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Grizzly bear
Ficoville suggested that biscuits should not be used first. Wild fruits in the jungle can fill the stomach. Of course, there are various birds. It is delicious to catch them and roast them. There are also bird eggs, which are all good wild foods. .
"If you can hunt a wild boar, it wouldn't be better to stew a pot of meat." Someone seemed to be joking, trying to adjust the atmosphere.
"Then I would rather hunt a hare or a roe deer." Santos is the most unstable guy, always stunned and stunned along the way.
"Don't mess with animals easily." Ficoville said, "I just pray that there are endless wild fruits along the way."
Wild fruits are not eaten casually. Many fruits have a high oxalic acid content. When you eat them, you will have a burning sensation in your mouth. Excessive oxalic acid in your body can also harm your kidneys.
"Try to eat the fruit that has been pecked by the bird." Ficoville reminded. This is a good idea, and the bird has become a pioneer in food tasting.
When the sky darkened, the march stopped. In the primitive jungle, walking in the dark is very dangerous.
Finally found a relatively open space and planned to settle down, but Wankang felt that it was not appropriate. This kind of open land is rarely seen in the jungle, and of course it will be a place where wild beasts frequently appear. They also need a place where they can stretch out, even among the same kind.
Climbing up a thick root of the tree, Wan Kang looked around. A large piece of turf was trampled on the back of the tree, and there was fresh earth turning on the side. "Ficoville, come and see!" Wan Kang greeted.
Ficoville was alert and ran over immediately.
"This turf is very suspicious, it's flattened, and there is soil beside it." Wan Kang said, "has anyone been here?"
"It's not a person, it's a bear." Ficoville said, "I encountered this during the special training of the army. This is because the bear is digging roots, or it may be looking for gophers."
Wankang sounded like a bear, and his hair was suddenly terrified. Without a gun, it was very scary to face a huge bear. "Is Xiong Hui back?" Wan Kang asked.
"Usually I won't come back, even if I come back, it won't be in a short period of time."
"How did you know that Xiong just left?" Wan Kang said, "Maybe it was two days ago."
"You mean, it's dangerous to be stationed here?"
"Very dangerous." Wankang said, "Unless we make a bonfire and don't mess with it, we will be slapped by the bear's paw."
"I think it's better to stay away." Ficoville greeted, and continued to march.
Santos looked closer and found fresh bear dung, "Hey, it's okay, this is the dung that the bear has just passed away, that is to say, it has just left."
Santos does not intend to leave.
Hunger, thirst and fatigue, let everyone relax and potentially dangerous, and after all, there are six people together.
In the end, they stayed in place.
Ficoville clarified the division of labor. Two people were in fire, two people picked wild fruits, and two people set up tents.
Wankang and Ficoville were responsible for making the fire, which was relatively easy. Find the dry branches and leaves, light the tinder with a metal match, and then ignite the branches and leaves with the tinder, and then surround them with branches to form a cone. This method of enclosing the fire, even if the branches outside are somewhat damp, they will gradually be dried and continue to burn, and will not be flame retardant. Of course, there is an important procedure. A shallow trench in the shape of a "cross" must be dug directly below the fire, so that ventilation can be formed and a draught wind will be formed, so that the fire will not decrease.
All of these have not been encountered by Wan Kang. Ficoville is very skilled. When he was in Australia, he had a lot of similar field survival training. Of course, the conditions were far less difficult than now.
It takes a bit of work to set up a tent, because there is no rain poncho, let alone a light tarp, only the branches of the tree. Before this, cut a few slightly thicker branches and insert them firmly on the ground as a support, then tie them firmly on the upper part, and finally put the branches on. The branches should be placed in two layers, the bottom layer should not be leaves for support, the upper layer should be leaves, and the discharge should be smooth, so that even if there is rain, it will flow down and prevent rain from leaking.
Picking wild fruits is not troublesome, but dangerous, because the chance of being bitten by insects and snakes is very high. Santos was one of them. He was holding a branch and slapping the grass in front of him, hoping that the snakes and insects would leave after being frightened.
After about half an hour, everything is ready.
Wankang had already boiled the water with a helmet, and when the wild fruit came, put it in and boiled it vigorously. Boiled wild fruits will make it easier for the stomach and intestines, and secondly, it can remove the excess oxalic acid in the wild fruits, making it safer to eat.
After eating the wild fruits, everyone went to the tent, and the ground was covered with a layer of very dry branches, the only way to prevent moisture.
Wankang and Ficoville cannot rest at the same time. The purpose of making a fire is not only to boil wild fruits, but also to keep warm, but also to scare away wild beasts.
The two take turns to rest and must ensure that the bonfire is not extinguished.
Ficoville went to bed in the middle of the night, and his energy was obviously weak. Wan Kang guarded the bonfire and did not dare to be careless. What worried him was not only the attack from the beast, but also the threat from Santos. From Santos's eyes, Wan Kang clearly felt murderous, which made him wonder. Just one sentence could make Santos so angry, and it was true.
However, Wankang believes that there will always be a time when the contradiction is relieved. After all, it is a fighting group.
Want to smoke, but no. Wan Kang got up and fumbled for the weeping vines, and the dry branches could be ignited and sucked.
There are many weeping vines here.
A tree trunk that is more than 20 meters high has many branches and climbing vines entwined on it. Many of them hang down, and some are even close to the ground to form weeping vines. At the beginning, Wan Kang was very worried about the viper clinging to it and suddenly took a bite.
No problem in the first half of the night.
At twelve o'clock, Wan Kang woke up Ficoville, "It's me."
Ficoville yawned, * his eyes rose up, "Well, I'll guard."
The beating light of the bonfire disappeared in front of Wankang's eyes. When Wankang lay down, his eyelids were so heavy that he could no longer lift them up, and he was too sleepy.
When the sky was getting dark, the station was silent. Ficoville hugged a tree stick, curled up in front of the campfire and fell asleep.
Only ashes remained from the bonfire, with a slight white smoke.
A bear is slowly approaching, and the rash of humans has invaded its territory. It wants to shoot these abrupt guys to death. However, the raging campfire made it tremble. But not now, even if there is a fire, it is not so terrible in the daytime.
The heavy but not stupid body moves forward quietly.
A dead branch played a key role. It was trampled off by the grizzly, and it made a crisp sound.
Ficoville opened his eyes suddenly, and a huge guy was just tens of meters away, looking at them coldly.
"There are bears!"
Ficoville's horrified cry suddenly exploded in the jungle. The birds perched on the tree fled to the sky, dropping a few messy leaves, and sliding down leisurely.
The five people in their sleep, who had been vigilant at first, jumped up immediately after Ficoville was awakened.
"Go up, climb up!" Ficoville pointed to the weeping vines.
I have practiced a lot of vertical crawling, and finally it was not in vain. Ficoville grabbed the nearby rope and climbed up. Wankang had never practiced, but he did not lose the wind, and even climbed up with his hands and feet. About five meters above the ground, Ficoville asked everyone to cut the weeping vines, otherwise they would be caught by the bear, and they would not be able to pull them off.
The Grizzlies was even more annoyed when the attacking target suddenly lifted into the sky. It rushed over frantically, pulled down the tent it had built, and stepped on what was left on the ground.
Seeing the grizzly bear so angry, the people clinging to the weeping vines were terrified. The angry bears are particularly patience, and may sit underneath until someone falls.
"Climb to the canopy and down the branches elsewhere!" Ficoville greeted.
This is the only way to escape. Wan Kang looked up and happened to see Santos, he was close to Wan Kang's weeping vine.
Santos' eyes made Wan Kang's back chill, it was a kind of killing.
Everyone was climbing for their lives, and no one cared about the field knife in Santos's hand, swinging a small arc, across the weeping vines that the resistance was attached to.
Before Wan Kang had time to shout, he reached out and grabbed another weeping vine. However, the cunning Santos had long expected, and continued to wield the field knife.
The fall is inevitable, and Wankang can't tell what it feels like. To Santos, there is no resentment, because time cannot tolerate his resentment, he must think about how to survive.
The grizzly bear didn't care about someone falling in the sky, and was spinning around the burning ashes, living in this jungle, maybe it had never seen a fire in its entire life, and was scared and curious.
***When he fell, Wankang contracted his abdominal muscles and adjusted his posture. He saw the grizzly bear directly below. There is no other way but to fight to the death.
The field knife was sharp and heavy. Wan Kang held it in his hand and felt a trace of comfort. At this moment, only weapons are the best friends.
The settling should be close to the side of the grizzly bear. If you curl up, you may hit the grizzly's back, which can buffer most of the impact of the fall. Of course, this is not the main thing, Wan Kang wanted to take advantage of the situation to stab the field knife into the back of the Grizzlies' neck.
For vertebrates, it is a very deadly place.
With a "poof", Wan Kang landed on the grizzly bear and thrust the field knife into the back of its neck. The grizzly was just a shudder, and immediately pounced on the ground.
Fortunately, this knife severed the grizzly bear's nerve center.
The sound alarmed the team members on Weeping Vine. They looked down at the scene on the ground and froze.
"Wangkang, great!" Ficoville exclaimed heartily after he went down to the ground, "Where did you get so courageous?"
Wan Kang looked at Santos, the expressionless guy was motionless. "If I don't take the risk, we may not be able to get out." Wan Kang said, "Or, maybe not all of them can get out. Just so, I saw the grizzly bear walked directly below me, so I cut off my weeping vines and rushed. Come down."
Wan Kang did not say that it was Santos's hand, not because he was afraid of him, but because he wanted to give him a shock. Unexpectedly, you can often receive unexpected results.
Santos was ready. If Wankang said it was his knife, he would say that due to tension, the field knife he was holding had touched Wankang's weeping vine.
But Wan Kang didn't say that. Santos was not calm anymore. He couldn't guess what Wan Kang was thinking or how to do it.