The guide Elusine is often asked questions about cannibals by tourists, especially Asians from abroad, and when she sees Ye Zhenzhen, Elusine starts to introduce her in advance.

After passing through the second small tribe, a river appeared deep in the rainforest, and there was an open meadow on the bank, and the grass on the grass showed signs of being gnawed by buffalo, but there was no sign of buffalo.

The car slowed past the edge of the meadow and into another rainforest.

The guide, Elusine, said happily while driving: "Fortunately, I didn't meet the black buffalo, that thing looks docile, but actually likes to attack humans, and the most terrible animals here are not lions, tigers, elephants, but black buffaloes, and many people have died under their docile appearance." ”

Elusine grumbled and continued driving until she reached the entrance to a valley.

"It's this valley, there are monkeys in the valley, there's a big cave in the valley, there are often elephants in it to find mineral salts to eat, there are bats in the cave, they will go out of the cave every evening or so to feed, the off-road vehicles can't get in, if you want to go up, you can only hike. ”

Elusine, the guide, looked up at the towering hills on the west side of the valley, which resembled a huge cone placed on flat ground, wide at the bottom and steep at the top, covered by dense forests.

Nan Zhiqiao was holding a few maps, the top of which was a topographic map of the nearby rainforest, the drawings were still parchment, and they looked very old.

According to Nan Zhi Qiao on the road, this is really an antique, was painted by a European more than a hundred years ago, he came to Africa to do geological surveys, drew a lot of map manuscripts, some of them were scattered, several of them were inadvertently obtained by a local businessman, this merchant happened to be a friend of Nan Zhi Qiao, because he knew that Nan Zhi Qiao liked African history and geography, so he gave this parchment map as a gift to Nan Zhi Qiao.

Looking at the map markers, Nan Zhiqiao asked, "This mountain is an extinct volcano?"

"It's an extinct volcano. Guide Elusine looked at the handsome Asian man in front of her in surprise and asked, "You know at a glance that this is an extinct volcano?"

Nan Zhiqiao shook the parchment map in his hand, "It's indicated on the map." ”

Guide Elusine smiled wryly and asked for Minami Joe's opinion, "What now? Do you set up traps in the valley or move your equipment to the cave above the extinct volcano on the west side of the valley?"

Nan Zhiqiao's arrangement is to first set up monkey traps in the place where the monkeys in the valley are active, then bring the sampling box, tent, and biosafety protective equipment up the mountain, go into the cave in the afternoon to explore and sample, stay near the cave at night, and return the next day.

The whole arrangement was similar to the location and time of Ellus's event at the time, hoping to get more clues about the reservoir of the new virus.

After arranging the tasks to be completed in two days, everyone began to get to work.

Vera helps unload the gear from the car, and Nan Joe helps guide Elusine and Dr. Sky pick a spot in the valley and set up a monkey trap.

After working for more than half an hour, the monkey trap was set up and hidden, and the guide, Elusine, packed the ticket and said, "I will definitely catch the monkey this time, because I chose the place where the monkey must pass every day." ”

Ye Zhenzhen was curious, followed the three of them, to see how to arrange the trap, the so-called monkey trap, is to bring the big cage, the cage mouth is opened, fixed with an automatic return device, and then the entire cage is covered with dead branches and rotten leaves, on the cover outside the cage mouth, and then put a striking red fruit, as long as the monkey comes to get the fruit, it will step on the mechanism, fall into the cage, the cage door automatically closes, and the monkey is caught.

Just as Ye Zhenzhen sighed at the exquisite design of the cage trap, suddenly, a gust of wind in the dense forest brought a faint fishy smell.

Ye Zhenzhen's nose is extremely sensitive, and she smells this fishy smell mixed with the humid air, which is only emitted when animal carcasses are decomposing.

Following the source of the scent, Ye Zhenzhen walked towards the depths of the valley rainforest.

"Ah......h

With a terrifying scream, Nan Zhiqiao, who was about to go back, heard that it was Zhenzhen's voice and hurriedly ran over.

In the distance, Nan Zhiqiao saw Ye Zhenzhen covering her nose and standing next to a big tree with dense foliage.

"Zhenzhen, what's wrong?" Nan Zhiqiao shouted as he ran.

Ye Zhenzhen covered her nose, tilted her head sideways, and pointed to the front of the big tree with her finger, "There are so many corpses!"

Running to Zhen Zhen's side, a pungent fishy smell rushed from the front of the tree.

Standing next to the trunk of the tree, Nan Zhiqiao found that there were many monkey corpses lying on the potholed grass in front of the big tree.

The corpses were decomposed to varying degrees, some had decomposed to reveal their bones, and the corpses were crawling with maggots, and some seemed to have just died and had not yet begun to decompose, but this kind of newly dead monkey corpse looked even more terrifying.

The monkey's eyes were half-open, the whites of the eyes were reddish-brown, there were undried blood stains in the corners of the eyes, and the monkey's mouth, nose, and ears all had black-red bloody fluids flowing out.

The symptoms of the monkey corpse are the same as those of humans who have died from the new virus in the small town of Keith.

The guides, Elusine and Dr. Sky, arrived and were amazed to see so many monkey carcasses.

"It's so abnormal that so many monkeys have died. Guide Elusine stared nervously at the monkeys' corpses, "This is the newly opened monkey mound, and the monkeys have put their dead monkeys here. ”

Dr. Sky is more concerned about the monkeys' deaths, "They also seem to be infected with the new virus, and the symptoms of the deaths are the same as those of humans in this outbreak." ”

As soon as she heard this, it turned out that the monkeys were also infected with this plague, and the guide Elusine took two steps back in horror and scolded slightly: "The monkeys are also infected with the human plague, it is too evil, will other animals also be infected? Will these monkey corpses infect us?"

Nan Zhiqiao made a backward gesture to the crowd and said, "Let's go back to the buggy first." ”

The four men exited the valley and returned to the buggy.

The guide, Elusine, began to think about how to convince the group to go back early, thought for a while, and said to Nan Zhiqiao, "The monkeys are all dead, do you still want to catch the rest?"

"Well, go ahead and catch a few live monkeys, the living monkeys in the valley may have antibodies against the new virus in their blood, I'm going to the monkey mound now to collect some corpse specimens, you guys are waiting here. ”

Seeing that Nan Zhiqiao had no intention of going back, the guide Elusine stopped talking, after all, he took so much money from other people, enough to spend it for a year, for the sake of money, he couldn't back down, besides, this group of people might really be able to find something to save the lives of the whole town.

Nan no Qiao put on a biosafety suit and walked into the valley rainforest like an astronaut.

Ye Zhenzhen also got dressed, carried the sampling box, and followed behind Nan Zhiqiao.

In the monkey mound next to the big tree in the valley, there were more than a dozen dead monkeys, large and small, and each of them died miserably.

Usually, the monkey group is buried and disposed of by the dead monkeys, and sometimes funerals are held, but the temporary monkey mounds found this time, the monkey corpses are thrown on the ground at will, and it seems that a large number of monkeys have died, which has a great impact on the monkey group, and even affects their usual living habits.