Rifle charge in Ark, but without a mount

Not to mention the countless creatures here, whose species are still unknown, some of which can easily kill people. If you don't know how to avoid or fight them, then this place is just a green hell. Add to that the high temperature and humidity, and the huge consumption of drinking water and other resources...

This place has never welcomed the weak. Ordinary people without any relevant skills simply cannot survive here, let alone come here for tourism and vacation. The tour route promoted by the travel agency is just a road that the indigenous people often pass by. There are no relevant protection measures at all, and tourists here will be exposed to dangerous creatures in the jungle in the future.

Although it was expected, Claude was still somewhat shocked by the travel agency's lack of bottom line. He thought that the company would make some basic investments, such as setting up two bus stops, so that at least tourists wouldn't have to walk through the dangerous swamp rainforest on foot. However, he didn't expect that the other party would charge such a high fee but provide no service at all, and there was not even any staff to provide service. They were just relying on two pictures to get something for nothing.

I silently made up my mind to deal with the company's top executives when I got back.

They were not ordinary people by any means. Most of them thought: "I have been to a harsh place like Ursus, why should I be afraid of a little kid like you?" So they didn't sign up for any tour group at all. They just hitchhiked here directly. Although it seems now, this decision was quite wise as it saved them a lot of money.

However, faced with a place full of green as far as the eye can see, everyone was still a little at a loss, especially after entering the rain forest, they realized how terrible this hot and humid climate is. Despite wearing thin clothes, sweat continued to pour out, soon soaking the clothes. The sweat on the forehead was wiped and flowed like a faucet. The air inhaled into the lungs was heavy and humid. Although the quality was obviously better than that in the city, it still made people a little uncomfortable.

After finding the road left by the indigenous people, they quickly decided to find a village along the road where they could rest and stay, rest there first, and make preparations before continuing their journey.

Claude and the others came from Casimir in a good condition and could barely endure the heat, but Yelena and Sasha were born in the extremely cold Ursus. If they suddenly came to this humid and hot place, they would definitely lose a layer of skin and their whole body would melt in the heat. If this problem was not solved, they really could not continue their journey and might have to return home today.

But Claude was well prepared. He had long known that the Ursus people would find it difficult to accept the climate here, so he hastily made a batch of cooling equipment. They looked like transparent sun-protective clothing, but runes were painted on them with special dyes. They did not last long, but were enough for them to get through their time here. In the final analysis, they were a batch of disposable items.

Before entering the rain forest, Claude had already distributed all the sun-protective clothing to everyone, whether they were the cadres of the Integration Movement or Margaret and the others.

Just in case, they also brought a lot of water resources. Although there may be no shortage of water in the rainforest, unfiltered water has many threats. If it is not necessary, it is better not to drink raw water from the river. Even Claude is no exception. After all, he has no idea what is in the rivers and oceans here.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― ---

A ray of silver light pierced into the water at lightning speed, and red blood spread out dangerously, then gathered on the sword body and disappeared in an instant.

Claude raised the Mercy in his hand, which held a huge fish. He couldn't tell what species it was, but he could clearly see its sharp white teeth and the black markings all over its body. There was a lot of mucus on the fish's body, and even though its spine was pierced, it was still struggling in its death throes.

This fish is more than two meters long and weighs at least hundreds of kilograms. It is a terrible predator in the river, but once it comes ashore, it is just a pile of crispy outside and tender inside fish meat.

There were buzzing sounds coming from the blade of Mercy, and Claude knew that it was protesting against him using it to spear fish. It wasn't that it felt insulted, but rather that it was dissatisfied with such scarce and low-quality blood, so it kept making a fuss and demanding more blood.

This guy is like a little child. He has been getting more and more noisy recently. He comes out every now and then to attract Claude's attention. It seems that his activities are becoming more frequent. It is a trend that is not sure whether it is good or bad, but Claude has used this sword for several years and has some feelings for it, so he decided to adapt to the situation.

Because the fishy blood was completely absorbed by the sword, the fish did not have much fishy smell. After removing the internal organs, it was broken into large chunks of fish meat. The other people waiting nearby immediately began to cook it. Tents and canopies had already been set up on the open space by the river. The aroma of the fish fried in hot oil quickly spread, indicating that some uninvited guests had come to this place where the strong were respected.

………………

The silence of the rainforest is false, it has never been quiet. Countless lives are eating and being eaten every second. The wails of the dying echo in every corner, and the winner naturally gets the spoils and the food to fill its empty stomach.

This is the reward that the rain forest gives to every winner, generously granting the victorious strong the opportunity to survive. Only those who can be called strong in all aspects can survive here.

Casimir's New Chapter: Chapter 2: Adventure in the Jungle ()

The frying pan with its own heating module uses the universal source stone fuel as always. Only one stick is needed for half a month of use at low intensity. There are 5 adjustable levels. When adjusted to the highest level, large pieces of meat can be easily roasted. Considering the durability required for external use, the pot body and the energy device shell are made of titanium metal and will not be easily damaged.

This is one of the equipment that Claude and his team carried. After all, it is not easy to start a fire in the rainforest. Even if it is allowed, it is difficult in the humid environment. Therefore, it is better to carry such portable cooking equipment to reduce safety hazards and save time.

It was difficult to find a place that was not damp here, so they cut down a few tree trunks and simply built a platform on the ground. These were all fast-growing shrubs that would become lush and green in a few days, and they could help them isolate the damp ground. This made the girls in the team feel relieved, as no one wanted to sit in the mud if possible.

They brought a lot of food this time, but now it seems that they were a little too cautious. The rainforest is extremely rich in food resources. Not only are there animals everywhere, but edible plants such as ferns and mushrooms can be found everywhere. In the past, people might have worried about whether the mushrooms they ate were poisonous. But now they all have convenient terminals. According to the travel guide of the rainforest area, they only look for the few mushrooms that are clearly edible, which is enough to fill their stomachs.

…………

A light green little snake is coiled on a branch, even its pupils are green. It is perfectly hidden here and will not be easily discovered by others. It is waiting here for its food to pass by, maybe a bird, maybe a frog, or maybe one of its own kind.

This slender body is not strong enough to suffocate its prey, but it has an excellent weapon given by God, a pair of sharp fangs, and the venom glands connected to them store deadly venom. Although there is only a pitiful amount, it is enough to poison creatures hundreds of times its size. This dangerous characteristic makes most creatures in this jungle stay away from it.

A figure carelessly pushed aside the grass and branches and waded through the mud. The noise it made was enough to be called a riot. To dare to make such a loud noise in this dangerous jungle, it could only prove that the other party was a superior predator and could be so unscrupulous.

The little snake realized the danger and wanted to escape. It turned around flexibly and wrapped itself around the branch, heading for the mud below. But it was still a step too slow. The huge body had already passed by. The branch hit the other party and was bent by the other party's strong force. The little snake was also pressed between the branch and the body because of its good camouflage. It turned around and bit the other party out of instinct.

Then, a big hand grabbed its neck.

…………

The green-haired girl was wearing rather cool clothes. She was looking at the little snake in her hand, nostalgic for a short while, then she pinched the little snake's neck with a little force with her fingers and threw it into the mud beside her.

A broken fang was still left on her bitten skin, but the puncture was very shallow and the venom did not inject into the skin, but just flowed on the surface of the skin. A slight wipe wiped away the fang and venom, and the skin did not even show any redness or swelling.

"Javier, is it really okay for you to sneak out? That company won't fire you, right?"

An Adaklis girl wearing a black cloak but with bare feet and calves, hugged her staff and spoke to Gavial with some concern, but the other party just carelessly pushed away the bushes blocking the way and stepped over them.

"It's okay, it's okay. You're overthinking it. I'm Dr. Kal'tsit's good friend and assistant. She won't be willing to fire me. I get along well with the doctor, not to mention the cute little Amiya, so there's no problem at all. Besides, aren't our important guests from Rhodes Island coming to my hometown? Then I must do my best to be a good host. Unfortunately, they left too early and I didn't catch up with them."

Two people walked in the swamp, but the waist-deep water and mud could not stop their steps. One with a slender tail and the other with a thick tail deftly maintained balance on the muddy surface of the swamp, as easy and comfortable as city residents walking on the asphalt road.

"I heard that Zumama has made quite a fuss here. I also want to see what she has turned our home into..."

"Hahaha…………"

The two people walked farther and farther away, and the swamp soon returned to its original state. Only the green snake corpse floating on the water attracted a few mosquitoes to suck on it.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

The roads that the natives often walked on now looked unreliable. Swamps and jungles always wanted to invade these exposed places, making the road intermittent, and they had to wade through the swamp and cut the vines from time to time. Claude and Margaret served as pioneers in clearing the way. Margaret was holding an ordinary sharp weapon, but Claude was holding Mercy without hesitation. This sword, which was extremely precious in the eyes of others, chopped the vines and branches that blocked the road, and even Margaret felt distressed when she saw it.

For Claude, swords are meant to be used. As long as they are not used to cut hard objects, they will not cause any damage. What's more, this magic sword can automatically repair the blade. The sword itself does not raise any objections, so he has no psychological burden to use it.

They used the swords in their hands to easily cut off one bush and vine after another. Their speed here was not slow, but this place was too vast and sparsely populated, so until now, they still had not encountered any local residents. They also didn't know whether the direction they were heading was correct, because they had lost the road just now.

Maybe coming here was a wrong choice?

Claude thought this in his mind belatedly. After all, their purpose was to come here for vacation, not to feed mosquitoes and various poisonous insects in the swamp rainforest and get covered in mud and sweat. This was not a pleasant experience under any circumstances. Although it would not cause them too much trouble, it made it difficult to call this day a vacation.

Claude's malice towards the audacious travel company increased. They were no longer ordinary lawless traders, but dangerous outlaws who disregarded human life. He had to strike hard, otherwise countless people would listen to their lies and go on vacation to various dangerous places.

Casimir's New Chapter: Chapter 3: Adventure in the Jungle ()

The dense vegetation blocked the sunlight from the sky, making the place seem dark and damp, and the group of people trudged here with gloomy expressions. Although this place could not cause any harm to them, the humid air, the mosquitoes flying around them, ready to suck their blood at any time, and the swamp that made it difficult to move, especially the huge gap between imagination and reality, made everyone feel bad.

"I think we're almost there."

Claude's words cheered everyone up, and they looked at the road ahead. As Claude swung his sword twice more, the dense forest was completely opened up, revealing a gap full of light. Just like the protagonists of those adventure stories in the Blue Carpenter movies, they finally found the exit. Everyone quickened their pace and filed out of the gap.

This is a slightly flatter and firmer piece of land, with obvious signs of human destruction on the vegetation. Considering the growth rate in the rainforest, there must have been human activity here recently. It also proves that they are finally close to a human settlement, which sounds more like something an adventurer in the jungle would say, rather than describing a group of tourists.

Claude wiped off the mud on his feet. His shoes had been taken off and put into his backpack. His pants were rolled up to his knees. For ordinary people, taking off shoes would easily cause scratches from sharp objects in the water. But he just didn't want to make his shoes so dirty. After all, no matter what was in the water, it would be difficult to hurt him.

They were all experienced warriors, and the journey did not consume too much of their physical strength. It was just that the landscape of this foreign country was too unfamiliar and difficult for them to adapt.

But anyway, now that they had a smooth road to walk on, the rest of the journey would not be difficult at all for them.

………………

The circular saw on the mechanical arm rotated at high speed and easily cut into the tree trunk, and a large amount of sawdust was thrown out quickly from one side. It didn't take long for the tree to start shaking. As several wooden wedges entered one side of the crack, the sound of branches and leaves rubbing against each other and wood breaking was heard. The tree slowly fell backwards, and a large amount of mud and water splashed at the moment it landed.

The man who was chopping trees looked more like an upright crocodile than a human. He not only had dark green skin and scales, but also had a slender snout and dim yellow pupils, and even sharp teeth in his mouth. He was wearing a very simple exoskeleton device, painted in eye-catching yellow. The hydraulic connecting rods at the joints even had a lot of rust. It looked like a part that was dug out of a garbage dump and was casually welded and knocked and then put on.

He had been hiding far away when the tree fell, but now he ran back and began to split the trunk and trim the branches with the circular saw in his hand. After finishing, he put the pile of logs on the high pile of logs next to him. The exoskeleton on his body greatly enhanced his strength, so it only took him more than ten minutes to complete all this.

After doing all this, he began to stretch his arms and legs, twisting his tail a few times, and carefully took off the heavy exoskeleton, as if it was his most precious treasure. In the process, the corner accidentally hit the wood next to him, which scared him so much that he jumped up, although everyone knew that wood could not win in a collision with steel.

"Hello there!"

The sound from far away made him turn his head, and then he found a stranger standing on a huge mushroom in the distance, waving at him. He scratched his head and stood up. It didn't take long for the stranger to come to him. The stranger was very tall, at least a head taller than him, but it was obviously his first time here, and the clothes he wore were not suitable for moving around here.

"An outsider? Where are you from? How did you come from that place? There is no road that anyone walks on there."

The upright-walking crocodile man in front of him opened his mouth and fired a series of questions to block Claude's questions, so Claude had to answer first.

"I am indeed an outsider. I am not familiar with the situation here, so I took the wrong road. Can you take me to your village? I want to buy some supplies there."

The crocodile man looked Claude up and down, then spoke:

"Of course you can, but you have to fight me first. If you win, I will take you there."

“…Is there a reason?”

"Because I think you might be very powerful. I might even be a little more powerful than you, so I want to give it a try with you."

"Well, if you insist, I have no reason to refuse."

…………

A minute later, looking at the crocodile man lying in the mud, Claude threw away the broken stick in his hand and felt that he might have hit him too hard. This guy would be unconscious for a few minutes.

Taking this opportunity, he waved to the distance, and the others also rushed here at a very fast speed. In the Akahura area, no one can speak Sargon, so what Claude just said is their language, which he learned from Gavial for a few days before leaving. It was a little rusty, but he could barely use it.

As the only person in the team who could communicate with the locals, in order not to scare them, Claude came over to talk to him alone. He didn't expect that the other party's character was so... simple? He wanted to fight with a stranger, and Claude, who had guessed that this was a local custom, did not refuse.

A few minutes later, with a few muffled groans, the Adaklis man woke up on time, looking very confused, but he quickly regained consciousness, jumped up from the ground, and immediately looked full of energy.

"You win, outsider... Were there so many outsiders just now?... Never mind. I lose, and I will take you to our village now."

After saying that, he swiftly put on the exoskeleton next to him, waved to everyone, and hurriedly waded through a dense bush, revealing a path that was completely blocked by branches and leaves.

Claude shook his head and asked everyone to follow him. He had completely figured out the character of the residents in this area. Just like the man just now, and just like this dense rain forest, this place only recognizes the strong, and only the strong will get enough respect.

Although he was curious about why he could see such a high-tech exoskeleton in the depths of the rainforest, Claude believed that as long as he reached that village, all his doubts would be answered. After all, that thing didn't seem to have unlimited energy, so there must be a place to replenish it. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be his village.

Casimir's New Chapter: Chapter 201 Hart's Bold Plan

"What?! You came from that place! Then you are pretty amazing! The road in that place has been abandoned for a long time. No one walks on it now. The reason for the abandonment is that it is too dangerous. Several people die on that road every year."

Claude listened to what the girl Fidea said to him in a subtle mood, and immediately understood that they had not taken the right path at all, but had directly crossed the entire rainforest and encountered countless poisonous insects and beasts before arriving here. This was something that those geologists and botanists who often explored found it difficult to do, but they relied on their own force to rush over.

Although he received praise from others, he was not happy at all. After all, their original plan was to come here to relax.

"Tourism? Isn't that something that Inam's Chamber of Commerce does? They occasionally bring a few outsiders here, take them around, and then give them money. Didn't you contact Inam's Chamber of Commerce?"

"…………It's a long story. Anyway, we got here on our own without any travel organization, so we didn't know the way at all. We suffered a lot in the forest. We hope to stay here for one night and make plans tomorrow."

The tribe they arrived at was the Anaconda Tribe, and their leader was the black-haired girl in front of them. She was dressed quite coolly, with a black underwear wrapped with a few yellow cloths, which was a piece of clothing that was very suitable for the climate here. Judging from her pointed ears and thick, slender tail with black and yellow scales, her prototype should be the anaconda in the Amazon rainforest.

"That's not a problem, and we don't charge you any money. There are a few abandoned houses on the edge of the village. Due to some problems, no one lives there anymore. But there might be a lot of bugs, so you need to clean them up yourself."

After saying goodbye to the kind and easy-going village chief, Claude went to the locals to exchange some food, mats, bedding and other things, and prepared to clean up those houses, especially to clean out the bugs inside.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

Gavial, who traveled very fast in her familiar hometown, arrived at the Anaconda tribe in a short time. The changes here opened her eyes. Because she came back alone, she was free. She greeted everyone she met along the way, and Zumama, as she called him, had known of her arrival for a long time.

"By the way, Temimi? Don't you also want to be the chief? How about I help you? I can beat Zumama up here and tell her not to be the chief. Then you will have no problem."

The petite girl next to him was startled when she heard that, and her thick and plump tail slapped the ground behind her.

"No need for that, Gavial. I've made a lot of preparations, so it will be fine!!"

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you..."

"Javier, don't you want to be the chief?..."

"Not for now, I still have a job..."

The two walked further and further away, onto the stone road outside the village. After they passed by, two little heads popped out from the dense grass.

Hart's white hair was tied into a bun with a straw rope. Of course, she didn't know how to do it herself, but Claude did it for her. It was a little messy now, with a lot of grass leaves stuck on it. Keobe next to her had the same hairstyle. Both of them held up a large leaf that was unique to the rainforest, like two small umbrellas to cover their heads.

Hart's eyes were fixed on Temimi's fat tail as it went away, and he even took the time to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

"So fat!! So big!! I'm sure I can eat this for a long time..."

When Keobe heard this, a huge question mark popped up in his head, and hesitantly said:

"But that's a person, people can't be eaten!!"

"It doesn't matter. I only want her tail, not her."

As Hart spoke, he had already drawn a dagger from his waist, took out a small whetstone, and began to sharpen the blade.

"But it hurts to hurt your tail! It's not a good idea to do this..."

"It doesn't matter. We can just buy it from her. Claude gave me a lot of money, so I'm sure we can buy it."

Hart looked adamant and was determined to eat the fat tail today. He found a large leaf from somewhere and covered half of his face, and also tied up his hair.

"If you don't come, the fat tail won't be left for you when it's roasted."

Ceope showed a visibly hesitant and struggling expression, and finally shook her head:

"I'd better not go. Claude will scold me..."

"Then I'll go by myself."

Hart said as he quickly climbed up the tree next to him, and disappeared into the treetops with a few movements of his hands and feet. Then he jumped from the treetops and landed gently on another tree like a flying eagle. He repeated this several times and soon caught up with the two people who had left.

………………

After reaching the entrance of the village, Tomimi suddenly said to Gavial:

"Javier, you go in alone. I suddenly remembered that I have something else to do..."

"Oh, ok, be safe."

Gavial didn't think much about it, waved to the other party, and walked into the village alone.

Tomimi turned around and walked back the way she came, not noticing the figure on the treetop staring at her, or more precisely, the figure staring at the big tail that kept swinging.