When it comes to choosing a mount, Wang Ping’s current “ideal type” is the jaguar.
After all, there are no lions or tigers in the Amazon rainforest. Other animals such as dogs and wolves are probably hard to find either, so the jaguar is the only one that meets his aesthetic and "usage needs".
In the depths of this rainforest filled with poisonous miasma and rampant wild beasts, it is a wonderful thought to have a nimble and powerful jaguar as a mount.
However, when Wang Ping excitedly walked through a series of grass and bushes and approached the location where the sound came from, the happy expression froze on Mao's face.
Three meters in front of him, under a dead tree trunk surrounded by ferns and covered with moss, a black-haired animal about one meter long was looking for food in the fallen leaves with its round butt sticking out. The "humming" panting sound heard from close up made the badger even droop his shoulders.
"Why does it sound like a pig?"
The grass and branches under the roots of the dead tree were rustling, and the other party was so engrossed that he didn't even notice the arrival of a badger.
Wang Ping quietly changed his position, put his little paw on his forehead and squinted his eyes to observe. From the side, this thing doesn't look like a pig. However, with furry ears the size of a "badger's paw" and a head that is disproportionate to its body, it looks more like a large mouse that has taken hormones.
"Clatter~"
There was a slight sound in the fallen leaves under my feet, and a centipede as thick as a thumb crawled out from the ground, its tentacles probing the ground, and it snaked its body over the sole of a badger's foot.
Wang Ping just felt his claws a little itchy, and subconsciously looked down. He couldn't help but shiver, and raised his foot to throw the centipede away.
“Pah~”
The centipede fell to the ground and disappeared between the fallen leaves in the blink of an eye.
"(′?ω?)?"
The guy in front of me finally heard the noise and turned to look over. His small black eyes were topped by a pair of white eyebrows, and his chin was covered with a circle of white hair, like a napkin tied around his neck. Of course, this was not the point. The point was the pair of large nostrils that opened and closed, which were particularly eye-catching.
"Damn, it's still a pig after all!"
The disappointment was beyond words. The badger kicked the fallen leaves at his feet angrily and turned back, not wanting to look at the pig again. Naturally, he didn't see it. At the moment he turned around, a thick black shadow suddenly peeked down from the tree and bit the "pig"'s head in an instant.
Wang Ping was walking leisurely, and the "pig" behind him had been rolled up by a huge anaconda and dragged up to the treetops. With the branches and leaves shaking, when he looked back, the original position was empty.
"Tsk, you run pretty fast~ Do you really think I'll be attracted to you?"
Returning to the tree where Gu Lang and Wang An were waiting, Wang Ping stretched out his paw to take the hat from Wang An's hand and put it back on his head, then walked forward with a dark face.
The two people behind him looked at each other, and Gu Lang couldn't help but ask: "Boss, what was that just now?"
Wang Ping paused, and sighed from his furry mouth under the camouflage cap. He really didn't want to pay attention to someone. But Wang An on the side rolled his eyes at him and said disdainfully: "Are you stupid? How can a badger like him answer your question?"
"Then... you have to know, right?"
The two continued walking along the predetermined route. Gu Lang muttered unconvincedly, "Actually, the boss can answer it. He can imitate the movements and he can imitate them quite well..."
"Oh~ Then let him learn~"
Wang An paid attention to the ground beneath his feet and dealt with it absentmindedly.
Wang Ping, who was walking in the front, paused for a moment, and his eyes narrowed dangerously under the brim of his hat. If Gu Lao San dared to ask him to imitate a pig, he would beat him into a pig.
After a while, a salted fish pondered and said, "Forget it... If he wanted to learn, he would have told me just now."
At this time, a series of chirping sounds came from the front of the forest. Then a large area of branches and leaves began to shake, and soon they came closer. Both of them subconsciously stopped and looked around for a place to hide.
There was no place to hide except for tree trunks covered with vines and deep grass. And who knew what was hidden in the overly dense vegetation, so the two dared not step into it casually.
Just as I was struggling, the treetops above my head made a noise, and a white figure more than half a meter long with a long tail rushed over my head, landed on the horizontal branches behind it, and made a "squeaky" sound from its mouth.
Like a signal, the call was followed by figures of all sizes running past. At a glance, there were at least 20 of them. There were even two "stacked" together, giving the impression of a family.
The two men and the badger all tilted their heads back, staring at the strange animal that was jumping by like an elf.
The fluffy white fur fluttered behind its head like long hair, and its slightly brown tail was raised high with its body. From below, it looked like it had a black face on its white body. Its mouth was pouted downwards, and it looked a little sad.
As the sound of swaying branches faded away, a salted fish with a head full of leaves looked at Wang An inexplicably and muttered in a probing manner: "Were those monkeys the ones who just passed by?"
“Should…right?”
Wang An frowned, looking in the direction where the monkeys left, and said uncertainly: "Besides monkeys, are there other animals that can jump and move between the treetops?"
The two were silent for a while, and Gu Lang suddenly sighed: "I should have brought the live broadcast equipment with me! What a pity..."
Seeing a certain lazy guy hanging up with a look of regret, I don’t know whether it was a pity that such a wonderful rainforest could not be shown to the audience, or it was a pity that he had no portable wifi and could not look up the information of the "monkey" for scientific research (to show off).
Wang An didn't care about the live broadcast. Her only goal was to bring her coaches back home safely and continue to renovate the branch in Hangzhou.
"But if my parents were here, they would definitely know these animals, right? They might be very happy..." For some reason, Wang An suddenly thought of his parents.
He shook his head and put his thoughts aside. Seeing that Gu Lang and the badger had turned around, he tightened his backpack behind him, raised his lips slightly, and followed them. The two men and the badger were so thick-skinned that neither of them thought about why the monkeys migrated from the tree canopy on a large scale.
On a large banyan tree 500 meters in front of the two of them, a golden figure with black stripes flashed between the branches. A moment later, a scream that sounded like the cry of some small animal could be heard in the forest.
In the Bita tribe, under an unknown thatched hut.
Yang Xu, who had nothing to do after eating, was lying on the straw mat to catch up on his sleep when he suddenly frowned and heard a few strange gurgling sounds from his belly. Then, a pain came, and the indescribable flower was ready to move.
"call!"
Yang Xu sat up with his cheeks twitching, and ran towards the door while holding his stomach. After just a few steps, he clamped his legs together and changed his jog into small steps.
"Open~ the door... I need to... uh, go to the bathroom..."
After finally reaching the door, Yang Xu knocked on the wooden board that was bolted from the outside. However, the wooden door that usually opened with a knock was not answered today for some reason.
An indescribable feeling became more and more urgent, and sweat broke out on his face in an instant, and his voice began to go out of tune. At this time, there were several noises behind him. When he looked back, he found that the others also sat up with strange expressions, holding their stomachs.
A moment later, the wooden door of the hut was banged on frantically, with the sound of distorted shouting faintly heard.