Chapter 797 Start Exploring, Small Gains

The two made simple preparations and headed towards the mountains.

The surrounding jungle is dense and there is no road at all. They can only walk through the dense forest. The ground is covered with dead branches and leaves, and there are various vines everywhere, which makes the two of them move very slowly.

After walking hard for almost half a day, I don't know how far we have traveled. Laura was panting from exhaustion. The two of them sat on the ground to rest. Jiang Hao took out the grilled fish from his backpack and wrapped it in plantain leaves. Open it and give Laura half.

Laura took a bite, looked at Jiang Hao and said, "Although there are only simple ingredients, you can make them delicious. Are you a chef?"

Jiang Hao smiled, "I have studied cooking professionally."

Laura looked at Jiang Hao in surprise, "You learn everything anyway."

"It's just a personal hobby. I like outdoor adventures. If I don't know how to cook, I'm afraid I can only eat dry food outside. It will be very sad, and knowing how to cook is also useful in dealing with emergencies." Jiang Hao ate Yurou said.

Laura agrees with Jiang Hao's statement, "I also like to explore. Now my father is dead, but I think I will inherit my father's behest and be an explorer in the future. It seems that I have to learn a lot in the future."

The current Laura is indeed still immature, and there is no comparison with the famous explorer queen in the future.

"Drink some water." Jiang Hao handed over the water bottle.

Laura took a few sips from the kettle, and after putting down the kettle, Laura asked, "Jon, do you think it is possible for us to eliminate Himiko and escape from Yamatai?"

"Why, I'm worried, you were full of confidence just now." Jiang Hao said with a smile.

"I'm determined, but I'm still worried," Laura said.

"Don't worry, I think we will go out." Jiang Hao comforted.

The two rested for a while and continued to set off. After walking for half an hour, they suddenly heard the sound of rumbling water. The two walked forward and saw a cracked canyon. The crack was about ten meters wide. There is a waterfall not far in front of the abundant river, so there is such a big movement.

"It's really strange that there is such a river with such ample water flow on an island. It's a bit unreasonable." Laura said.

"There are too many unreasonable things on this island. We need to cross the river and find out where we can go." Jiang Hao said.

The two searched along the canyon. After turning over a dense forest, they saw a giant tree with a thickness of half a meter lying on the crack of the canyon, leading directly to the opposite side. Laura was overjoyed and took Jiang Hao over quickly, but Jiang Hao After reading it, he frowned slightly and said: "This is artificially made up, but judging from the traces of chopping, it shouldn't take too long. There have been storms in the past two days, and the changes under the erosion of wind and rain, I don't think it will exceed One week."

"How do you know a week?" Laura asked.

"I have learned carpentry." Jiang Hao said.

Laura looked at Jiang Hao with surprise in her eyes. Is it necessary for a teacher who studies occultism to learn carpentry?

Well, at least it's useful now.

"Let's go there." Jiang Hao said, stepping on the giant tree, and quickly reached the opposite side by stepping on the rough trunk.

But when he turned around to look, he found that Laura was still standing there, with a surprised and nervous expression on her face.

"What's the matter, come here?" Jiang Hao said.

Laura hesitated and said, "I, I'm a little scared."

Jiang Hao just forgot that this Laura is a tender girl.

He came back stepping on the tree trunk, stretched out his hand to hold Laura's hand, and said encouragingly: "The most important thing to overcome when walking this kind of place is actually the fear in your heart. Come, walk slowly with me."

Laura followed nervously, and Jiang Hao took her hand and said as he walked: "Have you noticed that if you walk on flat ground, it is easy to walk in a straight line without shaking your body, but in this dangerous environment However, it is easy to move out of shape and deformed, right? In fact, it is because of inner fear that fate is afraid of brave people and only bullies cowards, so you see, we have come here, haven't we?"

Laura was surprised to find that the two of them had already crossed the single-plank bridge before they knew it. Just now she was distracted listening to Jiang Hao's words, and even forgot her fear, so she just came over in such a daze, and it seemed that it was not as difficult as imagined.

Laura glanced at the single-plank bridge and the canyon tens of meters deep, and seemed to have some enlightenment in her heart.

"OK, let's go on, but next, we have to be more careful." Jiang Hao said.

The two moved on,

Just after passing through a dense forest, Jiang Hao suddenly discovered that there were traces of human life here, and there was even a path. Laura naturally noticed it too, and the two looked at each other.

"Father's notes said that this island was originally part of the Yamatai Kingdom. There were aborigines who survived by planting and fishing. Later, some survivors drifted to the island. They often fought for countless years, and Because people keep joining, this kind of war has never stopped," Laura said.

Jiang Hao nodded, "The aborigines have a tradition of sacrificing living people to Queen Himiko, and the survivors will inevitably fight for food and living supplies in order to survive."

Both of them moved cautiously. Suddenly, after turning around a few trees, Laura saw a few things hanging from it. When she saw it clearly, she almost screamed in surprise.

people

Those people were wrapped in cloth, with only one head exposed, and hung upside down on the tree. The bodies of those people had already been air-dried, and their heads had turned into skulls. I don’t know how long they were hung here. These corpses will also sway slightly, like a string of wind chimes.

"Sacrifice!"

The word was born in the minds of both of them at the same time.

Jiang Hao took out a pistol, and Laura also took out a gun for security. The two continued to explore and walked a few kilometers. They suddenly saw a village, and at the entrance of the village, they saw several corpses.

Jiang Hao stretched out his hand to make Laura stop, "You stay on guard here, I'll go over and check." Jiang Hao said.

"Okay." Laura replied.

Holding a gun in his hand, Jiang Hao observed the surrounding situation, and walked over step by step. After approaching those corpses, Jiang Hao took a closer look at the degree of skin rot on his body, and an unpleasant rotten smell wafted out. The big hole was opened, and the eyeballs had already rotted away.

Jiang Hao judged that the time of death should be about a week.

Beside them, Jiang Hao saw weapons, including bows, arrows and daggers. The clothes on them were various. Jiang Hao guessed that these people should be a village composed of aborigines or survivors. The wounds on their bodies could not be seen clearly, but guessed from the holes in the clothes that they should be gun marks.

Jiang Hao was next to him again, found some shell casings, picked them up and took a look, the 5.56mm small-caliber bullet shells, Jiang Hao can probably guess what gun the opponent is using, M16A1 automatic rifle or FNC5.56mm assault rifle, this The magazines and bullets of the two guns are common, and they also have a common name, called the mercenary's favorite.

Jiang Hao waved to Laura. Laura came out from behind a tree and walked to the corpses. When she saw the rotting corpses, she had the urge to vomit, so she swallowed hard, and quickly Suppressing that feeling, but dare not look away from those corpses.

"This should be a village. These people have been attacked. Let's go in and have a look. Follow me and be careful." Jiang Hao warned.

"I understand." Laura replied.

The two entered the village, carefully inspected, and found that the corpses at the entrance of the village were only a part of them. There were dozens of corpses in the village, all of which were shot dead.

"What happened?" Laura asked puzzled.

Jiang Hao pondered for a while, and said: "Based on the current situation, a group of people with modern weapons came here a week ago, or passed by here, maybe they had a conflict before, and then those people took the whole village Everyone was killed."

"The people with modern weapons, are they soldiers?" Laura asked in confusion.

"The method is very professional. I have also received special forces training. Their method of killing people should have undergone quite professional and strict military training. I guess they are either soldiers or mercenaries." Jiang Hao said.

"Have you received special forces training?" Laura asked.

"Hehe, there are many things I know. Don't be surprised if you see me in the future." Jiang Hao said.

"What now?" Laura asked.

"Let's search to see if there is anything available, and then we will move on. I think this time, we may not only have to deal with Queen Himiko." Jiang Hao said.

Most of these houses are built of stone and wood, and the construction is very crude, but Jiang Hao and the others found many modern items in these houses, such as aluminum frying pans, gas stoves, sunglasses, modern books, teacups and tea sets, etc. .

"It should be taken from the sunken ship." Jiang Hao said.

After searching several houses, there was nothing to gain. After entering another house, Laura found a hunting bow in the corner, took it up and tried it, and found that there was a crack on the bow arm of the hunting bow. She felt a little regretful. Said: "I have studied bow and arrow for a long time. At first, my father taught me. Later, at the Swedish Academy, the sports I reported were archery and skiing. I got the highest marks in these two items."

"Actually, in the jungle, using a bow and arrow is good for the enemy. It won't make as much noise as a gun, and it's not easy to be discovered. Unfortunately, this one is broken."

Jiang Hao was inspecting a large wooden box next to him. Hearing what Laura said, Jiang Hao rolled his eyes, slipped his hand in the empty box, and suddenly there were a few more things, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face, and he shouted: "Come and see, Laura, I found something good."

"What good thing?" Laura came over immediately.

Looking into the box, he also exclaimed, "Wow, there are really a lot of good things. This should be the equipment left by an expedition team."

"I think so, let's take out the things and see what's there." Jiang Hao said and started to take things out.

Some canned food, a bundle of rope, two climbing picks, and two sets of bows with 20 arrows each.

"The hunting bow is really great. I like to use the hunting bow the most." Laura said pleasantly.

After Jiang Hao put away other things, the two searched the village again, but found nothing, and continued to set off towards the center of the island.