Chapter 399: Broken Tail
I saw that in the direction where everyone's flashlight was pointing, there were six or seven thick stalactite stone pillars, which hung directly from the top of the cave not far away, leading to the bottom of the small cliff. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The thickest of those stalactite pillars is two or three meters thick, and the thinnest is about half a meter.
The roof of the cave here is at least seventy or eighty meters high, and if the top of the cave is compared to the sky, and the bottom of the cave is compared to the earth, this stalactite pillar is like a pillar that supports the heavens and the earth.
Even if everyone's hearts are tense at this time, people have to marvel from the bottom of their hearts at the wonder and greatness of nature.
In some places further afield, limestone water flows down a high slope and, due to its unique geographical structure, forms a terraced landscape within a rather large cave.
Of course, the water flowing from these terraces is not ordinary water, but limestone water.
The formation principle of the terraces is somewhat similar to that of stalactites and stalagmites, which are formed by the smooth ground washed by limestone water over many years.
The insoluble calcium carbonate in the limestone is affected by water and carbon dioxide to form slightly soluble calcium bicarbonate, which is limestone water, and when the water and carbon dioxide in the limestone water volatilize again in the process of dripping and spreading, the calcium bicarbonate will turn back into calcium carbonate, thus condensing into a variety of stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone mantles and so on.
Wang Ruyi couldn't help but sigh: "This karst cave is really beautiful, if this karst cave is excavated, I am afraid it will become a famous tourist attraction again." ”
But at this moment, Li Xun suddenly turned around and shouted towards the tail of the team: "Be careful!"
At the same time, the crowd heard a slight noise coming from under a small cliff not far from the end of the line, and then a huge head sticking out of the small cliff.
Immediately afterward, its entire body poked out of the cliff and climbed to the ground.
Only then did everyone see that it was a huge animal about six or seven meters long, similar to a lizard.
Its head is flattened and triangular in shape, with rough and raised skin, and various stripes of dark gray, blue, and brown from the head to the back.
After seeing the appearance of this huge animal clearly, many people, especially the hunters in Miao Village, were a little frightened.
They had imagined the enemies they might face, but when these beasts appeared in front of them, they were still a little panicked.
But after this animal similar to a giant lizard appeared, it did not launch an attack on the agent hunters, it pounced suddenly, and a wolf behind the hunter hall of Miao Village was bitten by it at once.
The wolf is fierce, but in front of this huge animal, it is like a little sheep meeting a vicious wolf.
What was once a predator, now becomes a prey.
The wolf screamed, and was bitten alive by the huge animal, shaking from side to side and biting, and the wolf was swallowed by the huge animal.
It all happened so fast that before everyone could react, the wolf had already swallowed the belly of the giant lizard.
Horror, it's horrible.
Everyone only felt that they couldn't help but shudder in their hearts.
If this guy hadn't attacked a wolf, but a person, he would have been devoured by it as well.
"Fire!"
Yang Zhenghui shouted suddenly.
The agents and hunters, who had been a little panicked, came back to their senses, and all kinds of weapons suddenly opened fire.
"Da Da Da ......"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Long and short tongues of fire erupted from various guns, and at the bottom of the cave shrouded in darkness, they were unusually striking.
The distance between the two sides was not far, and many bullets hit the huge lizard-like animal, which let out a miserable cry.
It had apparently not expected such a ferocity, or perhaps it had underestimated the power of human weapons.
It stumbled back to the edge of the cliff and climbed down the cliff.
Before climbing down, I saw that its huge tail, I don't know if it was hit by a bullet, or for some reason, it suddenly broke off from its body.
The tail, which was nearly two meters long, was jumping around on the ground.
It's as if it's still alive after being cut off from its body.
The agent hunters didn't see it very clearly, and when they saw that there was something alive and jumping, they opened fire desperately, and they didn't dare to approach.
And the broken tail, which is really strange to say, is still alive and kicking no matter how much fire it has suffered.
Li Xun faintly felt that something was wrong, and he hurriedly shouted: "Ceasefire!"
So the sound of gunfire gradually subsided.
Li Xun instructed: "Pay attention to other directions. ”
Then the crowd slowly walked to the giant broken tail.
I saw that the tail was still bouncing.
Wang Ruyi gasped and muttered, "This lizard is strange, it can actually cut off its tail like a gecko." ”
Xue Erliu glanced at Wang Ruyi, "What lizard, this should be a gecko! How can a lizard break its tail?"
"But how can there be such a big gecko?" Wang Ruyi asked rhetorically.
"It's not because of brain worms. Xue Erliu said.
Wang Ruyi said in horror: "The average gecko is only ten or twenty centimeters long, now this guy is six or seven meters long, even if there is a brain Gu worm, it shouldn't grow so big, if the gecko is so small, it can grow so big, we might as well go back and find a way, the ghost knows how big the guy is in front?"
Yang Xiaoxian also felt a little incredible, "It's weird, if you are a brain Gu worm, you shouldn't be able to survive in the gecko brain that is originally so small." ”
Song Junxing retracted his gaze at the bouncing broken tail, and said coldly: "It should be a gecko, an ordinary gecko, only three or four centimeters to more than ten centimeters in length, but I know that there is a kind of big gecko, under normal circumstances, it can grow to about forty centimeters, and occasionally, it can grow to a length of one or two meters."
Previously, in Australia, a large gecko more than two meters long was found, which should be the largest gecko ever found. ”
After speaking, he said a little self-deprecatingly: "But now this record should be far from being refreshed, just now I observed its physical characteristics, and it is very similar to the big gecko." ”
As soon as Song Junxing said this, everyone had no doubts.
Nothing else, because Song Junxing is a doctor of biological sciences and has a very deep understanding of animals.
He said it was a great gecko, and that was a great gecko.
But Song Junxing was also a little hesitant, he thought about it and said: "It's strange, if it's really such a huge gecko, its weight should be very heavy, and it can't crawl on the top of the cave and the cliff." ”
Chen Lingxi was a little surprised, she asked, "Brother Junxing, why is this?"
Song Junxing explained: "Geckos have such a powerful crawling ability because they have sticky foot pads on the soles of their feet, and there are billions of tiny hair-like
This structure is very tiny, so small that even the intermolecular van der Waals force can be ignored, so they can use this foot pad to climb on even a mirror as smooth as glass, and other similar animals, such as spiders, cockroaches, beetles, etc., have a similar structure. ”
Many of the people were a little incomprehensible, but they felt that the gecko's climbing ability was really strong.
But Song Junxing's tone changed again: "But this power is not as strong as imagined, its attachment power has a lot to do with the weight of the animal, and even the body surface area of the animal, the larger the body surface area of the animal, the larger the area of the foot pad it needs."
Some foreign scholars have done interesting experiments, which have proved that if a person as large as Spider-Man relies on the spider's sticky foot pad ability to climb walls, he needs to wear at least four size 150 shoes. ”
Chen Lingxi finally understood, and she asked, "Assuming that the one just now is indeed a big gecko, then with its current weight and body surface area, its toes should be even bigger, right? But just now, it seems that its toes are not much different from the ordinary body proportions." ”
Song Junxing nodded: "Yes!"
Li Xun asked, "What does this mean?"
Song Junxing replied: "For the time being, I can't figure it out, but I feel that there must be something wrong with it, if I can catch a big gecko alive, maybe I can study some secrets." ”
He added: "However, everyone should be more careful in the future, now we are surrounded by this kind of big geckos, which means that the attack will come from all directions, and we must not be sloppy." ”
It seems that this no longer needs to be cared for by Song Junxing.
Everyone looked in all directions in fear, for fear that another big gecko would suddenly emerge.
There are more than a dozen of these guys. (To be continued.) )