Chapter 6: Wonderful World (II): XXXIII. The Man-Eating Tree

The old cannon's hands tugged at the vines that were entwining him, but they didn't seem to have any effect at all, and they couldn't stop the spread of those vines at all. I told Ah Mei to stop a little farther away, and I went up with my machete and slashed at the vines that were wrapped around the old cannon. The vines were extremely tough, and it took me a lot of effort to cut a gap and pull the old cannon out.

The old cannon fled the range of the tree, and sat on the ground gasping for air. I saw that his face was pale and frightened.

I said, "Get out of this place!" ”

As soon as I opened my mouth, I remembered that I couldn't hear anything here. Ah Mei reached out and pulled me. I turned my head to look at Ah Mei and saw that she seemed to be saying something to me. Although there was no sound, I could tell from the repetition of Ah Mei's mouth that she was saying, "What's going on here?" "I gestured with my hand and told Ah Mei that it was dangerous here, and I would talk about it when I went out. Ah Mei looked dazed, as if she didn't understand what I meant. Obviously, Ah Mei does not know sign language. I gently kicked the frightened old cannon sitting on the ground, and told him in sign language, danger, get out of here. As soon as the old cannon saw my gesture, he got up from the ground and sprang forward like a cat with a lit firecracker on its tail. Luckily, we used the climbing rope as a signpost when we came in, and the three of us quickly escaped from the forest.

As soon as we got out of the forest, the people who stayed outside looked at us in a panic and asked us what had happened. Ah Mei said that this forest was too strange, the silence inside was terrible, and even when talking face-to-face, you couldn't hear each other's voices. There is even a legendary man-eating tree inside.

As soon as he mentioned the man-eating tree, Lao Cannon had palpitations, and he didn't even want to mention what happened just now. At this time, Najie also brought Li Lili back, and they searched for a while, but there was no result. Li Lili was very strange about the silence in the forest, and he said why when there was a sound, it would be like a sponge absorbing water, and something would absorb the sound?

Seeing that there was no hope of finding the sunspot, the people in the investigation team were a little aware. I remembered what happened to Lao Cannon in the forest just now, and wondered if Kuroko would have encountered the same situation at a convenient time? I called Najay aside, and I knew Najay knew the oddities of the forest. When I told me what I thought, Najay said he had the same suspicions. It's just that he is afraid that if he says it, it will scare everyone. I discussed it with Najie and decided that if there was a glimmer of hope, I would give it a try.

We divided into three groups, and within a radius of twenty meters from Kuroko's backpack, Najie first identified three suspicious targets and used a machete to clear the vines around the tree.

Najie is still in a group with Li Lili, Xiao Yu and Xiao Xiao are in a group, and my group refuses to enter the forest again because of the life and death of the old cannon, so Ruoyu and Ah Mei follow me. I had the experience of chopping through the vines that were tangled around the old cannon, and I quickly cleared a gap. As soon as the gap opened, a strange smell wafted out. When the gap widened again, a skeleton leaning against a tree appeared in front of me. When the two girls saw the bones, their faces were horrified. They apparently thought it was the missing sunspot. Since I couldn't hear each other in the forest, I could only make a gesture to calm them down and take a closer look around the bones. I used the tip of my knife to flick the broken branches and leaves on the ground, and suddenly I saw a small metal box inside. I carefully pulled the box out with the tip of my knife, and saw a line of letters engraved on it, but I didn't know what it meant. I took a few tissues from my pocket, wrapped the box, and motioned to the two girls, who were wide-eyed, to exit the forest first.

After we exited the forest, I handed the metal box to Ah Mei, and I said that from the appearance of the bones, I didn't know who it was, but it shouldn't be a sunspot.

Ah Mei opened the metal box and looked at it, and said, "This is a cigarette case." Engraved on it is German, Offschneider, a German name. ”

I'm a little strange, "A German cigarette case appears here, could it be that this deceased is a German?" What are the Germans doing here? ”

Ah Mei thought for a moment and said, "I remembered something, but I don't know if my guess is right?!" ”

I said, "Let's talk about it, what else is it going to sell?" ”

"Before and after World War II, the Germans sent scientific expeditions to Tibet. Their purpose comes from a legend. In Europe, there is a legend about Atlantis that has long been circulated. Legend has it that the continent of Atlantis is incomparably wealthy, and the people there are gods with extraordinary abilities. Textual descriptions of it first appeared in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. In his book, he wrote: 120,000 years ago, there was an amazing continent in the far Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Mediterranean. It is adorned with countless amounts of gold and silver, producing a sparkling metal, oralcosa. It has well-equipped ports and ships, as well as objects capable of carrying people. After a major earthquake, the continent sank to the bottom of the sea, and some Atlanteans fled by boat, some of them in Tibetan territory in China. It is believed that the descendants of these Atlanteans became the ancestors of the Aryans. Some Nazi experts claim that the Atlantean civilization did exist and believe that the Aryans lost the divine powers of their ancestors only because they later united with mortals. Himmler was convinced that once it was proved that the ancestors of the Aryans were gods, they would be able to create Aryan forces with supernormal abilities by means of racial purification such as selective breeding. Driven by this statement, in 1938 the leader of the Nazi SS, Himmler, sent the "German SS Sevre Expedition" to Tibet for an expedition. The expedition included botanists, biologists and anthropologists. In August 1939, the expedition left Tibet and returned to Germany, where it was warmly welcomed by Himmler, and the first expedition of the SS to Tibet was fully affirmed by the Nazi leadership. In January 1943, in absolute secrecy, another five-member Nazi expedition set out from Berlin on a desperate journey to Tibet. Nazi from Austria, professional mountaineer Heinrich? Halle and Himmler's henchman Peter? Offschneider is the team leader. However, the entire group was arrested and imprisoned in British India in May. No one knows what happened, but the SS elements quickly managed to escape and reached Tibet by the end of the year. What happened after that, no one knows, remains a mystery to this day. ”