On the third day, Xu Qiao got up early, took his tools and walked out of the shelter.
The young Asian elephant had not left yet, and was eating, chewing banana leaves and young tree shoots. Seeing Xu Qiao coming out, it curled up one leg and slowly approached.
After changing the medicine and rebandaging it, Xu Qiao patted its nose and said, "It's almost healed. Let's go back to the herd."
The baby elephant naturally didn't understand what he said, so he just touched his face with his wet nose.
His eyes softened a little, and Xu Qiao took a knife, bamboo tube and other tools and left the shelter to look for food.
There are not many fish in the stream, and they are very small. Relying on this alone is not enough to guarantee food supply for the next ten days.
He has to go out and look for food.
Xiaowen and Daniel followed him.
After walking for a while, Xu Qiao squatted on the ground and motioned the camera to zoom in: "Look here, there are animal footprints and feces. The marks are still fresh. There must be small animals passing by here frequently. I want to set a trap here. If all goes well, I can get extra food supplies."
"The trap can continue to work while you rest until it helps you catch prey. Of course, there are also some considerations for where to set the trap, otherwise there is a high probability that you will get nothing."
"The best location is an area with frequent animal activity. It would be more suitable if there are traces of animal activity like here." Xu Qiao said, looking around, "I will teach you how to make a Paiute trap."
"This trap is relatively simple to operate, has a trigger system and can capture rodents or animals of similar size."
"The materials needed are easy to find, four branches, a rope, and a flat stone." Xu Qiao moved a stone about 30 centimeters long and wide and began to make a trap.
The camera recorded his movements.
Under the high-definition camera, you can see that his originally white and slender fingers are now covered with many tiny cuts, crisscrossing each other and looking a little hideous.
His movements were methodical, his fingers tangled around the rope and branches, and before long the trap was complete.
Wiping the sweat from the tip of his nose and forehead, Xu Qiao took a breath and said, "Okay, we'll come back tomorrow and hopefully we'll gain something."
Memorizing the location of the trap in his mind, Xu Qiao made marks along the way as he moved deeper.
When he caught a glimpse of a vine out of the corner of his eye, a look of surprise appeared on his face and he walked quickly towards it.
“Found something good.”
I saw that the vines in front of me were very thick and the skin was a little cracked.
"This is water vine. I'm going to cut off a few pieces to take back." Xu Qiao cut off a section of the vine with a knife and showed it to the camera. "Its skin is very dry, and from the cut surface you can see that there are dense pores in the middle, which store a lot of water."
Leaning in to smell it, Xu Qiao smiled and said, "It has a very refreshing fragrance."
The liquid gushed out from the cut surface with the knife, and he quickly took a bamboo tube to collect it. The liquid was slightly milky white and was placed in the green bamboo tube, just like nectar.
The flowing liquid quickly filled the bamboo tube.
"Its water storage capacity is really high." Xu Qiao sighed, "You can even use it as a shower head to wash your body. Of course, that would be a waste. You must not do that in a rainforest where survival resources are scarce."
"Do you know what I was most worried about before? If the fire in the shelter was extinguished, how would I replenish water in a short period of time? If there is no fire to boil water, it is best not to drink stream water or rainwater directly. But with this water vine, there is no need to worry about drinking raw water."
Xu Qiao took the bamboo tube, tilted his head back and took a big sip. The sweet taste filled his mouth. He curled his eyes and said, "It tastes good, sweet and refreshing."
“In this case, I think it tastes better than anything I’ve ever had.”
After hearing what he said, Xiaowen became curious about what it tasted like.
"But don't drink too much, this serum can stimulate the cardiovascular system." Xu Qiao said as he cut the water vines, "Do you know Viagra? The main raw material is concentrated from this serum."
Xiaowen: “???” Strange knowledge has been gained.
He couldn't help but glance at Xu Qiao's lower body, and a man's question popped up in his mind: Does it really have this effect
Xu Qiao didn't know the doubts in his mind, and continued: "My fire may go out at any time due to various conditions, so I'd better bring more water vines back, so as to avoid the dilemma of having no drinking water when the fire goes out."
After cutting a few roots and tying them together, Xu Qiao carried them on his back and continued walking forward.
Paying attention to the possible poisonous snakes in the dead leaves under his feet and on the trees beside him, Xu Qiao glanced at the lens and said, "One thing you must remember is to be grateful for everything nature has given you."
"Don't trample on or cherish any resources." He pointed at the water vines he was carrying on his back. "This kind of water vine, like the ones I collected, has been growing for at least seven or eight years, judging by the water content."
"A plant spent seven or eight years to provide you with life-saving water at this critical moment. Isn't this worth being grateful for?"
It was obviously a trivial matter that no one took seriously, but after Xu Qiao said this, it seemed to have a bit more heroic and tragic meaning.
“Hold a heart of gratitude and awe. Only in this way can you survive in danger. Humans are just a link in the food chain. The last thing we can do is the arrogance of thinking we are the masters.”
Xu Qiao's voice lowered as he spoke.
In the book "The End of the World", strange creatures from another world descended, the air was filled with strange elements, animals and plants mutated in a very short time, but the process of human mutation progressed slowly. Under such circumstances, humans fell from the top of the food chain to the bottom.
Once, when defending a city, humans were on the verge of extinction under the attack of alien creatures. In the end, a mutant kapok tree, whose leaves covered the entire city, saved the city. It is the city flower.
Finally, the kapok tree fell down, and its petals fell everywhere. Xu Qiao still remembers the sky full of kapok flowers, so bright red and warm.
The process of finding food was not smooth. After collecting some wild fruits, Xu Qiao returned to the shelter.
We spent another week in the rainforest, and on the tenth day it rained heavily in the middle of the night.
When Xu Qiao got up in the morning, the rain had stopped. He walked to the shack where the fire was kept and took a look. The smoldering fire inside could not be preserved in the heavy rain.
"The fire is out. It's a bit regrettable, but this is normal. You will encounter all kinds of accidents in the rainforest." There was no frustration on Xu Qiao's face, just a little tired.
The fact that he persisted in the rainforest for ten days was beyond the expectations of the program crew.
Two thirds have been completed. As long as we can persevere in the last third, this recording will come to a successful conclusion.
But each day after that will be more difficult than the day before.
The lack of food and the exhaustion of physical energy made Xu Qiao's spirit worse day by day.
In the camera, he looked obviously much more haggard than before.
After cleaning up the mess, Xu Qiao looked around and said, "I'm going out to look for food. If I come back early, I'll try to make fire by rubbing two sticks together."
"It would be better if I could find quartz or something like that as flint, but it seems like my luck has started to get bad in the past few days." Xu Qiao smiled.
There were fewer and fewer fish in the stream, and the scattered wild fruits around had almost been eaten.
The humid and hot climate caused his physical strength to decline quickly. Xu Qiao felt that he needed to eat more meat to supplement protein to restore his strength.
Unfortunately, the trap he set brought him nothing except a palm-sized guinea pig two days ago.
When Xu Qiao walked out, the young Asian elephant followed him again. Its injured right front foot had completely healed after a few days of recovery.
The Asian elephant seemed particularly clingy today. It followed Xu Qiao for a long time, nudging him with its trunk all the way.
Vaguely understanding something, Xu Qiao stopped and touched the baby elephant's head.
The baby elephant's broad-leaf ears flapped a few times.
Xiaowen stared at the camera and felt that there was a kind of reluctance in the little elephant's eyes.
"Let's go." Xu Qiao smiled and patted it, "Don't let the poachers find you again."
The baby elephant rubbed him for the last time, called a few times, and turned to walk deeper into the jungle. It was a wild Asian elephant, belonging to nature, and it was impossible for it to follow humans all the time.
Seeing the baby elephant that had been with them for several days leave just like that, Daniel wiped his eyes emotionally.
The jungle vegetation was dense, and before long, the elephant disappeared completely. Seeing this, Xu Qiao took a deep breath, turned around and continued walking forward.
After walking for a while, he frowned and asked, "Did you hear any noise?"
Xiaowen and Daniel looked at each other and looked at Xu Qiao blankly. He looked very focused and his expression could be described as serious.
I stopped to look carefully for a while, and there seemed to be a buzzing sound in the air.
When Xu Qiao recognized the sound, his face turned ugly: "It's a giant bee." This is a kind of bee that cannot be tamed. When it appears in groups, it is extremely lethal.
Just as Xiao Wen was about to ask what a giant wasp was, Xu Qiao had already gone in another direction: "Follow me!"
Calling Xiaowen and Daniel, Xu Qiao hurriedly left the route of the hornets.
If you are caught up and surrounded by these bees, you will be half-crippled if not killed.
Before Xiaowen could react, Daniel also saw swarms of bees flying towards this direction.
With his scalp tingling, Daniel pulled Xiaowen and shouted, "Run!"
When the giant hornets approach, the buzzing sound is as loud as thunder, which stimulates people's adrenaline.
No one wants to be surrounded and stabbed by this thing.
After running for a long time, Xu Qiao led the two away from the path of the large hornets. When they were finally out of danger, the three of them stood there panting with their knees propped up.
"What, what is this? It's too scary." Xiao Wen gasped and couldn't hold the camera steadily.
Daniel was about to say something, but his eyes widened when he caught a glimpse of Xu Qiao's legs. He saw that Xu Qiao's pants were covered with blood and blood was still oozing out.
"Joe, your leg is hurt!"
Xu Qiao also felt the pain at this time. He looked down and saw several deep scratches crisscrossing his legs.
Xiao Wen was worried: "Where did you get hurt? It looks like a knife cut."
Xu Qiao lowered his head to check and picked up the leaves stuck on his trouser legs.
"It's razor grass." After taking a closer look, he determined the cause of the wound.
"This grass has no serrations and looks no different from other weeds at first glance, except that it is lighter in color. But its blades are very sharp and can easily cut through a thin shirt."
Throwing away the leaves, Xu Qiao pointed at his bleeding leg towards the camera:
"I didn't pay much attention to my feet while running just now. So you can see that my pants were cut a few times, and the wounds are quite deep. In the rainforest, you must always pay attention to the creatures around you, not just animals, but also plants."
Xiaowen almost cried when she saw his leg bleeding profusely. "Brother, can you please stop explaining at this time and take good care of the wound?"
Xu Qiao used the parachute he carried with him to prick the wound.
"I lost a lot of blood. It's not suitable for me to continue walking today. I need to return to the shelter as soon as possible to have a good rest."
Xu Qiao quickly made the decision to give up. Just as he was about to return the same way, heavy rain suddenly came pouring down.
The three of them had no choice but to take shelter from the rain under the dense broad leaves.
The rain in the tropical rainforest always comes and goes quickly, but I didn’t expect that this heavy rain would continue until the evening with no sign of stopping.
Xu Qiao tried to return to the shelter, but the rain was too heavy. If he was injured, the rain would easily cause the wound to become infected and accelerate the loss of his physical strength.
Looking at the darkening sky, Xu Qiao sighed, "It looks like we'll have to spend the night here tonight."
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