Chapter 13

Everyone had to shoulder their own backpacks; there wasn't much stuff — a few days' worth of food, raincoats, and one or two changes of clothes were the main items; tents and sleeping bags weren't heavy, the heaviest were several days' food, and water.

"Don't pack too little water; pack enough for a day's use, because in the rainforest you only stop and wait for them when evening arrives at the campsite.

Only when you stop do you have a chance to boil water!

Reminding you again: after entering the tropical rainforest, do not drink raw water, otherwise malaria may make it impossible for you to walk out of the tropical rainforest.

Also, if each of you hasn't prepared two or more 300-gram gas canisters, you can go supplement now.

Wanting to make a fire in the tropical rainforest, you can't necessarily find dry firewood, but water must be boiled — that is the importance of gas.

【6】 Wanting to make a fire in the tropical rainforest, you can't necessarily find dry firewood, but water must be boiled — that is the importance of gas.

Unnecessary extra clothes shouldn't be brought; clean up the messy luggage once more; unimportant things can be bought again once in Panama.

Check again!"

Antonio repeated once more what he had said last night; after everyone confirmed, they set off.

Under the guidance of the experienced Guide, everyone's flashlights were headlamps; shouldering packs, they plunged into the tropical rainforest just like that.

Chen Yaozu glanced at that female Reporter, seeing her fifteen-or-sixteen-year-old daughter also shouldering a large pack, still looking somewhat excited as she followed behind.

"Mr. Chen, let's go!"

Cindy walked over shouldering her own pack and greeted him, but saw him look back; following his gaze, she discovered it was that mother-and-daughter pair.

"Mr. Chen, if you're thinking of helping them carry things, this isn't a very good choice."

How would I help them carry things? Since this mother and daughter are heading for freedom, the hardships suffered along the way are merely the wind and frost experienced on the path to freedom; I believe they can endure it.

What does it have to do with me? Chen Yaozu thought in his heart, just about to explain a sentence, but Cindy had already explained a step ahead of him.

"Mr. Chen, it's like this! On this stretch of road crossing the border tropical rainforest from Colombia to Panama, helping others carry things is not allowed.

Everyone needs to shoulder what they themselves should carry.

Inside must be included medicine, as well as food and all supplies that should be equipped.

Because, crossing this stretch of tropical rainforest, at the fastest five or six days gets you through; if you encounter heavy rain and slippery roads that are hard to walk, it may take ten or so days.

Within these five or six days or ten or so days, anything can happen; the most common is getting lost in the rainforest, losing one's way oneself.

In this situation, if one's own supplies are carried by someone else, then once this person gets lost, abandoned in the rainforest there is only a dead end.

So, unless this child is strapped to the mother's body, otherwise no matter how small, as long as he can walk, he must carry the supplies he himself should carry.

This is a survival necessity.

Of course, we only advise and suggest.

Whether you listen or not doesn't matter; anyway, once you start walking, basically you won't stop to wait for anyone until you reach the campsite.

Once scattered, you can only rely on your own luck."

Cindy explained very clearly, but she explained in vain, because Chen Yaozu fundamentally never thought of going to help carry things for others, so he just nodded.

"Then you keep up?"

"Mm!"

Chen Yaozu answered and caught up with Cindy's footsteps, plunging headlong into the jungle's night colors.

Ceng Hongbing lived up to being a Northeast man; perhaps it was because he fancied that reporter young woman's charm; all along the way he brought up the rear for this mother-and-daughter pair, at first still showing off his Northern man's humor.

Walking and walking, he felt that not speaking could also save a bit of strength.

Although not long after drilling into the jungle it became daylight, they still didn't see the sun, because the rainforest trees were truly too dense.

Sunlight had great difficulty passing through the leaves to shine on them walking underneath.

Instead, because the sun came out, heat waves steamed up the ground's moisture; the moisture stuck their clothes entirely to their bodies, making it impossible to tell whether this was dew or their own sweat.

The ground was also very slippery; for transmigrators who don't often traverse mountains and rivers, falling down is normal.

Antonio and Cindy, as well as the other two, took turns clearing the path; although they had walked this way before and blazed a trail, grass grows very fast in the rainforest, shrubs grow very fast, and they quickly covered the path they had previously forced through. The path-clearers needed to watch vigilantly for venomous snakes in the trees, hornets, and everything that could be fatal.

A soul invisible to others wandered beside Chen Yaozu, able to occasionally remind him where there were potential dangers.

So he walked with ease all along the way, even more leisurely than the experienced Antonio and the others; after all, he had great strength.

After using Go To Gong to exchange for one full-body immersion in Five Animals Frolics Guiding Technique cultivation, he discovered Rebirth wasn't just talk; his physical quality compared to before was simply like two different people.

He wasn't stronger than others by just a little bit.

A mere backpack — not to mention walking one day, even walking ten or eight days would be no problem.

"Yaozu, aren't you tired?"

Ceng Hongbing and that mother-and-daughter pair were the last to arrive at the rest spot; the moment they got here they collapsed on the ground like everyone else.

Several people nearly exhausted themselves into shock halfway; it was just that they knew no one would coddle them here, they dared not fall behind, and forcibly endured to make it.

To still be calm and composed upon arriving here, besides those few experienced Guides, there was only Chen Yaozu alone.

The main thing was he carried that huge pack as if it were nothing, forming a sharp contrast with the others who were tired like dead dogs.

Facing Ceng Hongbing's surprise, Chen Yaozu smiled: "My body is good, endurance is also good!"

Finished speaking, he began organizing his own campsite.

This was a gentle spot in the rainforest, under a huge fig tree.

In the rainforest, time usable for hurrying isn't much; night falls fast too.

So when Antonio and them reached the first campsite on this route, they no longer walked, even though light still filtered down through gaps in the canopy.

"Everyone should pitch tents; night falls very fast in the rainforest; if we don't seize the time, many things can't be done once it's dark."

After seriously confirming there was no danger around, Antonio ordered everyone to prepare to camp.

Time was tight; even though they had only walked half a day, they still needed to seize time after pitching tents to send several people with one Guide to fetch water, then the remaining few in a group followed another Guide to pick up dry firewood.

Although picking up dry branches and firewood in the rainforest is comparatively difficult, they tried their best to pick them up.

Even though they all brought gas, that stuff is only used when there's no other way.

And in the rainforest, having no campfire would add many dangers; fortunately, even in a tropical rainforest, there are still dry mosses in tree hollows that haven't been soaked wet, and still small trees that withered and died without seeing sunlight.

Although in the rainforest these, whether moss or dead trees, are neither that dry nor that easy to ignite.

But in front of the gas stove, everything appeared that simple.

Anyway, since ancient times, whether good or bad, even something as simple as lighting a fire, as long as there's an opening, afterwards it becomes much easier.

No one has the condition to bathe in this tropical rainforest, so almost everyone took off their wet clothes, hung them by the fire to dry, then put on another dry set from their backpacks and crawled into their tents, instantly entering dreamland.

They were too tired! As for the few guides, after they reasonably arranged the camp's four corners' fires, they began taking turns keeping watch.

Have to say, very professional ethics.

Chen Yaozu wasn't tired, so he didn't enter the tent to sleep that quickly, standing to the side very leisurely looking at Antonio, Cindy and them arranging everything in an orderly manner.

For example, what small traps to prevent wild beasts from sneaking up, bells and such, very high alertness!

Felt like I learned something new again.

"Mr. Chen, rest early tonight, while it's not raining yet! If it rains, it won't be so easy to sleep!"

Although Cindy is a woman, she with multiple experiences trekking tropical rainforests is already very familiar with this jungle, and doesn't feel too tired or hard.

Chen Yaozu just wanted to laughingly answer that he'd sleep in a bit, but saw his subdued Brazilian female ghost quickly float back from the woods, speaking a sentence of Portuguese.

This sentence made Chen Yaozu's face change greatly, grabbing Cindy's shoulder with one hand: "Have Antonio call everyone up, we've been targeted by two seven-to-eight-meter Green Anacondas!"

(Chapter End)