After figuring out what was recorded in the merit score, we took off the boat and released the turtle pepper map that Yun Zhongjun loved most during his lifetime. Then, we followed the stairs we had seen before, hoping to reach the palace built on the top of the mirage as soon as possible.

We just left less than an hour and were in big trouble!

After the mirage sank, the huge hull was filled with various dense plants over a thousand years. Those plants were even more dense than in the jungle, so they were narrow and difficult to move.

As the terrain gradually rises, we encounter more and more canes, and clumps of vines cover almost all the buildings. Looking up, countless small plants of various types are hung on both sides of all rooms in the mirage, just like colorful sky gardens.

Due to the narrow terrain, the competition for survival here is particularly fierce. In order to obtain a little more light, various plants are desperately expanding to the outside of the mirage. So when we look up, we can only see that there are green in all directions, and we can't see the original condition of the mirage at all.

The inside of the mirage hull was extremely humid and stuffy. Within our eyes, we were full of rich green. Over time, our eyes felt bright. In order to move forward in the high-density bushes, the fat man had to use engineer shovels to open the way in front, and the rest of us followed closely, struggling to move forward in the valley where mosquitoes and old vines were raging.

In fact, compared to the obstacles of vines, the biggest trouble comes from mosquitoes in the darkness of the mirage. These vampires in the jungle rushed towards people in groups regardless of their lives. We had to wrap all the clothes we carried with us on our bodies. But even so, we were still bitten a few times, and the place we bite immediately turned red and swollen, and became hard, and the tentacles hurt, as if they had a powder tumor.

But for some reason, Fatty Wang didn't seem to be afraid of these mosquitoes. While he opened the way, he also said thank you God and Buddha. From his words, we can hear that the mosquitoes in front of us are not very big and not very toxic. The poisonous mosquitoes in the Amazon rainforest are the real blood-sucking demons in the jungle, and they are highly toxic.

Although the plants in the mirage hull are dense, as we continue to deepen, we can still see that humans have more and more traces left by themselves, and from time to time, some collapsed stone statues, stone men and thousand-year-old copper lamps used to illuminate are exposed.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel very moved!

Time is really an invincible thing. It can turn the once magnificent mirage in the world into this shape. The mirage now is no longer the mighty power of the Qin Emperor era. After this thousand years, the lower part of it was occupied by countless shipwrecks and creatures in the sea. The exposed part has become a kingdom of plants, and a polarization has occurred alive.

Afterwards, we walked upward for about an hour and walked until we were wet with sweat and we were so miserable.

"No, I really can't walk anymore. Why don't we take a break?" My legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and I really couldn't lift them up, so I had to open my mouth and suggest that I rest for a while.

Fatty Wang and others were actually very tired. After hearing what I said, they all agreed. I threw the equipment on the ground and sat down.

Unexpectedly, it didn't matter if I sat down. I just sat down and even "swish swish swish swish" out of the gap on the ground under my butt. These green little guys were exactly the same color as the plants around me, only my eyes and tongue were blood-red.

Fatty Wang and the others were also startled by these little tree lizards, and swung the mountaineering pickaxes and engineer shovels to beat them up, and slapped many little tree lizards into meat pies. I was about to help, but I heard a rustling sound in the dense jungle behind me. Before I could react, hundreds of toads as big as heads emerged from the jungle.

The toads were extremely fat and spit out their long tongues as soon as they came out, and they went to grab the little tree lizards. In less than a moment, they ate all the little tree lizards on the ground, and they didn't have a single one left.

Fatty Wang saw countless toads coming out, and was not surprised but happy. He stretched out his big palm and grabbed a toad, then held it in his hand and smiled at us, "Hehe" and said, "Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that this kind of delicious food would be produced in such a place where birds don't poop. If this were put before liberation, Fatty, I would bet that these toads would definitely be able to support the people in a village."

We saw that since he could hold the toad with his bare hands, we knew that the toad was not harmful. So we asked him one after another, saying that such disgusting things can be eaten? Isn’t this bullfrog? Is this a damn one about to catch up with the toad!

Fatty Wang licked his lips as if he was drooling. Anyway, we were resting now, so he pretended to be mature and told us about the poor days before the liberation.

Before liberation, the yield of grain was low, and droughts and heavy rains were often encountered all year round. Throughout the year, the grain that farmers could harvest was basically pitifully small and not enough to eat. So there was an old saying at that time, "The gods were sad in February and August." Because that time was the day when the fields were green and yellow, and the wars were in trouble for many years, the fields and the ridges of wheat had long been deserted. Even the wealthy families in the past had mostly no overnight food at that time, and ordinary people were even worried about the meal, and it was ordinary to eat.

However, that season was a heavy rain season, and it often rained for several days and nights, causing the mountain torrent to rise sharply within a radius of dozens of miles. However, if you encounter this kind of weather, farmers should be happy. Why? Because every time after heavy rain, many toads on the mountain fled from the mud river to the hillside in order to avoid floods.

The "toad" that people used to call is what we now call toads. The toads in the mud river are all fat and heavy with the rich water and grass. After the rain, a large group of toads rushed up the hillside, which is a great time for villagers to solve the problem of food. A person carried a few sacks up the mountain and grabbed the toads at will. At the end of the day, they could fill several large bags. They could not eat so much at home. They took advantage of the toads being fresh and not dead. They were transported to the city to exchange for some oil, salt and tea. There are special methods in restaurants and restaurants in the city. They were placed in a casserole and simmered in a casserole. They were simmered in a low heat, and added mushrooms, ham, bamboo shoots and other items to accompany them. The cure was fragrant and delicious, and mixed with the five flavors. They were specially used for those high-ranking officials who made money. They were also considered famous dishes in the first volume.

But the poor people don’t care about these things. They just want to fill their stomachs, so how can they care about the smell of toads?

When catching toads, the villagers are usually divided into two groups. A group of strong men go to the mountain to catch them, while the remaining women and children stay at the foot of the mountain, buried the stove they brought, and cut some radish and potatoes brought by each family into large pieces, poured them into the pot with clear water, and mixed them with some seasoned weed spices, slowly boiling them to a half-boil.

When the toads caught were all down the mountain, they added matches and boiled the water in the pot. They did not slaughter and peel the lively fat toads. They threw them directly into the boiling water without waiting for them to jump out of the pot. They pressed them with the lid.

At this time, I heard the toads struggling and swaying in the pot. In a moment, the hot water rolled on, and the smell of the pot was swaying. When I opened the lid, I was cooked toads, each of which was staring at and hugged a piece of potato or radish. Because the toad was tormented by water and fire in the pot, it was painful before death. I felt so much pain that I had to hold the potato and radish desperately until I died.

When eating toads in the countryside, it is often a cruel method. Take the hot cooked toad out of the pot and eat it with the potatoes and radishes in its arms. It tastes delicious like a fat chicken.

In the years before liberation, the fields were green and yellow. Usually, I had two meals a day, and I couldn’t even take full care of potatoes and radishes. The villagers had not eaten meat for a long time. They didn’t rush the meat when they smelled the aroma of meat, so they usually ate it and ate it, which was swept away. Men with a larger appetite could eat more than 20 live toads in one meal.

While talking, Fatty Wang held the toad that was still struggling, and the drool in his mouth almost flowed down.

Seeing this, I hurriedly took out a few chocolates from my backpack and threw them to him, for fear that he would "can't think it through" for a while, so I swallowed the toad alive.

"Damn it, Xiao Zhou, what do you mean? Fatty Master, I have said so much, why are you still thinking about chewing this broken chocolate?" Fatty Master Wang threw the chocolate back to me, then pointed to the toads around him and said, "What is this chocolate? It's comparable to the gutter oil. How can you compare to this natural toad? Come on, let's do it together and catch a few more. Fatty Master will show you the skills you learned when you were in the army."

After he said this, I couldn't help but drool. I have been eating chocolate and compressed biscuits these days, and I haven't even drank saliva. At this time, the fat toads were covered with meat, and maybe they really tasted the same as the chicken legs!

So we all started to take action and squatted down to catch the toads. Those toads were not afraid of others, and they fled after being alarmed. We just needed to go forward and stretch out our hands to catch them. For a moment, the six of us took action at the same time, and in an instant, they had caught more than twenty toads.

"Huh? There is no big one here!" Ah Dai was probably still childish. He seemed to see a fatter toad, so he shouted happily and ran towards a vine.

But as soon as he got there, we heard him screaming, took a few steps back, and sat down, looking very scared.

When we looked at each other, we found that a big frog head was poked out from the vine, which was glaring at Ah Dai. It was as big as a millstone, and the color on its back had changed from turquoise green to dark yellow, with many black round spots. At first glance, we thought it was thousands of eyes.

The giant frog, with its snow-white belly, squatted in front of A Dai, with a "gurgling" sound in his mouth, like a roar of skin drums. Then, it glared angrily, opened its mouth and spit out its long blood-red tongue, like a meteor, and it rolled A Dai who was sitting on the ground straight away. Then it dragged backwards, like a roll of locusts and mosquitoes, easily dragging A Dai behind the vines.
Chapter completed!