cpa300_4(); The sun is like a spell that urges life, Lin Xiaofan feels that time is very fast, yesterday's fear and nightmare have not subsided, and when she turns around, the sun is hanging in the west again, and dusk is coming soon.

There was basically no rest and stop during the day, and Lin Xiaofan felt an invisible pressure coming when he saw the shadows of the trees becoming hideous.

Despair, there's really a hint of despair in that. A voice seemed to ask in her head, after two nights, can she continue to survive tonight?

Almost everything that could be used was brought over, and a few buckets of silt were prepared. I didn't dare to light a big bonfire, so I made a small carbon pile, and Lin Xiaofan and Gulajie didn't dare to cook canned food in it for dinner, so they put the stove outside the ruins.

Everyone estimated that those snakes would definitely start to move after the fog filled up, so they were not too nervous at dusk, Lin Xiaofan helped the fat man cook, and Yang Xuan and Li Monan watched from above to help us watch the wind.

But Gulajie's cooking action is very fast, Lin Xiaofan actually can't help much, and he is in a daze on the side after opening the can.

Gu Lajie is most annoyed by Lin Xiaofan's appearance, he said that she is a Lin Daiyu like this, she doesn't know what she is thinking about all day long, how can there be so many things in this world to ponder, living without heart and lungs is also kicking to death, you are also kicking to death when you do everything, anyway, the ending is the same, what do you care about the fetters in the middle of the ******.

Lin Xiaofan was a little surprised when he heard it, Gu Lajie would use the word "fetters", and after a taste, he realized that he was talking about "J eggs", and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Just thinking about it, she heard Yang Xuan call her: "I said novels." What do you think I'm doing here? ”

Lin Xiaofan retracted his mind, looked up and saw that Yang Xuan in the temple was rubbing the stone wall above with something, and shouted, "What's wrong?" ”

Yang Xuan ignored him. If you keep doing it, you may not hear it.

Lin Xiaofan had almost done the things here, and he was also interested, so he put down the canning knife and climbed up. Walking around him from the cloister of the temple, he saw that he was plastering the walls with carbon from the campfire, as if he was trying to rub something. I asked him what he was doing, and he pointed to the stone beside him. "I just found out."

The wall was blackened a large piece, and Lin Xiaofan blew it with his mouth and found these stone walls. There are reliefs that have been almost smoothed.

"It's basically invisible in daylight, and only when you apply toner will there be shadows and you can distinguish them." He said. As he spoke, he picked out another piece from the campfire and smeared it.

Black carbon black smeared on the rocks. The light and shadow changed, Lin Xiaofan shook a little, found a suitable position, and the relief on the stone appeared. At first glance, he saw a large number of serpentine shapes. It's hard to tell, the light and shadow are moving, and the snake shadow is floating as if it is alive.

Yang Xuan continued to paint, and the two of them saw ancient reliefs appear on the rocks here, although after so many years. But it is still there, and it emerges like magic under the fine smear of Yang Di.

Yang Hyun was unsteady on his feet after painting. Lin Xiaofan immediately supported him, and the two of them looked at it carefully, and Yang Dixiao said, "This is about those snakes." ”

"What are you talking about?" Lin Xiaofan asked. Because I can't see it very clearly.

"I can't understand it all at once." He said, "You have to think about it slowly." ”

Lin Xiaofan was very interested in these, and he really didn't see much historical relics here along the way. Ignorance of this place was the most direct reason for their current situation, so she moved her body to find the best angle, and put in the effort to take a closer look.

Looking at them one by one, I don't know what they mean, I don't know what they mean, there are many things expressed on the reliefs, some seem to be sacrifices, some seem to be a ritual, and I really can't say anything. Looking at Lin Xiaofan, he was a little dazzled

Looking at it half-guessing, half-pondering, I felt that there were a few pictures that seemed to say that the ancestors here enshrined these poisonous snakes with cockscombs, and they threw clay pots into some holes one by one, as if they were the kind of stone towers with square holes seen on the road, and a large number of poisonous snakes began to burrow into the broken clay pots. There are sacrifices presiding over the ceremony, and many people kneel around.

It turns out that these sacrifices are sacrificed to the snakes here, do the people here regard this poisonous snake as a god? However, this is not unusual, the worship of poisonous snakes is very common, the ancients did not know the poison of poisonous snakes, only knew that they would die after being bitten, and looking at such a small wound to kill people, they would think that it was caused by magic. Many of China's ethnic minorities worship snakes.

Others say that the serpent is the embodiment of the dragon, the son of heaven, sent down to punish the evil of mankind.

These cockscomb snakes may like to eat the eggs of the corpse turtle king, but the eggs of the corpse turtle king should be violently poisonous, which is more poisonous between this snake and the corpse turtle?

Yang Xuan moved his figure, and the relief on the side was a lot of figures holding spears, fighting with the primitive people of their ancestors, and many people's bodies were pierced by spears, as if there was a war.

The battle situation seemed to be unfavorable to the side of the Linglong Ancient Kingdom, because the number of people in the Linglong Ancient Kingdom was obviously much smaller than that of the other party. And the Linglong Ancient Kingdom is all infantry, and cavalry can still be seen in the opponent's team. The enemy commander was at the back of the line, sitting in a cart pulled by eight horses. The figure of the Spirit Dragon King is not visible in the relief. All the reliefs are exquisitely shaped, and even the facial features are meticulously pondered, vivid, and obviously come from the craftsmanship of top craftsmen.

"This is, war ......," Yang Xuan muttered.

"It seems that the ancient country of Xilinglong has been invaded, and the other party is a relatively powerful country, it may be Xionglan Kingdom or Northern Xiongnu." Lin Xiaofan said.

"These people can't see the style of clothing, but the appearance of the weapon is similar to the Central Plains, it should be Xiong Lan's army. This one on the chariot should be King Xionglan. Yang Xuan said

After speaking, Yang Xuan felt that what he said was very reasonable, but Lin Xiaofan didn't pay attention to her words, but touched the commander on the chariot with his hand, and he couldn't help frowning.

Yang Xuanxin said: What's wrong? He suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the enemy leader, and said to Lin Xiaofan, "I know this person." ”

"Huh?" Lin Xiaofan was stunned for a moment. The heart said that you know him, he is your second uncle? It's still your ancestors.

Yang Xuan then said. Lin Xiaofan immediately realized that he had misunderstood, and he said, "These eight horses...... This person is King Mu of Zhou. ”

"King Shenmu? Is that the one who wrote "The Biography of Shenmu Tianzi"? ”

Lin Xiaofan is also very familiar with the legend of Shenmu Tianzi, because Shenmu can say. is a more famous king in ancient times, and Lin Xiaofan is just right, I have read this "The Biography of Shenmu Tianzi"

The legend of Shenmu Tianzi mainly records that King Shenmu led the seven elite people, riding on horses such as Chiji, Thief, Baiyi, Yulun, Shanzi, Quhuang, Hualiu, and Green Ear. Crossing the Zhangshui, passing through Hezong, Yangxu Mountain, Qunyu Mountain and other places, as far as the ancient state of Linglong in the west. and the Spirit Dragon King's feast and drink.

In other words, he traveled to the Linglong King Palace on eight horses, and was hospitably entertained by the Linglong King at that time.

However, judging from the relief, this god Mu Tianzi does not seem to have come to travel. Could it be that the legend is wrong? King Shenmu did come to the Linglong Ancient Kingdom back then, didn't he come to be a guest and come to fight?

Lin Xiaofan immediately continued to look at the relief, and the next painting made me gasp, only to see King Shenmu's army slaughtered into a palace, and there were many snake-headed women on the picture, who poured something into the hole of the tower, and then countless cockscomb snakes crawled out of the tower. Tearing together with the army of King Shenmu.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaofan immediately understood the meaning of these stone towers in the rainforest: "It seems. King Zhou Mu did attack here back then, but was defeated by the poisonous snakes here, probably to cover up his defeat, he made up that story, these poisonous snakes protected the ancient country of Linglong, no wonder they would raise this snake as a god. It's like the Manchus don't kill crows and don't eat dog meat. ”

After thinking about it, I felt that it was more than that, looking at the bottom of these stone towers, there must be a connection, the snake lived in the passage under this ancient city, and was fed by people with human heads, and when it was in danger, it used something to lure the poisonous snake out to meet the enemy, this is a designed way of defense, this snake is so venomous, fast and fast, what kind of army no one can stop.

That is to say, the people of the Linglong Ancient Kingdom live in this city, and this poisonous snake lives under this imperial city, and now that all the people in the imperial city are dead, the snake will come to the ground. The civilization of this Linglong country is more similar to the Amazons, where piranhas are used to defend against enemies and beasts, and they also sacrifice piranhas, using living people and live animals, but here they use human heads.

Looking further back, the more they looked, the more complex their inferences became. Lin Xiaofan's mind gradually became clear about the concept here.

In the middle of nowhere, Yang Xuan's gaze stopped, and he saw the most central part of this stone wall, where a huge prototype pattern was carved in relief, which was obviously the central part of the composition of the entire rock carving. It is carved with a scene of a huge snake surrounded by many small cockscomb snakes fighting each other. Among them, the giant snake was wrapped around a huge tree, and the cockscomb snake was wrapped around it like a decorative pattern.

"This is the kind of double-scaled python and the cockscomb snake here are fighting, it seems that in the Kowloon Ancient Kingdom, there were already two kinds of snakes here, this double-scaled python may be the natural enemy of this cockscomb snake." Lin Xiaofan said.

Lightning touched the stone carving, then shook his head and looked at Lin Xiaofan with an unfathomable expression: "No, this is copulation." ”

"Mating?" Lin Shuifan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly blushed, although he was a little incomprehensible, he understood what he meant after thinking about it.

The two of them, muttering, the rainstorm and the black devil on the side were not far away, and they obviously heard the conversation between the two people. "You're saying that the cockscomb snake and this two-scaled python are mating in a mixed breed?" However, these are two completely different snakes, and the size difference is so big, how can they mate. ”

Black Devil couldn't help but be happy when he heard it.

"Do you know what a bustard is?" The Black Devil suddenly asked about the rainstorm.

"Bustard?" The rainstorm was inexplicable, and his heart said why he suddenly asked this: "Old, the bustard is the mother who opened the chicken yard." ”

Lin Xiaofan and Yang Xuan couldn't help but look at the Black Demon Sky, not knowing which one he was singing.

"That's a kind of joking name, old, bustard is actually a kind of bird, in ancient times, someone found that old, bustard this kind of bird, only female, no male, they want to reproduce, can mate with any other species of birds, for the wife of ten thousand birds, so people use this to call the chicken as good as possible, female." Mo Motian said lightly. However, in fact, the ancients said that the old and bustard were completely wrong, and the old and bustard actually had male birds, but. In this kind of bird, their male and female individuals are too different, and the male bird is more female than the female. The birds are several times larger, so they are mistaken for two different birds. ”

Lin Xiaofan understood his words and immediately understood what he meant, "In this way, you think that these two kinds of snakes are actually one kind of snake, but the two sexes have two body types, so which one do you say is a male snake." Which one is a female snake? ”

"According to the quantitative analysis, the small one should be a male snake, and the large one should be a female snake. However, it is also possible to do the opposite. He touched the surface of the rock, and suddenly he stretched out his long thick fingers to touch the giant tree pattern of the moment when the two-scaled python was entwined.

He said with a puzzled face, "Strange." ”

"What's wrong?" Yang Xuan also went to touch it. But I can't figure out why. Just look at him. He frowned, took a few steps back, picked up the charcoal, and painted the unpainted parts of the relief above and below.

The relief on the entire stone wall was presented as a whole, and Lin Xiaofan also took a step back to look, and the moment I saw the panorama, I opened my mouth wide and was stunned.

I saw the giant tree entwined with a giant snake with two scales on the relief. From a distance, it's not a tree at all. Rather, it was a larger snake coiled into a circle, and because the snake was so big, the double-scaled giant snake was like chopsticks and a rolling pin compared to him, and those cockscomb snakes were simply toothpicks, so when you looked at the part, you couldn't tell that it was a snake at all.

"It's... What is this? Dragons? The rain staggered. The two-scaled serpent was already huge, this snake was so much bigger than it, wasn't it the same diameter as a liberation truck, could this kind of thing still be considered a snake?

Yang Xuan looked at it in a daze, didn't speak, and touched the patterns of the cockscomb snakes one by one with his hands, and touched them for a while before he said: "You see, these little snakes are not coiled on this python, they are just clustered on the python to help it not slide down, what is really mating is this python and this giant snake......"

Lin Xiaofan immediately went to see that he touched the coiled lines of those little snakes, and sure enough, he found that the little snakes were just entangled with each other, and did not coil around the golden python, and the golden python was tightly coiled on the giant snake, Lin Xiaofan was surprised, suddenly realized something, took a breath of cold air and said: "My God, the fat man is right!" ”

Social snakes. For a moment, such a sentence flashed in Lin Xiaofan's mind, and at the same time, he remembered that the fat man said casually yesterday, he said that these snakes behaved very much like ants, and said that there might be a snake queen here.

At that time, everyone thought that this was impossible, and that the cooperative behavior of these snakes was at most a manifestation of the group instinct like vultures competing for food, but I did not expect to see such a relief here, which is simply a 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 in size and small in number, and this huge dragon-like snake is the "snake queen" that the fat man said, the only snake mother here. Judging from this relief, the mother snake is so huge that the male snake cannot mate with it, 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 others to assist in mating, just like a giant sow that is raised.

Could it be that there really is such a huge snake in the depths of this sea of trees?

Black Devil Tian knows a lot about the history of snakes, in his mind's memory, the legend about the giant snake, the largest is in the rainforest of Brazil, some people claim to have seen a 50-meter-long giant python, the snake is different from humans, it does not have a fixed limit lifespan, the average snake will die naturally when it is too big to hunt for food, but in some cases of sufficient food, the snake can continue to grow, those giant snakes are simply the gods of the rainforest. However, even so, the age of those snakes when they died was only about 100 years, how long has this relief been here, let alone three or four thousand years, if there is really a zài here this snake mother, 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.

Listening to Black Demon Tian's words, everyone was a little stunned, and at this time, Li Monan also came over.

Lin Xiaofan looked at the front silently, if you saw these reliefs in the museum, then everyone might think that this was an exaggeration or myth of the ancients, but now, everyone has encountered these poisonous snakes here, and seen their strange behavior with their own eyes, then, this relief is very likely to depict a real scene. That could be a huge discovery in biology, history, archaeology, and even sociology. But such a great discovery made Lin Xiaofan and a few people tremble.

Looking at it, the situation of this relief really makes everyone unable to let go, how did this strange behavior of snakes evolve? Why is it so different from other snakes? Lin Xiaofan felt that there must be a deeper reason for it. These reasons must be related to the history of the Linglong Ancient Kingdom.

After the relief, is a series of worship scenes, in a tower, many people kneel to a poisonous snake, look at the outline of this tower, obviously is where everyone is, count down, before the swamp did not flood here, this tower should have five floors so many, now the silt has buried all the three layers below. On the altar of the tower, the snake stood 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 tower, when we came there were only rocks, apparently completely collapsed.

From the overall point of view, you can find that the surface of the boulder is the snake reproductive scene, and the surrounding is the sacrifice of the snake, the breeding of the snake, the war between the snake and the man, and many other scenes about the snake, as Yang Xuan said, this is a stone wall that records the information of the snake.

Lin Xiaofan still 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 he didn't gain anything. There are no reliefs on the stone walls on the side.

Everyone's minds were retracted, and only then did they hear the fat man's voice coming from a distance, scolding: "What are you guys doing?" It's over, Lao Tzu has called a few times, do you want to eat?

Everyone was still unsatisfied, but when they saw that there was no clue for the time being, their stomachs also barked, and their appetite overcame their curiosity, so they had to pause.

Everyone walked to the stove together, and they already smelled a long-lost smell of meat. The fat man used a basin as a pot and hung it on the bonfire to grill,

The fat man asked us what we were doing there, and we really thought of him as a cook, and I didn't come to help.

Lin Xiaofan told him what we had just discovered, and he was quite surprised, but he was also very proud, and said: "Great minds can always make the right decisions, you have to learn a lesson, and you must listen to my teachings in the future, so that you will not realize it later...... But if the mother snake is really dead, why are the snakes still collecting the corpses, and what are they collecting the corpses for to eat? ”

"Maybe it's feeding those male snakes like brocade pythons, do you remember, we found A-Ning's body last night, there were a large number of pheasant necks around the brocade python, obviously protecting this brocade python, this kind of male snake is also an aristocratic class, it will be fed by the snakes, the size of these snakes can continue to survive, but the snake mother is absolutely impossible to survive, there is too little food here, there is really such a big snake in modern activities, everyone should also see some traces, so I think this giant snake has died thousands of years ago." Yang Xuan said.

Saying this, the fat man nodded, and the black devil said to everyone: "Now it is conceivable that these snakes are not snake spirits with ill intentions, and their behavior is also acting according to instinct, so they can be somewhat relieved."

The fat man sighed and said, "I can only rest assured a little, there are still many doubts about this matter, and I don't know how to spend tonight, hurry up and eat, eat enough to fight." ”

Yang Hyun was hungry and didn't want to discuss these anymore, so he asked him what he cooked to eat?

"I boiled all the canned food, and only a little bit was left, a hodgepodge of luncheon meat stewed steamed buns with sardines, but the taste was not said." The fat man paused when he said this

And said: "Yes, don't talk about these snakes, I have an appetite for listening, come and taste my craftsmanship of the fat master, the first bite doesn't cost money, and the second bite starts, a thousand yuan per bite." ”

"What kind of craftsmanship does it take to cook this thing, isn't it just boiling in water?" Storm Drain.

"Tsk, so you are much lower grade than your master, and you can only be a hawker for the rest of your life." The fat man didn't think so, and his hungry stomach screamed in the rainstorm, so he immediately scooped a bowl of empty canned food, and ate a big bite, which made him cry, but it was really delicious, it tasted a bit like a rice cake, at least like a meal.

As soon as Lin Xiaofan stirred the fragrance out, the fat man couldn't put it up, so he didn't talk nonsense with us, and a few people drank the soup cleanly. (To be continued...... ）