February 14, Valentine’s Day.
It is also the penultimate day of filming “True Wilderness”.
After nearly a month of outdoor hiking, except for Zheng Yaojun, Jiang Dao, the local guide, and the security team, the rest of the team was a little sluggish.
Even Zhu Huayun, who has excellent physical fitness, was tortured by the fact that she couldn’t take a bath every day, and even couldn’t help roaring and complaining in front of the camera. She didn’t have the image burden of being a world champion at all, and because of this, she won a “Grumpy Princess” title.
That evening, the program team camped near the beach as usual.
Just after setting up the tent, Zhu Huayun went to the river with a folding bucket and a towel, and washed her hair according to her daily habit.
Seeing the beautiful riverbank with water and flora, Lin Chu and Yuan Shu also went, planning to shoot some scenes with the GoPro. Jiang Dao habitually explored the surrounding woods to see if he could find some wild vegetables and fruits.
After walking a few steps, Jiang Dao suddenly noticed that there seemed to be traces of excavation under a rotten tree trunk on the shore, and immediately frowned. Holding the long branch, he probed the pit, and found a few white oval… eggs?
The camera behind Jiang Dao suddenly exclaimed: “Huh, what is this?!”
Before he could answer, a chill suddenly ran down Jiang Dao’s back. He quickly glanced at the surrounding environment, grabbed the cameraman and ran away. As he ran, he explained with a low voice: “There’s a crocodile here! We must inform everyone!”
“Crocodile!”
“Stay away from the water!!!”
Jiang Dao rushed back to the camp, running towards the water without stopping, shouting to a few people, “Come back! Don’t get close to the river—”
Zhu Huayun clutched her wet hair, turned around and looked at Jiang Dao in doubt.
Lin Chu glanced in the direction of Jiang Dao, and let out a sneer: “What’s he doing?”
Something small moved on the water surface, like a wave blown by the breeze, with the rich aquatic plants nearby. A layer of ripples slowly swayed on the surface of the water.
Jiang Dao felt that creepy feeling again.
His whole body was suddenly cold, and he rushed to the river in two or three steps. The moment when the water wave suddenly exploded, he grabbed Lin Chu’s arm and threw him aside, pushing the branch in the water near Lin Chu’s leg. He stabbed at the splash, and hit something huge back into the water.
It was followed by a loud bang.
There was a burst of water, and a behemoth turned around and dived back into the water, escaping.
At this time, the branch in Jiang Dao’s hand, which was originally more than one meter long and thick, was only as small as a dagger. Some shapeless sawdust fragments were scattered on the river beach and water surface.
Only then did screams suddenly sound.
Yuan Shu, who was standing by to take pictures of Lin Chu, trembled all over, shouting and quickly retreating to the camp. Zhu Huayun had already run away with a bucket and a towel at an astonishing speed. Zheng Yaojun brought Eleven to the vicinity to meet him – Eleven rushed to Jiang Dao’s side, tucked his tail, and barked at the water.
Lin Chu fell down, sitting on the shore, unable to get up for a long time, so scared that tears came out. Crying and grabbing Jiang Dao’s trouser legs, his voice trembled so much that one could make sense of his words: “Save, save me… my legs are weak… Help me go back!”
Jiang Dao pulled him a few times, and seeing that he was indeed too frightened to stand up, he simply leaned over and grabbed Lin Chu’s leg, and princess-carried a man about his size back to the camp.
When he was put on the camp chair, Lin Chu’s face turned red and white, about to die of suffocation. Jiang Dao had just rescued him, so he couldn’t say anything.
At this time, the security personnel of the program team gathered with crocodile expulsion tools, making the scene even more chaotic.
“How did you do the security?” The team lead was also frightened by the dangerous situation, and reprimanded the local guide and the person in charge of safety. “You patrol the road ahead one day in advance, what use are you? Not even seeing a crocodile nest?! Also, how are there crocodiles in these waters? Aren’t they rare and only found in the reserve? What’s going on?!”
The local guide was also helpless, and aggrievedly explained to the translator.
The translator said helplessly: “They don’t know why there are crocodiles here. This is a development zone with very few prey and there are nets upstream blocking crocodiles and other animals. It shouldn’t be possible for crocodiles to migrate and build their nests here. He also said that he will report it as soon as possible, and let the people in the reserve come to remove the crocodile and the nest.”
On the sidelines, the security team of the program team set up a wildlife protection net by the river according to the plan.
In the field, the cameraman following Jiang Dao was both scared and excited: “Brother Dao! I took pictures of your heroic appearance of repelling the crocodile and saving Brother Lin just now! Damn, you’re so handsome. “
Jiang Dao: …
Lin Chu: …
The cameraman felt a little tangled. “But I was quite scared at the time, so the video might be shakey. Hey, Brother Yuan, you were taking videos with the GoPro, it should be clearer, right?”
Yuan Shu’s face was still pale, but after hearing this, he remembered that his GoPro was still on, so he hurriedly lowered his head, paused, and clicked on the video he just shot.
Then his eyes widened, and the nervousness turned to excitement. “F*ck, how did I shoot so clearly! What the f*ck, what the f*ck — this shot — damn! If the show crew didn’t need me to continue filming, I’d tell you about this video!”
Lin Chu: …
Jiang Dao: …
The program team decided to relocate the camp a few hundred meters away from the crocodile’s nest before sunset. A large tent prepared for emergencies was also called prepared. All six guests were asked to live together without any need for night vigil – the night duty was naturally handed over to the security team.
Immediately afterwards, the team established contact with the production team to report the situation.
Given that there were no casualties and the situation was under control, the production team decided to continue the last day as planned, so the show could end perfectly.
It has to be said that young people are fearless.
Everyone gathered in a tent that night, and Zhu Huayun took the initiative to retell a crocodile horror story in the evening with great interest.
Since he didn’t see the real casualties with his own eyes, Lin Chu, who directly faced the crocodile, gradually became less afraid. Instead, he talked about how shocked he was at the time, and even described the details of seeing the huge crocodile fangs with his own eyes.
On the contrary, Jiang Dao silently retracted his eyes from the excitedly chatting trio without saying a word
“Hey, Jiang Dao, why don’t you talk?” Yuan Shu asked Jiang Dao. “How did you find out where the crocodile was? You were so awesome, accurately stabbing the crocodile back with a stick! You’re awesome! Great!”
Jiang Dao was silent, then replied in a low voice: “…I just saw it.”
“Damn, you can see this?” Yuan Shu sighed. “We were on the side and didn’t find it at all! The crocodile’s ability to hide is too strong… Your eyes are too good, Jiang Dao!”
Beside him, Zheng Yaojun found that Jiang Dao was not very interested, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
“Okay, don’t take it too lightly.” His voice was a little serious, “Today was too dangerous. If Jiang Dao didn’t react quickly, once the crocodile drags Lin Chu into the water, even if we have emergency trauma experts, we wouldn’t be able to save him.”
Dr. Zhao also added at the right time: “Crocodiles hunt using a method called ‘death roll’. Once it bites your leg and drags you down, it will immediately roll quickly in the water, tearing your whole leg from your body.”
Hearing this, Lin Chu’s face turned pale.
Zheng Yaojun added a knife: “Even if it isn’t pulled off, a crocodile’s bite force is very strong. The bitten part will basically be a comminuted fracture, and the leg will definitely be useless.”
Lin Chu: …
Yuan Shu slapped the ground at the reminder. “Jiang Dao’s stick! I remember that the stick was very thick and hard, but was all broken after being bitten by the crocodile!”
Zhu Huayun’s face was full of lingering fears: “Ah, that’s too scary!”
…
The next day, on the last day of the filming of “True Wilderness”, the six guests marched forward under the protection of security personnel, with scouts in front and guards in the back. No guests were not allowed to leave the team and run around.
After two o’clock in the afternoon, the group finally walked out of the canyon as planned.
Seeing the RV parked by the side of the road, Zhu Huayun burst out. Wiping her tears, she ran to the side of the car, lying against it crying. “Ah, ah, I came out alive! I want to take a bath! I want to shower! I want to wash my hair with shampoo!”
Yuan Shu followed suit: “Ah, ah, I want to play games! Hurry up and connect to the internet!”
Lin Chu also shouted: “I want to cut my hair! I’m almost turning into a savage!”
Everyone expressed their excitement to return to modern society. This time, even Jiang Dao couldn’t hold back, and shouted at the camera at the end with bright eyes: “I want to eat junk food! I want to drink milk tea!”
Amused by the group, the production team and cameras intelligently aimed the camera at Doctor Zhao and Zheng Yaojun who followed closely behind.
Dr. Zhao cleared his throat: “Cough, I want to cut my hair too. It’s too long.”
Zheng Yaojun smiled: “I don’t want anything, but want to borrow the camera to tell my wife: Don’t worry, Eleven and I are back safely.”
At the same time, the livestream platform just released the video from February 14th.
Three minutes after the video was released, a trending search burst onto Weibo headlines in the blink of an eye:
“#JiangDaoFightsCrocodiles#”
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