Chapter 60: Into the Jungle
The boat sails along the small river, the sun is shining brightly, the monkeys are chatting in the trees, and the parrots and butterflies are flying up and down like dazzling waves.
After an afternoon's drive, they found a river beach under the guidance of the old professor.
This beach is a great place to camp. In front of the beach is a beautiful inlet, 100 feet wide, the water surface is as smooth as a mirror, and the fish jump out of the water from time to time, making the calm bay ripple in circles. In the distance of the inlet, the forest is green, covering the sky and the sun, and the yellow and crimson flowers blooming on the tree ends shine dazzlingly in the setting sun, and egrets lazily skim over the water.
There was a tall tree by the river, and they were going to camp under it.
At the junction of Lin Mang and the open area, Li found a narrow passage.
"Looks like the footprints of something," he asked Professor Myers, "Indians?" ”
"No, kid, it's a beast road." The old professor replied with a smile.
"Beastland?" Jessica also leaned over curiously.
"Yes, look," the professor said, pointing to the footprints on the ground, which did not look like they were stepped on by human feet, "these are the hoof prints of a wild boar, these are the capybaras, and look at that, they are the footprints of a deer." ”
The professor introduced to them like a few treasures, and the old professor, who was a little shy in the real society, talked eloquently at this time.
Li watched him from the sidelines, feeling a kind of self-confidence, a force that made the seemingly weak and wooden professor now introduce his territory like the king of the jungle.
Yes, this is also a manifestation of the Tao, and Lee saw in him the powerful ability that true specialization in one thing and one thing brings.
"Oh, Professor, what kind of animal footprints are these?" Jessica's scream pulled Lee back from the state of epiphany, but he didn't care, the place of the Tao was filled between heaven and earth, and Lee knew that he had entered that realm, and now he could enter the state of enlightenment at any time.
The old professor looked at the place Jessica pointed and smiled bitterly, "What a coincidence, that's the footprints of a jaguar." ”
Seeing the crowd gathered, the old professor hurriedly added: "It's okay, as long as we don't mess with them, they generally won't violate us." Also, we slept in hammocks, far from the path they were taking. ”
Locke rolled his eyes, out of the seven people here, the jaguar probably only threatened the three of them.
Ten minutes later, the camp was set up. The so-called camp is nothing more than seven hammocks suspended between the trees. Watching Hal carefully sprinkle the insect repellent on the trunk of the tree tied to the hammock, Li kindly asked him not to sprinkle the four of them, looking at Hal worried, he smiled and explained that they have a special way to repel insects.
As night approached, the group had eaten and crawled back into their hammocks to return the forest to the animals.
The cicadas began to make a low, high-pitched call, and the tree frogs puffed out their bellies and croaked. The nighthawk's cry was like that of a dying ghost, if the ghost would die too. Some unknown animals also join in the hustle and bustle, and concerts are held throughout the forest.
Lee closed his eyes and felt the vigorous vitality of this forest with his spiritual sense, in his sea of consciousness, this forest has become a universe, the cougar hunts and kills deer in the jungle, the deer eat grass, and the grass decomposes the corpses of all the animals that rot in the forest, and the cycle repeats itself, never stopping.
Under the protection of the deterrent power he quietly released, in fact, not a single animal came to the river from the beast road to drink water all night, which made Hal a little depressed when he was going to take some pictures, and the others were still very satisfied.
The noisy night finally passed, and the forest ushered in another morning, and the people who had packed up their bodies continued to flow downstream.
After another day of drifting, the professor guided them to stop, and he pointed to the direction of a big mountain and said to Li, "That's the direction, about 50 kilometers or so, and the buildings we found last time were in that jungle."
Li They looked around, well, the dense jungle made it impossible for them to see anything even 5 meters away. Still, he believed the pros who taught them, and went back and started moving things down the ship.
When everything had been removed, Lee asked Finley and Locke to carry the boat to the riverbank, and the professor said that if the boat was simply tied to the shore with a rope, the cable would be untied by the curious monkey in less than three days.
Under the dumbfounded gaze of the three professors, Locke and Finley easily stood in the river and lifted the boat to the shore, while Jessica snickered beside them, probably glaring out if they knew that Finley was just pretending to keep them from being scared.
Everyone put their luggage on their backs and began to walk towards the mysterious jungle.
Entering the jungle, they were surrounded by towering plants, which seemed so dwarf in comparison.
The trees stood tall like giants, covered in a thick layer of long whisker-like moss, and looked like old men, of course, a thousand times taller than them.
The gray moss kept dragging down. Fluttering in the cold wind. The branches of each tree were coiled around a few hundred meters of black snake-like vines. Between the trees, the white clouds are elegant, and the mist is rolling on the ground, like the claws of a giant beast in the sky, looking for fat people to make a delicacies.
The fog that shrouded the surroundings, like gray curtains drifting in the breeze, faintly saw the world's strangest plants, and it was as if you were in a nightmare.
Jessica looked at this bizarre world, and suddenly felt that her favorite vine weapon didn't seem to be a particularly strange plant, she turned to the professor and asked, "Why are all the qiē here so tall?" ”
The professor took off his hat and wiped his sweat, and replied, "I can't tell you the specifics, after all, I'm just an archaeologist." However, I have heard that it is located on the equator, there is no winter, and it is hot all year round. Plants grow every day of the year, and it rains all night and day, or at least drizzle, and the acidic soil and strong UV rays are all good for the plants. ”
Jessica nodded knowingly and continued to follow everyone's footsteps.
After walking for a long time, one foot deep and one foot shallow, they found a stone by a stream in the forest and stopped. The old professor looked at the luminous watch and gave the order to set up camp.
With the help of the water of the nearby stream, everyone soaked their feet to relieve the fatigue of the day, and soon fell asleep after dinner. Unfortunately, the sweet dream did not last long, and guests came to the camp.
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