Chapter 661 Fishing for the Wild Bunch

Before six o'clock in the morning, Xia Qing was woken up by the biological clock he had developed over a year of farming to go to bed early and get up early.

After opening her eyes and listening to the running water, the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects for a few seconds, Xia Qing got up and tidied herself up. After having breakfast, she got out of the tent and let Yang Jin go in to rest.

The evolutionary forest after the rain is full of dangers. You are not allowed to take off your protective mask or expose any part of your body without entering the tent. Otherwise, it is very likely that fungal spores and bacteria floating in the air will invade the body, or be bitten by poisonous insects and die.

Not to mention drinking water, eating, and even going to the toilet have to be done in the tent. This is one of the very inconvenient aspects when going out to perform tasks. Therefore, Xia Qing only took compressed food two days before the team went out to perform tasks. rations to reduce bathroom breaks during missions.

A better way than eating compressed rations is to drink nutrient solution.

However, a compressed ration made from grass as the main raw material can be purchased with one or two points, while a bottle of ordinary nutrient solution costs between 200 and 400 points, and a special nutrient solution costs up to 2,000 points. Therefore, when going on a mission, although Xia Qing would buy two bottles of ordinary nutrient solution just in case, she would not be willing to take it unless she encountered a dangerous situation or the nutrient solution was about to expire.

In order to maximize the use value of these two nutrient solutions, Xia Qing will complete several more tasks during the shelf life of the nutrient solution after purchasing the nutrient solution to earn more points.

In addition to eating, there is also the issue of drinking water. Although there is a lot of activity in the evolutionary forest and most of the water he drinks is excreted in the form of sweat, Xia Qing will still reduce the amount of water he drinks to reduce the number of trips to the toilet.

After Yang Jin came out, he first showed Xia Qing the route map and data on the tracking ring monitor, "The python and the snake took five hours and sixteen minutes to march 37,345 meters and reached the north, which is 16,720 meters away from us. The area just stopped.”

Then, Yang Jin showed Xia Qing the paper map on which he had marked the route and destination of the python parade. The python that set out from Mountain No. 55 with the killing snake arrived at the lake north of Mountain No. 60.

Some of the waterways where pythons travel are in rivers above the ground, and some are below the ground. The map shows that they are mountainous and forested areas, which makes sense. Green snakes evolved from green bamboo snakes. They breathe with their lungs and will surface for a few breaths after a while, so pythons cannot stay in the water for a long time.

Grasping this point, if you want to eliminate the poisonous snakes in the future, just guard the river channels that the pythons must pass through to return to the northern lakes.

What we have to do today is to continue catching snakes and collecting underwater herbs.

Xia Qing explained the situation to Yang Jin, and then proposed to form a team to collect herbs, "Before the python comes back, let's form a team and dig out this herb from the pond. What do you think?"

Yang Jin recognized the picture on Xia Qing's phone after looking at it, "This is one of the herbs needed to detoxify Zhang Hongda. I didn't realize that the leaf flashing past in the video was this herb. Fortunately, you recognized it." Now that I’ve discovered it, of course I have to take it back.”

Xia Qing knew that based on the relationship between Luo Pei and Yue Haiying, Yang Jin must be one of the ways Yue Haiying asked to find herbal medicines, so it was not surprising that he recognized the uses of the herbal medicines in the pictures.

He didn't recognize the blade that flashed by and looked very similar to the leaves of ordinary grass. It was not surprising because Yang Jin was not a herb collector. If he hadn't been watching the two weasels every day, the subtle features of the two herbs would have been deeply ingrained in his mind, and Xia Qing wouldn't have paid attention to the blade of grass passing by.

However, you still have to be humble and objective. "It was the third brother who recognized it. He said that the herb growing on the underwater stone wall should be a different evolved species of the same herb, and the efficacy is not yet certain."

If this herb can be used, Xia Qing can change the herb posted in the sheep shed from two to one after returning.

To obtain the herbs at a depth of about ten meters in the Python Pond, a feasible plan must be formulated in advance.

Xia Qing's plan was to cut down trees and tie them into sticks more than ten meters long, then tie a stone, a flashlight and a hook to one end, and then go into the water to hook the herbs.

This plan was rejected by Yang Jin, because according to the observation of underwater detectors, herbs grow in the cracks of rocks. Xia Qing's method of collecting herbs was not flexible enough and could not guarantee the integrity of the herbs, and the efficacy of the herbs would be destroyed. Moreover, this pool is connected to an underground river, and there may be pythons or other large creatures hidden in it. It is possible that the stick was snapped off by the python before the stick could reach the herb.

The final plan is for the two of them to lure away pythons or other aggressive animals that may be lurking in the water, and then Yang Jin goes down to collect herbs. Xia Qing is responsible for sniping the beasts lurking in the water and protecting Yang Jin. As for how to divide it, it depends on the contribution of the two people during the execution of the task.

Yang Jin handed a special pistol to Xia Qing and taught her how to shoot the pistol. Then Yang Jin went to find a suitable place to make a trap to temporarily trap the python.

Since the pythons in Mountain No. 55 can drive away wolves and gather the snakes in the surrounding mountains, they have formed a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship in which they exploit their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, indicating that a brain-evolved leader may have evolved in the python group.

A large beast with high IQ, capable of gathering its own kind to form a powerful fighting force. If humans take the initiative to provoke and kill members of this group, it is likely to trigger crazy revenge from the herd. The battle between the wolves in the west and the humans at Huisan Base some time ago is a bloody lesson.

Therefore, the pythons on Mountain No. 55 need to be included in the list of "advanced evolved beasts that cannot be actively provoked" and treated with caution.

Xia Qing and Yang Jin teamed up this time, not to kill pythons, nor to compete with them for territory or prey, but just to dig a few grasses in the python's territory. There was no need to make enemies with them, just lead them away.

Yang Jin went to find and make traps, while Xia Qing used a sniper rifle to hunt an evolved animal that was not sure whether it was a deer, a cow or a sheep, dismembered it into pieces, tied it tightly with ropes, and made it into bait for fishing pythons.

After Yang Jin used the aggressive killing of evolved vines to make a rope trap that could trap the giant python, the two came to the small pond, threw a bait into the pond, and began to release the rope.

After waiting for less than two minutes, Xia Qing saw a black shadow appear in the deep water and quickly grew larger, and subconsciously shouted:

"Here it comes!"

When Yang Jin, who was pulling the rope, quickly pulled the bait out of the water, a python with a bloody mouth broke out of the water and jumped more than six meters high.

It was the first time that Xia Qing had such a close contact with a live python. Her hair stood up, and she was both excited and nervous.

After watching how Yang Jin used bait to lure the python away, Xia Qing put the second bait into the water and stared at the bottom of the water with wide eyes.

When she saw the black shadow emerge, Xia Qing couldn't help but curse: Fuck!

She used a piece of meat to catch two giant pythons!