Great Dreams, Tragic Pursuits (Part 3)
Track down the dreams of the Savage expedition team members
On August 30, 1977, in the Iron Furnace Village of Panshui Commune, a migrant worker from outside the forest, Xiao Xingyang, Qian Hailin and Mao Changfu, reported to the expedition team that when they were picking Schisandra wild fruits in the half-mountainside forest of Tielu Village, they saw a wild man of medium stature, brown hair and prominent forehead eating Schisandra in the woods. When the savage spotted three astonished young men observing it, they threatened them with a roar of "Whoops, whoops," whoops, whoops, whoops.
The three migrant workers saw this, and one by one they were frightened and scattered, and they shouted "Wildlings!" for fear of being caught by the wildlings. Savages! One side fled desperately down the hill and quickly reported to the expedition team.
At a moment when the scientific expedition team was at an impasse due to the fierce controversy between the existence of wild people and no wild people in the academic circles, which caused the scientific expedition activities organized by the state to be greatly interfered with and reached a stalemate, Xiao Xingyang, Qian Hailin, and Mao Changfu, three migrant workers, suddenly reported that they had found wild people in the mountains, which brought a glimmer of hope to the experts and members of the scientific expedition team who insisted on having wild people. The experts who insisted on having savages and the scouts of the troops were all very excited, believing that the opportunity could not be lost, and that they should immediately organize a search and arrest into the mountains.
Experts who deny the wildlings dismiss themselves as academic authorities, saying, "We are engaged in science, and there is no problem with the folk rumors about how many people have seen the wildlings." Nor is it credible at all. For some people in society who claim to have encountered wild people and witnessed wild people, including some local cadres, they all claim to have seen wild people, which can only show that these people do not understand anthropology and scientific common sense. Even if some people do not have ulterior motives to create rumors and confuse the public, they cannot produce scientific evidence, and they cannot explain that what they found is a savage. It is not excluded that some people who claim to have seen wild people with their own eyes are hallucinating because of their eyes. These people saw either black bears or brown bears, and what they could not see was wildlings. If we are to organize so-called scientific investigations and hunt for such rumors of wildlings who are purely fictitious and catch shadows, this is not the attitude of scientific workers. This is a pseudo-section. To insist on having wild people, we must come up with scientific evidence, and we must speak with evidence.
As for the few experts who deny the wildlings, it is necessary to insist that there are wildlings who must come up with scientific evidence, must speak with evidence, and that there is no scientific evidence to organize the so-called wildlings to investigate is to engage in pseudoscience, Liu Minzhuang and other experts who firmly believe in wildlings retorted: "Conducting scientific investigations of wildlings belongs to scientific exploration work, and if we think that we are engaged in pseudoscience just because we have not yet come up with scientific evidence, then how can we obtain scientific evidence of the existence of wildlings without organizing scientific investigation activities and organizing going into the mountains to hunt and arrest wildlings?" ”
Wang Gaosheng, deputy commander of the scientific expedition team, and the scout of the unit entered the mountain to assist the expedition team in carrying out the work of searching and arresting wild people. None of them will participate in the academic struggle between savages and no savages in academia. But they all hope to unveil the mystery of the wildlings, as long as the scientific expedition team needs their assistance in entering the mountains to search for the wildlings according to the clues provided by the people, they will immediately take action to cooperate with Huang Wanbo, Yuan Zhenxin and other experts to tirelessly search through the deep mountains and forests. However, due to the endless academic dispute between the savages and the savages among the experts, many members of the scientific expedition team have lost confidence in finding the savages, and some even have doubts about the existence of the savages.
On 2 September, wang Gaosheng, deputy division commander, and Huang Wanbo and Yuan Zhenxin, two experts and vice captains, coordinated with several experts who resolutely denied the wildlings and always insisted that the scientific expedition team should immediately dismount, and proposed that comrades who denied it could retain their opinions, and that they would not be reluctant to go into the mountains to participate in the search and arrest of the wildlings. For comrades who are willing to participate in the search for wildlings, the PLA scouts will fully cooperate with their field search and hunting work. Some members of the expedition who are willing to participate in the hunt for the wildlings were mobilized. Therefore, with the cooperation of the REconnaissance unit of the People's Liberation Army, led by two experts, Huang Wanbo and Yuan Zhenxin, three days after the three migrant workers discovered the savages, they finally arrived at the high mountain dense forest in the Longdonggou halfway up the mountain in the Tielu Village of Panshui Commune, Forest District.
In order to cooperate with the scientific expedition team organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go into the mountains to search for wildlings, the PLA scouts were introduced by scientific expedition experts before entering the mountains.
These expedition members who firmly believe in the existence of the wildlings and sincerely hope to unravel the mystery of the wildlings and the scout soldiers of the troops have experienced one difficult and tortuous academic debate after another by the conservative forces of the academic community to try their best to block the expeditions of the wildlings. They all held a wave of anger in their hearts, hoping to defeat these experts who denied wildlings by capturing the wildlings and presenting scientific evidence, eliminating the huge resistance of conservative forces. More than 30 scouts of the unit, in order to assist the expedition members who participated in the search for wildlings in the mountains, they starved, regardless of fatigue, regardless of the bites of ants in the valleys of the mountains and forests, they charged at the forefront of the search team, and searched for traces of wildlings in the forest.
It is the season of late autumn, when wild chestnuts, hazelnuts, schisandra, mountain red, stone dates, hawthorn fruits, kiwifruit, August fried and other dried fruits and berries are fruitful. Wild people, like the black bears, wild boars, badgers, and porcupines in the forest, once they find a rich food source, they often use this food source as their foraging point and temporary habitat. Although it had been three days since the three migrant workers had discovered the savages, the expedition team, with the cooperation of the scout soldiers, after a whole day of interspersed searching, found traces of the savages in the valley area of Longdonggou in the afternoon of the same day. The scouts who were walking in the front had heard the noise of the wildlings in the dense forest again and again.
Finding the whereabouts of the wildlings, people seem to have seen the glimmer of hope, and it seems that they will soon be able to witness the true face of the wildlings in the forest, and their spirits are high. The deputy leader of the scientific expedition team, the anthropologist Yuan Zhenxin, the director of the Beijing Ape Man Exhibition Hall from Beijing Zhoukoudian, in order to conquer the interference of several experts in the academic community who subjectively and arbitrarily denied the savages, despite the fact that he was already suffering from cirrhosis of the liver, he gritted his teeth and chased after several scout soldiers who rushed to the front of the search and arrest team. Warn the Scout warriors that it is best to shoot the wildlings with an anesthesia gun at a distance of one or two0 meters after approaching the wildlings, and then capture the wildlings after they are anesthetized.
After Yuan Zhenxin and the scouts approached only one or two meters away from the wildlings, although they could already hear the wheezing of the wildlings in the forest again and again, and the sound of the wildlings walking in the forest to the branches, the bushes under the forest were too dense, and people approached the wildlings, and as long as they took a step, they had to make a little sound in the forest, and the wildlings seemed to notice abnormalities in the forest and were constantly moving forward. This made it impossible for the Scout warriors to aim at the wildlings with an anesthetic guns or shoot at the wildlings in the dense bushes under the forest with visibility of only five or six meters. When all the personnel participating in the round-up of the scientific expedition team have not yet made a comprehensive plan for rounding up the wild people according to the location of the wild people found by the scouts, if they rush to the wild people in a hasty action, because the wild people's actions are a hundred times faster than the human beings, they may not be able to catch the wild people, but make the wild people escape without a trace. In order not to scare away the wildlings, Yuan Zhenxin could only quietly track the pursuit with the warriors in great anxiety, while looking for an opportunity. However, as the time passed by minute by minute, the alpine forest that entered the evening gradually dimmed.
According to the suggestion of Deputy Captain Yuan Zhenxin, the scout soldiers took into account the overall situation, in order not to scare the wildlings, they slowed down to keep a certain distance from the wildlings, and only quietly followed the wildlings who were slowly marching in the forest and quietly monitored the movements of the wildlings. Until the curtain of night gradually falls in the forest of the mountains.
Yuan Zhenxin, the deputy captain of the scientific expedition team at that time, faced a media interview in 2006, and recalled the thrilling scene of rounding up the wildlings. Screen shots)
The forest is full of thorns, and after dark the expedition team has been unable to hunt wildlings in the dense alpine forests of the night. The command decided that everyone would camp in the forest and wait until dawn before the scouts would capture the wildlings in front. Therefore, dozens of scientific expedition members and scouts who participated in this round-up of wildlings, in order to obtain specimens of wildlings, come up with direct scientific evidence of the existence of wildlings, and conquer the conservative forces of academia, they were all trapped in the dark forest.
September 2, 1977, is the 19th of July in the lunar calendar. After midnight, a chubby moon rose from the sky. Deputy Division Commander Wang Gaosheng, Deng Zesheng, Huang Wanbo, Yuan Zhenxin, Liu Minzhuang, and other unit leaders, experts, and professors were extremely excited. They sat with the scouts in the damp forest. Thirsty, they opened the kettle for a few sips of water, and hungry chewed a piece of compressed biscuit. Although they were so sleepy that they wanted to fall to sleep on the ground, they gathered their strength, gritted their teeth and waited patiently, listening, afraid that the wildlings who had entered the encirclement would run away.
Huang Wanbo, an anthropologist who was the deputy leader of the scientific expedition team at that time, faced with a CCTV reporter and believed that the wild people, commonly known as the people, may be the closest to humans
In order to unravel the mystery of the wildlings, huang wanbo and Yuan Zhenxin entered Fangxian County, Zhushan, Shennongjia and other places in northwest Hubei in the summer of 1976 to carry out preliminary wild man investigations. In order to publicize to the masses of the people the scientific significance of unveiling the mystery of the wildlings and encouraging the masses of the people to actively provide clues, they made dozens of reports to the local cadres and masses in the forest areas and Fangxian Counties, and put up dozens of slides to publicize the scientific expeditions of the wildlings. After the expedition team entered the mountain, together with the expedition team and the scouts, they had traveled thousands of kilometers in the deep mountains and dense forests.
On a night when the dawn of anthropological research around the world is about to be brought to light, anthropologists and biologists such as Huang Wanbo, Yuan Zhenxin and Liu Minzhuang cannot calm their mood. As long as this wild man is captured and scientific evidence is presented, so that the existence of wild man is recognized by the international biological community, textbooks on the origin and evolution of human beings may have to be rewritten. As the greatest discovery in the field of contemporary human natural science, the scientific research of savages may become a hot topic in anthropology all over the world and enter the textbooks of human beings from then on.
In this exciting night of Chinese scientists and savages, while trapped in a forest of darkness. Huang Wanbo, Yuan Zhenxin, and Liu Minzhuang have been confidently prepared. As long as the scout warriors waiting at the forest front capture the wildlings, they will send this greatest discovery in the field of natural science in mankind today, through the radio carried by two scouts, from the first scene and the first time to Xinhua News Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As long as the tools of state public opinion are used to eliminate the intervention of several pseudo-experts in China who vigorously oppose the scientific investigation of wildlings, China's scientific investigation and research work of wildlings can henceforth turn passive into active. In the scientific expeditions of savages carried out in China, from then on, the Chinese Academy of Sciences can be formally established, and the truth of the existence of savages can overcome the fallacies of the academic circles that deny savages subjectively and arbitrarily; from then on, justice can defeat evil.
When several scientists and PLA scout soldiers survived the long night in the forest minute by minute, they would look forward to the scene of the world being shocked and cheered by the world after capturing the wildlings, admiring the moon passing the time in the clouds, and squinting their eyes in exhaustion...
From the forest closest to the savage, a few crisp gunshots suddenly woke up Huang Wanbo, Yuan Zhenxin, and Liu Minzhuang, who had just squinted their eyes, from their beautiful reverie. The scouts and expeditions waiting in the forest heard gunshots, and people thought that the scouts had wounded the wildlings, or had captured the wildlings, and were shooting at the sky to announce the good news to all the round-ups trapped in the forest. In the darkness, "Catch the Savages! Catch the wildlings! The shouts of ", from various places in the forest, shook the forest.
When the members of the expedition were in high spirits one by one, with the help of the bright and dark moonlight in the sky and the faint light of the flashlight, they crossed the dense forest of thorns and surrounded them from all directions towards the place where the gunshots sounded, and people found that the gunshots coming from the depths of the dense forest were not scouts who wounded the wildlings and captured the wildlings, but a scout who fell in a pool of blood.
It turned out that a scout who was closest to the wild man, who had been lying on the branch of a large tree, monitoring the movements of the wild man, had been holding on for several hours because of maintaining a posture on the tall branches, his legs were completely numb, and because of excessive tiredness, in order to move his body, change his posture, and suddenly fell from the high tree, causing the submachine gun to misfire. Several bullets injured one of his own legs.
A warrior was accidentally wounded while rounding up the savage, and many people needed to carry him from the high mountain forest to the bottom of the mountain and take him to the hospital in time for treatment. In this way, due to the accident of the scientific expedition team, perhaps the sudden sound of gunfire in the forest, the wildlings who had been surrounded in a dense forest quickly fled to the depths of the vast forest sea because of the panic and chaos.
Expedition members rounded up the wildlings without success. Several experts in the academic circles who deny the wildlings openly accuse the state of organizing the scientific investigation of the wildlings as too absurd, believing that this is a labor and a loss of money, which has caused serious consequences, and must be held accountable. Some have even physically attacked experts who insist on the existence of savages. Through the media, they accused experts who insisted on having wild people, "continuing to insist on and propagating that there are wild people in nature is deceiving the masses, deceiving society, and is a deception of science as a child."" Some experts who deny the existence of wild people have subjectively and conjecturally proposed, "Publicizing the existence of wild people in Shennongjia is propaganda superstition, and we must expose this kind of pseudoscience investigation, and we must advise the state to stop it immediately." ”
Because of the experts who insist on carrying out the scientific investigation of the wildlings and the experts who resolutely deny the existence of the wildlings, the academic debates have always been tit-for-tat, and no one can convince anyone. Coupled with the accident that occurred at the critical moment of the round-up of the wildlings, the wildlings were not caught to produce direct scientific evidence. Forced by the huge pressure of the conservative forces in the academic community and the pressure of public opinion, the Scientific Expedition of the Chinese Wildlings, which shocked the world, was finally forced to step down in less than half a year.
Can humanity's dream of unraveling the mysteries of the wildlings be stopped? Can the scientific expedition of the world's concerned savages continue?
Please pay attention to the fourth part of "The Tragic Pursuit of Great Dreams"
(The author is a member of the scientific expedition team of the former Northwest Hubei Exotic Animal Science Expedition, a reporter, and a researcher at the World Culture and Art Research Center) This article is the original article published on the "Toutiao" platform by the headline author "Dream Seeker in the Forest". The network-wide rights protection function has been enabled. Network-wide monitoring. Anyone who, in the form of "synthesis", "excerpt from", "source", etc., disguisedly forwards, reprints, excerpts, or quotes original articles and pictures of "Dream Seekers in the Forest" shall be deemed to be infringing. Illegal infringers must be held legally responsible.