Big Islander 2

Chapter 422 Mysterious eyes.

Although the howler monkey's cry is a bit annoying, but the warning effect is really good, even the thumb is scared, a frightened look flashed in the small round eyes, and then directly drilled into Xiao Xiami's finger palm.

Seeing this, Tang Jide couldn't help but chuckled twice: "Don't be afraid of thumbs, you are too small, not enough for those beasts to get between your teeth, so people don't bother to talk to you."

The thumb poked out of Xiao Xiami's fist, and then bared his teeth at Tang Jide.Although the little guy is small in size, he has a lot of mind. I believe that he will be continuously developed by Xiao Xiami in the future, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

It’s just that such a big little guy doesn’t have the IQ of a big star, the supernatural skills of a pheasant, the fangs and sharp teeth of a stern, and even the magic drug of the blue enchantress. What's the use.

But Xiao Xiami doesn't care. She gets along with her animal companions without the slightest utilitarianism. Even if her thumbs can't do anything, they are still her little companions, and they can bring happiness to each other. that's enough.

On the contrary, Tang Jide vaguely planned the future development direction for the thumb: such a small body with flexible five fingers is definitely the best candidate for petty theft, and it must be "petty theft", because bigger things , I really can't hold it with my thumb.

It is estimated that Thumb has some opinions on Tang Datou's idea, so he is not very friendly to him.Besides, his thumb is also a miniature man, and according to the male effect of the big head brother, it doesn't look right in the first place.

Suddenly, the howler monkeys stopped abruptly, and then there was a rustling sound of branches and leaves on the top of the tree canopy, and the delicate branches and leaves rustled down. Obviously, the fight on the tree had begun.

"Could it be an air strike? Are there large raptors in the rainforest?" Tang Jide looked up, but the dense branches and leaves obstructed his line of sight, so he couldn't see anything clearly.

The pheasant seemed to hear something, shivered, and then leaned over to Xiao Xiami: "It must be a monkey-eating hawk. Back then, I--I even defeated one!"

Listening to its tone of voice, it is not tough. It probably escaped in a hurry under the claws of the monkey-eating eagle and took a small life.But Xiao Xiami said something else: "The monkey-eating eagle is also called the Philippine eagle, which does not live in the Amazon. But the pheasant you are talking about should be the horned eagle. They are the largest raptors in the Amazon rainforest."

Although the little girl spoke eloquently, she had never seen a real horned eagle, so she couldn't hold back her curiosity, and she jumped up into the air, wanting to go up and have a look; when Tang Jide saw it, he naturally followed happily In the back, but more often than not, he grabs those hanging vines, swings lightly and then goes up.

Now Chief Wawa and his people were dumbfounded: Is this still a human?

After ascending tens of meters, I finally saw a group of howler monkeys running around in the canopy. These guys were covered with golden-red fur and looked very beautiful.Especially the big mouth opened round, like a trumpet, no wonder the voice is so loud.It's just that they are a little embarrassed now and are running for their lives in a hurry.And above the canopy, hovered a huge black shadow with a wingspan of more than two meters, like a small bomber, looking for the target it wanted to attack.

"It really has two horns, no wonder it's called a horned eagle." The big-headed brother was amazed. In fact, the horned eagle's head has two black feather crowns standing upright, so it looks like two horns from a distance.

The big guy in front of him is not much smaller than the ugly duckling on Peach Blossom Island. You must know that the ugly duckling is far larger than its peers with the help of Xiao Xiami.

The horned eagle seemed to have identified its target, and began to dive down rapidly. The howler monkey, which it regarded as its prey, seemed to be frightened by such a powerful momentum, and even shrank into a ball, trembling, not daring to move.It caused the big brother to despise again and again: "Why did you shout so happily just now——"

The horned eagle has already stretched out its sharp claws. The sharp claws at the front are more than ten centimeters long, like sharp steel hooks, and the gripping force is very strong. It can easily scratch the skull of the prey, which is stronger than the Jiuyin White Bone Claw.

Seeing that it was about to successfully hunt down the half-grown howler monkey, but the target suddenly disappeared from sight. It turned out that Tang Jide threw out the vine whip and dragged the howler monkey, which was frightened by the natural enemy, to him. The eagle had no choice but to jump into the air, and then landed on the tree trunk, looking left and right with knife-sharp eyes, murderous.

Although the law of the jungle is the iron law of nature, Xiao Xiami doesn't want this to happen before her eyes, so even if Uncle Datou doesn't take action, she will stop it.However, since it has destroyed other people's hunting, some compensation must be given.Little Xiami begged for a large slab of beef from Uncle Big Tou's pitcher, and then plundered it in front of the horned eagle, sitting on the same branch with it.

After staring at each other for a while, the sharpness in the horned eagle's eyes gradually faded. It moved forward with a body about the same height as the little shrimp, and moved all the way to the little shrimp. It lowered its haughty head slightly to touch the little shrimp's face.It may be that this big guy and its partner seldom have such intimate movements, so it looks very clumsy, almost directly pushing the little shrimp down.

The thumb climbed onto the back of Xiao Xiami's hand, and looked at the big guy in front of him curiously. It was true as Tang Datou said, the horned eagle was completely indifferent to the thumb, as if it didn't exist.

It was the little Xiami who saw the thoughtfulness of the thumb, so he sent it to the horned carving's back.Thumb tried hard to get into the iron feather of the horn carving, and began to look for something to eat.For this kind of practice, the horned eagle is quite useful, and there are some nasty parasitic bugs on it.

While enjoying a delicious meal, you can also enjoy free feather cleaning. The horned eagle has never been so happy.But this guy is really fierce when he eats. His claws are like sharp daggers, and he can easily cut open the beef. He swallowed a large piece of beef in one bite. In the blink of an eye, he swallowed a large piece of beef Mostly.

But for the remaining half, the horned eagle no longer eats it, but protects it under its sharp claws, as if afraid of being robbed by others.According to Xiao Xiami's analysis, this should be a female eagle, and there must be a cub in the nest.

Perhaps it is because of the difficulty of survival. Although horned eagles lay two eggs for hatching each time, as long as one egg hatches into a young eagle, the other egg will be discarded, so there can only be one young eagle in a nest. .

"Go, go back and take care of your little baby, we will see you again." Little Xiami touched the two black feather crowns on the horned eagle's head, which looked like braids. With these two tufts of hair, it was quite majestic.

The horned eagle shook the iron feathers on his body, and his thumb slid back into the palm of Little Xiami.It seemed that he wanted to express his gratitude to the free cleaner, so the sharp mouth of the horn carving stretched out towards his thumb.

But the thumb couldn't bear this kindness, so it hid on the back of the little shrimp's hand very self-consciously. As a result, the horned eagle's sharp mouth poked the palm of the little shrimp heavily, and then spread its wings, grabbing a piece of meat with its claws. A large piece of meat disappeared over the jungle.In the vast sky of this rainforest, it is a well-deserved king.

When the majestic figure of the horned eagle disappeared, the howler monkeys around gathered around again, and they gathered around Xiao Xiami, brushing her hair carelessly, very intimately.But when the big-headed brother approached, they immediately closed their mouths and let out a huge roar, which shocked the big-headed brother and fell directly from the tree.

"It's not fair—" Tang Jide's unwilling cry echoed in the forest, but in this world, how can there be absolute fairness?
After this little episode, everyone continued to move forward, and it was obvious that the natives of the Wawa tribe respected Tang Jide and Xiao Xiami even more, and almost worshiped them as legendary gods.

It was not until noon that Chief Wawa led everyone to the place where the tribe used to collect Guanana. The temperature here is basically constant and the humidity is high. No wonder it is difficult to transplant this plant successfully in other places.Of course, the control of the Brazilian government is relatively tight, and the plants and seeds of guarana are firmly forbidden to flow out. What is provided to the outside world is the processed guarana extract.

According to Chief Wawa, the plant Guanana is regarded as a "divine fruit" by the tribes around them, and it will not be easily spread, of course, except for distinguished guests like Tang Jide and others.

Entering this low-lying rainforest, Tang Jide gradually had a strange feeling: "Why do I feel like there are countless pairs of eyes peeping at us?"

"Just like you, who cares about peeking, if you say I'm about the same as Ah Zi." Ye Ji expressed his contempt for Tang Datou on the spot.Brother Big Head didn't bother with it, and separated out a trace of plant essence, extending it along the feeling.

I found it——suddenly looking up, Brother Big Tou saw brown and black round eyes staring at him on a tree more than ten meters high!
"This is Guanana, the mysterious eye!" The chief also followed his line of sight and shouted in surprise.In the local dialect, Guanana is also known as Maues-Sateres, which means "mysterious eyes".

Tang Datou finally discovered that those were not eyes, but fruits. It was just that there was a strong plant essence in the fruits, which made him very sensitive.It seems that this Guanana is indeed magical enough.

So after careful observation, Brother Big Tou discovered that Guanana was originally a kind of vine, which climbed upwards by clinging to a big tree. like.The most amazing thing is that the red shell of the fruit cracks after ripening, exposing the white inner membrane of the seed, with a tan bump on the top, so it looks like white eye kernels and dark brown eyeballs.Standing below and looking up, it seems that there are thousands of pairs of eyes staring at you.

While Tang Jide was carefully observing this kind of divine fruit, Chief Wawa had already led his people down muttering and praying.This is their reverence for nature, and only with this kind of reverence can they truly protect nature; with the rapid development of science and technology, human beings outside have long lost this reverence, and they are arrogant and ambitious. If we want to transform nature, one day we will swallow the bitter fruit brewed by ourselves.

Looking at the strings of miraculous guananas, Da Xing's little paws were already itchy, and he climbed up the tree with a swish, and licked those mysterious eyes one by one.Some unripe fruits were also dropped by it, and red fruits were scattered all over the ground.

Chief Wawa hurriedly stopped it from this brutal picking method. He was really worried that the big star would tear off those branches. You know, it takes four or five years for a Guanana plant to bloom and bear fruit.

After the ceremony, the chief commanded the people to pick the ripe fruits. The natives were very skilled and careful in their actions, and they would never damage the red branches, because they could continue to harvest in the coming year.This is the way of survival of the aborigines. Although primitive, they can adapt to nature, so they will never be abandoned by nature——

(End of this chapter)