Downpour
Chapter 124:Downpour
The sky became more gloomy than when it was set off, and the temperature seemed to drop a bit.A gust of wind blew into the carriage, and Hill felt some coolness.
“Is it going to rain?”Hill poked his head and looked toward the sky outside the car, where the clouds above seemed heavy.The wind raised the sand on the roadside, and the place at the distance and the sky was gray, so that people could not tell where the sky was and where the ground was.
Large and small ponds began to appear on the roadside, some water birds passed by the water, and a few moments picked up a fish from the pond.
“The double-crown?”Gold looked at the waterbirds with gray feathers, they had beautiful orange beaks, and the front of the beak was curved.
“You’re really knowledgeable, beautiful,” Brandon, sitting across from Kim, praising.
"Well, I guess I'm right," Kim laughed, "I've been to the Everglaze before, and I've seen many kinds of waterbirds here, but I don't remember their names very well."
Brandon smiled, pointing to a pond just passing by the truck and saying, "Look, it's a crocodile."
In the direction Brandon pointed, the people in the carriage saw the crocodile that was standing by the pond, and its eyes seemed to be closed and its body motionless.
“Is it dead?”Hill asked.
"No, it's just lying there to rest, maybe it's just over with a delicious lunch, and it's napping right now."Brandon looked slowly away from the car, and the crocodile by the pond gradually disappeared into his view.
“How long have we been away for lunch?”Thompson touched his stomach and suddenly asked, "I feel a little hungry."
"Don't worry cowboys," Jason's voice came from the cab, "not far ahead is the Big Swamp Crocodile Field, and we'll stop there and rest, and by the way, we'll have lunch."
"There's good news for you," Jason turned his head, and his eyes fell on Hill. "We'll have dinner at noon."
“Eat out?“Do you want to eat crocodiles?”Tom smiled as his questions brought everyone’s interest.
"Of course, crocodile meat is very tasty," Jason said. "If you want to eat something else, you can catch it here."
"I think the double-crowned cormorant just now looks like it's a good taste, and I don't know if it tastes better than a turkey."Ben licked his lips and swallowed the water in his mouth.The people in the car were hungry, especially the soldiers who had been in prison to carry out search and rescue missions, and their physical exertion was relatively large.
"B, I don't mind if you try," laughed Al, "and I heard that few people in China like this waterbirds are willing to eat them."
“Let’s eat crocodile meat,” he said.
The animals on the side of the road began to get more, and the water birds flew to the railings of the carriages and curiously looked at the people in the car.There are a lot of tourists here, and the water birds are not afraid of people when they see more.A few crocodiles lay on the road ahead, watching the truck coming towards them from a distance, and when the truck was approaching, they quickly climbed down the road, and the truck drove and then climbed back to the road.
“After the Big Marshed Crodile Field, we are not far from Route 9336, which, although in the same direction as we are going, can use the first half of it to make the trip smoother, otherwise, once we leave the wide road, this swamp environment will be very unfavorable to the large vehicles in our fleet.”Jason said to the people in the carriage, "You can go all the way down Highway 9336 to the Paheochchi lookout, where we turn around and change direction."
“The terrain inside the Everglades, only the north-east region is barely suitable for our trucks to travel through, and the southwest region is full of dense water networks and swamps, and if we go there, we have to give up our trucks.”Jason continued, "So the route behind us will be as close to the northeast as possible."
Hearing that Jason had a detailed route plan, most of the people in the carriage relaxed, and everyone began to discuss the lunch they would enjoy for a while.
There were some rain spots in the sky, some of them fell on the window glass, and some of them drifted into the car.
“It’s raining...” Kim reached out and used his palms to pick up the raindrops that fell.The rain fell on the palm of his hand, and Kim felt the slight coolness coming from there.
The rain began to fall more and more rapidly, and a crackling sound sounded on the window glass.The sky darkened, the clouds rolled over, and the vision became blurred.The wiper was activated, the rain on the front window was scraped to the side before it could not flow down, and the glass was full of rain.
“Hell,” Jason snapped at the door and began to fret.
At the beginning of the trip, it encountered a change of day, and this sudden heavy rain covered everyone's hearts with a dark cloud.Although the rain shelter on the carriage blocked most of the rain, the people sitting behind the car still had their clothes wet by the heavy rain.
“Hill, come on, we’ll change places, it’s a little better,” Thompson said, seeing Hill start wiping the rain on his clothes with his hands, and he got up and moved to the back of the car.
"Thank you, Thompson."Hill said gratefully that she sat in the former position of Thompson, which depends on the inside a little bit, and the basic rain is much less.
A flash of lightning crossed the black sky, and then a rumble of thunder sounded above everyone's head.The wind began to make a big splash, and the falling rain was blown into a very inclined angle, and they were tilted into the carriage and poured on the people sitting inside.
“Kim, do you feel the cold?”Hill saw that King’s face was a little white, and his lips were trembling slightly.She took Kim in her arms, and found that the gold clothes were soaked.
“Jason,” Hill shouted into the cab, “how long will it take us to get to the Everglades Crocodile Field?”
"It's a little more time, baby," Jason's voice came from the front, and he didn't look back, still staring intently at the road ahead, "the rains made our vision very poor, and in order to be sure, we had to slow down the speed, otherwise the car would have gone outside the road, and once the wheels had fallen into the mud, it would have been done."
“Hill, I can still hold on,” Kim felt some warmth in Hill’s arms, pulling the clothes she’d attached to her body to make her body a little more comfortable.
There was a gray outside the car, and there was water all around.The summer rain poured down like this, and with the rumbling thunder and a lightning bolt came to the world.The rain curtain covered the road, covered the pond, and covered the resting crocodile.The birds were nowhere to be seen, and the creatures in the marshes seemed to disappear without a trace with the arrival of a heavy rain.
The truck behind them turned on the fog lights one after another, and Hill saw dense rain lines pass through the light, like a nail piercing into the standing water of the road.Water was flowing down my cheeks in the wet hair before the forehead, and Hill wiped the rain from his face with his hand, leaning against the back of the car.
Kim leaned his head over Hill’s shoulder, his eyes fixed on the gun in the soldier’s hand across, her eyes weren’t focused on either point.At this moment, Kim felt that his body was very uncomfortable, and all the clothes and pants wet by the rain were attached to it, and the whole person was not breathless.She felt her body drop, the chill surrounded herself from all directions, and the only warm position on her body was next to the part of the body of the Hill.
Kim tried to focus her attention, trying to think hard about people and things she knew, but the pictures were blurred in consciousness.
Just as Kim was about to fall asleep, the car stopped, and the brakes pulled her back from her sleepiness.
“Here,” Jason’s voice came from the cab.When Kim heard these two words, he felt that this moment seemed to be raining.
Everyone got out of the carriage and followed the soldiers to the crocodile field, and Jason led them into the spacious wooden house inside.This is the performance hall of the crocodile farm, except for the open air in the middle, surrounded by thick thatched huts.A row of wooden benches was neatly fixed on the audience stage, and everyone sat down on it separately.
Sergeant Stephen took two soldiers down from the truck and pulled down several large packages of plastic film, and the three of them referred them to the wooden hut to be opened one by one, and from the inside they took out clean blankets and began to send them to the people sitting on the benches.
Everyone took the blanket and began to wipe the rain on the body, the flight attendants offered to change the wet clothes, and Jason arranged for the two soldiers to use blankets to build them a temporary dressing room.
Hill and Kim went there too, intending to change their wet clothes.
Jennifer’s face was somewhat red, and she held the pillars of the wooden house in one hand, and the other with the other.
“Mrs. Chief, what happened to you?”Siegone, a flight attendant in the flight attendant, discovers something is wrong with her, so she walks over and begins to ask Jennifer about her.
“Maybe it’s cold,” Jennifer looked up and saw Sigourney standing in front of her, “can you help me find Jason and get some cold medicine?”
“Okay, I’ll go,” Sigourney said, holding Jennifer to the bench, “can you hold on?”
Jennifer nodded and closed her eyes, and the pain in her forehead made her very uncomfortable smoking in her temple.She coughed a few times, found that her limbs were a little sore and full of strength.
Jennifer knew she was starting to have a fever, and as a flight attendant, she knew a lot about simple medical knowledge.She already had a cold when she was in the car, but she didn’t expect the fever to come so quickly.
Sigourney soon returned with a cold medicine and a kettle, and she held Jennifer in her hand to help her take the medicine.
"Madam, you should change your wet clothes and keep them on your body will only aggravate your condition."Sigourney said with concern, touching her forehead with her hand.
"You seem to have a fever, Madam.
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