
Insta Empire Episode 807: The Green Anaconda, Stranded in the heart of the Amazon, Kevin, Olivia, and Selena face more than just betrayal. A deadly assassin, a wrecked plane, and the unforgiving jungle itself are the least of their worries. As they struggle to survive the night, their greatest challenge slithers silently beneath the shadows. With predators lurking at every turn and a massive green anaconda hot on Kevin’s trail, danger is never far. But can he outsmart the relentless jungle beast before it’s too late? The rainforest is alive—and it’s hungry.
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Full Episode: Insta Empire Episode 807
Kevin, Olivia, and Selena were stranded in the Amazon rainforest. The pilot of their private jet turned out to be an assassin and after he tried to kill all of them, he jumped out of the plane with the only parachute and blew up the engine of the plane on his way down. Kevin made an emergency landing in the Amazon river and now their plane was at the bottom of that river, and he, Olivia, and Selena, unconscious after the chaos, were stuck on its banks.
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Selena didn’t wake up until after sunset. In the meantime, Kevin started a fire and Olivia drained several dozen trees of their water and funneled it into a plastic-lined sack that Kevin had in his satchel. The two of them sat at the edge of the water, chipping splinters off of stones to use them as fishhooks and trying to piece together what had just happened to them.
Did he say anything before he grabbed Selena? Kevin asked Olivia. He had been in the cockpit when the attack began. Olivia shook her head.
Selena had just gotten up to get a snack from the minibar behind us and I heard him grab her, but surely he would have killed her by the time you and I fought him off, so I don’t think Selena was his target. Kevin nodded. Yeah, I imagine I was the one he was after.
That’s usually how things go these days, he chuckled darkly. Olivia sighed. Who do you think sent him? Alliance? Maybe the leader heard you were running off with his wife.
Kevin shook his head. The Alliance leader is dead, remember? Olivia scoffed. Oh, right.
Then who? Brett and the Myriads? Kevin shrugged. Maybe, but even if Brett did find out I was helping Selena, I don’t think he’d kill me over it. He still needs me in his army if the Myriad and Pinnacle ever go toe to toe, which he always thinks will be any day now.
Then who? I saw an M on the parachute pack, but I’m assuming that’s from the manufacturer. Olivia trailed off when she saw Kevin’s eyes light up. Was it red? Yeah.
Kevin pieced it together. He must have been sent by Maverick. That’s their symbol.
I bested them in a fight with the Reaper Squad in DC. They had been engaged in a long war with the Rangers that the Reaper Squad assigned me, in a manner of speaking, to bring to an end. I guess they took it pretty hard.
Where in the world am I? Selena’s voice sounded from behind them. Kevin and Olivia spun around to see Selena getting up from her unconscious state. Kevin hurried over to her and helped her to drink some of the water Olivia had gathered and then filled her in on what had happened.
Oh, I remember getting on the plane, Selena said, squinting her eyes like that would help her memory. I think we should wait until morning to set off for the Cacao. I don’t want to wander through this jungle without being able to see everything around us.
For now, the fire will keep any bugs or snakes away, Kevin told her. He and Olivia tied their completed fishhooks to lengths of string from Kevin’s satchel and went back to the river to catch dinner. The night was loud in the Amazon.
From the subtle rush of the river’s current to the high-pitched clicking of so many insects to the little songs of the exotic birds, Selena was absolutely fed up. My head is pounding. Can’t we turn off the nature sounds for a second? She yelled at the forest over her serving of flavorless roasted catfish.
Kevin sighed. Selena, once again. Will you please do your best to not attract predators? The fire is only good for keeping reptiles and insects away.
A jaguar, however. Selena clapped a hand over her mouth and started to silently sob. I’ve never slept outside in my entire life.
Olivia frowned. Don’t the Alliance live on a mountainside in tents? Yeah. Tents.
Not out where an army of poisonous animals can get me. Animals aren’t poisonous. They’re venomous.
Plants are poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous.
Got it? Olivia corrected her. As if I want an ecology lesson right now. Selena threw down her catfish and crawled a few feet away to a pile of leaves Olivia had laid on top of a board of tied-together bamboo shafts to make a bed.
That’s my… Oh, never mind. Olivia shook her head. I’ll take the first watch.
She scooted back against a tree and took a sip from the water bag. Kevin didn’t protest and he went over to the edge of the bed so he at least could rest his head on the soft leaves. Selena’s feet hung off next to him.
More hours passed. Selena snored. Olivia dozed against her tree and Kevin couldn’t get comfortable.
When he was about to fall asleep, he felt ants crawling up his legs and saw in the light of fire that they were fire ants. Once he got them off of him, he started hearing the croak of the tree frogs, many of which he knew could kill him just by jumping on him and getting their foot venom under his skin. When the frogs quieted down, he started seeing the red eyes of a group of vampire bats hanging from a tree branch directly above him.
Kevin knew that he could use his herbal skills to counteract any and all venoms, but if these animals were to attack him, Selena, and Olivia in quick order, he would be pressing even his skills to a nearly impossible limit. When he finally couldn’t take it anymore, Kevin got up and snuck away from the camp. The night seemed like it would last forever, but if Kevin could get the cacao harvested before the women woke up, they would be one step closer to finding a way out of the rainforest.
Kevin hiked for two miles, his eyes above him looking for cacao pods. He stopped to check the soil here and there and make sure he was still in the area where the cacao was likely to be its most concentrated. He ran through herbalism techniques and botany facts in his head to keep from getting too bored, but it was also a full-time job to stay on the lookout for snakes and jaguars.
Kevin rounded a particularly large tree and froze. He was face to face with a jaguar who had been prowling along behind him low under the cover of ferns. Crap.
Kevin got low himself to seem like less of a threat, but the jaguar didn’t seem to be afraid of him at all. He was stalking Kevin, and now he was almost close enough to strike. Kevin snatched a long, thick stick from the ground beside him and broke it in half with one kick, creating two jagged spears with which to defend himself.
Come on, then, he said to the jaguar not wanting to sit in anticipation. The cat charged him and leapt, hurtling through the air at Kevin like a torpedo at a submarine. Kevin ducked and let the beast sail over him, then turned around and threw a spear.
It sank into the jaguar’s right thigh, but that only served to anger it further. It jumped at Kevin again, claws slashing through the air, but Kevin struck the cat with his second spear right through the stomach. The force of it still brought him to the ground, but he crawled out from under its body before it found its own footing.
The jaguar made one last attempt at Kevin, jumping up on his chest and sinking its claws into his skin, but before it could do too much damage, it collapsed, dead. Kevin pulled off his shirt to assess the damage. Hen claw marks scraped down two inches of his chest, but not all of them bled.
The jaguar had lost a lot of strength when it jumped. Kevin wiped the blood off himself and pulled out some more herbs from his satchel, chewed them up, and spit them on his wounds. They would disinfect the cuts and keep everything moist while it healed.
His wounds would be gone by daylight. Kevin kept moving, afraid the noise they had made might attract more jaguars. He got through the next thick patch of trees, but as he emerged into a clearing, he felt a heavy weight suddenly push down on his shoulders, like a giant hand patting him on the back.
He felt what it was before he saw it, but sure enough, it was a 12-foot long green anaconda. Ah! Kevin shrugged it off of him and started to run, but the snake chased after him, and Kevin could feel it rub its head on his ankles, then fall behind, then wrap around his shins, then fall off again. Make a plan, make a plan, Kevin told himself, but the anaconda could easily follow him up any tree or out into the river, and sooner or later would catch up to him on land.
The only choice Kevin could see was to kill it, but how? A snake wouldn’t be harmed by most of his martial arts moves the way a human would. He kept running, managing to step on the snake’s head once or twice and slow him down for a moment, but the snake also nearly made it up to his waist before Kevin could bat it off. He felt the body constrict around his knees, trying to trip him up, but Kevin escaped once more.
He came to a small cliff about five feet off the ground and jumped off, landing in a small patch of leopard lilies. Kevin recognized them from an old herbalism book he read once. He remembered reading that the lilies grew in the rainforest and that they were toxic to most reptiles.
He pulled an entire bushel of them out of the earth and kept running. The snake caught up to him once more and struck, its jaw unhinging completely in midair on its way to Kevin’s neck. Kevin turned around and shoved the leopard lilies down the beast’s throat.
Before he could withdraw himself, however, the snake’s fangs sunk deep into Kevin’s arm, just below the crook of his elbow.