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The bottomless waters of the river and the rapid currents of the water firmly confine all jungle life to land, just as land restricts aquatic animals. The river is even wider here, like a superhighway with countless tributaries.

This is the Congo River, which the locals call the "Fairy River".

It has countless aliases, diverse bodies, and nourishes countless lives.

Paddle on such a vast river, Chen Ergou is obviously much easier, and he no longer has to be as dangerous as drifting on a tributary.

He breathed a sigh of relief and could even lie lazily on the raft and rest for a while.

When he was hungry, he took out a handful of nectarines from his backpack, washed them under water and ate them, and said: "There are countless myths and legends here, the most popular and always believed by the local aborigines, is the legend about a river banshee with a human body and nine snake tails, and even now there are still tribes that make a living from fishing, worshipping the river banshee according to the season." They prayed for a safe return when they went into the water to fish. ”

"It doesn't stop there. Because the Congo Basin is so primitive, even if more explorers come to explore, it will still be difficult to exhaust its mysteries. As early as 200 years ago, expeditions went deep into the forests of the Congo River basin in search of the legendary and mysterious Congolese dinosaurs, which in the local Bantu language means "monsters that cut off the river". ”

He casually introduced a few short stories to pass the time.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the sky above a sandbar in front of him, and exclaimed, "Look, that pink cloud!"

He couldn't believe his eyes.

The audience in the live broadcast room did the same after seeing the picture clearly, really, a colorful cloud floated over the forest.

"It's a butterfly," Chen Ergou said loudly, "a whole billion butterflies." There is also a kind of cloud, which is lined up by jungle gray parrots. The clouds in this rainforest come in all colors – red, green, yellow, and multicolored. You'll know when you see the parrot cloud and the owl cloud. From afar, you will think that you are looking at a colorful picture. I only thought it was in the Amazon jungle, but I didn't expect to be able to catch a glimpse of this wonder in the Congo rainforest. ”

The audience's eyes widened and they were busy taking screenshots to save.

I don't know how many zoologists and photographers are also drooling with envy, and I can't wait to go to the scene to see enough.

Chen Ergou was amazed and said, "There are so many lives in this jungle, and every time the seasons change, their biological clock will remind them to start migrating. Tens of millions of yellow fruit bats are also famous for migrating to the upper marshes during the dry season, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to see them. But it's not worth the chance to witness a rare butterfly cloud. It is estimated that a flood in the jungle yesterday caused them to migrate in flocks today, and birds such as parrots have also begun to move their nests. ”

"As the so-called tree is a big wind, such a huge team flies without any worries, and it is naturally a day of predation and carnival of all kinds of large birds. ”

As he spoke, he pulled the camera up, and the audience could immediately clearly see a large number of snake eagles and hawks, preying on butterflies.

While witnessing this magical scene, Chen Ergou ate a little bit and was about to start the same long journey.

He grabbed the pulp again, "To survive here, every creature can't be lazy, and every moment has to fight for survival, even the trees. I'm no exception. Before the sun sets, you must find a place to rest. ”

For the upcoming voyage, he was both excited and a little worried and afraid.

After all, there is a mysterious unknown world ahead. There is only one region on earth that hides an unknown number of secrets in its hinterland.

Looking down at the sides of the raft, it was full of turquoise water, and I didn't know how deep it was.

"The Congo River is the deepest inland river in the world, with an average depth of about 200 meters. It is not as wide as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, although it stretches for thousands of kilometers, but 90% of it is only a few hundred meters wide. But occasionally there is a river up to 16 kilometers wide, like a huge lake. ”

"For example, this one in front of me stretches for several kilometers wide, and there is also a lot of aquatic life. ”

He could clearly see schools of fish swimming underneath the water, a sight that made one wonder if it was on the sea.

There is no sign of any danger ahead.

The sun is shining brightly, monkeys are babbling in the trees, and parrots and butterflies are flying up and down like dazzling waves.

Turning a bend, the water surface begins to change.

The transition from wide to narrow can be seen everywhere.

This also meant that the speed of the water also changed, and the raft was already drifting downstream at a very fast speed without him paddling.

The river bank began to narrow ahead, about 500 meters wide.

The water was smooth as a mirror, but the river was rushing forward, as if rushing to a date.

Chen Ergou had nothing to do except use the pulp to smooth out the raft.

"Look at the birds!"

After drifting forward for more than half an hour, the water area changed again, and Chen Ergou suddenly shouted.

The audience habitually looked at the sky on the live broadcast screen, but found that Chen Ergou was looking down at the water below the raft.

The dog's camera was aimed at the underwater, and the audience was stunned, "~!"

"I'm blind, is it a fish or a bird, how to fly under the water. ”

"Is this a white cormorant?"

"Made, like a mine, wrapped in large bubbles. ”

In this area of clear water, you can see a large bird with smooth white feathers and duck-like paws, flapping its wings to feed below the surface of the water. The river was blue, a dense school of fish swam by, and several birds that were supposed to fly in the blue sky swept through the water, looking like feathered torpedoes.

Chen Ergou recognized them, and said with some uncertainty: "This should be a kind of cape gannet that lives on the coast of South Africa, and generally forages in the sea, but I didn't expect them to be found in the depths of the Congo jungle." ”

Cape gannets are large in size and elegant in appearance with black and white plumage.

The dark lines of the beak and face seem to have been painted by the artist with a brush. The black and white color makes it extremely photogenic now.

"Not only are they extremely capable of diving, they can go up to eight metres into the water to catch fish, but they also have a very strong long-distance ability. They often follow the migratory paths of the fish, covering distances of more than 6,800 km. They have also been seen on the west coast of Australia. ”

The rafts were still drifting forward at a rapid pace, and before they had time to look closely, they had already disappeared behind them.

The audience is regretting that after turning another big bend in front of them, the scene that appeared in front of them instantly made the live broadcast room boil again.

Hundreds of graceful Cape Gannets flew in formation like bombers, clinging to the surface of the water in search of food.

Chen Ergou also opened his mouth slightly, just now he wondered where these cape gannets came from, but he didn't expect to see so many in a blink of an eye.

“…… Apparently, this is a flock of birds that migrate with fish in the Atlantic Ocean, but are unexpectedly attracted by this Congolese rainforest. ”

That's all he can explain.

Cape gannets are extremely capable of fishing, and their prey can be seen from an altitude of 30 meters. Then the wings are close to the body and sneak under the water like a torpedo. The body has a large bubble on it, and when you look at it from above, it seems that you have an ability to include yourself in the bubble.

Chen Ergou hurriedly probed the camera underwater to record this rare scene. He also kept explaining what he knew: "Cape gannets can even dive at speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour, and can sneak for long periods of time after going deep underwater to chase fish for prey. ”

However, this group of creatures from the sea really underestimated the Congo jungle.

At some point, a shadow swept across the water, as if it were a small dark cloud.

Chen Ergou looked up in horror and saw a strange scene, even more amazing than what he had seen in the water below just now.

"Am I blind that Archaeopteryx has appeared?"

"Wow, is this a primitive society, even Archaeopteryx appeared. ”

"It's scary, the baby is scared. ”

Some sailors exclaimed.

It is not difficult to visually see that the distance between the two ends of the wings of these huge birds flying through the sky is more than 3 meters long.

The big bird under the lens is really too individual, and has a very interesting and cute face. Larger in size than the white stork, it has a particularly large head, and the reason why people mistake it for Archaeopteryx is because of its huge, mottled beak.

Its huge beak resembles the head of a whale, with its eyes located at the front of the head, on the same plane as an owl's eyes.

There is also a pair of slender and powerful claws, although they are bent on the abdomen, but no one will think that those slender and sturdy legs are ornaments.

"It's a whalehead stork. ”

Chen Ergou was also amazed, and his mouth never closed, "It is rumored that the whalehead stork is the evolutionary remnant of Archaeopteryx and the largest bird in the world. It is also one of the oldest surviving birds in the world. ”

"Look at the beak of the bird, which is wide and thick, and the end of the beak is curved down into a hook. ”

"It's not for the sake of pretty, the tip of their beak is unusually sharp, and the perimeter is as sharp as a knife, which can easily penetrate the thick skin of a crocodile that even a sharp knife can't pierce, and the upper and lower pieces clamp the prey like a workpiece being clamped to a fitter's vice. It is a very lethal carnivorous bird. ”

"They feed mainly on fish such as lungfish and catfish, but also catch animals such as small crocodiles, soft-shelled turtles, water snakes, snails, frogs, and occasionally lizards, turtles, rats, other birds, or juvenile crocodiles. ”

His explanation was not over yet, and then, all the viewers in the live broadcast room witnessed a close-range hand-to-hand battle of the Sky Flying Brigade that can be called a "hero of air combat", which is comparable to a Hollywood blockbuster.

The whalehead stork actually targeted this group of cape gannets, which rarely appear in the jungle.

With its huge size and sharp beak, Africa's "native king bird" has an advantage. The average spread of wings is more than 2.5 meters, and when the beak of the bird pecks, it is a piece of bird feathers mixed with flesh and blood sprinkled into the sky.

It was simply stunned that the cape gannet, which had just been swimming and fishing, was attacked by a huge whalehead stork in the blink of an eye. The beautiful gannets were instantly damaged, their feathers mixed with flesh and blood flew down, and they fled in flocks in the direction of the distant Atlantic.

At this moment, nature has taught human beings a lesson, what is the law of the jungle!

Chen Ergou is used to the days when Huang Que is in the future, how could a person like him who is better than a monkey let go of this opportunity to pick up leaks.

"Haha, just go over and kill a few remnants of blood!"

Seeing the opportunity, he operated the raft and floated over, and from the claws of the whale stork, he grabbed two crooked cape gannets that had fallen on the water and struggled. Cape gannets are still alive, and they won't live long, so he quietly twisted around their necks, grinning at the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "This thing is a protected animal, but it is better to cheapen me than to waste it in this river." ”

The audience is no longer able to complain-

"it. ”

"If the dog master plays LOL, he must be hiding behind the team obscenely, waiting for all his teammates to die, and then jumping out with blood to magnify the head dog that grabs people's heads. ”