Chapter 1038: Evil Egg-Cutting Fish
From the afternoon, take to the streets to buy the items you need to enter the Amazon rainforest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At dinner in the evening, Bell deliberately asked Han Xuan to sleep well tonight, because in the next three days and two nights starting tomorrow, there would be no restful sleep to sleep.
Gabriel and Jason were worried about the safety of the little boss, so they brought enough medicines to prevent diseases and prepared a big bag.
Specially prepared signal receivers, connected to SOS satellites, can be located at any time, and it is not easy to find people in the huge rainforest.
Jason went to borrow a helicopter from a lumber company to ensure that someone could be sent to search and rescue him at any time, so he was relieved to let the small boss go with him.
They couldn't change Han Xuan's mind, they could only prepare for the worst-case scenario......
It's winter in the Southern Hemisphere, the rains aren't as terrible as in the summer, and the rainforest edges are not so dangerous, so I didn't worry too much, and there were many experienced local guides with me.
Secretary Shen stayed in the hotel to take care of Pooh, Little Barry and Fat Ding, they can't adapt to the environment there, and it is likely to be dangerous.
This made the life secretary, who was ready to go, very frustrated, but when he heard Bell scare that there were many snakes inside, he was very smart and decisively said that he didn't want to go.
Early the next morning.
They set off for the pier south of the city, where they rented five speedboats and sailed up the Amazon River to locations familiar to their guides.
Before the filming started, the assistant was helping Bell Grylls put on the microphone, and Han Xuan was the same.
Today he wore sturdy snake-proof boots, which he had prepared himself, but Bell said that waterproof boots that were not breathable and were not suitable for use in Amazon.
Because the air is too humid, too stuffy feet will be soaked, and it is easy to be infected by strange fungi, so I bought another pair on the street last night, Han Xuan didn't want to lose a few toes, shoes in the field are the most important.
When the bodyguards were training in the army, they had been to the rainforest, and they had prepared various things with great experience, and they were introducing their experience to the small boss.
Han Xuan knows Portuguese, and there is no pressure to communicate with the guide, and he asks a lot of things from the other party.
For example, electric eels live in the river, and there are highly aggressive and terrifying pythons that once swept people away from boats.
What scares him the most is a parasite called the Bamboo Stick Fish, which is small in size and viciously likes to parasitize holes in humans.
When they heard the guide say that it was not the ears, nostrils, etc., the people on the speedboat were collectively sluggish, and they all looked at their lower bodies, since they were not the holes above, then it was self-evident where they were.
Whether it's in the front or in the back, I feel a cool air......
It can be seen from the tone of his voice that the guide has a deep awe for this rainforest, and in Portuguese he speaks very quickly, he knows only the tip of the iceberg of the rainforest, and there are many things in it that people do not know.
The Amazon rainforest covers half of the world's tropical rainforests, spanning eight countries and almost two-thirds the size of Australia.
A quarter of the world's medicines come from here, and 99 percent of the plants have not been studied, making it a treasure trove of plants.
People call it the "lungs of the earth", but locals tell you that it's a "no-go zone for humans......
According to the latest research, the Amazon rainforest may not actually be a pristine rainforest, but a forest that has been transformed by the local indigenous people.
At its peak, it was home to 50 million people and an ancient civilization that was restored to its original state by the arrival of diseases from Europe by Westerners hundreds of years ago.
Today, the Amazon rainforest is still home to primitive tribes who are isolated from the outside world and have no idea what the world is like outside the rainforest.
There were attempts to come into contact with the original inhabitants, but after a few years, the natives all died because of the virus carried by the researchers.
For people in modern society, with the advancement of medical technology, many diseases are no longer a threat, but they are fatal to these natives who do not have contact with the outside world, and they have no antibodies.
Later, similar indigenous people were discovered, and it was common practice for scientists to isolate the area and study their behavior from a distance.
There are many similar tribes in the Amazon rainforest, and they will even worship things such as glass bottles and airplanes as gods......
The Amazon is the largest river in the world, with an average width of 20 kilometres downstream, and the speedboat travels only close to the shore, after a trek of more than three hours, during which it stops twice to refuel.
At this time, walking upstream from a tributary, Han Xuan did not dare to stand up at all, for fear of falling into the water.
Because, according to the guide, these rivers are not only infamous piranhas, but also "egg-cut fish" that are feared by men.
As the name suggests, fish don't like to eat meat like piranhas, but they like to follow males and wait for an opportunity to bite off their eggs with their sharp teeth.
There are already many people who have become half eunuchs because of this, and he doesn't want to have more of his own name in those names.
At that time, some people also brought the cut egg fish back to China as a pet because they thought it was funny, and the consequence was that some people in Europe were also cut eggs by this fish when they were swimming......
They had thought they would arrive soon, but the distance was farther than they had imagined, and the place they had just passed was a large area of barren clearing, which could not be regarded as a rainforest at all.
Seeing it with his own eyes, Han Xuan understood how grim the situation is today.
I had heard that it was degrading, disappearing the size of six basketball courts every minute, but I didn't have a clear idea of it.
Now I find that this place is now like a middle-aged man's hairline, receding more and more.
The people in the surrounding area were poor, so in 1970 the then president of Brazil made a foolish decision: to develop the Amazon rainforest.
The unbridled demand for cheap timber from the Amazon rainforest by developed countries is the main culprit for all this, which in turn triggers the greenhouse effect.
Although the true cause of the greenhouse effect is not yet known in the scientific community, the global impact of the loss of rainforest area is clear.
Coupled with the bad habit of burning the land, the people around the rainforest produce about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide every year, which the earth can no longer bear.
Now the Brazilian government is trying to control it, but it is not working very well, and the rate of decline is still very fast.
Being in a high position should have a sense of responsibility, Han Xuan was thinking at the moment, what could he do to protect here...... (To be continued.) )