Chapter 215: There is Feng Laiyi
Getting rid of the phoenix, which had been resurrected hundreds of times in one day, Wang Xijia continued their journey.
The world outside Death Valley is very different from the world inside Death Valley. It seems to be the edge of the desert, and although the land is still dominated by sand, there are more and more diverse plants.
Not to mention the common plants in the desert such as cacti, thorn tree, and thorn bush, at most it is the kind of huge sycamore that Wang Xika has never seen, and it can even be said that there is a sycamore forest in this land.
The sycamore here is not like the bare sycamore at the exit of Death Valley, but more like a normal number. The trunk of the tree, which is as thick as ten or twenty meters, supports tall trees that are hundreds of meters long.
And the plane trees here even have leaves, each leaf is bigger than the palm of an adult's hand. It is not only like the leaves of the French plane tree, but also like the maple leaves of Canada in later generations, and a little like linden leaves. In short, it is a broad-leaved tree, no doubt.
This is very strange: although the conditions of this place are slightly better than those of Death Valley, it is a desert after all, and the conditions are too good to be limited.
It is said that in order to conserve water, plants in the desert should be of average height, with small or even no leaves. For example, cacti.
Isn't it strange how much water does it take to feed such a tall trunk and such a large blade?
At the same time, Wang Xijia suddenly discovered something even stranger than these giant sycamores: it stands to reason that in this sycamore forest, the sky should be green, and the green gaps should be blue. However, in the green gap of this sycamore forest, it turned out to be full of blood red.
The sky turned red because there were phoenixes flying - it turns out that there is not only one phoenix in this world, but a group of phoenixes!
It seems that this is the habitat of the phoenix. In his previous life, Wang Xijia had heard that the capital of Arizona was called Phoenix. But at that time, there was not a single phoenix here. The name simply means that the city was born out of ruins.
Who knew that in this era of famine, there really was a group of phoenixes here? The phoenixes laughed and sang in this sycamore forest. To live here and to die here - of course, to die and to rise immediately.
There are all kinds of phoenixes here, from quail-sized phoenixes to pheasant-sized phoenixes. Of course, there are also phoenixes that are more than 30 meters or even 50 meters long that I have seen in Death Valley. There seemed to be bigger ones, but Wang Xika couldn't see the whole picture, only saw a pair of big red wings passing through the sky, leaving only a shadow on the earth......
The colors of the phoenix are also varied, which makes Wang Xijia can't help but think of that super difficult to pronounce smoothly:
The phoenix is painted on the pink wall, and the phoenix is painted on the pink wall. Red Phoenix, Pink Phoenix. Flower Phoenix, Yellow Phoenix. Pink Phoenix, Pink Phoenix, Pollen Yellow Phoenix......
In short, as long as you are a native Chinese speaker, you basically can't finish reading this smoothly.
In English, it's simple: The Phoenix is painted on the pink wall. The Phoenix is painted on the pink wall. Red Phoenix, pink Phoenix. Flower Phoenix, yellow Phoenix. Pink Phoenix, pink Phoenix, pollen yellow Phoenix......
This is because pink, pink, yellow, these colors are pronounced similarly to "phoenix". But in English, the colors Red, Pink, and Yellow are completely different from the pronunciation of Phoenix.
Wang Xijia once regretted that he didn't get the phoenix's crown and the feathers on the tail feathers at that time, and now he doesn't have to regret it...... The entire Sycamore Forest was covered with a thick layer of red feathers, all of which were the feathers of the phoenix. Tail feathers, feather crowns, all kinds of feathers you want.
Wang Xika collected hundreds of feathers from the feather crown, mixed with a few long tail feathers, and made a phoenix crown for himself.
Now he is already a person dressed in a dragon robe and wearing a phoenix crown. In the Chinese tradition, it is a symbol of great style.
But none of the friends around me have been influenced by traditional Chinese culture, and everyone just thinks that Wang Xika is getting more and more strange - it's okay to like to wear snake skin and bird feathers, isn't it strange?
Fortunately, friends are also very receptive to fancy clothes, as long as Wang Xika is willing, he can wear whatever he likes.
Wang Xika also felt strange in his heart - of course he didn't think his outfit was strange, in fact, in Wang Xika's mind, he had never been so handsome in his life.
He wondered why there were so many phoenixes here because of these creatures and the land, but now it seems that the imagination of primitive people is not so rich, and the images of phoenixes depicted in artworks, including that phoenixes like plane trees, and phoenixes will be resurrected, are real.
If you don't see these skills with your own eyes, you can't make up so many details by making up them alone – except, of course, for online writers who make stories for a living. As long as you have money, there is no story that an online writer can't make up.
In ancient times, there were no online writers, and everyone just recorded what they saw truthfully. Judging from Wang Xijia's experience, the ancients recorded it very objectively.
Whether it is a dragon, a Kunpeng beast or a phoenix, they are all exactly the same as the records of the ancients.
So, when did these immortal phoenixes become extinct and for what reason, and if an animal never dies, how can you kill it?
Obviously, the ancients had seen the Kunpeng beast, the divine dragon, and the phoenix with their own eyes. So since when did these animals become legends of mankind?
It seems that there is some kind of "fault" in the history of mankind, and there seems to be a thick layer of smoke between the "ancient" era and the "medieval" and "near-ancient" eras, and no one can see what is in the fog.
For example, no one knows exactly how the ancient Egyptian civilization and the Mesopotamian civilization began. And the almost same ancient Chinese civilization, no one remembers anything before the Xia Dynasty. And whether the Xia Dynasty existed or not, there are also many debates.
Because from the perspective of archaeology, the most is to find the cultural relics of the Shang Dynasty, and the cultural relics of the Xia Dynasty have not been seen. The cultural relics of the Shang Dynasty are Hemudu, some pottery of the Liangzhu civilization, and then there are the fossils of apes such as Peking Man and Yuanmou Man. It was as if all the cultural relics of the Xia Dynasty had disappeared inexplicably.
Strangely, however, before Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, no one remembered that he had evolved from monkeys. In previous lives, people's legends about the origin of human beings were generally such as "Nuwa created man", "God created man", "Adam and Eve", and there were no myths that said that human beings evolved from monkeys.
If human civilization has been continuous, then it stands to reason that some kind of civilization would record its evolutionary process, such as why our ancestors came down from trees, why they used stone weapons, why they went out of Africa – but they didn't.
On the contrary, in this world after the crossing, there have been poems about monkeys, and Wang Xika has seen it more than once: There is an egg in the black air,
There are two monkeys in the egg.
The egg broke, and two monkeys jumped out.
A monkey on the shore,
A monkey in the water.
One day the monkey on the shore fell into the water,
One day a monkey in the water came ashore.
The monkeys on the shore dwelt in the water,
The monkeys in the water lived on the shore.
Although this epic does not record how humans came out of Africa and why they decided to evolve from good monkeys, they at least show that the chants of these epics are remembering that humans became monkeys.
And in the theory of evolution, there is indeed a speculation that human beings did live in the sea for a period of time, and it was during this period of living in the sea that human beings lost their body hair.
It seems that there is also a thick fog between the world after traveling and the world before you travel through yourself: in the history textbooks of the previous life, dinosaurs and humans lived in different eras.
But in this era, humans and dinosaurs coexist. And all kinds of characters who live in legends such as the Yellow Emperor, the Yan Emperor, the Chiyou, the Bigfoot, the Hairy Man, the Savage, the Kunpeng, the Divine Dragon, the Tengu, the Nine-Tailed Fox, the Kappa, the Werewolf, the Vampire, the Fire Dragon...... Even the phoenix exists.
What happened in this world that led later humans to identify everything that happened in this era as "myths and legends?"
It seems that there is some kind of "fault" in this era and in later times, so how exactly did this "fault" happen?
Wang Xijia thought as he moved forward in this phoenix-filled sycamore forest.
I have to say that although the world in later generations was technologically advanced and life convenient, the current world full of mythical beasts is also very good. In a way, it's better than the world behind it.
At least in later generations, it will not be possible to see the scene that Wang Xika sees now: there is a forest of sycamore trees in the desert, and phoenixes of various colors fly on the forest.
In one word, it's a fairyland.
"What do these phoenixes eat?" Wang Xika couldn't help but wonder. Of course, there are no snakes in this forest, but there seems to be no living creatures here except phoenixes.
The phoenixes always have to eat, could it be that the phoenixes eat each other? After all, Phoenix physiology is not something everyone has the opportunity to learn.
When he was thinking about it, he was suddenly hit by a crutch on his body, and it was Lang Naduo: "Hey, look, is it Cullinan flying in the sky?"
Cullinan the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex Lie have been gone since they entered Death Valley. Hearing this familiar name, He Fan was suddenly startled, and looked up: I saw a 20-meter-long half-big phoenix struggling to drag the more than 8-meter-long Cullinan to the sky!
In later generations, archaeologists once asserted that dinosaurs had no natural predators and were the overlords of the earth.
However, after Wang Xijia crossed over, he found that dinosaurs not only had natural enemies, but also had many natural enemies, and they were eaten at every turn. It's just petite, pitiful and helpless.
Originally, it is the law of nature that the law of the jungle eats the weak, and it doesn't matter if this phoenix feeds on dinosaurs, it eats it. But this is Wang Xijia's beloved mount Cullinan!
Zack, let go of the arrow, shoot the bird down! Zack raised his hand and an arrow, and the 20-meter-long phoenix fell to the ground—the phoenix that Zack shot for a day yesterday has already been practiced.
Cullinan had no hope for his future, but he was suddenly saved, and his joy can be imagined! It was about to crash into Wang Xijia's arms like a deer, and it was as happy as a baby of about 20 tons.
Cullinan, however, didn't notice that above it, there was an even bigger shadow: it was an oversized phoenix.