The further we walked, the fewer the trees became. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but pitted ponds and small patches of scattered low shrubs. However, there was a faint mist floating above the swamp. Although Su Fei
It is known to be non-toxic, but it blocks everyone's vision and can only see the surrounding area of ​​a few hundred meters.
The originally simple muddy road underfoot has become dangerous. Any seemingly small pond may become a bottomless trap. Xie Yufei once stepped on solid ground with one foot, and then stepped on the next.
She stepped directly into the air and fell into the swamp. The muddy water was up to her waist in an instant. Fortunately, Su Fei and Hu Mang pulled her ashore in time.
"Huh-huh - it's so dangerous..." Xie Yufei didn't care that she was sitting in the muddy water, and looked at the quagmire that almost swallowed her up with lingering fear. This quagmire was inconspicuous, only half a meter in front and back, but who would have thought that it would actually turn into something when she stepped into it?
There is no bottom at all.
"This is a swamp, don't be careless." Su Fei warned Xie Yufei, and he was also telling Hu Mang. He took out his satellite phone to locate it. At this moment, they were at the edge of the "human forbidden zone". No wonder the road had changed.
It becomes more and more dangerous.
"Come, let's change equipment."
After Su Fei finished speaking, he patted the Sky Refinement Stone on his waist, and four pairs of special shoes immediately appeared in Su Fei's hands.
It's not appropriate to call them shoes, they're more like auxiliary equipment. Their outermost ring is buckled with a thumb-thick rattan, which is round in size and shape. It's similar in size and shape to a table tennis racket, but it's two circles larger than a table tennis racket, just about the size of a table tennis racket.
Adults have longer feet. Use bamboo strips and rattan to seal the bottom, and use tough small bamboo pieces to create a circle upwards, which can just fit Su Fei's shoes and fix them in place.
Shi Luo asked the villagers to make this according to the foot size of three people. It is a foot auxiliary equipment specially used for walking in swamps. The principle is very simple, which is to increase the contact area between the feet and the ground so that people will not fall into the swamp frequently.
This is the wisdom of the swamp dwellers.
Su Fei and Xie Yufei were fine, but it was very troublesome for Hu Mang to return to her original shape here, because not only was she big, but she also weighed more than 400 kilograms. Not to mention that she couldn't wear this glove, even if she could wear it, it would be useless, because
Too heavy.
There was no other way, so Hu Mang had no choice but to pouted and reluctantly changed back to human form, because he couldn't control his weight in tiger form, and in human form at least he was just a little girl weighing less than 100 pounds, and would not be able to do anything casually.
Sink in the swamp.
But the clothes and pants were okay, and the boots had long been filled with mud and water, which made Hu Mang complain a lot. Xie Yufei looked on and giggled.
After having this piece of equipment, everyone felt much better, and the three of them used their zhenqi to evenly distribute their weight to every point under their feet, just like they were in the dark sea. In this way, there was no sinking situation. Qianxing Su
Flying also increased a lot.
After about half a day's journey, Su Fei finally made another discovery.
"This is the packaging bag of the marching rations distributed." Su Fei carefully squatted down and picked up a white outer packaging from a pond. He raised his head and scanned around in front of him. However, although he could see through the fog with his piercing eyes, he could see through the fog from a distance.
There was still nothing there, he frowned and said, "I don't know if this was left by Yuan Qinghua or that Yuan Jie."
Yuan Jie was the confidant sent by Yuan Pengfei to perform the mission this time, and Li Meiyin overheard their conversation.
"No matter who he is, at least it means that we are not going in the wrong direction." Xie Yufei held Su Fei's satellite phone in her hand, which had the location of Yuan Qinghua that Li Meiyin helped Su Fei find.
According to the positioning information just refreshed in the morning, Yuan Qinghua and the others should be about fifteen to twenty kilometers ahead of Su Fei. Most of the gap they had narrowed before had been caught up by Su Fei.
Hu Mang looked around and murmured: "Isn't the spy buried by Yuan Pengfei next to Yuan Qinghua pretty powerful? Apart from the mire and pond, there are only a few shrubs here. I don't know what kind of markers he used to guide Yuan Jie and the others.
In the back."
"Indeed, even if there is anything left, I'm afraid it will have been washed away by the heavy rain." Xie Yufei raised her head and looked up at the dome. There was only a thick dark cloud, and the drizzle of light rain had not stopped, and it had been raining continuously all day and night.
"I feel that Yuan Jie must be following Yuan Qinghua closely, at least not far away. Otherwise they would have lost him long ago. I felt comfortable and stood up and threw the bag back into the pond." He pointed forward in a certain direction.
: "I can see a big tree in that direction. Let's spend the night there tonight."
"Yeah, there is finally a big tree! You can sleep on the tree!" Hu Mang danced excitedly.
Nowadays, even sleeping in a tree is a luxury. And since the tree can take root, it means that the ground below is quite solid, so you don't have to worry about stepping on some soft place and falling into it.
In the uninhabited swamp, it was exactly what Shi Luo and the others said. Su Fei saw many sage trees of considerable age along the way. These sage trees grew together with other shrubs, and some even connected into a piece.
There is a small patch of Suozi seven or eight meters in front of Su Fei's left side. These Suozi are at least ten or twenty years old. The crowns of the Suozi have grown to a large size, and the white needles almost form a thick layer on the texture.
It's snow-white, like a scorpion covered with a layer of white frost.
Although according to the characteristics of Suozi, there must be relatively solid soil below, the toxicity of this kind of old Suozi is difficult to control, and even Su Fei does not want to provoke such things.
However, Hu Mang, who was sharp-eyed, saw a small hole in the root system of the Suozi tree, and a dark head came out of it. Such a look reminded Su Fei of some kind of cute little creature that appeared in the information about his life.
Swamp mongoose.
Swamp mongooses like to live in swamps, reed swamps and near river mouths. They are solitary animals and are territorial. When they encounter danger, they will make high-frequency calls. They have superb swimming skills and are also smart little guys.
If you have no idea about the swamp mongoose, you should know about the animal of the same species as it: the African flat-headed brother.
The swamp mongoose was much more docile than the flat-headed brother and was not aggressive towards people, but the appearance of the swamp mongoose made Su Fei a little unhappy.
Because since there is a swamp mongoose here, there must be its natural enemies here. And the natural enemies of the swamp mongoose are all terrifying large swamp predators!
Wolves, leopards, crocodiles and even swamp anacondas...
According to the classification of swamps, this should be a peat swamp, so large mammals are relatively rare, and the rest can only be...
Su Fei was about to go around this small piece of water, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong with a small pool about ten meters in front of him on the right! A very shallow ripple came from the surface of the water towards Album Country Three, as if something was slowly rising from the bottom of the water.
Slowly squirm forward.
Then Su Fei saw a piece of soft soil in front of the pool spread out to both sides. It was obvious that something was swimming forward from under the mud. The direction of travel happened to be the home of the swamp mongoose.
"Back off, step back slowly."
Su Fei whispered, and at the same time signaled to Xie Yufei and Hu Mang, the three of them retreated backwards at a constant speed to distance themselves from the swamp, and at the same time paid great attention to the movements of their feet to avoid causing sudden vibrations or sounds.
Su Fei still doesn't know what that thing in the mud is, but judging from its size, it's probably quite big.
The swamp mongoose still didn't know what was about to happen. It was so brave that when it saw Su Fei and the others retreating, it deliberately got out of its cave and stood at the entrance of the cave to look out.
Like a dog, it seems that he is still declaring his sovereignty over this territory to Su Fei.
"Zhizhi——"
The swamp mongoose screamed loudly, but at the moment it screamed, a blood basin suddenly opened up from the mud behind it and roared, biting the swamp mongoose like lightning!
The shrieking swamp mongoose seemed to be hesitating between getting back into the cave and escaping. Although he dodged in time, he was still bitten on his right hind leg. He heard two clicks and the right hind leg was broken off, and then the whole mud suddenly started to churn.
, a swamp anaconda that was almost as thick as an adult's thigh and unknown in length emerged from the mud, and its huge body immediately rolled towards the swamp mongoose.
The swamp mongoose screamed loudly, and even bravely tried to bite the swamp anaconda's huge body with its sharp incisors, but in the end it was to no avail.
With the sound of cracking bones, the swamp boa has completely wrapped the swamp mongoose tightly, and the body bones of the swamp mongoose are also broken root by root under the huge pressure. The huge swamp boa now begins to enjoy the fruits of its victory, opening its blood
He swallowed the swamp mongoose into his belly little by little.
Su Fei and the other three were watching everything from the side. Judging from the size, this swamp anaconda was estimated to be at least seven or eight meters long, and this was still in its home swamp. Even masters in the Minghe realm could not guarantee that they would not suffer from hatred.
"Go, get out of here."
Su Fei did not want to provoke this swamp anaconda. The same swamp anaconda had already noticed that there were inexplicable creatures around it when it emerged from the water. However, it also seemed to feel the strange aura emanating from Su Fei and the three of them. It was also dissatisfied.
I wish to get close to Su Fei and the others, and just watch Su Fei leave.
Hu Mang had never seen such a large snake in Luo Yinsen Sea before. She gestured and found that the swamp anaconda's big mouth could almost swallow her in one gulp without any effort.
"Uuuuuuuuah, the swamp is too scary..." Humang said pitifully.
Xie Yufei patted her forehead: "Don't be afraid. Didn't you see it just now? It is also afraid of us. In fact, as long as we are careful, the large animals in the swamp will not threaten us."
"Yeah." Su Fei nodded.
The sky was covered with dark clouds. It was only four o'clock in the afternoon and it felt like it was going to be dark. Fortunately, Su Fei and the others arrived under the big tree in time. This tree did not have dense branches. It was completely bare, with only a few growths growing on the surface.
A layer of emerald green moss. The tree body has long since died.
"We'll spend the night here today." Su Fei slammed his feet on the ground twice. The ground was indeed quite solid, and there were no signs of other large animals inhabiting it, so there should be no problem.
The three of them climbed up the tree. Xie Yufei took out dry food from the Sky Refining Stone and distributed it to Hu Mang and Su Fei. Su Fei took out his mobile phone to refresh the position and marked the location of his stay in his notebook. This "human forbidden zone" has not taken shape at all.
Su Fei only found a rough framework of the map in the ancient books in the village, which was accumulated by Jiang Chao and his ancestors.
Now Su Fei is also identifying according to this rough map while walking. Fortunately, the several locations you have marked on the map so far are all correct. This tree is one of the highlighted objects on the map, and it is also the one that Jiang Chao and his villagers
In the past, it was the most frequently chosen first stop after entering the "human forbidden zone".
Chapter completed!