Although the expedition team under the French Citroen Automobile Company cannot be compared with the "regular army" of the American Geographical Society, as far as the expedition teams organized by ordinary companies are concerned, their achievements are extremely good.They once drove a crawler tractor across the Sahara Desert, then passed through Persia, and across Central Asia to Beijing. The destination of the next third stop has already been selected, and we can start after the end of the rainy season.This time they went to an unusual place.Unlike the previous two trips, they had to drive there, because they wanted to go deep into the secret realm and step into a mysterious area that no one had ever been to before.

After all, where is it?Some readers may think that I am playing tricks—is there really such a place on earth?Of course there is, and there is more than one place. It should be noted that on the high-precision map used by explorers, there are still four or five "unknown areas" marked with white circles.Such a mysterious place, if you don't enter it, you will be fine, and if you enter it, it will be earth-shattering. Just hearing its name can whet the appetite of the listener. First of all, let’s introduce the candidate sites selected by these expeditions.In this way, you can have a general understanding of the arduous journey that the Sherron expedition team is about to embark on, and know how important these places are in the history of exploration.

1. The hinterland of the Amazon River in South America - "Rio Folls de Dios". 2. Near the North Pole, in the center of Greenland, there is an ice sheet called "Ser-mik-Suah" with a radius of thousands of miles, which is called "the land of the dead road". 3. "Puspamada" in Qinghai Province, China, a fairyland of Taoyuan in the Bayan Har Mountains of the Jinsha River Himalayas. Four,? The first place in the hinterland of the Amazon River is "Rio Folls de Dios", which translates to "crazy gods".Dr. Ramabin, the director of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University in the United States, has been to this place before, but he failed to reach the core area, and was finally blocked by the local miasma-filled rotting fog at the door of the Demon Realm.According to Dr. Ramabin's recollection, he used a telescope to observe carnivorous giant lilies full of bones everywhere on the river.

The second secret place is the habitat of evil spirits in central Greenland.The local Eskimos will actually come back from the dead and drive a sled into the snow mountain!The aurora is shining brightly here, and the ice peaks are towering. Even if Peary and Nordenskiwold come, they still have to stay away—the depths of the snow field always make people feel that there is an incredible power. Let's talk about the third place, which means "flower drunken land" in Sanskrit.Looking from a distance, what the viewer sees is a sea of ​​mist steaming with milk vapor.Once you step into the secret realm, you will immediately feel the fragrance of flowers, and all the troubles in the world will be eliminated, just like entering a holy realm.This is the "Utopia" (Utopia) for Lamaist monks.The monks call this place "the treasure core in the lotus", and they are committed to climbing this peak, but so far, no one has been lucky enough to fulfill their wish.According to ancient books, this is the habitat of the "one-armed man".The new film "Lost Horizon" is based on some of the materials here.

As for the fourth place... It seems that none of the above three secret realms can be compared with it. It's not "not as good", but it is actually "existing"... Where is it?Readers must be tired of waiting, let's listen to the author's details.It is said that in the middle of the equator and in the northeast of the Congo in Africa, there is a mysterious area called "M'lambuwezi" in the Bantu language of the Congolese. "M'lambuwezi" is also "demon urinal".This place is uninhabited, and it is the place where the giant beast turns into ashes and returns to the earth according to the rumors.

Some people may question the authenticity of what I said. In order to prove that these secret places are not fabricated by strange writers like me, I can excerpt a speech published by Flight, a senior British aviation magazine, for you to read.The speech was dictated by a Verus Airline pilot named Fujis, who flew the plane between Nairobi and Mwanza. I have initiated challenges to the "Devil's Urinal Pool" several times, but all ended in failure.In the end, only one depressing conclusion can be drawn-it is impossible to conquer the "devil urinal" from the air. Although in this era of convenient transportation, there should not be places that planes cannot reach, but why is it that flying a plane to challenge the "devil's urinal" has repeatedly failed?Is it because the turbulence is too strong?In fact, this is only one of the difficulties.

On the north side of the "Devil's Urinary Pond" is the back mountain and the ridge, and in front of the ridge is the quicksand zone called "Sailucha".The air above this place is very thin, and the phenomenon of "thermal vacuum" that only occurs in desert areas often occurs. It was not easy for me to fly here, but when I was about to fly further, I discovered that there was a tropical rainforest covered by thick steam in front of the "devil's urinal" under the cliff.Is that mist mist or swamp gas?Strange spots appeared from time to time in the sea of ​​gray mist.

I gritted my teeth, and seeing that I was about to reach my destination, I lowered my flight altitude and rushed forward.After flying closer, I realized that those cloud-like things just now, whether it was mist or swamp gas, turned out to be countless tiny insects.Over the thirty-mile-wide "devil's urinal", there is a cloud of insects floating that covers the sky and the sun!In that insect cloud are mosquitoes carrying deadly pathogens such as malaria and dengue fever, crow flies carrying lethargy, poisonous gnats, and giant horse flies with mouthparts as sharp as sharp knives.Alas, what a gathering of monsters and insects!

If you don't pass through this poisonous cloud where demons and insects are rampant, even if the "devil's urinal" hides deep gold, finely buried gemstones, or what kind of rare birds and animals or ancient primitive people live there, it will be nothing for explorers. meaningless.But to get rid of these endless demon-feathered poisonous gnats, I am afraid that it will take several years to send out an engineering division with masks and complete chemical defense equipment. This is the conclusion that the pilot came to after observing the "devil's urinal".Then, he mentioned that in the depths of the "devil's urinal", there is a giant beast cemetery.Dear readers, I think you know that when the time of death is approaching, ape-like creatures and wild elephants will go to the depths of the dense forest where humans cannot reach to wait quietly to die, and the "devil's urinal" is in line with the "uninhabited". condition.The following narrative may be fabricated by the author Palaf Younger. Let us cite a passage from his African travelogue "From the Congo to the Source of the Nile" to see the explorer's description of the "devil's urinal".

When the weather is fine, Rwenzori Mountain is a good target to identify the direction, but at this time it rained, and the condensed rain and fog shrouded the sky, so we could only wander in the dense forest with our legs.Accompanied by the obstacles of mud, thorns and vines, we advanced into the depths of the dense forest, sometimes lifting our toes as if dancing to avoid the ant colonies on the ground, and sometimes jumping into the waist-deep elephant footprints. Suddenly, there was the sound of a branch snapping about a hundred yards ahead, and a red creature seemed to be moving.It's a gorilla!I haven't seen a gorilla since I've been deep in the heart of the Congo.The excitement was indescribable. I subconsciously raised the Winchester rifle in my hand, but a native rushed to me and stopped me from shooting.

"Master, that gorilla is the savior. Killing the savior by hand is not like the British master's style." The natives called the gorilla "SoKo".I was more surprised than angry when I saw that the natives knew the gorilla. "Why can't you shoot? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to capture a gorilla!" "Listen to me, sir. When we fell into the elephant hole just now, the compass broke, and we didn't know which direction to go to get out of this forest. But you see, sir, the direction the gorilla was heading told us the answer." .In other words, since just now, we have been heading due north..." "How do you know this kind of thing?" "Because the gorilla was going to the cemetery in the forest, and the place where he was going was the 'devil's urinal' that we were hiding from. The gorilla would put his hands on his head and bend over when it started to rain. , walked forward without looking back. When I was a child, every time it rained, I could see the gorillas walking straight into the depths of the 'devil's urinal' as if being led by the god of death." When I hear the words "devil's urinal", I can't help buzzing in my head.The native was right, we were indeed lost.The natives of a primitive tribe outside the dense forest once told me that there is a misty cloud of insects in the "devil's urinal", which they call "Kungo".Thinking of this, I suddenly felt the chill running down my spine.If the gorilla hadn't appeared, we would be like the gorilla today, putting our hands on our heads and heading for death in a daze.That gorilla was indeed our "savior". I made a sign of the cross on my chest and prayed for the blessings of the travelers going to the cemetery. Afterwards, Yang Ge fled the jungle in a hurry and saved his life.If they continue to move north, what awaits them is a quicksand that can swallow people up in an instant. The other three sides of the "devil's urinal" are clustered with aerial roots that even giant pythons cannot pass through freely, which is the so-called "ape habitat" giant dense forest.However, readers, do you know that there is a Japanese doctor who has stepped into this jungle?Although he did not return alive, he miraculously left an expedition record.This record was published by the Culture Department of Citroën. Next, I will retell this record in the style of a novel.

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