Chapter 182 [How long will it take, Fang Xian is persistent]
"How long to go, how long to show perseverance, how long to think, to be visionary", this is a very popular advertising slogan of Chen Ergou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, now this phrase is very practical and present.
In this world, there are always some landscapes that only exist in people's imagination, and there are always some expectations that have been remembered in dreams.
What you see in front of you is completely beyond the reach of those maps and photographs.
Behind the scenes, there is a secret of creation that affirms the Creator of God.
"Oh my God!"
"God!"
The three people around him were instantly conquered by this beauty, and even Old Baker was no exception, like a devout Christian with a cross on his chest, muttering to himself: "Only heaven can see!"
Chen Ergou and the audience in the live broadcast room are not like this, even the audience who has never thought of screenshots can't help but have the idea of screenshots.
Up close, there is a trapezoidal forest that spreads forward, more than two meters high, with upright grass stalks, smooth grass knots, and blades as flat as knives, like a column of guards, guarding the edge of the forest.
The camera zooms in slightly to reveal a forest of shrubs, dotted with countless large, colorful flowers. From a distance, it is a colorful apron, which shines even brighter in the sun.
Countless butterflies and tree bees fly during this period, and they have an endless supply of sap and nectar that can never be eaten.
Further ahead, the woods slope upwards and are a volcano covered in dense vegetation. The trees at the foot of the volcano are red, with occasional patches of green dotted like a desert oasis. The higher it goes, it reverts to a green surrounding, with distinct hierarchies on each other, looking like an impressionist painting.
On the left side of the mountain, a waterfall is folded into several sections, resembling a white scarf flowing down from a mountain stream. In the deep valley where the waterfall falls, it looks like a milky white light smoke from a distance.
A rainbow rises behind the rays of the sun's refraction, and several large white birds fly in front of the waterfall, and the birds chirp like a dream.
The crater mountains in the distance are no longer visible, and the natural secondary forest is mixed with strange trees like Warcraft treants, and occasionally a towering tree will rise into the sky, like a lord, dominating an area on his own. There are also countless vines that crisscross through the trees, not only growing around the trees, but even growing out of the middle of the trunks.
This is like a picture that only exists in comics!
It is a forbidden area for humans, but it is a paradise for monkeys, gorillas and other animals.
"Praise God! Old Baker finally sighed and put down the camera, but his eyes still couldn't take his eyes off the scenery.
Chen Ergou was quite calm, took out the parchment scroll copy map from his arms, looked at it again and again, and determined the direction.
With a dry cough, he gestured to his presence and said, "There is a secondary forest there, maybe someone has done mining there." Maybe there's an abandoned mine, a diamond mine or something. Anyway, I'd like to go over and have a look. You ......"
"Really? Great!"
Before he finished speaking, Jenny couldn't help but take the lead in agreeing, "I just wanted to convince you to take us over to enjoy the scenery, but I didn't expect you to have the same idea." β
Anthony, who has not spoken much, also raised his hand and said, "This idea is fantastic, I raise my hands in approval." β
βMeοΌtooγ Old Baker smiled and shrugged, "Of course." Chen, we still have to rely on your opinion, otherwise I'm afraid that the three of us won't be able to get out if we can get in. β
Chen Ergou raised his eyebrows, this group of Americans really forgot the pain when the scars were healed.
Fortunately, it didn't delay him.
This time, even the audience in the live broadcast room was united. Who told Chen Ergou to take out his map that was suspected to be a treasure map again!
Chen Ergou put away the map, tightened the backpack strap around his waist, and said, "Then there is nothing to say." We set out to find the stream through the elephant grass forest, and then went up the river to reach it by noon. β
With a goal, everyone immediately becomes full of motivation.
A human-shaped passage was slashed through the elephant grass forest, where the original elephant grass blades had rough edges that would leave cuts on the arms and face if you weren't careful.
There is also standing water in the low-lying area underfoot, which is a masterpiece of last night's rain.
Such an environment invisibly adds more obstacles to the road ahead.
Fortunately, the elephant grass forest is not large, and this is not a grassland after all.
It is not easy for these elephant grasses to grow such a huge patch in the fiercely competitive Congo jungle.
"Be careful with your step, don't reach out and touch any blades of grass, because it could be a snake, try to keep them apart with sticks. Follow the path I have walked, and don't get lost if you get closer. I don't want to go back to you. β
There were occasional jokes along the way, and the rest was all his calm commanding voice.
This is the first time Chen Ergou has led someone, and it doesn't feel so difficult.
Maybe I've been talking in English all this time, and the number of foreign viewers in the live broadcast room has increased a lot. Those are all IP addresses from abroad, which makes the technicians of Panda data monitoring a little dumbfounded, "Why, Panda is going to develop into an international website?" He was a little thoughtful, Xu was too involved, and even made a refreshing spirit, but he didn't forget to tell the boss the news.
Out of the Elephant Grass Forest, you enter a fairy tale world like a Disney movie: what it's like to have thousands of colorful butterflies flying around you, that's it.
Real flowers, blooming in the mountains and wilderness. The beauty they inadvertently reveal makes people intoxicated and do not know the way back.
The enchanting environment infects people's emotions, as if they have really entered a fairy tale world.
Of course, if it weren't for the occasional buzzing of flies, it might have been a fantastic ride.
"Don't get bitten by these flies, drive them away or kill them, and don't let them land on your skin. β
"Chen, why is that?"
"Flies don't seem to bite, do they?"
Chen Ergou said: "That's not an ordinary fly, it's smaller than an ordinary fly, but it's very famous." Those are the famous tsetse flies in Africa, and people will get drowsy when they are bitten. β
"It turned out to be a tsetse fly. Of course they'd heard the name, but they hadn't thought of it for a while.
Old Baker said, "Chen is right. The tsetse fly is a blood-sucking insect and is considered the most dangerous fly on the planet. It usually feeds on the blood of humans, domestic animals, and wild animals, and can also transmit human sleep sickness as well as a similar disease in domestic animals, African trypsomiasis. β
"My colleagues have studied economic disparities, agricultural development, and population density in Africa from the perspective of tsetse flies, and found a very deep connection. β
Chen Ergou was also very curious when he heard this, and said, "Professor, analyzing tsetse flies can also study the economy and population density?"
He had always thought that zoologists studied animals, but he didn't expect that he could also study regional economies from animals.
It was rare for Chen Ergou to take the initiative to ask, and Old Baker was a lot more happy, and said: "Yes, in addition to the animals themselves, the tsetse fly in Africa is also extremely valuable for research. Even the current population density and agricultural distribution are inextricably related to the density index of the tsetse fly. β
Idle is also idle, and it is not bad to listen to the old man's nagging occasionally, Chen Ergou continued to praise, "The first time I heard of such a point of view, it is very novel." Please continue, I'm listening. β
The old man laughed and began to talk endlessly, and Chen Ergou listened for a moment and roughly understood.
It turns out that tsetse flies prefer to feed on animal hosts, especially domestic animals. As a result, where the tsetse fly is prevalent, agriculture and livestock cannot develop, and in some places slavery is even used for forced labor.
Wild animals are more immune to trypanosomiasis than domestic animals, so the area is mostly hunting. Just like the Evenki, the last hunting tribe in China, most of the time it is the environment that determines the way of life. It's not that they want to live that life. Now after the relocation of Sinicization,The number of people who still insist on hunting has continued to decrease.γ
This is also the reason why the world is developing so fast in science and technology, and the Congo in Africa is still hunting for a living. Of course, the specific research cannot be explained in a few words, and there must be many knowledge points that he has not designed.
"Then why not wipe them all out. Anthony asks a fool's question, "In areas where agriculture and livestock are needed, large-scale spraying of pesticides can do it." β
"That's not going to work. β
Old Baker taught, "Have you forgotten the ecological balance?" Each animal has its own role in place, even if it's a vampire insect. Although Africans suffer greatly, even 50,000 people die directly or indirectly from the tsetse fly disease every year, and the economic loss is as high as 4 billion US dollars, they treat the tsetse flies as friends and do not even deliberately kill them. β
Chen Ergou suddenly said, "I think I understand what you mean." β
"Oh?"
The three of them looked at him in unison.
Chen Ergou said with a smile: "Tsetse flies curb the rapid development of animal husbandry, otherwise millions of cattle and antelope herds on the grassland will eat up all the grass, and there will be no environment for other animals to live." β
"Great example. Cattle are particularly afraid of tsetse flies, but other wildlife are much more resistant, so there are areas where cattle can't go, and these wildlife parks have been preserved. Old Baker said happily when he saw Hunter: "Chen, do you want to study zoology, how about I recommend you to be admitted without entrance exams and become my graduate student?"
The audience in the "poof......" live broadcast room almost sprayed him to death.
"Where did the old man come from, he actually invited our big dog master to study? β
"My big dog knows everything, and no one in the world knows!"
"I just checked this old man, and he is really a real professor and scholar, and he seems to be very authoritative in the zoological community. β
"Master Dog won't go to school in the United States, right?
Chen Ergou was also a little ridiculous, shook his head and refused: "I'm afraid I can't promise you, I'm a chef! I prefer to put them down, peel them, and then cut them into pieces of meat and put them in my pot to cook into a delicious meal." β
The audience instantly laughed and paralyzed, and the barrage was full of laughter.
β23333^_^β
"This is their dog. β
"Foodies are invincible!"
"This old man is going to be dizzy. β
It's not like I'm dizzy, but this answer is inevitably a bit shocking for the three people who have dedicated their lives to zoology.
There was a stream ahead, it was very clear and the current was not too fast. It should be a tributary under the branch of the upstream water level. They waded through the water and went up the stream.
Reingar jumped onto Chen Ergou's shoulder, jumped from left to right, and paced back and forth, as if trying to find a good place to lie down and rest. In the end, I found that I could only be comfortable lying on my backpack.
The corners of Chen Ergou's mouth curled, he turned his neck sideways, rubbed against it with half of his cheek and head, and touched each other's foreheads intimately. Rengar tried to stick out his tongue to lick him again, but he dodged him, he didn't want to be scraped a bloody mark on his handsome face by the "sandpaper".
The little guy hasn't developed the problem of not licking people's faces, and it seems that he will have to cultivate more tacit understanding in the future.
Rengar "meowed", found the right place, and narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. Sitting on the backpack, the front half of his body was lying on one shoulder, one paw was on Chen Ergou's chest, and he was "purring" in his mouth and blowing hot air on his neck to rest.
Chen Ergou is not worried that it will fall, but he tries to avoid some bumps and jumps when walking.
Such a harmonious picture of one person and one pet has made countless people drool with envy.
Jenny unconsciously clicked the shutter to record a photo of the tall man interacting intimately with the pet beast on his shoulders against the background of the light transmitted by several pillars of sunlight under the shade of the trees.
There's a saying.
Maturity is not about age, it's an experience!
Elegance has nothing to do with dressing up, it's about temperament!
With such a picture, people can't bear to disturb it, and the audience in the live broadcast room has become a fan sister and a fan brother in an instant.
"Ah~!"
Sometimes danger comes suddenly.
As they walked, three people suddenly screamed in unison from behind, like cats with their tails stamped, jumping out of the water and almost falling into the stream.
Even Chen Ergou, who led the way in front, was no exception, his body shook violently, and he jumped ashore quickly.
"There's something underwater!" the crowd screamed.
"Calm down!"
Chen Ergou let out a low snort to stop the panic.
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