On the ship, Adrian, who was responsible for watching the ship, saw people coming back with depressed faces and couldn't help but ask.
"We found the Shuar village, but they disappeared, and there was no one in the whole village..."
Martin roughly narrated the encounter just now, and Adrian was also confused. Both the Shuar people and the Headhunters are indigenous tribes. Their attitude towards modern people has never been very friendly. Anyone who has come into contact with them has never been very friendly.
There are very few guides.
"What should we do next?"
"Can you find any other clues about the Shuar people?"
Kroll looked unwilling, and the rest of the crew were also very reluctant. Traveling all the way to a place in vain would make no one feel good.
Martin and Adrian looked at each other. They also didn't want the journey to end like this. They had expected to make a lot of money during the journey of at least five days. If it ended hastily because they couldn't find the Shuar people, they would suffer the same loss.
Not small.
"How about asking old John?"
Adrian suggested carefully.
Martin hesitated and nodded.
Kroll looked at their expressions and couldn't help but ask: "Who is this old John? Can he help us find the Shuar people?"
Seeing the donor speaking, Martin immediately explained: "We don't know Old John's full name. We all call him John. He is not a native of Brazil, but he has lived in the Amazon for many years. This man is very powerful. For him,
He said that the jungle is his home. If anyone can understand the Shuar people, it can only be him..."
"That's great, but why do you look so reluctant? If it's a matter of cost, we can pay more..."
Kroll thought that Martin didn't want to share money with others. In order to ensure the progress of her documentary shooting, she felt that it didn't matter if she paid a little price.
When Martin heard this, he explained with a grimace: "It's not because of money, it's because Old John is very difficult to deal with. He doesn't care about money at all."
Seeing everyone else on the boat looking over, Martin continued: "He has his own boat, but he rarely works as a tour guide. What he does depends entirely on his mood. Most of the time, he makes a living by catching snakes, rattlesnakes, pit vipers, and pythons."
Go to the circus or performance group sold to Belen. He is taciturn and has no friends, but he is very powerful. No one dares to mess with him around here. He seems to have grown up in the jungle. In the jungle, no one is
His opponent. Last year, pirates kidnapped his guests, and then he killed all the pirates alone and rescued the hostages. This incident was very sensational last year..."
"Are there any pirates here?"
"To be precise, it should be river pirates. They don't happen often, but occasionally..."
"We don't have any friendship with him, we can only give it a try..."
"Okay, then you try."
After explaining the situation to Kroll, Martin began to call Old John on the radio, but there was no response after calling several times.
Seeing Kroll look over, Martin shrugged, "Maybe he's not on the boat. He lives nearby. Let's go to his house and have a look..."
With Kroll's consent, Adrian started the motor and the boat headed in the direction of Old John's house.
Martin drove the boat in the river, and the sound of the motor resounded on the river. To be honest, the Amazon river is winding and winding, and you would really get lost without a guide. Compared to the Shuar people, Irving actually knows
The river pirates they just mentioned were more interested in them. Along the way, they asked Adrian for a lot of information about the river pirates. To put it bluntly, the Amazon jungle is not a paradise. It is rich in products, but like other places, if you want to get rich, you have to
Take some risks.
Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the entire Amazon Basin are not fuel-efficient. In the past two years, the drug business has gradually emerged in these countries. With the increase in other illegal activities, naturally some people have targeted tourists. You know
, the locals don’t have much money, but tourists, especially Americans and Europeans, are big business to them.
The boat continued and turned around a bend. There was a boat parked on the river. Martin drove the boat closer. When he saw everything clearly, his nerves suddenly became tense.
When the ship approached, Owen also saw clearly the situation on the ship. There was only one person on the ship, a strong man with a ponytail. The man looked to be in his forties and in his prime. At this moment, he also saw Martin and the others.
On this boat, I was still staring at the river, not daring to relax at all.
"What is he doing?"
Someone in the film crew couldn't help but ask softly, and Owen also noticed that the man was holding something like a crossbow with one hand, and with the other hand he kept using the runner to reel in and release the line. He was mixing water.
The next prey contest.
If you look carefully, you will find that the section of fishing line between the boat and the water is straight, and you don't know what is in the water. It seems to be very strong.
Martin's boat was getting closer and closer, and he could see more and more clearly. The thing under the water was running left and right, trying to escape, but the men on the boat were struggling to prevent it from succeeding.
"It's the snake catcher."
Adrian said softly, and when everyone looked at him, he continued to explain: "Snake catchers are the name for python hunters. These people specialize in hunting pythons for museums or some collectors, but their targets are usually anacondas.
And the bigger the body, the more money you make.”
Adrian had just finished speaking. As if to cooperate with him, the prey that had been struggling underwater suddenly changed its approach. A huge snake head emerged from the water. The part above the water alone was nearly two meters long.
Everyone exclaimed.
The anaconda was struggling on the water surface, fighting against the thick fishing line. The pony-tailed man on the boat had been controlling the fishing line to offset the anaconda's power. Suddenly, the fishing line broke without warning, and the pony-tailed man fell to the deck.
Owen and others shouted loudly because the anaconda did not move away after breaking free from the fishing line. Instead of retreating, it climbed onto the fishing boat, apparently to take revenge on the snake catcher.
The snake catcher hurriedly ran into the cabin, and the anaconda chased him in. The huge snake body kept emerging from the water, shocking everyone on the other boat and stunned.
"Eight meters, no, at least nine meters..."
Martin muttered absentmindedly, although anacondas can theoretically grow up to nine meters long, that is just an example. They are usually under five meters long, but the one in front of them is obviously not within this range.
Soon, the whole anaconda was on the panel, and the huge snake body almost covered the entire deck. The snake's head got into the cabin and fought with the man, while the rest of the body was squirming on the deck, which was indescribably disgusting.
"We have to save him..."
Martin ran a few steps back to the cabin, and then came out with his rifle. On the other boat, there was a crackling sound in the cabin, followed by a small explosion, flames burst out of the cab, and the snake catcher was chased and ran away from the cabin.
He came out, dove into the river, and swam towards the boat where Owen and the others were.
"Don't shoot."
The snake catcher was still screaming as he ran for his life. Behind him, the anaconda also got into the water. The huge snake body disappeared in a flash, and then the water surface rippled.
"Quick, quick~~"
The people on the boat shouted loudly that the snake catcher's life was in danger. Behind him, in the rapidly approaching water pattern, the giant anaconda suddenly emerged from the water, less than one meter away from the snake catcher.
The next second, the snake's head was high and lightning flew away at the snake catcher. Normally, anacondas would wrap their bodies around their prey to suffocate it before swallowing it, but this anaconda obviously didn't think so.