Live Wilderness Challenge

So, Chen Xu directly put down his backpack and the kindling, came to the root of the balsa wood, held the machete in both hands, and slashed down.

Bang!

When the knife went down, it was not like cutting down ordinary trees, but made a muffled sound.

The audience saw that, as Master Xu said, the machete cut into it almost two centimeters deep in one stroke!

Next, Chen Xu stabbed one after another.

The opening at the root of the tree is getting bigger and bigger, and when he cuts to 80.00%, he stops immediately:

"When you cut such a large tree in the wild, you must pay attention to the direction in which the trunk falls. It is not the direction where the gap is, it will fall to whichever side, but the center of gravity of the crown."

"Which side has dense canopy and more branches, it is easy to shift to which side in the end. In the world, more than 50 people are injured by cutting down trees every year, so this must not be ignored!"

Chapter 3 The Boat of Friendship Sets Off

Chen Xu looked at the crown of the big tree, adjusted the angle, and then continued to chop with the machete.

With the last knife down, the remaining [-]% of the connection of the whole trunk was finally overwhelmed and broke.

In the next second, just as Xu Ye said, the balsa wood did not fall in the direction of the cut, but fell along the place where the crown was thick and there were many branches.

It hit the ground with a "boom".

Then, Chen Xu came to the crown of the balsa tree and cut off all the extra branches with a machete.

Only then did the audience understand why Lord Xu chose to carry a machete instead of a dagger.

Indeed, the chopping performance of this thing is much better than that of a dagger.

After cutting off all the branches, Chen Xu chuckled, "Next, I will personally prove how light balsa wood is!"

After speaking, he packed up his things, put on his backpack, and came to the middle of the balsa tree trunk.

This is not too big compared to the size of balsa wood in the jungle, but it is at least twelve or three meters long and more than 70 centimeters wide.

Chen Xu clasped his hands together and let out a low growl.

The next moment, an astonishing scene appeared, a huge balsa tree trunk was actually lifted up from the middle by him!

"Diao Hang Hang, is it really light? Or is Master Xu himself stronger?"

"Looking at the way Master Xu is resisting the tree trunk, it looks like Monkey King pulling out the Poseidon needle in "Journey to the West"!"

"Wu Xu: I want it, what is the use of this iron rod?"

After being carried to the open space on the shore, Chen Xu didn't even catch his breath:

"Don't be so surprised, let alone me, this balsa wood more than 10 meters long, even a housewife can lift it!"

Then, he began to use a machete to peel off a little bark, and then tore off the whole tree one by one like peeling snake skin.

The balsa wood whose bark is torn off, the wood inside is light yellow and white, looks very nice.

Chen Xu used the machete again to cut the entire balsa trunk into five knots according to the distance of more than two meters per knot.

"Since we are going on a water journey of nearly four days and a length of about 250 kilometers, this raft must be made very strong."

"After all, the water system in Central America is not like other continents. There are piranhas, crocodiles, and the overlord of the water, the anaconda!"

"Once the raft suddenly disintegrated halfway and I stumbled and fell into the deep water, then everyone can easily think of the result."

"The density of balsa wood is very low, light in weight, large in size and very good in drainage. That is to say, I don't have to worry about it sinking after soaking in water for a long time. I just need to think about how to fix them!"

After explaining to the camera, Chen Xu returned to the jungle and began to search for these medium-height bushes.

Five minutes later, he came to a bush.

"When I used to make rafts, I always used vines to fix them, but this time, I decided to add an ancient Chinese fixing method, riveting!"

"Riveting, as the name suggests, is to use rivets to drill holes to fix objects; because the hardness of balsa wood is very soft, I am going to use this shrub to make a horizontal bar, stick it into the balsa wood, and then use it to cut out a few wooden nails to In a criss-cross fashion, fix the crossbar."

"In this way, with the connection of vines and the fixing of long rivets, the overall structure of the raft will be very strong!"

So, he used a machete to look at four or five of the thickest and hardest shrub branches.

After bringing them to the shore, Chen Xu cut off the leaves and uneven parts of two of them, and peeled off the bark.

Then, he arranged the five pieces of balsa wood in parallel, and cut a row of continuous grooves with a knife near the head and tail.

And these two grooves can just fit the stick into it.

As for the few remaining branches, they were cut into twenty short sticks by Chen Xu, and then each end was sharpened to make wooden rivets.

Next, as he said just now, he found a big stone by the river, smashed the rivets into the balsa wood, crossed each other in two, and just firmly stuck the fixed balsa wood. the crossbar.

In the end, he found two long vines that were as thick as fingers, and wrapped the two ends of the crossbars that fixed the raft around two more times, and tied them with a knot.

Because the balsa wood is very light, Chen Xu directly grabbed the raft and pulled it up, and shook it vigorously in the air.

As a result, there was no sound of any activity.

"It seems that the fixation is not bad, there should be no problem!"

He directly threw the backpack and the kindling at the stern of the boat, tied them with vines, and found a three-meter-long shrub branch from the jungle as a water slurry to control the direction.

"Okay, now let's sail!"

Chen Xu pushed the raft to the edge of the river with a little excitement, walked up lightly, and finally pushed the ground with water slurry. With this counter-thrust, he still slowly moved towards the river.

Whoa!

After the raft completely entered the river, there were a few waves.

The yellow water covered half the thickness of the raft, then stopped, and except for a few occasional splashes, the whole surface remained mostly dry.

"The boat of friendship is about to set off!"

"Master Xu: I once crossed mountains, seas, and crowds, and finally sank!"

"Wait for Grandpa Xu to be submerged in water, I'm at a loss!"

"Everyone, don't curse Master Xu, if it really sinks, those vicious piranhas in the water are no joke!"

It took Chen Xu more than an hour to make the whole raft.

But judging from the current drifting speed, all the expenses are worth it.

Although the flow speed of this section of the river is not fast, Chen Xu conservatively estimated that it should reach at least [-]-[-] kilometers per hour.

This is three or four times faster than walking in the jungle!

After a while, the river ahead suddenly forked.

"While traveling by water is fast, it is easy to get lost without knowing it, especially in the American tropical rainforest, which has abundant rainfall and numerous rivers, which are intricate and maze-like, just like the scene before you."

"So when we are paddling, we must pay more attention to the terrain on both sides of the bank and the sun in the sky, which can help us better identify the direction."

After explaining, Chen Xu looked at the sun in the sky, then glanced at the shadow cast by one of the trees on the river bank, and then chose to draw from the left fork.

At noon, the temperature is getting hotter and hotter.

Especially since he was still on the river, exposed directly to the sun without shelter, the back of his neck was roasted red.

This is already a precursor to sunburn.

Chen Xu wiped off his sweat, grinned, "It's too hot, let's go to the rainforest to take shelter and leave at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Chapter 3 Nine Dung Shell Asahi

From 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock, the sun has been shining directly on the earth.

But because the earth has a specific heat capacity, it takes time to heat up, so when it is really hot, it is from 12:2 to [-]:[-] pm. About this point, Chen Xu said many times in the live broadcast.

With the shelter of the tall canopy of the jungle trees, the temperature in the forest will be about 15 degrees lower than that in the valley.

Then, he controlled the raft to the shore and dragged the raft directly to the edge of the jungle.

Balsa wood has this advantage and is easy to move.

Of course, Chen Xu didn't come to the jungle just to escape the heat.

From morning to now, he has not eaten except after eating a rainforest scorpion, not to mention that he has spent a lot of energy making a raft.

So, he needs food now.

After walking a few hundred meters deep, he suddenly saw a messy ravine on the muddy ground in front of him.

The so-called "have never eaten pork, but have seen pigs run".

After watching Master Xu's live broadcast for so long, the audience can probably distinguish the footprints of some animals. These are the footprints of hoofed animals.

However, under the concentrated jungle density of the American continent, it is impossible to give birth to large hoofed animals.

Therefore, some viewers have speculated that the wild boar is the most likely, and the size will not be very large.

Chen Xu looked at the barrage posted by the audience and smiled slightly: "It seems that everyone has learned a lot of knowledge. Although your guesses are very close, there are still some deviations."

"This hoofprint is not a wild boar, but a creature unique to the American continent, called the scorpion. The scorpion is also a pig-shaped animal. Its appearance and habits are very similar to pigs, but it is not too different from pigs. close blood relationship."

"They are usually smaller than wild boars. Look at these hoof prints, the size is just right, but what really makes me judge that they are Xilong is another point, that is, their hind hooves only have three toes, while the hooves of wild boars have four toes. "

"Although Xihou is smaller than wild boars, their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of wild boars. On the contrary, they are better at fighting than wild boars, because their tusks are not curved upwards, but downwards, and they are extremely sharp, just like American Like a tiger, it is a powerful offensive weapon."

"Can you imagine a pig-shaped creature with sharp fangs and attacks in groups? Is it a bit like the second brother in Africa: the spotted hyena? So, in the American jungle, there are almost Animals dare to provoke them."

The audience in the live broadcast room immediately felt a little shudder when they imagined the characteristics described by Master Xu.

Then, Chen Xu found another black spherical object nearby.

He directly picked it up, put it on his nose and smelled it, and pursed his lips and said: "This is the feces of Xihou, but it has been dried for a long time. The hunting method of ancient tribes in the rainforest is to let the hunting dogs go through the rainforest first, looking for Beast dung."

"Feces are the best way to observe the behavior of animals, because from the feces, you can see what it has eaten recently, whether it is wild fruit or dead leaves? And based on this information, we can roughly determine where it is moving !"

Many people thought that the black ball was just a clod, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a pile of dried peccary feces:

"Master Xu actually smells poop and smells clearly, I really admire this, 666!"

"The Ultimate Evolution of Bishen Xu: Dung Shell Xu"

"Master Xu said: BB again? I'll eat it again!"

Regarding these mocking barrages, Chen Xu could only express them with black lines all over his head.

Later, he found some brown-black hairs on the trunks of nearby trees.

"These hairs should have been rubbed against the trees by the group of cockroaches. After all, they have similar habits to wild boars. They also like to rub their skin on mud and tree trunks, in order to make their fur more defensive."

Therefore, Chen Xu simply followed the trees with hair traces and searched all the way.

Finally, he stepped out tens of meters ahead and found a messy bush.

"It seems that this should be one of the activities of the group of Siri. I dare not look any further. The hunters of the primitive tribes all move in groups, and I am alone, facing a large group of sharp-toothed The Xihou is purely courting death."

"So, I'm going to set up a noose trap nearby. If I can catch a peacock before I leave at 02:30, then I won't have to worry about food sources for the next two days!"

After speaking, he began to search for the materials needed for the trap in the nearby jungle.

And just when he found a few branches and was about to drill in and pull them out, suddenly, he felt as if something was pulling him on his right arm.

Looking back, it was a green vine with thorns, and the thorns on it caught the skin of his cuffs and forearms.

Chen Xu raised his eyebrows, "It's unlucky to be hit by it."

Many viewers were puzzled, it was just a broken vine, it would be fine to pull it off, at most it would be a little bit of skin, why Master Xu had such an expression.

He turned around carefully, pulled a leaf from the nearby tree and held it in his left hand, through the leaf, he slowly pinched the thorny vine.

"This is called thorn vine. It is a very disgusting vine in the rainforest. You can see the sickle-like barbs on it. They are very sharp. Once they stick to the skin or clothing, it is difficult to pull them off. bleeding."

"It's all trivial. The most important thing is that if you break the barb in the process of pulling it out, it will also secrete an acidic venom, which will cause irritant dermatitis immediately after skin contact, which is similar to nettle. Numb, not only unbearably painful, but also red and swollen, as if burned by fire."

so scary?

Some people, especially foreign audiences, have rarely seen nettles, so they don't know how much it hurts.

And some domestic audiences who have lived on the side of the mountain since childhood are afraid.

Because they deeply know the power of nettles.