Chapter 36 33 Blue Forest

When we came to Guinea, the jungle became denser. At the same time, the road condition is very bad. Not only is the road not paved, but in some places, the car marks have dug out a deep ditch of more than one meter, which is full of loose fine sand like flour. Just pushing the bike forward is miserable. My body was also starting to feel wrong.I have a low-grade fever and diarrhea every day, and my body is extremely tired. Is it malaria?I did not take preventive medicine.It doesn't matter for short-term travel, but for long-distance travel cyclists, they have to accept the side effects of taking medicine-reduced eyesight?Or risk malaria?What a dilemma.

Gradually I lost my appetite, and I knew very well that if I didn’t eat, I would have no energy to go on, but when the typical West African dish “vegetable pilaf” was placed in front of me, I felt sick to my stomach.My body gradually weakened and I became dizzy from time to time, but I still continued to ride the bike reluctantly.I can't fall down until I reach the big city. I have had a low-grade fever for five days.There is not even a decent village in this area. I haven't bathed for almost a week. My body smells like a beast. My whole body is covered with dust. My bare hands and feet are all black. My hair seems to be covered with oil and sticky. Unsurprisingly, the T-shirt was also torn with several holes. This appearance is really horrible.

In a trance, I just lowered my head and stepped on the bicycle.I can't even feel the pain.Suddenly, something flashed across my field of vision, and I looked over there, and there was a piece of blue at the far end of the wasteland.For a moment I thought it was the sea, but it was actually a forest.A blue mist hangs over the horizon, and above it floats the image of the forest, which looks incredible, as if the forest had sunk into the depths of the lake. I was at a loss, staring at the blue forest, and heard Enya's singing from the Walkman, the blue forest seemed to echo the music, flowing slowly, as if I was the only one standing still, while the whole The earth is revolving around me.

As if guided by some force, I raised my head.The sun was in front of me, and the fierce white light was projected on the face, as if a flashlight was suddenly turned on, the eyes were completely white, and for a moment, I felt that I really lost all rationality and turned into a pure beast. Suddenly, I felt an indescribable strong emotion, my body trembled, tears flowed down my face, and I almost lost control of my urine. In the blurred field of vision, the blue forest still flows unchangingly. It is an incredible scenery, as if witnessing a miracle.I hope to be able to gaze at this scenery forever.