172. Don’t be too heartbroken bro

“I-what is that?”

The frightened Min Bong-gi’s cry.

“Sah, does it look like a deer?”

A huge fish was dangling from Kyu-ha’s waist.

A flying beast was slung over his shoulder.

“Brother, isn’t this a deer? No way… Did you catch it yourself?”

Gyuha nodded at Maseokdo’s question.

“Luckily, it was caught in the noose I set yesterday. This is a catfish caught in a trap. It can be eaten.”

The sight of Gyuha calmly lifting a huge catfish that could easily exceed 60cm made the party forget what to say for a moment.

It was never easy for modern people who have benefited from civilization to catch wild animals or fish in remote areas where there is nothing.

Cha Kyung-seok, whose surprised heart calmed down, smiled broadly.

“Good job good job! Finally, I’m going to eat some meat.”

At Cha Kyung-seok’s words, the other party members stared at Kyu-ha’s shoulder as if possessed.

“Deer meat… it looks delicious.”

dump

Gyu-ha throws a deer into the living quarters.

The trimmed catfish was hung well in a cool shade and then prepared for deer grooming.

Gyuha holding a machete in her hand.

hooked

“Aww!”

Jeong Seol-ah and Eun-ha turned around in a somewhat cruel scene.

seuseuk

jjijigi profit

The skin of the deer was peeled off as if peeling off the wrapping paper, and after removing the internal organs, a series of processes of dismantling each part were carried out like flowing water. Gyuha’s art-like slaughter skills opened the mouths of the party.

“Wow… He’s really good at it! It seems like he did something like that in the past.”

“That’s right, he’s the one who did that. He used to be a meat shaping expert.”

Soon after, what was a deer disappeared and delicious chunks of meat piled up.

Gyuha, which is salted with piled pieces of meat and put an unknown herb on the meat.

The meat was carefully wrapped in banana leaves and thrown onto the brazier.

The remaining charcoal was used to cover the pieces of meat wrapped in banana leaves.

sizzle

After an hour, the distinctive savory smell of cooking meat began to vibrate around.

growl

The companions stare at the hearth that is ripening every day.

“Does it smell crazy?”

“Is your brother still far away?”

Gyuha smiled at the sad eyes and opened the banana leaf with a wooden skewer.

Intense flavor that stimulates the sense of smell along with the smoke rising from the delicious reddish-brown deer meat.

Kyu-ha, who cut off the thigh meat with a machete, handed it to Cha Gyeong-seok.

“Try it, brother.”

“Gulp… I can’t possibly decline this.”

Cha Kyung-seok swallowed the venison in Kyu-ha’s hand in one bite.

well well

“Haa… this taste… the meat melts.”

Looking at Cha Kyung-seok, who was ecstatic, the rest of the party also rushed to the meat like crazy.

“Wow!! It’s so delicious.”

“You don’t get any of that distinctive smell?”

“I caught the odds with the herbs around.”

Maseokdo, a believer in meat, gave a thumbs up with his oily lips.

“As expected, a man who is serious about meat. I respect you!”

It was a deer barbecue party where everyone was happy.

That’s how the 4th day of survival in the remote Yucatan Peninsula.

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Now, the party, who have completed their adaptation, performed well in their respective roles.

Gyuha and Maseokdo were in charge of hunting and fishing.

Cha Gyeong-seok and Jung Seol-ah collected fruits and crops,

Min Bong-gi and Eun-ha caught snails and freshwater crabs.

PD Yang Seong-il looked at it with satisfaction.

At that time, writer Choi Myeong-gi approached and said.

“Are you really good at this?”

“Okay. But well, this picture isn’t bad either. First of all, it looks like you’ve picked out everything you want to draw here, so let’s move on to the next course.”

As if agreeing, Choi Myeong-ki silently nodded.

“Everyone! I have something to say, so would you like to gather?”

The party gathered at Yang Seong-il’s cry.

“First of all, it wouldn’t have been easy to survive in the backcountry of the jungle, but everyone worked hard. Let’s move on to the next course soon.”

At those words, Cha Kyung-seok laughed and said.

“hahahahaha, what is this? It’s a little uncomfortable not being able to wash often, but I think I eat better than in Korea. Anyway, where are we going next?”

“Next we will head to the villages of the primitive tribes who live here. They are descendants of the old Mayans. They are also places where they still hold on to their way of life.”

“Are you nervous about this?”

“No way… It’s not like they just eat people, right?”

“hahahahaha, can we take you to a place like that? Don’t worry. I’ve been to a preliminary field trip. It’s a place where there are no boundaries for outsiders.”

It was only then that I felt relieved, and the complexion of the party became more comfortable.

“I’ll be moving soon, so please prepare.”

“Yes. I understand.”

After 4 days of jungle survival, the party packed their belongings and set out on the road.

2 hours to walk like that.

The hot and humid weather and the tension of not knowing what might come out quickly tired the party.

“Pheh heh heh. Oh, he’s going to die. Do you have any water left?”

Cha Gyeong-seok, the eldest, was exhausted, wiping the sweat from his face.

“I’m here, brother.”

“Thank you, you have to stand.”

Cha Kyung-seok opens the stopper of the water bottle handed to him by Jeong Seol-ah and gulps down.

“Phew…I’m going to live for a while now. This guy’s jungle has no end even if he walks and walks.”

“The local guide says we’re almost there. Just do your best.”

“But don’t you look very tired?”

Maseok-do, a former special forces soldier, was also tired, but Kyu-ha looked perfectly fine.

“If Kyu-ha hyung had joined the special forces, he would have been in the top 0.1% unconditionally.

While living in a remote area where they could not benefit from civilization at all, most of the party could feel the specialness of Gyuha.

First of all, the jungle here was so natural.

There were no animals and plants that he didn’t know about, as if he had lived here before, and he knew about their characteristics.

In addition, his understanding of survival skills was so different that it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a remote explorer or a survival expert.

As a result, the party naturally had no choice but to rely on Gyu-ha, and they believed that Gyu-ha said that he was making fermented soybeans with red beans.

“Phehehehe, I think you’re almost there?”

how long did it take

In the distance, what was assumed to be a house began to appear sparsely.

“Is that where the Lacandons live?”

Lacandon

A small group of Mayan Indians living in the southern region of Mexico between the Uumaquinta River and the Guatemala border in Central America.

Just before the group enters the village.

Something white came out of nowhere.

“Ouch, that’s a surprise.”

The confused Min Bong-gi hurriedly stepped back.

“Hello. My name is Raul, the guide. Welcome to the Lakadon tribe.”

Dark tan skin and long straight hair.

A man dressed in a pure white suit greeted the group in fluent Spanish.

“Ugh. I thought it was a ghost.”

Kyu-ha stepped forward in front of Min Bong-ki, who was shocked.

“Thank you for welcoming us. We look forward to seeing you in the future.”

Raul’s pupils widened slightly as fluent Spanish came out of Kyuha’s mouth.

“Oh. You speak Spanish well. That’s great. Would you like to follow me? I’ll explain the Lacandon people as we walk.”

What Raul said was immediately translated by Gyuha and conveyed to the party.

“Kyu-ha, do you speak Spanish too?”

“Spanish is the second most spoken language after English and Chinese. I studied it before.”

“Did you become fluent like you just by studying?”

Kyu-ha only smiled at the bewildered Cha Kyung-seok.

“The costumes we are wearing are the traditional clothes of the Lacandon tribe called ‘G-Kul’. Men only wear G-Kul, and women even wear a skirt called ‘Pik’.”

“It must have been a traditional costume. It would be difficult to eat red soup because it was white.”

“You can ask your aunt for an apron. Anyway, the clothes themselves must be very comfortable, right?”

While Min Bong-ki and Eun-ha, exhausted from the long journey, continued their talk according to the stream of consciousness, Raul pointed to a wooden house.

“It is a traditional house of the Lacandon people. It is called ‘Caricales’, and it is made of wooden beams with a thatched roof. Also, we, the Lacandon people, settled here in the 16th century in the invasion of the Spanish army and still maintain the traditional beliefs of the Myaan ancestors. It is also one of the few remaining tribes that continue.”

Raul explains with a proud expression.

In fact, Lacandon was a place where there was little exchange with the outside world, but it was only now that they were opening the door little by little.

The party went around the village and listened to the explanation about the Lacandon people.

There were already crowds of people in the town square dressed in pure white G-cool, as if there was a rumor that an outsider was coming.

The Lacandon people look at the party with a mixture of curiosity and wariness.

PD Yang Seong-il opened his mouth to the party.

“Okay! The second mission is ‘Adapt to and Survive the Lacandons.’ First, divide into two teams, one team will go hunting for fish and the other team will harvest crops in the village.”

Two teams divided like that.

In the hunting group, Gyuha, Maseokdo and Jung Seolah

The harvest team was divided into Cha Gyeong-seok, Min Bong-gi, and Eun-ha.

“Have a good trip~! Catch me in large quantities. Eunha is hungry!!”

Received a cheerful send-off from the galaxy, the hunting team followed a Lacandon man.

“Brother, that person is the chief’s son? Why are his eyes so grim?”

Maseokdo whispered in Gyuha’s ear, in case anyone could hear it.

The leader of the hunting team was the son of a chieftain called Matteo, who was also the best hunter of the Lacandon tribe.

A wide river that arrived shortly after walking.

I started moving to the point area by riding a kayak made of logs.

“The river is really big. Huh? What is that?”

Maseokdo pointed to a cliff with his finger and asked.

A mysterious mural painted in the middle of a sheer cliff.

There were a lot of pictures of animals such as red palms and monkeys, dogs, and snakes.

“It was painted with human blood. At that time, the Mayans thought that the gods would be overpowered during a long drought, so they sacrificed humans to the rain god ‘Chak Moll’. They believed that human blood was the source of nourishment for the gods. “

“So, is that real blood, brother?”

Kyu-ha calmly nodded at Jeong Seol-ah’s startled question.

The ship arrived at the point without realizing it, leaving Jeong Seol-ah in a panic at the word real human blood.

Mateo handing out the traditional Lacandon harpoon.

“It won’t be easy because I haven’t tried it. Just say you caught it yourself because I’ll catch it and give it to you.”

Mateo went into the water holding a harpoon with one corner of his mouth raised.

“Is that guy laughing at that? What do you think of the Korean Special Forces?”

The indignant Maseokdo dived into the water with the harpoon in his hand.

“Seol-ah, are you okay?”

“My brother, I was a swimmer until my freshman year of high school. They say he’s very close with water.”

When Jeong Seol-ah also got in, Gyu-ha quietly entered the water with a harpoon in her hand.

After a while

“Ah. This guy’s fish are filthy fast.”

“I couldn’t even see the fish at all?”

Exhausted, Maseok-do and Jeong Seol-ah boarded the ship again.

At that time, Mateo, holding a fish with a harpoon pierced through the body, came up to the surface.

“It’s because you don’t work in vain.”

I couldn’t understand it because it was Spanish, but it was conveyed through the nuance that I was being ignored.

“You’re acting dirty and proud just because you’re good at catching fish.”

Maseokdo grumbled and glanced at the fish Mateo caught.

At that time, air bubbles rose to the surface of the water and Kyuha’s head came out of the water.

“Looks like you’re a failure too. Don’t be too heartbroken, brother. There’s no fish here.”

Gyu-ha raised his right arm above the water without replying.

Mateo’s face, which had been elated, contorted for a moment.