Text Volume 3 Mora Wet Swamp_Chapter 171 Making a Raft

In the afternoon, we finally passed through the large forest ahead, and the trees were gradually thinning.

"We're going to the Moro Wet Swamp soon, be careful, this is a wetland, and you often encounter some poisons...... "Liu Linglong has already begun to instruct us, and I can clearly feel that the climate here is starting to get wet.

Marshes are mostly caused by excessive wetting of the soil on or below the surface, which has a lot to do with geomorphological conditions, climate and hydrothermal conditions.

I was surprised by a particularly large swampy area, surrounded by water, like a large forest next to a huge swamp.

As soon as we walked out of the big forest, we saw some dead trees coming out of the swamp in front of us, and I felt that this was part of the forest before, but the terrain was relatively low, and after being flooded, it became what it is now.

Let's put it this way, at the exit of the forest, at a glance, there is water in front of you, and there are a lot of wanderings, dead trees, and some flora on it, and at a glance, you can't see the edge at all!

"How deep is the water?" I frowned, if it was really like Liu Linglong said, there were crocodiles, piranhas or forest worms in this Moro Wet Swamp, then wouldn't it be a dead end for us to go down?

Liu Linglong sighed: "The water here is not deep, it can only submerge our thighs, but it is said that the front is getting deeper and deeper, and the deepest place can drown a person......"

"So how do we get there?" Terry frowned at this time.

Liu Linglong said: "It's not that there are no roads at all, the waters here are all potholes, some places are deep, some places are shallow, the places where you see the flora in the water, is the place where we can step on, but we should also pay attention before stepping down, because there are some places where the depth is difficult to see, and if you are not careful, the whole person will step into it......"

After listening to Liu Linglong's narration, I suddenly regretted it, this Moro Wet Swamp seems to be really a dangerous place, if we had chosen to go to the cannibal village in the first place, would it be slightly better?

"It's hard to imagine how that person came out of here at that time?" Liu Linglong looked at this wetland and couldn't help but sigh.

"You still have to think like this, although it is very shallow here, it is all water, how did the people of the Sima tribe come out? They couldn't have just waded in, could they? Even if it is, how is it possible that these places are so deep? Rong Zhenxiang also said with some doubts at this time.

I thought for a moment and said, "Well, let's make a raft, otherwise, it really won't work...... If we step into the water and encounter a piranha, we can't find a place to hide, and we will be eaten in minutes! ”

"Well, that's a good idea,......" Terry couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"In this case, let's hurry up, find some finer wood, and then use tree vines to prop it up, and the cinnamon bamboo in our hands can be used as a bamboo pole to push the raft forward!"

Since there were six of us, now we had to make a relatively large raft, enough to carry the weight of six people.

However, at this time, I also began to wonder, how did the group of wildebeest riders get through the swamp? Or do they just live in the big forest?

Of course, none of this mattered, and I didn't think about it.

The only tool we could use to chop the trunk seemed to be an axe, so the glorious and arduous task of cutting the tree was handed over to Liu Linglong, and Terry's saber and I were used to polish the trunk as much as possible, so as to make the gap between the trunk as small as possible, which could also effectively reduce the entry of some aquatic plants into the gap and hinder the progress.

I instructed Liu Linglong to cut all the wood the thickness of her arm, so that it would be slightly easier to tie it with vines, and it could also be tied more tightly. Terry and I have been sharpening our sabers, and I have to say that the quality of this Nepalese saber is not bad, and no matter how hard we try to bite the wood, it will never hurt it at all.

I wonder how Lisa's spirit in heaven would have felt if she knew that I had used the Nepalese saber she had given me to make a raft.

Rong Zhenxiang, Little Girl and Lin Cang kept looking for a lot of vines in the surrounding area, and we needed a lot of vines for the raft to be strong.

In order to make the raft more load-bearing, I plan to have everyone join me and add a layer on top of the original foundation, so that the load-bearing capacity can also be greatly increased, and of course, it will be more time-consuming.

The making of a raft is not easy to say, and it is not difficult to say that it is difficult.

The average diameter of the wood I asked Liu Linglong to cut was about 10 centimeters, and I thought that there were six of us, and maybe we would have to rest and sleep on the raft or something, so I set the length at about 3.5 meters.

Although there were six of us, it was not particularly easy to make a raft, and it took nearly half a day just to prepare the materials, and by the time we had found all the materials, it was already evening.

So, tonight we found a place to rest.

Early the next morning, we returned to where we were yesterday and continued to build our raft.

I asked the men to lay the twenty pieces of wood neatly on the ground, and then in a roundabout weaving method, tying the twenty pieces of wood for the first time with vines, like weaving a fence, but the only difference was that we had to keep the raft as free of gaps as possible.

After tying a layer of vines, we laid another layer of wood on top of it, and tied it again until we were sure that the raft was strong.

I added a layer of "wooden walls" around the raft in case the water is unstable, the raft is crooked, so that we can use our feet against the four sides, it is not easy to slip and fall into the water, and it can also prevent some water creatures from getting on our raft because there is no protection around them.

I thought that everything should be ready in this way, but Liu Linglong said that even if we use a raft to cross the swamp, we need to travel at least 30 kilometers, and more importantly, the water plants here are not balanced at all, and we need to go around in the swamp plants, so qr1

So, it would take us three or four days to cross this swamp on a raft, and who knows if it will rain in those days?

This is where the wild boar skin we peeled off earlier comes in handy.

Although the area of wild boar skin is only two or three square meters, if it rains, it is enough for six of us to hide from the rain.

So, in the middle of the raft, we used five or six relatively thin pieces of wood to drive directly into it, and then used a saber to drill holes in the four corners of the boar's skin, and then used vines to sew roughly, and finally tied a few pieces of wood.

My goodness, it was perfect, and the tent was there.