Entertainment World: The Wild God of Gourmet

Along the way, there are still continuous lush forests, and there will never be a drought here.

The bottomless depths and swift currents of the river confine all jungle creatures to the land, just as the land confines aquatic animals. Here the great river grows wider and wider, like a superhighway with countless tributaries.

This is the Congo River, which the locals call the "Fairy River".

It has countless aliases, has multiple incarnations, and nourishes countless lives.

Paddle on such a vast river, Chen Ergou is obviously much more relaxed, no longer has to be as dangerous as rafting on a tributary.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and could even lie lazily on the raft to rest for a while.

When he was hungry, he took out a handful of nectarines from his backpack, washed them under the water, and ate them, saying: "There are countless myths and legends here, the most talked about and believed by the local aborigines, It is a legend about a river banshee with a human body and nine snake tails. Even now, there are still fishing tribes who enshrine the river banshee according to the seasons. They pray that when they go fishing, they can return safely.”

"It doesn't stop there. Because the Congo Basin is so primitive, no matter how many explorers come to explore it, it is still difficult to exhaust its mysteries. As early as two hundred years ago, expedition teams went deep into the forests of the Congo River Basin, looking for It refers to the legendary and mysterious Congo dinosaur—in the local Bantu language, Congo dinosaur means "the monster that cuts off the river."

He casually introduced a few short stories he had heard to pass the time.

Suddenly his eyes lit up, he pointed to the sky over a sandbar in front, and exclaimed, "Look, that pink cloud!"

He could hardly believe his eyes.

The audience in the live broadcast room did the same after seeing the picture clearly. Really, a colorful cloud floated over the forest.

"It's butterflies," Chen Ergou said loudly: "There are billions of butterflies. There is also a kind of cloud, which is formed by gray parrots in the jungle. The clouds in this rainforest have all colors-red, green, Yellow ones, and colorful ones. You will know when you see the parrot cloud and the 鵎鵼云. From a distance, you will think you are looking at a colorful picture. I only thought it was in the Amazon jungle. I didn’t expect to see this wonder in advance in the Congo rainforest.”

The audience stared wide-eyed, busy taking screenshots to save.

I don't know how many zoologists and photographers are drooling with envy, wishing to go to the scene to see it in person.

Chen Ergou praised again and again,

Said: "There are too many lives in this jungle. When the seasons change, their biological clocks will remind them to start migrating. The more famous scene is the tens of millions of yellow fruit bats migrating to the upstream swamp during the dry season. It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to see it. But I was lucky enough to witness the rare butterfly cloud. It is estimated that there was a flood in the jungle yesterday, which caused them to migrate in groups today, and birds such as parrots also began to move their nests. .”

"As the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind. Such a huge team flies without any worries. Naturally, it is also a day for all kinds of large birds to prey and carnival."

As he said that, he pulled the camera up, and the audience could immediately see a large area of ​​snake sculptures and hawks preying on butterflies.

While witnessing this miraculous scene, Chen Ergou had a little something to eat and was about to start the same long journey.

He picked up the wood pulp again and said, "To survive here, every creature cannot be lazy. It must fight for survival every moment, even trees. I am no exception. You must find the tree before the sun sets. A place to rest."

For the upcoming voyage, he was both excited and a little worried.

After all, there is a mysterious unknown world ahead. There is only one region on the earth, and in its hinterland hides an unknown number of secrets.

Looking down at the sides of the raft, it was full of green water, blue and blue, and I didn't know how deep it was.

"The Congo River is the deepest inland river in the world, with an average depth of about 200 meters. It is not as wide as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. Although it stretches for thousands of kilometers, 90% of it is only a few hundred meters wide. But occasionally it is as wide as The river surface of 16 kilometers is like a huge lake."

"For example, the area in front of me is several kilometers wide, and there are also a lot of aquatic life."

He could clearly see groups of fish swimming by under the water. This kind of scene made people wonder if it was in the sea.

There was no sign of any danger ahead.

The sun was shining brightly, the monkeys were chattering in the trees, and the parrots and butterflies were flying up and down like splashes of brilliant colour.

After turning a bend in the river, the water surface began to change.

The change from wide to narrow can be seen almost everywhere.

This also meant that the speed of the underwater flow also changed, and the raft drifted downstream at an extremely fast speed without him paddling.

The bank ahead began to narrow, about 500 meters wide.

The surface of the water is smooth as a mirror, but the river is rushing on, as if rushing to an appointment.

Chen Ergou had nothing to do except straighten the raft with his oars.

"Look at those birds!"

After drifting forward for more than half an hour, the waters changed again, and Chen Ergou suddenly called out.

The audience habitually looked at the sky of the live broadcast, but found that Chen Ergou was looking down at the water below the raft.

The dog egg camera was aimed at the water, and the audience was stunned, "Fuck~!"

"I'm blind, is it a fish or a bird, why is it flying under the water."

"Is this a white cormorant?"

"Made, it looks like a sea mine, and it's surrounded by large bubbles."

In this area with clear water, you can just see a large bird with smooth white feathers and duck-like feet flapping its wings below the water surface for food. The river is blue, and a group of dense fish swims through the water, and several birds that should be flying in the blue sky skim through the water, looking like torpedoes with feathers.

Chen Ergou recognized them, and he was a little uncertain: "This should be a kind of cape gannet that lives on the coast of South Africa. It usually forages in the sea. I didn't expect them to be found in the depths of the Congo jungle."

Cape Gannets are large and elegant, with black and white plumage.

The dark lines of the beak and face look as if an artist had drawn them in with a pen. The distinct black and white color makes it extremely photogenic now.

"Not only are they extremely capable of diving, they can go deep into the water eight meters to catch fish, but they also have extremely strong long-distance sailing capabilities. They often follow the migration path of fish schools and fly, and the flight distance even exceeds 6,800 kilometers. Someone once saw them on the west coast of Australia. past their shadows."

The rafts were still drifting fast, and before they had time to look carefully, they had disappeared behind them.

The audience was feeling sorry, but after making another big turn ahead, the scene in front of them immediately made the live broadcast room boil again.

I saw hundreds of elegant Cape Gannets flying in formation like bombers, looking for food close to the water.

Chen Ergou also opened his mouth slightly, just now he wondered where these cape gannets came from, but he didn't expect to see so many in a blink of an eye.

"...Apparently, this is a group of birds that were migrating with fish in the Atlantic Ocean, but were accidentally attracted to this Congo rainforest."

That's all he could explain.

Cape gannets are extremely capable of fishing, and their prey can be seen at an altitude of 30 meters. Then the wings are close to the body, and it dives underwater like a torpedo. The body brought up a large number of bubbles, and when viewed from above, it seemed that he was included in the bubbles as if he had a supernatural power.

Chen Ergou hastily dipped the camera underwater to record this rare scene. He kept explaining what he knew: "The cape gannet's dive speed can even reach 120 kilometers per hour, and it can sneak for a long time after going deep underwater to chase fish for predation."

However, this group of creatures from the sea really underestimated the Congo jungle.

At some point, a shadow flitted across the water, like a small black cloud.

Chen Ergou looked up in horror, and saw a strange scene, even more amazing than what he saw in the water below.

"Am I blind, and Archeopteryx appeared?"

"Wow, is this a primitive society? Even Archeopteryx appeared."

"It's scary, the baby is terrified."

Some water friends exclaimed.

It is not difficult to visually detect that the distance between the two ends of the wings of these huge birds flying across the sky is more than 3 meters long.

The big bird under the lens is really very individual, with a very interesting and cute face. Larger in size than a white stork, it has a particularly large head that can be mistaken for Archeopteryx because of the large, mottled beak.

Its huge beak looks like a whale's head, and its eyes are located at the front of the head, on the same plane as the owl's eyes.

There is also a pair of slender and powerful bird claws. Although they are bent on the abdomen, no one will think that the pair of slender and strong bird legs are for decoration.

"It's a Shoebill."

Chen Ergou was also amazed, without ever closing his mouth. "There are rumors that the Shoebill is an evolutionary descendant of Archeopteryx, the largest bird in the world. It is also one of the oldest birds in the world."

"Look at that bird's beak, it's wide and thick, and the end of the beak is bent down into a hook shape."

"This is not for the sake of looks. The tip of their beaks is extremely sharp, and the surrounding area is also sharp like a sharp knife. It can easily penetrate the thick skin of a crocodile that even a sharp knife cannot pierce, and the upper and lower pieces clamp the prey in this way. It's like a workpiece being clamped in a fitter's vise. It's a very deadly bird of prey."

"They mainly feed on fish such as lungfish and catfish, but also small crocodiles, soft-shelled turtles, water snakes, snails, frogs, and occasionally lizards, turtles, mice, other birds or juvenile crocodiles. "

His commentary was not over yet, and then, all the audience in the live broadcast room witnessed a close-range hand-to-hand combat scene of the sky flying brigade who can be called "air combat heroes", which is comparable to a Hollywood blockbuster.

Shoebill storks actually targeted this group of cape gannets, which rarely appear in the jungle.

The huge size and sharp beak give Africa's "native tyrant bird" an advantage. The average wingspan is more than 2.5 meters. When the beak is pecked, a piece of bird feather mixed with flesh and blood will fall into the sky.

The audience was stunned. The cape gannets, who were enjoying fishing just now, were attacked by a huge whalebill stork in a blink of an eye. The beautiful gannets were severely damaged in an instant, their feathers mixed with flesh and blood flew down, and groups fled in defeat towards the distant Atlantic Ocean.

At this moment, nature has taught mankind a lesson, what is the law of the jungle!

Chen Ergou is used to the life of the oriole at the back. How could a person like him, who is smarter than a monkey, miss this opportunity to pick up mistakes.

"Haha, just go over and kill some blood!"

Seeing the opportunity, he operated the raft and floated over. From the claws of the whale-headed stork, he was the first to pick up two cape gannets with broken wings struggling on the water. The cape gannets are still alive, and they won't live long anywhere. He twisted their necks calmly, grinning at the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile: "This thing is to protect animals, but instead of wasting it in this river, Might as well be cheaper for me."

The audience is already powerless to complain——

"It's morality."

"If the dog is playing lol, he must be a wretched dog hiding behind the team, waiting for all his teammates to die, and then jumping out full of blood and zooming out to grab people's heads."