Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 410 Camping
Shanying certainly had never seen a 'mutated' brown bear, but he had seen 'monsters' created by humans.

Clenbuterol, steroids, and the veterinary drug trenbolone, which is used by almost everyone in the bodybuilding circle, have created a group of muscle monsters...

Because trenbolone needs to be used in combination with estrogen, those seemingly huge muscular monsters will develop sequelae such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, impotence, and large-area acne over time.

The most important thing is that after using too much steroid drugs, people will become manic and irritable, and their muscles will easily burst without taking Viagra. Except for the fact that his penis is not very useful, he is definitely a man among men in every other part!
There are even more outrageous things, that is, the devilish beef cattle Belgian Blue cattle that were artificially crossbred and selected, and the Whippet dogs in dog racing...

Belgian Blue cattle are born with a genetic defect. Due to the lack of myostatin, their muscles develop to an abnormal level.

The dystocia rate of these freaks reaches 95%, which means that if they are in a natural environment, they will not be able to reproduce naturally no matter what.

The Whippet has a similar situation. The "double muscles" they grow due to a genetic mutation allow them to perform extremely well in dog racing competitions, but any normal person can see that they are freaks.

It can be said without exaggeration that without human modern technology, these two things simply cannot survive and reproduce.

The same is true for those drug gods in the fitness circle, except that they are a little different from these freaks. They don’t have genetic defects, so in order to maintain big muscles, they need to take drugs for a long time.

Shanying once read a report about some so-called body management and shaping masters who could turn a skinny chicken into a muscular man with eight-pack abs in just a few months. What they relied on was not so-called healthy diet and self-discipline but drugs.

And those muscles that are enlarged by drugs can shrink at any time if the drugs are stopped!
Everyone knows the side effects of drugs, but many people cannot resist the temptation to take shortcuts, so veterinary drugs and steroids are rampant in the fitness circle.

Everyone wants to be like Captain America and become a superhero with just a few injections.

So I take an injection of trenbolone before working out, and when I get to the gym door, I take a sip of caffeine to help me get in the mood. Every now and then, I take a few injections of Dianabol, a super soldier drug invented by Germany during World War II.

If you do this, you can turn a dry chicken into Schwarzenegger in one or two years!
When you see those big guys with acne all over their bodies at the gym, it's best to respect them, because they are willing to sacrifice their testicles for super big muscles.

What is even more outrageous is that with the development of genetic technology, people can now directly knock out a certain set of genes through genetic modification and limit the production of myostatin.

In other words, you no longer have to rely on crossbreeding to get a good result, but can directly customize a muscle monster.

Compared to Quetta's so-called "curse", Shanying would rather believe that the ferocious monster was created by crazy humans.

Old Joe said that this kind of thing has appeared many times in recent years, but based on the natural reproduction ability of such defective things, there is no reason for them to be naturally generated.

The appearance of a manic Devil Muscle Bear gave Mountain Eagle a bad feeling about the upcoming trip to the mountains.

If it really is related to genetic modification, it would definitely not be limited to animals, because if it was only aimed at animals, there would be no need to be so strict in guarding against it.

Shanying has read many human experiment projects such as the 'Super Soldier Program' through Snowden's confidential documents...

Civilian banned drugs like steroids and trenbolone are just child's play in those events.

The fact that the big American soldiers love steroids is not even news; more technologies and tough jobs are produced through similar human experiments.

What Shanying couldn't understand was that if there was a similar laboratory in the mountains, from which direction could Black Fox contact them?
Just looking at the situation of those indigenous people, they are no match for the people in the mountains and have been suffocated.

There is absolutely no need for Dimension Card Company to hire someone like Black Fox, and there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy a group of drug-addicted freaks from Jungle Ant to do the dirty work...

Not economical at all!
Finally, all the questions still need to be answered by going into the field to see it for yourself!
Old Joe was not bragging. Quetta was indeed familiar with the swamp waterways in this area. They set out at 8 o'clock in the morning and arrived at the foot of the target mountains at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The moment the mountain eagle set foot on land, it discovered the presence of a drone in the sky...

It wasn't aimed specifically at him, but took off from a mountain a few kilometers away and began flying in a circle.

This was clearly a planned defensive reconnaissance measure to prevent indigenous people or others from entering the area.

When Huai En told him last night that there were ghosts in the mountains, he guessed a little bit...

Because it is impossible to install real-time monitoring in the mountains, the only way to create the "dark forest" effect is to use aerial drones to provide early warnings and then ambush in the direction of the indigenous hunters.

Quetta certainly didn't know about the drone in the sky, but the place he chose naturally avoided the drone's shooting angle.

The terrain where the speedboat docked was flat, but there was a hill not far in front of them that separated Shanying and his companions from the mountains in the distance.

Mountain Eagle did not rashly let the Crow attack the opponent's drone. He followed Old Joe's instructions, moved all the luggage on the speedboat to the shore, and then helped to tow the speedboat to a dry place on the shore.

Old Joe has not been idle since he got off the boat. He let the big dog go and walked around by himself. He soon found a suitable camping spot, and then shouted loudly: "We will camp here. We will go into the mountains early tomorrow morning. Quetta will be waiting for us here..."

Shanying walked over with his backpack and was about to take out the tent when Kuida said, "Come with me, I'll teach you how to build an aboriginal tent...

Those little tents you bring with you don’t work very well in Alaska.”

Shanying was a man who listened to advice, and he was really interested in this kind of thing, so he dropped his backpack and said with a smile: "OK, what do you need me to do?"

Quetta probably had never entertained such a good-talking rich man. He rubbed his big nose, glanced at the butcher and Dalia next to him, and said, "You, take the axe with you, and you, pick up the gravel on the ground and put it together..." The butcher and Dalia looked at each other, then bent down, picked up the hand axe from the bag and hung it on their waists, and walked to Shanying with AK-105 on their backs...

Seeing the butcher's cautious look, Kuida shook his head in disgust, turned around, picked up a small bucket filled with glass bottles, and led them to the birch forest nearby.

At first Shanying thought that Quetta was going to take him to cut down trees, but he didn't expect that the old man actually took out a few whistle-like hollow metal tubes and distributed them to him and the butcher. Then he found a birch tree, knocked the hollow metal tubes into the trunk, nailed a nail underneath, and hung a small glass bottle underneath.

Knowing that Quetta was collecting birch sap, Shanying quickly asked the butcher to knock the hollow tubes in his hand onto several other birch trees...

After hanging up the glass bottles, Shanying smiled and said, "Actually, it's not necessary. The snowmelt water in Alaska is very clean, and we brought filters..."

Kuida glanced at the mountain eagle, shook his head and said, “Learning to find clean water is the most important lesson in camping.

What is more important in this lesson is to know which water can be drunk directly into the stomach.

If you haven't spent more than three winters in Alaska, don't try to drink snow water directly.

Only by being respectful to the Goddess of the Earth and gaining her approval can this place become a paradise."

The butcher did not agree with Quetta's theory, but Shanying, a Chinese, still agreed with the extremely wise and profound truth of "not being able to adapt to the local climate and water".

Old Quetta is indeed carefully teaching the survival skills in Alaska. These old man's words, which condense decades of survival experience, must be kept in mind. They may save your life at any time.

Seeing that the mountain eagle was very humble, Kuida nodded with satisfaction, and took the two of them to find a dozen birch trees with a diameter of about 8 cm and a height of more than 6 meters, cut them down, and then brought them back to the camp, peeled off the bark, and simply roasted them on the campfire lit by Old Joe.

By the time Quetta took out two large pieces of oilcloth, Shanying already knew what he was going to do?

'Tupik' is a simple tent often used by polar natives when they go out hunting...

However, the Inuit "Tupik" use fur to make tents, while Quetta uses large oilcloth.

First choose three of the thickest poles for support...

The upper ends were tied together with wire, and then three people each held a long pole and inserted it into the pre-dug hole to erect a stable triangular structure.

The next step is simple...

Put the remaining long poles around the triangular structure without any special fixing. Just put them in a circle like playing with building blocks when you were a child. A tent frame that looks simple but is actually quite stable is completed.

Then wrap the frame with two pieces of oilcloth, leaving a small door for entry and exit, cover and fix the lower end with soil, and the pointed part does not need to be closed. The naturally formed chimney effect will discharge the campfire smoke rising from the tent.

It seems very simple, but in fact it takes into account both warmth and ventilation. This ancient wisdom contains many scientific principles.

Dalia was very interested in camping. After setting up the tent, she built a round bonfire in the middle of the tent with stones...

After lighting the bonfire, Daria kept stirring the bonfire and then sprinkled the formed carbon ash onto the ground inside the tent.

Kuitta originally wanted to teach Dalia how to build a mat on the floor, but this exquisite lady actually took out a few emergency blankets and spread them on the ground, then took out a few inflatable mattresses, and asked the butcher to use an air pump to work for half an hour, and made three ten-centimeter-thick mattresses.

I watched as Dalia blew up an inflatable pillow and placed it on the middle mattress, then placed a bunch of flowers between the two mattresses...

Kuida couldn't help but give a thumbs up to the exquisite lady and said, "Well done. I hope these mattresses can still be used after you go into the mountains."

Dalia ignored Kuida's complaints. She smiled and directed the butcher to use a chainsaw to saw a cross-shaped opening from top to bottom on a half-meter-high and 30-centimeter-diameter wooden stake, making a simple Swedish torch stove...

I stuffed the M-shaped opening with wood chips, then placed a wooden stake in the middle of the extinguished fire in the tent, fixed the torch stove with stones, and poured some diesel into it...

A torch stove of this size can burn for several hours, and because the flame is concentrated, it is very practical to place it in a tent whether for boiling water or dealing with Alaskan summer nights.

This kind of thing seemed like trifling stuff to Kuida, but he had to admit that this girl had a certain delicacy...

If he were to do the same thing, it might be more practical, but the appearance and neatness would certainly not be comparable.

Watching Dalia take out a coffee can and grind coffee powder with an exquisite hand grinder, Old Quetta sniffed, gave a thumbs up again, and said seriously: "Give me a set of this thing too..."

The mountain eagle is fishing by the water at this time...

With a small hand pole and wild duck entrails as bait, he quickly caught a large pike one and a half feet long...

Just as the mountain eagle was lamenting the abundance of resources in the remote areas of Alaska, Old Joe, who had dealt with the wild duck, frowned as he looked at the surrounding woods...

(End of this chapter)