MTL - I Rely on Wilderness Survival Live Broadcast to Become Popular Across the Stars-Chapter 284 Hoarding money to raise cubs Day 284

Hoarding money to raise cubs Day 284

"look here."

After the two of them walked in the rainforest for nearly half an hour, Lu Liran slowed down slightly. He saw a trail, which looked like man-made traces.

"This looks like the tribe's hunter route, but judging from the surrounding environment, it seems to have been abandoned for a long time." Lu Liran whispered.

The path was almost covered by weeds, and it was extremely hidden. If it weren't for the tall shrubs and vines around them showing signs of growth after being destroyed and felled by human beings, Lu Liran would have almost ignored it.

Few tribes will give up a hunter route unless they encounter some irresistible factors—

For example, land subsidence, rock collapse.

For example, the tribe discovered something extremely threatening along this route.

Or, the entire tribe ceased to exist.

Without tribal hunters, the hunter route would naturally be barren.

Lu Liran looked around, and the first possibility was ruled out. Obviously, this place has not encountered serious natural disasters in recent years, and the flash flood two weeks ago was also lucky to avoid this place.

Then there are only two possibilities left, no matter which one is, it is not good news for Lu Liran.

"Let's go for a while, if we can't find any sign of the tribe, we won't go this way." Lu Liran said to Ke Ji.

Naturally, Ke Ji had no objection. In such a wilderness, Lu Liran had far more experience than him.

Still, signs of the tribe? Ke Ji hardly had any idea about this.

The only time he had dealt with an indigenous tribe was when he negotiated with the tribal chief in advance due to the involvement of the war. That was not much different from ordinary political negotiations. This sporadic little experience was of no help in the current situation.

"For example, if the previous tribal traps, or the fields planned by the tribe, or even some river ponds are occupied by the tribe, the totem of the tribe will be engraved on the nearby stones as a warning and ownership." Lu Liran explained.

Different from the stereotypes of tribes in the past, those hidden tribes no longer rely solely on hunting for a living. The tribes will plan farmland planting, and even relatively developed large tribes will also have a large-scale captive breeding of wild animals.

However, considering that the types of fields suitable for planting are limited, it is very likely that the tribal fields are not in the tribal village, but somewhere outside the tribal village.

If such traces are found, it usually means that they are not far from the tribe.

Ke Ji was a little surprised. Most of the indigenous tribes are secluded from the world. Many tribes have not had outsiders for more than ten years. Even some existing materials about the tribes are limited to understanding the tribe's culture and customs. In this way, there are very few people who have a clear understanding of their living habits.

Like, he was one of them.

"How many surprises do you have for me?" Ke Ji laughed softly, and followed Lu Liran's footsteps, "How do you know such details?"

Lu Liran heard an admiration from Ke Ji's words, and heard that a small patch of inconspicuous crimson color slowly climbed up the ear.

He cleared his throat, with a little pride: "When I was in Desolate Star, I lived in an indigenous tribe for nearly a month, and learned many practical survival skills from them."

"It includes how to find traces and find tribes."

Ke Ji raised his eyes to look at Lu Liran, he didn't see any struggle and pain related to this memory in Lu Liran's eyes, the years in Desolate Star were a trial for Lu Liran, but it was also a precious treasure .

It was still Lu Liran who took the lead and walked in the front, with a kooki knife easily splitting the branches and vines blocking the way in the jungle, opening a new path for them.

Walking along the desolate hunter route, there were not many related tribes found along the way, but Lu Liran found a few relatively fresh paw prints.

Lu Liran stopped, frowning slightly, and quickly measured the length of the scratches.

"It's a full thirty-five centimeters." Lu Liran whispered.

Scratch marks were left on the tree trunks on both sides, and the deeper you went, the more scratch marks you could see.

"These scratches belong to large beasts." Lu Liran somewhat understood why this hunter route was abandoned.

Ke Ji also recognized it: "Is it a bear?"

"And it should be a male." Lu Liran nodded. "This is the range of the northern Aiken grizzly bears. These scratches most likely belong to one of them."

Female Northern Aiken grizzlies weigh between 130 and 200 kilograms, while males are twice as big!

The northern Aiken grizzly dominates the jungle with its immense strength and sharp paws. Even ligers, tigers and packs of wild wolves would rather avoid conflict with it. It is a well-deserved jungle overlord.

Judging from the length of these scratches, Lu Liran was basically sure that it belonged to a male Northern Aiken grizzly bear.

If such an unreasonable grizzly bear suddenly migrated on this hunter's route, then for the tribe, it is indeed the only option to give up.

Lu Liran also quickly adjusted his course of action, and he was unwilling to have any confrontation with such a huge monster.

As we went deeper into the jungle, the terrain began to turn into a low-lying valley, and the terrain was relatively flat, gradually entering a better environment.

This time the operation has nothing to do with the system mission, so there is no carrying limit, so Lu Liran brought a lot of equipment, but even so, the capacity that can be carried is still limited, and Lu Liran prioritized storing a large amount of fresh water, tents, and first-aid kits.

"Looks like I can't find the indigenous tribe today." Lu Liran opened the electronic map, located where they were at the moment, and then compared the place where they planned to stay. It was about two kilometers away from them, and there was time to catch up. .

This map is full of routes in different colors—

Blue and purple represent the action routes of the first two batches of DFA Golden Troops;

—In view of the fact that Lu Liran's action goals are the same this time, DFA also pinned the hope of finding Mangyaquan on Lu Liran. They gave the complete video that has not been edited, so Lu Liran got the exact road map.

Yellow represents the action trajectory of the last rescue mission, red represents the general route of Wang Yuanming and his party a few years ago, and green represents the real-time route of Lu Liran and Ke Ji's actions this time.

Four thin lines of different colors intersect vertically and horizontally on the map, as if forming a messy but orderly painting.

Tonight, the place where Lu Liran plans to stay is in the upper plains of the Sana River.

First, after walking to the planned foothold, Lu Liran set up a tent and lit a bonfire.

It is said to be the upper reaches of the Sana River, but in fact there is still a long distance from the Sana River. There are no streams or lakes around, so it is quite inconvenient to get water.

Fortunately, Lu Liran brought a lot of fresh water this time, so he didn't need to rush to make do with it.

There was still some time before the sun set, so Lu Liran and Ke Ji decided to take a stroll around to see if they could find anything new.

The terrain of the plains is gentle and low-lying, descending from the hillsides. Then I saw that a relatively low-lying place had formed a stagnant swamp early on due to frequent torrential rains.

Lu Liran shook his head and wanted to leave, but suddenly his eyes froze, and he looked towards the end of the stagnant swamp.

"You saw it too?" Lu Liran lowered his voice and asked Ke Ji.

Ke Ji narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gaze stayed at the end of the swamp. A row of short trees covered with moss seemed to have been artificially cut off all the branches, leaving only the bare trunks, which were strangely shaped and deliberately decorated. generally.

He said, "You mean the snake-wrapped stake over there?"

Lu Liran nodded, he walked towards the **** and carefully slid to the bottom: "Did you think of something?"

Ke Ji also slid to the bottom, and the two stepped into the waist-deep stagnant swamp pool: "Which tribe?"

"Hmm." Lu Liran held a long tree stick and said while groping forward in the swamp water where the bottom could not be seen clearly, "Before you said that the wooden carving on the young man's neck looked like a rattlesnake with horns wrapped around it. From that guide, the guide's tribe is called Kugwa, and it's very likely that this is their tribe's totem."

At least it looks like half of it. Lu Liran has a little guess about the design of the row of wooden piles, but he still needs to go there himself.

The area of ​​this stagnant swamp is not large, but it is about the size of a basketball court. From time to time, a small string of bubbles will appear around it, as if there are some creatures hidden under the water.

"There are piles of decaying animal and plant corpses everywhere, and there is deep mud under your feet. Be careful." Lu Liran reminded Ke Ji, "Most of these bubbles are methane released by the accumulation of these corpses, so it's not a big problem."

It is unlikely that there will be crocodiles here, but it is very likely that there will be snakes and the like hidden in the mud.

Lu Liran reminded, and moved slowly in the swamp.

The swamp was waist-deep, and the closer to the row of wooden posts, the shallower the water, but the thicker the silt, and it was very inconvenient to pull out the legs and feet that were sunk in it every step of the way.

Just when Lu Liran was about to reach the row of snake-wrapped wooden posts, a slender shadow suddenly flashed across the water at an astonishingly fast speed.

Lu Liran called softly: "Be careful! There are snakes!"

At the same time, Ke Ji felt that something cold and slippery had touched his waist, and he suddenly reached out his hand to grab it in the water, and the slippery and cold thing slipped out of his palm.

In the next second, turbid splashes of tumbling silt were thrown out of the gray-yellow swamp water, and a thin and long shadow quickly broke through the water and jumped extremely fast.

Lu Liran's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, he suddenly drew his knife and saw that thing was picked out of the water by Lu Liran, struggling in mid-air, writhing and falling quickly.

Ke Ji raised his hand and directly twisted its pointed head.

Not a snake.

But it looks like a snake.

It's just that this thing has no scales, its skin is extremely smooth and tender, and its back is light yellow with a hint of purple, while the belly picked up by Lu Liran's kekki knife is white, with purple in the white, and it will be broken by a single stroke of the knife. , There are strands of blood flowing out.

Lu Liran recognized this thing: "It's a blood eel!"

The blood eel writhed its soft and boneless slender body, wrapped itself around Ke Ji's arm, and Ke Ji slammed it on the water several times, and then passed out before letting go.

The length of this blood eel is about 60 centimeters, and the diameter is about the shape of a coin. It is not heavy, and it is estimated to weigh three to four catties.

"Don't throw it away. It's very rare and hard to catch. I heard that the meat is extraordinarily plump and tender, with high nutritional value. It's the fifth diamond among eels." Lu Liran took Ke Ji's dizzy hand. Blood eel, stuffed into the backpack, "a catty outside can be worth several hundred yuan, and pure wild ones like this are even more valuable."

"When I go back to the tent, I will scald it with warm water, and the layer of mucus on the outside will disappear automatically, and then I can bake it after taking out the guts." Lu Liran added that he has already figured out how to enjoy this blood eel. .

Arriving at the front of the row of wooden piles without any risk, Lu Liran observed the row of wooden piles very closely.

The rattlesnake pattern on the stakes is so lifelike that it looks as if a real stuffed rattlesnake was attached to it.

Lu Liran and Ke Ji were still groping in the mud nearby, trying to find something.

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DFA Headquarters.

"Why is there no sound on the monitoring screen?"

"It should be because it was immersed in water and the radio was affected." Xu Enzhen replied.

She looked at the screen on the display screen. The trackers they secretly placed on the two of them were on the belts of the parachute bag. There were originally two trackers, but because of a small accidental episode when Lu Liran landed, there was only one left now. It can still be used normally.

"What are they doing?"

Xu Enzhen rubbed his eyes and replied, "It should be looking for something."

The radio stopped when Lu Liran and Ke Ji stepped into the swamp, they couldn't hear anything clearly, they could only guess based on the riddle-like words before.

"Catch eels." Another staff member staring at the monitoring screen added, "I'm lucky, I caught a wild big blood eel. I guess there must be more in here."

"..."

Xu Enzhen twitched the corner of his mouth, and saw the leader turn away with a dissatisfied expression.

She looked at the screen again, but was startled, and saw a white goat horn bone suddenly appearing in Ke Ji's muddy hand.

She blinked in confusion, what are these two doing here? Panning for gold and trash? Or are you really digging blood eels?

If only I could hear voices... She couldn't help thinking in her heart.