"Social snakes. For a moment, such a sentence flashed in Qiu Yan's mind, and at the same time, he remembered a joke that Li Mowu casually said yesterday, he said that these snakes behaved a lot like ants, and said that there might be a snake queen here.

Qiu Yan thought that this was impossible, these snakes' cooperative actions were at most just the embodiment of group instinct like vultures competing for food, but he didn't expect to see such a relief here, which is simply a primitive model of animal social habits.

These small red cockscomb snakes are the role of sappers in social insects, and there are many of them, and those brocade pythons are male snakes, which are large and small in number, and this huge dragon-like snake is what Li Mowu called the 'snake queen', the only snake mother here. Judging from this relief, the mother snake is so huge that the male snake cannot mate with it smoothly, and needs so many cockscomb snakes to assist. And according to the laws of nature, such a huge snake mother may not be able to move, and does need the assistance of others to mate, just like some giant sows that are raised.

Could it be that there really is such a huge snake in the depths of this sea of trees? Qiu Yan couldn't imagine it.

I don't know much about the history of snakes, in the memory of the giant snake, the impression of the giant snake, the biggest is in the Amazon rainforest in the book, some people claim to have seen a 50-meter-long giant forest snake, the snake is different from humans, it has no fixed limit lifespan, the average snake will die naturally when the body is too big to hunt for food, but in some cases of sufficient food, the snake can keep growing, those giant snakes are simply the gods of the rainforest. However, even so, those snakes were only about a hundred years old when they died, how long has this relief been here, let alone two or three thousand years, if this snake mother really existed here, it should also die. And such a huge body, if it ever existed, must have lived in water, and the swamp here obviously did not have such great buoyancy.

Qiu Yan looked a little stunned, if he saw these reliefs in the museum, then he thought that he might think that this was an exaggeration or myth of the ancients, but he did encounter these poisonous snakes here, and saw their strange behavior with his own eyes, then, this relief is very likely to depict the real scene. That could be a huge discovery in biology, history, archaeology, and even sociology.

Looking at it, the situation of this relief is really unrelieved, how did this snake's strange behavior evolve? Why is it completely different from other snakes? Qiu Yan felt that there must be deeper reasons for this, and these reasons must be related to the history of the Vatican.

The subsequent relief is a series of worship scenes, in a temple, many people bow down to a poisonous snake, look at the outline of this temple, obviously is the place, count down, before the swamp did not flood this place, this temple has five floors so many, now the silt has buried all the three floors below. On the altar of the temple, the snake stood upright in front of everyone, this should also be one of the scenes of the sacrifice, except for the strange movement of the snake, there is nothing strange about the other places, the altar is in front of the main entrance of the temple, when everyone came, there were only rocks, apparently completely collapsed.

Qiu Yan looks at it as a whole, and finds that the expression of the boulder is the center of the snake's reproductive scene, surrounded by the sacrifice of the snake, the raising of the snake, the war between the snake and the human, and many other scenes about the snake, as Le Jin said, this is a stone wall that records the information of the snake.

Qiu Yan also wanted to get some more information from it, but after reading it a few times, he found that there were very few parts that could be carefully identified in more detail, and there was no more gain, and there were no reliefs on the stone walls on the side.

Qiu Yan had just regained his senses, and at the same time, Xiao Li's shout came from the direction of the camp. "Hey, you three should come down to eat."

Qiu Yan was still unfinished, but seeing that there was no clue for the time being, he also felt a little hungry, and his appetite overcame his desire for knowledge, so he had to pause, but Qiu Yan's expression looked at the shadow below in a trance.

He looked up at the sky, and it was dusk and the sun was shining, and tomorrow would be a fine sunny day.

.....

Qiu Yan seemed to be a little worried, silent all the way, as if he hadn't seen anything, and just lowered his head and walked to the campfire. The mountain wind blew, and the unique fragrance of flowers and plants in the valley wafted with the wind, Qiu Yan looked at the messy camp that appeared in front of him, glanced at it expressionlessly, and then walked away.

At this time, a slightly surprised voice suddenly came from behind, saying. "Qiu Yan, you... Hey, why are you so ugly?"

Qiu Yan stopped, turned around, and saw Xiao Li running from behind, looked at him with some concern, and said in a low voice. "Qiu Yan, are you okay?"

Qiu Yan's eyes drooped slightly, and after a while, he shook his head and said. "It's fine. ”

Xiao Li still looked a little uneasy, and said. "Qiu Yan, do you want to take a rest first? I'll bring you the meal. ”

Qiu Yan pursed a smile and said. "No, how can I be so hypocritical. ”

"Hee-hee, look, I picked the little wild chrysanthemum on the edge of the rock in front of me and gave it to you. Xiao Li said with a smile.

Qiu Yan nodded, took the palm of the wild chrysanthemum tightened slightly, and when he looked up, he saw the glow falling, and the flying girl beside him smiled smartly, as beautiful as a flower, as warm as the sun.

Even though there was a pale red scar lingering on that beautiful face, but by her side, in that warm smile, it seemed that all the darkness and heaviness had quietly dissipated at this moment.

"Don't tell her anyway.." The wind moves the grass, the flowers move the heart, and the fresh fragrance wafts up, making people intoxicated, Qiu Yan looked at the wildflowers in his hand and muttered softly.