Chapter 180: Ancient Beasts
On the Nepalese side this time, the standard of reception was much higher than Lin Shuo's previous two transactions.
The means of transportation for the pick-up and drop-off is a Mercedes-Benz with small national flags on both sides of the front of the three vehicles.
The small national flags planted on both sides are not the same, with the flag of India on one side and Nepal on the other.
Among them, the national flag of Nepal is very special, not boxy, but two triangles stacked together, with blue borders and white stripes on a red background, with the upper pattern representing the moon and the lower pattern representing the sun.
Seeing the flags of two countries, Lin Shuo understood in his heart that this should not be the car of the Nepalese government, but the Indian embassy in Nepal.
In addition to the three Daben, there is also an equipment car, a minibus converted from a minibus, to transport luggage.
The wooden boxes of Lin Shuo and Cao Yusheng, the two leaders, rested on this minibus.
In front of and behind the convoy, a total of eight police motorcycles cleared the road with flashing lights.
Wei Xingshan, as the nominal security officer of the operation, sat in the front car.
Lin Shuo and A
e These two people, one is the head of the hunting gate, and the other is the representative of the International Biological Research Association who was entrusted this time, and they have the highest status on the surface, so they sit in the middle.
Cao Yusheng and Zhang Jin, the old and the young, are behind the palace together.
Sitting in the co-pilot seat of Lin Shuo's car was the official responsible for receiving Lin Shuo and his party, in his thirties, with a beard.
His full name, Lin Shuo didn't remember, a long list, listening to him introduce himself, is an Indian, a military attache of the Indian Embassy in Nepal, and his name is Sanam.
The man was clearly well-educated, and his English was standard, with a hint of London.
Lin Shuo's English was actually taught by himself in rural Guangxi a few years ago in order to teach students.
In the remote mountain village school, there is a serious shortage of teachers, and Lin Shuo not only teaches Chinese, but also English and natural science teachers.
Most of the English textbooks in China are British pronunciation, so Lin Shuo is quite accustomed to listening to Sanan's accent.
I only heard Sanan introduce: "My government attaches great importance to this biological incident. Whatever you need, whether material or manpower, just ask. ”
Listening to Sanan's words, Lin Shuo had a strange feeling in his heart.
This is Nepal, and according to the briefing provided by the International Society for Bioresearch, there are a total of 227 people killed in this biological incident.
Among them, 207 Nepalese citizens were killed on the edge of a small town called Sori. Twenty Indian nationals were killed on the border road between India and Nepal.
Clearly, the number of people killed in Nepal is higher.
However, this time it was the Indian Embassy in Nepal who received his group.
He then asked A next to him in Chinese
"What about the Nepalese side?"
A
"Nepal and India, both Hindu countries, have deep-rooted caste issues.
The 20 people killed this time in India were all Brahmins, the highest caste.
And the two hundred and seven in Nepal are 'untouchables', so they are not taken very seriously. ”
Lin Shuo nodded, understanding the strangeness in this.
Hinduism has four major castes, of which the Brahmins are the highest, followed by the Kshatriyas, followed by the Vaishyas and Shudras.
Sanan, who is currently sitting in front of the two, should be a Kshatriya since he can become a government official.
And A
The 'untouchables' in the mouth of e are the lowliest people outside the four castes.
This kind of social structure in which lineage determines the class is something that Lin Shuo has heard of, but he has experienced it as a very strange experience.
But he couldn't care about this, so he simply closed his eyes and began to doze off.
At this point, the most important thing is to recharge your batteries.
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After the convoy left Kathmandu, the traffic jam was much better.
The police cars that opened the way were withdrawn, and the overall speed of the convoy was raised.
The first place the convoy went to was the small town called Sori.
This small city is located on the southern branch of the Himalayas, more than 80 kilometers from Kathmandu.
It doesn't sound far, but Nepal is either mountainous or hilly, and the road winds and turns, and the actual journey is more than 300 kilometers.
Coupled with the average road conditions, by the time the convoy arrived in Sori, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
Staying at the highest hotel in the town, Sanan told Lin Shuo that he would come back at eight o'clock tomorrow morning and pick up everyone to investigate the scene.
Compared with the previous two trips, everyone lived well this time.
Although Sori is a small town, it is located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and is the starting point of a trekking trail.
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Nepal itself is a country with tourism as its pillar industry, so the tourist facilities supporting this small city are okay.
This hotel, known as a four-star, looks similar to a three-star hotel in China, but compared with the previous two trips to either a small hotel or a police dormitory, it is much better.
After a hasty dinner, everyone gathered in Lin Shuo's room, planning to have a small meeting first to discuss tomorrow's affairs.
The number of participants in this deal, for now, is smaller than ever, with only five people.
However, there are not many soldiers, and the few people who participated in the operation this time have their respective identities, even if they are placed in the history of the hunting gate for thousands of years, it can be regarded as a luxury lineup.
There are two of the six leaders of the Hunter Gate, one is the chief leader, and the other is the mastermind.
The two juniors, who are the last heirs of Su Zhang's two families, are actually only one level away from the position of the top six leaders.
Even if it is Wei Xingshan, who is the least powerful, he is about to be the founder disciple of the leader of the hunting sect, and his reputation is not low.
Such a lineup, put aside in the past, there are famous beasts and xenomorphs in "Kyushu Foreign Objects", and they are counted one by one, but they are just inserted and sold, and there is nothing that cannot be dealt with.
It's a pity that this time is different from the past, this nominally strong lineup, the moisture in it is not clear to others, but Lin Shuo still knows.
Let's have a meeting first, and be careful.
And the person who presided over this meeting was supposed to be Lin Shuo, after all, he was the leader of the hunting gate.
However, since Cao Yusheng was here, and this transaction had a lot to do with the Cao family, Lin Shuo didn't talk much, but asked Cao Yusheng to introduce the situation of Baishou Fei's corpse in detail, so as not to turn around and catch blindness.
The last time I played against the Barge Beast, A
E and Zhang Jin's performance when they lacked intelligence made Lin Shuo remember it vividly.
At that time, saving the two of them was much more difficult than dealing with the Beasts and Assassins.
And this time, even Lin Shuo only knew a little about the situation of the white head flying corpse, and probably knew what it was capable of, but the specific situation still needed to be further explained by Cao Yusheng.
"The specific situation of the white head flying corpse, it's ashamed to say it, I, the head of the Cao family, actually don't know much. Cao Yusheng's opening sentence made the corners of Lin Shuo's mouth twitch.
"Because the white head flying corpse is the secret of the Cao family's main lineage, and the head of my branch has no right to know. Cao Yusheng explained, "However, fifteen years ago, the main vein of the Cao family suffered, and the flying corpse has not appeared since it disappeared, which is a matter for our Cao family."
So I've been investigating in many ways over the years, so I can't prevent this beast from suddenly appearing and causing disaster to the world.
Speaking of which, I actually saw a few of them when I was a kid.
They are like people, not like people like the Lin family phoenix, but from appearance to wisdom, they are all like.
It has a very human-like appearance, but it is not human in nature.
Although it is the spirit of our 'Yanjing Cao', its place of origin is not in Yanjing, but in Xiangxi.
The legend of Xiangxi's corpse is the initiator.
Of course, because of this legend, the corpse chaser slowly became a craft and became a branch of our people, which is another matter.
At least this is the source of the legend of zombies.
When they move on the ground, they jump and walk, and they look like people, so they are mistaken for zombies.
And in antiquity, it had an even more imposing name.
It's called 'Poor Odd'. ”
"Wait a minute. Wei Xingshan interjected, "You let me digest it, you mean, zombies and poor Qi are actually the same thing?"
"Yes, it's one thing. Cao Yusheng nodded.
"Don't make trouble!" Wei Xingshan said, "I've been flipping through it recently, I know this thing, it's an ancient beast! There are two records in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, one says like a tiger, the other says like a cow, but it doesn't say like a human!"
Cao Yusheng smiled and said, "Then do you know that the record of resembling a tiger in the Book of Mountains and Seas comes from, and the record of resembling a cow is?"
"I don't care. Wei Xingshan shook his head, "I see it as a popular version on the Internet." ”
"Young people, read the original version of the book. Cao Yusheng said lightly, "Actually, it's not the original, the real original is what we hunt." ”
"Oh......" Wei Xingshan nodded, he had heard Lin Shuo say this kind of statement, but he was not a hunter now, Lin Shuo couldn't show him "Kyushu Foreign Objects" to an outsider, so he could only go to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
"Then is this thing like a tiger, a cow, or a human?" asked Wei Xingshan again.
"It's all like. Cao Yusheng nodded, "Tangerine is born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei." Although it is true that orange and citrus aurantium are two different plants, the truth of this statement is true.
Even if the same species has a different environment, the appearance will be different because of adaptation to the local environment.
Poor Qi is also a similar situation, there will definitely be differences in appearance, here there are both group differences caused by the environment, and individual differences caused by genetic mutations.
In addition, the ancient people's knowledge was limited after all, and there were not many metaphors when making analogies, in fact, the ontology was not so different, but one described the elephant tiger, and the other described the elephant cow, which is normal.
In ancient times, the poor and strange in Xiangxi were like people.
At that time, this kind of resemblance was probably a rough idea, not as similar as it is now.
However, the white-headed flying corpse has a history of nearly 800 years of cultivation in our Cao family.
We humans domesticate animals, nothing more than two needs, one is functional needs, to be useful, and the other is aesthetic needs, to be good-looking.
So after more than 800 years of cultivation, our Cao family's white-headed flying corpse is becoming more and more powerful, and at the same time, it is also becoming more and more human-like.
The flying corpse that disappeared fifteen years ago, I heard the old man of the Cao family say that it was very beautiful.
Although it can't speak, it understands human language and is very intelligent. ”
"Uncle. Wei Xingshan asked again, "So, your Cao family should have cultivated a lot of flying corpses back then, right?"
"Hmm. Cao Yusheng nodded, "It is indeed a lot, it is said that in the heyday of three hundred years ago, our old Cao family had the wonder of 'a thousand corpses flying into the sky', and this became one of the six masters of the hunting gate in one fell swoop."
It's a pity that with the extinction of the wild population, the flying corpses of the old Cao family began to slowly degrade due to inbreeding, and the elimination rate became higher and higher, and the finished products became fewer and fewer.
However, even twenty years ago, our Cao family still had more than 30 flying corpses, each of which was controlled by the main lineage of the Cao family.
At that time, the hunting theory was alone, with my eldest brother and Zhang Lianhai here, and the Lin Zhang family was indeed stronger than the others.
But if it is compared to the overall combat power, the Cao family is the undisputed number one hunter. ”
"What about the other flying corpses?" Wei Xingshan asked, "Shall we deal with one this time?"
"This time it's just one. Cao Yusheng said, "Because the other flying corpses were all killed by this one." ”
"Huh, don't you let your kind go?"
"yes. Cao Yusheng sighed, "This white-headed flying corpse was the smartest and most powerful of the group of flying corpses back then, with a docile temperament and beautiful appearance, which was very popular with the old family owner at that time."
I, a child of the Cao family's branch, to be honest, the family status is not as high as it, and it is easy to see it.
But no one thought that it would slaughter the old Cao family overnight.
This is really not my race, and its heart will be different. ”