After the catastrophe, we hurriedly followed the guidance of the drone and successfully escaped from the misty forest, and came to the open safety area, we looked back at the pools of slimy liquid in the distance, and piles of white bones in the white forest, looking at those who are now gone, have quietly mixed with the flowers, and turned into a worry-free group of unlucky Japanese who were wiped out, and felt still beating fast and frightened. I whispered to Xiao Fei and said: "I didn't expect that we actually witnessed the cannibal flower and hunt people, isn't this something that does not exist in nature? ”

Xiao Fei said seriously: "That's not it, the cannibal flower is not something out of nothing, nature has it, the cannibal flower is not cannibal, in fact, it is a rafflesia." The piranha grows in the primeval forests and marshes of the Amazon in the Americas. The shape is very delicate, and the flower shape resembles a sun ring. The man-eating flower is actually a rafflesia, because the diameter of the flower is very large, and the flower itself will emit a kind of rotting corpse smell. Rafflesia is 1.5 meters in diameter and weighs 8 kilograms, and its center is a large hollow that can be used by a small child. The man-eating flower lives on flies to spread pollen and absorb nutrients from other plants, so it has no leaves or stems. The reason why people think that cannibal flowers eat people is because the cannibal flower is relatively large, the color is more delicate, and it looks like a person's big mouth that opens when eating, and more importantly, there are serrations that resemble teeth in the big mouth, which is really like eating people with an open mouth. It is also because the cannibal flower also has a smell of rotten meat, which makes people mistakenly think that it is the smell left after cannibalism.

The earliest reports of man-eating plants came from some explorers in the second half of the 19th century. One of them, a German explorer named Carl Rich, returned from an expedition and said that he had seen a tree that could eat people on the African island of Madagascar, and the local residents worshipped it as a sacred tree. Once an indigenous woman was driven to climb the sacred tree for violating the precepts of the tribe, and as a result, the tree's eight leaves with hard thorns wrapped her tightly, and when the leaves reopened a few days later, only a pile of bones remained. Since then, rumors about man-eating plants have spread more and more, and at the same time, there have been more reports about man-eating plants.

And the man-trapping vine is in the tropical primeval forest of Panama, and there is also a kind of man-trapping vine similar to the cypress. If it accidentally touches a rattan, it will wrap itself tightly around the person like a python until it strangles to death. In the Brazilian forests, there is also a shrub called Yanipanda that is reported to have sharp barbed spines on its branches. If a person or animal touches such a tree, the branches with hooks and thorns will rush up and enclose the person or animal and stab them. It is difficult to get out of this predicament without the help of others.

There are about 500 kinds of carnivorous plants on the earth, such as pitcher plants, bottle grass, flytraps, felt mosses, etc., but they only eat small animals such as insects. The largest known insectivorous plant in the world is a pitcher plant that grows in Java and Borneo, with a capsule leaf capacity of up to eight liters, and is said to be able to prey on small mice. Similar plants include pitcher plants, Cordyceps trappers, etc., but no real man-eating flowers have been found. In 1979, Adrien Slake, a British authority on carnivorous plants who had studied carnivorous plants all his life, said in his just-published monograph "Carnivorous Plants" that so far, there have been no official records and reports on man-eating plants in the academic community. Even the famous botanical masterpieces, the "Natural Taxonomy of Plants" edited by the German Engler, and the world's "Dictionary of Flowering Plants and Ferns", do not contain any description of man-eating trees. In addition, the famous British biologist Wallace, in his famous book "Travels in the Malay Archipelago" written after he traveled to the South Sea Islands, described many rare tropical plants in the South Seas, but did not mention the existence of man-eating plants. Therefore, the vast majority of botanists tend to believe that there may not be such a class of plants in the world that can eat people. Some of the most famous are bottle grass, pitcher plant, and raccoon algae, which catches underwater insects.

Adrian Sleck, in his monograph "Carnivorous Plants", pointed out that the leaves of these plants have become very peculiar, some like bottles, some like small pockets or mussel shells, and some of the leaves are covered with glandular hairs, which can secrete various digestive juices to digest the insect progeny, and they usually prey on small insects of mosquitoes and flies, but sometimes they can also "eat" large insects like low-frequency dragonflies. Most of these carnivorous plants grow in areas that are often washed by rain and lack minerals, and because the soil in these areas is acidic and lacks nitrogen nutrients, the roots of the plants do not absorb much, and in order to meet the needs of survival, they have undergone a long evolutionary process and become a class of plants that can eat animals. ”

I suddenly realized: "I see, I know, Wang Dalong's predecessors are using species that already exist in nature for special cultivation, coupled with the abundant water and soil here, these plants can be vigorous in such a unique environment, growing many times larger than the normal state in nature, and just now we were scared by the man-eating flower, and we didn't pay attention to it, Xiaofei, you see, those huge insect trap cages, the insect trap cage is cylindrical, the lower half is slightly expanded, and the cage mouth has a lid, isn't it a variant of pitcher plant?"

Xiao Fei said with praise: "It does look exactly the same as the pitcher plant, but it is much bigger, I grew up in the countryside, and the family can't afford to buy mosquito coils, so I pick some pitcher plants and go home to eat mosquitoes and flies, and the growth is really different, the key effect is particularly obvious, the structure of the pitcher plant leaves is complex, divided into petioles, leaf bodies and tendrils." The tail of the tendrils is enlarged and rolled back to form a bottle, which can prey on insects. Nepenthes has racemes with small green or purple flowers, and the bottle body at the top of the leaf is a tool for preying on insects. The resurface of the cap of the bottle body can secrete fragrance and attract insects. The bottle mouth is smooth, and the insects will slide off the bottle, drown by the liquid secreted by the bottom of the bottle, and decompose the nutrients of the insects, and gradually digest and absorb them. In 1753, the scientific name of some of the genus Nepenthes in Linnaeus's Flora was first found in Carolus Linnaeus's book Hortus cliffortianus in 1737. It comes from a passage from Homer's Odyssey. Among them, the Queen of Egypt gave Helen a potion called Nepenthes pharmakon. And Nepenthe means no sorrow. In Greek mythology, Nepenthe was a medicine that could make one forget all sorrow. Linnaeus said: If this is not Helen's water of forgetfulness, then it will be the water of all botanists. If you find this wonderful plant after a long journey, you will be amazed, forget all the unhappiness, and wonder how nature can be so magical. It seems that there are still many existences in this misty forest, fortunately those unlucky Japanese replaced us as substitute ghosts, otherwise we would be unprepared this time, there are all kinds of rich kinds of man-eating flowers, man-eating grass, countless, really vicious and lucky. After Xiao Fei finished speaking, he sighed, looking like he was living for the rest of his life.

Duan Gongzi looked at the surrounding situation vigilantly, and hurriedly said to us: "This place is very dangerous, it is not advisable to stay for a long time, I just released the drone, and I have found the second door, I can't wait, let's hurry over." Everyone hurriedly followed Duan Gongzi's footsteps and came to the second gate together.