Live Wilderness Challenge

I have to say that palm plants are really one of the most abundant resources in the tropical rainforest, they are everywhere, and they are full of treasures.

He picked a three-finger-thick tree trunk more than 1 meter long, chopped it down with an engineer shovel, and cut off the excess branches.

Then, Chen Xu sharpened one end and drilled a hole in the end.

Many viewers didn't understand what he was doing with the hole.

Chen Xu explained: "Actually, the production of the spear catapult is very simple. It is a curved tree stick with a hook at the bottom, which can be temporarily fastened to the tail hole of the spear."

"When throwing, the two are held together. The thumb and forefinger pinch the middle of the spear, while the remaining three fingers hold the launcher below. When exerting force, shake the arm vigorously and continue to press the launcher. while releasing the spear first."

"Then, as the catapult is subjected to the torque of the swinging arm, while rotating in the vertical plane, it also pushes the dart itself and causes it to release with a higher initial kinetic energy, which is more like throwing a projectile with a spoon. Effective for long-range shooting."

While explaining to the audience, he has already made a thrower out of tree branches.

In order to prevent the audience from understanding, and at the same time to get a feel for it, Chen Xu personally demonstrated it to everyone.

Clamp the spear and the catapult, and swing your arms to exert force.

Only then did the audience see clearly that Master Xu was holding the catapult tightly when he let go of the pike, and continued to swing it forward.

In this way, the curved branch, that is, the catapult, kept pushing the spear forward, giving it a huge thrust in disguise.

No wonder the native Indians in America can throw spears more than 100 meters away, which is better than professional javelin throwers in the Olympic Games.

It's a cheat, but they have to admit that this is indeed a very clever method, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the crystallization of human wisdom.

boom!

After two seconds, there was a muffled sound, and the dart in Chen Xu's hand was stuck in the dirt more than 20 meters away.

You know, this is just an extremely simple wooden spear, not even a decent animal bone dart head.

But he still relied on the pike thrower, and easily reached the distance level of the Olympic throwing wooden javelin with bare hands!

"An excellent Indian spear player can almost hit every shot within 30 meters. In order to achieve excellent performance, they are constantly calculating the length and angle ratio between the spear and the thrower."

"Of course, this involves physics issues. We are just hunting a hare. There is no need to keep improving. In order to avoid mistakes, I decided to prepare two spears!"

After speaking, Chen Xu made another one.

With one more spear, there is one more chance, and the fault tolerance rate is also greatly increased.

Then, holding the equipment, he caught up with the hare confidently.

After finding the target, he immediately stopped 20 meters away, followed the throwing posture just now, aimed at the hare, and threw it out suddenly!

Chapter 498 The treasure was taken away?

In the rainforest, the wooden spear made by Chen Xu was drawing a beautiful parabola, shooting towards the hare more than 20 meters away.

During the whole process, the camera of the drone has been locked on it.

And the audience was holding their breath, wanting to see if Master Xu's javelin could hit the hare.

After all, a distance of more than 20 meters is not a short distance!

call!

There was a sound of breaking wind, and the spear was accurately inserted into the hare's body!

"Fuck! This accuracy!"

"Do you still remember the dart technique that dropped from the sky!"

"Tutu is so cute, how could Master Xu kill Tutu!"

At the same time, the hare also uttered a shrill scream after being hit hard.

Chen Xu immediately ran over cautiously.

When he got to the side of the hare, he found that the spear didn't hit the hare directly, but passed through the fur on the side of the hare.

It was also fortunate that the spear had penetrated deep into the ground, otherwise, the hare would have easily escaped after struggling a few times.

After pulling out the javelin, Chen Xu grabbed the hare by its ears and lifted it up with one hand.

To be honest, this was the first time he had caught a hare alive.

Compared with ordinary prairie hares, the skeleton of this hare is much smaller, but its hind legs are very long. Its fur is not thick, and it has a shiny brown-gray luster on it. It seems that the water resistance should be very good. I guess It evolved to cope with the hot and humid climate of the tropical rainforest.

In the evening, Chen Xu found a cave he had explored, covered it with palm leaves and fern leaves, and lit a fire to roast rabbits.

The meat of the wild rabbit is very fragrant. Although it is not as delicious as the stone fish, it is at least much better than the tired snake meat.

Another night was passed without incident.

On the seventh day, Chen Xu woke up early and turned on the live broadcast.

"Hi everyone, I'm Chen Xu. Today is the seventh day of my treasure hunt in the Venomous Snake Island in Brazil. Half of the [-]-day deadline has passed. During this week, I have experienced more than a dozen treasure hunts, big and small. dangerous."

"But at the same time, behind these dangers, I have also brought me many valuable clues: stone signs, pulleys, hook rings, and Jesuit rings. Today, I will continue to follow the route I was looking for, Go up the ridge."

"If you're lucky, maybe we can end our treasure hunt in two days. To be honest, I really don't want to stay in this kind of place for one more day, because it's too hot here!"

The audience can understand Master Xu's last complaint.

For more than six days, he didn't even find a stable water source. Of course, this was also related to being delayed by the treasure hunt.

Therefore, these days, he has been using water vines and cave condensate to solve his thirst problem.

But the key point is that this Viper Island is really too hot. The maximum temperature during the day can exceed 54 degrees at least, and the humidity in the air is extremely high. Standing in the sun is easy to get sunburned, but staying in the rainforest is very stuffy.

Chen Xu has to drink nearly ten liters of water every day to make up for the continuous excretion of sweat.

But the water he found from caves and water vines was far from enough.

This also caused him to maintain a semi-dehydrated state for the past few days. If it wasn't for enough food and the natural salt contained in the sea fish, he might have been too weak to walk!

At ten o'clock in the morning in Brazil, Chen Xu had already explored a distance of more than 230 meters to the ridge.

The higher you go, the steeper the angle of the hillside becomes, even close to 60 degrees. It is very difficult to walk. If you are not careful, it is easy to roll directly off the ridge if you stumble.

Moreover, the surrounding woods have become denser, and the branches of trees and bushes are intertwined with vines, even forming a natural "forest cave", which looks particularly depressing, especially with the addition of those who don't know when they will come out. The poisonous snake, the danger index soared instantly.

Fortunately, Chen Xu's mind is very careful. For any dangerous situation, he can always find it at the first time and come up with a countermeasure in time.

Finally, after searching for more than 30 meters, the distance from the top of the mountain is less than 50 meters.

The next moment, he walked through a dense bush and looked up at the top of the mountain.

But this look made him discover that there was a very abrupt object standing in the emerald green jungle.

A white pillar!

No way, the distance of close to 50 meters, coupled with the slope angle, made it difficult for him to see what it was. He could only vaguely recognize that it was a white rectangular column.

The audience was a little surprised when they saw the white pillar.

In a place like Venomous Snake Island, where birds don't shit, there is such a neat white pillar?

This is definitely man-made!

Suddenly, in the live broadcast room, the audience began to discuss this "new discovery".

Some people say that this is likely to be the pulley platform that Guarani warriors fixed on the top of the mountain, as Xu Ye said, to transport the treasure up.

But some people also questioned, if this is the case, why didn't others find it?

After all, whether it was cairns, pulleys, hooks, or rings, they were all hidden in caves, seabeds, and piles of rubble before, and it was not easy to be found.

But this white pillar is so big, and it stands on the top of the island, don't those scientists and Brazilian government staff who have visited the island before have no doubts at all?

Chen Xu pursed his lips, "What everyone said makes sense, we'll find out when we go up and have a look!"

After discovering such a big "clue", he didn't have the mood to check it carefully. He glanced at the ground roughly. As long as there were no cairns, he didn't use the metal detector to check again.

After 10 minutes, he finally came to the top of the mountain.

And the white pillar can finally be seen clearly.

In fact, it is not a pillar, but a tower!

That's right, this is a rectangular tower built with cement texture through modern construction technology.

It is about ten meters high, and is divided into five floors in total, from top to bottom, in a stepped manner, with one floor bigger than the next.

There are four square windows on each floor, but there are no windows. As for the top floor, there is an open-air balcony with an antenna attached to it.

After years of devastation, as well as wind and sun, the white ash on the outside of the tower has almost fallen off, and many walls have begun to peel off, with corners, steps, and cracks.

It is enough to show that this tower should have a very long history.

"This...is there such an advanced construction technology in the 16th century?"

"Probably not, there are antennas on it, so it looks like a modern building!"

"Could it be that someone has searched this poisonous snake island thoroughly before?"

"Has the treasure been taken away long ago?"

Chapter 499 I'll be there

Facing the doubts of the audience, Chen Xu explained:

"Some viewers are right. This is indeed not built by Guarani warriors. Not to mention that with the technology at the time, it was impossible to build such a regular cement building. Even if they could, they didn't have that much time. After all, the Inca country The army is still chasing after us!"

"If I remember correctly, this should be built by the Brazilian government. In 1909, after they first discovered Viper Island, they built a signal watchtower on the island the next year. On the one hand, it was to monitor the island. The biological situation, because the pirate lancehead is only found here."

"On the other hand, it serves as a radar detection point to strengthen the scope and strength of the Brazilian Navy's monitoring of the Gulf of Brazil."

During the process of explaining, Chen Xu was also constantly observing the tower.

"However, due to the dense distribution of poisonous snakes on Grand Kemada Island, more than 20 workers were injured by poisonous snakes during the construction of this tower. Since then, garrison soldiers have often been bitten by poisonous snakes."

"And the most serious one was one evening in July of that year. When it was time to get off work, I didn't expect it to catch up with a heavy rain. We all know that the water flows downhill. In order to avoid being drowned by the water, the poisonous snake only Can climb to high places."

"As a result, a terrifying scene appeared. Just as the soldiers were packing up their things and getting ready to leave work, a large number of poisonous snakes came in from around the tower. There were both poisonous and non-venomous snakes, and there were even island lanceheads among them."

"One of the soldiers was frightened stupid on the spot, while the other soldier fled frantically. When passing by the snake group, he stepped on many poisonous snakes and bit him back. As a result, the next day, Brazil The government found the bodies of two garrison soldiers near the tower."

"Since then, the Brazilian government has finally realized the horror of Viper Island, announced that it has abandoned the tower plan, and completely blocked the island of Quemada Grande. Except for those who have obtained permission, everyone else is not allowed to go to the island."

Many viewers in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded:

"My God, how horrible it is to be bitten to death by snakes!"

"If it were me, I would rather commit suicide!"

"Thinking about it makes my scalp numb, it's terrible!"

"This is definitely a mocking story. Look at Master Xu, who survived on the Viper Island for a week!"

Although the story told by Chen Xu was very short, from the few words, the audience could hear the horror of Viper Island.

It wasn't until this time that they realized that the seaside and hillside where Master Xu stayed before should be places with relatively few poisonous snakes.

And the top of the island where he is now is the place where the poisonous snakes really gather!

Taking advantage of the discussion among the audience, Chen Xu walked around the entire tower.

Walking into the interior of the tower, there is nothing inside, many stairs have been broken, the walls are green, and the ground is covered with green moss. It looks like a ghost building in a ghost movie.

Then, he stepped on the stairs and tried to stamp his feet a few times, "It's still strong, it should be fine!"

After finishing speaking, he followed the stairs and walked to the rooftop on the top of the tower step by step.

It can be said that the Brazilian government is very good at construction, because this is almost the highest position of the entire Viper Island, and coupled with the height of the tower, it can almost overlook most of the entire island.

"The highest position..."

Chen Xu murmured subconsciously, and then looked towards the position of the trench. As a result, his sight was not blocked at all, and he could just see there.

So, he said with a little excitement: "I don't know if you have discovered that the trench where the pulley block is buried, the hook ring in the middle, and the tower can just be connected to form a straight line, that is to say, there is no gap between them." It can form a high-lift pulley block!"

"Moreover, this is the highest location on the entire island, where you can fully overlook most of the island's landforms, and plan where to hide it. Therefore, I think that before the Brazilian government built this tower, it was probably Guara. The place where the Nigerian warriors built the high-hanging platform!"

China, Lin Kun's family.

Lin Kun couldn't help but nodded as he watched Chen Xu's point of view in the live broadcast.