Chapter 20: The Great Birdcage

Now that it has been torn off and pulled clean, it is also troublesome to carry it, Dekang pulled a piece and chewed it slowly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fresh sheepskin has been eaten, and it is tender and a little chewy.

But the sheepskin, which is almost air-dry, can be easily bitten through by itself, but it is difficult to chew it very hard, and there is only one stupid way here: first chew the saliva, and then chew slowly and slowly with the teeth on both sides, until it is chewed until it is chewed.

The wolf clan eats food by tearing it off and chewing it in a few bites and swallowing it, and this kind of toothless old woman-like slow chewing can only be done in this space, and Baoyue's little teeth can't chew at all.

After feeding the sheepskin paste little by little, Dekang realized a serious problem: they had no water to drink.

A sheepskin saves some food, they can support some days and nights, but if there is no water to drink, the body will start to be irritable after seven or eight days and nights, not to mention that the little cub can't last that long.

Since entering the space to search until now, no water source has been found, and there is not a trace of water vapor, where will these strange human stored water be kept? Or they have been away for a long day and night, and the stored water has long since dried up.

Dekang realized that he should speed up his search.

It shouldn't take long to run straight up, but I don't know how much effort it will take to find a way out, open passages and gates; Besides, it's all here, you have to take a few looks, and you have to explore what is new, and there is no need to waste precious days and nights on ordinary goods.

"Baoyue. There is no water to drink, so we have to save time and move faster; Familiar patterns are no longer viewed, and they are directly searched. ”

"Second brother. Baoyue is not thirsty. ”

"Little cub. The second brother doesn't have much saliva to help you chew sheepskin. ”

"Hee-hee..."

If there is still a layer of space above, Dekang decided to only look at one gate per floor of space, not a special pattern, and immediately pulled out his legs.

After all, it takes a lot of effort to enter the space inside, and the main problem is that each space is empty, there will be no food and water, and it is just a trip in vain to enter.

In Baoyue's reluctant eyes, Dekang ran out of the corridor and turned around and ran towards the road, this is the closest distance to the ramp, and the gate on the opposite side is probably a small thing pattern such as a reptile, don't look at it.

The little cub looked back from time to time all the way, Dekang knew that she wanted to take away the ball that could spin, but she really couldn't bite it, Bao Yueken followed quietly and left, more sensible than expected.

When he stepped on the ramp, he quickly turned around and rolled the rock sheepskin in his mouth to his head, Baoyue didn't know what he was doing, he screamed in fright, Dekang shook the sheepskin and patted Baoyue's forelimbs: "Baoyue." It's okay. ”

After taking two steps, Dekang glanced at the rock sheepskin again, and remembered that there was a place where there might be water: it was the long chain where he had fallen, or perhaps there were snowflakes blown down by the wind from the mouth of the cave, and opening his mouth wide upward might moisten his throat. But when I think of the dizzy circle, I don't want to go back.

Running through the ramp and running straight towards the gate, as the distance gradually approached, two eye-catching markers at the gate clearly appeared in front of me.

In the middle of the mark on the right is a familiar guy who can't get any better: a slender tail, a round body, a small pointed mouth, two dripping green bean eyes, and a funny little beard, which is the spare recipe little mouse.

A guy under the little mouse looks a little familiar, it is likely to be a small lizard in the edge of the desert, since it is a regular customer, there is no need to go in to explore, and run towards the ramp reflexively.

The gate of this floor also saw familiar guys, little rabbits, and hedgehogs covered with thorns; Then at the gate opposite, it's either my brother's dish or my brother's opponent.

At this time, a thought popped up in my mind: rabbits and hedgehogs have appeared, will there be a wolf clan?

I shuddered instantly, which was a bit incredible for Dekang, but it couldn't be ruled out; It seems that he can't be lazy, and he has to take a look around in circles. Thinking of this, he continued to run diagonally forward.

Baoyue felt that something was wrong: "Second brother." Why did you start going around in circles again? ”

Dekang stopped: "Baoyue." Rabbits and hedgehogs appear here, and there may also be small sheep, horses, donkeys, camels, yaks, etc.; These guys have appeared, so little foxes, jackals, leopards, brown bears, these guys may also appear; The bigger question is, will our wolf clan also appear here? ”

"Ahh The wolf clan has also been caught by strange humans. Baoyue suddenly lay on her neck and hugged it firmly.

"Don't be afraid. There is no human smell here at all. ”

"But those strange humans down there don't have a scent."

"It's likely that strange humans who don't have breath are immobile creatures, and those who smell will run away long ago. In this kind of space, if there is a human smell, the second brother can smell it from a distance of one or two thousand steps, and we have enough effort to hide. ”

"Second brother. It's empty here, where can you hide? ”

Dekang smiled at her: "Stupid... Escaping into the space in the corridor is only a few hundred steps, and you can sneak in in the blink of an eye, and just open a door and hide in. Dekang certainly doesn't talk to her about pesky tracking dogs.

He picked up the rock sheepskin and continued to run forward, and at the gate opposite he saw the little sheep and the ox, and on the other side he saw the horses and camels and some other fellows he did not know, who were smaller than the cows and horses.

Then running up, another nasty creature appeared: a long, slender snake with a small head stretched out in a circle.

Dekang was sure at a glance that the snake with the triangular head in the middle and the fierce eyes was a very dangerous character.

'What use can these strange humans do when they catch snakes in?' ’

You must know that it is not easy to catch a poisonous snake, and accidentally explain yourself to it.

Going around to the opposite side, the gate is no longer a snake pattern, it is a small bird with two wings, but these guys on the pattern Dekang don't recognize any of them, anyway, there is no sand grouse in it; Continuing to run up, the two gates were covered with the pattern of a flying bird, and what he could recognize at a glance was a crane with slender feet and a slender neck.

Dekang was wondering why he didn't see the flying eagle, and Baoyue suddenly asked, "Second brother." You say it's strange whether humans catch birds or eggs. ”

"Flying birds or eggs?" Dekang scratched his scalp, this is really difficult to answer.

"Baoyue thinks it should be a bird's egg." Baoyue then said.

"Why?"

"How difficult it is to catch birds, they will fly into the sky, where can they catch so many, the eggs will not escape in the grass; If you catch a bird and put it flying around in space, you can't catch it, and those strange humans can only go hungry. ”

"Kind of makes sense. But they depicted all sorts of birds instead of eggs, and you have to go in and see the answer. ”

They looked at each other: not to miss this moment, to glance at each other.

Passing through the corridor and entering the space on the right, there are rows of neat black cages in front of you, about forty steps long, five as tall as a body, and a width of more than a dozen figures.

The cage near Dekang is a space made of a low wall, the size of a door, and a large rectangular birdcage in the middle, with a striking silver-gray mark in the middle of the low wall, and a bird flying at different angles, flying or walking in the middle.

"Second brother. These strange humans really caught the birds, but they were not easy to catch when they flew around. ”

Dekang nodded.

Walking through the corner of the wall, I found that the low wall space is composed of two U-shaped rods, and then there is a large cage facing in.

"Why do you have two doors with a big birdcage?" Dekang couldn't guess the intention of the strange human for a while, and got up and leaned on the wall to open the door.

Baoyue had already leaned on the crack of the door, and as soon as the door was opened, she let out an exclamation, Dekang couldn't care about it, her left forelimb hooked the U-shaped rod, and her right forelimb supported the wall and glanced at it, inside was a small door with a roulette disc that was exactly the same as the pockmarked space.

No wonder Baoyue would call out, such a secret space was incompatible with the big birdcage next to it.

Dekang patted Baoyue's head on the ground: "Don't waste it here, this thing will definitely not be able to open again, let's go and see the second door." ”

Baoyue followed behind with a reluctant expression.

Smoothly opened the second door, sliding down the door frame as Dekang turned his head to look inside, it was his turn to almost scream. The inside of the door was empty, and at a glance I could see the wall at the bottom, which was the door on the opposite side.

This is not surprising, but at the same time, I saw a part of the large birdcage, that is, entering the gate is entering the large birdcage, and the first gate is completely cut off from this side.

Falling into space was depressing enough, and Dekang was not interested in taking a walk in the big empty birdcage.

He took Baoyue around the first birdcage.

The large birdcage is composed of a black grid the size of half an ear, a circle of rectangular pillars the size of a head on the ground, and a corresponding circle of beams at the top is half smaller, and a square column is erected at each end of the grid, and the whole frame supports the structure of the birdcage.

When he walked into the pillar at the end, Dekang felt that his eyes were a little unhappy, as if he had caught something different, so he stopped and looked around a few times, but found nothing special.

Turning over the column, the feeling of unsmoothness intensified, and he stopped again to inspect it. In fact, there are only a few things that Dekang noticed: the pillars and beams in the upper and lower circles, the two columns and the whole grid.

When he turned to inspect the black column, he glanced at it to see what his eyes were catching: the grid between the two columns was thicker than the grid between the column and the door.

Dekang looked closer to the grid and found that there was an obvious gap in the middle of the gap in the grid on this side, and the thickness of the divided grid was the same as the thickness of the grid on the other side of the column.

It's an interesting discovery.

It should be a mesh of the same thickness, why is it twice as thick here? Could it be strange that humans know that the birds will rush towards this side of the grid in an attempt to escape, so they increase the thickness.

Looking up at the top of the grid, nothing unusual, Dekang crouched down to look at the bottom of the grid; The mesh clings to the inside of the pillar, and there is not a single gap in the joints.

However, when the eye swept to the pillar on the other side of the column, he found that there was a groove the width of an ear on the inside of it near the ground, and there was a short black stick near the pillar, and a small ball was embedded in the front end of the stick, and the short stick reached into the groove between the column and the pillar at this end.

Bypassing the pillar to inspect the pillar between the two pillars, he found that there was the same groove at the bottom of it, Dekang got up and ran to the other end to inspect, and the situation was the same here, that is to say, the grooves of the three pillars were connected.

Looking up at the beam above, I found that there were the same grooves and short sticks, and the front ends of the short sticks were also inlaid with small round balls.

The stick is horizontal, and it is likely that there is also a small ball at the end of the stick extending into the column, which means that the stick can be sliding, and the grid at the top is probably made up of two pieces of the same piece.

It's obvious that humans can easily drive birds together by moving the inner grid in the direction of the low wall.

The question is, since you have caught a bird, you can get a small cage and put it in, and you can easily grab it when you want to eat it, so why bother to build such a complicated big bird cage?

Grandma a bear! It's weird enough to be weird humans.

After going around, when he walked to the second doorway on the back, he leaned on the wall and pulled open the door and walked in, Dekang wanted to see where the groove on this side led to, and whether he could find some clues about why humans made big bird cages.

'Hey, hey, hey... Both doors are open, and my brother is not afraid that there will be an emergency to lock me and Baoyue in a big birdcage. ’

Dekang saw at a glance that the groove stopped at the door frame, so strange that even if the human beings rolled the whole grid over, there was still a small space, and a group of birds in it were desperately flapping their wings and trying to escape, and they couldn't get a body of bird feathers and bird when they came in to catch it, and they would be pecked hard, so they couldn't make such trouble.

"Bird feathers and bird poop?" Dekang snorted.

In the big birdcage in front of me, not to mention bird feathers and bird feces, I didn't see a grain of sand; Dekang hurriedly inspected a section of the grid, and the place where he looked was clean, not even a trace of dust, which was simply impossible.

The big birdcage is empty and there is no place for the birds to stay, so they can only rest on the grid except for standing on the ground.

However, large birds have a natural vigilance for the ground, so they tend to stay at high places to rest during non-foraging hours, and birds like to poop, so there must be guano near their fixed perch.

It stands to reason that there should be bird droppings everywhere on the grid, how can it be as clean as it seems; Is it strange that the humans didn't catch the birds at all, or that they cleaned the place cleanly and spotlessly?

It's strange that humans can't catch birds, which is a bit incredible.

An ordinary herdsman on the grassland, with a bird net near the aquatic grass, sprinkled with some fine seeds or simply tied to one or two live birds, can attract birds to eat white food, then the guy hiding nearby only needs to gently pull the support pole, few birds can escape.

The guy who lives in the broken felt bag can easily catch the birds, but the strange humans who make such a magnificent space can't catch them, and they won't believe it when they talk to anyone, and they can catch a few sandgrouses, so it's strange how humans can't catch them.

It doesn't make sense to clean it up.

If it's strange that humans are forced to leave the big space, then they don't know what their fate will be in the future, and they still clean up their fart.

"Second brother. Come here. Baoyue, who had been following her ass and wondering curiously about the big birdcage, ran to the bottom of the pillar and crouched there with her back to look at something.

Oh no, it wasn't like she saw the little stick.

When I stepped forward, I saw that I was playing with the little stick. Baoyue's right front paw was inserted into the groove, hooking the tip of the small short stick and pulling it outward, but the short stick seemed to be cast in the groove, and there was no reaction at all.

If the stick is really used as a pulley for the base of the grid, it should be easy to flip. Seeing that Baoyue's little face was red, Dekang also became a little curious.

Holding Baoyue aside, Dekang squatted down to check.

There is indeed a black horizontal bar cast on the small short stick, the horizontal bar supports the bottom of the grid and extends towards the opposite column, leaning down and turning his head to slant at the inner end of the short stick, there is indeed a small round ball inlaid at the top of the groove under the column, get up and look up at the top of the column, on which are the grooves, small short sticks and horizontal bars of the same structure.

This must be a sliding device.

Dekang stretched out his right front paw to hook the front end of the small short stick and pulled it, the short stick shook slightly, without the movement he imagined, Dekang moved his body to the head towards the column, the butt to the low wall, out of the left front paw and the right front paw hooked together to buckle the slightly convex part of the top of the short stick and pull again, the small round ball at the front end of the short stick only moved slightly, and the whole short stick still did not move a little.

Depend on. It's strange that humans are so bullish, and Dekang moved his liver fire.

He put his head against the grid next to him, and his lower limbs stood up on the ground and arched his feet to pull again... Hi... Hi... Hi...

But the little stick seemed to be frozen by magic, and it did not move.

Dekang is confident in his own strength, and he will never be much smaller than an adult human, such a force can't pull this little short stick, these strange human beings have to pull countless grids, even if they barely pull it, won't they all be tired and half dead?

There's definitely something strange about that.

However, Dekang walked back and forth between the two pillars several times, and did not find any situation.

It's okay if the fixed round tube keeps biting, but it can't pull the small pulley, which is a bit mysterious.

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