[The Ergun River, the source of Heilongjian, is located in the northeast of the Neimenggu Autonomous Region, and is the boundary river between China and Russia. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The upper reaches of the Ergun River are the Hailar River, which originates from the western slope of the Gillaoqishan on the west side of the Daxinganling, and converges with the Onen River flowing from Mongolia at the mouth of the Gen River, and is called Heilongjian downward.

Poison Fly Umbrella: A neurotoxin-containing mushroom classified as Amanita spp. The main fame of the poison fly umbrella is its hallucinogenic properties, this mushroom is used by the inhabitants of the Siberian region as a medicine to cause hallucinations and feel out of the body, and has important religious significance in shamanism. Shamans in eastern Siberia consume poison fly umbrellas, while other devotees drink the shaman's urine, which contains the hallucinogenic components of poison fly umbrellas. ]

(Friday, May 5, 2012 in the morning; neimenggu, China)

The recent research work has not been very heavy, and taking advantage of this rare four-day vacation, Akiyama decided to visit the unique scenery of the Sino-Russian border in Neimenggu.

He boarded the plane from Tokyo yesterday morning, stopped for several hours in Zhengzhou on the way, and did not arrive in Hailar until yesterday afternoon. After a night's rest, Sora Akiyama came out and walked around.

It was a clear morning, the sky was blue, and the sun gently covered the woods. Two or three hundred thick oaks and ash trees grow in this area, and their tall and stout trunks stand among the green leaves of the hazel and rowan trees, stretching out their broad, knotted branches, exuding a unique beauty of life. Between the clumps of trees is a green meadow.

This is the bank of a branch of the Erguna River. In this region, endless steppes are replaced by rugged hills, and rivers flow in not too steep valleys, separating China and Russia. There are several outposts on each side of the river, which are located on the hillside, facing each other across the river, which is very conspicuous. The only nearby settlement on the Chinese side is a small town of just over 50 households, known locally as Linjiang. In addition to this, the nearest town is sixty or seventy kilometers away.

On the hillside to the southwest of the town, Akiyama sits comfortably on an exposed rock, overlooking the town below. He looked at the whole town. The town's buildings are mostly Russian-style wooden huts made of logs, and a few are two-storey brick houses, with the occasional cow or two roaming the streets, but the herds are concentrated in the pastures to the east.

The locals were quite welcoming, and one family accepted Sora Akiyama for a temporary stay. They can speak Chinese, and although Sora Akiyama's Chinese is not authentic, it is not a problem to communicate and talk.

Just as Akiyama was about to go for a walk elsewhere, a white figure suddenly appeared on the grass slope that undulated like waves in the wind, walking towards the woods.

"Hey, someone's coming...... There seem to be two families in the town who have taken in a group of travelers who have come to this town by chance? Akiyama thought to himself, "Why don't you come and have a look?"

Akiyama jumped off the rock, turned around and took a path towards the man in white.

The man in white didn't walk very fast, and Akiyama burrowed into the woods after a while, hiding in it before him. It wasn't until the man in white walked in that he carefully examined his appearance from the dark.

It was a young man who looked no more than fifteen years old, wearing a white long-sleeved trousers, loose clothes blowing in the wind, a rare set off of an elegant and dusty temperament, not like a person in the red dust, but like a hermit at ease. In my impression, Sora Akiyama has never seen other boys of this age have this kind of temperament. He couldn't help but be a little curious.

The young man in white carried a transparent plastic storage box in his right hand and a rectangular plastic basket in his left hand. Through the box, Akiyama could see that a layer of it contained various tools, including a knife, a pair of gloves, and a magnifying glass, and the rest of the gadgets were too far away to be recognized.

The boy walked straight into the woods. Sora Akiyama used the cover of the trees to quietly follow him.

Along the way, Akiyama Sora heard the loud chirping of blackbirds from time to time in the dense foliage. In the bushes beneath the trees, robins, finches, and warblers chirped and sang in a melodious voice. Occasionally, one or two reddish-brown squirrels can be seen jumping mischievously from tree to tree, but upon sight of a human, they sped up the tree and disappeared in the blink of an eye. The young man in white looked around as he walked, and although he occasionally turned his gaze to the squirrels and birds, more often than not, he seemed to be searching for something.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the boy came to a meadow in the woods. The trees in this area are sparse, and clumps of grasses can be seen. In the shadow of the delicate leaves of ferns, violets and lily of the valley compete with each other, with red mushrooms, milk mushrooms, curly edged milk mushrooms, oak mushrooms and red poisonous fly umbrellas. In the wide, low bushes, there are scattered red strawberries.

It's a good place, Akiyama fantasies, and according to the young man's familiar roads, it doesn't look like it's the first time I've been here. But what was he going to do with his toolbox?

The young man in white quickly answered Sora Akiyama's question with his actions. I saw him lean over and open the toolbox, put on plastic gloves, pinch an 8-inch scalpel, and then walked to a poisonous fly umbrella, skillfully cut off the base of the stipe of the poisonous fly umbrella with a knife, carefully lifted it, put it in the basket, and then walked to the next one. He collected a total of eight poisonous fly umbrellas, each of which was about ten centimeters high. Light-colored warts can be seen on their red caps.

"What is this going on? It doesn't look like collecting specimens...... "Akiyama Sora was a little puzzled, "Isn't the poisonous fly umbrella a hallucinogen, isn't it going to extract the muscarinin and Amanita as a hallucinogen?"

As a PhD in neurobiology, Sora Akiyama has also studied the effects of hallucinogens on the nervous system. There are at least 186 species of fungi known to have hallucinogenic effects on Earth, and the poison fly umbrella is undoubtedly a typical example. In recent years, biomedical research in this area has focused on how to use its hallucinogenic components to treat psychiatric diseases. But what puzzled him was why this boy, who was fifteen years old at most, would have such a thing. Even if the boy collected the poison fly umbrella for scientific research, he did not need to go to such a remote place to collect wild animals, and it was undoubtedly much more convenient to use artificial cultivation.

Just as Akiyama was about to spy on the next move of the young man in white, a coquettish voice came from behind him.

"Who!"

Sora Akiyama was taken aback, turned his head to look, and saw a girl holding a flower basket emerging from behind the dense bushes that were one person high. The girl was tall, only slightly shorter than the boy, with long hair and a shawl, and a delicate face, looking about the same age as the boy.

Hawkers, although I also know that my posture of squatting on the ground and peeping is not very elegant, but do I look so much like a villain with bad intentions?

Now that he had been discovered, Akiyama stood up generously and walked out of the woods.

"Qingyi, why are you here?" the boy looked at him and the girl in surprise, first to the girl, then to Akiyama Sora, and said, "Who is this gentleman?"

Hey, I'm only seventeen, okay......

Sora Akiyama also knew that he looked more mature, not like a seventeen-year-old boy.

"Ah, that, like you, I'm a traveler in the town for the time being, living in the south. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to follow you. The main thing is to see that you are fluttering in white clothes, and you are walking alone in the direction of the depths of the woods, and I happened to be on the hillside at the time, so I followed me out of curiosity. ”

"Well, I see. The boy and the girl looked at each other, and the boy said, "She and I are here to collect specimens." My name is Du Mu. ”

"My name is Lu Qingyi. The girl said.

Who are you fooling, Akiyama fantasies, seeing that your scalpel is so skillful, and the toolbox is fully equipped, you don't look like a layman at all, how can you not know that collecting fungal specimens cannot destroy the fruiting body.

Collecting edible mushrooms doesn't need to be a concern, but who would eat a poisonous fly umbrella that looks so bright at first glance?

Of course, it is not ruled out that these two people deliberately bought professional equipment to pretend to be forced.

However, he didn't dismantle the two, just smiled and said, "Akiyama Sora, just call me by my name." ”

"Riben?"

"Well, although we don't have a May Day holiday, these days just happen to be a holiday. ”

As an observer, it is naturally impossible for Sora Akiyama to identify with nationalism.

Du Mu didn't seem to care about his nationality: "We still have companions in the valley a little north, and the scenery over there is good. Are you going to go and see it together?"

"If you don't mind. Come to collect specimens?"

"yes, let's go together. Du Mu said, "Speaking of which, he pulled us along for this specimen collection activity. ”

Walking in the woods, the three of them had a tacit understanding, and they didn't talk out loud, unwilling to break this leisure. They stepped on thick fallen leaves, barely making a sound between their walks, and all they could hear was the rustling of the wind and the sound of the leaves, the chirping of insects, and the occasional chirping of birds. Large and small spots of light are scattered on the grass and paths in the forest, the warm sunlight dispels the cold of the morning, and the air is filled with a special dry and fresh smell, which makes people feel refreshed and refreshed. In a few moments, they were in that valley.

It is said to be a valley, but in fact it is just a ravine between two small hills, and the vegetation is the same as the previous forest meadow. Sora Akiyama saw a young man wearing black trousers and a brown Korean windbreaker, who was also fourteen or fifteen years old. Carrying a basket full of mushrooms and herbs in his left hand and a root digger in his right, he was bending down to collect a large poisonous fly umbrella. Sora Akiyama estimated the height of the poisonous fly umbrella to be close to 20 centimeters. Before doing so, the boy placed the basket on the ground.

With a cursory scan, Sora Akiyama found at least two drugs that could cause hallucinations. In addition to the poisonous fly umbrella, the basket also contained a bundle of calamus, long young green blades of grass lush in the sun, all freshly harvested whole plants. The rhizomes of calamus, although used to make spices, are also a toxic oral hallucinogen. There were other plants pressed under the poisonous fly umbrella and calamus, and a corner was faintly exposed, but it was too far away for Akiyama Sora to make out it.

"What are you trying to do? You can't be planning to make your own drugs, are you?" thought Akiyama to himself.

"Xu Mingshan!" After getting closer, Du Mu shouted at the young man.

"Du Mu?" Xu Mingshan stopped what he was doing and turned around, "Lu Qingyi, why are you all here?"

Then he noticed Sora Akiyama and said, "Who is this gentleman?"

"Oh, this is Sora Akiyama, and it's also an RB tourist who found the town by chance, and I met in the woods just now, so we came over together. Du Mu replied, and then turned to Qiu Shankong, "This is Xu Mingshan, my classmate, who traveled together." ”

"Nice to meet you, just call me by name. Akiyama Sorado, "I see that you are quite professional, and a set of tools for collecting specimens are fully equipped." ”

"If you can't talk about professionalism, you're just a hobbyist. Xu Mingshan replied.

"Haha, it seems that I have met a fellow practitioner, and I used to go to the field to collect specimens. Sora Akiyama recalled that when he was messing around with Nanamiya Tomoon in the past, he also did something similar to homemade medicine, "But now that I work, I don't have much time to go to the field." ”

"I don't know what you do?"

"I'm currently working at Kyoto University for my research in brain science. ”

"Eh, I didn't expect it......"

The four of them sat down on the grass and chatted for a while. Akiyama learned that all three of them were students from the junior high school of Guangdong Qiulan Experimental Middle School, and they had all been admitted to a high school in the United States. Among them, Du Mu and Lu Qingyi are still Americans, and their family has a quite legendary experience, their family ancestors emigrated overseas during the Republic of China, and they inherited the kung fu of Xingyi gossip, which is simply a martial arts family in contemporary society.

"By the way, in my impression, generally speaking, studying abroad is only for undergraduate or graduate students, right?" Qiu Shankong looked at Xu Mingshan and asked curiously, "Du Mu and Lu Qingyi are in a special situation, but how did you think of going out in high school?"

"Uh, that's it...... Because the third year of high school in China is basically a year of review to prepare for the college entrance examination, there is no such problem in the United States, and you can also take university courses, so you go abroad. ”

Before you know it, the sun is already hanging high in the blue sky, and it is a little dazzling. At this time, although it is not yet the height of summer, the sun is already a little scorching. The dense gap between the foliage above the front shimmered with a golden glow. The four of Akiyama are already a little dry-mouthed.

"Now, it's almost, I think we're thirsty too, it's time to go back." ”

"Well, it's a little hot. Why don't we leave each other's contact information?

"It's okay, just use QQ, I just looked, and the international mobile phone number can also be registered. ”

When saying goodbye, Sora Akiyama planned to ask them to ride around together in the afternoon, but was told that they still had an itinerary and would leave after lunch, so they had to give up. The four of them said goodbye.

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