In the early morning of January 9, Manaus time, researchers from the "Sandro Electric Eel Research Project Team" of the Department of Aquatic Biology of the National Amazon Institute of Brazil rushed to the ecological experiment base in a hurry.

"Oh, shit, what the hell is going on? Did meteorites fall from the sky? What about our Sandro electric eels? ”

Researchers and security guards were anxious to search the base, especially the expedition leader Sandro who caught the eel at that time, the magical electric eel was tentatively named after him, the "discoverer", if he really did something great, he could become a world-famous figure, but now this dream seems to be shattered.

"Director, our computer ...... Oh God, it's not a natural disaster, it's not a meteorite from the sky, it's someone who invaded and took away our research materials! ”

"Ah, Rivaldo was knocked unconscious, his access card is gone, it must have been an intruder who went out through the main entrance."

"Call the police, we must retrieve the Sandro Electric Eel and our research materials!"

"Damn it, it must be the evil Yankees, it must be their special forces, these bitch-fed invaders!"

On the one hand, most countries in South America have close ties with the United States, and on the other hand, they are also instinctively wary of the United States, and any South American who is a little sober knows that the United States regards South America as their backyard, and often suppresses the development of South American countries, weakens their power at the political and economic levels, and even directly invades them militarily. Brazilians have long had the consciousness that unless the United States declines, Brazil will never be able to go from a developing country to a developed country, because the United States will not allow it.

"Director, the big thing is not good, the research institute is there, the research institute is ...... there"

"What? What happened to the Institute? God, quick, contact the police. No, give me your phone. Director Alonso snatched his phone and called the governor of Amazonas directly.

Ao Tang came to a river and jumped down, for him, the river that extends in all directions is the real highway, and after a while, he entered the main stream of the Amazon River, and was about to go all the way east to the Atlantic, but the eel shouted: "Lord Dragon, I used to play everywhere in the Amazon River, uh, no, no, no, no, not playing, I was ordered to find a new member of the electric eel team, and I want to slowly investigate and select the best electric eel......"

"Oh, the Electric Eels, there's already one."

"Huh? Lord Dragon, I haven't picked it yet? ”

"You have been missing for more than four months at once, of course I can't wait forever, Eel B to Eel Gui are already there, and when you go back, you have to get along well."

On the side, Lan Jia gloated, it was too unlucky for a person to be unlucky, and having someone who was sympathetic to the disease was always a little more comforting.

The eel was a little disappointed, who let it be captured by humans, otherwise the electric eel team would have been formed a long time ago. But it's not in a hurry, why did the Dragon King let it come to Amazon to look for electric eels in the first place, isn't it because you can only buy some small electric eels in China? Even if the small electric eel is ignited, it shouldn't have grown much at present, right? And it was originally a two-meter-long mature electric eel, which grows to three meters four or five in a year, and if it is not for being locked up and eating less in the past few months, it can grow longer. After going back, the little electric eels think they will obediently obey its boss, right? The eel nodded, for sure!

It picked up the previous topic: "Lord Dragon, I didn't mean electric eels, I actually wanted to say that I was swimming around in the Amazon River and found ......."

"Hey, what strange animals did you find?"

Ao Tang couldn't help but stop, he also knew that the Amazon River or the entire Amazon rainforest, because of the special environment, except for a few cities such as Manaus, it is difficult for humans to survive here on a large scale, but it contains countless strange animals and plants, among which there may be something worthy of his use.

"No, no, no." The eel shook its head busily, and from what it had seen and heard from researchers after learning Portuguese, the Amazon rainforest did have a lot of strange animals, but not many of them were really useful.

Just like piranhas, even if they have copper teeth and iron teeth, what is the use of a single piranha? There's no way the dragon king can ignite a group of piranhas all at once, right?

Another example is the Amazon Forest, which is very powerful, but as far as the eel knows, the Dragon King hates snakes, right?

Another example is the pink dolphin, which is good-looking, but the dragon king doesn't want a pet!

There are also crowned leopard alien fish that only eat wood, which is rare, but why does the dragon king want them?

As for what vampire bats, they have rabies virus, which is very ferocious, but bats are not aquatic?

The eel is thought about it, and there really is nothing worth ordering the dragon king, uh, no, there is already one, and its eel is from the Amazon.

"No, what did you just want to say?"

The eel immediately expressed his merits and said, "Lord Dragon King, I found gold in a lake that is inaccessible, a lot of gold!" "The eel is triumphant, although it has not completed the task of forming an electric eel team, and it has worked hard for the Dragon King to come all the way to the rescue, but it has found a lot of gold, and it can make up for it. Although it thinks that gold is useless from the standpoint of the water tribe, the dragon king is a human being, and gold is very valuable to humans.

"Lord Dragon King, hurry up and fish for gold, it's been four months, and if someone else finds out, it'll be gone."

Ao Tang's eyes gradually lit up, a lot of gold? Could it be the legendary Golden City or Golden Lake deep in the Amazon rainforest?

He didn't know much about the allusions in South America, but there was a mention in the notes of the old professor that Yu Zhiwei sent him some time ago, which made him quite interested.

That old Professor Zhang is not a fan of money, but talks about tourism geography, mentioning several ancient civilizations in the Americas, Ao Tang is most interested in the Mayan civilization, not interested in the Mayans, nor interested in the inexplicable 2012 end theory, but interested in the Mayan belief in Quetzalcoatl.

He always felt that Quetzalcoatl was a bit like their dragon clan, or that the East China Sea Blue Dragon clan had combined the aesthetics of the Mayans in the land of barbarians outside the East China Sea, and to a certain extent had become indigenous. And Professor Zhang also mentioned that the legend says that the Mayans have a mysterious holy well that has never been found, could it be that the Quetzalcoatl God also started from the Well Dragon King?

And what makes him feel even more coincidental is that the time of the decline of the Mayan civilization, according to the current archaeological research, the Mayan civilization began to decline from the 9th century, and by the end of the 11th century, the once glorious Mayan cities were abandoned and covered by jungles, and the Mayan civilization regressed to a tribal state, and it was not completely destroyed by Spanish bandits until the 16th century.

But did the 9th and 11th centuries mean that Quetzalcoatl was gradually unable to bless the Maya, and by the end of the 11th century he had completely left the Maya? The transition from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty was almost at the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century, and the Southern Song Dynasty had no dragon energy, does it also mean that during that time period, the gods and monsters of Middle-earth completely withdrew their power in the human world, and let human beings develop independently and fend for themselves?

However, the Mayan ruins mentioned by the old professor, including the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, are all on the Mexican side of Central America, and there is still some distance from South America. And now it is the early morning of January 9th, if it is noon in Yanjing, Ao Tang is still thinking about going to Shencheng on January 11th, and Mexico can only talk about it later.

As for the ancient civilization in South America, it is not the Maya, but the Incas, and there are also ruins left, and the old professor mentioned the story of the Golden City by the way when talking about the ruins, which is considered to add some interest to the lecture content, but not really think that there is a Golden City.

Since the frenzied great pirate Columbus "discovered" the Americas, the savage Spaniards invaded on a massive scale, carried out large-scale genocide with smallpox virus and guns, wiped out the remaining Maya tribes and the Aztec Empire in Central America, wiped out the Inca Empire in South America, and plundered endless wealth.

The so-called Golden City or Golden Lake is the last treasure of the Inca Empire, and some legends say that the sacrificial method of the Inca Empire is to throw gold ornaments into the lake; Legend has it that the Incas threw large quantities of gold into the lake to prevent it from being taken away by Spain. However, there are many opinions about which lake it is, from Lake Guadavida in Colombia to the "Lake Titicaca" of Peru and Bolivia, to the hidden lakes deep in the jungle of the Amazon...... Since the 16th century, the Spaniards and even more Europeans have been searching for treasures and found some gold items in several lakes, which confirms that the Inca civilization had the custom of offering gold to the lakes, so it is likely that there is more than one so-called golden lake. In modern times, South America has become a country, and new countries have begun to restrict the actions of treasure hunters, such as Colombia, which directly sent troops to protect Lake Guadavida, I wonder if the gold in the entire lake has been salvaged?

Since the eel has discovered a golden lake, Ao Tang is of course happy to go and see, although fish farming and porcelain auctions can already bring him enough wealth, but gold is always not too little, even if it is not sold, it can also be collected in the Dragon Palace, and even in the future the Dragon Palace will be renovated, and the gold can be made into gold bricks, and the local bricks are paved!

And since you are in the Amazon River, you don't have to go ashore like you would in Mexico, so it won't take much time for Oyu.

"Let's go, let's see, eel, you show the way."

Transformed into a red dragon, grabbing the eel with one claw and the blue with the other, Ao Tang swam rapidly through the Amazon River, quickly leaving Manaus behind and entering the inaccessible jungle basin. Along the way, chickens and dogs jumped, scared to death I don't know how many rare creatures, Ao Tang didn't mind, they had no human rights anyway.

He had memorized the map of South America and the water system map of the Amazon before he set out, and although he did not have an accurate location, he estimated that he was in a border area between Brazil and Colombia, which was completely uninhabited, only endless dense forests, and rivers that meandered deep in the dense forests.

When entering a hidden deep-water lake, without the need for eel armor, Ao Tang's dragon eyes have already seen a large area of gold at the bottom of the lake.

Gold plates, gold sheets, gold leaf, gold dust plus all kinds of strange gold ornaments and gold utensils, all gold, Ao Tang remembered that the Inca Empire worshiped the sun god the most, probably gold symbolizes the sun, so a large amount of gold was dedicated to the sun god in the way of throwing into the lake, right?

Ao Tang happily strolled at the bottom of the lake, but if you really want to say much, in fact, it is not much, don't look at the spread out is very large, all melted together is estimated to be less than 1 cubic meter. 1 cubic meter of gold is only 19.32 tons, which is quite valuable, according to the gold price at the moment is almost 7 billion yuan.

Ao Tang picked up a few gold pieces and looked at them, and shook his head again, although he was not an expert in gold, but according to the density he learned in middle school, he weighed it a little, and he knew that the gold purity of the Incas was not enough, and he originally felt that it was less than 1 cubic meter, and then counting the purity, it was already good if the real gold could have 0.5 cubic meters and 10 tons.

If someone else hears Ao Tang's thoughts at the moment, I'm afraid that they will scold, 10 tons of gold, more than 300 billion yuan, and it was picked up for nothing, you dare to be dissatisfied, is there any heavenly reason?

In fact, it's not that Ao Tang is not satisfied, he wants gold and he doesn't sell it for money, but is ready to make gold bricks to pave the floor, how many gold bricks can be made with 0.5 cubic meters? The dignified dragon king, you can't use gold-inlaid bars, if you want to use pure gold bricks!

"Eel, are there any other golden lakes?"

Eel Jia hurriedly shook his head: "Lord Dragon King, I have only been in the Amazon Valley for more than ten days, and I haven't found the second one." ”

Ao Tang snorted, didn't find it doesn't mean no, the dense forest is so vast, there must be a lot of small lakes that are inaccessible, but he didn't immediately tell the eel to stay in the Amazon River to find it, anyway, he is not in a hurry to build a gold brick to build a dragon palace for the time being.

"How do I move back?"

Ao Tang has a headache, this is the upper reaches of the Amazon River, it has to be transported thousands of miles to the mouth of the sea, into the Atlantic Ocean, and it is not easy to go from the Panama Canal with things, but to go south around the east coast of South America, and then to the Antarctic and then northwest into the Pacific Ocean, this transportation distance is too far! And there are no vehicles, so it's not easy for him to take it, or turn it over to the water tribe to transport? What if you get caught again?

Lan Jia followed Ao Tang for a long time, and immediately guessed Ao Tang's thoughts, and suggested: "Lord Dragon King, Eel Jia was just negligent to light the enemy last time, and as long as he is prepared in the future, he will definitely not be caught by humans." It's best not to act alone, so that even if one of the aquarium is hit at the moment, the other aquarium can be rescued in time. I look at this section of the river, whale sharks, killer whales and other sizes are no longer convenient to enter, but they can be handed over to the giant chapter team, aren't they in the Atlantic? Let the eels go to the Atlantic Ocean to find them. As for the Atlantic raid operation, the Whale Sharks have members of our Blue Ring Team by their side to give advice, and it doesn't hurt if they don't have a giant badge. ”

Eel Jia also said: "Lord Dragon King, I am willing to atone for my sins and join forces with the Juzhang team to transport the gold here back." ”

Ao Tang nodded: "Then it's decided." The Juzhang team didn't have a big iron box around them, but they sank so many ships, and looking among the sunken ships, they could always find boxes containing things. ”

Ao Tang no longer paid attention to the Golden Lake, remembering that the tortoiseshell and his group of 11 people had also lost contact, and couldn't help but be a little worried, but he thought that the 11 of them were acting at the same time, and it was impossible for them all to be arrested, so why did they disappear mysteriously?

(To be continued)