Prologue: The African Prospector
Summer 2018 AD. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There is a famous "knife mark" on the earth called the Great Rift Valley, near the Great Rift Valley, there is a crocodile lake in Ethiopia called Lake Chamo.
A few kilometers away from Lake Chamo, there is a camp enclosed with barbed wire on the slopes of the highlands, and there is a group of soldiers with loaded guns at the gate of the camp.
It was late at night, the sky was faintly visible with a few stars, and the earth could only make out vague outlines, but the African wilderness was not quiet, and the air was mixed with the sounds of insects, bringing life to the wilderness.
Suddenly, there was an intermittent quarrel at the gate of the camp, and after a while, suddenly there was the sound of rapid running from the camp in the direction of Lake Chamo.
I saw a young man in an orange uniform hurrying towards the lake.
He seems to be venting something, with an extremely complicated expression, pain, regret, loss, and confusion, which is comparable to the Oscar winner.
His name is Xiao Chen, 23 years old this year, he has experienced many ups and downs after graduating from ordinary university for a year, first he ran into a wall everywhere to find a job, and finally entered the local design institute, his performance was too good and he was excluded and oppressed by his colleagues and even framed, and finally took the initiative to resign and leave, and later thanks to the recommendation of his university teacher, he followed the geological team to Africa as an intern to carry out geological exploration operations.
Despite the difficult conditions of field work, who can engage in this industry cannot endure hardship, in fact, the most difficult to defeat is loneliness and loneliness. But in Xiao Chen's opinion, these are nothing, because he likes this job.
Xiao Chen was born in an ordinary rural family in the mountainous area of Xiangxi, China, Xiao Chen's father is a hard-working and simple medicine farmer, in addition to planting crops in his own responsibility field, he also contracted a small amount of wasteland in the mountain behind the village to grow medicinal herbs.
Xiao's father hopes that his son will become a doctor when he grows up and realize his unfulfilled dream.
So Xiao Chen was taken by his father to pick herbs over the mountains and mountains since he was a child, identify all kinds of flowers, plants, insects, birds, and animals, and after he was a little older and began to read, he was forced to recite the medical classics such as "Soup Song Recipe", "Pulse of the Lake", "Medicinal Fu", "Four Sacred Heart Sources", "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Difficult Scripture".
Xiao Chen, who is smart and has a good memory, is very wild and active, and reciting such a boring book is almost fatal, so he was beaten by his father a lot.
Xiao Chen has always envied the children of the same age in the village, and feels that his entire childhood and even adolescence are miserable and dark.
Although he was influenced by traditional Chinese medicine since he was a child, Xiao Chen was not cultivated to have a strong interest in traditional Chinese medicine, but he was obsessed with archaeology and geology, and even later Xiao Chen was admitted to university and directly chose geology, which directly shattered Xiao's father's expectations, so the father and son had many conflicts.
Today is really a special day, it is the third anniversary of Xiao Chen and his girlfriend's official relationship, and it is also a breakup day, because he is far away in a foreign country, his girlfriend really can't bear the torment of a long-distance relationship and the various temptations around her, so she proposed to break up on the phone today.
In fact, not to mention that Xiao Chen also knew that this day would come sooner or later, his girlfriend had been cold to him for half a year, and the two of them were not together, Xiao Chen knew very well in his heart, coupled with the mood that had been suppressed recently, he ran out of the camp just to vent.
The camp guards were worried about Xiao Chen's personal safety when he went out at night, so they didn't let Xiao Chen out of the camp before they quarreled with him.
Unconsciously, Xiao Chen ran all the way to the edge of Chamo Lake, perhaps because of the mania and depression in his heart, he paused slightly, and then suddenly ran quickly, leaned forward, leaped, and plunged into the calm lake like a mirror, diving to the limit in one breath before surfacing, and after inhaling deeply, Xiao Chen continued to swim into the depths of the lake.
After swimming for a distance, I suddenly felt a palpitation, and the more I swam, the stronger this feeling became, and I immediately decided to swim back, and the water around the lake began to fluctuate violently not long after swimming back.
In an instant, there was a sudden tearing pain in his thighs, arms, and abdomen, and then a small whirlpool appeared in the lake around Xiao Chen, just sucking him and the crocodile that was tearing him in.
Xiao Chen, who was sucked into the whirlpool, had a heart-rending pain all over his body, what was more terrifying than the pain was the fear of the unknown and death, the fear was so extreme that he calmed down, and the instinct to survive forced him to struggle desperately, but it was to no avail.
Xiao Chen realized that he was about to die, and the most guilty and uncontrollable in his heart were his parents, younger brothers and sisters, and unfortunately there were many unfulfilled wishes.
After a few moments, the whirlpool disappeared, and everything from being attacked and bitten by a swarm of crocodiles to being sucked into the whirlpool only happened in a split second.
The lake was calm again, as if nothing had just happened before, and the horror of a crocodile predation could not have been more normal for the African wilderness......
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