The early morning sunlight struggled to break through the dense rainforest canopy, and those speckled light spots passed through the faint morning mist that filled the rainforest, like arrows that exuded brilliance and shot diagonally on the branches and leaves of the trees and shrubs on the ground.
The echoing roars of howler monkeys came from the treetops overhead, mixed with the noisy calls of various birds, and the first day of the jungle began in this vibrant way.
Steven and Kate had already finished their breakfast, smeared on the plant sap collected yesterday, carried backpacks in the jungle, cut away bushes and branches blocking the road, and marched in the endless green ocean.
Steven led the way ahead, and Kate followed a few meters behind him.
Every time they travel for a period of time, they will stop, take out the compass, and check the direction they are going to make sure that they have not deviated from the planned direction. At the same time, they will also take a short rest. In terms of physical strength, the two of them have no problem at all, so they do not feel any discomfort when walking like this.
You are tired, but the extremely humid environment makes it difficult for people to perspire. Resting is to allow the sweat to evaporate slightly and keep the body properly dry.
Of course, once you master the survival skills in the rainforest, you don't have to worry about replenishing water. Even if there are no rivers or streams nearby, the water contained in many plants is enough for two people to solve the drinking water problem.
The morning passed quickly. The two found a place with few bushes and sat down to have lunch. The lunch consisted of the dried meat they brought and the cassava and purple banana dumplings they had processed last night. They concentrated on it in the morning.
On the road, there was no hunting.
After eating and resting for a while, the two took out the compass to confirm the direction and continued to move southwest. After traveling for more than an hour, Steven, who was leading the way with a machete, stopped and raised his left hand.
Holding her fist, this was a gesture to stop moving forward and there was something going on ahead. When Kate saw it from behind, she immediately stopped, lowered her body, and took off the hunting bow on her back.
Steven, who was in front, also bent down and made another gesture to Kate behind him without looking back. It turned out that he heard some noise in the distance, which seemed to be coming from some kind of herbivorous animal.
The chirping sound should be that of the common short-horned antelope in the jungle. Kate, who was in the rear, heard it and leaned down behind Steven. After they confirmed the wind, Steven inserted the machete and took out the hunting bow, and then
The two of them lay low and slowly approached the front.
After a while, they avoided the dense branches and came to the back of a big tree. Not far ahead, there was a short-horned antelope grazing in the forest. Steven drew his bow and arrow, ducked out of the tree trunk, and shot at the short-horned antelope.
After shooting an arrow, the antelope was very keen. The vibration of the bow string woke it up. It turned around quickly and tried to escape, but the speed of the arrow was faster. As soon as it turned around, the arrow was already inserted into its back.
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The short-horned antelope jumped into the dense jungle with the arrow half-embedded in its body. The two men walked out from behind the big tree and followed the blood trail to track the antelope, which should not have gone far.
After walking a few hundred meters further, there were fewer and fewer shrubs and trees on the ground. Some of the blood of the short-horned antelope was sprinkled on the grass on the ground. After walking around the trunks of several large trees, they heard the moo of the antelope.
Yelling, Steven stopped, made a gesture, and then squatted down.
Kate followed Steven and squatted down, and later came to Steven's side. She saw the antelope dozens of meters away in front of her, trapped by a large gray-white wire mesh. It kept struggling and moaning, but this antelope was
It can be wrapped more tightly.
These wire meshes surrounded a large area and were intertwined among dozens of tree trunks within the area. The highest height was more than ten meters above the ground. They and the antelope were in a circle surrounded by wire mesh on three sides.
It's just that the antelope didn't notice because it was running away in panic and got entangled in the wire net.
At this time, Steven raised his head. Kate followed Steven's line of sight and extended upward along the tree trunks dozens of meters away in front. Then she saw a huge one between several tree trunks and branches that were very close to each other.
The round cocoon room in the silk cocoon was at least as big as a small house. At this moment, two long black limbs stretched out from the hole diagonally below the silk cocoon.
Then, in their eyes, a huge black spider crawled out of the hole in the silk cocoon. Its front legs were very long, and its body with four pairs of legs was as big as the torso of a buck deer.
It is also dragging a huge round belly, which should be its belly. The shiny black belly is dotted with yellow spots the size of a human head and sparse and upright mane, which makes people feel a strong sense of danger.
After the thing climbed out of the nest, it crawled down the tree trunk at a very fast speed, and soon came to the top of the tightly entangled antelope. The antelope was struggling in vain and moaning, and the spider quickly swooped down.
The two claw limbs in his mouth pierced the antelope's back like lightning, and the antelope stopped struggling in just a few seconds.
Steven was just about to wait for the spider to bring its prey back to its lair to enjoy the food, when he felt the thing lock onto him. He had to stand up, take off his backpack and hand it to Kate beside him, then pulled out the straight knife and pointed at it at the same time.
Kate beside her said: "Let's go back and I'll cut off the queen!"
Kate did not speak, but caught the backpack and immediately turned around and backed away in the direction he came from. At the same time, he put the hunting bow behind his back and pulled out the machete. Steven turned sideways and held the straight knife in front of him and slowly stepped back.
, at this time, the giant spider had stepped over the antelope's body and came to the ground. It paused on the ground, made a hissing sound, and then rushed towards Steven!
At this time, Kate had retreated to the big tree they had just bypassed. He then hid behind the big tree. At this time, the spider had rushed to a distance of less than 10 meters from Steven. It was lying on the ground at the same height as when it was sprinting.
It was as high as Steven's chest, and the belly dragged behind it was even higher than Steven's head. The movement of its eight long limbs could no longer be seen clearly. At this time, it opened its claws in its mouth and sprayed
A gray-white silk ball flew towards Steven, and there were some thin threads behind the silk ball connected to its mouth.
Steven quickly dodged aside, and the ball of silk flew past him. When he was about to reach the tree trunk in front, he was pulled back by the spider. The pair of claw limbs on his upper jaw kept swinging back and forth, moving the silk.
The group was quickly put back into the stomach.
The spider did not stop while retracting the silk ball. After it retracted the silk ball, it rushed towards Steven like lightning, and at the same time opened its curved claw limbs!
Steven kept retreating sideways, maintaining his posture even when dodging. The retreat speed in this posture must be much slower than the spider's sprint. When he noticed that Kate had hidden behind the tree trunk and was heading towards another