This time, they came to a dense primeval forest. Neil didn't know where this was on Earth, but he could see countless layers of ancient trees around him, and hear the gentle chirping of birds, interspersed with the whispers of a beast like a bear or two.

Schimer led him into the forest, where the thinning sunlight shone through the gaps in the foliage of the tall trees.

Neil's nostrils were filled with the fresh scent of wild plants, and from time to time he could see some small animals such as wild deer and wild sheep sneaking in the depths of the bushes and then fleeing.

The atmosphere around him made Neil feel a little mysterious. The two walked through the forest until the sun slowly set in the west.

Schimer stopped suddenly. Neil was surprised to find that not far ahead, there was a circular area the size of a basketball court turned bare, and the trees outside the circle were still luxuriant, but the trees inside the circle seemed to have been cut down by someone and then transported away, which made this clearing deep in the dense forest, the oblique sunset pour down unobstructed, turning this circular area into a bright stage.

To Neil's surprise, at the edge of the circular clearing, dozens of human faces of men and women with only simple crotch knelt inward, each frowning and closing their eyes, their expressions half sad and half reverent, their lips constantly moving with words.

Neil was surprised when he suddenly heard a rustling sound from the depths of the dense forest, as if someone was scraping the fallen leaves and dirt on the ground with a hard object, and as the rustling sound got closer and closer, Neil suddenly saw a dozen huge creatures with a tall body with a human body and a snake body on the lower body, and the upper body was standing upright and sliding from the depths of the jungle into a huge circle surrounded by humans.

As the serpent joined, the mouths of the kneeling humans in a circle chanted louder and louder. After the serpent entered the circle, it still kept moving around the clearing with its belly, their eyes closed, their heads and tails trembling, their dark black arms raised and lowered for a while, and their mouths were chanting silently.

In the center of the circle, a snake man dressed in gorgeous clothes stood quietly with his eyes closed on his back facing the sky.

Neil was completely stunned by the strange sight, and stood still not daring to move another half step. Neil's whisper came from Schimer's ear: "This is the prehistoric snake man I told you, Neil, take a good look." What appeared to Neil was a mysterious psychic ritual.

I saw that the snakes had their eyes closed, but as if they could recognize their way through telepathy, they were swimming faster and faster in the clearing.

Immediately afterward, the trajectory of their walk gradually changed from chaotic to a vertical column connected from end to end.

As the snakes walked faster, the prayers of the humans at the edge of the circle grew louder and louder, and their upper bodies began to sway back and forth more violently, almost as if they were crazy.

Neil opened his eyes wide and was amazed to find that the walking snakes had used their abdomen as a paintbrush to rub a strange pattern on the ground: they had drawn a large circle in front of the kneeling humans, and at the same time drew an S-shaped curve inside the circle to divide it into two halves, and the strange thing was that the dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, perhaps due to the sweep of the snakes' tails, were concentrated in half of the area divided by the S-shaped curve, and the other half was almost blank.

While Neil was carefully examining the mysterious pattern on the ground, all the snake and human movements suddenly stopped in an instant, and eight snake men were already standing at the edge of the circle, using themselves to divide the entire circle evenly into eight arcs; At the same time, two more snake men stood inside the circle with two S-shaped lines raised, lined up with the snake man at the center of the circle, swept out two small circles with their tails, and stood there.

The whole clearing fell silent for a moment. Neil felt in a trance that the standing snakes and kneeling humans were still shaking, staring at them but still at all.

Suddenly, all the snakes raised their heads to the sky, and at the same time their mouths let out a long, sharp howl, the sound of which rose and fell as harmoniously as music, but to Neil's ears, the harmonious but sharp harmony was mixed with strange energy, as if penetrating his eardrums and rushing into his brain, violently disturbing his mind.

Neil was so hot that he felt the urge to run over and join the crowd, but he finally covered his ears and closed his eyes to control himself.

Rao was like this, the beads of sweat on his forehead were still dripping, and his heart was pounding wildly. After a long time, the gorgeously dressed snake man in the center of the circle slowly lowered his face and opened his eyes.

The other snakes also relaxed and slowly gathered around him. The snake man in the center of the circle seemed to whisper something to his companions, and the other snake men folded their hands and shook their heads like Indians, perhaps in understanding.

Then, a dozen snake men followed, followed by dozens of humans, and they slowly walked into the depths of the jungle until they disappeared from Neil's sight.

Neil let out a sigh of relief, turning his head to Schimer with an inquiring look. Schimer's deep voice was like a commentary on this fantasy scene: "The snake people are a magical species that once existed on the earth, they have the ability to communicate with nature, and they also have the power to charm people's hearts, this mysterious power, even we Drowgins, can not fully understand. In the early days of human civilization, snake people also mixed with humans, and humans learned some ways to communicate with nature from snake people, although due to the limitations of their abilities, all you learned was some superficial fur, but even so, it can be regarded as a powerful force. Neil was horrified, his mind had not yet been freed from the sight he had just seen.

Although he had just spied from a distance from the perspective of a bystander, the powerful aura emanating from the snake people still made him almost out of control, not to mention the ancient humans who fell at the feet of the snake people at close range in the woods.

Neil only realized at this moment that the earth thousands of years ago was such a strange and strange place, how many hidden secrets are there here that are not known to modern humans?

Neil and Schimer slowly walked out of the woods, both silent. It was dusk, but there was still the afterglow of the setting sun in the western sky.

Neil didn't know where Schimer was going to take him next, and looking up at the tall alien old man, he found it inconvenient to ask, so he simply followed him through the wilderness.

Schimer walked silently in front of Neil, and suddenly disappeared without a trace, and Neil was surprised to himself, only to see Schimer ghostly reappear a few seconds later, carrying a fat hare that was constantly struggling.

Schimer took a sharp knife from his bosom and swiped it under the hare's jaw, causing blood to gush from the neck of the little life, and after a few convulsions, it did not move.

Schimer sliced the hare's chest and abdomen open with the sharp knife in his hand, and ordered Neil to pick up some branches. When Neil turned, he saw that Schimer had stripped the hare of its fur.

Schimer took the fire-starting thing from his bosom, lit a bonfire, made a rudimentary stand out of a few branches, and put the hare on a rack and roasted it on the fire, and it was not long before the smell of roasted meat came.

He and Neil sat on the floor, each holding a roasted rabbit leg in their hands, and feasted on it.

At this time, the twilight was four, the sky was completely darkened, and the branches of the trees burned in the fire, emitting a peculiar smoke and fire, making a crackling sound; The autumn insects in the grass also came to join in, singing tightly around Neil and Schimer.

All of this made Neil feel a long-lost sense of wilderness. Neil looked up, and the sky was full of stars, like bright gems, covering the entire canopy, but the whole field was still pitch black, only the burning campfire tore a corner in the thick inky night, illuminating a small space around the two of them.

Schimer sat next to Neil and said with a smile: "Light a bonfire, eat rabbit meat, sit in the world and feel nature, this kind of pure wild fun, I haven't tasted it for a long time." Sometimes, I really envy those ancestors who pioneered the territory, although their lives were hard, but the joy they reaped was far better than that of 'modern people' like you and me. Schimer was silent for a moment, and then changed his words: "Neil, I haven't finished telling you the story of my ancestors: at the beginning, after my first six ancestors came to Earth in a spaceship, for a long time, the Chapis on the starship did not chase and kill, which is a very unreasonable thing. However, there is an accident that may explain this incident, and that is that the Chapis pilot who came with my ancestors to bring the earth suddenly died a week after coming to Earth, and until then my ancestors had imprisoned him in a hidden cave. Ancestors generally believed that it was the ubiquitous microbes on the earth that killed him - we Dzorkins were able to gradually adapt to the ecological environment on the earth after a short period of discomfort, while the Chapis did not survive the attack of the microorganisms on the earth due to their physiological structure being too different from ours - this may also be the reason why the Chapis on the starship did not come to Earth. Neil muttered to himself, "Really lucky! Schimer glanced at Neil and said, "That's true." It is very puzzling that after we blew up our home planet and migrated to Earth, the Chabis starship remained stationary in its orbit around the Sun on Drow Venus, neither following us to Earth nor continuing to sail into the depths of the universe. Then, after about seven or eight hundred years, when my ancestors had finally accumulated the ability to return to space, they sent their ships close to the Chapis starship to find out, and to their surprise, they found out that although the Satanic Star was still floating in the universe, the whole planet had become an empty city, and the Chapis in it had completely disappeared! To this day, we don't know if they died in the starship or if they fled the starship and went somewhere else. Later, my ancestors tried to repair the starship's power propulsion system and moved it to the vicinity of Earth, and as a result, Chabis became a giant moon orbiting the Earth, which is now known as the Moon. Neil was silent, his mind imagining the last moment of the Chabis on the moon, and feeling their desolation and helplessness in his heart.

The Drakin and the Chabis are really two races that are firmly bound together by the god of fate, and they are also fateful.

The former, due to the invasion of foreign races, was forced to destroy his own home with his own hands, and scattered several individuals like a few sparks splashed out of a forest fire, and fled to another distant planet, tenaciously continuing his bloodline; And the latter, with all the manpower and material resources of the whole planet, spent thousands of years to keep themselves away from the harsh natural environment, but in the end, by chance, the cycle of retribution still cannot escape the fate of destruction.

Neil thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. What's even more mysterious is that human beings, who have always claimed to be the spirits of all things, are nothing more than artificial creations of intelligent life displaced from another planet in Schimer's mouth.

Neil's misty eyes stared at the darkness ahead, and he felt the vastness of the universe and his own insignificance like never before.

Neil looked at Schimer beside him, the old man was looking up at the starry sky, and the bonfire reflected on his well-defined face, making him look more and more handsome and majestic as a god.

Schimer's white robes shimmered dimly under the moonless starry sky, and the silver hair that fell over his shoulders mingled with his long beard, which was also silvery-white, fluttering gently in the breeze.

He turned his head to look at Neil and said with a faint smile: "You have worked hard all the way with me, we will camp here tonight, you can have a good rest." ”