From the Island Owner to the King

Chen Rui was walking in the jungle.

Chen Rui said, "The road is very difficult to walk, every step is extremely difficult, the muddy mud, the ground is very slippery, there are cliffs and cliffs everywhere, it is exhausting, and at 100% humidity, clothes stick to glue like glue. On the body, the temperature feels more than 100 degrees, and in the dense jungle, it is difficult to advance, in fact, the speed of the soldiers in the dense jungle is usually only a mile to a mile and a half every day.”

Chen Rui entered the Panama jungle on the fourth day.

Chen Rui advanced more than 20 kilometers along the Camino Rio Trail.

Chen Rui was a little tired. The damp environment around him and the muddy mud (pig) (pig) (island) made Chen Rui very uncomfortable.

There are cliffs and cliffs everywhere, mangrove swamps and wetlands, and rivers and valleys with rapid water flow. It is very difficult for Chen Rui to cross, and it takes several times more physical strength than usual.

Chen Rui said, "You can't fight the jungle head-on, you have to follow the trend. Everything you need to survive in the jungle is at your side, including drinking water, food and medicine. You can use what you know to survive in the jungle, while ignorance will To kill you, knowledge is the biggest key. In front of me, I found a cinchona tree. The bark of this tree contains an alkaloid, commonly known as cinchona cream, which is a good antimalarial medicine.

It has saved countless lives in history. The Indians call it the sacred tree. When the Indians encounter malaria, they will use this bitter bark for self-healing. Although the cinchona tree is mainly produced in Indonesia. But its hometown is Ecuador in America. There are longevity in the jungles of Central and South America and northern South America. After Columbus discovered the New World, a large number of Europeans poured into the Americas. Lopez revealed the medicinal value of the cinchona tree and gave him a piece of cinchona bark as a souvenir. So the secret finally fell into the hands of the Europeans.

Now, I need to carry some of its bark to be prepared. In fact, in the humid rainforest, mosquitoes breed, and it is very easy to get malaria. If you don't carry malaria medicine, it can save your life. "

Chen Rui took some bark from the tree. Put it in the backpack and continue pushing down the Camino Rio Trail.

"There is a cliff in front of me. This trail seems to have completely disappeared without a trace. About 500 years ago, the Spaniards used hundreds, hundreds of slaves to build this huge Cane bridges, crossing canyons and cracks, the Spanish mules who transported gold used to walk on cane bridges, but today, they have been rotten and disappeared. This is what I see now, I have to find another way. Go around the road, adventure is like a Pandora's box, you never know what you're going to get into."

Chen Rui returned along the original road,

Chen Rui found himself lost, lost in this jungle.

"To survive in the jungle, you have to learn to adapt to the jungle, the jungle will give you good returns, food, water, warm shelter, you will find that surviving in the jungle is not as difficult as imagined, but if , you're lost in the jungle, even if you get the best return the jungle can give you, it won't help you, the jungle will trap you here, there's nowhere to run, now, it's hard for me to tell the direction, it's like An endless labyrinth, the winding paths stretch in all directions, which way is the right way is like buying a lottery ticket, fortunately I can guide the direction through the river, as long as I walk in the opposite direction of the river, I may Finally found the right direction."

Chen Rui went upstream along the opposite direction of the stream next to him.

"Suppose there is a heavy rain a dozen kilometers upstream of the river, which will flood very quickly, and the river looks shallow, maybe not your ankle depth, and you are not aware of the danger, coming from upstream The floodwaters will rush in front of you in an instant, and it will wash you away before you can react, and many inexperienced hikers have learned a lesson, at the cost of their lives."

On the seventh day that Chen Rui entered the Panama jungle.

"Now in front of me is a mangrove swamp, which is a tropical and subtropical coastal swamp formed by mangrove communities," said American novelist John Steinbeck. "No one likes mangroves. "I am no exception. The mangrove swamp in front of me looks very quiet, the water is very calm, but there are deadly dangers hidden in the calm, here is the paradise of anacondas, pit vipers, and alligators, in There are thousands of alligators living in this swamp. The bite force of an alligator is 990 kilograms, which is close to a ton, while the bite force of a human is only 40 kilograms. If you encounter them on their territory, Humans don't have any advantage, these guys will hide under the turbid water surface, only showing their eyes, watching the nearby prey, now I need to cross this mangrove swamp to the other side, if I had a choice, I would not choose to cross this The mangrove swamp with a width of more than 300 meters is simply joking with my life, but I have no choice, so I only choose to take risks."

Chen Rui walked into the mangrove swamp, and the water did not reach his thighs.

The water is very cloudy.

The water was only less than half a meter deep and still couldn't see the end.

Trees growing in mangrove swamps have evolved special root systems, aerial roots that look like tangled legs of spiders.

Chen Rui walks in the mangrove swamp.

It was very laborious to walk. I stepped down and stepped into the mud. The mud was like an arm sticking out from the water, pulling Chen Rui's calf. It was very difficult for Chen Rui to break free from the mud.

The smell of corruption fills the air.

Chen Rui said, "This smell is absolutely unpleasant, just like the stinky gutters in the sewer."

It was very quiet around Chen Rui, as if the surrounding air had frozen, and it was a little abnormally quiet.

"I'm sure that one or several crocodiles near me heard my movements, because there are a very large number of alligators living in this mangrove swamp, with an average of one alligator per several hundred square meters. Crocodile." (To be continued...)