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South America, Amazon basin.
There are 40,000 square kilometers of tropical rainforest here, which are the last uninhabited areas on earth. The gunsmith's plane crashed here.
As early as the end of the 19th century, colonists arrived here. In the following century, so-called civilized people began to destroy tribes and destroy the ecology. All this did not stop until the outbreak of the Imperial Unification War, which affected the pattern of the human world from side to side. [Search for the latest updates at.br/>Some people once predicted that the greenhouse effect and the decline in rainfall would lead to the disappearance of this rainforest. However, in the middle of the 21st century, many new technologies have given humans the ability to intervene in the environment. Ability, the birth of some new energy sources, and the empire's iron-fisted policy have made those who make money by destroying the environment basically extinct. Please note that when I say extinction, I don't mean to quit, but to kill.
In an era when many countries coexist, black-hearted businessmen collude with the government and seek huge profits through environmentally damaging transactions. When others ask them why they do not care about future generations, they can answer calmly that when they have money, they can immigrate to Vancouver or Singapore. city, as for other people's descendants, it has nothing to do with them.
In the era of the unification of the empire, the royal family has not yet found a way to immigrate to other planets. Therefore, their attitude towards the environment is that if anyone dares to dig a carrot in my home, I will fill the hole for his whole family. Go inside.
November 2100.
The gunsmith found five bodies from the wreckage of the plane. Except for himself, everyone else was killed as expected. Although he didn't even know the names of these people, he still spent a lot of effort to dig holes with half steel plates and bury them.
If this crash was a murder against him, then these five people were undoubtedly innocent victims. This is what the gunsmith thought in his mind. He was not a superstitious person, but he would not just watch those people being killed. Human corpses exposed in the wilderness.
"If it were Tianyi, he would have thrown them into the river to feed the fish..." the gunsmith said to himself. When he encountered difficulties, he would often think of this old friend. Nothing in this world seemed to be against Tianyi. It is difficult for him, as if you throw him into hell, he will definitely be able to climb out.
The soil in the rainforest is soft, so it takes a lot of time to bury people, but it doesn't take much physical strength from the gunsmith. After all the people are done, they have to consider the issues of survival and escape.
The gunsmith sat on the ground and ate the chocolate bar from the first officer's pocket, the only edible thing he could find. After a little supplement, he entered the fuselage again, and returned outside more than ten minutes later. He put a circle of seat belts from the cabin seats on his right shoulder, at least a dozen of them, and held a stack of seat belts in his right hand. There was a cloth cover on the chair, and there were many mechanical parts in his left hand, which he didn't know where they came from.
After everything was piled up, the gunsmith went in search of water. He heard the sound of running water just now, not far from where the plane crashed, so now he followed the direction of the sound and quickly found a small river.
It is not too difficult to find water sources in the rainforest, but the water may not be clean. In some swamps and depressions, pools of water stretch for miles, seemingly leading to a river. In fact, these are stagnant water, due to the terrain and air humidity. The cause, formed after rainfall and persisting, is that the water is very turbid and contains God knows how many flora, fauna and parasites.
Although the river the gunsmith found was not wide, it was obviously a tributary of a large river. The several tree trunks lying across the river indicated that the river might surge after rainfall. Those tree trunks were washed over at that time. When the tide After retreating, we got stuck on the river.
The water here is not clear, but it is much better than the swamp. The gunsmith went into the river. The current was not very fast. He stood on the shore, took off his clothes, washed them, and drank some. The water in the river doesn't taste very good, but at least it can replenish some moisture. Before leaving, he also observed the surrounding terrain and the traces left by animals, but found nothing. Usually large animals such as hippos can be found in open river valleys, but this place seems to be the most complex and dense core area of swamps, rivers, and jungles.
The gunsmith has a poor sense of direction and cannot drive any means of transportation, including riding a horse, but he is an excellent hunter. When he was a child, on the vast white snowfields of Siberia, a light snowfall could He had covered up the footprints left five minutes ago, but he could still identify the path. Traveling back and forth in this jungle was no problem.
Following his own footsteps, he quickly returned to the wreckage of the plane. At this moment, he was naked. Although he didn't feel cold, the mosquitoes here were not easy to deal with, so it was best to light a fire quickly, dry the clothes and put them on.
Residual sparks could be found everywhere on the broken body. It was not difficult to light a fire. After more than ten minutes, the gunsmith had dried his clothes.
He sat by the fire, cut the cloth cover on the airplane seat with a knife, stretched it into a long strip, and then turned up his trouser legs to a more suitable length, using a steel needle not much thinner than his own finger. He led the wiring and sewed the trouser legs so that he could move more freely. Fortunately, because he felt really uncomfortable before, he did not wear leather shoes, but ordinary boots. Otherwise, in this jungle, leather shoes would It will quickly wear out and eventually lead to bare feet.
As Tianyi pointed out, the gunsmith is the most outstanding craftsman of this era, so he spent the next thirty minutes transforming a pile of seemingly scrap metal equipment with unknown meaning into a simple radio station. He also made a recording device and started automatically calling for rescue.
However, the only power supply is not expected to last long, and the gunsmith also understands that this is just playing luck. There is a probability of more than 90% that no one will receive the distress signal. In a place like this, other than hoping for someone from the sky Another plane flew by, just far enough away to receive the signal, so one could only hope that there were deep-hiding drug dealers nearby.
After the gunsmith finished making the distress radio, he came to a broken tree trunk. Some water had accumulated in the half-empty tree trunk. He picked off a leaf slightly smaller than the palm of his hand. He took out his tie from his pocket, took off the metal pin on the tie, rubbed the silk tie in the same direction repeatedly for a while, then placed the leaf on the small pool of stable water, and placed the pin in the center of the leaf. On the leaf veins.
This is similar to a compass. The leaf carrying the pin floats on the water and will gradually deflect. However, the scene that appears in front of the gunsmith at this moment is very strange. The pin is constantly rotating and does not point steadily in any direction until a period of time. After a while, it lost its magnetism and stopped moving.
The gunsmith looked at the sky and said to himself: "Isn't this plane caused by the magnetic field to fall...". ..