Chapter 66 Macho Ebony
After packing the berries, Ebony and Kelly continued to walk.
Ebony who was ahead walked very quickly.
It was very hot and stuffy in the forest.
Kelly had to speed up.
At that moment, Kelly suddenly felt an ache in her calf.
"Ah--" she shouted.
Ebony turned her head and looked at her: "What's up?"
Kelly lowered her head and was looking for something in the dense grass. She said, "I was bitten."
Ebony walked back and saw that there was blood on her calf. She frowned and said, "Find a place to sit."
They found a stone and sat down. Ebony squatted down and rolled up the bottom of her pants. There were two black teeth marks on her calf and it was bleeding.
Kelly turned pale as soon as she saw the black teeth marks, "Is it poisonous?"
Before she finished speaking, Ebony put her leg on her knee and squeezed the wound hard.
Ebony squeezed it very hard and Kelly frowned in pain!
"It's a venomous snake," Ebony said in a deep voice with a serious expression on her face.
She used great strength to squeeze the wound even though Kelly's skin had been bruised. She finally got relieved till the blood was red. She said, "Wait a moment."
After that, she put down Kelly's leg and got up to look for something around her.
Biting her lips, Kelly looked at her calf and the rims of her eyes turned red.
She was afraid, after all, she was a young girl.
Ebony picked some grass, crushed them, and then wrapped them in a large leaf. Next, she grabbed Kelly's calf and covered the wound with it!
"Ouch..."
"Hold it," Ebony said calmly, "You're a soldier. How couldn't you bear it?"
Kelly sniffed and asked in a low voice, "What's this?"
"It can diminish inflammation and disinfect the wound," Ebony took out the rope from the backpack, cut a strand of it with a stone, and managed to tie the leaf on Kelly's calf.
After tying a bow, she got up, clapped her hands, and said, "You're out of danger but you need to be treated right now. How to contact others?"
"No! I won't quit!"Kelly said excitedly.
Ebony ignored her. She looked up at the drone above and waved to it.
The drone flew down.
After observing Kelly's wound closely, the horn placed on the drone immediately sounded, "No. 1 contestant, Kelly, do you quit the risk temporarily?"
"No, I don't...hmm..."
"Temporarily?" Ebony covered Kelly's mouth like a boss of the hooligans. She asked the drone, "What do you mean by temporarily?"
The horn sounded, "If any member of a team is in danger, she can quit the risk passively or actively. The other one can find the reviving card to revive the teammate who quitted."
"Reviving card," Ebony muttered, "interesting."
"Yes," The horn sounded, "the prize is accumulated according to the number of the team members. For example, each member can get one million if they get the first prize. But if there's only one person left in this team, the prize will be 500 thousand for each other."
Ebony didn't say anything.
She tapped Kelly's shoulder and said seriously, "Don't worry. I will certainly revive you! Go out to cure the wound. I'll revive you as soon as I get the card."
Kelly struggled to push Ebony's hand away and said stubbornly, " I won't quit! How can I let you keep going alone? What if you are in danger?"
"But you are in danger now!"
Kelly felt her throat get stuck. She was full of grievance and her eyes were filled with tears, "It's OK. I can do it!"
Ebony looked at her calf, "We have limited herbs here. There are only these ones nearby and the effect is not ideal. You need some specialized medicine. It's snake venom. Don't neglect it. If there's any sequela, you can't continue to serve in the army for the rest of your life."
Kelly bit her lips and lowered her head as if she was frightened by what Ebony had said.
Ebony didn't have time to talk nonsense with her. She promised, "I'll surely revive you."
Kelly grabbed the hem of Ebony's coat and looked up at her. She relied on her very much now and said, "Remember it."
Ebony nodded, "Sure. We'll get one million as a prize. How could I forget it?"
Kelly didn't reply to her. She didn't mean it.
In the end, Ebony made the decision unilaterally to ask Kelly to quit the contest temporarily.
The show arranged for the logistics team to enter the rainforest directly and carry Kelly away.
More than half an hour later, Ebony, who was all alone, started her solo trip.
It was quite obvious that it was much faster walking alone than walking with Kelly.
In a blink of an eye, it was already afternoon.
Looking at the sky that was already showing faint signs of darkening, Ebony immediately decided to stop and find a place to live.
The rainforest at night was several times more dangerous than it was in the daytime. Besides, the temperature varied greatly from morning to evening. The highest temperature was 40 or 50 degrees centigrade in the afternoon while it would be below zero at night. It was a big challenge for her strength if she kept going at night.
After making the decision, Ebony found a high place and smashed a tree with a crooked trunk before it was dark.
She smashed it with a stone. She didn't have an axe or a saw. There was only a folding knife in her backpack but it was unavailable. So she had to use things around to help her.
She smashed four or five tree trunks and built a shelter with stones and trunks around one side of a big rock. She then put some large leaves on it to keep out the rain.
And then, she began to dig a pit inside the shelter.
She was not digging a pit but a slope so that if it rained, it wouldn't flow to the place where she slept but flew down the slope.
It took more than an hour for Ebony to build her temporary shelter.
She then found some fairly dry branches and made a simple bonfire.
It was almost completely dark at this time. Ebony sat by the bonfire and inserted a twig into the blackberries to roast on the fire.
The roasted blackberries tasted a bit better than the raw ones. The most important thing was that it was warm.
After eating half a bag of blackberries, Ebony felt full. She picked some grass tips and put them in her mouth. And then, she went back to the shelter and went into the sleeping bag.
-- [ Ah, Ebo is good at everything. I don't believe it if somebody says she's not a man. ]
-- [ Macho Ebony. You must admit she's awesome. ]
-- [ As a camping lover, I'll tell you that it absolutely needs much body strength even though her movement seems to be easy and the shelter is very simple. Did she eat spinach like Popeye? ]
-- [ I don't care about other things. I only care about finally she went to sleep. Nice! I can go to sleep, too. ]
-- [ I couldn't help but watch it all night. My dark circles. Oh no! ]
Ebony felt tired after walking all day, so she was going to sleep early.
But when she was lying down, she suddenly heard the sound of fierce fighting and a woman's scream, which broke the tranquil night sky in the rainforest.
Ebony got up from the sleeping bag. Her black eyes were looking in the direction of the southwest.
The sound came from over there.