As he spoke, Gu Ran lifted the fish, which was over a meter long, onto the shore.
After Gu Ran controlled the fish, it stopped moving completely, as if it had resigned itself to its fate, its sharp mouth open, revealing its fangs.
This is the Platinum Fierce Fish, an extremely ferocious fish. Along the Congo River, you often see crocodiles with severed limbs or tails, which is the work of the Platinum Fierce Fish.
Yes, when it gets fierce, it will even eat crocodiles!
But now that the fish has been stunned by Gu Ran's electric shock, it is not struggling at all. Only its gills are still opening and closing, indicating that it is not dead yet.
"Take a picture of me!" Gu Ran took out his phone and handed it to Li Enshu, asking her to take a cool photo so he could show it off.
“Oppa, you really treated this assessment like a camping trip,” Lee Eun-sook said with a smile.
This fish is over a meter long and weighs forty or fifty kilograms. Gu Ran and Li Enshu couldn't eat that much, so they kept the belly meat to eat some in the evening. The rest they smoked into dried fish so they could have two more meals tomorrow.
The remaining fish meat was left on the shore to feed wild animals, but it had to be thrown far away to avoid being noticed by nearby carnivores who might come to their camp at night.
Gu Ran wasn't afraid of those large animals; he just didn't want to kill them without reason.
In the evening, the two of them simply ate a clear broth fish hot pot. High-end ingredients often only require simple cooking, so after Gu Ran brought the pot to a boil, she added ginger slices and knotted scallions, and then simply cooked the fish meat in the broth.
He also brought soy sauce, peanut oil, satay sauce, chili sauce, sesame oil...
"Oppa, your logistical skills are even better than Doraemon's!" Lee Eun-sook looked at Gu Ran's backpack. "Do you have other storage spaces in your backpack?"
Gu Ran smiled without explaining, while Li Enshu was also very perceptive, knowing what to ask and what not to ask.
Since they didn't know if it would rain that night, Gu Ran and Li Enshu set up separate tents. Gu Ran even brought a mosquito net and gave Li Enshu one as well.
Africa has a lot of mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can transmit various diseases, such as chikungunya, which was first discovered in Africa.
So in addition to bringing mosquito nets, Gu Ran also brought mosquito coils, which he lit around the campsite to repel mosquitoes.
“Oppa, we only walked for a little over three hours today, but we flew 60 kilometers. Isn’t this cheating a bit too outrageous?” Lee Eun-sook said to Gu Ran in the next tent from her own tent. “What if our results are canceled?”
"...Shall we slow down a bit?" Gu Ran thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow we'll fly 120 kilometers in ten hours, that should be a reasonable speed, right?"
“Yes!” Lee Eun-sook nodded with a smile.
It was so great to be with Gu Ran Oppa for this off-road test. It was as fun as camping. Not only did we get to eat and drink well, but we could also take showers. Gu Ran Oppa even brought shampoo and shower gel.
Simply perfect!
It was too easy for Lee Eun-sook, who felt there was no challenge. Actually, she really wanted to go on a real adventure with her oppa; that would be so much fun!
*……*……*
While Gu Ran and Li Enshu were sleeping in the rainforest, Lu Mingfei was pulling a makeshift cart on the other side of the savanna.
"I, I mean..." Lu Mingfei was really exhausted. "It's already past 2 a.m. local time, isn't it? How about... we take a break?"
“Let’s take a break by walking slowly,” Ling said casually. “We’ve only walked eighty kilometers so far. We need to walk another forty kilometers before sunrise.”
"What... what do you mean by only walking eighty kilometers?" Lu Mingfei was speechless. "Eighty kilometers is really going to kill me, okay?"
The two set off at noon, and it has been more than twelve hours since then.
For dinner, we had ostrich meat. To save time, Zero simply sliced the meat, threw it into a pot to boil, and ate it as soon as it was cooked, without even bothering to pluck the feathers...
Lu Mingfei asked her why she didn't pluck the feathers, and Ling said she didn't know how. She had never cooked. Killing a chicken was easy; she could just cut off its head with one stroke. But she didn't know how to prepare the ingredients.
Lu Mingfei laughed in exasperation. "If you didn't know, you should have said so earlier! I did!"
But Zero didn't give him much time to pluck the feathers, so Lu Mingfei only ate some wing meat.
"Hey, stop and take a break!" Lu Mingfei said, looking at the petite girl in front of him.
Zero ignored him and just looked at the sky.
The equatorial sky has few clouds, so you can see the bright moon. Tonight, the moonlight is very bright, and it shines on Zero. Her fair skin reflects the white light, giving her a sacred beauty.
The girl was pretty, but Lu Mingfei simply couldn't appreciate her: "Your Majesty, can I rest for ten minutes and have something to eat?"
"Then let's rest for a while." Zero suddenly stopped. "What would you like to eat?"
"Let's just eat the leftover ostrich meat from dinner." Lu Mingfei isn't picky about food anymore; he's happy as long as he has something to eat.
That evening, they had one wing and one leg left from the ostrich meat; the breast meat was eaten in a separate meal.
"We've only covered eighty kilometers in fourteen hours. At this rate, we won't reach our destination," Ling said calmly.
"I know, I know, I just haven't gotten used to it yet!" Lu Mingfei slumped to the ground, took a sip of water, and said, "Anyway, once I've rested enough, I'll walk straight until dawn before I rest!"
"We need to find a campsite before 8 a.m. and then rest until 4 p.m.
"Hmm...okay." Lu Mingfei leaned back against the small slope. As soon as he sat down, he relaxed and his eyes involuntarily closed as if he wanted to sleep.
It's like when you don't understand a math lesson, you can't help but want to sleep, and no one can stop that.
Zero suddenly pulled out a pistol and fired three shots at the ground next to Lu Mingfei!
"Huh? Damn it!" He woke up the moment Zero fired the first shot.
The M1911 pistol uses large-caliber bullets and has a lot of gunpowder, so it is extremely loud and deafening!
In the moonlight, Lu Mingfei saw the muzzle of the blonde girl's gun, along with the drifting smoke and the pungent smell of gunpowder in the air.
He instinctively raised his hands: "It can't be that serious, I was just dozing off, there's no need to shoot..."
"you misunderstood."
Zero pistols were put back into their holsters.
"What misunderstanding?" Lu Mingfei muttered.
Zero offered no explanation.
Lu Mingfei braced himself with his hands on the ground, preparing to stand up and leave, lest he anger the Queen and have her draw her gun again.
This little queen is sometimes just like Senior Brother Chu, always pulling out her gun at the drop of a hat, it's really speechless.
But when he braced himself with his hands, he suddenly noticed something wet and sticky on his hands.
He instinctively put his palm to his nose and smelled it, immediately detecting a bloody odor. He then took out a flashlight with his other hand and shone it on the ground.
Chapter 534 Kidnapped
In the beam of the flashlight, Lu Mingfei discovered a smashed snake head!
"Holy crap, it's a cobra!" When Lu Mingfei saw the familiar spoon-shaped snake, he immediately knew it was the infamous cobra, the kind that would send you to heaven the moment it bit you!
"Although the snake is dead, its fangs are still poisonous. Be careful not to touch them," Zero's voice came softly.
Lu Mingfei immediately perked up, stood up instantly, and moved away from the smashed snake head on the ground.
It turns out Zero fired the gun to save him.
Of the three shots fired, one hit the snake's head, and the other two hit its body, cutting the snake into three pieces.
"Yes, I'm sorry," Lu Mingfei wiped the snake blood off his hands onto his pants. "I misunderstood you just now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"It's alright." Zero glanced back at Lu Mingfei, then at the snake on the ground. "We can take that snake with us for breakfast."
Lu Mingfei looked at the bloody, mangled snake meat on the ground and said, "Maybe we should just forget about it. I'm not cut out for snake soup."
"Whatever you want," Zero said. "Can we go now?"
“Okay…” Lu Mingfei stood up and continued to pull the cart.
They walked until dawn, barely managing to cover more than 30 kilometers.
As dawn broke, Lu Mingfei was walking forward purely on instinct, as if he could no longer feel the existence of his own feet.
It wasn't until the sun rose and sunlight entered Lu Mingfei's eyes that his consciousness was fully brought back.
This was Lu Mingfei's first time seeing the sunrise at the equator; it was as fiery red as a salted duck egg for the Dragon Boat Festival.
The sun at the equator is particularly dazzling, and it becomes extremely hot just a few minutes after sunrise.
“We’ll set up camp in that big tree up ahead,” Zero said, pointing to a flat-topped acacia tree.
Lu Mingfei looked up and saw that although the tree was right in front of him, it was actually two kilometers away. This was a classic case of "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," and looking at a tree would make Lu Mingfei run himself to death...
But Lu Mingfei knew that talking to Ling would be pointless; she was like the coldest drill instructor, training Lu Mingfei with the harshest methods.
It took Lu Mingfei more than 30 minutes to slowly reach the destination, which was two kilometers long.
Once he reached the tree, he had no strength left and collapsed from exhaustion.
“I’ll just sleep here…” Lu Mingfei said.
This flat-topped acacia tree is common in Africa. It has a very large canopy that provides ample shade and shelter from the rain, and it also grows very tall.
The selection of this tree was carefully considered.
She looked at Lu Mingfei and said, "If you sleep on the ground, hyenas will come and bite your butt, tear open your belly, and eat your internal organs..."
"Okay, you scared me!" Lu Mingfei struggled to interrupt Zero. "Otherwise, where am I supposed to sleep?"
"I brought a hammock, I'll sleep in the tree for a while." Zero took out a hanging net from his backpack, easily jumped up into the tree, and found a thick, dense branch to set up the hammock.
Lu Mingfei took out his water bottle, drank the last drop of water, stared blankly at the three-meter-high hammock for a long time, and finally sighed before starting to climb the tree.
He knew Zero's plan was correct, because only in the trees could he sleep peacefully during the day; if he slept on the ground, he would easily become a snack for large animals.
Moreover, sleeping in a tree is not bad, as it's not as hot as being on the ground. Overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Lu Mingfei climbed onto the hammock, and without caring whether the little queen was securely tied, he plopped down in the hammock's netting, lay down, and immediately closed his eyes to sleep.
In less than a minute, he fell asleep as if he had taken sleeping pills, and snoring could be heard.
Instead of resting, Ling looked around and gathered some dry branches to build a campfire.
Wild animals are generally afraid of fire, whether it is day or night. Being in a tree is not 100% safe. In Africa, there are also felines like leopards that can climb trees.
After lighting the campfire, Zero went hunting nearby and this time she caught an antelope. She threw away the innards and, too lazy to skin it, just put it on the fire to roast.
This way, even if the skin is burnt, the meat inside won't burn.
After doing all that, she set up her hammock in the tree and rested there.
In fact, she doesn't need to rest; this amount of physical exertion is less than walking a few steps on the Siberian ice field.
She looked at the sky through the gaps in the leaves, thinking that if Lu Mingfei continued at this pace, it would probably take forever to complete the mission.
Or, how about we hire a few zebras for transportation?
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