Chapter 2 Gains and Losses
Brazil is the largest, most populous, and most economically developed country in South America, and at the same time, the forest coverage rate is also among the top three in the world! As the capital city of the Brazilian Amazonas, Manaus has always been known as the 'City of Forests'! Located at the confluence of the 'Black River' and the 'White River', it is the eighth most populous city in Brazil and has the reputation of 'the heart of the Amazon'.
In this land of more than 14,000 square kilometers, the number of indigenous people has reached 2 million. People who come for sightseeing, no matter winter or summer, are in an endless stream, and they come here one after another! Fang Yuanshan came here in an endless stream of people!
As a self-funded student, he didn't have the elegance and time to travel here, and he came here because of his request for a domestic online store.
Fang Yuanshan is still very serious about studying in addition to the generation gap. After three months at this university, basic communication is no longer a problem.
Last night, his domestic boss told him: "A female customer who often comes to their store wants to order an original photo of Amazon butterflies. ”
"As long as the photos are good, money is not an issue! Of course, it would be better if you could catch rare butterfly species. ”
Fang Yuanshan, who was short of money and had internal injuries, heard that 'money is not a problem', so he rushed from Rio de Janeiro to Manaus overnight.
Avoiding the crowds and the distant mountains, you set out on your way to the rainforest alone!
His original intention was to take some good photos of the nearby scenic spots! However, the current tourist boom has swept the world, and the more beautiful and inaccessible places are, the more people from all over the world rush there.
While walking far away from the mountains, he scolded: "It's all panic when you have money to burn, where can you have fun with that money?
Using a stick to drive away a few snakes that were blocking the way, Fang Yuanshan scolded helplessly. Even in these primeval jungles, I often bump into those so-called travelers~ A few of them are compatriots, hey!~
The rotten and rancid leaves were up to his ankles, and he didn't even see a butterfly until now, and there were only a few landscape photos in the SLR camera.
Fang Yuanshan, who was gradually moving away, didn't notice that he had already entered the depths of the jungle. Even those who have lived there for several years are afraid to go into the depths of the Amazon jungle.
He felt that something was wrong when he watched the path of the jungle slowly disappear, and that the road was overgrown with weeds and shrubs. He didn't bring anything with him when he came out, except for his camera, ID and a net bag in his bag!
When he got off the plane, he didn't even bring a bottle of water in order to make a quick decision, and as for food!
Focusing only on the butterflies that might appear on the road, Fang Yuanshan was now even vague about the route, and his heart began to feel uneasy, should he grope to return, or continue to move forward? After hesitating for a while, in the end, the margin prevailed over the idea.
After walking forward for another hour, it was almost noon, and his stomach began to growl~ Suppressing the hunger in his stomach, Fang Yuanshan continued to beat weeds and shrubs with bamboo poles.
The November days have begun to freeze in the country, and some even snow. However, it is still a very hot season in Manaus~ the highest temperature has reached 40 degrees!
In order to find the butterfly that was hiding, Fang Yuanshan found a bamboo pole and knocked on it along the way. It's a pity that the few I met were really ordinary!
Suddenly, a sky-blue butterfly flew out of the rhizome of a small tree, shimmering dreamily in the sun.
Last night he also made up for the knowledge of butterflies, of course! He made up all the most precious species of butterflies, but the butterfly in front of him was not among his evil supplements.
Taking out the camera, Fang Yuanshan is a click~~
After the photo was taken, the butterfly that flew away circled in the air and came to rest on a low shrub, its hanging blue and white wings exuding a metallic texture.
Fang Yuanshan lightly took out the telescopic net pocket in his backpack, pulled out the pole~, and then slowly approached the butterfly.
The breeze under the net bag may have made the butterfly feel strange, and the butterfly quickly spread its wings and flew high.
It's a pity that it's still late, under Fang Yuanshan's hand speed reaction of two hundred words per minute, the fate of that butterfly is already doomed.
As soon as it was covered, Fang Yuanshan immediately circled in the air, making the butterfly clinging to the net pocket, and then quickly pressed it to the ground.
Looking at the butterflies at the bottom, Fang Yuanshan laughed: "Sample, you are still a little tender when you play with me in the sky." ”
The butterfly was caught~ but how to keep it? It died quickly in the bottle and was held in his hand? He didn't know if he was allowed to catch the butterfly here, in case it was illegal?
His original goal was to take some photos, and bringing a net bag was just a subconscious act, and he didn't prepare for catching butterflies. Looking at the butterflies in his pocket, he was also in trouble.
Just put it away, and the photo was taken anyway. However, thinking that there would be an extra reward for catching a beautiful butterfly, I decided to give the other party a call. Seeing the two-bar signal on the mobile phone, Fang Yuanshan was happy.
When I got a call from him, he said, "What's the matter, isn't the picture good?
Fang Yuanshan said with a smile: "Not only is the photo good, but I also caught a butterfly, I just don't know what the other party can see or can't see?"
"Oh, yes, what butterflies? Don't be a roadside stall, that's not even enough for shipping. ”
He looked at the bottom of the road and said, "It's not enough to get a roadside stall, I also saw a lot of butterfly varieties last night, but I didn't see this one." ”
When I heard it, I didn't even know what kind of breed it was, so I immediately said, "Then you can take a picture and show me." ”
Hanging up the phone, Fang Yuanshan took out the data cable of his mobile phone and connected it to the camera, copied a few photos and then took the data cable down.
Within two minutes of sending the photo, the phone rang over there~ pressed the speakerphone and said, "Hey!"
Without waiting for him to speak, he hurriedly said, "Is your butterfly real or fake?"
Fang Yuanshan was confused and said: "What is really fake? I am all in the jungle now, isn't it just a butterfly, what else can I show you, you wait for me to take a few more pictures for you." ”
I put down the phone, took another wild shot at the butterfly from all angles, and then sent the photo. This time, I waited for more than ten minutes before I called: "Are you there?"
"Well, what's the matter, you haven't replied until now? ”
When they heard that they were going to let it go, they said angrily: "You are crazy, do you know what kind of butterfly it is? That's the 'Goddess of Light Butterfly'! That's hundreds of thousands of butterflies!"
As soon as he heard that it was hundreds of thousands of butterflies, Fang Yuanshan was also a little dumbfounded. It's not that he doesn't know, there are too many things in the hundreds of thousands. However, a butterfly is worth hundreds of thousands, which still surprises him, and then ecstasy!
Hurriedly turned his head to look at the hundreds of thousands of butterflies, and his hands trembled a little as he held the net pole. Recently, he has been almost driven crazy by money, and he really needs money so much.
Hearing that Fang Yuanshan suddenly lost his voice, the other side hurriedly 'hey, hey, hey' a few times, and only after hearing him answer, did he say, "What you need to do now is to quickly make it into a specimen, so that it can be preserved." ”
"It's best to go back now and do it right away, there is a big difference between dead and alive, I'll send the production method to your mailbox now. ”
Fang Yuanshan carefully pinched the butterfly net and pressed it to the ground to prevent this 'Goddess of Light Butterfly' from flying out. After grasping it steadily, he breathed a sigh of relief and wiped a handful of sweat that did not exist on his head.
Tearing off the pole of the net pocket directly, carrying the net bag, Fang Yuanshan walked in the direction he came.
After wandering around for nearly an hour, he returned to the same place, looking at the footprints on the ground and was dumbfounded, and now he was completely lost.
Thinking that he was lost anyway, he just kept moving forward, maybe he could meet someone! With this kind of self-comfort, Fang Yuanshan walked forward for another half an hour.
Hungry and thirsty along the way, he was really scared at this time, and the shock brought by the goddess of light butterfly had long been forgotten.
The surrounding dense forest, the occasional birdsong, was long gone by the time he turned his head to look for it. The sun began to slowly turn west, and Fang Yuanshan's heart began to sink gradually.
Gritting his teeth, he continued to walk forward for half an hour, and suddenly a patch of white appeared in the dense forest in front of him, and in the dense forest that was exactly the same but different shades of color, a piece of white was simply a lifesaver for him.
When I walked up to White, I realized that it was just a pile of rocks. Among them, there were several decayed arches, and the breath of ancient vicissitudes on the arches made him involuntarily touch them, feeling the glorious civilization of thousands of years ago.
Although he didn't know why there was an ancient stone gate here, there was a pile of rocks in the depths of the dense jungle, and it was certainly not a natural formation.
The hand that touched the stone door touched a raised stone, and subconsciously picked it. Fang Yuanshan, who was standing under the stone gate, saw a curtain of light hanging down above the stone gate, enveloping his whole body.
The light curtain scanned Fang Yuanshan's body a few times like scanning a barcode, and then the light curtain disappeared in a flash.
After Fang Yuanshan woke up from this psychedelic color, he quickly checked his whole body to see if there was anything different, in case this inexplicable light curtain had any viruses and germs, then he really didn't even know how to die.
After searching his whole body twice, he found that there was nothing unusual, and he temporarily put his mind at ease. At this time, I hurriedly looked at the goddess of light butterfly in the net pocket.
This sight was immediately overwhelmed with grief, and the butterfly disappeared. Unrelenting, he hurriedly circled around the pile of rocks, hoping that it would stop on some stone.
Reality told him that hundreds of thousands of dollars had flown away, and when he looked at the net pocket in his hand and at this pile of rubble, his mood fell to the bottom.
Alas, he sighed and turned around twice to sit down and rest, when a sharp pain came from his chest. Holding his chest~ legs bent and squatted on the ground, waiting for the severe pain to be relieved before picking it up~ opened his shirt and checked it.
This glance scared Fang Yuanshan half to death, and at some point, a pitch-black five-pointed star-shaped birthmark appeared on his chest.
Touching it with his hand, this five-pointed star has the same texture as a tattoo, and he even touched ~ the raised edge.
I knelt on the ground and waited for five minutes, but I didn't feel anything unusual in my body before I stood up.
Fang Yuanshan felt that today was the darkest day since he came to Brazil, hundreds of thousands of dollars flew away before he could cover the heat in his hand, and the process of gaining and losing made him feel grief-stricken now. The inexplicable appearance of the tattoo on his chest also cast a shadow on his heart