Chapter 135 Entering the Jungle
On the way, Conway briefly told her about the situation of the forest. It was 300 kilometers from the starting point to the end point. The most difficult section was concentrated between 150 kilometers and 225 kilometers, which was covered with swamps, quicksand land and poisonous forests, and there was also a large lake. They needed to detour the mountain peaks to the east and climb over them.
Conway roughly calculated that the entire journey of 300 kilometers plus the mileage of detours and mountain-crossing, they needed to walk nearly 200 kilometers more. By this calculation, they reached 500 kilometers in the whole journey.
500 kilometers.
In the past, when I was in the long-distance training, I also needed to walk for eight days and eight nights without sleep. However, training was a flat road, but here was a primeval forest where there was no sunshine.
Conway took out his compass and confirmed his position, and took Gu Mengmeng to the depths of the forest.
At this time, Gu Mengmeng felt that she was too fragile.
Following Conway, who was carrying nearly 40 kilograms of weight, she only carried a travel bag and started panting after walking a few kilometers. But she gritted her teeth and endured it. When Conway turned around and asked her if she needed a rest, she immediately changed into a relaxed look and said no.
The military boots under her feet were like iron lumps filled with lead, and their steps were heavy but they had to move forward mechanically. Her heels were sore that they must have been ground into blisters. But she didn't dare to stop for a moment. Whenever she was about to reach the limit, she thought that the other two people must have walked in front of them, so she gritted her teeth and persevered.
As they approached a dense grass, Conway suddenly stopped wielding the dead branches with a field knife.
He held Gu Mengmeng's hand and signaled her not to move.
Gently push away the grass leaves in front of them that blocked their sight. Five meters away from them, two thick flower snakes stood upright and spit out red snake letters at a black earth rat.
Conway took out a knife and quickly aimed it at the snake's head seven inches. He raised his knife and fell. After a cold light, the flower snake was nailed to the ground. Exaggeratedly, he took out a small and delicate slingshot like a magic trick. Another muffled sound, and the fat earth rat was also hit in the head and died.
Just a moment ago, Gu Mengmeng was stunned when she looked at the corpses of two animals on the ground.
Conway looked very happy. He walked over and weighed the weight of the flower snake, picked up the mouse, turned around and smiled and said to his wife, "I'll give you extra meals tonight!"
Gu Mengmeng smiled helplessly.
The organizer in her backpack must have forgotten to pack food for her. Like Conway's, the compressed biscuits were water bags, and there was not even a piece of jerky. If she had known this, she would have to open it in front of the officer who distributed the backpack to make him feel ashamed after seeing it. She knew that other reporters not only had a considerable amount of jerky, but also sweet rusks and nine water bags.
"I'm sorry, Conway. I should have checked my backpack in advance." She felt guilty. She originally wanted to give him some food to increase his energy from her better rations, but she didn't expect to be disturbed by her carelessness.
He had just touched the hand of the dead mouse and stroked her black ponytail exposed outside her helmet, and said with a smile: "With your husband, how can you not eat meat?"
The word "meat" is very strong, and the other meaning makes Gu Mengmeng blush.
She punched him and walked in front.
In field environments, they rely on footsteps and compass to calculate and correct the distance. They rest for 10 minutes every 2 hours and check their equipment. The physical strength of the marching with weight is very consumed. Therefore, they must move forward at a constant speed and not walk too fast. In addition, they must adjust their body gravity according to the slope and other environmental conditions.
They walked until lunch, and the two of them ate some biscuits in their backpacks and drank some water.
Conway pointed to the flower snake and earthy rat hanging on his butt and said, "Hone up first, let's eat it later. There are too many rotten leaves here, and it will be dangerous to make a fire."
Gu Mengmeng said she didn't mind.
While the two were resting, she asked Conway, I wonder where the Americans were going? Will they throw them out?
He smiled and said, "It's impossible. Long-distance raids and outdoor fighting rely on abundant physical strength. If you overdraw too much energy on the first day, the next journey will be very hard."
These special forces elites have a small radar and database in their minds. They know how long each distance is, and they can rest there in their minds.
Gu Mengmeng did not forget the purpose of this trip during her journey. She had taken valuable pictures along the way from her camera, including the corpses of prey that had been wrapped up by Conway and stuffed into her bag.
Before she got up, she was suddenly pressed to the original place by Conway.
His body pressed down, and the tip of his nose swept over her nose intimately, and the aroma of grass and the breath of male hormones came to his face.
She thought he was going to kiss her.
When she could almost feel him on her lips, Conway suddenly lowered her body and squatted down, holding Gu Mengmeng's ankle directly with her hands.
Untie the shoelaces, untie the ropes of her legs, and then looked at her blood-connected heels with an extremely serious expression, and looked up at her.
"Why not say it."
It turned out that he wasn't going to kiss her.
Gu Mengmeng is embarrassed.
She stuttered, "It's okay."
Conway stared at her, then sighed lightly, turned around and brought a water bag and new socks. He first soaked the wounds that were stuck together with clean water, and then carefully uncovered the socks. When peeling them off, he thought she would instinctively exclaim, because his team members could not help but moan when doing this.
But throughout the whole process, until he handled the blood blisters behind her feet and wrapped them with clean medicinal gauze, his Gu Mengmeng didn't hum.
He looked at her.
A thin sweat oozed out of her fair forehead, and her dirty hands touched her cheeks, like a naughty child. Seeing him looking at her focused, Gu Mengmeng sniffed and smiled brightly at him.
"Your skills are so good, a hundred times better than that guy Gu Jingxi!"
Conway's eyes turned soft.
Chapter completed!