Chapter 169: The Drawbacks of Evolution
If the content on the relief is true, and the two countries of Cuba and Shu really fought against this monster from the underground world, God, how did they hold on?
I couldn't even think about it any longer, and after walking for half an hour, we could have more giant remains scattered underground. The closer you get to the crater, the more intact the remains on the ground, and because the magma erupts in a scattered form, it forms a fountain-like torrent, which is first sprayed into the air by a heat wave, but then slowly deposited, so the crater side is not damaged by the magma torrent, and it is relatively well preserved.
We found the bones of seven or eight giants near the crater, some of which had been weathered and scattered at the touch of a touch, and many more of them had been protected by magma and precipitated over the years, forming huge fossil bones.
Standing on the edge of the huge fossil skeleton, Lao Zhong analyzed, "It seems that the monster we encountered in the crack of the upper layer is not just accidental, maybe that monster is the descendant of the underground monster recorded on the relief, and only a giant of such a large size can fight them head-on." It seems that the purpose of the Koyaro people to worship giants is to use their power to fight against the monsters of the underworld. ”
Weight determines strength, and a two-meter-tall human has limited explosiveness and endurance, so it is impossible to defeat a monster that is more than five or six meters tall in any case, but if there are giants living in the ancient human clan who are also more than five or six meters tall, it will evolve into a close battle, and it is no wonder that these alien creatures can be driven back underground.
Chen Yun said, "The ancient giant clan should have been extinct as early as 10,000 years ago, and these remaining giant corpses have nothing to do with Gu Yelang, they just regarded the ancient battlefield as a holy place, so they moved here, it is estimated that later, this kind of monster from the underground world came to the world again, and launched another decisive battle with the ancient country of Yelang, so it led to the decline of Gu Yelang, and the experience of the two countries in Cuba and Shu is similar." ”
I said, "So there should have been two groups of people living here. Tens of thousands of years ago, there was a group of ancient Homo sapiens and giants who lived together, and after 10,000 years, the ancient Yelang people also regarded this place as a holy place and established the capital here. ”
Chen Yun said yes, the formation of fossils is not an overnight thing, two thousand years, for human beings is an unbridgeable gap, but for the whole earth is insignificant, only tens of thousands of years of rock accumulation will form such a landform, I didn't expect that in the process of looking for the ruins of Gu Yelang, we actually unintentionally excavated an ancient battlefield!
I was shocked and couldn't reply, and said, "Then why can you only see the corpses of ancient giants here, but not the bones of the monsters who fought with them?" Chen Yun frowned and said, "I don't know this, there are still a hundred or ten meters ahead to the mouth of the magma, maybe there will be something found on it." ”
Suspicious, we began to make the final sprint towards the crater, and sure enough, when we approached the rim of the dark red volcano, we found the bones of more alien creatures, and near the lava crater, there was a large group of golden toads, all standing still, staring at the boiling magma beneath the crater like stone sculptures.
The scene was so strange that we all stopped, staring in disbelief at the huge colony of toads.
Ge Zhuang tugged at my sleeve and said in a low voice, "Little pumpkin, why did these big toads take the initiative to climb here, could it be to complete some ritual?" "I shook my head and said I don't know, we'd better not mess with it, these things are not good goods, they are all bred by the ancient Yelang people using corpses, maybe they will be poisonous.
The crater was blocked by hundreds of giant toads, and we had no way to cross it, but to look at the top of the columnar mountain with the help of the dark red light and shadow emitted from the magma.
There are far more corpses accumulated here than those at the foot of the volcano, and they are not limited to the corpses of the ancient giants, but more are the bones of some strange-shaped creatures. Some of the skeletons resemble shuttles, others are more like dragonflies, with a pair of huge fleshy wings on their backs, covered in ashy magma stones, and some have the size of an octopus-clawed spider, similar to the monsters we found in the Li caves before.
The ground is not flat, but is made up of countless strange "rocks", full of wolf teeth, prismatic bone spurs, they all have common characteristics, without exception they are very large, and in these fossil piles of bones, you can also faintly see some slightly smaller humanoid bones, also scattered in a pile, forming a blue-white fossil.
Chen Yun found a skull with a normal body in the pile of fossils that had been dried up, held it in his heart and slowly raised it, his eyes fixed on it, looked at it and looked at it, his eyes flickered, "It seems that this fossil is the skull of ancient Homo sapiens, the size of the skeleton of modern humans, the cheekbones are protruding, and the forehead is slightly lower than ours, indicating that ancient Homo sapiens should not have evolved completely." ”
I simply found a fairly flat fossil skelet, sat down on my buttocks, and asked while drinking water, "This skull just proves that Darwin's theory of evolution is correct, you can see that its cheekbones and forehead, and the position of the chin, it is more like an orangutan than a human, and it is a skeleton that has not yet evolved into a human form." ”
Chen Yun said, "Sima Nan, have you thought about it, what is the force that promotes the evolution of human beings? "I said that this is still worth thinking, it must be nature, the living environment provided by nature for the ancient race is cruel, if you want the race to reproduce, you have to accept natural selection and transformation, just like our ancient Homo sapiens ancestors, whose teeth were not sharp enough and their limbs were not strong enough, evolved a brain with a high proportion of development, used wisdom to conquer other species, and learned to use fire and production tools.
Chen Yun said that this is also a reasonable explanation, but I am quite skeptical of the "Theory of Evolution", human beings have reproduced so far, from walking on all fours to standing on two legs, is this evolution or degradation?
Ge Zhuang couldn't help but be stunned and retorted, "Of course it's evolved, do you still need to think about it?" Isn't it an advance that standing upright allows human beings to free their hands, master the tools of production, and have greater creativity in their labor? Chen Yun retorted, "Not necessarily, standing upright on both legs does bring a lot of benefits and convenience to human beings, but it is also equivalent to it, and it also produces a lot of evil causes, but you didn't expect these conclusions." ”
I asked rhetorically, what's the downside?