The unfamiliar environment and the exhaustion of a long day made it impossible for me to fall asleep, as the huge contrast between my physical and mental state made me unable to sleep.
The key issue is that the forest they were in was overgrown with weeds.
Some tall, leafy plants are almost as big as a human figure. At first glance, if you can make out their shape, you can easily be startled.
Add to that the squeaking of insects, the chirping of rodents, and the buzzing of mosquitoes…
The sounds of all sorts of animals blended together, adding to the eerie and terrifying atmosphere of the forest shrouded in black mist.
It's a place of claustrophobia-stricken despair...
However, Ye Feng and his companions were used to it; the Amazon night was supposed to be like this.
He looked at the prize pool amount on his watch, still completely baffled.
He always believed that Makuko had no need to resort to such tricks.
They are the masters of this game. Would they really deceive the challengers and break their promise?
Anyway, he gets to decide the rules and the timing, so there's really no need to go through all that trouble.
However... regardless of whether the game started early or not, we must speed things up now.
Ye Feng opened the map and looked at the still flashing red dot. It seemed that there was no progress today.
Based on his extensive experience traveling in the wild, he was able to roughly estimate that he had walked about 6 kilometers today.
Honestly, considering the heavy rain, achieving this result is already quite impressive.
But Ye Feng shook his head, sighing inwardly…
"No, this is much slower than I expected..."
His plan was to walk 8 kilometers a day and complete the game in 6 days.
If you do the math, he's leading by nearly 30 hours. Excluding the period from 7 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. tomorrow, he's still leading by 18 hours.
If you add a daily commuting speed of 8 kilometers, even if the other person is slightly faster than you...
But as long as you follow your plan, by the time they catch up with you, you'll have almost reached your destination.
"ah!……"
Just then, Qi Xiaoyan's loud shout broke the silence.
Everyone quickly looked over...
She was frantically climbing onto the platform, pointing down in terror...
"There's a snake down there, a really big one..."
Ye Feng frowned. Most snakes that come out at night are venomous. And this one is huge? Could it be a giant viper?
Thinking of this, he quickly asked...
"What kind of snake was that? Were you bitten?"
Qi Xiaoyan shook her head with relief...
"I was just about to go to the toilet when I accidentally stepped on its tail."
It was too dark, and it moved very fast. I couldn't see what kind of snake it was, but its stripes were spotted, much like a jaguar.
It's thicker than my calf, and seems even bigger than the giant viper you caught last time.
"Bigger than a giant viper..."
Ye Feng murmured something softly, then pulled a piece of firewood from the stove and stepped off the platform.
Tang Weiwei and Zhan Pengwu followed closely behind...
"Isn't it normal to encounter snakes in the jungle at night? Isn't it a bit risky to try and catch them at this time?"
Tang Weiwei knew that Ye Feng would not let any kind of poison go unpunished.
He doesn't know martial arts, so this is his main way of protecting himself.
But because it was too dark, he still kindly wanted to offer some advice.
Ye Feng ignored him and strode forward in the direction Qi Xiaoyan pointed.
Because he gleaned a key point from this information.
There are no venomous snakes larger than giant vipers in the Amazon; the only one is the anaconda.
These snakes primarily inhabit mangrove forests, or damp riverbanks and swamps…
This allows us to deduce what dangerous creatures might be nearby.
Rivers are fine; he has plenty of ways to cross them.
But if you encounter a swamp, that can be tricky.
He had already experienced the highly poisonous miasma and the foul-smelling black sludge firsthand.
Soon, the group arrived at the place Qi Xiaoyan had mentioned.
The snake had long since disappeared, but Ye Feng immediately identified it.
Inferences can be drawn from the crushed grass on the ground and the crawling marks.
This is most likely a sub-adult anaconda.
"Damn it, just what I feared most has come to pass!"
Ye Feng scratched his hair in frustration.
"Hey bro, it's just a snake. Don't be afraid, I can kill it with one stick."
"I'm not afraid of snakes, it's the other things I'm afraid of..."
Ye Feng recalled the swamp he encountered when he was drifting on the river.
In the Amazon, anacondas and vampire bats are essentially linked.
Because their habitats overlap significantly, and bats are one of the anaconda's main food sources.
So if you encounter one of them, then the other one is definitely not far away.
Bats are covered in viruses and suck the blood of all sorts of animals.
Humans, in particular, with their delicate skin and dense blood vessels, are one of the favorites of vampire bats.
"Let's go, tonight is definitely not going to be peaceful, those guys will definitely come looking for us."
The group returned to the platform, ate the dried meat, and then drifted off to sleep.
Out of caution, Ye Feng had eight people take turns on night watch.
One person keeps watch for about an hour and a half, and it's almost dawn.
Their empty backpacks came in handy at this moment; they used two backpacks to cover their lower and upper bodies respectively, which could be used as sleeping bags to keep out mosquitoes.
At two o'clock in the morning, all kinds of animals in the night began a grand chorus.
Eerie screams rose and fell, and various rustling sounds came from the grass incessantly.
This shift was Zhan Pengfei's turn...
Being woken up from a dream is a very uncomfortable feeling. He was rubbing his eyes, yawning, and his eyelids were drooping.
After throwing a few pieces of firewood into the fire, he sat quietly to the side.
He never doubted Ye Feng's decision, but he was exhausted after a long day.
With a bunch of insects around constantly singing a lullaby, anyone would feel sleepy in this situation.
For the first half hour, he could barely resist the drowsiness, but later on, it seemed as if someone had taken away control of his eyelids.
So he sat cross-legged on the spot, propped his cheek up with his right hand, and began to doze off.
Then, just ten minutes after he fell asleep, a pair of red eyes gradually appeared in the dark woods and drew closer and closer to them.
Finally, it stopped on a large tree branch at the edge of the platform…
This bat is not very big, but its reddish-brown eyes make it look mysterious and terrifying.
After observing the crowd for a while, it flew away.
But only about 5 minutes later, a dozen pairs of red eyes swarmed over.
They stood atop the large tree where Ye Feng and the others were, their eyes fixed intently on what lay below.
They surrounded Ye Feng and his companions, their eyes filled with greed.
Another ten minutes or so passed, and the fire in the stove gradually went out because no more firewood was added…
And the bats began to move...
They couldn't wait, yet they flew off the platform silently.
Sixteen bats in total began selecting their prey…
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