Given their walking speed and familiarity with the road, they should have reached the place where the poison was planted yesterday by now.
However, the heavy rain and fog really affected our travel.
While looking for road signs, the two accidentally wandered into an unfamiliar forest.
There's practically no soil to be seen here; it's almost entirely covered by root plants.
Not only is the surrounding area green, but the ground is also covered with green leaves.
The two dared not wander off at all, as this kind of terrain where the land could not be seen was extremely dangerous in the wild.
Because they have no idea where to step; there could very well be a pit or a hole under these green leaves.
Most people might think that the worst that could happen is that they fall or twist their ankle.
But in the wild, once your foot is injured, it means you lose the ability to move.
Especially in the Amazon, that would be a very dangerous injury.
Moreover, this type of terrain may also conceal abysses.
If one falls in, it's an absolute disaster; one's body will be smashed to pieces, leaving not even a complete corpse.
Ye Feng and Fu Changxiong, leaning on their walking sticks, cautiously made their way forward, taking one step at a time.
After walking for more than ten minutes, I had only moved forward less than 80 meters.
When they arrived, whoever had free time between him and Fu Changxiong would carve road signs on the trees.
We found this place by following Fu Changxiong's road signs.
A few minutes later, Ye Feng was still using a stick to prop up the road.
Just then, he suddenly felt the stick go empty, as if he had poked a big hole, with no sensation at all.
He quickly and forcefully pushed aside the vegetation that was at least twenty centimeters thick.
Before long, an irregular pit, about 2.3 meters deep and full of rocks, appeared on what looked like a flat ground.
"Holy crap... Nobita! Where the hell did you get here?! Is this where we came from?"
Fu Changxiong, standing to the side, frowned, his face full of apology and confusion.
"Huh?...I remember this is it. The fork in the road we came from looks a lot like the entrance to this forest."
"There are tall trees and white mist everywhere here, doesn't it all look like this?!"
Ye Feng was a little annoyed. When he came yesterday, he was the one who carved most of the road signs.
He handed the task over to Fu Changxiong halfway through because he needed to urinate and pick herbs.
Unexpectedly, it was these few road signs that caused the two to get lost.
"Come and see for yourself, this is such a big pit, and there are so many rocks. If we fall in, won't we break our bones?"
He kept arguing with me, saying this was a road, what a load of crap!
If I hadn't noticed it carefully, this pit would be our gravesite today!
"You idiot, didn't I teach you how to carve road signs?"
Ye Feng grew angrier the more he cursed, realizing that getting lost in the wild meant his life was in danger at any moment.
Fu Changxiong was the person who had been with him the longest, and carving road signs was not difficult.
To make such a fatal yet simple mistake is truly a sign of low intelligence.
Fu Changxiong felt very guilty, but at the same time he was recalling what Ye Feng had said to him yesterday when they were carving road signs.
Since seeing the inscription left by Zhan Pengwu that pointed out the direction, Ye Feng has adopted this method.
Each person takes one character from their own name.
Align the character diagonally with the direction you came from, and mark the other end with the direction you want to go. Make one of the strokes of the character slightly longer.
In this way, if their companions get lost in the forest, they can find out who left the words by looking at the carvings.
Where did we come from, and where are we going...?
"I'm sorry, bro, but I really don't know which part went wrong."
I distinctly remember you saying, "The strokes of the characters should be carved in the same direction as where they came from."
"Holy shit..."
Ye Feng cursed helplessly. He finally understood why he had no recollection of the places he had passed through in the past half hour.
At first, he thought it was because his brain was lacking sugar, and the rainy and foggy weather caused a gap in his memory.
"You fucking carved it wrong! I said, 'Carve the prominent strokes of the character where it comes from!'"
You carved it backwards, and we're going the wrong way too! Remember this next time! Getting lost in the wild can be fatal!
"ah!?"
Upon hearing this, Fu Changxiong recalled that he hadn't quite heard those words clearly when he first heard them.
"Then...I was wrong, I'm sorry. I'll remember this now, let's turn around quickly."
He felt so guilty that he kept apologizing...
Ye Feng, with a bitter face, punched him helplessly and angrily, feeling as if he had eaten shit.
"Nobita, Nobita, if you hadn't met me, you would have died long ago even if you had 100 lives."
Hehe~
Fu Changxiong scratched the back of his head and laughed carefree.
The two immediately turned around and walked back the way they came.
They had only taken a dozen or so steps when a clear bird song came from above.
"Chirp chirp chirp..."
Ye Feng didn't pay much attention at first, even though the call was different from other birds.
But in the Amazon, where there are many bird species, this is not a very unusual thing.
But soon, Ye Feng stopped in his tracks…
Because he glanced back unintentionally, he saw the source of the bird's call.
Two small white and gray birds were perched on a large tree about 20 meters away from him.
They have a unique appearance; on both sides of their heads, near the eyes, are fan-shaped white feathers.
It looks like foundation that's been deliberately applied; it looks rather strange.
Ye Feng quickly took out his binoculars and took a closer look.
Only then did they realize that these were actually two grey-crowned night herons—
"Hahaha, I didn't expect to run into the Grey Bird here. Nobita, you really are a lucky fool."
He laughed more and more as he looked at it, never expecting that taking the wrong path would lead to such unexpected wealth.
Seeing Ye Feng's grinning face, Fu Changxiong also looked over, puzzled.
I noticed that the two birds didn't seem particularly unusual; they weren't very big, which meant they didn't have much meat.
"Hey bro, is this bird delicious?"
A moment later, Ye Feng put down the binoculars, his smile unchanged.
"I don't care whether their meat tastes good or not, the most important thing is... the nests of this bird are very particular, and we need to find its nest."
Fu Changxiong frowned, completely unable to understand, but at least he had followed Ye Feng for so long.
Seeing Ye Feng smile, he knew there was something good nearby.
"So, should we go back now, catch birds, or look for bird nests?"
Ye Feng pursed his lips and shook his head…
"Anyway, it's still early. Let's find a bird's nest first. Once we find one, we'll have another life-saving device."
That thing is the king of poisons, even more poisonous than the box tree and the poisonous guava tree.
With it… I would have the venom of countless vipers.
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