There is a you and a me.

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Haha, a Beijing girl’s trip to the primitive forest. Strictly speaking, the Maolan Karst Forest is not a tourist spot, but its primitiveness and mystery have attracted some foreign explorers and travelers since the 1980s, but it is very

Little known to the Chinese people.

Traversing it remains a challenging adventure.

The local people talk about this forest becoming more and more magical. Some say that the forest is like a maze. In the past few years, foreigners got lost in it, and in the end they did not even find their bodies. Some even say that there are man-eating monsters in the forest... The forest is becoming more and more mysterious.

Mysterious, we couldn't restrain our curiosity and decided to walk through the forest to see its true face.

Looking for a guide Starting from Mawei in Guizhou Province, after three hours of driving, one hour of electric tricycle, half an hour of motorcycle and one hour of walking, we finally arrived at Yaosuo Village on the edge of Maolan Forest.

A local man enthusiastically invited us to stay at his home.

Talking about the forest we are going to cross, the male owner of the Buyi family said: "Though crossing the forest is not as impossible as people outside say, it is indeed very easy to get lost, and it is indeed often the case.

There are incidents of wild beasts hurting people, so even though many locals have lived on the edge of the forest for generations, they have no experience of entering the depths of the forest, let alone crossing it. "He suggested that we just play casually on the edge of the forest and not go there.

Go on an adventure.

After we persisted, he finally agreed to help us find a guide.

After many twists and turns, we finally found two boys in their late teens to serve as our guides.

These two boys are brothers, the elder brother is called A Zhuo and the younger brother is called Amu.

Their sister married a few years ago and moved to the village on the other side of the forest, so Adhuo and Amu crossed the border two or three times. Moreover, they usually like to hunt in the forest, so they have accumulated a lot of experience in surviving in the wild.

The guide couldn't be more suitable.

The elder brother talks little and seems shy and steady, while the younger brother is more active and is as excited about our trip to the forest as we are.

On the first day before we left, we joined a third guide, a boy from the Buyi ethnic group. He was more of a companion than a guide, because he had no experience in crossing the forest, and was just impressed by our itinerary.

, determined to follow.

When we left, we took a simple tent, three hatchets, an aluminum pot, enough rice, some bacon and some seasonings from the guide’s house, and because there were wild animals such as wolves, wild dogs and pheasants in the forest,

We also brought two guns with us because of the presence of wild game.

Awakening of the forest After passing through several villages, the number of people gradually became less and less. After climbing several mountains, the trees began to become thicker and thicker.

By the afternoon of the first day, we slowly entered the depths of the jungle.

Looking around, there are more and more large trees that are difficult for three or four people to hug. Data show that trees under such geological conditions grow extremely slowly. Small trees with a diameter at breast height of only a few centimeters are likely to be fifty or sixty years old.

, and trees with a diameter of thirty to forty centimeters have experienced vicissitudes of life for centuries.

I really don’t know how many years of wind and rain these ancient trees with a breast diameter of one or two meters around us have experienced.

Those big trees are interspersed with thick and thin small trees and shrubs, so densely packed that in some places it is difficult for even birds to pass through.

The moss vegetation on the ground is very lush. They extend to three or four meters high on the tree trunks. Reflected by the flickering light in the forest, the greenery is very strange.

The vines growing on the top of the jungle and in various inexplicable places are as thick as a person's arm and as thin as the stems of morning glory. Some are entangled with trees, and some are entangled on the ground, often tripping over them.

Our ankles.

At the same time, it is also because of the humidity that the fallen leaves and branches accumulated all year round gradually rot, giving off a moist smell of rotten wood.

The deeper you go into the forest, the more bizarre things happen.

We often see some big trees that have fallen down on the ground for unknown reasons. They all look damp and black, and there is nothing unusual about them. However, because they have been inaccessible for thousands of years, some trunks are more than half a meter in diameter.

, so rotten that when you step on it, it immediately breaks into dregs like tofu. Many times I fell down because I stepped on the air. Looking back at the big tree, there were still some droplets rising. It looked like

The forest elves in the fairy tale were about to appear. I was panicked and felt quite ashamed. It was us who had disturbed the tranquility here for many years.

The most ferocious animals are wild monkeys.

Because we rarely see people, these clever guys usually hide far away when our rustling noises disturb them. However, on both sides of the paths often used by some hunters, you can see monkeys that have just been plucked out almost everywhere.

A kind of root plant, the tooth marks on it are still fresh.

Occasionally, if you are lucky, you can see some inexperienced little monkeys running away among the branches not far away.

Pheasants are also commonly seen and their vigilance and reaction speed are very poor.

We disturbed them when we were on the road, and they would even flutter onto the road, and then run away in panic after seeing us.