Live Wilderness Challenge

what's the situation.

Master Xu has also been to the Everglades in the southern United States?

You know, everyone's previous guesses about the program group's instructions.

It was because the planners of the program must have comprehensively analyzed Xu Ye’s information, and believed that he had never experienced the swamp wilderness, nor had he received professional swamp combat experience, so they made the migration route deliberately pass through the swamp in order to slow down his speed.

But no one expected that Master Xu actually had swamp experience!

And... as you can tell from the words, she is very professional!

"It is true that on the surface, I have not conducted live broadcasts in the wilderness of swamps, but I have indeed received training in swamp survival."

"I don't know if you still remember the Brazilian diving instructor I worked with in the live broadcast on Viper Island in Brazil: Kai Keli, uh... yes, the one you said has a very good figure and looks like a model ..."

Chen Xu was explaining to everyone.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said these words, the following bullet screens were typed out in unison:

"We never said that!"

"We never said that!"

"Master Xu, is this what you want to say?"

"I want to report to my sister-in-law, Master Xu never forgets about other women!"

"It's over! My sister-in-law must have been cheated!"

As the bullet screens flashed, Chen Xu seemed to feel more and more black lines on his forehead, "No, your focus is wrong. My focus is on the word 'diving instructor'."

"Because my next challenge was to survive in Borneo, which involved hunting giant carnivorous fish and required staying in the river for a long time, so I asked her to train water skills."

"The location is in the southern Everglades, because I happened to be attending a public class at Stanford, and the Southern Everglades happened to be close, so I spent about seven or eight days there!"

"The living environment in the swamp, I've basically got [-] to [-]% of it..."

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Audiences:"……"

Anyone can tell that Xu Ye's words are modest. In fact, he probably has already figured out the swamp environment.

"We're so worried about you!"

"Yeah, we thought you wouldn't get used to it in the swamp, and you were caught up by other contestants in the end!"

"Grandpa Xu: I've already paid! Program crew: I understand!"

……

Looking at the barrage, Chen Xu shook his head and said, "Although I'm no stranger to the swamp environment, we still can't take it lightly."

"Just in 2016, a light plane en route to Papua New Guinea crashed into a forest swamp due to engine failure, killing 12 people."

"After the air traffic control received the distress message, it immediately sent a search and rescue team to start a rescue. It took two full days to find them."

"The survivors who survived at that time were only 4 people. The rest were either swallowed by mud or bitten by poisonous insects and died of poisoning."

"Yes, the swamps are divided into low, medium and high level swamps, that is, oxygen-poor, medium-oxygen, eutrophic swamps, and forest swamps, which is the environment in front of us, are exactly eutrophic swamps."

"There are many animals and plants in the environment here, ranging from crocodiles and anacondas to nematodes and bacteria, which are very dangerous, because you never know what kind of terrifying creatures are lurking under the water!"

have to.

Asahi's examples started again.

Just when the audience wanted to make barrage jokes, Lina suddenly coughed twice, then took off her vest, got wet, and covered her mouth and nose: "Chen, we have to get out of here first, my throat is already starting to feel uncomfortable !"

Chen Xu nodded, and covered his mouth and nose in the same way.

"Hydrogen sulfide is easily soluble in water, so in the short term, we can use soaked cloth as a filter to prevent our respiratory tract from being irritated too much."

"You must know that even low-density hydrogen sulfide still has the risk of loss of smell and even conjunctivitis, while higher-density hydrogen sulfide can cause poisoning and death within an hour, and the concentration can reach 1000. Instantly fatal!"

"So, sometimes smelling rotten eggs is a good thing, because high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide will quickly paralyze the olfactory nerves, making you unaware of the abnormality."

"But you don't have to worry about it in the wild. Under natural conditions, the highest abundance of microbial degradation and reduction is only 2%. As long as you are careful, there is no fatal danger."

In the swamp, Chen Xu explained the danger of hydrogen sulfide to everyone while covering his mouth and nose.

Lina also added that the area where hydrogen sulfide can accumulate is generally an anaerobic environment at the bottom of the mud, just like many swamps will emit tiny swamp bubbles.

But Chen Xu also said before that this is a large oxygen-rich swamp, and anaerobic areas rarely exist.

and so.

After walking for tens of meters, Lina took off her clothes. Sure enough, the surrounding air immediately smelled much fresher.

Chen Xu simply twisted the vest over the water and put it on.

Because the water level of the swamp is below their knees, it doesn't matter if the clothes are dry or not.

"call……"

He took a breath and looked around. Except for the land tens of meters behind him, the other three directions looked almost exactly the same. Except for the trees, it was the water full of aquatic plants and garbage.

"As we all know, the swamp is one of the most disorienting wild environments. The water here is very muddy. You may not be able to see the current situation of Lena and me."

"Our feet are almost completely covered by the mud at the bottom of the water. Yes, the mud bed at the bottom of the swamp is very soft. Every step we take, we need to go through three steps: pulling out, sinking in, and pulling out again."

"It looks like walking in thick snow, but the density of mud is higher than that of snow, and it is much heavier than the latter."

"Once you get lost here, even if you don't get eaten by the crocodile, you will die of exhaustion, so we have to find a way to confirm a rough and accurate position..."

After saying the last sentence, Chen Xu raised his head subconsciously.

The audience knew at a glance that Master Xu was looking for the sun. Anyone who watched his live broadcast knew that using the sun to identify the direction is one of the most common ways to survive in the wilderness.

But embarrassingly so.

The oxygen-enriched swamp has lush vegetation, just like the trees on the mountains. The large canopy blocks the sky, making it difficult to see the shadow of the sun.

Chen Xu also seemed to have given up on using it. "It's hard to find the position of the sun. Although you can see it by climbing up a tree, there are many ways to tell the direction. We still need to waste energy for the time being."

"I don't know if you still remember a method of identifying orientation that I demonstrated in a lake in Borneo, Indonesia, by judging by the direction of water flow!"

Water flow judgment?

Does the swamp have water?

Some people in the live broadcast room couldn't help asking questions.

Lina nodded: "Of course the swamp also has a flow direction, but its flow is so slow that we can hardly notice it, but since there are many organisms in the oxygen-enriched swamp, it must be a complete circulation system, so the water cannot be dead , definitely living water!"

"Correct!"

Chen Xu took over the conversation.

While Lina was teaching the audience about science, he had already caught a dead branch soaked in the water, then took out the paracord and tied it to a tree trunk, and threw it into the water again with a "plop". .

The stick is floating, and if the water is flowing, it must move in the direction of the flow.

The method couldn't be simpler.

But the difficulty is that you have to know the environment very well.

First of all, you have to know which direction the water is flowing in!

Chen Xu possesses platinum-level wilderness peak skills, and his wilderness knowledge is already top-notch in the world. Coupled with the all-terrain survey in the special forces skill group to collect environmental information, he has already figured out the terrain here.

"The swamp in northern Argentina is located between the Andes Mountains in the west and the Gran Chaco Plain in the northeast, with a length of about 50 kilometers and distributed in blocks."

"Affected by the river left by the western mountains, its general flow direction is from west to east. Although it flows very slowly, it can only flow about [-] meters a day, but it does flow."

As Chen Xu spoke.

The dead wood that was thrown into the water barely moved, and most of them were swaying slightly indiscriminately following the waves of the water that fell into the water for the first time.

It seems it will take time.

While waiting, Chen Xu and Lina naturally didn't just stand here stupidly, but started looking for some food to replenish energy.

The oxygen-enriched swamp does have a lot of life, but likewise, there are a lot of snakes and crocodiles.

Often the places where food is easiest to obtain are also accompanied by great crises.

Chen Xu must plan ahead.

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Less than 5 minutes.

Chen Xu then found a huge dead tree, one end stuck in the bottom of the swamp, the other end stuck in a low bush.

Pointing to the dead wood, he said: "There are many dead trees like this in the swamp. They have excellent humidity and are prone to breed a large number of bacteria. They can provide protection, nutrients, and food for many insects."

"So, sometimes we can easily find insect nests here."

Unexpectedly.

Before the audience waited for him to popularize the habitat of insects in the swamp, many people remembered the live broadcast in the tropical rainforest of Guatemala. Master Xu caught a fat and large insect larva in the dead wood, and then swallowed it in one gulp. "Sense, it can be said to be a famous scene in his live broadcast.

Some people had an immediate nausea reaction.

But some viewers also expressed their incomprehension, why every time Master Xu looked for bugs, he had to look for them in dead wood. From a theoretical point of view, isn’t living trees more nutritious and easier to nourish insects?

Looking at the barrage, Chen Xu took advantage of the time to draw out the tomahawk on the tactical backpack and said, "Yes, living trees have more nutrients, but any living creature has a certain ability to resist the invasion of the outside world. As if the living do not rot."

"A living tree has an antibacterial body in its body, and its body fluid is lethal to some insects, such as a pine tree. When an insect enters its body, it will secrete rosin, which sticks and wraps the insect, like Like white blood cells in the human body."

"And the dead tree is dead and lifeless, so it can't do anything to it from the outside world, and there is no way to resist it, and some nutrients still remain in the trunk, and the dead bark can fool most of the natural enemies of birds..."

At the end of the talk, Chen Xu picked up the sharp awl at the back end of the axe, slammed it into the dead wood with a "click", and then pulled it hard.

The whole tree trunk is like tofu, and it is soft and cracked, indicating that it has been completely soaked by the swamp water from the outside to the inside.

Next, the audience saw that the rotten dead wood core was covered with dense, white dots, all of which were white insect larvae!

Focusing close-ups through the lens of the drone, you can even see them twisting constantly, as if they were frightened and overwhelmed by the sudden sunlight!

"Fuck, I'm going to throw up!"

"My scalp is numb now, this is simply a trysophobia killer!"

"It's everyone's favorite gourmet big appetite again..."

"Congratulations to this group of bugs, who became the lucky audience of Master Xu!"

Chen Xu swept these white larvae off the rotten wood, made a whole handful, and then said to the camera: "These are the larvae of carpenter ants. Carpenter ants are a kind of ants. They often grow in damp places and like to dig. Trees that are damaged by water, so we can easily find them in the rotting wood."

"Those who often watch my live broadcast know that insects are high-protein organisms, and the protein of carpenter ant larvae is four times that of beef, which is rich in energy."

Many viewers in the live broadcast room were immediately happy when they heard the last sentence:

"Beef: Yes, yes, any protein is richer than mine/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~"

"Beef: Yes, I am the most worthless!"

"Hahaha, according to Master Xu, everything in the wild is better than pigs, cattle and sheep."

"2333, I feel that it is a mistake for the cow to live for so many years!"

……

Seeing the barrage of drones filling the screen, Chen Xu couldn't help laughing.

And this time.

Lina also panted heavily, and came from the bushes on the other side, holding some purple things in both hands.

From a closer look, it looks like grapes, but the fruit particles are much smaller than grapes.

"Phew... I found some wild Argentine blueberries, which can supplement vitamins."

Lina stretched out her hand and handed over the wild fruit.

Chen Xu threw one into his mouth. Unexpectedly, his complexion immediately turned green, and he bared his teeth and said, "Hiss! So sour!"

Lina snorted, "You expect the wild blueberries here to be delicious, after all, they were originally grown in high latitudes."