Battlefield Contractor

"There are still the last two days. If we want to go further, we have to maintain our strength. You look really bad." House looked at Lin Rui.

"It's just bad luck." Lin Rui shrugged. "I met three opponents at the same time. I used traps to deal with two, but unfortunately the other one is a master of combat."

"Is it the beast Johnson, or the bald Sneaker?" House fiddling with the bow and arrow in his hand.

"It's Snack. Most of the injuries on my body are from that bastard." Lin Rui sighed. "How do you know it's them."

"These three Morningstar guys formed a team and injured a lot of contestants along the way." House nodded and said, "I also met them, but I chose to avoid them as soon as I found out. "

"My situation was different at the time and I couldn't avoid it at all, so I had to fight with them." Lin Rui said helplessly.

"Since you are awake, you have been alerting me for a while, and I will take a break." House put down the bow and arrow in his hand and said flatly, "I haven't closed my eyes for more than twenty hours."

In fact, Lin Rui was also unable to sleep well every night after entering this mountain forest. After falling asleep, I often wake up from a confused dream again, not knowing where I am for a long time. Occasionally heard the exclamation of the night sky, only to realize that he was in the jungle of the Fort Benning training base.

The dress on House is a camouflage suit, a jungle camouflage that only professional snipers can wear. It was covered with leaves and dead branches. If he fell on the ground, it would be difficult for anyone to spot him from a distance. When sleeping, it can be unfolded as a blanket to cover the body.

The temperature in the wild evening in the mountains and forests in October is already quite low. Lin Rui sometimes wakes up from freezing at night and feels that every joint is full of cold, and he can only warm himself by moving his body. Because you can't make a fire, everyone knows that making a fire in the woods is equivalent to reporting your position to others. Fire and smoke are the most obvious signs.

Now that they have two people, they can take turns to watch, and at least one of them can sleep peacefully. House rested, and Lin Rui stayed near him, paying attention to any wind and grass around him.

In fact, when sleeping in such an environment, everyone is worried about whether the surrounding environment is safe enough. Lin Rui once found a huge jungle scorpion where he slept, like a small crab. It is said to be one of the world's largest scorpions. Although it is not very toxic, no one wants to sleep with it.

It's so thankful that I stayed up till dawn and nothing happened all night.

Lin Rui stretched out and sat all night, his whole body was aching. He touched his whole body before taking the crumpled cigarette box. There were still a few cigarettes inside, but they were crumpled. He walked toward House, who was facing upward, and said, "House! Do you need a cigarette?"

When he approached Howe, he saw House lying motionless.

At this time, House was pale, with a stiff and weird expression, as if he didn't even dare to breathe, he was still there quietly. Lin Rui frowned slightly and subconsciously felt that he was in great trouble.

Lin Rui hit Gordon in his heart, not knowing what happened. He approached House, but House stared at him angrily, as if not allowed to approach him. Lin Rui could only stop, and slowly saw House's feet towards his head. He suddenly noticed that in the camouflage suit that House was covering, there was a bulging thing squirming together.

He only felt his scalp numb, and guessed that the creeping one might be a snake!

Lin Rui stared at House, gestured with both hands, and asked House: Is it a snake?

When House saw his gesture, his eyelids drooped helplessly, meaning it was affirmative.

Lin Rui saw House's eyelids droop, and his hair was horrified. He closed his eyes and stabilized his emotions. Then he opened his eyes, bent down, held his breath, and observed carefully. He judged from the shape that it was a big snake, which should have swam in here last night and sneaked into House's camouflage clothes without knowing it. It seemed that the snake was asleep now, and it was curled up in a ball and wrapped around House's belly.

No wonder he dared not speak and couldn't move. Because his stomach moved a little, the snake was awakened, and it would immediately stretch its head and bite.

This kind of situation does happen. When training in the field, Lin Rui once got into a non-venomous snake in his shoes, but House won a jackpot now, from the floating silhouette of his camouflage suit. Look, there is still a big snake below. Lin Rui couldn't imagine the consequences of this, because the snake was too close to House's head.

Lin Rui first thought of how to get the snake out safely, but the picture that flashed through his mind was indeed a bit scary. If he let House wait motionless, the snake might come out by itself as the temperature in the day increases, and the tongue might get caught. Passing by House's face, the carbon dioxide he emits is likely to make the snake attack. If he bit his head, he could only bury House on the spot. So, should the heavy camouflage suit covering his body slowly be opened to create more space for snake activities?

Lin Rui was thinking about it, because if it was handled carelessly, the consequences would be unimaginable. If this is a non-venomous snake, maybe House is just a little frightened. What if it is a poisonous snake? As long as House was bitten by it, he would die. And in the jungle to the north, venomous snakes are everywhere, now living in House's belly. It's probably a poisonous snake. Thinking of this, Lin Rui couldn't help being frightened, deeply worried about the life of this Indian.

Snakes are cold-blooded animals with a habit of getting hot to the fire. This snake should feel relatively warm and get into the sleeping bag while House is asleep. In order to discern what kind of snake it was, Lin Rui ignored House’s desperate look and used a thin wooden pole to slowly open the gap where the sleeping bag zipper did not close, and he saw clearly part of the snake’s body. .

It sits tightly on House's chest. According to experience, the snake's scales have obvious markings. According to the pattern, it should be a venomous scaled rattlesnake.

This was really troublesome, in Lin Rui's memory. This North American venomous snake is notoriously sensitive and aggressive. It moves quickly, and its venom is rich in many degradable substances that destroy cells and lymph. If bitten by it, people will have severe body swelling and vomiting symptoms, which will eventually cause the kidneys to overwork and fail and die.

Such snakes are usually very sensitive to temperature. They will attack hot objects because they have pits under their noses that sense heat. This is why the heat-seeking missile is also called the Sidewinder missile.

Why did House not even dare to breathe? Because the carbon dioxide discharged from the body will be higher than the surrounding temperature. This is likely to trigger a viper attack.

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