Chapter 40: The Holy Fruit
With doubts and confusion, Lu Tianyu walked around the campsite, and a bunch of alpaca internal organs were randomly piled around the campsite, which was full of flies and mosquitoes, making a "buzzing" sound that made people vomit.
These internal organs should be buried as soon as possible, this simple experience of survival in the wild was deliberately ignored, and Lu Tianyu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"Is it really like Ivan said, all this is Danny's intention", Lu Tianyu muttered in his heart, he is still too easy to trust others' words, Ivan and Danny are both strangers, one is helping himself, the other is framing himself, I really don't know which person can really believe.
In the dark night, a pair of eyes were looking at Lu Tianyu coldly from a distance, "This kid is quite shrewd, he may spoil our affairs, it's better to ......." ”
A voice said lightly: "We can't act rashly now, he has become suspicious of us, and we have a chance, so as not to startle the snake." But that Ivan is not simple, as if it's fine, you usually stare more and touch his bottom line. ”
"Do you want to find a reason to send Miss Ina back, I always feel that she is by our side, and many things are not easy to handle?"
"Forget it, isn't it time to wait until you get to the experimental station?"
"Cheap kid!"
Ivan sat in the tent, looking at the computer in his hand, his fingers slowly swiping across the screen, sending messages into the distance. Ivan closed the computer, curled up in his sleeping bag, and sighed softly, "This kid is too tender to have any social experience, and I don't know why the upper echelons are interested in such a person." The person is not bad, and the lack of experience in valuing love and righteousness may be of great use after a period of training. ”
The expedition team continued to move forward the next day, and Ina thought that Lu Tianyu did not protect herself, and quarreled with Lu Tianyu twice, so she fought with Julia hotly, ignoring Lu Tianyu and ignoring the same passers-by.
Once he encounters things between men and women, Lu Tianyu finds that he is always very passive, and he can explain things clearly, but he can provoke Ina to be furious, and he is born without knowing how to deal with women, except for his mother and sister.
The Zoe are the largest indigenous tribe in the Yapura River Valley, less than 600 miles from Arika, with a population of more than 1,000 people. I used to only see indigenous people on the Internet and movies, but I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to see them with my own eyes, this feeling made Lu Tianyu feel very uncomfortable, as if he had come out of the fog and saw another world.
Dark-skinned, naked, with only an apron made of leaves, artemisia grass, and animal skins around his waist, and colorful feathers on his head, he welcomed the arrival of the expedition with a drum. The Zoe people are generally short in stature, their thin bodies are obviously malnourished, their eyes and heads are particularly large, and when they smile, their sharp triangular teeth make people shudder.
Contrary to the enthusiasm of the Zoe people, the expedition team was very cautious, except for Danny and Ivan who negotiated contact with the Zoe people, the other team members were told not to associate with the Zoe people and keep the necessary safe distance.
I have no experience dealing with indigenous people, but listening to Ivan, the Zoe people are relatively friendly, a tribe that is relatively easy to get along with among the indigenous people of the Amazon, and there have been some interactions between Ivan and the Zoe people in the past. Even so, Ivan carefully reminded himself that these natives have a lot of peculiar living habits, and sometimes he looks at these natives more, and at night this nativewoman will get into his tent and have that kind of relationship with him, and sometimes he will even kidnap some outsiders, but not as food, but as a tool for inheritance, which makes people shudder to think about.
Ivan's words made Lu Tianyu goosebumps, he was smiling at an indigenous woman just now, there will really be an indigenous woman in his tent at night, thinking of this, Lu Tianyu looked around nervously, and did not find any indigenous people.
Ivan narrowed his eyes and said happily: "If the indigenous woman stuffs something in your hand, you must not accept it, it is a token of love, of course, you don't want to stuff something stupidly to the indigenous woman, it is easy to misunderstand." ”
Lu Tianyu let out a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't accept the beast teeth of an indigenous woman, and told Ivan what happened, Ivan smiled breathlessly and said: "Fortunately, you didn't ask for it, as long as you accepted the gift, you agreed to her love, you must at least make the indigenous woman's belly bigger before you can leave, otherwise you are the enemy of the indigenous tribe, and it is impossible to leave here." ”
Ivan pointed at the local guards, and continued: "These guys are here for the indigenous women, they don't dare to accept the things of the indigenous women, but they dare to pull the indigenous women into the tent, anyway, no one knows anyone the next day, if you like, I will help you pull an indigenous woman in." ”
Looking at Ivan's obscene look, Lu Tianyu really wanted to punch Ivan in the old face, this old and indecent thing, he was pulling two indigenous women to be happy, and now he still wanted to pimp himself, and he didn't look at Ina's eyes that were about to explode.
"I can't bear it, you have a good appetite, it's better to enjoy it slowly", damn, these natives don't know what diseases they have, and they die before they get out of school, and they are talking about their own situation.
"Look at your virtue, I was going to leave you a few good ones, and this kind of enjoyment is not a good thing that is not often enjoyed. Forget it, since you can't afford it, just eat some local holy fruits, this is a good thing, even in Arica, it is difficult to sell", Ivan mysteriously stuffed a bag of sun-dried red silk strips into Lu Tianyu's hand.
"What is this?" I've seen a lot of dried fruits, but I've never seen anything like it.
"The locals call this thing holy fruit or red fruit, also called vine fruit, in addition to replenishing energy, it can also prolong life, money outside can't buy it, only the indigenous people here have these things in their hands, see that you are a good person, leave you a bag to taste, don't waste it."
Ivan's expression seemed to have stolen the widow's money, which made people feel sick, seeing that Lu Tianyu didn't dare to eat it, Ivan grabbed a piece of holy fruit and put it in his mouth and tasted it, as if he was enjoying it.
Since Ivan can eat it, of course he can eat it himself, grab one and put it in his mouth, it is sweet and silky, a little sour, and some like cow tendons are very chewy, and the taste is not bad, not beyond the scope of his own bearing, otherwise he will strangle Ivan first, and then abscond in fear of sin.
Outside the tent, Danny was calling Ivan, "Ivan, come with me to the head of the Zoe clan." ”
Ivan answered, turned around and instructed Lu Tianyu: "Don't go to the village of the Zoe tribe, it's best to stay in the camp, if something happens, I can't save you." ”
Lu Tianyu knew that this was Ivan's kind reminder, and he was worried that he would cause something because of the language barrier, and these Zoe people didn't seem to be getting along very well. The members of the expedition team were all asked not to go out casually, and to inform Danny and Ivan of everything first, and to be careful that they could make a ship for ten thousand years, of course they would not object.
"Ina, are you there?" Lu Tianyu walked outside Ina's tent and wanted to talk to Ina.
There was no sound in the tent, so he looked over and found that Ina was not in the tent, and there was no need to see Ina in the camp, so Lu Tianyu had to return to his tent. Lying in the tent, bored to turn on the computer, feeling a little hungry in the stomach, before it was time for dinner, looked up and saw the holy fruit silk next to it, grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the mouth, and felt that the hunger was eliminated a lot.
I don't know why my head is a little dizzy, and my mind is a little trance, like I am fighting my spirits, but my eyelids are like a thousand pounds. In a distraction, he closed his eyes as if he saw a forest, there were many natives in the woods, noisy and noisy and didn't know what to say, and suddenly saw Ina running in the wilderness, those natives shouted and rushed towards Ina , seeing Ina fall into the hands of the natives, Lu Tianyu opened his eyes in surprise and found that he had another nightmare.
This kind of dream illusion is exactly the same as drinking Ivan's fruit wine, Lu Tianyu looked at the holy fruit silk next to the pillow, "Could it be that Ivan's fruit wine also has this kind of holy fruit silk", his own speculation should not be wrong, until after he came into contact with Ivan, all kinds of strange dreams have continued to appear in his mind. A few days ago, the scene of fighting with the dog and wolf also appeared in my dream, so that I no longer knew what was real and what was a dream.
Ivan opened the curtain and walked in, saw his demented self, and looked at the holy fruit silk in Lu Tianyu's hand, and said in shock: "You have eaten it all, do you feel nauseous, headache, chest tightness, and want to vomit, talk!" ”
Lu Tianyu raised his head and wondered: "What the hell is this, is there such a thing in the wine you gave me, is it not good to eat too much?"
Ivan reached out and touched Lu Tianyu's forehead, touched himself again, tested Lu Tianyu's pulse, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Fortunately, your reaction is normal, it scared me to death." ”
"What the hell is going on, tell me?"
Ivan carefully wrapped the remaining holy fruit silk and put it in his pocket and said, "You can't eat too much of this thing, it's easy to get addicted, and there will be adverse reactions, but your condition doesn't seem to be serious." Eating too much holy fruit will produce some hallucinations, and the indigenous people eat the holy fruit for sacrifice, saying that they can foresee the future. However, after taking a large amount, there will be symptoms of poisoning, and taking a small amount is beneficial and harmless, and I really didn't hurt you. ”
After taking the holy fruit by himself, except for the nightmares, there were no side effects as Ivan said, but he felt energetic, and there were no symptoms of poisoning and addiction, so the holy fruit was beneficial and harmless to himself.
"I feel fine, without the side effects you said, are you mistaken."
"Make no mistake, this stuff is very popular among the indigenous people, and Arica is also taken by quite a few people, who have no symptoms at first, and are energetic and responsive. Later, I began to slowly become addicted, and the more I ate, the more poisoning symptoms appeared in my body, and finally my whole body was black and ulcerated and died, which I saw with my own eyes. ”