Based on the current surrounding environment, he estimated that the mortality rate would be 90% if people stayed overnight here.
It's still daytime, so everything looks peaceful, but once night falls...
Those bloodthirsty predators will absolutely make him wish he were dead.
Venomous snakes, pythons, vampire bats, black caimans, mosquitoes—any one of these animals could easily take his life.
Most importantly, he had no shelter, and he couldn't possibly stay by the fire all night, could he?
But the destination is just ahead, so he has to get there today no matter what.
Fortunately, it wasn't too late yet, and those guys hadn't come out yet...
So Ye Feng decided to risk wading through this swamp...
He strode forward, and as he approached the mangroves, a sudden, violent splashing sound came from the riverbed to his left…
The sound was like some animal struggling in the water.
Ye Feng was a little curious. Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the time when wild beasts hunt...
He carefully took his first steps towards the riverbank...
When he saw the scene where the sound of water was coming from, he became even more curious...
It turns out that the animals weren't hunting, but fighting.
The main character is a black-backed electric eel that is over a meter long, and it looks about the same size as the one that Qi Xiaojie had.
The other main character is the familiar black caiman. It is about 3.5 meters long.
Both wild animals were sub-adults…
They were both on the shore now; the crocodile's eyes were closed, and its body was convulsing uncontrollably. Water churned...
The electric eel beside it wasn't doing much better; its back was already stained with large patches of blood, and its body was slowly turning red.
This proves that it's about to electrocute itself...
Ye Feng could tell from the wound on the electric eel's back that the crocodile had most likely attacked first.
Generally speaking, adult crocodiles that have lived a long time will usually avoid electric eels.
After all, who wouldn't be afraid of the Amazon's only magician?
Only these half-grown crocodiles, who have never suffered a loss, dare to eat electric eels.
Of course, it's also possible that the electric eel wandered into the crocodile's waters and attacked, which provoked the crocodile to retaliate.
But regardless of who strikes first, they are both losers in this battle.
At this point, both sides gradually stopped moving.
It's clear that they both perished.
Normally, Ye Feng would have laughed heartily, having inexplicably gained two big fish for free.
But now, he feels a sense of shared sorrow, like a rabbit mourning the death of a fox.
Because he wasn't even sure if he would survive the night.
Ye Feng sighed softly and did not pick up the two gifts of nature.
Even though there is a lot of meat, he can't eat it now, and carrying it with him would only be a burden.
A dozen minutes later, he arrived at the mangrove forest…
At this moment, the mud beneath his feet had already submerged his ankles.
Ye Feng took a deep breath…
"I can do it! I'm fine! I've been through worse things, this is nothing compared to a swamp..."
After a moment of self-encouragement, he began to move forward.
Everything was fine at first; apart from being a little slow in movement, there were no other major problems.
After walking a dozen meters, Ye Feng's facial features seemed to be exerting force simultaneously.
He felt as if his ankles were filled with lead, or as if someone had grabbed his calves.
Every step I took required the full strength of my body.
The soft, foul-smelling mud grew deeper and deeper, the swamp continuously emitting a pungent, putrid stench that mingled with the acrid miasma in the air…
It kept seeping into Ye Feng's nostrils, and he couldn't stop it even if he tried to cover it up...
At that moment, he felt as if he were in a huge rural dry toilet.
My shoes, my pants, my lower body were all full of poop.
"Ugh! Cough cough cough..."
Ye Feng finally couldn't hold back any longer and started gagging and coughing. It wasn't that he couldn't persevere.
Rather, the taste has triggered the body's stress response system, commonly known as a natural reaction...
Unless he immediately loses his sense of smell, he has no way to control it.
Seeing this, he quickly pinched his nose and retreated behind him.
This time, he made a rare concession to nature…
Who would have thought that Ye Feng would not yield even in the face of a once-in-50-year flood?
But it was this patch of mud that made him feel despair.
Before long, he returned to the starting point, and after gagging, he immediately shook off the mud from his body.
"Damn! That's disgusting!"
Ye Feng cursed angrily. This was his first time walking through a swamp, but he hadn't expected that the miasma and the stench of mud would have such a powerful olfactory impact.
This was clearly much more intense than the swamp we had passed through before.
Although the project failed, he also drew an important conclusion.
Generally speaking, the intensity of these two smells in a swamp is determined by the humidity of the surrounding environment and the degree of decay of plants and animals.
In other words, this swamp is very large, and many plants and animals have died here.
That's why the smell is so strong...
This kind of place is teeming with bacteria.
Looking at his hands, which were wrapped in bandages, Ye Feng realized how foolish his idea of walking across the swamp had been.
But... this is the only way to reach the destination. If we change routes, then...
Thinking of this, Ye Feng unconsciously looked towards the opposite bank of the river…
He immediately walked towards a large tree behind him, enduring the pain in his palms, and managed to climb five or six meters high.
He took out his binoculars and looked across the river; the white miasma had less than halved.
Although there are swamps there, they are significantly smaller, and there are other routes to bypass them.
But he couldn't see the swampy area clearly because it was mostly covered by miasma.
You know, even if the sun isn't as strong as it is at noon now, it shouldn't be so strong that it can't even evaporate the miasma...
Therefore, the only possibility is that miasma is constantly being generated in this land.
This demonstrates the breadth of its coverage…
After a while, Ye Feng slowly climbed down the tree. He had made up his mind; at this critical moment, the only option was to risk crossing the river…
Because of his injured hands and limited time, he had no choice but to swim across.
He rushed to the riverbank, taking three steps at a time, without even having time to observe where the swimming begins…
The scene before him left him stunned once again…
On the opposite bank of the river, two or three black caimans were lying there, their eyes half-closed.
Although they are not very big, one is enough to deal with them in the water.
Moreover, Ye Feng was very clear that there were definitely more crocodiles lurking underwater.
After all, this is their habitat…
Ye Feng sat slumped on the ground, his face blank, his eyes filled with despair…
His current situation... if he doesn't leave, he'll just stay here and wait to die; if he swims over, he'll be eaten by crocodiles.
If he walked through the swamp, he would most likely have been poisoned by the miasma, fainted, and then been swallowed by the mud.
It was a situation where there was no way to go to heaven or earth...
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