48 Hours a Day

Zhang Hengyi woke up and saw Bell really baking the python that nearly swallowed him up last night.

“ ………… ”

“Zhang, you're awake, just in time for breakfast.” The little branches in the explorer's hand pulled the bonfire, adjusted the flame, and then pointed to the bloody thing beside it, "Snake skin, I just peeled off, after cleaning it up can make a water bag or something, it's much better than the sealing properties of a barrel, or it can be used to make a dress, put on it for cooling effect, it's still useful when the weather is hot. ”

“Thank you for last night.” Zhang Heng sat up from the ground and thanked Bell first. He could also see the red mark strangled from his arm.

“Hey, don't mention it. You saved my life at sea. You want to survive in the wilderness, you have to help each other, don't you?” Bell handed Zhang Heng a roasted snake chop dressed in wood branches.

The latter wanted to refuse, but to think about it, it was probably the only time in his life that he had had a chance to eat a python without having to sit on top of it, so he took it.

A curious bite revealed that the flavor was actually quite good, the smell was not strong, it was a bit like chicken, but more muscular than chicken.

Remembering that this was the thing that almost cost me my life last night, Zhang Heng decisively decided to add two more pieces.

…………

We had breakfast and the two of us went back on the road.

Bell continues to play a role as a qualified guide, opening the road with a knife in front, while explaining to Zhang Heng the various creatures encountered along the way.

“The python we met last night was not the only hunter in the forest, because python usually chooses to swallow the entire prey from the head when eating, they have poor eyesight, and sometimes their prey is too big to support them alive, but the serpent's digestibility is great, often even the flesh-bound bones can digest together, and several pairs of animal skeletons we met before, some of which are relatively intact to preserve, do not seem to have died in its hands. ”

Zhang Hengmei wrote down this cold knowledge. A lot of things usually look useless, but it may be useful when.

Ed and Brother Shorts, for example, didn't teach him how to use salt from seawater, but he got purer salt from heated crystallization and repeated filtration with a small video that he had seen on a barrage website before to make food taste good.

When Zhang Heng went to elementary school, he followed his grandfather to Xishuangbanna, where he was impressed by the forest park.

But after all, it was artificially developed, considering that safety was only a small fraction of what was open to tourists, the absolutely pure rainforest Zhang Heng had also been seen for the first time, and according to Bell, the biological community here was very rich. This also opens Zhang Hengda's eyes.

For example, he once saw a small, translucent frog on the side of the road, just 1—2 centimeters long, with a clear view of its heart, liver, and digestive tract, which is amazing.

“Glass frogs, which generally live in the rainforests of Central and South America, now have 134 known species of glass frogs around the world, 60 of which are on the verge of extinction.” As the explorer spoke, he put the little things in his hand carefully back on the leaves.

“What about this one?” Zhang Heng pointed to the part of a banyan tree that raised like a tumor, and there was a new branch growing on it.

“Oh, antler ferns, antler ferns, are the epiphytes of the family. They are young and green when they are born and turn light brown when they mature. They are usually attached to trunks or branches of other trees and are quite common in tropical rainforests. ”

Besides that, Zhang Heng also saw the cat monkey, but this thing is neither a cat nor a monkey, it has wings like a bat, wrapped its neck, limbs and tail, can be expanded to make it glide in the air, looks very playful; Giblin Bahira jumps, the only vegetarian spider in the world, eats leaf buds, the name is so stubborn, Zhang Heng and Bell confirmed three times still a little unbelievable; Heavenly bird, also called Eternal Bird, screams like a gunshot, when just heard, Zhang Heng jumps, but it looks beautiful, especially the tail feathers, and the color gradient...

Bell couldn't help but express his sentiment, "This place is a biological paradise. It's the first time I've seen so many different regions of tropical flora and fauna gathered together. It's incredible that biologists would love this land if they knew. ”

At this point, Zhang Heng's foot seemed to have stepped on something. He bent over and picked up a tooth of an animal he didn't know about, and there was a circular hole in the bottom.

“This thing looks like it's made by hand, and naturally formed holes don't usually do that.” Bell took that tooth and looked a few times back, "I knew that some indigenous people would use their prey teeth to make ornaments around their necks to show off their strength, and the stronger the prey, the more powerful they could prove, so that they could choose their partner more easily, and I had a friend who went to the prairie alone to hunt for lions in order to marry the most beautiful woman in their tribe, and couldn't come back. ”

“ ………… ”

Few foreigners do have a reason. Zhang Heng does not comment on the wisdom of this behavior. In contrast, he is more concerned about another issue, "So there is an indigenous life on the island? It's not cannibalism, is it? ”

Bell shook his head, “It's unlikely that the size of the island itself can be quite large. You said you've been living there for over a year. If there's anyone else on the island, it doesn't make sense that you haven't met... and this thing looks a little old. ”

“So it's true that there were indigenous people here before?” Zhang Heng was also shocked by the cold sweat. If the natives were still alive, he and Ed might have been caught making soup on the first day of the island.

“Well, take a walk down. ”

Bell is also interested, he is himself an explorer, and a lost civilization like this is indescribably appealing to him, he even forgets that he is here to find a way to leave the island and return to the civilized world, and the two continue to march towards the centre of the island.

They are now halfway there, and as they go deeper, more and more traces of human survival have been discovered.

Looking at the disfigured huts that have completely corrupted, as well as the stone tools that climb the blue tower, Bell can already be sure that in the distant past an indigenous tribe lived here.

What happened to them and why did they all disappear today? Explorers are increasingly curious.