Pastoral Daily Life - Chapter 151

[Chapter 151 Dangerous]

The field workstation of Kunnan Botanical Garden is located on the edge of the virgin rainforest. Although it is said to be the edge, it is still towering with ancient trees, obscuring the sky, and there are entwined vines and lush flowers and plants everywhere. When one stepped on the ground, there was slippery and soft mud and rotting wood. The car that Wang Chaoliang drove couldn’t get in at all. They could only park in a nearby village and walked in by themselves.

Lu Lingxi slept all the way and was completely awake at this time. He jumped out of the car with his bag on his back, and looked curiously at the primitive tropical rainforest with the largest area, the most complete preservation and the highest biodiversity in China.

Wang Chaoliang stood beside him and said with a little emotion: “Xiaoxi, do you know? More than half of the plants and animals on the earth live in the tropical rainforest. It can be said that the rainforest is the base of most creatures on the earth. It’s a pity that it is everywhere now. It is indiscriminate deforestation, and the area of rainforests on the earth is getting smaller and smaller, and if things go on like this, it will be true…”

At the end, Wang Chaoliang sighed, not to mention other places, the area of the rainforest in front of him was getting smaller and smaller, although China has been shouting about environmental protection, but compared with economic interests, the so-called protection is just empty talk.

“Let’s go.” He didn’t say more, and greeted Yan Yue and Lu Lingxi to follow him into the rainforest.

Because the plants are too lush, sunlight is rarely seen in the rainforest. At first, Lu Lingxi didn’t get used to the past, but Lu Lingxi quickly got used to the environment inside. As far as the eye can see, in addition to towering trees and intertwined vines, there are more epiphytic algae, moss and various ferns. These usually inconspicuous plants covered the surrounding tree trunks and branches, as if covered with a thick green carpet. In addition to the colorful flowers and occasional unknown animals crawling over, the entire rainforest shows a mysterious and unpredictable beauty.

Yan Yue didn’t have much interest in these, and just looked around as a tourist. Wang Chaoliang and Lu Lingxi were different. They walked and watched with great interest, and occasionally stopped to take a few photos and chat with each other. Wang Chaoliang is a senior plant researcher. Lu Lingxi has a mysterious white panel on his body. No matter what plant he encounters, the two can chat together, and Yan Yue can’t help but taste it.

After finally waiting for the two to separate, Lu Lingxi went to take pictures of the two giant trees growing together, Wang Chaoliang squatted on the ground and carefully observed a white strain, Yan Yue held a bottle of water and handed it to Lu Lingxi. “Are you tired?”

Lu Lingxi took the water and shook his head consciously.

The corners of Yan Yue’s lips curled up, looking at Lu Lingxi with a smile in his eyes, he whispered, “Are you feeling any discomfort?”

Lu Lingxi was a little at a loss when he heard the words, and the tips of his ears immediately turned red when he reacted. However, apart from being a little sleepy in the morning, Lu Lingxi’s body did not have any abnormality. Even though Yan Yue didn’t sleep much all night, he is still in good spirits. Both of them knew that this was the effect of evolution. Evolution brought not only communication with animals, but also physical enhancement and improvement.

Seeing what the two of them seemed to be saying, Wang Chao Liang simply proposed to take a break here.

Yan Yue glanced at the time and asked, “Is it still far from the workstation?”

“It’s not far, it’s just in front.”

There are too many dangers in the rainforest. I don’t know how many poisonous snakes, poisonous frogs, and poisonous spiders are there. , there are many other dangerous animals lurking. Although the staff made it easy to build the workstation in the rainforest, they did not dare to go too deep.

Wang Chaoliang urged Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue to pay attention to all kinds of poisons and never get bitten. Although this is the edge, there are no animals that are too poisonous, and there are medicines in general workstations, but you must try your best to avoid suffering. “Besides that, you must be careful not to walk around alone, and be careful of getting lost.” He warned as a passerby: “This is a huge maze, and the trees around it are all about the same length. If you get lost, it will be troublesome. “The

three of them rested for a few minutes, and Wang Chaoliang took them forward. After walking for two steps, Xiao Hei, who had been obediently wrapped around Yan Yue’s wrist, suddenly got out of his sleeve, hissing hiss towards the bushes on the left. The next moment, Xiao Hei shot out like lightning and plunged into the bushes. Just listen to the rustling inside, as if something is struggling.

“What’s wrong?” Wang Chaoliang quickly turned around and asked when he heard the movement.

Yan Yue pulled out a dagger from his body and blocked it in front of Lu Lingxi. He looked vigilantly in the direction where Xiao Hei disappeared, and frowned, “Maybe it is a poisonous snake.”

“Poisonous snake?” Wang Chaoliang immediately stopped. Whispered: “Don’t move yet. As long as we don’t provoke, snakes won’t mainly provoke us.” But even though he said so, he still pulled out the snake medicine prepared in advance from the bag. It is best not to be bitten by a poisonous snake, and if you are bitten, you can be prepared.

During the conversation between the two, the movement in the bushes became smaller, and after a while, Xiao Hei stuck out his head and spit out a letter at Yan Yue excitedly, and a small red snake with a thickness of several centimeters rolled out from the bushes with his tail curled. The little red snake’s body drooped softly, and it looked like it was dead. Wang Chaoliang was taken aback and stared blankly at Xiao Hei for a while, speechless. He had seen Xiao Hei in Micro Gardening before, and of course he knew that Xiao Hei was Yan Yue’s pet. But this… he couldn’t find words to describe the scene in front of him.

Xiao Hei swam in front of Yan Yue ostentatiously, tilting his head and shaking his head from side to side.

Yan Yue frowned, put away the dagger, picked up Xiao Hei, and washed it for a long time with a bottle of mineral water. Xiao Hei opened his mouth in dissatisfaction and bit on Yan Yue’s finger, but Yan Yue didn’t respond. Xiao Hei let go of his mouth aggrieved, and struggled to get to Lu Lingxi’s arms with his tail.

Wang Chaoliang’s expression became weird. He always felt that this little black snake seemed to be acting like a spoiled child, as if he was wronged by Yan Yue and wanted to go to Lu Lingxi to complain. Thoughts passed and he shook his head, feeling really confused.

Yan Yue finished flushing the water and poked Xiao Hei’s head. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with Xiao Hei hanging the poisonous snake, he simply thought that Xiao Hei was dirty and needed to be washed. After all, Xiao Hei’s favorite place to stay is either his wrist or Xiao Xi’s arms, and it’s a bit dirty to roll around outside.

“Hiss.” Xiao Hei raised his head in protest.

In front of Wang Chaoliang, Yan Yue couldn’t say anything, so he could only throw him to Lu Lingxi according to Xiao Hei’s wishes. Xiao Hei wrapped around Lu Lingxi’s wrist in a pleasing manner, and bluffed his tail at Yan Yue.

Lu Lingxi couldn’t help but laugh.

After ten minutes, they arrived at the field station of the botanical garden. It was said that the workstation was actually three simple houses built in the middle of a clearing in the jungle. Around the room, there were some instruments that Lu Lingxi didn’t know on the ground. The workstation was stationed by two staff members who were about the same age as Wang Chaoliang.

They knew in advance that Wang Chaoliang was going to bring people over, and they were very enthusiastic about Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue, especially Lu Lingxi. Both of these two staff members had read several reports published by Wang Chaoliang before, and knew that Lu Lingxi could be regarded as their peers to some extent, and was very knowledgeable about the research and development of new plant varieties.

“Pharaoh, take Xiaoxi around, and found a rare Rafflesia flower there a few days ago.” One of the staff pointed.

“Rafflesia?” Wang Chaoliang first wondered why there was a Rafflesia here, but soon became excited and said to Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue, “Come on, let’s go and have a look.”

Rafflesia, also known as Carrion Flower, is a A succulent parasitic herb and the largest flower in the world. The largest rafflesia flower corolla found so far has a diameter of 1.4 meters and a weight of 10 kilograms. It has the reputation of the world’s flower king. However, the origin of rafflesia is mostly the tropical rain forest in Southeast Asia, and it is relatively rare in Kunnan.

Following the guidance of the staff, Wang Chaoliang led Lu Lingxi and Yan Yue all the way to the depths of the rainforest. “It’s okay, this is the place where the workstation often comes, there are no dangerous animals.” Wang Chao Liang said as he walked, “Besides…” He jokingly glanced at Xiao Hei wrapped around Lu Lingxi’s wrist, “There is Xiao Hei this Bodyguard, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

Xiao Hei seemed to understand that Wang Chaoliang was talking about it, and he kept shaking his tail and hissing in excitement. Yan Yue understood what Xiao Hei was calling, and gently raised the corners of his mouth.

They walked for about half an hour, and Wang Chaoliang said, “Don’t look at how far we seem to have gone, but in fact, this place is still on the edge of the rainforest. There is no end to walking like this.”

Lu Lingxi followed the direction that Wang Chaoliang pointed to. Looking in the direction, he asked curiously, “Has anyone been to the middle of the rainforest?”

This time it was Yan Yue who answered, and he said solemnly, “This rainforest borders other countries, so there should be smugglers who venture through here.” Drug dealers, the border area is not very safe anyway. But we don’t have to worry, the workstation has been built for more than ten years, and we haven’t encountered any smuggling drug traffickers… Here we go.”

Wang Chaoliang walked towards the front excitedly before he finished speaking . past. Yan Yue glanced around, reached out to hold Lu Lingxi, and followed him with him. The rafflesia flower in the mouth of the staff quickly appeared in front of the two of them.

It is said that the rafflesia is actually just a giant black bud in front of it, with a mark left by the staff next to it. Wang Chaoliang circled the flower buds, feeling a little regretful, “We probably won’t see it before it blooms.”

Rafflesia flowers only bloom once in their life, and the flowering period is only four days. The buds are fragrant at the beginning of their bloom, and then emit a pungent rancid smell. On the fourth day of flowering, the petals of rafflesia will gradually turn black and wither, and then within a few weeks become a puddle of sticky black mass. Although Wang Chaoliang couldn’t judge the exact blooming time of the Rafflesia flower, neither he nor Lu Lingxi could stay here every day.

He felt sorry in his heart, and simply squatted on the ground and looked at the flower buds. Although Lu Lingxi was interested in Rafflesia flowers, he really didn’t know what was so beautiful about the flower buds, so he took Yan Yue to look around, taking a few photos from time to time.

“Bang.” Something hit from a distance and landed at Lu Lingxi’s feet.

Before Lu Lingxi could react, Yan Yue had already pulled him back a step. When the two looked up, they saw a little yellow monkey squatting on a tree not far away, holding a fruit of unknown flower in his hand, eager to try Lu Lingxi’s direction.

“Squeak.” The little monkey shouted loudly.

Unfortunately, neither Lu Lingxi nor Yan Yue could understand what it was saying. On the contrary, Xiao Hei was angry that the little monkey bullied Lu Lingxi, climbed out of Lu Lingxi’s wrist and hissed angrily at the little monkey. The little monkey stared at Xiao Hei curiously, and seemed to remember something anxiously squeaking, and kept pointing and jumping forward while screaming.

“What is it talking about?” Lu Lingxi asked Yan Yue curiously.

Yan Yue stared at the little monkey’s actions thoughtfully, “It seems to be reminding something.”

“What is it reminding?” Lu Lingxi took out the binoculars from his bag and looked in the direction the little monkey pointed, except for covering the sky The tall trees that covered the sun, he saw nothing. He handed the telescope to Yan Yue, and Yan Yue looked around, but still found nothing.

“Let’s go back first.” Yan Yue frowned and said suddenly.

“Ah?” Lu Lingxi looked puzzled.

Yan Yue pulled Lu Lingxi and explained, “This little monkey is not malicious, Xiaoxi, you should be able to feel it. Since it reminds us of what’s ahead, we should leave here for safety reasons.”

After he finished talking about Lu Lingxi’s obedient place He nodded and followed Yan Yue to find Wang Chaoliang along the same path. After walking a few steps, Lu Lingxi looked back at the little monkey on the tree. The little monkey was hanging from the tree trunk with one arm and waved at them with the other arm like a human.

Lu Lingxi rolled his eyes and laughed, and waved at the little monkey.

They were not far from De Chaoliang, and they soon converged. Yan Yue told Wang Chaoliang that he suspected that there was danger ahead, so it would be better for them to leave here first. Although Wang Chaoliang found it strange, Yan Yue’s tone didn’t seem to be joking. He cautiously glanced in the direction Yan Yue came over, and simply took the two back to the workstation. The three figures soon disappeared into the jungle.

Not long after they left, several men with sturdy statures and wearing local ethnic costumes came out from behind a thick tree and stared viciously in the direction where the three disappeared.

The leading man looked in his forties, with a thumb-length scar at the corner of his eye. With a gloomy expression on his face, he asked in a cold voice, “Have you seen what they look like?”

A tall man in his thirties who looked at him quickly said, “The little one finally looked back, but the other two didn’t. clear.”

The leading man lowered his eyes, made a beheading gesture, and said coldly, “Follow them, see where they are, and find opportunities to kill them.”

A young man on the right looked at some young men and hesitated: “Big brother, it looks like they don’t understand anything about traveling, and they probably haven’t seen us, or why don’t they have extra troubles…” Before

he could finish speaking, the leading man snorted and interrupted: “Everything. I didn’t see it? I didn’t see what they were in a hurry to leave. Xiaoliu, don’t forget, the fifth one has already been planted. It is estimated that he has said everything that should be said and should not be said to save his life. With this foundation, now other lines are not safe, and there is only one line left for transporting drugs… Just in case, even if the kid doesn’t see anything, they are unlucky.” The

leading man was prestige among several people . Supreme, when he said that, the others would have no objection. Among them, the tall and sturdy man followed Yanyue and the others, and the rest returned to the depths of the rainforest. Before leaving, the leading man raised his head and glared at the little monkey on the tree, the little monkey squeaked, grabbed the fruit in his hand and smashed it on the man’s head.

The man’s face was full of anger, and his hand immediately touched the gun on his waist, but considering that the shooting was too loud, he had to endure it.

Seeing that he didn’t move, the little monkey was even more proud. He kept looking for shriveled fruits and smashed them at them, and even made a face like a human.

“Little beast.” The man was so angry that he died.

The young man beside him hurriedly stopped him, “Brother, why bother with a beast.” The

little monkey seemed to understand that they were scolding it, and the action of smashing the fruit was even harder.

Young man: “…”

[End of This Chapter]