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Chapter 24 3. The Magic Mirror "Fern Cut Plant"

Outworld 小栗虫太郎 2887Words 2018-03-13
The feng shui in the world takes turns, and if you take advantage of the victory and pursue it, you will be able to turn the tide!Campos had a successful start and scored three goals in a row. He was about to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but fate played a big joke on him.No matter how hard he gambled, he still lost more than he won.After a few rounds, there were not many chips left in his hand. You see I am right.Zhezhu on the side seems to believe that Campos will definitely lose.But at this time Campos did something that left Zhezhu dumbfounded. "Everyone!" Campos said as he stood up and glanced around.

"I have an unfeeling request, please Haihan. As you can see, my luck is really bad today, but I don't plan to leave this bad, so I plan to take one thing out to bet. Let's take a look first, Anyone who is interested, please fight with me." The thing rustled in Campos' pocket, and as he pulled it out and threw it on the table, everyone held their breath for a split second.Stones still stained with dirt shone brightly...diamonds!And it's a diamond. "Hey, don't just look around, no one bet?" Campos became a little anxious, and his tone became rude. "I'm not here to sell these five diamonds. Listen, I'm betting... I'm betting on something more precious than diamonds! Do you hear me? These diamonds are crying. They say you people If you don’t know what to buy, billions and billions are placed in front of you, and you don’t know how to fight for it.”

Campos put forward the final bet with words and gestures. "What I want to bet on is a diamond mine that is unknown in this world. How about it? Who of you will bid for a gamble? No one? If I lose, I will tell you where the diamond mine is." Immediately someone shouted 50,000, but Campos ignored him, 55,000, 60,000, the price rose little by little, but when it reached 70,000, there was no sound. Campos is a stranger of unknown origin. Even if he can show others a diamond with a high price, he cannot immediately win everyone's trust in him.And most of the people who come and go to this club are rich people, they are greedy but also very cunning.If Campos was a liar, losing $70,000 wouldn't mean much to them, but Campos would have to say something more solid to get them hooked.

"Okay, then I will tell you the general location of the diamond mine and how I found it. But I have something to say first, if you still don't believe me and are only willing to pay a small amount of 70,000, then I will go home immediately. " All the guests in the casino, on the dance floor, in the "Love Dove" club were attracted by Campos. "Where is the diamond mine, it's in 'Gran Chaco'. How about it? You haven't heard of this place, have you?" There are still four unexplored fields in South America.The first is the well-known Amazon, and the second is somewhere up the Orinoco River.Going south, there is a place called Patagonia, where many complete dinosaur fossils are buried.And this fourth place is the "Gran Chaco" plain.

The Gran Chaco Plain is located between 20° and 27° south latitude, in the territory of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.There are dense forests and swamps in the plain, also known as "plain magic land".Rare birds and animals live there, but the hinterland of the plain is inaccessible, not to mention scientific research scholars, even the Mattaco Indians will not go to that place. “There’s the Pilcomayo River in the Gran Chaco,” Campos gushed. "The northern part of the plain has long been contested between Bolivia and Argentina. Now the two countries have built forts all over the area, and they are on the verge of breaking out. But why are the two countries competing for this place? What are they greedy for? Is it because the territory is unclear? In fact, it’s all about the Picomayo River.”

"Everyone, everybody! Have you ever heard of the Pacini Desert? It has another name in Brazil—'fern cut plant'." The Pacini Wetland is a cut fern, and everyone exploded when they heard this.Readers must think this name is very strange.The vast majority of ferns are herbaceous plants, and if the stem is as thick as a thumb, the whole plant must be very large.And this place is actually called "Fern Cutting Plant", which means that the ferns here are as thick as trees.You should be able to imagine what kind of ghostly place "Fern Cutting Plant" is.Next, let's talk about what is so magical about the Picomayo River.

The Picomayo River originally had no fixed channel, and the bottom of the river was alluvium with soft soil, so there were no rocks in the river.The middle and lower reaches of the river expand into multiple forks, flowing through many small channels separated by sandbars and changing with the tide.So there will be a phenomenon that today it is still a river, tomorrow it will become a wetland, and the day after tomorrow it will simply disappear.It's like a lecherous woman, constantly changing her bed.The scariest place in the Picomayo valley is what I just called the "fern cut."The aquatic plants here grow so many and densely that it is impossible for a boat to paddle here, but it is also impossible to go back.

The Picomayo River diverges into two tributaries named "Dark Secret River" and "Mistake River" at "Fern Cut Tree", and the mainstream continues to go south. The expedition team organized by Professor Ramos Gimenez investigated the above three rivers and wanted to find out the secrets of "Zenqiezhu".Afterwards, an anecdote that amazed the world happened. In the "Fern Cutting Plant", you can see thick "fine grass" like a little finger everywhere and giant ferns covering the sky and the sun, and the rotten and fermented swamp clay is under your feet.Suddenly, a creature like a woman with long hair stood up from the water.Professor Jimenez was only a few hundred meters away from the creature, and he was petrified by this sudden discovery.After regaining consciousness and observing carefully, I found that the creature did not "like" a woman, but was indeed a woman.But when he was about to take a closer look, the "woman" suddenly disappeared into the water.

It was a woman, definitely human and not anything else.But living in mud and breathing underwater are things that humans cannot do.So is she human?The professor struggled with this question all day.The next day, two team members with panicked faces broke into the professor's tent. When they were collecting shrimps at "Fern Cut Straw", they suddenly saw a man's face emerging from the mud.The expression on that face was like a Japanese Noh mask... The two were scared out of their wits, but the face quickly sank into the mud.This made the professor more and more convinced of the existence of aquatic man, and he also gave the aquatic man a scientific name of "marsh bottom dweller".But what I didn't expect was that the academic circles took the professor's discovery as a joke.

Just wandering around the door of "Fern Cutting Plant" encountered such a weird thing, but this is nothing compared to what happened to Campos.Campos is the fourth human being in the world to see an aquatic man. "Last year I was a lieutenant in the Paraguayan army. Well, in that country, you can be an officer with a degree. I just learned to give orders, and I was sent to the post. It was very close to the 'Fern Cutting', in Pi There is a place called 'La Madrid' in the defense zone of the Comayo River. After I took office, I advised my superiors, and the whole team threw down their guns first and occupied 'Fern Cutting Plant'. Unexpectedly, I was scolded as soon as I finished speaking Dun, I probably offended my boss by saying 'throw down the gun'. But I didn't think about it so much at the time, I just felt very angry. I thought: 'Okay, you don't go, I will go alone.' Looking back now, I still feel a little scared , I was really dazzled by anger at that time."

"I think it's deceitful to say that sincerity is effective. After all, you have to try it yourself to know. Jimenez walked for a year before reaching the door of 'Fern Cutting Plant', and I only used It took me ten days to reach the place where they arrived at the beginning. It may be that I was lucky and accidentally avoided the difficult swamp, so I walked so fast." "The first time I stepped into the 'Fern Cutting Plant', I met a water dweller. Four or five meters away from me, something suddenly emerged from the water. It was a human being! It seems that Jimenez is not lying. That is An amphibious swamp dweller who can live in water, and a monster that has been hiding in the secret place 'Fern Cut' for hundreds of years." "The aquatic man is wearing a fabric made of algae or something. After careful observation, the aquatic man who appeared in front of me should be a male. There is a fist-shaped mark on his chest, and other physical characteristics are no different from mine. The guy suddenly stretched out a hand and threw something at me. When I received the thing and went to see him, he had disappeared into the water. What would the aquatic man give me? It was made of fern leaves. A lump of mud. I rubbed the lump of mud, and a few stones that looked like fossils fell out. I washed the stones, only to find that they were shining diamonds." Having said that, Campos looked around. "Now you should believe it? I made a mark where the aquatic man appeared. How about it? How much do you plan to pay for my information..." No one answered. Campos was about to explode when a soft female voice suddenly came from the corner. "500,000, I think your piece of information is worth the price." After all, the noisy crowd made way for the owner of the voice, while Campos stared at the person with wide eyes like a fool. what!It is the lady who is as noble as a lily.
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