Chapter 35: Ivan's Thoughts
What makes Lu Tianyu feel strange is that Danny seems to have discovered the secret a long time ago, but Danny did not squeak to stop it, could it be that Danny also wants Ina to suffer some hardships, so that Ina can retreat.
Remembering Danny and Ina's words when they met, "This is not the place for you to be, if you regret it now, you can play around, the family won't know about it." It is not difficult to see that Danny does not want Ina to participate in this expedition, and no one likes to take a pampered young lady deep into the forest and put shackles on herself, this is not a wealthy banquet outing, and beautiful and bright flowers are needed to decorate the scene.
Ivan's careful thinking can't hide himself, the ten guards he found can't speak Esperanto, only Ivan can communicate with them, and it is obvious that Ivan does not want his power and benefits to be controlled.
Everyone has their own interests, and of course Ivan will not give up his interests, but Ivan has gone a little too far, which makes himself and Danny very uncomfortable, so it is not surprising that Danny will knock Ivan.
Danny's desire to control doesn't seem to be strong, maybe out of confidence in himself, if it is replaced by Lu Tianyu, this kind of thing will never be allowed to happen. In his own opinion, once the guide is out of his control, whether the expedition can successfully complete the mission will be compromised.
The campsite is next to the river, and in the evening, swarms of insects flutter around the tents, and from time to time bats swoop down from the sky, catch one and disappear into the dark night sky. Ina was so frightened that she was about to come out to relieve herself, when a bat landed on Ina's shoulder, and a miserable scream echoed through the silent jungle.
Ivan stuffed unknown herbs into the campfire, and the green smoke made people feel disgusting, dispersing the insects around the camp, making Ivan show off.
Because Ina was frightened, she insisted on letting Lu Tianyu's tent move next to her to feel at ease, zoology expert Julia and Ina lived in a tent, it is said that Ina should have a sense of security in her heart. A woman who studies animals should know how to comfort a frightened woman, but no matter how she looks at Ina, she is nervous, so she doesn't make people pity.
God knows what Ina is thinking, and I don't know if it's pretending to be out, anyway, I think so with colored glasses, Ina has complained a thousand times about the mentality of a little woman in her stomach, pretending to be cute and not looking at the time, in front of Julia and Ivan, let herself say nothing is nothing.
Ivan seems to like being with himself very much, and insists on squeezing in a tent with himself, and Ina's resentful eyes can't wait to eat Ivan, this may be a kind of dependence, when in a strange environment, people will instinctively look for the person they trust the most and are close to, so that they can feel safe.
Ivan didn't know where to get a bottle of wine, poured himself a full glass and said, "Try it, this is a fruit wine made by the locals from the local sugar maple, and it tastes good to relieve the heat." ”
The light yellow viscous slurry has a faint aroma of wine, the taste is sweet with syrup, and the sweetness of Chinese herbal medicine is slightly soaked. Ivan seemed to enjoy this taste, and reveled in it one after another, "After drinking this wine for a long time, mosquitoes will not invade and all diseases will be eliminated, although the taste is a little worse, but it is the best drink for the locals." ”
I didn't see if it was the best drink, the mosquitoes in the tent had indeed decreased, and I didn't need to spray pungent insect repellent on my body, so I couldn't bear to drink a few more cups, and it was not bad to be an anthelmintic medicine.
"Arica's border trade business is good, why do you start a guide business, this is not a lucrative job."
Ivan blinked his lips, wiped the wine juice left in his mouth and said: "No way, it used to be good in economic and trade business, but since the emergence of the guerrillas, the economic and trade business has been worse day by day, and the roads of trade have been occupied by the guerrillas, so they can only manage this meager tourism business."
"Are there a lot of tourists here? The scenery here is good, if it weren't for the visit, I would have liked to spend a few more days in Arica. ”
Empathy, there is nothing wrong with what Ivan is doing, Ivan's family depends on Ivan alone, and if he can make more money, who would dislike money. Being a man is sometimes very simple, as long as you consider the problem from the other party's point of view, many unreasonable things can be easily solved, like Ivan, who uses clever means to make money, there is no way to do it, of course, you will know that this kind of thing can't hide from everyone's eyes.
Ivan lay on the straw mat, looked at the spire of the tent and said: "I know what you mean, I am a little cautious, I only took your job for a year, I want to earn more and have no other ideas." You don't know how dangerous this road is, guerrillas, cannibals, and poisonous insects and beasts, I don't know what you think, you have to take such a big risk. ”
"Didn't you say that the guerrillas were on the southern bank of the Yapura River? Now that we're walking on the North Shore, there shouldn't be much risk! ”
"That being said, if the guerrillas run to the north bank, you can't keep them from crossing the river. The guerrillas are kidnapping for ransom, and if they knew about this expedition, I am sure they would have attacked us halfway, and you say that we are not very dangerous. ”
Lu Tianyu did not refute Ivan's words, knowing that Ivan was sensationalizing and tricky, and it was not the guerrillas who worried him, but the cannibalistic natives. The guerrillas are not terrible, if they want to sneak attack this expedition, they must know the accurate whereabouts of this expedition, until now, even they do not know the route of action of the expedition, in the vast forest, why did the guerrillas sneak attack this expedition.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the guerrillas have mastered the accurate course of action of the expedition team, with Danny's three special forces and powerful weapons and equipment, the small guerrillas are no match for the expedition at all, and as long as they do not control the expedition at the first time, the rescue team will soon arrive from the air, and the guerrillas will not have much chance of winning.
On the contrary, the local natives are even more worried about themselves, these natives who have lived in the forest for a long time have become one with the forest everywhere, they are the real masters of this forest, they and this expedition team are outsiders, no matter how powerful the lion suddenly intrudes into the territory of a group of hunting dogs, the result will be very tragic.
Lu Tianyu couldn't help asking: "Ivan, I heard that you have walked this road several times before, tell me about it." ”
Ivan didn't know why Lu Tianyu asked himself these things at this time, and recalled with his eyes closed: "The first time I walked this road was more than ten years ago, when there was also an expedition team, saying that it was to visit the Yapura River to investigate the Amazon ecology, and I followed the expedition team into the Yapura River as a servant, and it has been ten years in a flash. Later, the expedition came back seven years ago, and it came to the confluence of the Yapura and Amazon rivers, where it also set up an experimental station. The last time I saw this expedition was five years ago, and I never saw it again, I heard that this expedition was attacked by cannibals, and many people died, and it was never seen again. ”
"Did you see all these things with your own eyes?"
"In the past, the expedition only sent us to the end of the Yapura River, where they usually stayed for months, and they were usually taken back by plane, and no one knew what was going on. I just heard a little about the expedition, and there were people who went to that experimental station two years ago, and after the cannibal attack on the expedition, I didn't hear that anyone went there again. ”
"Is the lab station still there?"
"It should still be there, it's a two-story reinforced concrete building, it can't disappear so soon, what are you asking for?"
"I'm just curious, just ask, why did you say the cannibals attacked the expedition."
"How do I know this, it may be that the expedition team has intruded into the territory of the cannibals, and the natives usually only operate in their own territory, and generally do not go too far from the territory. Since he came to the Amazon to investigate, it is also possible to inadvertently break into cannibal territory, which is not surprising. ”
"Tell me about the cannibals here, okay?"
Ivan was a little impatient by his own question, and turned over and said: "Actually, the cannibals here don't often eat people, and generally only when they can't eat, they will snatch people back from the surrounding natives to eat." Cannibals are actually a legend, if people are delicious, other natives would have eaten them a long time ago, so it is very wrong to call them cannibals, and they are also forced out by life. ”
I am also hearsay, listening to Ivan's words to understand a lot of truth, those indigenous people living in the Amazon forest, in addition to picking some food, one does not farm, the other does not produce, with the primitive weapons in their hands, they can also mix food and clothing, what kind of large and ferocious prey, who eats who is difficult to say?
There is no guarantee at all in the life of relying on the harvest of heaven, and it is destined to be only hungry and full, and the cannibals kill their own kind because of hunger, is it not easy for human beings to eat each other in the case of hunger? Their own worries are superfluous, and spreading false rumors will only make people more and more afraid, in addition to ignorance, the indigenous people are not terrible, what is really terrible is the human heart.
After chatting with Ivan for a long time, he gradually became sleepy, and seeing that Ivan had fallen asleep, he came out of the tent and revisited the campsite, and when he saw that the time for the patrol handover had come, he called James out of the tent.
James is a 1.8-meter-tall man who rarely speaks, and wanted to talk to him before going to sleep, but James ignored him at all, sat next to the fire with an MX100 semi-automatic rifle, and took out a bottle of wine from his pocket alone and poured himself a drink.