"Spicy!" Ye Zhenzhen spat out the leaves in her mouth, thinking, I don't know what ingredients are in it.

Nan Zhiqiao handed Zhen a bottle of mineral water, "Because it is spicy, it is called moringa tree." ”

The guide had something to do temporarily, so he wanted to leave for a while, and before leaving, let Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen rest in the village for half an hour.

The guide's house is made of rammed earth, with two wooden benches at the door, and a hammock in a tree not far away, and a cardboard box under the hammock with the sound of "chirping" animals in the carton.

Ye Zhenzhen was curious, walked under the hammock, leaned over to open the lid of the box, and inside was a group of newly hatched chicks, fluffy and cute.

Just as he was about to pick one up and put it in the palm of his hand, suddenly, a small gray monkey came down from the tree, blocked in front of the cardboard box, and grinned at Zhen Zhenzhen, making a threatening sound.

Ye Zhenzhen was startled and took two steps back.

Nan Zhiqiao noticed that something was wrong and rushed to Zhen Zhen's side.

The monkey squatted next to the cardboard box and threatened the two people who tried to get close to it.

The monkey had a piece of rope tied to its feet, one end of which had been worn off.

Zhen Zhen pulled Nan Zhiqiao back two more steps, "This is a domestic monkey." ”

The monkey watched the two retreat, and no longer made a threatening sound in his throat, but rushed into the guide's room three times and two times, took out a red fruit from it, and returned to the cardboard box as he gnawed it.

Nan Zhiqiao smiled: "Sure enough, it's a domestic monkey, used by the gatekeeper." ”

The monkey guarded his territory, and Vera and Nan no Joe stopped approaching, but wandered around the village.

The woods around the village are full of tropical fruits, and a village child brought them freshly picked star fruit.

Vera stuffed the milk biscuits in her backpack into the child's hand, and the child happily took them and told her in English in dialect that the nearby fruit could be eaten as she pleased.

Zhen Zhen asked curiously, "Are all the fruit trees in the vicinity planted by you?"

The child shook his head, "No, they all grow on their own, we never grow anything." ”

After the child finished speaking, he took the biscuits and ran away happily.

Zhen Zhen gave one of the star fruit to Nan Zhiqiao, and the star fruit was very sweet, much sweeter than the usual ones bought at the domestic fruit store.

Nan Zhiqiao picked up a few pimpled green fruits from the nearby woods, peeled off the green peel, and inside was a large white pulp, and put a piece of pulp in his mouth, with a sweet cola flavor.

"This can't be the legendary kola nut, is it?" said Vera as she looked at the half-peeled green fruit.

"Yes, this is kola nut, it's the raw material for making cola. ”

In addition to kola nuts, the two also found lotus mist, mangoes, and bananas in the forest......

Feeling that they couldn't finish eating, the two took a few back to the village.

Zhen Zhen ate the fruit and sighed: "No wonder the guide just said that this is a fruit paradise, there are really many types of fruits." ”

Before the fruit brought back from the woods was finished, the guide rushed back after finishing his errands.

The guide took the two of them around Banana Island, walked around the island, and finally returned to the lodge at noon.

The cottage's restaurant is open to the public, and the two ordered two grilled fish bowls with local specialties and sat down for lunch in a simple open-air restaurant by the sea.

Hiking around the island is a lot of physical work, especially in the hot weather of Africa, and although she eats a lot of fruit, she still feels very hungry, and a large lunch is quickly finished.

The restaurant also delivered a plate of fruit for free, which was a cut watermelon.

After eating the main meal and eating some watermelon, Zhen Zhen felt that the whole person was full of energy again.

Compared with Zhen Zhen's gobbling up food, Nan Zhi Qiao is much more elegant, seeing the watermelon seeds hanging from the corner of Zhen Zhen's mouth, Nan Zhi Qiao carefully wiped them off with the handkerchief he carried.

While eating fruit, Nan Zhiqiao's mobile phone suddenly rang.

Picking up the phone, Dr. Mu's voice came, Nan Zhiqiao listened quietly, and slowly, Nan Zhiqiao's brows furrowed slightly, "Okay, I know, you continue to experiment, I will go over to investigate." ”

After hanging up the phone, Ye Zhenzhen asked worriedly, "Senior Nan, what's wrong?"

"There was an accident on Kenema's side, and there was a guy who was in a clinical trial for the Ebola vaccine and died suddenly. ”

"Is it a vaccine problem?"

Nan Zhiqiao shook his head, "No, although he is on the list of test subjects, he has not been vaccinated yet, and he began to show symptoms, and he died in Kenema Government Hospital today." ”

"It's nothing to do with vaccines, what does Dr. Mu mean?"

"Although it had nothing to do with the clinical trial of the Ebola vaccine, the symptoms of the man's death were very strange, it was a systemic hemorrhage, which was very similar to the symptoms of Ebola virus infection. ”

"Dr. Mu suspects Ebola virus infection?

"Not yet, it was only 12 hours from the patient's admission to his death, and the results of various examinations have not yet come out. ”

Nan Zhiqiao packed up his belongings, "I can't rest on this rest day, I'm going to Kenema, you ......"

"I'll go with you. Without waiting for Nan Zhiqiao to finish speaking, Ye Zhenzhen rushed to say what she meant.

"Okay. Nan Zhiqiao hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

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The two of them left Banana Island in a motor boat.

Got to the shore, drove the buggy, and drove to Kenema.

Sierra Leone is the size of a province in China, and it is only a four-hour drive from Banana Island to Kenema.

Along the way, in addition to the highway that is still easy to walk, you also have to pass through a pothole mountain road.

The mountain road is lined with large sugar cane plantations.

There was smoke rising from some sugar cane orchards, and from a distance, black smoke rose into the air, and on the ridges around the fields, a few locals stood here and there.

Ye Zhenzhen sat in the co-pilot's seat, staring at the smoky sugar cane orchard on the side of the road, choked and coughed twice, and complained: "Senior Nan, why did they set fire to the sugar cane orchard?"

"In order to harvest the sugarcane, set fire to the weeds and sugarcane leaves in the field, and then go into the field to harvest the sugarcane the next day. ”

"Oh, I see, it's a bit of an ancient slash-and-burn feel. ”

"Yes, the level of farming here is still very backward. ”

The off-road vehicle drove through the sugar cane field and into a plateau meadow, and the grass on both sides of the road was a little yellowish because of the dry season.

Without the smoke from the burning sugar plantations, the air began to become fresh and dry.

Ye Zhenzhen patted the cigarette ash that fell on her body, pulled her hair, and tilted her head to look at the scenery outside the car.

The road stretches through the meadows, as if endless, and the occasional wild critter crosses the road, and whenever this happens, Minami no Joe stops his car to avoid the critters.

Passing through highland meadows and into a mountainous forest road, off-road vehicles weave through the woods and look up to see groups of monkeys climbing through the canopy.

The pale cyan monkey is the most common African green monkey here, and Zhen Zhen has seen this monkey in the laboratory animal center at Tinder 1 Base 1 before.

Now seeing this wild green monkey in the woods, Ye Zhenzhen couldn't help but ask: "Senior Nan, the green long-tailed monkeys in the Tinder No. 1 base are the same as these green monkeys in the woods, right?"