Chapter 205: Mirror Cognition
The meat of the canglong in the salt lake is also very tender, and it has a salty taste when eaten, and the salt is saved.
There is a way to be the meat of the dragon in the sky and the meat of the donkey in the ground.
There are many people who have eaten donkey meat, but how many people have eaten dragon meat? Canglong is also a kind of dragon!
Wang Xijia ate and ate on a whim, and suddenly tore off a piece of dragon scales from the dragon robe and ate it, this is the real dragon meat! Unfortunately, he couldn't bite at all, as if he was biting the sole of a rubber shoe.
Wang Xijia uses the method of boiling ejiao in traditional Chinese medicine, first soaking the scales in water for two days to soak soft. Then it was boiled in boiling water, and after two days of boiling, the scales finally came out of the glue - it seems that dragon scales, although they look magical, are also a protein in the final analysis.
When the protein is heated to a certain extent, it will undergo a qualitative change. Wang Xijia cautiously took a sip of the soup boiled out of the dragon scales, only to feel sticky, and took another bite of the boiled soft dragon scales - there was no special taste, similar to eating nails.
It seems that life on Earth is almost the same, and it is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and other elements. Dragon scales are nothing more than a kind of cuticle.
However, the scales of the "Vulcan" Akede are not so easy to handle, this kind of scales can withstand high temperatures, and Wang Xika has been boiling for several days without change. I don't know what material it is made of, Wang Xijia has no choice but to take the scales of the "Fire God" Akede, so he has to put this scale on his chest and use it as a heart guard.
According to the gills of the man, there are a total of 5 or 6 dragons in the salt lake, only the largest one is more wild, and the others are very gentle and can swim with confidence.
So Wang Xika began to enjoy the feeling of swimming in the salt lake with confidence, and the water here really has a magical buoyancy. It seems that the tension of water molecules is greater than that of ordinary fresh water, and you can float in the water as soon as you pour backwards. It was as if instead of a pool of water had been poured into a waterbed.
Wang Xika poured a few times and was a little tired of playing, and suddenly wanted to try a new way to play: floating on water!
There is this description in many martial arts: it is said that a person who practices lightly to a certain degree and is fast enough to run on the water is like walking on the ground!
Of course, these are all legends, and the authors who write about those martial arts basically have no martial arts, and they are completely made up. Later generations also circulated some videos on the Internet: a man running wildly on the water. But it's basically fake, either by computer stunts, or by stakes or something like that.
A little more reliable is to throw some floats on the surface of the water and run over quickly.
In short, "floating on water" is the same as "flying in the sky", it is the dream of human beings. But basically no human being can do that. But now it's different: the super buoyant salt lake, diving is a bit strenuous and should be able to float on the water!
In later generations, the buoyancy of the salt lake was very large, but Wang Xijia felt that the buoyancy of the salt lake should be greater in this era. He didn't know exactly why, but it was possible that the salt content in the lake was greater than in later generations.
Wang Xika ran a few steps on the shore and rushed towards the salt lake as fast as he could. Wang Xika's speed of 100 meters is 12.3 seconds, which is of course incomparable with the speed of Blood Fang and Lang Naduo, but it is fast among ordinary people.
"Bang Bang Bang!" Wang Xika really ran on the water! He could clearly feel that the material was different from the lake shore, the water was soft, but it could not sink, as if it was soaking in a balloon.
But when he stopped running, he immediately sank down, and he couldn't sink to the bottom, and he stopped when he sank to his waist.
"Wow! This feels amazing!" "I could have fun all day long!"
Wang Xijia said happily, and he did exactly that. He kept running on the water, feeling the sensation of the soles of his feet touching the water. He ran lap after lap and burned a lot of calories.
The others were surprised to see Wang Xijia running on the water, until they tried it themselves, and realized that the water from the salt lake could really be used for running!
The fastest of them all was the Snake with the Cheeks, who had webbed feet and had a greater contact with the water. You can't sink at all when you run, and you can turn your head on the water. It reminds Wang Xijia of an insect called "jellyfish".
The legs of the water strider can dislodge 300 times the volume of water from its body, and a long leg can support 15 times the weight of the body on the water without sinking. This is why this insect has extraordinary buoyancy.
Seeing the snake running and jumping on the surface of the lake, Wang Xijia thought of this insect in his heart. If in the future life, with this unique skill alone, the cheek man A snake can become a big "Internet celebrity". There is no doubt that the salt lake can also be a tourist destination.
The creatures in this salt lake are different from freshwater lakes and oceans, probably because the environment is relatively isolated, so everyone grows up casually.
Everyone stayed around the salt lake for more than a week, and every day was to play in the water. There are not too many fish in the salt lake, mainly shrimp. Everyone grills brine shrimp every day and eats it.
Compared with the aquatic products of the salt lake, Wang Xika still prefers the aquatic products of the northern Yukon River Basin, salmon and sturgeon. The shrimp in the salt lake are naturally not comparable to the big lobsters caught in Yellowstone, but they are not bad for barbecue.
After a few days in the Great Salt Lake, Wang Xika continued south, and the next step was to go to the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is not far below the Great Salt Lake, and it is also a famous landscape.
Two billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was as vast as the Himalayas. Later, the "land creation" movement led to the rise of this land. It took millions of years of erosion by the Colorado River to form this canyon.
The Grand Canyon is more than 400 kilometers long, with an average depth of 1,500 meters, a maximum depth of more than 2,000 meters, and an average width of 16 kilometers. It's magnificent.
Wang Xijia always feels that the landform of the Grand Canyon is a bit like the Loess Plateau of China, and he wants to sing a song of Xintianyou when he walks here: "One by one ridge comes from one beam after another, and the slope from the slope to the bottom of the ditch ......"
It's just that there don't seem to be any shandandan flowers here, the climate of the Grand Canyon is dry, and the plants are very scarce, except for the occasional one or two unknown small wildflowers.
There are generally more copper mines in this landform, and the fact is that there are several copper mountains near Colorado, which are directly open pit shallow ore veins. The nearby Indians entered the Bronze Age early.
Wang Xijia first visited the Indians of Colorado, this generation of Indians had a darker complexion than the Komochi and Apache people in the north, but the language was the same. Therefore, the blood fangs and gray beavers can communicate with the Indians here.
Unlike the Chinese Bronze Age, which liked to make tripods, the Indians of Colorado liked to make masks. And the Colorado mask is different from the masks in other places, and the whole is polished very flat. Only two holes were opened in the eyes and mouth. It looks like a copper plate with a curved edge, and it is very distinctive.
The Chinese Bronze Age likes to build tripods. The role of the tripod Wang Xijia knows that it can be used to cook and eat. But Wang Xika didn't understand what these bronze faces were for, was it just for decoration, or was it to prevent being stabbed by sharp arrows during battle?
Bloodfang asked the local Indians and received a strange reply, saying that the masks were good at protecting against "ghosts".
"What the hell, vampires?"
Wang Xika pointed at Nikolai and asked.
After all, vampires were the only ghosts he knew. If Nikolai could sweat, he would have sweated a long time ago......
"It's not a vampire, it's got eight legs and jumps in people's faces to suck people's brains. But the ghost is afraid to see what he looks like, this mask can reflect their own image, and the ghost will be afraid when he sees it. The Indians said.
Eight legs, will jump in the face of a person - what the hell is that? Wang Xijia and the second monk were puzzled.
"You wait, I'll show you. ”
So saying, the Indians put on their masks and walked into the depths of the canyon with a knife in their hands. After a while, I suddenly saw a dark shadow flash on the ground, and something the size of a hare seemed to jump on the head of the Indian. The Indian drew his sword and stabbed it in the face, so hard that it seemed as if he wanted to cut off his head, and everyone was astonished.
"When!" was the sound of a knife hitting a mask, and the Indian suddenly fell straight to the ground. Wang Xijia was taken aback and wanted to come to the rescue, but the locals stretched out their hands to stop him and said, "Mokmok." (Don't go, don't go, no problem)
I saw that the Indians who were lying on the ground stood up with a carp standing up, still carrying something in his hand. The Indian went straight up to the group, threw what he was carrying into the ground, and said, "No, this is a ghost."
Wang Xijia took a closer look, and it turned out that the "ghost" was a spider the size of a basketball! In the Indian language, "ghost" and "monster" and "ghost" refer to the same meaning.
But in Wang Xijia's language, ghosts are ghosts, monsters are monsters, and ghosts are ghosts. Hence this misunderstanding. The "ghost" of the locals is closer to the meaning of "monster".
In later generations, the largest spider was the tarantula, about 25 centimeters, which could prey on small birds. But this spider is significantly twice as large as a tarantula and even larger than a human head. No wonder humans can be hunted.
The way the Indians' "copper masks" caught this spider was also very special, and this basketball spider moved quickly, and people often failed to react and were brutally killed. But the spider was stunned when he saw the mask, and the Indians took advantage of its stunned moment to kill with a knife, and they used themselves as bait to hunt.
As for why the spider is stunned when it sees the mask, it is not because the mask has any magical power, but because the mask is very smooth and looks like a mirror, which can reflect the image of the spider.
When glass was not invented in ancient times, people used copper to make mirrors - the so-called "copper as a mirror can be dressed". The effect of a copper mirror is not very different from that of a glass mirror.
The basketball spider is stunned when it sees itself in the mirror because it doesn't know it's itself. You know, only animals with a certain level of intelligence can recognize themselves in the mirror.
According to the research of later scientists, only three animals: monkeys, elephants, and dolphins, can recognize themselves in the mirror. And cats and dogs, which are generally considered to be smarter, cannot recognize themselves in the mirror. When cats or dogs look in the mirror, they will feel threatened by "outsiders" and increase their mental stress.
That's why dogs bark when they see a mirror.
Cats and dogs are mammals, and spiders, arthropods with a much lower IQ than mammals, are even less recognizable to themselves in the mirror. When they pounced on people's faces, they saw the image in the bronze mirror, and thought they were the same kind and competitors, and they couldn't help but be stunned.
In a moment's astonishment, the Indians took up their swords and killed it.
Essentially, the reason for the death of this basketball spider is that there is no "mirror cognition".
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