Mozambique, the capital of Portuguese East Africa, is at the time of the rainy season with the densest rain.
Days of rainy days almost made people rusty and moldy, and filamentous mold like white hair grew on black people.Humidity pervades the city of Mozambique.The island has been showered with pea-sized raindrops for days on end.
Oklodi, a professor of zoology at the University of Medina in Italy, is sitting in the room waiting for someone.The room is located in Zama's research room, which is closed to prevent mosquitoes and flies from raging.He looked restless, with big beads of sweat dripping from his whiskers, like a dog panting from the heat.
"Zama-kun, what exactly is Kako going to show me? He said he would definitely surprise me, and he got off the boat after he finished speaking..."
"I won't tell you first, you can make a good guess."
"Is it the okapis or the gorilla?"
"Hahaha. If it was that ordinary, we wouldn't be babies anymore."
Zama kept a secret and smiled slightly at Okrodi.He stands in his thirties, is not tall but has a big face, and his eyes are as gentle as water.It can be seen from the skin color that Zama is not a pure-blooded Japanese, but a multi-racial mixed-race.His father was a Japanese who was doing business in Aden, and his mother was a mulatto Italian.After finishing his medical studies, Zama did not stay in Japan, but traveled across the ocean to Mozambique to engage in research on tropical psychiatry.
Specifically, his research projects include Huntington's disease and Koro's disease, which is unique to Malagasy males.With the assistance of a local rich man, Amaro Medsa, Zama established an institute for medical research and medical assistance.In the minds of the local blacks, Zama became a god, and he decided to dedicate his life to this land.Born and died here, it was his long-cherished wish to rescue those suffering blacks from the ignorant superstition of possession.
Zama often went to the interior of Mozambique with Kako for investigation, and had the honor to meet Professor Okrodi.The professor was invited by Zama as soon as he landed in South Africa.What is Zama going to show the professor?Presumably something that would surprise the professor too.
Having said that, a young man appeared at the door, and he was clearly a mulatto.His complexion is dark, his face is neat and sharp, his body language is rich, and he is full of life like an antelope in the wild.
Georgia Caco - the American hunk is widely known in the industry for capturing and selling protected animals, but he also broke the law and became a fugitive.
Kako laughed and said, "I kept you waiting for a long time", and pressed the door with his right hand, but did not step into the threshold.In a blink of an eye, the professor's eyes were attracted by the "thing" he was holding in his hand, and he was too surprised to speak.This was completely beyond Oklodi's expectations.It was a rare and strange creature in the world.I saw him holding a monocle in one hand, with his mouth open, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
"This is... a man with a tail!" the professor murmured.
The creature was dun-haired and about four feet tall, like a human child, but with a foot-long tail trailing from its lumbar spine.Judging from the shape of the bones, the creature is completely human, but the skull is inclined inward, as if a piece has been cut off, the upper eye socket arch near the brow bone is high, the nose is flat, the nostrils are large, the mandible is abnormally developed, and the masculine features are very obvious .
Leaving aside these appearance characteristics, the sheep smell from the man with a tail is several times stronger than the body odor of black people, making it unbearable.A strange smell permeated the stuffy room. Professor Okrodi covered his nose with a handkerchief, and continued to observe the man with a tail with his eyes wide open.
"Well, he has a very gentle temperament. It seems that he is already familiar with you."
"Oh, you're right." Kako replied with a smoke ring.
"So you've had him some time, don't you?"
"No, I just brought him here seven days ago. In fact, Duoduo fell into my hands for less than two weeks."
"A lot..."
"It's my name, and this gentleman's name is Duoduo."
"Oh, hehe. It turns out that the person with a tail is called Duoduo."
Professor Okrody smiled, a puzzled look in his eyes.Wild species, not to mention highly intelligent humanoid beasts, can be so close to him in just two weeks?
"By the way, where did you catch Dodo?"
"Where did you catch him?" Kako was thoughtful, and instead of directly answering the professor's question, he narrated the process of capturing Duoduo.
"It's purely a coincidence that we caught Duoduo. I read your professor's theory of periodic manic depression in gorillas, and thought of using this theory to capture adult gorillas."
Professor Okrodi published a paper "Gorilla Manic Depressive Theory" in the society the year before last, which aroused considerable repercussions in the academic circle.
The gorilla will periodically enter into a state of depression and fear, which is extremely aggressive and very dangerous. When the gorilla’s depression accumulates to a certain extent and there is nowhere to vent, it will lick a kind of hyrax incense. Liquids to soothe emotions.It is a mucus that remains after the "hyrax" urine has evaporated.Kako used hyrax incense as bait and set up a trap in the tree hole.
"I waited for four days and nights by the trap, and finally got it on the morning of the fifth day, but in front of me was the dense grass, and I couldn't see the appearance of the thing clearly. The sound of branches breaking, no doubt, the thing was approaching the trap. Not long after, with a loud noise, a cloud of smoke rose in front of the trap. It succeeded! A live gorilla is worth a hundred thousand dollars! The natives and I The helper jumped out of the bushes, but who knows... the gorilla that was supposed to fall into the trap saw us approaching, and ran away crawling and crawling."
"Hehe, it wasn't the gorilla who fell into the trap, but Duoduo, right?"
"You guessed it. Our jaws dropped when we found it."
"I think so. You 'animal lover' must be pretty shocked. Didn't it resist at first?"
"No, it had a very serious berry pox. For some reason, I suddenly felt compassion and immediately took out mercury ointment and rubbed it on it. The berry pox didn't hurt anymore, and it didn't need it anymore. Rubbing against the tree trunk desperately like before, or scratching with dirty mud claws, has become very obedient."
"Duoduo has been staring at my hand, as if he really wanted the jar of mercury ointment in my hand. I thought I might as well take it back, so I used that jar as bait, and let Duoduo obediently follow me to the nearest tribe."
"So that's how it is. As expected of Conglin Tong, he came up with such an idea."
Professor Okrodi couldn't help admiring Kako.
"Later, Duoduo was treated by Dr. Zama, and the berry pox on his body was completely cured. Thanks to this treasure, Dr. Zama and I were able to meet Miss Norla, the daughter of Mr. Medessa, the funder of this institute. , and became friends."
Having said that, the door opened a crack.Outside the door, there was a pretty face looking into the room.The owner of the pretty face is naturally the Miss Noera that Kako was talking about.The girl was as clean as a clean white sheet from top to bottom.She is Zama's fiancée, and the two share the same passion for humanitarian causes.
"Professor, what kind of creature do you think Duoduo is? I would like to hear your opinion."
Miss Noella's bright voice was very pleasing to Professor Okrody's ears.The professor immediately expressed his thoughts after observation.
First of all, he pointed to Duoduo's tail and called it a deformity of the lumbar vertebrae, also known as "soft tail".Then, the professor carefully studied the fluff covering Duoduo's body. He believed that this special arrangement was similar to that of a chimpanzee.Moreover, the back part of Duoduo's head is flat, which is very close to "chimpanzee baldness" (a physiological phenomenon of apes), and the ear shape is also similar to that of chimpanzees, as well as its eyebrows and high arches in the upper eye sockets, which are also unique characteristics of chimpanzees.In the end, the professor published his conclusion—Duo Duo is a hybrid between human and chimpanzee.
Speaking of this, the professor suddenly changed his words, put his hand on Duoduo's head, and said: "However, this 'small skull' bone shape proves that its skull is underdeveloped and its brain volume is small. In other words, its IQ is very low. , is similar to the original people."
original person?Everyone felt very surprised.Miss Noerla first asked: "You said Duoduo is the original human? But didn't the original human die off millions of years ago?"
"It's all hypothetical. But I can be sure that there is absolutely no such low-level skull in the existing ethnological data."
The living primitive man, the primitive man with flesh and blood!This is sure to be a big discovery that will make the natural science world boil.
But then, the problem came again.Where does Dodo come from?If it was really hominid, why hasn't its size evolved over millions of years?
But if Duoduo is a hybrid born of a human-animal hybrid, why does it wander in the jungle?Was it abandoned by their parents, or driven away by the ethnic group?Or has he been living alone in this wild beast-ridden jungle since he was a child?Hmm...the odds are low.Moreover, Duoduo has left the jungle now, but judging from its appearance, it does not miss its hometown.
Duoduo doesn't seem to be homesick.Replaced by ordinary wild animals, when they are first captured, they will be too sad to eat because of leaving their natural habitat.But Duoduo does not have this phenomenon, it is really different.
Thinking of this, Professor Okrodi asked Kako: "By the way, you haven't told me where you caught Duoduo."
"It's near 28 degrees east longitude and 4 degrees north latitude. The junction of the British colony in Sudan and the Belgian colony in Congo... Walk a few hundred kilometers northeast from the habitat of the apes, away from the ghostly place of the 'devil's urinal' Somewhere in thirty miles."
"Devil's urinal"!Hearing this place name, everyone present held their breath, only the roar of the heavy rain hitting the eaves echoed in everyone's ears.
"Oh my god, it's near the 'devil's urinal'."
As soon as Professor Okrody heard that this was the place, there was a tone of despair in his words.The combination of Duoduo and "Devil's Urinal Pool" has surpassed the territory they can dabble in for researchers.
Duoduo's great discovery made the professor decide to return to China immediately.He hurriedly glanced at the clock in the room, and left the research institute.Zama and Kako both looked tired, looking blankly at the street outside the house.
The candy-like eaves of the mosque and the boats moored in the port are reflected on the mirror-like sea, swaying gently with the falling rain.The postal plane of Air Madagascar was passing through the rain and fog, passing low over the heads of the two.
Zama noticed something different, straightened up quickly, and said to Kako: "Look, look..."
"What are you looking at? Isn't that an airplane? What's wrong?"
"I mean you watch a lot. When you see a plane, you are not afraid at all. Instead, you have a happy look in your eyes, and you even made a noise about it. But there is no flight route near the 'Devil's Urine'. British Empire Airways and France's The African Airways are more than half a degree away from the 'devil's urinal'. It's strange that a primitive man is not afraid of airplanes, and even more ferocious beasts will run away in fright when they hear a plane flying by."
"There must be an expedition team that has flown to the 'Devil's Urinal Pond', and more than once, at least five or six times, so Duoduo is familiar with the plane so that he will not be afraid."
Duoduo, who has been living a primitive life for so many years, is no stranger to airplanes.This is incredible!Professor Okrodi once had doubts, is Duoduo an artificial creature?But if you think about this hypothesis, you will find a terrible secret hidden in Duoduo, which is really creepy.
The sky was gloomy, and the whistle of a ship came from the misty and rainy shore. The Barbidia on the ED S route is docking in Mozambique.A young man was carried on the steamship, and he was also burdened with the fate of going to the "devil's urinal".
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