Chapter 41 5. The world of chemical wood

Everyone remained silent under the scorching sun, and no one dared to speak.Surrounded by the mosquito-filled corpse, they were imagining the horrible murderer.The special palm prints unique to the fifth type of ape appeared on the corpse. The ghost screams that rang out all night last night were like a nightmare hovering in Zhezhu's heart, and it was hard to dissipate for a long time. "That thing is coming." I don't know who said such a sentence, but Frye suddenly looked up but didn't see the speaker.He couldn't take it anymore, so he asked: "What's going on? Could it be a gorilla?"

"It's possible." Zhezhu said as if no one was around, "There are four types of great apes that we know now, Gorilla (Gorilla), Chimpanzee (Chimpanzee), Orangutan (Orang-utan), and Gibbon (Gibbon). In the depths of the dense forest, there is actually a fifth kind of ape that has never been discovered. This kind of ape has a characteristic, its body will turn into wood under special conditions, so it is also called the wood-like man." "Oh, so what." There was obvious impatience on Fry's face.If it's just something mundane, his head that grew up in the slums of New York can still respond.But now he suddenly said a lot of information beyond his cognition, which made it difficult for him to digest.

"Let me say a few words." Frye pulled Zhezhu aside and said. "Putting aside the ape thing for now, I'm thinking that the murderer may be someone else. I think Tonya has the motive to kill Rodericks. Rodericks threatened Bo'an last night, saying that he would go back tomorrow." Mansion, but also hand over Tonya to the police. Of course, Boan will tell all this to Tonya. Besides, that woman has a previous record of murder." "Oh, you think so. How do you explain the palm prints? With so many people coming in at once, the scene has been destroyed. Only the palm prints can prove that it was done by the fifth type of ape. However, there are also fake palm prints." possible……"

"Well, I don't know about that either. But thinking about it carefully, the woman didn't have that much strength to strangle Rodericks to death. Anyway, this is just my guess." They called Bo'an and wanted to talk him out of it, so they asked: "Bo'an, you should know where the Inca gold is buried?" "Of course I know, it's actually in the 'impenetrable bush belt'. As long as I have calculated the volume and weight of the black cloud wood stone, I know that the gold is actually hidden in the center of the stone pile. But gold is not important to me at all .”

"Whether it is important or not, I think you have three hundred taels of silver here." "What do you mean, do I want to grab this batch of gold?" "Yeah, that's why you killed him." "this……" Bo An was forced to be speechless.He was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Oh, I said. I only have one purpose, that is, I don't want you to take Tonya away. If we find the gold plate soon, then Rodericks will leave Mr. Zhezhu for me and Tonya He went back together. You will take Tonya away when you return to Lima. In order to delay the time, I deliberately did not disclose the specific location of the gold, and blindly led the team to a dangerous place, thinking that one day you will Get swallowed by a crocodile, or get sick and die. Then Tonya will be safe."

This is too insidious.But Bo'an said it so bluntly that Frye couldn't complain, and could only wrinkle his face and smile bitterly.The unexpected arrival of a fifth ape and the death of Rodericks brought the expedition to a standstill. Zhezhu boarded a rubber tree to explore the surrounding terrain.Seeing that the semi-grassland belt is about to come to an end, not far away is the entrance to the endless sea of ​​trees, and the monster mist from the "poisonous sunset" can still be vaguely seen in the woods.From that day on, Tonya's spirits went from bad to worse. Dong Niya has a distressed expression on her face every day, and even Bo An seldom hears her talking to him.Not only that, but she often looked at the forest with a frightened expression.The rustling sound of those giant ferns touched Tonya's heartstrings, and made her feel an inexplicable fear.Both Bo'an and Zhezhu noticed Dongia's strangeness.

"Could it be that the maddening aura of the river of madness has fascinated Tonya..." "Who knows." Zhezhu also felt very confused. A few days later, Zhezhu, Bo'an and Dongnia decided to part ways with Frye and the others, and went into the depths of the forest to find out.This trip may never return, but Zhezhu intends to use his belief and will to fulfill this bitterly in love couple, so he chooses to bet his life and enter the devil's realm for a fight.He selected a few natives who were in good health, and planned to take a small boat into the dense forest along the river near "Hell Rib".At parting, even Iron Humphrey couldn't help but shed tears.

"I wish you success. I will stay here for about two weeks and wait for your return. You must come back unscathed. Bo'an, I hope you don't hate me. Tonya, I tell you as a friend goodbye." But at this time, the face of the cook, Ke Jia, showed joy and killing intent.But no one noticed her fleeting horror expression.Everyone got on the canoe and started to go deep into the dense forest. On both sides of the lower reaches of the dense forest grow rubber trees, coconut trees, and palm trees that block out the sun.And those parasitic trees climbing on the trunk are like turrets on ships.Ferntails and giant orchids as tall as saplings covered the banks.Zhezhu was very surprised by the impenetrable vegetation area in the heart of the Amazon.The rhizomes of aquatic plants slant in the direction of the current in the coffee-colored river.After the canoe traveled a certain distance, the surroundings became pitch black, which made the team members feel terrified.

"It's dark, how do you go?" The eyes of the crocodile are shining in front, the water snake is about to move in the dark, the giant python has a big mouth on the branch, waiting for an opportunity to catch the prey... The vines hanging on the tree trunk are shaking after being pressed by the body of the giant python, The creaking sound made it sound like the whole forest was breathing.There are countless death traps waiting for everyone ahead, and it is simply a crazy idea to cross the "Tai Nei River" alive. Suddenly a native stood up from the canoe and cried out:

"Tucandero!" Zhezhu was shocked, the natives shouted the name of the two-inch Amazonian ant.Those ants were riding on the broken leaves, floating densely on the river, like a black sackcloth blanket.One step forward is death, one step further is hell.Seeing this terrifying scene, the natives jumped into the water and fled in a hurry. The ant colony suddenly split up and drifted towards the shore with the leaves.It turned out that Zhezhu turned on the ultraviolet light to save the day. Reptiles and ants love yellow and red light and hate blue and purple.Therefore, ultraviolet rays that cannot be recognized by the human naked eye can defeat them in one fell swoop.Under the protection of ultraviolet rays, the three small boats passed through the dark "Tai Nei River".Three days passed, and they were still wandering in the dense forest.

The dense forest was hot and stuffy, and the existing words could no longer describe the hardship they felt.Fatigue, sickness, fever, diarrhea, the god of death is beckoning to them. Through the taillights of the boat at the end, they spotted a piece of paper floating on the water.When I fished it out, it was a letter written by Ke Jia.Because of the obstruction of aquatic plants, the speed of the boat was very slow, so the letter was picked up before it drifted far.The letter reads: When you receive this letter, you should be close to death.I send this letter to all of you who have died. In fact, Tonya and I are biological sisters, but Tonya was kicked out of the house when she was a child, all because of the oval palm prints on her palms.No one thought that the features of the ancestors would appear in this child, and my family, the Velasquez family, would not allow such people to live around them.Alas, it feels so good to be able to say this.I also didn't expect that monster called Huamuren would have the same palm prints.Although I know that the ancestors of human beings are apes, having the same palm prints as an ape will only embarrass the Velasquez family.Just when I was about to get married, the woman who shamed the family came back. For my own happiness, I have made the terrible decision to kill this woman who would at any moment bring the family's reputation into disrepute.I took her to Cocos Island, intending to take advantage of the high tide and drown her.But this plan was destroyed by the explorer named Zhezhu.So I tanned my skin and disguised myself as a half-breed to join the expedition, trying to find an opportunity to kill Tonya.Later I heard that you are going to "Tai Nei Chuan", which is really a blessing to me, because this is undoubtedly a trip that is tantamount to suicide. It's okay to tell you, my original name is Isabel.Having said so much, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to see it.Because you will definitely be gnawed to the bone by the ants in the Amazon. What a horrible woman. While reading the letter, a feeling of disgust arises spontaneously.The woman's obsession with selfish desire makes Zhe Zhu's hair stand on end.But in this way, he finally figured out a few questions. The woman in the sailor suit and the woman basking in the sun in the valley is Isabel. Tonya has been wearing ultra-thin rubber gloves to cover the oval palm prints, and her body is full of the blood of the wooden man. So it was the double personality that made her kill her lover in New York?The blood of the fifth ape made her commit the felony of murder unconsciously?No, she was innocent, she was just a poor girl in the blood of the Velázquez family. On the other hand, as the expedition gradually approached the core area of ​​the river of madness, they discovered an incredible phenomenon-plants can actually sleep! Although it was dark all around, they knew it was night through the timing tools they carried with them. The forest began to stir, the horizontally stretched leaves became "downcast", and the group felt sleepy. People and plants actually have sympathy, isn't this a sign of madness? Zhe Zhu tensed his nerves.He found another letter floating down the river.The sender is Fry. Koja was strangled to death last night.Through her death, I finally understood how Rodericks died.Both men slept among the withered agave bushes before they died.The dry fibers of the agave contracted extremely when exposed to moisture, so Koja and Rodriquez were strangled to death.As for the marks on Rodericks' neck, they are only accidentally similar to the palm prints of the fifth great ape.I have doubted Tonya for this before, and here I want to apologize to her. retribution!Zhezhu couldn't help sighing.Suddenly a native shouted loudly.Zhezhu looked up and found a group of chinchillas roaring past the treetops.The sun shines through the gaps in the branches and leaves into the dense forest, which looks as beautiful as the starry sky.Finally out of the jungle!Everyone cheered. Walking out of "Tai Nei Chuan", what awaits them is an unknown bush. The strange red mist of "Poisonous Sunset" looks like wildfire when you get closer.There was a kind of red pollen floating around, and the smell was very unpleasant. "Well, so it is." Zhezhu waved his hand, "This is the pollen of an orchid called 'Cattleya Eldorado'. But it smells like a potion made by the natives of Amazon. The potion is made of It is made of a Albizia plant called 'Niopo'. I know, the roots of the two plants must be intertwined, and the ingredients of 'Niopo' have been absorbed by this orchid, so it is emitted to make people feel Mad cloud of pollen." There are crazy orchids blooming in the wilderness in the distance. Once the wind direction changes, those pollen clouds will float in the direction of the expedition team.At that time, everyone will become lunatics. It seems that it is better to leave here earlier.So, they decided to return the same way tomorrow morning, and set up a tent at the same place to rest that night. Ever since the expedition team came to this silent and crazy paradise, the roaring sound from a distance can be heard from time to time.The fifth type of ape... Could it be the fifth type of ape... For some reason, Tonya, who was supposed to be trembling, looked happy when she heard the call, as if she had heard a call from her relatives. The next morning Tonya disappeared. Zhezhu comforted the grief-stricken Bo'an: "This is the call of the wild, the call of the wild from the river of madness. Dongia will be very happy, because she has returned to her kind. She was not human from the beginning , you should give up." At dawn, the "Poisonous Sunset" was dyed blood red.Zhe Zhu's heart also drifted to the depths of the forest along with Dong Niya who returned to nature.There are strong rubber trees and rich minerals here, and he always remembers to find useful resources for the motherland.Next time, he will come to the Amazon for geological survey.Folding bamboo is the pioneer of this era.