Hearing Guo Xiang's words, Yang Jing couldn't help but feel a little numb.

Before coming to Papua New Guinea, Yang Jing also made some preparations, which enabled him to have a certain understanding of the entire Irian Island, which naturally included the famous headhunters.

Although it is already the second decade of the 21st century, there are still some very primitive tribes on this planet. This kind of primitiveness is not just any primitiveness, but real primitiveness.

Perhaps in many people's minds, the real primitive tribes are all in Africa, but in fact, although there are some primitive tribes in some extremely remote areas of Africa, these primitive tribes in Africa are compared with the primitive tribes on many islands in the southwest Pacific. They have almost entered the modern era.

In this world, the real primitive tribes are not in Africa, but on a series of large islands in the southwest Pacific.

Because of the barrier of the vast Pacific Ocean, the indigenous people living on the islands in the southwest Pacific have been living a traditional, primitive and isolated life for thousands of years. For example, in Fiji, there are still primitive cannibals living today.

This kind of cannibalism is not the kind of random cannibalism. They are real cannibals. They really are - cannibals!

Similarly, in many primitive jungles of the vast island of Irian, there live large cannibal tribes. However, on Irian Island, these cannibal tribes are not called cannibals. They have a more terrifying and resounding name - the headhunters.

On the primitive island of Irian, there lived about 20,000 primitive people who had very little contact with the outside world. When these primitive people went to war with each other, they usually regarded hunting the enemy's heads as the highest honor, so these primitive people were called "headhunters."

You can't imagine how tragic and bloody the wars between these primitive people were. Before the war began, the men and women in the tribe would prepare together. First, they would paint the canoes with ochre and lime, and then prepare various foods for celebration when they were occupied. At this time, the women also became cruel and encouraged the men to fight bravely and kill as many people as possible. When everything was ready, the men would take advantage of the cover of night and sneak into the enemy's village in canoes, regardless of gender, age or status, and kill as many as possible.

They killed and spared with clean and swift means, and the victims did not beg for mercy even after their resistance was ineffective, because both sides understood that there was no mercy between them. Living in the Stone Age, they did not have modern weapons, but a knife called a bamboo sword was not much slower than our modern steel knives in cutting off a person's head.

After the victor cut off the person's head, he first peeled off the scalp, then used a sharp weapon to cover a hole at the temple, poured the brain into a stone bowl and drank it.

The victors put every part of the heads they took to use—jaws cut open to adorn necklaces, skulls hung in rows covered with bark in front of stilt houses, and at night taken down to use as pillows.

These headhunters not only cut off the heads of the defeated, but also the heads of those who died of natural causes. A careful observation of the skulls hanging in front of the house will reveal that: one is quite complete, which is the skull left after a natural death; the other has a hole in the temple and is missing the mandible, which is the spoils of the master's attack.

This is the origin of the name of the headhunters.

Among them, the most famous headhunter tribe is the Asmat people who live in Indonesia, with Otsjanep and Omasep as their tribal centers. This name has replaced the headhunters and become a synonym for headhunters in a broad sense.

Therefore, when people talk about the headhunters living on Irian Island, they are usually called Asmat. Most of these primitive people live in the primitive jungle and have almost no contact with the outside world. In the eastern part of Indonesia bordering Papua New Guinea, the Asmat region with Otsjanep and Omasep as the core is home to the two largest tribes of Asmat people. These two tribes have a total of more than 7,000 people, which is the area with the most concentrated headhunters on the entire Irian Island.

In fact, because Otsjanep and Omasep are both located in coastal areas, and the number of people in these two tribes is the largest among the headhunters, it stands to reason that the Asmat people of these two tribes are more exposed to modern society than those inland.

But unfortunately, because of the cannibalism case that shocked the whole world more than half a century ago, the Asmat people became famous all over the world and eventually became synonymous with the headhunters of Irian Island.

The only protagonist in that famous case had a very great surname - Rockefeller.

That’s right, the protagonist hunted by the Asmat people was Michael Rockefeller, the great-grandson of John Rockefeller, the American oil king, and the son of Nelson Rockefeller, the former governor of New York and former vice president of the United States.

In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil Company, disappeared unexpectedly off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The news shocked the nation and the world. It was not until half a century later that people learned that the true fate of this "rich man" was far more shocking than people had imagined.

Michael Rockefeller was born in 1938 and became a member of the Rockefeller family. His father was Nelson Rockefeller, the governor of New York and a former vice president of the United States; his great-grandfather John Rockefeller was the richest man in the history of the United States and owned a huge oil empire.

Although Michael's father hoped that he would inherit his father's business and manage the family's huge business assets, Michael himself had a quieter and more artistic soul. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard University and wanted to do something more exciting than being a director and sitting in an office meeting.

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