leading the team.
"Captain, what were you doing burying those bones just now?" He didn't quite understand.
Gong Xue pushed aside the tangled grass and explained without looking back: "The smell of animal heads, internal organs and skins left over from the processing of prey will attract dangerous beasts. For safety reasons, it is best to bury them deeply."
The soldier yelled, "Then I see you were still cutting fresh meat in the morning. Aren't you afraid of attracting bears and wolves?"
Gong Xue shook her head, "Probably not. The chance of wild beasts coming out during the day is smaller, and I sprinkled a lot of salt on it to cover up a lot of the smell. As long as I finish it before dark, there will be no danger."
Ding Bing asked curiously: "What kind of animal meat is that? Is it a rabbit? How did you catch it?" Judging from the shape and size, it should be an animal like a hare. He was very curious about how Gong Xue caught it.
A girl who looks weak seems to have endless energy and wisdom.
Gong Xue paused as she put the stick into the grass, and then she said lightly: "I caught it with a noose."
"Noose? How did you get it?" The soldier's curiosity was completely aroused.
"I will teach you again tonight when we camp." Gong Xue said.
Today Gong Xue planned to march a kilometer. However, after walking less than 8 kilometers, they discovered that the supply station marked on the map did not exist at all. When the soldiers went to urinate in the forest, they were attacked by a savage with the same color as the bark of the tree.
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Although he was not injured, the "savage" stole the soldier's backpack and water bottle and escaped into the rainforest.
The soldier was so frightened that he pointed at the quiet forest and stared for a long time, unable to say a word.
Zeng Yingying and Wei Lan, who were trembling all over, hugged each other, even more panicked and uneasy than the soldiers...
Only Gong Xue circled around vigilantly, and then she found two complete footprints behind the tree where the soldier was leaning.
These two huge footprints are the incriminating evidence left by the "savages".
Gong Xue pushed aside the weeds on it, looked at it carefully, then frowned and took off her military boots.
Zeng Yingying, who followed Gong Xue as a life-saving talisman, asked in confusion: "Why did you take off your shoes?"
Gong Xue replied that it was useful, and pressed her military boots deeply next to the "savage's" footprints.
After comparing for more than ten seconds, Gong Xue's lips raised slightly.
"Give me your military boots." She said to Zeng Yingying.
Zeng Yingying's mouth was wide open, and she really couldn't figure out what Gong Xue's intention was in asking her to take off her shoes.
She still took off her boots and handed them to Gong Xue.
Soon, her boots also left traces next to the footprints.
Gong Xue looked at it again and again, and finally said with certainty: "It's not the footprints of savages, it's the marks of the field boots of the special forces in the field."
Everyone else was stunned.
Special Forces? Not Savage?
How did she know?
Gong Xue didn't explain much. She just pointed to the shoe prints on the ground and said, "You can see it from there."
Zeng Yingying and Wei Lan still doubt Gong Xue's judgment, but Dabing is convinced.
He recalled that the savage who had just snatched his backpack was quick, cruel and deadly, and did not look like the work of an uncivilized jungle savage.
Gong Xue thought to herself, since the special forces team members have come out to deal with these rookies, it seems that it is not a coincidence.
The attack incident was closely related to Lu Tuan and Gao Lie. I originally thought it was just a time-consuming and laborious extreme survival test, but I didn't expect that they actually arranged a special test...
The next trip can be described as difficult.
First, when Wei Lan and Zeng Yingying went to fetch water from the stream, they were ambushed by a trap set by the special forces team. The water was not fetched, but the kettle was swept away by the rushing stream.
Four people lost three water bottles, which made the rest of the trip extremely difficult.
Because Gong Xue knows that even in a rainforest with high humidity, drinking water regularly is very important. Although the human body does not often feel thirsty at this time, high temperature and high humidity environments are more likely to cause dehydration of the body unknowingly.
A kettle that loses its source of water is equivalent to losing the possibility of extreme survival.
Those special operations team members who saw the dragon but never saw the end were simply too ruthless.
In fact, the most ruthless person was not the special forces team members, but the initiator who ordered them to stumble, that... person she never wanted to meet again in her life...