Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Sphinx
Many ethnic groups will have their own epics, such as the Dai epic "Wushabaro", the Yi epic "Ashima", the Bai epic "Genesis" and so on.
This song about monkeys and eggs may be an epic of the cheeks. All life on Earth originated from the ocean, and life on land evolved from marine life. Probably this epic of "The Monkey" and the Egg tells such a story.
Gerahad's ability to understand the words of the ancient city shows that the cheeks and the people who built the ancient city are the same people. They began to live on land, and when the city sank to the bottom of the sea, they became an amphibious race. Perhaps the cheeks were the true people of Atlantis.
And the sea people, maybe they have never lived on land, and they evolved directly from the sea. Of course, it is also possible that the ancestors of the sea people were also apes, and then returned to the sea from the ape stage. It's like a whale – the whale also lives on land at some stage and later lives in the sea.
Of course, all this is just Wang Xijia's speculation, and there is no further evidence. He built a house by the sea, lived by the sea every day to record what had happened since his crossing, and from time to time put on a wetsuit and went down to the sea to listen to Gelahad tell stories.
In Gelahad's account, the ancient city did not sink because of an earthquake or flood, but because the inhabitants of the ancient city chose to sink to the bottom of the sea......
It's a novel idea, but how did the inhabitants of the ancient city voluntarily sink the entire continent to the bottom of the sea? This continent is not an elevator, it goes up and down at the touch of a button.
And judging from Wang Xijia's experience, the technical level of the cheek people is not high, and they can't make any decent tools. If they have the ability to bring down an entire continent, then they must have very advanced technology.
The more Wang Xijia studied the cheeks, the more he wanted to explore the secrets of the seabed. He plans to design a diving robot that can be dressed like a Gundam and go to the bottom of the sea.
Just as he was drawing the design, he suddenly received a call from the werewolf grassland: he caught two spies who sneakily came to the werewolf grassland to wander and wanted to invite the wolf king over
Wang Xijia had no choice but to immediately suspend his work and rush to the werewolf grassland.
At this time, the werewolf grassland was different from the past, the werewolves lived in small cottages, every household had electric lights, telephones and running water, and the roads became asphalt roads, which looked very modern.
Garin Cha came over and exchanged a few words with Wang Xika, and then took him to check on the spies.
The two spies caught surprised Wang Xika.
A spy looks like a lion, but the head is a human head.
The other spy looked like a bipolar patient, his flesh rotting and emitting a thick stench.
"Where did you find these two spies?" asked Wang Xika.
"In the vicinity of Dracula's Castle, it is estimated that Dracula has made some strange experiment. Garrincha said. Ever since Dracula was eliminated, his territory has been inspected by werewolves, who patrol it daily. It was a couple of werewolf guards who spotted these two strange spies.
"Have you ever seen a similar spy before?" Wang Xika asked
"I've seen it, it's not so strange. Garrincha said.
"Call Elder Gallo, he is old and has seen a lot. Wang Xika said.
Elder Gallo of the Immortal Wind Dao Bone came slowly, before Wang Xijia once thought that Elder Gallo was the oldest person in the world, until he saw Geralhad of the Cheek Clan, he felt that Gallo was not so old.
"These two spies are from another continent to the west, one is a human lion and the other is a zombie. Elder Gallo said.
Another continent to the west...... Human lions, zombies...... "Egypt!" Wang Xijia suddenly remembered this ancient civilization in his heart.
Sphinxes and mummies are famous cultural symbols of ancient Egypt, and I should have thought of them a long time ago! Craftsmen, hairy men, werewolves, and vampires all lived on the Eurasian continent. And this sphinx and zombie should come from the African continent, especially Carthage in North Africa, ancient Egypt and other places.
"What do you think should be done with these two spies?" Wang Xika asked.
"The zombie burned, it was already a dead man, and it didn't have any soul. And that human lion can stay, and we can ask him some questions. Gallo replied. After saying that, he talked to the sphinx-faced monster in a strange language, and the monster turned into a human, tall, nearly two meters or so. He has a high nose and deep eyes, and his complexion is brown, somewhat like the Semitic people of later generations.
Zombies are often seen in film and television works in later generations, but they are usually European and American films, and zombies in East Asian culture are another kind.
The zombies found this time are obviously the kind of zombies in European and American zombie movies. Wang Xika poured gasoline on the zombie and burned it to ashes as Gallo instructed.
In fact, in terms of single combat capabilities, the combat effectiveness of European and American zombies is not as good as that of Asian zombies. But the annoying thing is that European and American zombies are contagious, and if the descriptions in film and television works are accurate, then if you are bitten by this kind of zombie, you will become a zombie.
Once you've dealt with the zombies, it's time to deal with another spy - the monster with a human head and a lion's body.
When it comes to the Sphinx, the strangest thing is that this Sphinx and Gallo actually speak the same language, and Gallo seems to know what it looks like.
Of course, this is also good, the language is easy to communicate. So Wang Xika invited the Sphinx into the room to talk in detail, and Elder Gallo translated it.
Gallo's translation says that the Sphinx, called the Sphinx, was responsible for guarding their king's tomb. With a recent outbreak of a zombie plague in their homeland, the Sphinx tracked it all the way to the Eastern Continent, where they were brought here by wolf guards near Dracula's Castle.
This conversation is quite informative, first of all, the name, in later Egypt, there is indeed a Sphinx named after the Sphinx, but everyone thought it was a myth and legend, but they didn't expect the sphinx-faced creature to be real.
"Can you completely become a lion?" asked Wang Xijia. He always felt that it was strange that he was a lion all over his body, and that he was a human with a single head.
Gallo relayed Wang's question, and the Sphinx replied, "I can be a lion completely, but we don't usually do that." Because when you get used to being a real beast, you forget that you still have a human soul. ”
Wang Xika asked with great interest: "There is an animal that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night, do you know what kind of animal it is?"
After hearing this, the Sphinx's face changed dramatically, and he said, "It's human." Newborn people crawl on all fours, that is, walk on four legs. In the youth, people walked on two legs, and when the elderly had difficulty with their legs and feet, they would add a cane, and it became a three-legged walk. But this is the secret code of our king's mausoleum, and those who don't know this code will be killed if they trespass on the mausoleum, how do you know?" Wang Xika smiled: "I am from the future and have heard legends about you. ”
After listening to this, the Sphinx fell into deep thought, and Wang Xika asked Gallo again, why do you speak the language of the Sphinx? Gallo replied, "We speak the language of the ancient orcs, and both werewolves and lionmen belong to the half-orc branch. A long, long time ago, our ancestors learned the ability to transform into wild beasts, some into lions, some into wolves. There was a group of werewolves and lionmen who went to the western continent, and a group of werewolves who went to the eastern continent and lived on the grasslands. ”
Wang Xika thought that it seemed that there was a god named Anubis in ancient Egypt, a wolf-headed human body, who should also be a werewolf. It seems that the Sphinx and the wolf clan do have some connection.
"In addition to turning into a lion, do you have any magical powers?" Wang Xika asked the Sphinx.
In the legend, the Sphinx is a god, but he didn't say exactly what the god was, only that he would say riddles for others to guess, and if he couldn't guess it, he would kill people. Wang Xijia thinks that since he is an immortal, he should have some superpowers, right? For example, Zeus's superpower is to rain lightning, and the superpower of the Dragon King of the East China Sea is rain.
"Well, I'm going to be a lion, and the rest is just like a normal person. The Sphinx said.
"Then you can change one and show me. Wang Xijia took out the camera and filmed the whole process of the Sphinx from a human to a lion, which felt as magical as a werewolf becoming a wolf.
"Can you, let me go? I'm going back to killing zombies......" Sphinx said after performing his transformation.
"Yes, but I need to keep you here for five days, I have something to ask you. Wang Xika said. He didn't mean to embarrass the Sphinx, but such an interesting person, he had a lot to ask him.
The werewolf clan arranged a small house for the Sphinx, with Garrincha and Langnado, and Gallo taking care of him, mainly to ask him about their country, and the situation with the zombie plague.
The Sphinx was very interested in the electric lights, cars, and telephones of the Werewolf Grassland, so he stayed here. He said that in fact, there were zombies in their kingdom. In their country, when a powerful person dies, his body is mummified and his guards are turned into zombies. But these zombies do not harm ordinary people, they are a kind of existence between the dead and the living. And the zombies that broke out this time are different from the previous ones, these zombies have the ability to actively attack humans, and those who are bitten by these zombies will also become zombies.
The lines between the dead and the living are becoming increasingly blurred. He traces the origin of the zombie and discovers that the origin of the zombie is in the area of Dracula's Castle.
Wang Xika has no doubt that Dracula has the ability and motivation to make zombies, but unfortunately Dracula was also burned to death by himself, otherwise he can ask him if he made this zombie.
Wang Xijia suddenly thought of a person - Nikolai on Coffee Island.
He had brought out several large boxes of experiment diaries from Dracula's lab, and perhaps those logs would contain some information about zombies.
Looks like it's time for me to take a trip to Coffee Island.