The Yangtze River in China is generally from east to west, but the Niger River is different, originating from the southeast slope of the Futajaron plateau in Guinea, first northeast and upward, turning southeast in the 90th degree of Mali, and generally circling a semicircle in the hinterland of West Africa, successively flowing through Guinea, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, and finally flowing into the Gulf of Guinea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.

The flow of the Niger River runs through all the vegetated areas of West Africa, with slender silky sedge vegetation scattered across the bare rock surface, savanna meadow fields, lush grasslands, thorny bush jungles, tropical rainforests, marshy areas,......。 In this case, Ma Lei's team can search for medicine without searching for Guinea and take a boat down the Niger River.

That's exactly what the Ma Lei team did, asking the Guinean authorities for a transport ship, hiring two local crew members and local guides, and then heading down the river in search of anti-Ebola APIs.

When Ma Lei's team was searching for medicine, the teams distributed in other countries were also looking for medicine in an orderly manner. Although the search lasted only two days, my 100-person medicine search group also collected a lot of plants and tested the ingredients through scientific instruments, and there is nothing gratifying to find so far.

Of course, we can't be in a hurry, we have to believe in the correctness of our Five Elements Technique, and believe that the 100-person medicine search group can finally gain something. After all, it's not so easy to find an anti-Ebola API, and we have to give them plenty of time, let's say weeks, months, or even years.

Africa is a place where danger is everywhere, there are dangers from humans, such as militants, jungle savages, cannibals, etc., but also threats from wild nature, such as all kinds of wild beasts, bad and extreme weather, and so on. Take the Niger River, where Ma Lei's team is looking for medicine, for example, the terrain is complex, the climate is changeable, there are terrible Nile crocodiles, cannibal lizards, leopards, lions and other wild beasts on the bank, and there are more dangers in the tropical rainforest zone, the large desert area next door to the lofty mountains and the swamp zone, which makes people unguardable. Ma Lei's team started from the source of the Niger River, and then went down the river, looking for anti-Ebola virus APIs along the way.

I'll rub it, this is not a simple matter, because the Niger River is the third largest river in Africa, and it is shorter than the Yangtze River.

According to the speculation of the Five Elements, the anti-Ebola virus API is better to grow in the shade, and it is likely to have characteristics such as yellow or brown. In this way, the search scope of my "100-person medicine search group" is much smaller.

What is unbelievable is that as soon as our 100-strong team set out, some members were in danger, including three members of a 10-member team looking for medicine in Mali, West Africa, who seemed to be infected with the Ebola virus, had a high fever and were isolated.

Mali is a West African country bordering Guinea, and it is at the turn of the Niger River when it runs northeast from its source, and it is also the hardest hit area of the Ebola virus, and so far I don't know how many people have died. Once these three people are confirmed to be infected with the Ebola virus, they will be transported back to China for treatment as soon as possible, but if they are infected with Ebola 3.0, it will be difficult to cure them when they are transported back to China, and they will have to wait for death.

Ma Lei's team, which was searching for medicine at the source of the Niger River Basin, also ran into trouble and disappeared after going deep into the jungle.

The source of the Niger River is a plateau in Guinea, which has a tropical rainforest climate with high precipitation, runoff and turbulent currents. The water flows out of a deep valley at an altitude of thousands of meters, like a roaring lion rushing down.

Tropical rainforests are a great place with a wide variety of flora and fauna, and more than a quarter of the world's modern medicines are extracted from them. Ma Lei chose the source of the Niger River, a tropical rainforest, for medicine, which is definitely a smart choice, because the plant species in the entire basin are the richest here. However, his choice is not very clever, because the tropical rainforest is very dangerous, looking around, towering trees obscuring the sun, it is easy for people to get lost in it, plus the danger everywhere, it is possible to hang up accidentally.

According to the two crew members who drove the boat for Ma Lei's team, Ma Lei and his four companions, plus two local natives who led the way, disappeared into the rainforest and were not heard from for a whole day.

The team is equipped with a satellite phone and satellite positioning and navigation, and there is also a satellite phone on board to facilitate contact. After the two crew members could not contact Ma Lei's team, they reported to the local steward, and the local steward told me the bad news to the staff of the local Chinese embassy, and finally the news reached Wang Manjiang's ears. And Wang Manjiang told the news to Comrade Li Erdan, who was dashing outside.

Wang Manjiang meant to let Li Erdan go to Africa to have a look and help Ma Lei. Three team members suspected of being infected with Ebola in the Republic of Mali also needed his help.

The five members of Ma Lei's squad are all doctors from the city's No. 1 Hospital, and they are all under the age of 40. The doctor volunteered to sign up, and Wang Manjiang personally selected. If these five doctors go wrong and encounter danger, Wang Manjiang will inevitably have to share some of the responsibilities in this, and he will suffer it.

The signal in the rainforest is poor, and even the satellite phone and satellite positioning are not necessarily good, and Ma Lei's team can't be contacted after entering it under the leadership of the local natives, which is normal, too normal. It's not that I can't get in touch for a day or two, and it's not that I can't get in touch for a month or two.

Li Erdan smiled when he heard the news, and said to Dean Wang: "Dean Wang, don't worry, there are experienced local natives to lead the way, how can people be so easy to get into trouble?" Then he changed his words, "This Five Elements Technique is very interesting!" If you can't guarantee it, you can guess it. You said, how amazing the wisdom of our ancients is, and I, Li Erdan, am sincerely proud. ”

Wang Manjiang was angry for a while, turned a deaf ear to the second half of Erdan's words, and immediately shouted, "Li Erdan, are you going or not?" Look if you still have a little bit of a doctor's appearance! Other doctors are busy treating patients in the hospital, so it's better for you to travel around with a group of warblers. ”

Erdan said very humbly: "Dean Wang, where am I traveling, I am on a mission, Director Liu Weidong personally gave me the task." ”