Chapter 191: Yellowstone Hot Springs

In later generations, Wang Xika was particularly fond of going to hot springs. In particular, the volcanic hot springs are filled with the sulfurous smell that is unique to the hot springs.

If you are tired from work, you can soak in the hot springs for a few days, and even the fatigue can be relieved. Eat another hot spring boiled egg, hot spring boiled chicken, and take a bath in the pool, not to mention how pleasant it is. Therefore, Wang Xijia went to Yellowstone Hot Spring this time and specially brought a few bags of native eggs - in later generations, Yellowstone Park did not allow tourists to cook, and someone once boiled an egg in Yellowstone Park and fined more than 1,000 US dollars.

It's about 1,000 kilometers from New York to Yellowstone. If you ride a bull, it will take about 20 days. Along the way, you can see many Indians carrying their furs to New York, which has become a trading center again after a few months of construction by Wang Xijia.

Seeing Wang Xijia and other people from New York, the pedestrians on the road expressed their respect. Hearing that Wang Xijia and his gang were going to Huangshi, everyone laughed and said, "Ah, I know, are you going to get rid of Akede?"

"What is Akede?" Wang Xika asked.

"Aked is the god of fire in Yellowstone, a very powerful monster that bites many people to death every year. Bloodfang replied.

"But I'm not here to fight monsters, I just want to go to a hot spring. Wang Xika really didn't want to fight monsters, and he hadn't heard of any "monsters" in Yellowstone Park before.

"Everyone knows about you getting rid of the snake god Haken, so they all think that as long as you go out, you will definitely be able to get rid of the fire god Akede. ”

"You know Ackerd, why didn't you tell me before?"

"Ah, I thought you knew. ”

"I don't know, tell me more about it. ”

So Bloodtooth described this "Vulcan" Akede to Wang Xijia in detail. "Akede" means boiling in the Indian language, and the name given to it represents the characteristics of Akede, the god of fire. Legend has it that it was able to make everything boil. Wherever it passes, the water turns into boiling water.

"This is nonsense. The reason why the water in the vicinity of Yellowstone rolls is because of geothermal heat. Hot springs are a common natural phenomenon. There are many places in the world, how can it be the power of the god of fire?" Wang Xika is angry and funny, why do the Indians like "gods" so much? Any animal that is a little more powerful is named a god. Perhaps this is because in primitive times, human beings did not understand various natural phenomena, so they liked to create gods at will.

In China, there are also various legends in ancient times, such as thunder and lightning mothers. It is said that thunder and lightning are immortals casting spells. It's actually a natural phenomenon of clouds.

When it rains, some of the clouds in the sky are positive and some are negative. When two clouds collide, lightning strikes, and at the same time emits a lot of heat, heating and expanding the surrounding air.

The air that is heated and expanded in an instant pushes the surrounding air, causing a strong explosive vibration. This is thunder. Primitive people didn't know the truth, so they thought that there were gods controlling these natural phenomena.

It also gave rise to the saying that "if you do bad things, you will be struck by five thunderbolts", which has been circulated for thousands of years.

Presumably, this "Akede" is also a creature that lives in volcanic areas, and the aborigines cannot explain the phenomenon of the spring water tumbling near the volcano, and think that there are gods controlling it. So I randomly found a strange-looking creature and named it "Vulcan".

In fact, most hot springs are caused by geothermal heat, and there is hot magma in the core of the earth. The groundwater near the lava is heated by the heat and turned into steam. Normally, magma is found deep underground, but volcanoes are an exception.

Volcanoes are the equivalent of the earth's pimples, which are full of the earth's pus, which can spray magma onto the earth's surface. The water in the vicinity of the volcano naturally gets hotter.

"That's right, I also call me God in the people of Fuso, and this is caused by ignorance. We also have a lot of hot springs in Fuso, and I often scare people in Fuso, but I don't really have any great ability, at least not the ability to make the water hot. Tengu said.

The tengu is indeed regarded as a kind of god in Fuso, and even a very powerful god. Fuso is also a place with volcanoes and hot springs.

"Does that Ackerd you are talking about look like a tengu?" Wang Xika asked after a moment's thought. He thought that since the living environment was similar, maybe there would be a creature like Tengu near the Yellowstone volcano. To tell the truth, Wang Xijia has traveled from south to north, and he has seen a lot of various creatures, but this is the first time he has seen a strange creature in the tengu.

There are people who have transformed, such as Bloodfang, Grey Beaver, Lang Nado, and Golden Collar, but everyone transforms into a creature that already exists. Such as wolves, jaguars, bears, and so on.

But the tengu is different, he is a canine, but with wings - has anyone ever heard of a wolf or a dog that can fly? If you think about it, it's really strange enough, maybe there are Tengu of the same kind here in the Americas?

Bloody Fang looked at the tengu for a long time and said, "No. I've never seen any strange animals like tengu. Akdera is much bigger than the tengu."

"So what exactly is that Ackerd you talking about?" Wang Xika was curious.

Bloodfang looked around and said, "Acade is a bit like a fierce kind, like a lizard with scales on its body. There will also be holes. ”

Lizards, with scales, burrow, what kind of animal is that?

Wang Xijia combined these characteristics in his brain, and a special creature came to mind: Isn't this a pangolin?

Pangolins are an extremely widespread animal, and the pangolins in the Americas are slightly different from those in China, called armadillos, but they are generally similar.

It turns out that this kind of creature, which was regarded as a medicinal herb in China, is actually regarded as a "god" in the Americas, which is really interesting. It's just that both pangolins and armadillos are much smaller than dinosaurs.

Maybe Aked was a kind of dinosaur that could make holes? You must know that in later generations, dinosaurs were extinct animals, and everyone guessed based on the fossils left by dinosaurs, and they did not know many types of dinosaurs. In this era when dinosaurs were not extinct, it was normal for some dinosaur species to exist that later generations did not know about.

But to know what Acced is like, you'll have to find out for yourself.

"Is this Akede, does he eat people?" Wang Xijia wanted to determine if this Akede was a scourge that needed to be eliminated like the snake god Haken.

"It's not usually a cannibal. But if you're hungry, you might not be able to. Bloodfang said. Indeed, wolves, tigers, and carnivorous dinosaurs generally have a fixed food source and will not easily eat people until they are hungry.

"Well, that's good. Let's just go play, and if it doesn't bother us, we won't bother it. Wang Xijia has a strong sense of animal protection, and he generally doesn't want to kill rare wild animals – after all, these animals are valuable research materials. If you don't kill it, it will become extinct.

Killing the "snake god Haken" is not a last resort, because the "snake god Haken" does not seem to be a naturally occurring animal, but rather a giant freak of some kind of mutation.

Everyone talked and discussed all the way. Munch doesn't talk much about Ackerd, but mainly about architecture. It seems that this young man is very keen on building a house, and wants to go back to New York to see how the house is built. I also want to take Ning Ning and Jingjing, who live on the snowy mountains, to New York to live.

Unconsciously, the terrain gradually became higher, and Wang Xijia understood that this was about to reach the Huangshi area. Most of North America is plain, but there is a Rocky Mountain Range to the west. Yellowstone is located on the lava plateau of the North and Middle Rockies. The altitude is about 2,300 meters.

The lava plateau, as the name suggests, is mainly composed of lava. Most of it was formed by the cooling of magma erupted from the Yellowstone volcano. It looks dark. And the so-called "Yellowstone" is actually the color of the mountains of the Rocky Mountains.

The scenery here is very different from that of Alaska and the Great Lakes, and there is a western beauty. Take any photo and use it as a cover for your computer or phone. Wang Xijia wants to go to the most famous "mammoth hot spring area".

The Mammoth Hot Springs area is the symbol of Yellowstone, also known as the "Hot Steps" area, because there are many hot springs here, and the geothermal heat forms a huge lava plateau, on which the old and new hot springs alternate with each other, forming large stairs of different colors over time, which looks very beautiful. It is a bit like the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area in Huaguo, both of which were formed by carbonate deposits.

As you go up the Yellowstone River, you will find that there are more and more hot springs and the temperature is getting higher and higher. Wang Xijia was afraid that the temperature would be too high to take a bath if he went up, so he chose a hot spring with a temperature of about 42 degrees and said, "Let's go here, let's take a dip here now." ”

Some people like to soak in hot springs, but Wang Xika can't soak in it. He can only mature at a height slightly higher than his body temperature.

The group worked for a long time, and they were very happy to see that they could rest, and they were reluctant to come out of the hot springs one by one as soon as they threw off their clothes.

People in this era rarely took hot baths, and generally went to the river to take a cold shower. Bathing is a chore, so except for amphibians like fishermen by the sea, few like the river snake.

But hot springs are different, the water is hot, and bathing is not only not uncomfortable, but on the contrary, it is very comfortable. And this water has always been at this temperature, you don't have to boil water to heat it or anything, as long as you want, it doesn't matter if you keep soaking.

It is said that the hot springs also have a good health effect, rich in trace elements and minerals, which can improve physical fitness and prevent diseases. But Wang Xijia felt that it was all nonsense from the hot spring sanatorium.

It is true that there are minerals in the water, but how can this mineral penetrate into the skin and improve the function of the internal organs of the human body? At most, it is good for some skin diseases. Because most of the hot springs have sulfur, sulfur is good for skin diseases, and in later generations, there were people who made sulfur soap, which was used to remove mites and kill fungi.

"Ahhh This was the first time he had been in a hot spring since he left Fuso, and he couldn't help but think of his hometown.

Of course, the most comfortable is the Salieman. Sareman has lived in a bitter cold place for a long time, and he never knew that there were such beautiful hot springs in the world. As soon as I soaked in, I didn't want to get up, and I muttered Inuit songs in my mouth.