Chapter 37 1. Wooden man

Tonight, Zhezhu finally opened his mouth, ready to tell the adventure story of "The River of Madness", a great demon in the hinterland of Amazon.Compared with "The River of Madness", the "man with a tail" and "the devil's urinal" mentioned earlier are simply hard to hold a candle to.At the beginning of this article, let's talk about the geographical location of the river of madness. The largest river in South America, the main stream of the Amazon River splits into two tributaries near Peru.One is called "Yacaranamor" and the other is called "Jurua", and between these two tributaries, there is a small river called "Jutahy", which we will call "Quda River".And in the depths of this Qiuda River, there is an endless dense forest.Looking around, as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but trees or trees.In the depths of this dense forest is the legendary Great Demon Realm that "makes the gods go crazy".The specific scope of the Great Demon Realm is seventy degrees west longitude and five degrees south latitude, with a radius of a hundred miles around this center.There is only one secret path to enter the magic realm.

If you mention the Amazon to people, I am afraid that nine out of ten will think of the hot flashes of the virgin forest.That's right, the dense forests of the Amazon, the Izli dense forests and the Campo dense forests in the African Congo are also known as the world's three largest dense forests.The forest has a hot and humid climate and is full of giant plants.And humans have launched two expeditions to the "River of Madness" so far. The first time was in 1902, led by Dr. Ramabi, the director of pharmacy at Columbia University, who was funded by the Malford Company, and marched along the Yakalana Moru River to the Demon Realm.Naturally, this expedition ended in failure. The expedition team only made a round at the gate of the River of Madness, but they also encountered all kinds of incredible monsters and wonders.Now I will give a brief introduction:

"Cordao de umbigo" means "the thread of the navel".When the expedition team went upstream, they found a cliff thousands of feet above the river, and ordinary birds could not fly over that height.They circled nearly twenty miles before reaching upstream.This is one of them. "Brejo de Euryale carnivorus" - "Brejo de Euryale carnivorus". The world's largest lotus, the Victoria Regia lotus, is eleven meters wide in its leaves alone.There are piles of bones on the leaves, and the lotus flower makes a loud clicking sound when it blooms. It sounds like a terrible monster is lurking under the leaves and breathing.Dr. Ramabi did not wade through the lotus pond full of giant lotuses. Thanks to his good water skills, he saved his life.

The second venture was in 1934, when the American Geographical Society chose to fly to the River of Madness.This is a low-altitude flight expedition. Although it is not restricted by terrain conditions, this expedition method has a big disadvantage.During the expedition, they could only have a rough understanding of the environment along the way. They couldn't figure out what kind of animals and plants lived in the magic land. Then there are "Gotta da cobras" (bits of poisonous snakes), "Costella de Inferno" (ribs of hell) and other places where the name alone is creepy.There is a river called "Rio no barriga" (Tai Nei Chuan), which makes people feel nauseous just thinking about it.Looking up, in the distance is a toxic gas field called "Arrebol venenosa" (poisonous sunset).There is the core area of ​​the Demon Realm where "even the gods are crazy about it".

"Poisonous sunset"... Ordinary people may not be able to enter the dense forest full of poisonous miasma.Not to mention entering, it is impossible to come to it, because before that there are countless hardships and hardships, as well as those unheard of and daunting obstacles. "What is there in the demon realm?!" I asked Zhezhu. "Let me make a joke first, and tell you the meaning of 'god crazy'. What exactly does 'even the gods are crazy about' mean, let me give you a little hint first." "Ah! Please!" "Then I'll get to it. Do you know that there's a strange animal near the Amazon called the 'Galho Jalalaca'? 'Galho Jalalaca', pronounced 'Galalaca'. This snake has a property that it crawls up to When on a tree, the body also becomes wood."

"I've never heard of it, what a strange creature." "Yeah, it sounds unbelievable, but people have seen this kind of snake. But I'm not talking about the wood snake. In fact, there was a 'wood man', or 'Ramos de gente', a few years ago. '." "Where?" "Just downstream of the confluence of the Qiuda River and the Amazon River, about 50 kilometers away, there is a small native village called Floben. The Huamu people floated along the river to that village. After investigation by anthropologists, In fact, this monster is not human at all. Judging from the analysis of the skeleton, its thigh bones and skull bones are very strange. It is not a gorilla, nor a chimpanzee, orangutan, nor a gibbon. Excluding the above four, this animal should be new The 'fifth great ape' discovered."

"Then the habitat of this 'fifth ape' is near the River of Madness?" "It should be. But the strange thing is the palm of this wooden man. Aren't there palm prints on the palm?" "Yes what's the matter?" "Experts can tell whether the owner of the palm is a human or an ape just by looking at the palm prints, and even which kind of ape or human can tell clearly. There is usually a deep groove on the palm of an orangutan, and the Mongolian has a similar There are two penetrating lines on the palm of a gorilla, and the same penetrating line can be found on the palm of a black man. There is a V-shaped meridian on the palm of a chimpanzee, and the same meridian can often be seen on the palm of a Caucasian. So there is a saying called "the theory of three apes and three races of the same race". You may ask, what is the difference in the palm of the Huamuren? There are two curved lines on the palm of the Huamuren. The center is curved into an oval. But there is no similar feature in the extant South American population."

"Could it be an extinct race?" "You mean the Inca Empire?" Zhezhu murmured to himself, then snickered inexplicably. Before the sixteenth century, the territory of the Inca Empire once extended to the west coast of South America.The country is very rich and they call themselves the Sons of the Sun.In order to seize the treasures of the Incas, the Spaniards forced the Incas to mine mines for them by force, and then the Inca Empire perished.This once glorious race has completely disappeared in history.But they have left many mysteries, which have not been reasonably explained so far.

One of them is the whereabouts of Inca royal gold.It is said that the royal family had 2,000 gold plates in their possession at that time, and each gold plate weighed three "Arrobas".After King Adavaluble was executed by the Spaniards, the whereabouts of these gold plates became a mystery.In conversion, 1 Arrobas = 25 pounds, and the total value of those gold plates today is probably more than 100 million US dollars.The Inca conqueror, Francisco Pizarro, searched for it later, but could not figure out where the gold plate went. Another mystery is the whereabouts of Padarakuda, the concubine of his brother Vaskaru.It is said that she was taken away by the same clan, but when she disappeared, the gold plates also disappeared, so some people say that the gold plates were secretly carried away by Padaracuda on pack horses.Where is Napadarakuda?Finding her means finding the gold plate.Inca ruins are well investigated by archaeologists today, and these two mysteries remain unsolved.

Gold in the earth?Could it be that Padarakuda buried those gold plates in the dense forest in order to restore the country, so that they can be used when needed in the future?I have heard a little about the legend of the Inca Empire.When it comes to the Inca, the famous "Gold of Padarracuda" immediately comes to mind. So much for the topic of the Inca.Zhezhu turned around and said: "We assume that this 'fifth ape' is real. With Mr.'s pen, I must be able to write an extremely interesting story. Whether or not this creature exists, we will not mention it for the time being. The next thing I want to talk about is Xinbao The story of Cocos Island. But it starts with Lima, the capital of Peru."