At the end of July, Nobel's documentary about life in Sudan was finally finished. Because Chen Xing and the others wanted to see the African savannah, Professor Nobel didn't buy them a ticket, and said while packing his things: "Be careful when traveling over there, listen to the guides and drivers, they are very experienced, don't get too close to the animals." With his Leica camera hanging on his chest, Levbert nodded confidently and said, "Don't worry, Professor." "They interned in this crew, and every day they either helped with things or resisted cameras, and they almost forgot that they were a free photographer, and now with Leica, Levbod felt his soul back.

Chen Xing: They also went to say goodbye to their colleagues. In addition to them, the recording engineer also wanted to go to the prairie to have a fun, but his route was different from Chen Xing's.

They went to shoot the video, so they went to Tanzania. And the recorder wants to go to Kenya, which is considered a relatively safe place in the interior of Africa, and if you drive around the city, you will definitely see soldiers patrolling with guns in five minutes.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xing and the others boarded the plane to Tanzania. "We certainly don't understand the official language of Tanzania, but because they have been colonized by the British, English is a second Chinese language, and we can still communicate with them in English under normal circumstances," Ford said. Annie, the director of photography they had hired, yawned and put on a blindfold.

"Call me when it's almost time." He had never been to Africa before, but he still had some experience in photographing wild animals, so he wasn't worried about any surprises in this shoot.

As for security. Chen Xing had already asked the crew guide for the contact information of a Tanzanian guide, and also decided to hire five professional security personnel and two cars to ensure their travel and filming process in the past few days.

The plane was not full. Sudan is still in the process of developing the country, and only a few people have the idea of traveling, and most of them are on official business.

After squinting his eyes for a while, Chen Xing felt that the plane began to descend. Chen Xing opened the baffle of the porthole, the clouds outside were thin, the grass below was clearly visible, and there was a huge mountain peak in the distance.

"What a mountain!" Chen Xing said. The mountain seems to be piled up directly on flat ground, which is very abrupt in this environment of the prairie.

Annie couldn't sleep either, glanced out the window and said, "This should be Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, Chen, I heard that you have also played mountaineering before?" ”

"Well, the snow mountain for beginners is very simple."

"It's also something you can climb here, and a lot of people come here every year." Chen Xing looked at his figure and didn't feel like a person who exercised regularly.

He smiled and said, "See what I do?" We have a film on TV, I've only been exposed to it, and I know a couple of great professional mountaineers who have been here before. ”

"Oh, that's right." Chen Xing nodded, and wanted to talk to him about this topic in depth, but he was about to arrive at the airport.

Lev Bode was excited, unbuckled his seat belt and stood up and asked, "Hey, Chen, what are we going to do first, do we want to take a day off?" Before Chen Xing could speak, Ford shouted: "The security team is very expensive!" ”

"Haha, it's true that the guide and the security team are charged on a daily basis, and we can shoot the footage first." Chen Xing said.

As soon as the plane landed, they just went out and saw a person holding a white sign with the Chinese 'Chen Xing' written on it.

He was surrounded by several black men in field uniforms and AKs, all of whom were tall. It makes you feel safe at first glance.

Chen Xing and a few of them were Asians on the flight they were on, and the guide quickly confirmed his boss.

Chen Xing shook hands with him and said, "Hello, I am Chen Xing, just call me Chen." ”

"You can call me Abu." Abu is a black man who looks to be thirty years old and has a hearty smile.

"Let me introduce these awesome guys, this handsome guy is called Boca Mosho, don't look at him is only 25 years old, but he has been in the industry for almost ten years, and his driving skills are also very good, and he is the captain of this team." Chen Xing also shook hands with him.

The hands with guns were calloused, but this also gave Chen Xing a lot of security. Sure enough, Africa still has to come less, and I don't have that relaxed feeling of travel in my heart.

I'm going to start work today, but the first day is not to turn on the camera directly, but to step on various points.

Since their small crew was too poor to afford a camouflage camera, they had to rely on telephoto lenses for any close-up shots.

It's going to have to be filmed. For their safety, they also have to find a few suitable shooting spots that are also very safe.

Two cars are a deterrent. Pickup modification, there is a crash barrier in front, there is also a barbed wire in front of the window, the rear compartment of the pickup truck is directly surrounded by steel bars, and there is no way to the carriage even if it is an elephant without opening the bolt.

"However, the elephant still doesn't want to provoke it." Abu said,

"After all, just because the carriage is safe does not mean that our car is also safe, and adult elephants can easily overturn our vehicles and incapacitate us."

"Don't worry, we won't be very close to these animals." Chen Xing said. I found a restaurant in the city and had dinner, and in the afternoon the two cars started up, raising the smoke and dust on the road and driving towards the depths of the grassland.

On the way, Chen Xing saw a lot of cars that looked similar. Whether it is Kenya or Tanzania, there are a large number of tourists during this time, but there are very few people like them who have hired a special security team, and most tourists go to the local tour group.

When they arrived in this grassland, everyone had to obey Abu's command. He also started working as a guide in his teens to make money, and he likes to explore new things and communicate with people.

At the same time, he also has a deep understanding of the animals of the savannah, and has followed his father to play in the nearby forests and grasslands since he was a child.

This experience naturally made him one of the best local guides. Ford saw that Chen Xing had been pondering, so he asked, "How is it, is there a clearer text?" ”

"The picture hasn't been shot yet, what do you want?" Chen Xing said speechlessly, but the environment here is really beautiful, and after the documentary is filmed, he will definitely use a lot of pen and ink to introduce these scenes.

In July, the grasslands are full of green grass, there is a white bird flying everywhere in the sky, and there is a herd of zebras in the distance.

The zebra herd was the first wildlife they saw after they left the city, and many vehicles were parked nearby, allowing tourists sitting in iron boxes in the back to come out and take pictures, and each person had a camera, more than anyone with a mobile phone.

Boca Mosho asked, "Do you want to stop here?" ”

"No, keep going." Abu said. He knew that the bosses were here to make a documentary, so he planned a different route than the average tourist, and with the presence of five armed security guards, they could go to some areas with better viewing angles, but a little more dangerous.

On the way, he was also introducing the geographical environment on the grassland to Chen Xing. An hour later, Chen Xing saw a huge stone mountain.

This rocky mountain is as abrupt here as they saw Kilimanjaro on the plane, how can there be such a big boulder on the plain?

It didn't look like it was formed naturally, as if someone had used a pair of big hands to stick these slender boulders into the land.

Chen Xing's eyesight is relatively good, and he can still see the baboon squatting on this stone. Baboons and monkeys are very different, they have thick heads, prominent lips, raised brow bones, and small ears, while monkeys are smaller in size with round heads, flat lips, smooth brow bones, and large ears, and it is clear that monkeys are better looking than baboons.

But baboons are a suborder of apes, monkeys belong to the suborder of apes, and generally speaking, apes are the one that is closer to humans.

Abu said: "Baboons don't look small in the grassland, but they are still very powerful, sometimes a little more dangerous than lions. At least lions won't come to us for no reason, these stupid baboons will, even if we can easily crush them. "It's a remote route with fewer people, but because of that, there are more animals.

They were about to leave from here, when Chen Xing suddenly saw two people in clothes in the middle of the stone mountain.

Chen Xing was afraid that he had seen it wrong, so he picked up the binoculars and looked at it again. It was indeed two people, a man and a woman, white men in their twenties and thirties, who were fighting bravely with some baboons who had come to harass them.

The good news is that they have safety ropes for freehand climbing, and they can't easily fall off. The bad news is that there are a lot of baboons, and there are more and more of them.

Chen Xing gave the camera to Abu and said, "There are two people up there, can we go and help?" ”

"I'll take a look......" Abu hadn't seen anyone before, and now he held the binoculars and searched for a long time before he found that there were indeed two people holding branches and confronting the baboon, thought about it, and said: "You can save it, there is no danger around, just don't get out of the car." "As long as the car can still drive, the baboon is not too much of a threat to the people in the car.

Bocamosho took the walkie-talkie and talked to the team behind him, and then they left the road and drove towards the rocky mountain in the desert.

The ground is lush with vegetation, but the stone hills are bare, without a shbit of dirt. But even so, some weeds and trees grew out of the mountains, and it is not known where they got their nutrients.

The two men were also overjoyed when they saw a car coming, and they wielded branches with more strength.

Beji wept with joy and said to her husband, "Henry, someone has come to our aid. ”

"I saw it, hey! Friend! "They're desperate. When I came here in the morning, I saw only some animals walking on land, and there were only a very small number of baboons on this cliff, but who knew that during the day, this group of baboons would become more and more, and then as soon as there were more of them, they would have the courage to come and look for trouble.

They had already used branches to make two baboons fall off the cliff. But this behavior undoubtedly irritated them even more, and now several baboons bared their teeth at them.

The car stopped at the bottom of the mountain. Chen Xing blocked the sun with his hand on his forehead, and looked up, this stone mountain is estimated to be about a hundred meters, twenty stories high, and the layers of rocks don't look very fragile, and there are many climbing points.

Nature's miracle. It is also a great freehand climbing spot. In the snow mountain training camp, the teacher also taught some ordinary climbing skills, and a lot of equipment was also used by the above two people.

Bocamosio said to Chen Xing and them: "Boss, you just stay in the car, let's go and save people." "They can't climb up and save people, but they have guns, and they have a legal hunting certificate in Tanzania, and it's not a crime to shoot an animal.

So they can get closer and scare the stupid baboons with a gun, or shoot them directly in an emergency.

Chen Xing: Of course, they didn't get out of the car, but they also took pictures with their cameras. A group of professional combatants, when their expressions were serious and their guns were loaded, even if it was a group of black Africans, Chen Xing felt very handsome.

It's not the people who are handsome, it's the atmosphere, and the guns in their hands. The two white climbers are also worth a shot, not everyone can encounter this kind of scene in the movie, Chen Xing adjusted the parameters of the camera, and pressed the shutter continuously on the person Ka Ka Ka Ka above.

Ford and Levbode are not far behind. In the carriage behind them, Annie also set up a tripod and set up the video recorder on it and began to work...... This image is very meaningful and no one wants to miss it.

One of the young team members shouted something in a language they didn't understand, and then fired a few shots into the sky.

The baboons were startled. Africans like to call this creature a stupid baboon because they think it's stupid.

But in reality, they're comparing baboons to humans. Among the animals, primates were very smart, and when they saw these two of their kind of human beings coming, and holding the kind of sticks that made loud noises, they knew that they could no longer avenge the two companions who had fallen to their deaths.

The baboon king screamed. The baboons surrounding the two men quickly retreated and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain.

Becky and Henry exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath that had been hidden in their hearts for hours, and slowly crawled down tremblingly.

Their arms were sore and swollen, and as soon as they landed, they had no strength, and two young men carried them to the car.

There are two footrests in the back of the pickup, just enough to sit and rest. Now that everyone is back, Chen Xing also jumped out of the car and said, "Hello." ”

"Hello, thank you." Henry wanted to raise his hand, but he couldn't, he couldn't feel his hand now: "I'm sorry, we've been working it for hours, and now we really don't have any strength at all." ”

"It's okay, my name is Chen Xing, it's okay if you call me Chen, you are British?" Their London accent is obvious.

"Well, thank you, Chen, my name is Henry, this is my wife Becky, we have been here for many days, and today we decided to climb this stone mountain, I want to go to the mountain to shoot a video, but I didn't expect there to be so many monkeys here."

"Take a video?"

"yes, we have our own channel on YouTube, we love extreme sports, and we have a lot of fans."