Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

When he said this, he looked at Bai Su and me. Bai Su said: "We can all understand these things, how long have you guys been around?" Ao Kun shook his head: "I don't know, it's been a long time, please pay attention, you two, there are not many of us who are still living on the earth, and there are only a few survivors, so it is really impossible for us to know our past." too much." I couldn't help but said: "You have repeatedly mentioned the catastrophe, what kind of catastrophe is that? The ice age of the earth?" Okun said: "The Ice Age is not a disaster for us at all—"

When Aokun talked about this, Dabao suddenly interrupted: "Actually, the Ice Age can be said to be the beginning of our catastrophe." The statements of the two of them are contradictory. I don't know who to listen to, but Okun nodded and said: "It can also be said that when the earth was in the ice age, we already had a considerable number, and at that time, there were no you at all." This kind of pure animal people. When the Ice Age began to come, all the creatures on the earth, except us, suffered catastrophe. Not only can we survive the Ice Age—at that time, our civilization and our own conditions , it is more than enough to deal with such changes as the ice age."

I snorted in my heart and didn't say anything, because at that time, even they themselves didn't know how far their civilization had progressed, but I could understand that their own conditions were the main ones. Moss also grows on the ice sheet, and the vitality of the plants is already very strong. Okun continued: "All kinds of creatures on the earth died one after another during the Ice Age. At that time, we did one thing—" When he was talking here, he stopped again, looked at the crystal-clear glass of drink in front of him, slowly turned the glass, and said slowly: "It may be the biggest mistake."

I opened my mouth wide, "What's that?" I was about to blurt out.But Bai Su, who was beside me, touched me again and refused to let me speak, so I had no choice but to endure it. Okun sighed: "At that time, we began to save creatures that were struggling with death due to environmental changes. We tried our best to save advanced creatures on the earth at that time, especially concentrating on the preservation of mammals." Okun asked At this point, there is an inexplicable sadness in the tone of voice.Bai Su let out an exclamation of "ah", although the voice was not very loud, it was enough to express the shock in her heart.Ao Kun immediately looked at her: "Mrs. Wei must have known the result of this action?"

Bai Su's voice sounded quite low: "Yes, as a result, those animals survived the Ice Age, and a certain kind of mammal among them continued to evolve, forming primate animals, and further evolving into humans." Okun said, "Yes." Hearing this, I couldn't help protesting loudly: "That's something wrong, it's a great good thing." After I said that, everyone looked at me in a rather strange way.I want to say something more, this time it's not Bai Su who stopped me, but Ma Ji, he said: "Wei, don't jump to conclusions, just keep listening."

Okun ignored what I said: "The ice age was in the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic Era. At that time, some high mountains on the earth, such as the Himalayas, were only in the initial stage of formation. It was too long ago." Bai Su sighed: "So long..." Ao Kun continued: "Mrs. Wei is right. When mammals evolved into primates, apes appeared, and then evolved into primitive humans, we did make a lot of efforts to improve their intelligence. , taught them to do many things, and millions of years later, the primitive man evolved again and became a human being, a kind of human being completely different from us: pure animal man."

Okun sighed again: "If our ancestors did not devote themselves to rescuing advanced mammals during the Ice Age of the Cenozoic Quaternary, the result would be—" He hesitated for a moment and did not continue.Bai Su interjected: "There will be no pure animal people." Okun said, "Maybe." After he said these two words, there was another period of silence.Then, Ao Kun's voice sounded very heavy: "When pure animal people—" He paused and pointed to me, "You guys, after you have evolved to a certain level, our disaster will begin." I still don't know what his "disaster" refers to.Okun sighed again: "There are two kinds of people on the earth. One of them is completely non-aggressive in nature and way of thinking. They will not invade others at all. But pure animal people are different, they are full of aggression, in our opinion, it is completely unbelievable, but in their thinking, it is justified."

Ao Kun's tone became more and more serious.I couldn't help but be a little surprised, too, because I began to understand what Okun meant by disaster. Okun took another sip of his drink: "At the beginning, the situation was extremely terrible. It was a primitive method of killing each other between humans. If two pure animal humans killed each other, the result would not be so tragic. But Because the appearance of the two kinds of people is exactly the same, when two different kinds of people are together, the stone in the hand of the pure animal person has already cut off the main artery of the second kind of person, and the one who has cut off the artery doesn't even know what happened! In less than 100,000 years, we have lost more than 90% of our population!"

I let out a "cluck", swallowed my saliva, and looked at Okun, Dabao, Berlioz, and all of them. I really can't think of anything to say, I just feel an inexplicable sadness. Two kinds of people live together on the earth. One kind is already highly civilized and doesn't know how to attack others at all. The result of these two kinds of people living together, as one can imagine, is the most well-equipped army; to attack a city that is completely undefended - what Dabao once said. Ao Kun looked at me for a long time: "Our ancestors really had no choice but to escape and keep running away. The pure animal people evolved very rapidly. In the process of continuous evolution, their animal nature was also evolving. They killed Others are also more capable, not only will they kill face to face, but they will also deceive and seduce them to achieve the purpose of killing, and we don't understand these despicable acts at all—”

Ao Kun paused, looked at me, Bai Su, and Ma Qi: "I'm sorry, I used the adjective despicable." Ma Ji murmured: "Despicable and ugly, it doesn't matter if you use more. In fact, in human language, there is no proper word to describe the despicableness of human nature." Of course, I felt extremely uncomfortable hearing Markey's speech like this, but I couldn't refute it. Ao Kun smiled bitterly: "In the years that followed, our situation became even more miserable. Due to the rapid reproduction of pure animal people, our ancestors continued to escape, but sometimes the entire family could not be avoided. Use sticks on the beach to beat and kill defenseless baby seals."

I let out another "huh" sound. When Okun said this, his tone was heavy, but that kind of situation, after all, was very far away for him.At that time, no one could describe the tragic situation of how people like them died under the various means of pure animal people without any resistance. I shouted: "Hundreds of thousands of years, or even more than a million years, can't you learn to be smarter? Learn to defend yourself?" Aukun didn't answer, and Berlioz snorted: "When a person takes a saw to cut a tree, how can the tree resist?" I said: "Trees are trees, and people are people. Moreover, even plants have the ability to protect themselves. Cactus is full of thorns to prevent wild mice from biting. There is a kind of plant called thorns, which even has poisonous thorns." , don't let the animals touch it." Berlioz said: "Yes. But what we are facing is not ordinary animals, but pure animal people who are becoming more and more intelligent. A large field of thorns can stop ordinary animals, but pure animal people are poured with fire oil. If you set fire to it, how can you protect yourself?" I stared at each of the second types of people in the room, and after a while: "Now, at least you guys are getting smarter. I was stunned by anesthesia before." Dabao sighed: "This is the maximum violation of others that we can do in order to survive for millions of years. And, we obviously didn't do it well enough, didn't we?" I thought of what happened after I passed out from the anesthetic, and I had to agree with Dabao. There was a moment of silence in the room before Okun said again: "The situation is getting worse and worse, until the pure animal people began to have a rudimentary civilization. That was about five or six thousand years ago—" I hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, you mean that two kinds of people have been living together on the earth?" Okun said: "You shouldn't doubt this situation, I'm a vice president of an airline." I glanced at Bai Su, and Bai Su's expression was a bit strange, so I said to Ao Kun: "Please continue." Ao Kun said: "We have always been at a disadvantage. No matter how we escape, some escape into the deep mountains, and some live among pure animal people, trying to hide their true identities. However, in the struggle, in the conspiracy, In the brutal war, we always lose, keep losing, and our numbers keep dwindling, ever dwindling—” I stood up abruptly. Maybe it was because I was so excited that everyone looked at me as soon as I stood up. I said: "It doesn't make sense. I have seen your breeding method in Dabao's greenhouse. One person can turn into an unknown number. There is no reason for the number to decrease." After I expressed my opinion, there was another silence for at least three minutes, and then Okun said: "First, this method of reproduction, asexual reproduction, was only discovered in the past one thousand years. Second, all of us , after so many years of failure, there is an extremely pessimistic mood, no matter how good we perform, the result is almost inevitable to die tragically under the killing methods of pure animal people, most of us , I don’t want to reproduce and be killed by pure animal people.” I let out an "ah", this is indeed an incomparable tragedy.Bai Su took a breath: "You mentioned 'excellent', may I know their names?" Aokun almost didn't even think about it, and named seven or eight people.After I heard the names of those people, I was also stunned. I don't intend to write the names of those people who came out of Okun's mouth, but they are extremely outstanding people, there is no doubt about it.However, among them, some were burned to death, some were poisoned to death, some were crucified, and some... Those people are almost all victims of the cruel nature of humans (pure animal humans), and the variety of cruel methods is breathtaking and indescribable. Aokun looked at me. This time, he and I smiled wryly at each other, thinking of what happened to "them", I couldn't help but feel heavy. The silence lasted for quite a while, I looked at Bai Su, and found that there were tears rolling in her eyes.I slowly moved my hand over her arm. Dabao smiled bitterly: "We have learned to be smart. Our method is to hardly reproduce offspring. Because the growth of our population is just adding new food to pure animal people." I protested in a low voice: "We...don't eat people either." Dabao looked directly at me: "Cannibalism doesn't just mean chewing human flesh in your mouth. I believe you will know what I mean by 'human cannibalism'." I had no choice but to smile wryly, of course I understand what "cannibalism" means.In our human society, there are incidents of cannibalism happening all the time. Some people eat too many people and become "fat".Some people are almost eaten whole, and some people are eaten half to death. As long as there is a chance, they will eat people who are weaker than them. The whole society, the whole relationship between people, is A constant cycle of eating each other! Bai Su's voice sounded very deep: "Then, you should at least learn to protect yourself." Okun said: "Every method we use to protect ourselves cannot resist the attack of pure animal people. Pure animal people can take the lives of their own kind without hesitation because of their own interests──For a long time, our existence , only very few people know that when the pure animal people are killing and attacking, they don’t know about us. You kill the other kind, and you also kill the same kind. Our final decision is that we try our best to choose a hidden place to live—" Bai Su sighed lowly: "But, there are fewer and fewer places for you to hide." Okun said: "Yes, there are too few of them, so at the same time, we also live among the pure animal people, and try to choose some better occupations. After all, among the pure animal people, there are also a few who are not so aggressive. We Can barely survive." I said, "Several of you are hiding in an airline company." Berlioz said: "Yes. We are a total of five people. We join the society of pure animal people, which is determined by our previous generation. When we leave the infancy, it is like the pure animal people after the umbilical cord is removed. Our appearance , it seems that there is no difference from pure animal people. Our intelligence develops faster than pure animal people. In two to five years, we can acquire the knowledge of ordinary pure animal people for fifteen to twenty years, and then we will Appearing in front of the orphanage, adopted by the orphanage, our origins cannot be traced, and we can live safely among pure animal people." I spread my hands: "Unless I happen to be selected for the experiment of blowing air into lime water." Dabao took a breath: "We have been trembling and trying to hide our true identities. If I blow into the lime water, I am afraid that people in the world will come to study me." I already knew the reason why Dabao refused to blow into the lime water, but I didn't know what Captain Mackey saw in the cabin that day, which caused him to request an emergency landing. I looked at Markey suspiciously, and Markey shrugged his shoulders: "Berlioz and the others were by my side at the time, and I was really hungover. I absolutely admit this, but when I accidentally turned my head away , seeing Berlioz sitting beside me—” When he talked about this, he paused: "God, Berlios, what were you doing at that time? I never asked you why your face suddenly became so green? Why did your hair, Will it suddenly twist like a snake?" Berlioz spread his hands: "Actually, I didn't do anything, but the air pressure in the cabin made me feel uncomfortable. I needed some extra carbon dioxide, so my body had such a natural reaction. This is We are different from pure animal people. If you think you are really drunk at that time, then it will be fine." Markey took a deep breath: "I know I'm not drunk, I know what I see is not... people like us, a different kind of people, I cried out, pointed at you, and Dabao came over and pressed me , I hit him, Lian Neng and Vince also came to deal with me, so I had to ask for an emergency landing." Ma Ji said: "Well, if we hadn't continued to entangle, when we landed, we wouldn't be in such a mess, and many people died." Vince moved his body: "We know that your identity has been seen through, and we have to protect ourselves." Vince didn't seem to be very popular. After he said that, he paused and said, "Thank you very much, you didn't tell us the truth." Ma Ji said: "If I tell it, who will believe it?" I said: "It seems that you are also quite good at protecting yourself, weaving such a story to frame Captain Mackey." Vince, Lian Neng, Berlioz and Dabao showed a coy look.Dabao said: "We didn't intend to harm him. We have already decided to invite Captain Mackey to come here. Now it seems that Captain Mackey obviously likes our place." Captain Mackey laughed "hehe": "I can't find a more ideal retirement living place than here." What Captain Mackey said was true. For a retired person, the peace and comfort here is simply paradise. Markey moved closer to me, lowered his voice, and stuck out his tongue: "Don't blame me, when you are flying at high altitude, when you turn your head, you suddenly see the person next to you with a green face and hair raised up , what will happen to you?" I thought for a moment: "I'm going to panic and ask for an emergency landing." Markey let out a long sigh of relief, as if my answer had solved the doubts in his heart for a long time.He nodded and murmured: "Even you have to do this, it proves that I did nothing wrong." I could see that he had a heavy psychological burden after the plane crash, thinking that it was his own fault all the time in his heart.During his arrest, he didn't say anything. Of course, the main reason was that he believed that no one would believe what happened to him. What more. The internal guilt in his heart was completely eliminated after hearing my answer.I patted him on the shoulder: "Of course, you didn't do anything wrong." After I said this, I paused, and then said: "You also let us know that on earth, there is the first There are two kinds of people." I was just talking like this casually, but I didn't expect Ao Kun and the others to be very nervous. Ao Kun immediately said: "Mr. Wei, you won't announce our existence, will you?" I looked at their nervous expressions, and sighed: "Don't worry, even if I announce it, there is still a kind of human on earth, who is an advanced creature that came from another evolutionary program, and has the characteristics of a mixture of animals and plants." , what do you think the result is?" Okun looked very hesitant: "I...don't know." As if I had made a big successful joke, I laughed out loud and said, "I will be treated as a lunatic and locked up in a lunatic asylum." I thought my explanation was no longer clear, but looking at the situation of a few of them, I was still a little worried.I could see that they didn't really appreciate my joking attitude, and just as I was about to explain, Bai Su said in a very sincere voice: "Don't worry, everyone. I will do anything against you." Ao Kun let out a sigh of relief: "Don't be surprised, we have been fooled a lot over the years. It is a great adventure for us to invite you to tell us everything about us." I said, "Actually, you are safe now." Ao Kun smiled bitterly: "Who knows how long it will last?" Bai Su made a gesture first, and then said: "Please forgive me for being curious, you... how many people do you have now?" Okun and the others looked at each other, "Less than three thousand people." Bai Su and I couldn't help but let out an "ah" at the same time.Less than three thousand people!This is really terrible!They were once the masters of the earth and the most advanced creatures. However, there are only 3,000 remnants today, and there are as many as 4.2 billion pure animal humans! No wonder they are so dedicated to concealing their behavior, if once 4.2 billion people know of their existence──I can't help but shiver when I think of this. Bai Su said: "I've seen your reproductive methods in Dabao's greenhouse, you can actually—" Bai Su hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know what to say, Dabao had already said: "As for our population, the reason why we don't want to increase too much has already been explained." Bai Su said "hmm": "Every one of you has the same...incarnation, is that the result of reproduction?" Dabao said: "Yes, but that's only the few of us who live among pure animal people, and this happens." Bai Su said again: "The four of you once drove a car near the airport after a plane accident and knocked down a person──" Berlioz and the other four looked at each other: "We have always been very sorry about this matter, that person—" Bai Su said: "I'm injured, it's fine." Berlioz breathed a sigh of relief: "At that time, the plane crashed and we were extremely flustered. We really didn't know what to do, so we used a special communication method to inform the four of them. Another independent person. We wanted to ask the four of them for help to see if there was any way to help us in our predicament. Later, we saw that Captain Mackey was more flustered than us, so we informed them again Go away. It was an accident that they knocked over the gentleman on their way away." Bai Su and I looked at each other, Bai Su said: "Mr. Berlioz I met---" Berlioz laughed and said, "That's not me—" He was speaking, making a strange gesture, and at the same time, for a very short time, he seemed to be contemplating.Then, the door of the room was pushed open, and a man came in with a smile on his face, and suddenly stretched out his hand to Bai Su, holding an extremely delicate pistol in his hand. The muzzle of the small pistol in his hand was aimed at Bai Su, and he immediately pulled the trigger, and there was a "click" sound, and a flame ignited in the muzzle, it was a gun-shaped lighter. He smiled: "Mrs. Wei, hello!" I looked at the man who came in, and at Berlioz. These two people are exactly the same. There are similar twins in the world, but their resemblance is by no means similar to twins. They are basically one person, exactly the same .However, it can be seen that they are not the same person, because although the appearance is exactly the same, the personality is different. Berlioz was very steady, but the man who came in was obviously very lively and liked to joke. Bai Su smiled, lit a cigarette with the flame coming from the muzzle of that exquisite little pistol, and took a puff: "Hello, what should I call you?" The man spread his hands and said, "Names are meaningless. If you like, you can call me Berlioz second best." Bai Su said: "Whatever, Mr. II, where did you want to take me that day? I went to that bay, and found nothing, only a poor old man picking seaweed for a living." The Second King had always been smiling, and Bai Su did not say anything wrong, but his face suddenly became gloomy, and, in a very short period of time, a dark green color appeared on his face. . I already know that when that color appears on their faces, it is an expression of their inner excitement or anger, just like the blush of pure animal people. Bai Su was also stunned for a moment, not knowing what angered him in his words.The second generation "hummed" again: "That despicable old man." Bai Su was very surprised, and said: "That old man, what despicable things did he...do to you? He is a poor poor man, struggling to survive, what did he do to you?" The Second King glanced at Ao Kun and the others, as if asking for their consent, whether he should say something.Okun said: "Mr. and Mrs. Wei, we can trust you." Markey called out, "What about me?" Ao Kun and everyone else were silent. After a while, Lian Neng said: "Captain, you are our friend here." Even being able to say this, after all, he still expressed his disbelief in Markey. I thought that Markey must be very angry. Who knew that after he was stunned for a while, he sighed: "Yes, after leaving here, I I can't guarantee my own behavior, we... are full of the inferiority of animals after all, and that's not my fault alone." I was a little angry, and stared at Ma Ji: "Don't underestimate yourself, I don't necessarily have chlorophyll in my body, so I don't think I'm despicable." Markey obviously didn't want to argue with me, just shook his head and sighed again.I turned to the second king: "Okay, what did that laver picker do to you?" The Second King took a breath first: "Like the laver picker, although I know the character of a pure animal man, I still can't help but trust him, thinking that in his situation, I will definitely not hurt others again. , but the result, you see—” At this point, the Second Emperor bent down and brushed the hair on the back of his head.Everyone can immediately see that the hair on the back of his head is missing a piece, and there is a rather large scar where the hair is missing. Such a scar, from the eyes of experienced people, can be seen at a glance that it is caused by the impact of a hard object.The force of the impact, which may have been considerable, must have been severe. As soon as I saw the scar, I cried out, "Don't tell me that the scar was made by the laver picker." Bai Su mentioned to me that the laver picker, the Second King has a big and strong physique, how could he allow someone to attack him? The second sighed: "I'm sorry, it's him, the one I think I should use all my sympathy to help him." I blushed, and wanted to say something, but Bai Su slammed my elbow: "May I ask how things went?" The Second King pointed to Ao Kun and the others: "They like flying, and we like sailing. I said that we are five people, and they look the same as them." Bai Su said: "Yes, you have a white boat." The Second Emperor nodded and said, "That's right, that kind of ship, from design to manufacture, is all done by ourselves, it's a good ship—" I really couldn't help it: "Don't talk about your ship, talk about the scar on your head." The second generation said: "This ship is parked by the sea, and we landed from this ship. I went to meet Mrs. Wei. The purpose was to invite Mrs. Wei to the ship and explain everything to her, but later, I changed my mind. I'm afraid our secret will be revealed. So—" I said: "So, you arranged a car crash." I pointed at Bai Su: "She was almost killed by you." The Second King hastily said: "No way, I have done precise calculations and know that it is possible to make her lose consciousness temporarily, but there will be no damage. This is indeed the case!" I don't feel like I have nothing to say: the fact is that it is true. Bai Su said: "What method did you use at that time?" The Second King looked like a naughty boy who was caught doing something naughty, coy and a little proud, he said: "What method? It's just hypnosis." Bai Su shook his head and said, "Hypnotism? I am very knowledgeable in this area, it is impossible for you to hypnotize me so easily." The second shook his head and said: "In our opinion, your hypnotism is like a scientist looking at a child. It's too naive." I wanted to speak again, but Bai Su stopped me immediately: "You mean, in terms of thought control—" The Second King shook his head: "Thought control? This term is very inappropriate. We never want to control anyone, but our brain waves are stronger, and our communication——" When he said this, he paused for a while, and then cast a consulting look at Ao Kun and the others. At this moment, I suddenly remembered: "Your communication method can use brain waves?" The reason why I suddenly asked such a question was because I remembered that just now, before the Second King came in, Berlioz had a very short period of concentration, and then the Second King pushed the door open and entered. Since the appearance of the Second King was exactly the same as that of Berlioz, seeing him would inevitably cause a burst of consternation, so Berlioz's peculiar demeanor was ignored.At the same time, he didn't think about why Berlioz didn't make any response, and the second came in at the right time. Now that I think about it, it is clear that Berlioz's spirit was concentrated, and the Second Emperor was induced, so he appeared. The Second King smiled and said, "Yes, we can use the method of thinking to communicate with each other to communicate." Berlioz said: "This is what I mentioned just now. After the plane crash, I used the special communication method. They happened to be nearby at that time, so they could come." I took a breath, this kind of brain wave induction communication is not absent among us pure animal humans, but it is regarded as an extremely magical power, and it seems to be extremely common among them. I asked again: "How far away is it?" Er Shidao: "There is a certain distance limit, about 100 kilometers, no problem." The second stroked the scar on the back of his head again: "I have seen the laver picker a few times and thought he was very pitiful, so I gave him some money to make his life better." I said, "That's nothing special, we'll do the same thing." The Second Emperor made a gesture to signal me not to interrupt him: "I gave him money, came to the beach, sat, and continued to think about whether to contact Mrs. Wei again, and the man had come behind me , hit me on the back of the head with a stone, made me faint, and took away the other half of my money." Bai Su and I looked at each other and smiled wryly. The second king must have taken out all the banknotes when he gave the laver picker money, distributed half to the other party, and put the other half back into his pocket, that's why this happened. This kind of thing happens almost every day.You help someone, and that person, instead of being grateful, turns against you, or, in various ways, demands more. Such ordinary things, things that happen every day, are driven by the base nature of pure animal people. Between a pure animal person and a pure animal person, if such a thing happens, both sides have certain defensive and offensive capabilities. But when it happened between a pure animal man and a plant man, the latter had no defense at all. Both Bai Su and I had nothing to say, the second said: "Fortunately, he thought I was dead, so he ran away after stealing the money. If he is calm enough to squat down and take a good look at me, my secret may be exposed by him. " Their brain waves are strong and they can communicate with each other.They are the first advanced organisms to appear on the earth.The civilization of the people on Earth today came from their teachings at the earliest stage.Although their scientific progress will not progress too fast due to the massive loss of population, the knowledge they have mastered is far superior to ours. But they are incapable of protecting themselves from aggression.Their tragic fate is doomed. Compared with the laver picker, Er Shi is many times better, but once the two of them face a primitive battle, Er Shi is no match at all.Not to mention that the man hit him with a stone behind his back, even if he stabbed him face to face with a knife, I am afraid that the second generation will be at a loss and don't know what to do. Only then did I understand their true source of tragedy. The silence in the room lasted for a long time. I stood up first and patted Captain Mackey on the shoulder: "I hope you are here and happy. We are leaving." Everyone stood up, I stood with Bai Su, I looked serious: "Don't worry, everyone, I will never do anything that is not good for you, please believe me, the promise made by a pure animal person." "Of course I do, though, we still think it's a huge risk," Okun said. The second murmured: "Pure animal man's promise, promise..." He didn't criticize my promise, but I can understand what he wants to say. I couldn't make any further guarantees, so I had to pretend not to hear. Okun said, "Would you like to see the details of our place?" Bai Su said: "Okay, your existence is really undreamed of. I can learn more about it. It's my wish." Dabao took two steps forward, opened the door, and we walked out of the room and out of the building together. In the following time, Bai Su and I visited many buildings and saw about a hundred "second-type people". After a pleasant evening, Dabao, still in the boat, took us out. After the boat rushed out of the waterfall, another boat had stopped by the river, and we drove away by ourselves.