Chapter 21: The Frozen Mammoth

The protagonists of well-known anti-Japanese TV series, such as Li Xiangyang with two guns, old woman with two guns, Yan Shuangying, etc., often use two-handle box guns to kill all sides. More powerful than a machine gun.

This box cannon is in good condition, and it can still be fired. Han Zhou confirmed that he had pulled on the safe, withdrew from the magazine, and carefully put it back into the tin box to avoid misfire.

It's a good thing. It's a pity that I can't bring it back to China, because guns are banned. However, if guns are not banned in the country, the safety of the people's lives will not be guaranteed. Therefore, it is better to strictly ban guns.

Han Zhou continued to drive to the treasure spot.

It's late at night, and there's still a long way to go.

Han Zhou nibbled on half a compressed biscuit for dinner. I took a multivitamin with ice-cold water.

Pack up. Lay down the seat, wrap your sleeping bag and get ready for bed.

I was just about to close my eyes, when suddenly, I glanced out the car window.

The skyline, a touch of blue-green gradient of magnificent colors.

It's the Northern Lights.

The so-called aurora borealis is a brilliant luminous phenomenon that appears in the sky above the high magnetic latitude region of the planet's north pole, which is produced by the excitation or ionization of molecules or atoms in the upper atmosphere by a stream of high-energy charged particles (solar wind) from the Earth's magnetosphere or the sun.

The Northern Lights do not have a fixed shape and color. Generally speaking, the types of aurora can be divided into four types: arc aurora, ribbon aurora, curtain aurora, and radial aurora. The colors are mostly green, white, yellow, and blue, and occasionally bright reddish-purple.

It is a rare and beautiful view.

Especially where Han Zhou is now, the latitude is not high, and the probability of seeing the Northern Lights is very low.

This is even more rare.

Han Zhou took out his mobile phone and posted a Douyin.

Seeing the Northern Lights, Han Zhou suddenly remembered that he had seen a series of articles published by a netizen named Shibu on the Internet before.

Demonstrate that the Chinese ancestors came from the north.

One of the major arguments is to link the worship of dragons and jades, combined with ancient documents, to speculate that the origin of dragon and jade worship is the vast and magnificent natural scenery that the ancestors often witnessed - the Northern Lights.

When the ancestors saw the Northern Lights, they were naturally amazed, so they imagined it as a huge mythical beast on the shore, and carved it out of jade with similar color and transparency as a worship object.

The so-called "dragon light jade out of the ice sky".

Jade is the frozen Northern Lights.

The primitive dragon does not have complex images such as horse heads, deer antlers, eagle claws, etc., it is simple and simple, and is often carved from jade, such as the jade pig dragon. In the eyes of the ancestors, the dragon is a stunningly large and beautiful creature, very similar to the Northern Lights of a specific shape.

The images of dragons, phoenixes, candle dragons and even Kunpeng all come from the ever-changing forms of the Northern Lights.

It is also argued that the "Northern Hell" and "Tianchi" in ancient documents, that is, the place where the big kun swims, are the images of the Northern Lights like a sea in the sky.

There is also a very wonderful argument that the unicorn is a reindeer.

Here are just two arguments. Very exciting.

1. The unicorn has been a rui beast since ancient times, and it can avoid evil, not fall into traps, and not fall into the net.

Elk, on the other hand, have a special eye structure and have ultraviolet vision, which can distinguish between different intensities of ultraviolet light. Different thicknesses of snow have different reflectivity to ultraviolet light. Therefore, if a trap is placed in the snow, it will be very easy for the elk to recognize and will not be effective. This is very similar to the characteristics of the unicorn's "seeking good fortune and avoiding evil".

As for why Lu Aigong and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were able to catch the unicorn later. On the one hand, it may be that they did not use traps and directly forcibly caught, on the other hand, it may be that they live in Qilu and Chang'an, there is no snow, and the ultraviolet vision of the unicorn (reindeer) cannot be used.

Second, the Book of Poetry, Zhou Nan, Lin's toe

The toe of Lin, Zhenzhen Gongzi, Yu Linxi.

Lin Zhiding, Zhenzhen Gong surname, Yu Linxi.

The horn of Lin, Zhenzhen Gong, Yu Linxi!

The traditional explanations are very broad, nothing more than saying that the unicorn is good, so it is used as an analogy to praise the Gong family.

The stone cloth is explained as, from the toe, to the ding (small horn of the forehead), to the horn (the big horn with many forks), layer by layer, corresponding to the son, the surname, and the clan, which is used to praise and bless other people's families and descendants.

If you have ever seen the antlers of a reindeer, the image of a large deer with many forks, you may think that this interpretation is indeed more reasonable and convincing.

There are a lot of other arguments, which may not be particularly rigorous, but at least they are interesting and make sense. I won't go into details.

As for the so-called giraffe, it is the unicorn...... This kind of rumor, which was only produced and circulated in the Middle Ages and late times, has become the cognition of many people, and it is also a strange thing. It's not even worth refuting.

After posting Tik Tok. Han Zhou looked at the Northern Lights, closed his eyes, and fell asleep contentedly.

A dreamless night.

The next day, continue on your way.

All the way north, the weather is getting colder and colder, very cold, and the air is ice.

At noon, I saw a small slope ahead.

Covered in snow and ice, it resembles a Xiaoice mountain.

The treasure map shows that the golden dot of light is near the slope.

Han Zhou got out of the car, backpack, holding a folding shovel.

Walk to the front of the small slope.

After digging a few times, I found that the soil under the snow layer was very hard.

Digging for a few more minutes.

Click.

A slight severing sound.

It's like cutting off your hair.

If you look closely, you can see that it is gray dry hair.

Digging for a while.

It's a little beast.

It has been freeze-dried, but the limbs are well preserved, the body is covered with hair, the nose is long, and small teeth grow from the ends, a bit like an elephant.

Next to the beast, a thicker body can be seen, covered in frozen ground and snow.

Han Zhou said: "I didn't expect it to be a mammoth." ”

Mammoth, also known as mammoth (mammoth), is an animal of the family Elephantidae, Mammothaceae. Once one of the largest elephants in the world and one of the largest mammals ever to survive on land, the steppe mammoth can weigh up to 12 tons.

Adapted to a cold climate, the mammoth was once widely distributed in the boreal regions of the northern hemisphere, including northeastern China, and was a behemoth of the Ice Age.

Unfortunately, on the eve of the arrival of human civilization, about 10,000 years ago, this huge and beautiful race of giant beasts was completely wiped out.

The end of the Ice Age and global warming have reduced the food source and living space of mammoths, which may be the cause of mammoths' extinction.

Our ancestors, who relied on group warfare to hunt mammoths intensively, may also be a major reason for the extinction of mammoths.

All in all, it's a pity.

However, although the mammoth is extinct, it still leaves many remains under the frozen ground because of its prosperity and the cold climate of its habitat.

Many of them are still in their original appearance and lifelike.

There is ivory, which can be sold for money, but also attracts many greedy poachers.

Meat, freeze-dried, sterilized and cooked, can still be eaten, although there is a risk of carrying ancient viruses, but it still can't stop many people who love adventure, good this bite.

The musculoskeletal structure of these mammoths is intact and relatively intact.

It also planted the seeds for the dream of "resurrecting mammoths" for many scientific research institutions.