Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

Jennifer's depression lasted only a short while.

Survivors in the wild can only mobilize their enthusiasm as much as possible, and there is absolutely no reason to be immersed in negative emotions all the time.

She summoned up her fighting spirit and handed Jacob back the tasks of checking the squirrel traps and going fishing by the river, while she did what she had been doing for the past two days and was almost tired of doing it—treating the wound.

It's simply endless.

Just now, in order to prevent her abdomen from being mauled by the cougar, she had to raise her right leg and kneel against the attack of the opponent's foreleg. This poor leg is now more injured, with new scratches overlapping old ones. Almost like a scratching post.

The blood groove left by the brown bear stepping on it yesterday is completely unreadable.

After being treated with herbal medicine, the wound didn't rot for at least a while, but an unknown white mucus appeared on the surface.By now the wounds had been reopened by rolling and grabbing, and the blood was gushing out again.

This doesn't seem like a category that can be dealt with by squeezing to stop bleeding.

Jennifer had just recruited Unit [-] Buddy to her side. She wanted to take the opportunity to divert attention to explain the wound treatment to the audience, but now she had to twitch the corners of her mouth when faced with this bloody mess that only appeared in R-rated movies. idea.

She drove the camera as far away as possible and turned her back to the audience as much as possible, added some firewood to the fire, and spoke quietly.

"There are very few options for wound treatment in the wild, especially for such large open wounds. Sutures are the best option when there are first aid kits and needles and thread, but survivors are not helpless without these materials— They can use ants."

"It is said that the indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon River Basin and the inhabitants of some tribes in Africa will use ants to suture wounds. They choose larger individuals and let the ants use their upper jaws to bite the sides of the wound and pull it towards the middle. Wait for the ants to bite tightly Finally, they will find a way to leave the ant's body, leaving only the head. In this way, the wound can heal well, and the ant's head will fall off by itself after healing."

Jennifer described it so vividly that the audience in the live broadcast room almost stared out their eyes.

[Is there such an operation?I feel pain all over the place. 】

【Wait a minute, isn't Jenny really going to catch ants and stitch up the wound? 】

[I don't know why I want to see it, it must be that she has given me too much impact these days. 】

The audience secretly wanted to watch something fresh, but unfortunately, Jennifer was just using the method of recalling anecdotes to divert attention and make preliminary preparations for dealing with the wound.

Ant stitch is not bad, but it is flawed.

For one thing, I can't find suitable ants on hand now.Indigenous tribes use ants they know well, and some species can even secrete antiseptic fluids to promote wound healing.If you imitate the wrong choice without knowing it, you will be in great trouble. You must know that some ants are poisonous, some will pierce people with the pincers at the tail, and some ants are not wide enough to be bitten in vain.

Secondly, the wounds on Jennifer's body are too many and too dense, even if they can be stitched up with ants, it will take a year of monkeys, and then there will be a row of ant heads hanging on her body, what does it look like.

Considering these two reasons, Jennifer did not intend to use sutures to deal with the wound at all, but just turned the outdoor knife twice and stabbed the tip of the knife into the burning flame.

The tongue of fire licked the bright blade, making it slowly turn red. Immediately, this terrifying red gradually approached the thigh.

Jennifer directly pressed the burnt knife sideways on the wound.

"Uh!"

This kind of severe pain was beyond human tolerance, so much so that even a player like her who had suffered countless times couldn't help but let out a low growl.

Jennifer's face was ferocious, but her hand remained motionless, and she calmly moved the knife away.

The skin scalded by the knife was completely burnt into a whole piece, and a mark consistent with the shape of the knife surface appeared on the skin.

She bit her lip, an abnormal blush flew up on her face, and her forehead was instantly covered with cold sweat. She gasped for at least 5 minutes before recovering from the unbearable pain, and put the knife into the fire again.

"I hope you won't complain to me because it's too bloody." She joked bitterly, her voice was weak but firm, "Today is the tenth day of the competition, and we still have five days to go. I have no choice."

This method of treating wounds with heat dates back to BC.

Hippocrates once said a famous saying that was widely believed at the time - "What the knife cannot cure, fire can; what the fire cannot cure, it should be incurable."

Of course, this kind of treatment method of burning everything has been criticized by many medical researchers in later generations, but theoretically speaking, burning can indeed play a role in hemostasis and disinfection.

In the early years of the war, soldiers were educated to ignite gunpowder in bullets to burn wounds to stop bleeding and disinfect. Modern medicine uses more scientific monopolar coagulation.

It's a pity that the doctor used unipolar coagulation because they could find very small bleeding points, but now Jennifer feels that her legs are bleeding everywhere, and there is no way to find the exact blood vessel break.

Jennifer froze to deal with the thigh injury, trembling all over.

Because of her physical structure, she couldn't see how the shoulder wound was hurting now, and she thought it would only be worse than her leg.But as long as the infection is not so severe that it burns to the point where it is too weak to affect the trek, the priority of the legs is above everything else.

After processing the thighs step by step, there is already a smell of burnt protein in the air.

Shame to say.

Jennifer is a little hungry.

So when Jacob came back with a squirrel, he saw her praying sitting in front of the cougar carcass, with the knife aside, as if she was about to strike at any time.

He was shocked and couldn't help shouting: "What are you doing?"

Jennifer glanced back at him: "Can't you see that? I'm talking to it. In some places, people have a tradition of killing animals only to survive, praying for them before disposing of their dead bodies, and saying What will each part be used for and how many people can be fed. Although I am not from a primitive tribe, I am willing to do this in the wilderness."

She explained, and Jacob looked even more terrified.

The rough guy from the military yelled, "You mean you're going to eat it?"

Jennifer was puzzled: "What? If it kills me now, won't it plan to eat me?"

"But... you were defending yourself at the time..." Jacob said with difficulty, "I thought you'd think you should show it 'respect' or something... ..”

Paused.

"You have to think about it. If you really eat it, you will probably receive letters from at least a hundred animal protection organizations after you leave the wilderness. As far as I know, both Canada and the United States will issue permits and hunts for hunters." Killing missions, but the last time someone legally hunted cougars they got hundreds of death threats."

The implication is that when you fight back, it's fine if you kill it, but you can't eat it.

Jennifer was amused by him.

She summoned Unit [-] back, and asked not only to Jacob, but also to all the audience in front of the screen: "After we leave, the body of this cougar will be eaten by other animals, so may I ask?" , is there any difference between being eaten by other animals and being eaten by me?"

Jacob frowned: "It's a big difference."

Jennifer pressed, "The difference? Do you think all living beings are equal? ​​If so, why don't you eat the cougar, but the squirrel you're carrying? Eat the fish swimming in the river ?”

Jacob retorted automatically: "That's because the cougar is more noble than the squirrel and the fish."

Oh nobility.

Jennifer rolled her eyes: "From the perspective of nature, all things are equal. From the perspective of human beings, you have to distinguish between rare and noble."

"Why do humans protect rare animals? Are rare animals more noble than ordinary animals? No."

"The reason why those rare animals are on the verge of extinction is because they cannot adapt to the environment, and who are the species that have changed the environment the most in these worlds?"

The answer is self-evident.

"Humans' protection of rare animals is to repay the debt between races and races, which does not mean that they are nobler than other animals. This puma is no nobler to nature than a fish or a squirrel. Even after human death Nor is it nobler than them."

Seeing that Jacob was lost in thought, Jennifer continued to break apart and explain to pieces.

"I didn't hunt this cougar condescendingly with guns and ammunition. The knife was my claws, my clothes were my fur, and I fought it hand to hand, fair and square. I could die, it could die, I When it dies, it eats me; when it dies, I eat it. This is the law of nature, the death of one animal can feed five animals, and I just happen to be one of them.”

After she said these words, she picked up the knife and took the meat from the back of the corpse, while Jacob also silently began to handle the squirrel and put it on the fire for barbecue.

After eating almost half of the squirrel, Da Bing finally came up with an excuse: "It seems that it is really unfair for animals to face intelligent humans. In fact, as long as they learn how to use weapons and traps, few animals can defeat humans."

That's right.

"The strength of human beings in nature is wisdom. Why don't you say that the size and strength of brown bears is really unfair, that birds can fly is really unfair, and that lizards can survive by cutting off their tails? I think you are Got dizzy."

Jennifer wiped her palms and said seriously.

"I am against aimless or even unintentional killings, and I am saddened by the destruction of the living environment, but I am not against the existence of the food chain. The point of departure, Jacob, we must be at the top of the food chain."

That's all for this conversation.

Hot meals and protein gave Jennifer the strength to keep going.

She thought she had convinced her companions, but she didn't expect that before packing up the camp and preparing to leave, Jacob extinguished the fire, looked at the remaining corpse, and asked hesitantly, "So should we bury it?"

Jennifer could only shake her head and sigh: "Please don't do unnecessary things, Jacob. You pity it so you want to bury it, but the next carnivore that is also struggling to survive with a baby may be because of this error and die."

She patted her companion on the shoulder and said sadly: "I never thought that after living in nature for so many days, you still don't understand nature."

Jacob: "..."

Still ignorant of nature, the American soldier decided to have a three-hour cold war with his new teammates.

***

From this afternoon, the remaining two members of the fifth group continued to march along the river, and reached the bend of the river on the evening of the No. 11 day when the race started.

The water flow that was originally heading south-southeast diverged again and flowed eastward, but the end of the track was in the south. They had to give up the fresh water source they had always kept and choose the shortcut that led directly to the red dot.

Jacob climbed to a higher place to observe the road conditions ahead, and finally came to a conclusion: According to the direction pointed out by the ring of life, the last track of the fifth team must pass through the forest and then pass through the grassland south of the forest.

That is to say, from here on, Jennifer could no longer save her strength and let the current carry her forward, so she had to walk on the ground.

The two consecutive injuries left her in poor physical condition. Even though the wound on her leg was dealt with ruthlessly, the larger wound on her shoulder and back could not be cured, and it was always dragging her back in the following days .

The alarm of the ring of life sounded twice, each time becoming more and more anxious, and she would press it off at the first time each time.

Not opting out is one thing, but the two alerts also sent Jennifer a message that her body may have reached a dangerous breaking point.

The two have no way of knowing the specific reasons, but there are only a few things left - the wound may be infected and worsened, the beast's claws may carry viruses, and the water and food eaten these days may have parasites.

Her body temperature gradually rose, and her hands and feet became weaker and weaker. With four days left, Jennifer and Jacob discussed and decided to reduce their rest time and travel day and night before completely falling ill.

This decision seems extremely unreasonable, but on the other hand, even if you take a long rest every night, as soon as the illness flares up, you will have no time to hurry or take care of it completely.

They can only rush towards their destination day and night.

This forest is more complex than the previous ones. It is away from the river and there is no fresh water. Every morning when they wake up, the two of them will wipe the surrounding plants with their clothes to collect dew, and then look for some moss in the shade at the bottom of the forest to supplement the water source.

These mosses hold water in place, and just grabbing a handful of them and squeezing them hard can collect a lot of fresh water in a container.It's just that the fresh water needs to be boiled before drinking, and there are many impurities in it. In addition to mud, there are also some bugs and debris of unknown composition that cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye.

Their food in the forest is smoked meat sticks and small improvised rodents.

One day at noon, I saw a few wolves. These black and gray carnivores stood on a high ground and looked down at the humans below. Their noses twitched, but they did not attack for a long time.

It was this chance encounter that made Jennifer determine that this place should be very close to the human settlement area.

In fact, she had guessed this when she saw the rubber band on the puma, but the behavior of the wolf confirmed her guess.

Wolves are extremely intelligent creatures, and they always keep a distance from humans very cautiously, lest the entire race be destroyed and retaliated against.

Going a little further, the coyote is different. This small gray wolf lives near towns, often goes to the town's trash can to feast on, and sometimes kills human pets.

It took a whole day to get out of the forest. So far, there are still three days left in the entire competition schedule, and the number of survivors shown by the camera group is only more than 600 people, and the number of people who have reached the finish line is still less than 80.

The track design team is really the number one evil force in "Wild Challenge", they didn't want most of the players to reach the finish line at all.

Jennifer simply suspected that these team members were trying their best to save money for the program group. After all, the bonus for winning a round is different from the bonus for filling the next round.

Anyway, with GPS positioning, if the number of people is not enough, just count according to the distance from the end point.

I guess that's what it means.

No. 12 days, in the midst of bitter speculation, they left the woods and set foot on the savannah of the Rocky Mountains.

There are still many trees growing in this field, but it looks very flat, and a river flows eastward in the distance.

From Jennifer's perspective, she could see a herd of black-tailed deer perched on the pasture below. They were very close to each other, looking up cautiously from time to time to observe the surroundings, for fear that a predator would suddenly appear.Further to the left, you can see the figure of the elk, and there are marmots lazily basking in the sun on a few small soil pockets, which is a very peaceful scene.

This was the last stretch, and they won as long as they got through the narrow part of this meadow.

The two were full of fighting spirit, but after walking a few steps, the dizzy Jennifer had to sit down to relieve the dizziness.

While she rested against the rock, Jacob scoured the surroundings for available supplies.After he found some wood for the fire, he saw that Jennifer did not close her eyes, but lowered her head to study a strange thing.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Antlers." Jennifer pointed to him.

Winter and spring are the seasons for some deer to shed their old antlers and grow new ones.People who don't know may laugh at the fact that a complete horn suddenly falls off the head of the deer when it jumps and jumps, but in fact this is a very normal phenomenon.

However, wild complete antlers are hard to find, and can only be seen in well-protected natural areas.

What they found was the shed antler of an elk, which was as long as a human forearm and covered with forks.

"What are you going to do with it? The next time you meet a brown bear and kill them with antlers?" Jacob asked.

"It's not impossible, but it has a better use now." Jennifer replied.

She sat cross-legged where she was, and rummaged through her mountain bag.At that time, after the two team members retired, the backpacks were dismantled into pieces, and she took all the useful things in her bag.

The elastic band on the inside of the backpack was originally used to fix the left arm.

Jennifer knew what she was looking for, but she couldn't stand the flowers in front of her eyes. She searched for a long time before finding some materials with better elasticity.These are the rubber cords used to tighten the backpack lattice, but now they can be used for other purposes.

The antlers have natural forks and are very strong. As long as the rubber cord is fixed on the appropriate forks, it can be used as a slingshot.

Jennifer also shook her hands to make a weapon to keep awake, but it took her a long time to tie the loops at both ends, which shows how poor her physical condition is.

After the prototype of the slingshot was ready, she took out the rubber block removed from the backpack as a cushion, and handed Jacob a few stones together. "Have you ever used a slingshot?"

Jacob said: "We have a unique military slingshot, which is sometimes more useful than a gun. It is portable and easy to store. The most important thing is that it has no light, no sound, and great lethality. Skilled soldiers can easily use the slingshot. kill a man."

"That's great," Jennifer raised her eyebrows, "Since you can kill people with a slingshot, it must be easy to hit a small animal with a slingshot."

Jacob: "..."

I'm not, I didn't, I didn't say it.

He looked at the slingshot in his hand made of antlers, elastic rope and leather, and looked at his companion's eager (watching) eyes, and said rather embarrassingly: "No, this one The crosshairs and power of the original slingshot are not the same as those of the military slingshot, maybe it can be trained for a period of time, but now I can’t do it.”

Jennifer took a few breaths, and kept a straight face on purpose: "The slingshot is only related to the feel of the handle and the strength of the leather rope. Although this bow may not be able to kill people easily, it is enough to kill a small animal. If I now If you had hands and feet, you would have started throwing spears."

Jacob said in his heart that you are obviously trying to drive ducks to the shelves, but he still took the slingshot bravely.

Jennifer chased after the victory: "Think about your girlfriend, think about your sister, think about your brother, men can't say no."

This sentence was simply the straw that broke the camel's back.

Jacob wanted to poke her face with this antler, but thinking of the horrific patient on the other side, it took him a long time to suppress his desire to complain.

He walked to the mound in front of him and squinted to observe the few marmots basking in the sun above.

Raise the bow, draw the rope, aim.

put!

Pebbles were thrown near the mound like flying, and several marmots were alarmed by the small sound, and jumped up in a hurry.

Marmots are very social, and usually live in groups as neighbors, taking care of each other and reminding each other.

After Jacob missed a hit, some of the marmots scattered and fled, while the other two stood upright and squawked.That performance was quite frightening, but the posture of standing up was as brave as if he was about to fight some animal.

The herd of black-tailed deer in the distance was startled, and they looked here one after another. The restless fawn had already hid behind its mother.

Jacob tried a few more times, all without success.

Jennifer looked at the black-faced Jacob, then at the dumbfounded and screaming marmot, coughed a few times and laughed again.

"Come on," she said weakly, "If I really can't catch it, I'll come back as a trap."

After eating this last meal, they can really go to the finish line in one go.