Chapter 7: Snake Shadow

The off-road vehicle stopped steadily in the forest.

The sound of water flow not far away can be clearly heard.

Fully armed, Yu Ke opened the door and got out of the car, holding a notebook in his hand and a camera on his chest to record the images at work.

According to the route set by the previous forest ranger, Yu Ke came to the first observation point.

As soon as he got off the car, Yu Ke noticed the abnormality of the surrounding environment.

It is late autumn now, and all Yu Ke has seen along the way are bleak scenes. However, near the river channel of the tributary of Jinghu Lake, the forest still retains a surprising vitality.

Walking in the woods, Yu Ke noticed that the vegetation nearby is obviously more lush than what he saw on the way here.

Although the lush crowns of giant trees that are hundreds of meters high have been dyed yellow by the autumn wind, nearly half of the dark green leaves are still preserved, and this change that violates the laws of nature is obviously interfered by external factors.

Walk out of the abnormal growth jungle and come to a hillside beside the tributary of Jinghu Lake.

Although it is called a tributary, the amount of water is beyond Yu Ke's expectation.

The river rushed out from the Mirror Lake Forest, and the turbulent river hit the huge rocks in the river, splashing white water.

Looking up into the distance, his pupils shrank slightly.

Standing on a high place, Yu Ke's vision looked like two artificial green belts on both sides of the river, completely separated from the surrounding yellow and red forests. It might not be obvious in the forest, but standing here can make people shocked.

'With such a degree of environmental change, it is no wonder that the Forestry Bureau wants to monitor the Mirror Lake tributary. The water quality may have changed greatly. '

Judging from the location and external manifestations of the environmental changes, it is obvious that the main cause of these abnormalities is the Mirror Lake tributary.

It's just a tributary!

There is a reason why the Mirror Lake Forest is named "Mirror Lake".

Deep in this forest, there is the largest lake in the entire southeast region. Before the Great Cataclysm, it was called the Heart of the Forest, representing its importance to this vast jungle, and its tributaries are spread throughout the jungle.

This is also an important reason why the Forestry Bureau requires forest rangers to monitor the water quality of the tributaries in the forest areas they are responsible for.

If the tributaries extending to the edge of the forest can have such an impact on the jungle, then what will the core area of ​​the forest where Mirror Lake is located be like?

Taking out the water container he carried with him, Yu Ke went down to the river beach next to him to collect water samples.

By the way, he observed whether there were any good fishing spots around, and planned to find an opportunity to cast a few rods in the future.

Forest rangers are work, and fishing is life.

Yu Ke has never been a workaholic, and he has to relax when he needs to relax.

The trees here can grow so lush, and I can't imagine how big the fish in the tributaries can be.

After completing the water quality extraction, Yu Ke drove to the vicinity of the mushroom community.

This area was listed as an observation point because a forest fire caused a large number of trees to die. New vegetation should have grown over time, but unexpectedly a large number of fungi grew, and the size was extremely exaggerated.

Just what Yu Ke saw was a red toadstool that was not much different from an off-road vehicle, and a fungus that was more than two meters tall and shaped like a golden needle mushroom. There were a lot of mycelium hanging on the edge of the top cover, which was very strange.

They crowded in the woods, occupying the living space of other plants, and even gradually formed a unique ecological environment, which is why this observation point was named "mushroom community".

As usual, specimens were collected and videos were taken on the spot.

Because he didn't know which ones were edible and which ones were not, Yu Ke didn't stay near the mushroom community for too long.

Otherwise, he would have to pull a few mushrooms back to try the taste.

Today's work content still has the last observation of the herd of startled deer.

Unlike the first two observation points, the herd of frightened deer is a mobile target. The map only shows their specific range of activities. Yu Ke has to go into the jungle to find them. If he is unlucky, it will take a lot of time.

It is for this reason that Yu Ke only arranged three observation points today.

After returning to the car to determine the approximate location of the herd of frightened deer, Yu Ke turned on the automatic path finding function and checked the situation in the sky along the way.

He heard the emergency notice from the Forestry Bureau. Although the notice did not mention the target information in detail, it can be known from the description that the Forestry Bureau asked the forest rangers to track down some kind of monster that would make crying and screaming sounds.

This is work. If you can hunt this special target, you should be able to gain a lot of experience points. Yu Ke, who has just tried the special effect of [Heart of the Wilderness], is still very concerned about the promotion of his profession.

After driving on the forest path for about fifteen minutes, Yu Ke did not hear any crying and screaming, but there was a whistle coming from the front.

The SUV turned a corner and saw a truck coming towards them. There was a Forestry Bureau logo on the truck. It should be a transport truck delivering supplies to the workstation in Jinghu Forest.

Due to the special nature of Jinghu Forest, the large number of mutant individuals produced made the Forestry Bureau or the Danhang City Disaster Prevention Bureau build many workstations in the forest for various research.

The forest road that Yu Ke was driving on was also built based on this demand.

Since the two sides had met, Yu Ke honked the horn as a greeting.

I thought they would just pass each other and go about their own business, but when they were about to meet, the window of the transport truck's cab suddenly rolled down, and the driver stretched out his hand to signal Yu Ke to stop.

Although it was a bit strange, Yu Ke still stepped on the brakes, approached and rolled down the window, looking at the bearded man in the cab opposite,

"What's the matter?"

"Brother, I saw a large piece of snake skin over in Sancha Forest. It's a bit scary. I suggest you go and have a look. Maybe it's left by a giant python. There are often transport trucks and researchers in this area. You have to ensure safety!"

The bearded man in the uniform of the Forest Defense Bureau took out his mobile phone and showed Yu Ke a photo of the snake skin.

The content of the photo was part of the snake skin left under the tree. Even if it was incomplete, it could still be vaguely seen that the size of its body might have exceeded the limit of the size of ordinary forest pythons.

As a member of the transport team, the bearded man knew very well how dangerous this forest was, so he stopped Yu Ke's car after seeing him and told him the news.

"I'll go check it out later, thank you for telling me."

As a forest ranger, in addition to his daily work tasks, it is also Yu Ke's job to deal with ferocious beasts or other strange monsters that roam in the forest and may be dangerous to humans.

This is also why he thanked the bearded man.

If this giant python really caused a "crazy python disaster" in the forest area that Yu Ke was responsible for, even if he was not fired, he would face punishment from the Forest Protection Bureau.

Thinking of this, Yu Ke went straight to the Sancha forest area where the snake slough was found after saying goodbye to the bearded man.

Coincidentally, the herd of frightened deer was also in that area.

This made Yu Ke doubt whether the giant python was ready to attack the deer.

Sancha forest area.

Relying on the information provided by the bearded transporter, Yu Ke quickly found the snake slough beside the forest road.

The off-road vehicle stopped steadily, and with the perception ability of the Heart of the Wilderness, he first confirmed that there were no ferocious beasts lurking nearby.

Yu Ke then came to the side of the snake slough and picked it open with a wooden stick.

Although this was only a broken part, judging from its size close to that of a bathtub, the size of the main body was probably beyond the limit that ordinary pythons could reach, at least the size of the protagonist of Anaconda.

"It looks like a big guy, I wonder how much experience it can provide."

Yu Ke, who had just experienced the enhancement, was eager to find a suitable hunting target to test his current combat power.

Whether it was a giant python or something else, if they dared to break into the forest area he was responsible for, they had to be prepared to become food.

He took out his mobile phone to take photos from multiple angles and sent them to the intelligence department in the Forest Defense Bureau.

This was the benefit of being organized.

Yu Ke was not an expert on snakes, and it was difficult to tell which kind of snake left the snake slough in front of him.

It didn't matter.

The Forestry Bureau has a professional team that studies all kinds of wild animals and plants. As long as you send them the photos, they will send you detailed information within half an hour.

Taking advantage of this free time, Yu Ke prepared to have lunch.

Considering that he had to go to the transfer station in the afternoon and there was a restaurant inside, Yu Ke did not plan to eat too much now.

He simply took two wild fruits that he was going to pick yesterday and a bag of spiced beef jerky, opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat to fill his stomach first.

The mobile phone was placed in the gap of the rolled down car window, playing the recent popular wilderness videos.

Yu Ke wanted to use the Internet platform to gain experience in the [teacher] profession faster.

However, the reality was far from as easy as he thought.

As mentioned before, information technology in this era is extremely developed.

Internet anchors or Internet celebrities are no longer a new term. When Yu Ke searched for related videos on the Internet, he soon found that all major platforms were full of wilderness videos.

Most people in this era may never leave big cities again in their lifetime, so wilderness scenery has become a hot spot.

From the most common wilderness travel, wilderness survival, to the hunting videos of hunting groups in the wilderness.

Almost all tracks are crowded.

For bloody and violent battle scenes, there are large-scale coordinated operations of hunting groups, with guns flying.

For curious wilderness adventures, there are the solitary survival of retired special forces soldiers, the official wilderness decryption program group, and the forest ranger hunters are the most common anchors in this track. There are a lot of them if you just flip through them.

Some teams even came up with the setting of beautiful explorers, and there are many fans. Every episode will have various beautiful wilderness scenes, and occasionally there will be some small excitement, so that the beautiful explorers will give benefits with various "accidents".

Not to mention, it's really good to watch.

If Yu Ke wants his videos to be seen more and gain enough experience, he must be innovative.

Close combat with mandrills may be a good excitement point.

At least Yu Ke has not seen similar videos yet.

However, the short video of less than two minutes was obviously not enough to maintain the popularity.

Yu Ke was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a few strange noises coming from the bushes not far ahead.

Throw away the wild fruit in your hand and grab the bow and arrow instead.

Hold your breath and look forward, and you will see a pair of gray-brown horns emerging from the bushes.