Chapter 113
Chapter 113
Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal and the largest city in the country. However, the street construction in this location is very problematic. The population is so dense that it is not an exaggeration to say that there are many people walking on the street.
Kate Caldwell finished a seafood curry rice with a heavy heart, and finally accepted the reality a little bit.
"Where do we go next?"
Because they basically had to work in the field, they didn't book a hotel as a place to stay, and they set off after lunch.
"Let's go to the foot of the Himalayas. If we have enough time, we will go straight into the mountains."
Most of the habitats of wild animals are far away from human settlements. Even a million years ago, the routes of these prehistoric creatures were remote and rugged.Ao Jing got the news that both the mammoth and the alien tiger they were looking for on this trip had been active here. The mammoth, which has already had sufficient skeleton data, has not been mentioned for the time being. Only two corpses of the alien tiger have been found so far. , was carefully preserved by the United States, and would never be provided to them for genetic experiments, so they could only be self-sufficient.
"I haven't lived in the mountains..."
Kate has been an experimenter working indoors before, and the chances of going outside are negligible. Although she is very excited to join a new project, she still can't help being nervous about the new field when she is in her position. .
"Didn't Davis often work in the field? You don't have to worry about him." Ao Jing didn't take it seriously, "There is no other danger in the mountains except for the cold."
For ordinary people, the Himalayas may be full of dangers, but Ao Kyung thinks that there will be no wild animals that want to take her as prey.
The Himalayas are all Yang Yue's territory, she just met Yang Yue, who lived enough to provoke her?
After arriving at the destination through unconventional means, Ao Kyung no longer intends to use her abilities. If she is always using spells for convenience, her practice will be meaningless.So as soon as she entered Nepal, she returned to the state of an ordinary person, carrying a tarpaulin outdoor backpack decently, and Kate followed Davis, who was quite assertive and experienced.
It didn’t take long to go shopping all the way from the restaurant where they ate to the market, because Davis had already prepared the shopping list in advance, and there are often tourists here who go hiking in the Himalayas, and there are all kinds of outdoor products in the market. It sold out quickly.When they came out, there were food supplies and survival supplies for the three of them, such as compressed biscuits, large-capacity thermos cups and more portable water bags when leaving the camp, outdoor water purifiers, energy bars and some necessary lamps at night; Kate Carrying the medicines and toiletries, stoves and fuel that the three of them may use, a camera is hung around the neck; Davis, who is strong, bears the heaviest camping supplies and their replacement clothes.
In order to save effort, they hired a small car, but the driver was only willing to take them outside the forest at the foot of the mountain, even if they paid more, they would not move one centimeter inside.
"This forest is too big, and I'm afraid that if I go in, I won't get out." The short, dark-skinned man shook his hands and said nervously in English with a local flavor, "You climbers of Mount Everest don't want to die! Get off here, I don't know anything, just pretend I haven't driven you... If you had said you were going to camp in the mountains, I wouldn't have taken the job!"
If they died in the mountains, his life would be over...he didn't want to be involved.
Ao Jing and his party were pushed and shoved by the driver to get out of the broken car that almost knocked them apart. The man ran away without even daring to collect the money, driving away in a black-smoky bun, for fear of taking the money. Once you get the money, it becomes a handle.
"... We never said we were going to climb Mount Everest, did we?"
The three people who were left outside the forest looked at each other in blank dismay. Although they did prepare a lot of camping equipment and really needed to go into the mountains, Mount Everest was really not their goal.
The matter has come to this point, they tried to explain but no one listened, so they had to resign themselves to their fate, carrying their things and turning to face reality.
"Ah... nature."
There was a lush greenery in front of them, and the three of them took a deep breath of the aroma of the forest's grass and trees at the same time, and let out a sigh.
Ao Jing is a green dragon, and the five elements belong to wood. The forest is her natural supply field, which allows her to grow at an astonishing speed to be comparable to her second sister Ao Yang.
The biggest advantage of her team is to be active in the jungle for a long time.
Not far from the forest is the first supply station for climbing Mount Everest, but they bypassed the sight of those people and entered the forest directly, not wanting to be discovered by the patrol team.
"Let's find a place to camp first."
While sweeping away the plants blocking the way with a heavy package, Davis turned his head and said: "The terrain should be flat and the surrounding area should be as open as possible, so that we can avoid the ambush of some wild animals. At the same time, it should be kept dry to keep warm...the forest The temperature here will definitely drop to more than ten or even tens of degrees below zero at night, even if you have a sleeping bag, you can’t feel that everything will be fine..."
"What about the water source? We need to drink water." Kate was a little worried that they would be dehydrated.
"We can't get too close to the water source. The water source means that there will be more beasts moving there. It is best to avoid them... But you are right, we also need water."
Survival in the wild is the trouble here. It is easy to run into a situation where it is possible to have both fish and bear's paws, but it is difficult.
"You can leave the matter of water to me. Finding the most suitable campsite is more important."
Ao Kyung felt that they didn't have to worry about the water problem, and she could still cheat a little in this respect.
"Where's the map here?" Davis put the bag on the ground and shook his red hand, looking back at Ao Jing, "I think it's best for us to set up camp in the middle of the forest, so that we can come back at night, otherwise Likely to go back and forth from extremes."
"We don't have a map of the forest." Ao Jing shook his head, "But we can find it in other ways."
"What can you do?"
Davis fully thought that Ao Kyung would look for small animals to ask directions like in cartoons, but the girl just put her hands on the nearby tree, the leaves were trembling, and there was a low sound from the ground, as if they were communicating.
The girl looked around looking for the way, nodded from time to time, and then raised her other hand and pointed to a narrow path in the jungle: "Go along this path. There is indeed a relatively clean flat land in the center of the forest. , wild animals rarely set foot there, it's safe for us."
Communicating with trees is her innate ability. Since there is no ready-made map, asking for directions nearby is the quickest way. What time is it.
Davis glanced at her, then looked at the path covered with dead branches and leaves, and picked up the package again: "I will open the way ahead, you be careful."
The dead leaves rustled under everyone's feet. Even though they had accelerated their speed, the visibility in the forest decreased rapidly as the sun set. At dusk, the team's location was as dark as night.
"Put on the searchlights." Ao Jing fumbled out three head-mounted searchlights from his backpack, "It should be here soon."
"I didn't expect this forest to be so big..." Kate was already out of breath. When she was outside, she thought it would only take two or three hours for everyone to walk through the forest, but when she looked at the mechanical watch, they hadn't stopped for four hours. However, there were still endless trees, and now her physical strength was a bit overdrawn, but she just dragged her legs forward with the last perseverance.
Ao Jing and Davis are quite at ease. The former already possesses much higher physical fitness than human beings. Although the backpack on her body looks very heavy, it is nothing to her, while Davis has been exercising for a long time and has rich physical fitness. With his field work experience, he is very strong in all aspects, so in addition to his shoulders being red from being strangled by the tent bag, he can also survive the next journey.
"Otherwise, sit down and rest for a while." After all, Davis still feels sorry for his girlfriend. This is the first time she has challenged this kind of high-intensity work. "You're a little dehydrated, let's rehydrate and head to camp."
"No, I might not be able to stand up when I sit down." Kate stepped on a tree root protruding from the ground and smiled wryly, putting her hands on her waist. "I have to get to the place in one breath before paralyzing."
"Then you should drink some water first."
Ao Kyung handed Kate an orange water storage bag, which was filled with water from the beginning, and Kate drank half of it in one go—she was really tired.
Then she handed the water bag to Ao Kyung: "You also add some water."
They kept walking along the way, and Davis's steps were much heavier, but this little girl was always as brisk as if she was out for a walk.
"Oh, it's okay, I have my own, but I don't want to drink it yet." Ao Kyung took out his white water bag and showed Kate a look, then threw a blue water bag to Davis on the other side.
The man took the water bag that was thrown over steadily, and took a couple of sips leisurely. Under the background of the searchlight, he looked dark again: "I wonder if I can sleep well tonight."
"If we can set up tents and build a camp, it will be fine... We haven't seen any beasts so far, and the eagles above our heads won't include us in the range of prey."
When they walked all the way, they only heard the howling of hawks and falcons from above the forest, but the nocturnal predators that could pose a substantial threat to them had not yet appeared.
"I'm really hungry." The man smiled helplessly. "What's for dinner? Don't tell me to eat compressed biscuits and energy bars. Only by eating something hot today can you cheer up."
"Wait until we get to the camp." Ao Jing showed her calm and reliable side after leaving Rocky, she looked up at the dense leaves, "We will arrive at our destination in about a quarter of an hour, and we still have a lot of preliminary preparations to do. Do it... let's go after drinking water."
"Huh..." Kate gasped, "Let's go, I'll take a good rest when I get to the place."
Even after walking for so long, the two mortals never doubted whether Ao Kyung was pointing the way in the right direction, and followed her captain's instructions without distraction. As a newcomer, Kate showed her amazing endurance and determination, even though the physical gap was huge. Da, did not hold back the team at all, and even stepped up to the front for a while, which made Ao Kyung's favorability for her rapidly increase.
After 15 minutes, they finally saw the camp where they will stay for at least half a month in the future - the place is covered with soft and crisp dead leaves, and the scattered stones appear to be slightly lower, but when they look closely, there are actually some slopes. The rainwater will be drained directly along the slope, and the distance between the trees is farther than other places, which leaves a flat area for camping. The most rare thing is that there is a piece of sky above the head that is not covered by the tree canopy. This way they can judge the weather by normal means.
"finally reached!!!"
Whether it was Ao Kyung, who was able to handle it with ease, or Kate, who was almost unable to hold on, they couldn't help making such a cry. The only man silently took off the tent on his body, and consciously began to do physical work - to set up everyone's tent.
Today's outdoor tents are very advanced, and they are almost all fully automatic and quick opening, which saves a lot of time for wearing fixed poles, but here they need more secure reinforcement to prevent the night wind in the mountains from blowing away their houses.
Davis tapped on the side of the tent with tools, and took the time to order the two girls on the other side who were arranging daily necessities and food supplies: "Please build a fire, both of you, for keeping warm and cooking. "
This matter was very simple, there were dead branches and leaves everywhere, Ao Jing and Kate built a pile of fire at the location indicated by Davis, and the chill of the night was dispelled a lot.
"You two tidy up here, I'll go hunting and see if I can get fish or rabbits tonight."
Ao Kyung patted his hands stained by leaves, and walked in one direction with empty hands, calmly and calmly like an experienced hunter.
Davis, who thinks he is the wild survival boss in the team:? ? ?
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The author has something to say:
Our dragon girls are typically weak in front of male votes
Without Loki, she is the biggest hanger...
Davis: Wait a minute? ? ?Who hunts? ? ?
Long Mei: We save time and order takeaway directly.
Wild animals in the forest:...the door-to-door delivery is the deadliest_(:з)∠)_
Yang Yue: Why are you carrying Pinru's wardrobe :)
Rocky: My little princess can't be this tough...but still so cute.
Long Mei: QAQ I'm super tired after walking all afternoon.
emmmmm... The fine dragon food is on sale online, would you like a bowl from the guest officer?
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