Chapter 18 Blood Orchid Ecosystem
Gwen studied in Osbourne, worked as a trainee guide, and as a guide, introduced some current students who came to visit the company.
Although a bit abrupt, Gwen's appearance was not unexpected. But what about Jessica?
After understanding, I learned that Jessica's father was a private detective contracted by Osborne, and because of some problems, Jessica's father asked her to go instead.
Before dark, the team set off.
Because of the delay of nearly a day, Mark, the person in charge of Osborne's mission, asked to take the shortest route.
However, the guide Jin Song will be paid twice! ! "It's the rainy season now, the water level in the river is several times higher than usual, some depressions are flooded, and the place you mentioned is full of unforeseen dangers!"
"Hey man, there are hundreds of soldiers here to protect you, what are you afraid of? Don't tell me...you are a coward. Hahaha." Colonel Todd joked.
Jin Song sneered, and said lightly: "You are the sponsors, you can do whatever you want, but I was also in the Marine Corps before, so I kindly advise you, it's best not to go too deep."
"Three times! As long as you drive to your destination within tomorrow, I will pay you three times." Mark said impatiently.
Jin Song didn't rejoice because of the increase in salary, and said strangely: "Unless you are flying a plane, it will take three days at the earliest to arrive."
"What? Three days later!! Those blood orchids only have one week left to bloom. If they miss it, they will have to wait another seven years!! Seven years!" Mark was obviously dissatisfied with the words of the so-called senior guide.
However, after the dispute, no result could be settled, and the course remained the same.
In the dead of night, Mark discussed with two technicians in the cabin. They found the shortest route to the destination through the satellite map, and they could cross it in a few hours and arrive by tomorrow morning.
Mark found Colonel Todd and changed the course of all ships without notifying the guide Jin Song.
But before dawn, during the darkest hour, a large waterfall appeared ahead of the course.
Mark only woke up Jin Song in a hurry this time.
Although Jin Song was very angry, it was a done deal, and the only way at this time was to firmly hold on to the hull.
On the waterfall hundreds of meters high, dozens of boats fell into the deep pool.
Colonel Todd lost nearly half of his soldiers as a result, and their bodies were floating in the river.
And there are crocodiles below, dozens of three-meter-long megalodons, dragging those corpses into the water.
With almost all ships damaged and unable to sail anymore, Colonel Todd and his party had to go ashore and walk through the jungle by overland.
And this takes more than four days.
Mark's claim was hit, and Colonel Todd looked at him coldly because he lost half of his manpower.
Lin Fan helped Jessica and Gwen ashore.
Ding! Join the military mission to complete.
Reward: Additional system for military rank promotion.
Military rank: third class private.
Merit: 010.
Mission Update: (Sideline) Help the Marines remove all unknown leeches. Reward: A worker bee variant branch splitter.
The blood-sucking leech is a kind of creature entrenched in the river, but in the Amazon jungle, in this branch river, all creatures have mutated due to the special ecology created by the blood orchid.
At first, only big snakes were lucky enough to eat blood orchids, but then the snake pit collapsed, and the blood orchid seeds there began to spread, and the production of blood orchids increased sharply after many years.
Herbivores eat blood orchids, carnivores eat herbivores, mosquitoes and other insects bite carnivores, and circulate in the ecological circle, creating a unique ecology of blood orchids.
Originally in the primeval jungle, the creatures in it were a huge threat to humans, but now they are strengthened by blood orchids, no one knows how dangerous they are.
After Lin Fan understood the mission, he thought to himself, is he going to act as a medical soldier this time?
At this time, a Marine Corps soldier let out a scream. His skin was pale and quickly dried up, and his voice also weakened.
Seeing this, Jin Song immediately shouted: "It's a leech, take off his clothes, hurry up."
The soldier next to him immediately opened his clothes, only to see many palm-sized, crimson, terrifying creatures with many small sharp teeth attached to the back.
Jin Song took out a lighter and used his experience to get rid of these leeches, but his approach was wrong, these are no longer ordinary leeches.
Sure enough, after encountering the fire, those leeches crazily burrowed into the soldier's body, and the burned body immediately repaired itself through the homogenization of the soldier's flesh and blood.
Jin Song widened his eyes.
He had never seen such a leech before! !
At this time, many soldiers found that they also had those leeches on their backs. If they picked them up with their hands, the leeches would sink deeper into their flesh.
But the frightening thing is that their weakness will inevitably take a certain stage to appear. For example, after losing half of the water in the body.
Before that, there was no pain from being bitten by the sharp teeth of a leech! !
This is a highly potent neuronarcotic toxin.
Lin Fan observed the leeches through the eyes of God, and the eyes of God analyzed the leeches within a few seconds.
Giant-sucking leech: Survive by attaching to the surface of organisms, absorb the blood in organisms to reproduce, and the neurotoxins in the body have high nerve paralysis. After being injured, it will homogenize the host's body to seize and repair it, fearing toxins.