Great Dreams, Tragic Pursuits (Part 32)
Track down mysterious wildlings in the rocky mountains
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon on May 25, 2002, I was thinking about returning to camp. From the valley came the rough roar of "whoo-hoo Hearing the sound of wild people shouting at each other as they hunted in the forest, I also learned the wildlings to call out, "Whoo-oh-uh- I was hoping that the wildlings would treat me as their kind and let them come closer to me, but perhaps the wildlings had already caught a glimpse of me, and they found that I was not their kind, and instead of approaching me, they quickly fled into the depths of the dense forest. Wild people are tall, and they can run freely in the dense sea of arrows and bamboo forests with an average height of 2.50 meters, exposing their heads to see the direction in front of them. I was only 1.60 meters tall, and I was immersed in the sea of arrows and bamboo as if I had sunk into the vast sea, and I couldn't see anything.
The reason why savages adapt to living in alpine forests and can survive tenaciously from ancient times to today is related to their tall and strong bodies, good at climbing and running fast in the forest, and their ability to fight with various beasts of prey and hunt various animals. It is also related to the special physical condition that their cloaks are covered with thick fuzz and can help them withstand the cold in the wild in alpine areas. Many experts have proposed that wildlings must eat a lot of food when they are tall, they have food in the season when wild fruits are ripe, and there is not enough food in other seasons, so it is impossible for large animals to survive without enough food in the forest. So how did the black bears, brown bears, and giant pandas, who are also large omnivores like wild people, and those large carnivores, the South China tiger, the golden leopard, and the jackal, survive? How did our human ancestors survive and reproduce from the forest, from ancient times?
It is not surprising that adult savages are two meters six or even two meters seven eight. In our country, there are at least twenty people who are now taller than the body of Yao Ming, a basketball player 2 meters 26. For example, Henan Sanmenxia giant Wang Fengjun: height 2 meters 55; Henan Luoyang giant Zhao Liang: height 2 meters 46; Shanxi Dingxiang giant Zhang Juncai: height 2 meters 42; Inner Mongolia Chifeng giant Bao Xishun: height 2 meters 36; Anhui Lu'an female giant Yao Defen: height 2 meters 36 and so on. These giants, who have grown unusually tall for various reasons, have basically reached the height of the savages in nature. The author used several online screenshots only as evidence that modern human giants can reach a height of about 2.50 meters.
Wildlings are free to run in the sea of arrows and bamboo forests at an average height of 2.5 meters. The author, who is only 1.6 meters tall, is unable to track and pursue the wildlings in the dense forest of arrows and bamboo
If I had a professional digital camera with a super telescope head and a modern high-tech endurance drone with an infrared thermal imager, when I climbed to the commanding heights of the forest, I would have easily photographed the wildlings who had appeared in front of me several times and were hunting en masse in the sea of arrows and bamboo forests. But in addition to the instant noodles and water I carried with me, an iron rod, it was an ordinary camera that could only shoot a clear portrait at a distance of five or six meters, and it was impossible to capture the wild people hunting in the sea of arrows and bamboo forests at a distance of tens of meters.
When a person is fifty years old, his body has become sluggish. Overworked in the mountains, my physical strength gradually faded, and the cells of my whole body seemed to be cursing my ambition not to die. When I was in my twenties, I quickly crossed the forest like a wild man in the mountains, jumping through ravines, climbing cliffs, and the alertness and aura had long disappeared from my body. In the face of the wild people running in the bamboo forest, no matter how excited my spirit is, I can't catch up with them in the forest of arrows and bamboo. I worked hard to find the savages, but there was no high-tech expedition facility to track and search. In this way, when the flame of hope has risen, I am once again thrown into the despair of failure.
Wild people roar in the dense bamboo forest of the mountains while quickly hunting wild animals
With the passage of time, in the blink of an eye, I and the experts, scholars, and expedition members who insisted on the scientific investigation of the wildlings at that time have gradually become old. Because I had collectively witnessed wild people in those years, several principal leading cadres of the Forestry District Government who had always supported me in carrying out the activities of inspecting wild people at my own expense, as well as Cheng Xie, vice president of the Wuhan Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Jian, deputy director of the History Institute of the Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, and Meng Qingbao, deputy director of the Political Department of the former Shiyan Military Sub-district, had long since retired.
Wild people in the forest and flying saucers and aliens that are of concern around the world are the mysteries of the natural sciences that plague mankind in the world today. Anyone who has had the privilege of witnessing wild people, flying saucers, and aliens will stick to their own views and firmly believe in the existence of wild people, flying saucers, and aliens. But for people who have not witnessed wild people, flying saucers, and aliens, they also have the right to question, laugh, and oppose the existence of wild people, flying saucers, and aliens. After all, in order for the academic community and the whole society to recognize the existence of a natural phenomenon and biological species, it is first necessary to come up with conclusive scientific evidence. But exploring the mysteries of science is a scientific exploration activity. Now that human beings have been constantly launching various advanced detectors to explore outer space civilizations in the vast universe, the academic community can not say that it is not the first to come up with scientific evidence of the existence of aliens, and it is believed that human beings exploring the scientific unknowns in the natural world are pseudoscience. Because in my life, i have developed a firm belief like a revolutionary, although around me, there are often people who laugh at me sarcastically, and often people laugh at me like a neurotic patient, I still have to go into the forest I love tirelessly, to be born and die to pursue the most mysterious savage in nature, and I am willing to fight for the realization of my dream of unveiling the mystery of the savage for mankind.
The mystery of the wild man, who has puzzled mankind for more than three thousand years, has always been a mystery of nature that has attracted the attention of the whole world. Unveiling the mystery of the wildlings is not only my personal dream, but also a dream of all mankind. But I did not first produce scientific evidence to confirm the existence of wild people, and the scientific exploration of wild people that I carried out could not be recognized by society, it was difficult to find financial funders, and I could only be laughed at by the conservative forces of the surrounding people and academia, and they resolutely opposed it in front of pseudoscience. Because I can only rely on my own meager salary, year after year into the mountains to carry out self-funded tracking of wild people, without any high-tech inspection equipment and economic support, so that if a rich man has Yaxing for the wild people in the forest, it only takes two or three years to unravel the mystery of the wild people, but because I am lonely and helpless, it is difficult to achieve a dream for nearly forty years.
Before I retired, I had a salary of more than 2,000 yuan a month, and I had to buy a set of professional digital cameras that cost 30,000 or 40,000 yuan to shoot wild people, which I could not afford all year round without eating or drinking. And I have insisted on going into the mountains at my own expense year after year to investigate the wildlings on my own expense for nearly forty years. I have submitted many applications to the unit, hoping that the bureau leader can solve a professional camera for me. The leaders of the units have also organized discussions at the bureau meeting. Relevant leaders believe that in order to meet the needs of the unit's external propaganda work, it is enough to buy an ordinary camera of a few thousand yuan. Because the savages are not yet academically conclusive, and the forestry departments at higher levels do not support the development of savage investigation activities, not only can I not apply for the project of the savage inspection in this unit, but it is also impossible to buy a professional camera of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. Due to the operational management relationship between nature reserves and forestry authorities. According to the principle of subordinate obedience to superiors, the relevant leaders did not dare to violate the decision of the superior competent departments, believing that it was illegal to approve such a project for me, and did not dare to take responsibility. In the end, I can only conduct savage expeditions, which is a personal act and is not supported.
Although there are wild people in nature, they are always denied by some domestic animal experts, they are resolutely opposed by them like fish in the throat, and the scientific expeditions of wild people are not supported by the forestry authorities, but wild people objectively exist in the forests of high mountains, as long as there are wild people in nature, as long as there are wild people in nature, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles there are in this scientific exploration cause, I have the right and responsibility to insist on scientific investigation in order to clarify this species, and my behavior of scientific exploration activities. It is not contrary to the constitution of the country.
The wildlings in the forest, like large beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards, black bears, and brown bears, have their own relatively fixed living territory. In order to survive, wild people constantly hunt wild animals in the forest. In order to reproduce, they also need to often go to the territory of the neighboring savages, make rough shouts to their kind, and seek their mates with calls. In the process of foraging and hunting, in the process of seeking a mate, sometimes it is inevitable to panic through the highway in the alpine forest area, which makes in just nearly twenty years, in the short past twenty years, near the main peak of Shennongjia and a small area of Yanziya, Tianmenya and other places, there are local cadres, mountain people, many foreign tourists, and nearly 70 people have witnessed the wildlings crossing the highway more than a dozen times. There are also forest mountain people who encounter savages on the road alone.
On June 29, 2003, Liu Jie, a forest driver in charge of delivering mail to the Forest District Post Office, was driving his van back to Songbai Town from Muyu Town as usual. The car was slowly driving on the winding road on the Tianmenya Mountain. Because the car is full of forest people, people talk about the changes in the forest area along the way. Some people say that tunnels will soon be dug in the middle of Tianmenya Mountain, and there will be no need to take the winding road of Tianmenya Mountain in the future. Everyone is full of hope and confidence for the development prospects of the forest area, and everyone talks and laughs freely along the way.
Suddenly, in the bend in front of the car, a figure appeared preparing to cross the road. At this time, in the co-pilot position of the driver Liu Jie, sat Zhou Jiang, a middle school student in the forest area. There were also five other people in the wooded town of Pine Cypress sitting on the car. Among them were Luo Yongbin, director of the Information Office of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of the Forestry District, and others. I saw the figure on the road in front of me trying to cross the road, and I saw the car that was gradually approaching the road and flashed to the side of the road hesitantly. The driver, Liu Jie, thought that this person was still very conscious, and knew how to retreat to the side of the highway to let the car pass first. When the car gradually approached this figure, the driver Liu Jie and Zhou Jiang in the co-pilot's seat were surprised to find that the figure flashing on the side of the highway was not a person at all. Both of them saw it very clearly, and at first they shouted in amazement, "White animal, white animal." Later, it suddenly reflected that the figure on the side of the road was clearly a gray-clad savage with a shawl.
Liu Jie thought that he had encountered a "wild man", so he immediately stopped the car. At this time, Luo Yongbin and others sitting next to the driver also saw clearly the gray-white, two-legged animals standing on the side of the road were not modern people, but savages." But after the driver Liu Jie's car had just "squeaked" and stopped, the wild man who flashed on the side of the road on the right side of the highway jumped from the front of the car in the blink of an eye, jumped over the highway in several big steps, and jumped to the left side of the road like a gallop. When people came out of the car door one by one as fast as they could to chase after the wild man, this small wild man, who was not very tall, about one meter sixty-seven, with two legs like a spring, jumped off the slope on the left side of the road in a few seconds and fled into the depths of the dense forest.
When Liu Jie and the other people in the car quickly walked into the forest and prepared to chase after the wildling, this little wild man, who was only one meter tall and six or seven meters tall, had already escaped with lightning speed into the dense mountain forest at lightning speed because of the great panic of the encountered car. People returned to the side of the road, carefully looking for the traces left by the wild man standing, giving way to the side of the road, and crossing the road. Only a pile of urine and wet urine were found on the highway, leaving the barefoot footprints of a humanoid animal. This is a pile of urine and footprints left by the wild man when the car is approaching the wild man, who is frightened by the panic.
On September 20, 2004, at about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, Wang Kui, a migrant worker from Xiagu Township in the forest area who was participating in the transformation of the tourist highway in the reserve, got up early in the morning from the shed of the Dawokeng gravel yard and prepared to go to the side of the highway for convenience. He heard footsteps in the forest not far away, "click, click," and as he approached the edge of the forest to look, he saw an iguana weighing two or three hundred pounds, suddenly running to the highway in panic from the bamboo forest under the slope. The hunter-born Wang Kui knew that the iguana was a herbivorous animal and would not pose a threat to people, and when he saw the iguana running to him, he did not have the slightest fear, but just roared at the iguana. The frightened iguana turned around and "pouted" and ran several large strides to the cliff along the road.
Wang Kui was preparing to continue the convenience, and as there was another rush of footsteps from the arrow bamboo forest along the lower edge of the road, he looked towards the place where the footsteps were heard. A tall wild man with long hair and a shawl and red hair was following the path that the iguana had just taken, and in the blink of an eye, it quickly chased the road. Watching a tall, terrifying-faced, red-haired savage with a shawl suddenly burst into front of him, Wang Kui almost fainted in fright. Seeing that the terrifying savage in front of him was confronting him and did not walk away, Wang Kui was suddenly frightened and could not even run for his life. He suddenly grabbed a stone from the ground and instinctively shouted at the wild man, "Help! Help me! ”
At a critical moment, thankfully, the horn of a car was heard from the road not far ahead. The wild man heard the distant horn and saw that the iguana he was chasing had climbed to the cliff on the slope of the highway, so he quickly climbed the cliff on the slope of the highway and continued to chase his prey, a two- or three-hundred-pound iguana.
The wild man, startled by the sound of a trumpet, followed by an iguana, quickly chased after him. Wang Kuiru woke up from the nightmare, although he was out of danger, due to the great fright of the wildlings, he had to give up the temporary work of guarding the shed in the gravel yard of the big nest pit alone, and returned to his home in Dumuping Village that morning.
The constant events of wild men make me want to stop. Because I can't solve the problem of inspection equipment and funding without first presenting scientific evidence, the society's reporting of the savage incident seems to feel aesthetic fatigue and weariness. Without scientific evidence to thoroughly confirm the existence of wildlings, people can believe or suspect. In order to come up with the scientific evidence of the existence of the wildlings, finally solve the research equipment, so that the scientific exploration of the wildlings I carried out can be legalized in our country and finally supported by the state, I can only continue to rely on an iron rod of mine, an ordinary camera, and continue to go to the primeval forest no man's land where the wildlings live, to pursue a great Chinese dream for my life, and to continue to struggle selflessly.
I want to know how some of the surveyors who were lost in the jungle of Shennongjia came out of the predicament from the edge of death and collectively witnessed the savages. Please pay attention to the more exciting content "Great Dreams, Tragic Pursuits" (Part 32)
(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.