Chapter 194 [Elephant Village]
Only after experiencing the dense entanglement of branches and vines in the jungle can we know the value of such a "jungle highway". Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Staring at this "elephant road", a scene immediately comes to mind: hundreds of thousands of elephants silently drive through the jungle, day after day, year after year, with their thick bodies and thick elephant legs, in the dense jungle to carve out a network of passages that crisscross and stretch in all directions.
At the same time, one cannot help but ask, where do these endless "elephant roads" lead to the jungle? What is the scene inside the "elephant road"? How many elephants are hiding on the other side of the "elephant road"?
"Look: it's all traces of elephant friction and impact. Chen Ergou pointed to a trace and shouted at the camera.
"There are also here, the bark and trunks pierced by the tusks of elephants. Anthony said.
"There is also elephant dung by the roadside. ”
There are more and more traces around, but the eyes of everyone are not excited, but worried, which means that there must be many elephants gathered in front of them.
"Do you want to stage the scene of an encounter with an elephant on a narrow road again?" shuddered at the thought.
But it's been a long time since they've enjoyed running fast in the Congolese jungle like this.
As we all know, no one can give up this high-speed elephant road.
"Pray that you don't touch an elephant, Jesus bless!" Jenny said with a weak expression and a cross on her chest.
Anthony comforted, "Jenny, it's going to be fine. "He seems to be much bolder today, and I don't know if he has confessed like Jenny.
But reality never makes people happy, God only exists in faith. Sometimes, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come, and the more you think about something, the faster it will come. At this moment, a loud trumpet cry in front of them clearly reached everyone's ears.
A huge white bull elephant blocked the way.
Chen Ergou, who was leading the way in front, suddenly stopped, and Jenny, who was running behind, almost hit him headbutt.
When everyone raised their heads, they suddenly realized that there was darkness in front of them, and at first glance they thought that a huge tree was blocking the light. When I looked up, it was another elephant, a white elephant.
It's just that I've never seen such a big forest elephant before.
It is well known that forest elephants are much smaller than steppe elephants in order to adapt to the dense plant environment of the Congolese rainforest.
The team shuddered again, silent.
The bull elephant was taken aback when he saw them, and immediately stopped, stared at them, roared with his long nose, and stretched out his long nose to sniff their scent. Its large, round ears, which had been hanging over its shoulders, were now spread out like two giant umbrellas. Each ear is as big as a fan, and its body is a thick wall more than three meters high.
Chen Ergou looked at it, estimating that it was at least fourteen feet from the edge of one ear to the edge of the other. The skin is rare white, like a god.
If it appeared in India, I am afraid it would already be a blessing from some god.
It's just that it's a bit troublesome now, and the most important thing is that because the elephant road in front of you is a one-way street, there are no roads that cross each other like the elephants they met before, so they can get out of the way or the elephants get out of the way.
Then one side is bound to retreat.
But can they back down, will the retreat cause the elephants to take the initiative to pursue?
Chen Ergou had to think about it comprehensively and hesitated.
Anthony shuddered, "Maybe we should give way." ”
"Where is it?" asked Chen Ergou, pointing to the "wall" formed by the thick bushes on both sides of the path.
"We can go back and put some distance from it. Old Baker also proposed.
"It's just going to mess things up, and the elephants might catch up. It was much faster than us on the path, and we were only crushed into patties by its five, or even six-ton body. ”
At this time, the bull elephant raised its long trunk and roared, and a cold air came in, and the birds and monkeys in the surrounding treetops screamed and fled in all directions.
The audience in the live broadcast room also sweated for them, "Seriously, this trip to the Congo rainforest is the most difficult." ”
"It's really embarrassing for the dog, it's so difficult, and you have to bring three oil bottles. ”
"Come on, dog, the monthly pass is all for you!"
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"Squat down, put your head down, and trust me. Chen Ergou shouted.
Although this move was very shameless, the other three had already been taken away by this huge guy, and they squatted down without the slightest hesitation. Even Rengar was forcibly pressed by Chen Ergou to squat on the side of the road.
At the same time, he tried his best to "communicate" with the giant bull elephant.
He still remembers the emotion he felt when he looked at the mother elephant after saving the baby elephant last time, and the feelings he conveys now are the state of mind at that time. That sincere, natural heart-to-heart exchange.
Elephants are very intelligent animals, they have great social skills, and they have a super memory. Chen Ergou believed that this white bull elephant could calm his anger.
The elephant is an animal with complex feelings, and sometimes it gets angry and will ruthlessly tear and trample the animals that invade it into meat sauce. But they are very contradictory, and after killing the animals, they will bury them with leaves.
Nobody knows why? Nobody can say. Because you can't understand the inner world of an elephant!
The male elephant looked at Chen Ergou suspiciously, excitement flashed on Chen Ergou's face, and he felt the anger of the elephant gradually disappearing.
More often than not, this guy is still very docile, sometimes he is magnanimous, sometimes he is suspicious and jealous, sometimes he is mischievous and playful, sometimes he is serious and restrained, sometimes he is timid and shy, sometimes he is brave and extraordinary, sometimes he is short-tempered, sometimes he is gentle and kind.
Chen Ergou felt that the elephant was gradually calming down, and his heart was overjoyed, so he stood up straight and reached out to stroke the elephant's body. The three of Baker watched in horror, "Chen ......"
The elephant did not retreat or panic, and its huge trunk suddenly stretched out to wrap Chen Ergou's neck.
"Oh, what are you going to do, I can't handle you. Chen Ergou was embarrassed, separated one arm from the place where his neck was wrapped, and said with a wry smile: "Is this considered self-defeating." He felt the elephant's trunk roll up like a sticky piece of soft rubber, dexterous and very agile.
The tremendous force almost suffocated his small body.
"Oh my God, save Chen. Jenny exclaimed.
"Meow~~" Rengar tilted his head in confusion.
Old Baker wondered, "Wait, it seems to be getting close to Chen." ”
"Don't, don't move. Chen Ergou was also busy stopping them, "Do you still have bananas, give me a large bunch of bananas." Anthony hurriedly handed over a bunch of bananas on his back. Chen Ergou took it and handed it to the elephant's mouth. When the elephant had something to eat, he immediately let go of Chen Ergou, and his nose flexibly rolled up a large bunch of bananas and ate them.
Chen Ergou breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw everyone looking at him suspiciously, he explained a little, and said, "I once rescued a baby elephant stuck in a quagmire in this forest, and maybe it still has some elephant smell on it. ”
Everyone was stunned, and after letting go of the panic, they were all envious.
"I think we can go. ”
Beckoning everyone to walk sideways past the elephant's massive body.
The elephant happily ate the banana and didn't care anymore.
Chen Ergou glanced at the live broadcast room with a smile and said, "It ignores us now, but we still have to be careful and try not to block its way." Otherwise it won't be kind to you. Signs like this can be seen on many roads in Africa: Let the elephants go first!"
"Other animals may step aside, but they never will. Because it knows where its strengths lie, and it is used to relying on its own strength and size to run amok, so why should it give way to someone or something?"
"A person on foot is like an insect to an elephant, ready to be knocked down at any time, just as it is as easy as we are afraid of a mosquito. ”
Under the leadership of the veteran driver, the leather car completed a high-level passage with this huge jungle elephant on a narrow road.
Everyone felt exhausted, but the audience in the live broadcast room was very hilarious, this trip to the Congo Basin was simply thrilling and exciting-
"The old driver's skills are slippery, and the elephant also hooks up, ahh
"To be reasonable, the Pippi Shrimp has these oil bottles, and the difficulty of surviving in the wilderness of the dog has surged. If he had taken the risk alone, he would have come back sooner. ”
"That's what the dog does, you can't leave people behind, so what do others think of him. ”
The last scream of the bull elephant was swallowed up by the forest, and for a while, several people stood there in a daze.
"Chen, you're really a mysterious figure. Baker said.
Chen Ergou smiled and said, "Thank you, I'll just praise you." ”
But this kind of thing was everywhere in the jungle, because the density of animals here seemed to be denser than the area he had walked through alone before.
Looking around, one has to admit that this place is sinister.
The further you go, the shape of the forest changes again.
Giant trees stood on both sides of the elephant road like ancient giants, and they were all covered with a thick layer of long-bearded moss, looking like long-bearded old men in the twilight. The branches of each tree were coiled around a few hundred meters of black snake-like vines. From below, you can only see a small piece of sky. Occasionally, a few white clouds drifted by, as if they were floating among the trees, and the ground was foggy, like the claws of a giant beast in the sky, looking for fat people to make a meal.
But in such a dangerous place, there is a heavenly clearing for elephants to play and play. This is a place they built for themselves.
The sound of the elephant suddenly became dense, and then the crowd stepped into such an elephant gathering place.
"Oh my God, a village of elephants. ”
"Paradise for animals!"
Everyone was amazed, a patch of grass appeared in front of them, and a few waterholes were scattered.
A herd of elephants roams around in the clearing, flexing their muscles and attracting the attention of the mother. A few baby elephants, coquettish around the big recommendation of the elephant mother's stout.
Not only elephants, but also the mysterious Congolese race that has never been found, the silverback gorilla family, the prototype of the movie "King Kong", is a silverback gorilla with its harem and children, resting on the edge of the clearing.
Less common is the presence of a herd of bison, whose fur is yellow, a bit like an old ox. It's just that their horns are also very short, and their two large ears are covered with dense hair, which looks more like they are wearing a pair of furry earmuffs.
There is also a herd of colorful jungle deer and antelopes with short horns during their active period. They are at the bottom of the food chain, and even in this peaceful open space, they drink with caution.
Most often seen are the colorful hummingbirds flying in the air, eating bugs on bison and elephants.
In the middle of the waterhole, several whale-headed storks that looked like Archaeopteryx were gracefully moving their long legs, and they were moving something along the waterholes, could there be fish in the salt lake? Chen Ergou once snatched two seabirds from the whale-headed stork.
The scene in front of me is like a natural zoo, full of incredible. The live broadcast room is also lively-
"It's unbelievable, it's a paradise for the animal kingdom. ”
"666, what a beautiful place, the animals are safe with each other. ”
"Friends, a paradise for animals. Chen Ergou smiled at the camera.
Without waiting for him to remind him, the audience couldn't help but take screenshots, and even Jenny and the others were busy taking out the camera to record it.
Chen Ergou saw that the audience in the live broadcast room was still applauding faithfully, and a sense of pride arose in his heart.
He walked over, reached out and put some water to his mouth, licked it and spit it out, and suddenly said, "It turns out that this is a salt lake, and elephants need salt, and gorillas and bison also need salt." ”
"Elephants use their trunks to dig deep into the water, spraying salt out of the ground like high-pressure jet guns and eating it themselves. Other animals are stained with elephant light and only need to drink water. ”
"But the most important thing for me is to be able to see the sun above me again. This allows me to tell where I am now. ”
Take out the map, look at it carefully, and plan where you're going next.
At this moment, there was a riot in the elephant herd. It turned out to be a young bull elephant in a manic period, screaming excitedly and chasing other bulls. It was clearly in a period of sexual agitation, and the excitement of hormonal stimulation made it seem that it had said goodbye to its sanity.
Other animals in the surrounding area avoided it, fearing that it would affect the pond fish.