Chapter 42: The Centipede Tree

If we still don't find the Yaowang Temple after it gets completely dark, then we will have to spend the night in the jungle. After walking for a while, Dog Er captured a few poisonous scorpions.

After walking through a very soft grass, I said to Dog Er, "Are you going to catch the five poisons here?" Go back and make wine for your dad. ”

Dog Er turned around and said, "My father said that if you soak the five kinds of poisons in the wine, as long as you remove all their poison sacs before soaking, the wine brewed is also a good wine." ”

"Your father is simply the descendant of Ouyang Feng, I said that your father learned to repair a car at that time, why didn't he learn to mix poison or something."

I once saw a glass jar of medicinal wine in the second dog's house, it is said that it was the formula developed by the old dog himself, which contained snakes, black ants and other species, and the old dog would occasionally drink a small cup, I guess if the old dog drank a glass every day, then he would have spurted blood from his mouth and nose a long time ago.

"Don't you say, in addition to repairing cars, my father also has a hobby, which is to study medicinal wine, he has nothing to do with a book of medicinal wine recipes, and then he also wrote down a lot of recipes, a few years ago we came to the town of thirty miles to sell medicinal materials, my father went to squat there to see if he had nothing to do, the medicinal materials are strange, what kind of turtle shells are they, it is said that it is called a keel."

"Your dad bought it?"

"I bought it, I bought a few small pieces, and the person who sold medicinal herbs at that time insisted that he buy a turtle shell, saying that the turtle shell was 10,000 years old."

"Where's the thing? Maybe the turtle shell has an oracle bone inscription carved into it. ”

"It's soaking in my jar."

"Do you know what a keel is?"

Dog Er pulled the branch with a knife and said, "I don't know, is it a dragon's bone?" ”

"The keel is indeed a kind of Chinese medicinal material, in fact, it is a fossil of ancient mammalian bones, such as the Yuanmou people, the Lantian people, these fossils of ancient humans millions of years ago, including a tooth fossil, can also be regarded as a keel."

"So you mean those little pieces that my dad bought at the time were ancient fossils?"

"It's very likely, maybe your father's wine jar is running with a Lantian tooth."

"Valuable?"

"Of course, it's a Homo erectus fossil from about a million years ago, and it's priceless and has a pretty high archaeological value."

Gou Er sighed and said: "Even if it's valuable, it's all soaked now, and my father has rubbed shoulders with billionaires." ”

I smiled and said, "Your father is soaking a jar of keel wine, no wonder he is reluctant to drink it." ”

"My father told me that he might not have anything to do when he dies in the future, only a book of medicine and wine recipes, and he said that he wanted me to open a medicine hotel with that book."

"Your dad is a visionary."

It seems that this old dog did not devote his life's efforts to the cause of repairing cars, and spent most of his spare time on the study of medicinal wine.

I have a nonsense with Dog Er, otherwise I may lose control of my emotions at any time in this dangerous jungle, the towering trees are connected, the sun can hardly shine in, the ground may be so wet for hundreds of years, and the layers of rotten leaves grow mushrooms that I can't name, it is very likely to be a poisonous mushroom, because the mushrooms look strange, just like N fans overlap after opening, I even think that only mutated things will grow like this, such as plants that are exposed to nuclear radiation.

In addition to those disgusting mushrooms, there are all kinds of strange plants growing on the ground, because they can't see the sun all year round, these plants should all belong to the polar shade plants, and I don't rule out that many of them are carnivorous plants, such as the one with a soft body like a centipede, its countless branches can swing, like a green centipede standing up and dancing, its belly is like a car tire, and it is not patterned, like an insect. I thought it was dancing, but when I walked in to look at it, I realized that it was not dancing, but predating, and a group of red ants climbed up the plant, and there were countless branches with very small round leaves on them, and those leaves turned out to be two pieces together, and when the ants climbed up, the two closed leaves, and when the ants got into the leaves, the two leaves closed again, and after that, the ants became its meal. I still can't figure out what this plant uses to digest these ants, and what its wobbly body does.

I touched it with the tip of the knife, and it seemed to feel the pain and contracted its body.

I asked Dog Two, "Do you think this is a plant or an animal disguised as a plant?" ”

"I look like a plant, you don't see it growing on the ground."

Sure enough, the carnivorous plant did grow on the ground, and its roots could still be faintly seen.

"This thing is so disgusting that it even eats ants, but fortunately its leaves are small, otherwise even people would eat it." Dog Er said and slashed at the carnivorous plant, I wanted to stop him, but it was too late, the plant popped into two, and the branches and leaves were still moving.

Its belly had been split open, and oh my God, it was empty, and it was full of insect corpses, most of which were almost decomposed.

"Damn, it's still an animal."

"Not animals, you see." I pointed to the other half that was still growing on the ground and said that the rotting insects were in contact with the ground, that is, the rotting insects slowly became organic fertilizer, and the roots of the plants absorbed nutrients.

In addition, the inside of the leaf is a mouth, and when the leaf closes the ant inside until the ant suffocates, the very thin branch begins to transport the ant to the space in the belly of the plant.

There are many strange plants and animals in nature, but this is the first time I have seen a plant like this that can catch animals and provide nourishment for themselves to decay.

I'll call it Centipede Grass for now.

We left the centipede grass and continued to walk forward, the more we walked inside, the more difficult it became, the soles of our feet were almost all extremely yin plants, and where we didn't put our feet, who knew if there would be a snake hidden in these plants or something else that ate people's feet.

When Dog Er and I stopped to rest, we suddenly heard movement in the jungle, like a large beast.

"I'm C, it's not like I'm meeting a tiger." Dog Er hurried close to me, and he knew that if his life was in danger, I would wear it back in an instant.

We stood still, listening to our breathing.

It didn't sound like a beast, but it sounded like the wind blowing leaves, or like the sound of some kind of plant shaking, what the hell was it, I looked up, it didn't matter, and I almost stopped my urge to urinate.

Above his head, a behemoth was shaking its body, wasn't it a giant centipede, the giant centipede swayed its body and shook there, it was even taller than a towering tree.

I didn't see this behemoth just now because the lower half of it was completely different from the upper part, and the lower half was like the trunk of a large tree.

Wait, it's not a giant centipede, because it's green, oh my god, it's the same shape as the centipede grass that was split in two by the dog, except that this one is as thick as a centuries-old tree.

I understand, the centipede grass just now is just a small seedling, it will grow thick and tall like a tree, so it seems that it is not a centipede grass, this TM is a centipede tree!