Chapter 102: Enemy Tracks
After receiving the order, the mercenaries found a good place to sit down. They seemed to be very tired. They took out the kettle and drank the light salty water inside. Liu Nan dared not waste it any. Water here is also a precious resource.
Don’t think that you won’t worry about water in the rainforest. It depends on what water it is. Sewage is everywhere in the rainforest, but drinking it is equivalent to dying. The sewage here is full of parasites and insect eggs. After drinking it, you can’t leave the rainforest alive. People with experience in survival in the wild will not drink the water source here directly, but drink the water stored in plant fibers through some water storage plants.
Liu Nan and the others don’t have so much spare time to find these water-storing plants, so it is necessary to try to save the drinking water they bring.
Recalling these jungle survival skills, Liu Nan thought of the Benedict that he saw in his previous life. He didn't know if Benedict could survive when he came here. Benedict met with the mutated Forest Anaconda. Who eats whom? Benedict is known as "a man standing at the top of the food chain". As long as he is alive, even God will eat it for you. Maybe he is influenced by the rules of this world, Benedict may also be able to mutate into a glutton.
While the team members were having dinner, Xisuo and Liu Nan began to study the map. Along the way, Xisuo used a compass to mark the locations of himself and others on the map. Even if he got lost, he could return to the side of the ship through the map.
"Liu Nan, the plants here are too dense, and we are moving too slowly. We only walked less than ten kilometers this morning. If this continues, our stay here will be greatly extended."
After calculating the distance, Xisuo said helplessly, everyone knows that the longer you stay here, the more dangerous it is. However, in this environment, even if you are helpless, there is no way to increase the speed.
"Use drones, use drones to conduct jump searches, and try to narrow the target range."
Liu Nan also had the same idea. If you rely on human feet to search, even if you find the mutated hornet's movement trajectory, it will take a lot of time to track it. The hornet's movement speed here is faster than that of himself and others. The distance of the hornet's half a day is definitely several times that of himself and others. Perhaps the traces found by him and others are still hundreds of kilometers away from the hornet's nest. Hundreds of kilometers are not far from the hornet's highway, but here is enough to make him wait for someone for two days.
When I came out this time, I brought a small drone, and of course the distance was not comparable to that of the military drone that could carry out long-range strikes, but there was no problem with short-distance reconnaissance and shooting.
"Okay, just do it like that. It's better to search with a drone than to go forward with two legs, Woods, come here, it's time for you to come out."
Simon also meant this. Since Liu Nan agreed, it would be easy to deal with. Woods is an electronics expert in their team. The reconnaissance aircraft was assembled by him. Of course, it was the various high-tech parts provided by Stark Group that allowed Woods to assemble a high-performance small drone.
Woods came over, then took out a disassembled drone from his backpack and started assembling it. Liu Nan looked at the drone that Woods assembled a little familiar. It looked like the kind I had seen in the game in my previous life. It had a rectangular body and four round fan blades. I just don’t know if it is for both land and air.
Woods was very fast and assembled the drone in less than five minutes. Then he opened his backpack, and there was a tablet computer inside, entered the command program, connected to the drone, and a picture appeared on the screen, which was the picture taken by the camera on the drone.
After everything was ready, Woods started the drone, and the drone flew up immediately. After Woods made several adjustments, the drone passed through the branches on his head and left the jungle covered with branches and leaves.
"Boss, everything is ready, please give me instructions."
The drone was parked above everyone's heads, and Woods said to Sisso.
"Search in the direction we are moving forward first."
Seeing Xisuo looking at him, Liu Nan said that there are only so many clues at present, and I still need to dig it out.
"No problem, let's go."
Woods used the drone to push forward, and the drone made only a slight buzzing sound and flew forward across the treetops.
"Woods, fly slower, the trees here are too lush, so fast that they can't see clearly."
Xisuo stared at the screen and said, when she quickly passed by the branches, Xisuo felt green all over her eyes and could not see anything else.
"I got it, head, I'll fly a little slower."
When Woods slowed down the speed, the image became quite clear. Through the gaps between the branches and leaves, Liu Nan, Xisso and Hughes stared at the screen for clues.
"Woods, fly to the left, I saw the snake."
Hughes began to command Woods. He formulated the direction based on the situation detected by the drone. Xisuo slowly adjusted the map position behind him. After the investigation, he did not have to go to the wrong way and could move forward straight. Of course, everyone hoped to see the location of Xuelan directly, so that he could go straight to Xuelan.
"Huces, is that okay? You can only fly so far, and it will be beyond the remote control range any further."
Woods looked at a mark on the screen and began to prompt the farthest distance of the remote control. If he went further, the signal would not be received.
"Let the drone roam around the corner and try to get more clues."
Hughes hasn't found enough clues yet, so let Woods' remote-controlled drone roam around the neighborhood.
"No problem, as long as the remote control distance is not exceeded, the power is still sufficient, enough to make you feel happy."
Woods began to direct the drone to draw circles at the farthest distance, allowing Hughes to see more.
"Stop and fly backward."
Suddenly Liu Nan grabbed Woods' shoulder and said.
"What? Oh, right now."
Woods quickly operated, turned the drone and flew towards the path just now.
"Oh my god, what is that."
When everyone saw clearly what Liu Nan wanted to see, they all exclaimed. A mutated horn in the picture was swimming forward. This horn was larger than the one that had been slaughtered before, and was almost as thick as a paint bucket. It was slowly swimming under the shade of the tree, and everyone not only swallowed their saliva.
"Huces, is it going to go back to the nest or go out for food?"
Liu Nanyaoxing asked Hughes, who was already stunned, if he could know the movement of this anaconda, it would be very helpful for him to find the location of Xuelan.
"I can't tell that this horn is too big, it's impossible to tell that it has never eaten anything. I believe that other animals in the Amazon forest cannot support the belly of this horn."
Hughes shook his head. The best way to judge whether animals want to forage or return to their nests is to look at their stomachs. The stomachs of full animals will bulge, and wild animals will not be healthy. Their lifestyle will make them eat a lot as long as they have the chance, so their stomachs will bulge. This anaconda can't tell whether there is anything in its belly, who makes it too big.
Chapter completed!