Chapter 30 4. Gorilla Crisis

"One body with three heads?" Madam asked tremblingly. "I seem to have eaten too much, and I feel a little sick." Someone said while covering his mouth. "Oh, that place has long been cut off from the rest of the world. About the fourteenth century, before the whites invaded the African continent. There was a great earthquake near latitude five degrees south of Tankayka. The earthquake shook a valley in two. , a lake was born out of thin air on the ground. The Monster Park was not affected by the earthquake. The avalanche that occurred in the mountainside blocked the road on the ground, and the park was surrounded by dense forests. Those trees grew denser and denser, so that the branches and leaves were airtight , became a natural barrier."

"The natives call these dense forests 'Jembe', which means bristles or bristles on the brush. Probably only smooth and slender boa constrictors or children walking sideways can pass through such dense forests. But these thick things, probably It’s no good. Since the earthquake, deformed beasts can’t enter the Monster Park even if they are called by nature. But the little marshal is an exception. It is an animal that came out of the Monster Park. So I think There must be an unknown secret passage connecting the two worlds." When Zhezhu said this, his expression was serious.Normally, he would always say that the Demon Realm was calling him, but no matter whether he was called or not, he would come uninvited.So Mrs. Tan Ya invited him into the dense forest to find her husband, how could he refuse?

On the day the team set off, Zotek said to him: "The widow is entrusted to you. You, an explorer of demonic lands, have to explore the beauty's heart as deep as the bottom of the sea this time. Oh, I believe that with your ability, this It shouldn't be hard to do." There was no deep meaning in his words, Zhe Zhu laughed out loud after hearing this. In addition to Zhezhu, his wife, and his wife's traveling companion Chouta, there is also the wild warrior Calusa in the team.This is a good opportunity to single out the beasts, how can there be no warriors to accompany them.Hundreds of porters set off in such a mighty way with their equipment on their shoulders.The expedition team started their Safari. "Safari" means adventure travel, you should have seen it in the movie.In the meandering queue, the natives carried loads with water urns on their heads, while the captain sat on a sliding pole to enjoy himself.The team traveled through mountains and rivers and came to the Rutchru River where Lauru appeared last... "Please look, madam." Zhezhu and the others looked at the river through the dense branches and leaves of fern.

A herd of hippos swims in the muddy red water.The river bank they are on can hardly be called a "bank". The sand is covered with crested ferns, as if beckoning them to go to hell. Seeing this terrible scene, the madam turned livid and said: "This is the gate of hell. My husband actually walked through here in the rainy season. I believe what you said now. He either wants to die, or he has a mental problem." Ceuta on the side interjected and said, "I don't think it's necessary to go deep into the dense forest to search. People will turn around in one place repeatedly after getting lost. Maybe Mr. Laulu got lost somewhere by the river before he went too far."

Ceuta would have this idea, perhaps because he was afraid of entering the dense forest.However, the previous search team searched the area for four full days without finding even a single shadow. This time, if they want to find out whether Lau Lu is alive or dead, they can only enter the dense forest to investigate. There seems to be jet lag inside and outside the dense forest, the sun is shining brightly outside the forest, and the sun is dark inside the forest.The trailblazer brandished a machete and slashed east and west, leading the large team to move forward slowly like snails.The spongy wet soil underfoot exudes a thick miasma.From time to time, giant pythons would show their faces around the team, and when people picked up their spears and were about to poke them down, they slid away like a gust of wind and disappeared.The screams from the little beast being surrounded by pythons tore the team members' nerves, and they worried that they would suffer the same fate.The ten days spent in the dark forest were more difficult for Madam than a hundred years.

After walking for about half a month, judging from the terrain, the team should have arrived at the foot of a certain volcano.The acacias and hibiscus bushes gradually increased, and the natives in the lead suddenly stopped and shouted: "Master White! Gorilla!" After speaking, he sat down on the ground with a plop. Following the prestige, they saw a group of gorillas fifty meters ahead, and smelled the unpleasant smell of the beast."Berg-Gorilla", the largest orangutan in Uganda, walks slowly under the leadership of an old orangutan.The group of orangutans seemed to have spotted them, but instead of attacking, they just roared a few times at the team in a slightly provocative manner.Their huge bodies crushed the bushes, and the sound of branches snapped one after another.

Zhezhu turned his head and said to his wife: "Madam, please don't be afraid. The reason why gorillas go crazy is because humans hurt them. As long as we don't take the initiative to attack, we are not in danger." It didn't take long for the group of gorillas to disappear from view.But unexpectedly, a terrifying roar suddenly sounded near the team.In the blink of an eye, a black figure suddenly appeared only two or three feet away from the team.It's the old orangutan!This bastard is really cunning, he even knows how to sneak attack!Everyone panicked and even forgot to raise their weapons.Confronting this seven-foot behemoth head-on would probably cause rivers of blood to flow.Just at the moment of the crisis, the wild samurai Calusa jumped up!

Because of the different distribution of ecological regions, Kalusa, who was born in Ethiopia, should have never seen gorillas, but he was not intimidated by the sudden crisis.Facing a giant beast with strange strength, he thought it was a good opportunity to show his skills. Calusa jumped into the air holding the half-moon knife. Unfortunately, the arm holding the knife was caught by a branch, and the important weapon fell to the ground with a bang.But the man had already jumped up, and there was no way to turn back, so Calusa's whole body rushed into the gorilla's arms. "Namo Amitabha, Namo Amitabha, what a tragedy!"

Everyone backed away in fright, they all thought that Calusa was dead.But when he came back to his senses, he realized that Calusa, who should have turned into a mass of flesh and blood, was actually hanging on the gorilla's arm.And that gorilla also became very docile, walking slowly towards the crowd.Everyone's eyes were wide open, with countless questions circling in their minds. Even the well-informed Zhezhu was baffled by what happened here.He stood there with his mouth open, staring at Calusa and the gorilla as if possessed. "You dead gorilla, get down on your knees." The gorilla was dull and deaf to Calusa's complaints.Zhezhu took a closer look and found out the mystery.

It turned out that the gorilla was suffering from sleep disorders.An equatorial stickfly called "Tsetse Mabunga Chufwa" is a master at spreading the disease.The lymph glands will become inexplicably hot during the onset, and the patient will fall asleep after a short time.As long as he has this disease, he will be in a trance all day long, and this gorilla is probably like this.But no equatorial stickflies were found in this area, so how did this gorilla suffer from sleepiness? Oretake recalled a famous experiment done by Dart Arnett.In 1899, there was an outbreak of sleep sickness in Gambia, West Africa.Two doctors injected the pathogen of sleep disorder into the orangutan.The orangutan was healthy at first, but symptoms began to develop after 13 months.Could it be that this gorilla was bitten by an equatorial stick fly a year ago?Since there are no equatorial stick flies in the area, someone must be suffering from sleep sickness.After he was bitten by a poisonous insect in the dense forest, the poisonous insect bit the gorilla again.But this jungle is very dangerous, and the natives who live nearby will not approach it.Only the missing Lauru ever visited this place.

Zhezhu's eyes brightened.Although there was no evidence to prove his inference, he was indeed the only one who had been here, and it was exactly fourteen months ago. "Thanks to you, we finally found some clues." Madam thanked Zhezhu, she looked back at Xiuta who was lying beside her, and couldn't help laughing out loud.The "orangutan crisis" just stunned him, but the brave Calusa at the side remained calm. "Sir, how about we capture this gorilla and bring it back?" "Of course we can, but we have to keep going." They are about to reach the iron gate "Jembe" of the Monster Park.Here lived the Congolese dwarves named "Akkwa", perhaps the last tribe the expedition was able to encounter. Akkwa was very surprised to see the live gorilla.They don't know what glass is, and they don't know that cloth can be used to make clothes. They don't see any products of modern civilization here. Akkwa is only over four feet tall, and his shaggy hair reeks of stench. Could this be the most primitive black man? Maybe the gorillas frightened them?In short, the natives in the tribe respected the expedition team very much.Zhezhu used gestures to communicate with the chief, asking if anyone from outside had visited a year ago. "My lord, you are right. There was a person who was not dark like you who came here. I remember that it was raining heavily that day, and the person couldn't speak our words, so he asked us if we had anything to eat. Things. We gave him some taro that we planted by ourselves, and he went to the iron gate after eating. I thought it was strange, and wanted to follow him to see what he was up to, only to find that the man was crawling sideways into the bushes Alas, I think he must have gotten stuck halfway up the climb, and now he has turned into a mummy and died..." Lauru, needless to say, that person must be Lauru.Since the chief said so, he must die.The search for Lauru was terminated. The next day, Zhezhu planned to go to Tiemen to have a look, after all, seeing is better than hearing a hundred times. Two species of fir trees, "Mohonou" and "Motsouri," built a natural wall around the two-mile-wide extinct volcano, with no entrance or exit.