Chapter 16: The Legend of the Cockscomb (2)
There is a kind of color-changing tree lizard, commonly known as horsehair snake, cat male snake, cockscomb snake, this kind of tree lizard's body color can change with the dry and wet environment, and the intensity of light. Its scales are very coarse; There is a ridge process on the back that resembles a cockscomb, so it is also called a cockscomb snake. This lizard is dominated by insects and small vertebrates, including rodents and other lizards. They have no teeth and will vomit their prey entirely, much like snakes.
Ye Yuan roughly explained the situation of this color-changing tree lizard, and Zhao Nan asked: "You associate dragons, snakes, and lizards in this way, meaning that lizards are actually dragons?" ”
"It's nonsense, dragons are dragons, how can it be lizards."
Yuan Shou is a disciple of Taoism, and he has a heartfelt respect for the ancient divine beasts, he knows that Ye Limit will not say these things plainly, but the education he received since childhood made him regard Ye Limited's words as a flood beast, and immediately deny it completely.
Ye Quan smiled, and then sighed: "You, you always have a set of words in your heart, in fact, you believe in your heart, in order to support the face of your head disciple, bluff. ”
Being said like this in front of Xiao Wu and Zhao Nan, Yuan Shou's face changed, and finally suppressed his anger and said: "You are not in good health, I don't have the same knowledge as you." ”
Xiao Wu covered his mouth and lowered his head, thinking that his senior brother was really embarrassed and died, obviously he couldn't refute others, and he was still bluffing.
"It's not just a lizard, don't you know that crocodiles were called pig dragons in the past?"
The story of Zhu Polong is described in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".
There is a chapter in this book called "Pig Po Dragon", to the effect that Zhu Po Dragon was born in Jiangxi, shaped like a dragon, but shorter than the dragon's body, can fly horizontally, and often fly out of the water along the river bank to catch geese and ducks to eat. Sometimes someone caught one, killed it, and sold the meat to the Chen and Ke families. These two surnames are all descendants of Chen Youliang, and they have eaten pig Po dragon meat since their ancestors, and people with other surnames dare not eat it. Later, a pig dragon was caught and tied to the boat. The boat stopped at the Qiantang River, and because it didn't tie the pig Polong strongly, it ran away and plunged into the river. In the blink of an eye, the river was choppy, and the boat immediately capsized.
"Actually, if you think about it carefully, this alligator, lizard, dragon and snake are actually very similar in appearance, adding horns to the snake's limbs is a dragon, adding a little cockscomb-like thing to the snake is a chameleon tree lizard, and then elongating the mouth of the chameleon tree lizard, isn't that a Chinese alligator?"
The leaf limit continues to induce.
Zhao Nan and Xiao Wu couldn't help nodding, thinking that what Ye Limit said was very reasonable.
Yuan Shou said in a reluctant tone: "Even if what you say makes sense, these things are connected, what do you want to explain?" ”
"Legend has it that dragons can travel through clouds and rain, and Chinese crocodiles live in rivers and sometimes overturn passing ships, and dragons do this kind of thing. Snakes and lizards are very venomous, and at the same time live in dark and damp places, and they are elusive, and this series of similarities is connected, and I want to talk about lizardmen, maybe dragonmen, that is, xenomorphs who once ruled the world in a certain era, they are reptilian evolutionary people. ”
From ancient mythology to Liaozhai, it turns out that the purpose of going around a big circle is to prove that there are really lizardmen in this world.
"Ridiculous, people are people, lizards are lizards, even if lizards and dragon snakes are the same animals, how can there be lizard people?"
Yuan Shou still felt that what Ye Limit said was incredible, people are people, how could it be lizard people.
"There was a foreigner named Darwin, who said that man evolved from monkeys, and simply put, monkeys changed."
Although Yuan Shou was a disciple of Wudang, he was also well-read, so he naturally knew the theory of evolution, and snorted: "People are very similar to monkeys. It's very different from a lizard. ”
"Apes can evolve into humans, but what if lizard-like things also have hands, feet, and limbs, and they evolved into humans before apes? It is a person who is different from the evolution of apes. After all, warm-blooded animals only appeared later, and the earliest creatures on the earth were cold-blooded animals, that is, various reptiles. Lizards are easier to evolve into humans than apes, and the one surnamed Shi told me that their gods came from the Milky Way in a big ship, because their gods are actually people from planets other than the earth, and what technology did they use to help reptiles evolve into humans, and at that time the rulers of the world were reptiles, and these reptiles will definitely attack and rule warm-blooded animals after becoming humans, our human ancestors were oppressed by reptiles in the era of apes, and this memory has been retained for a long time, and it has become a legendary dragon! Xingyun Buyu is omnipotent, it is a very magical and terrifying existence, don't forget that Nuwa is a human-faced snake body, she is a human being evolved by reptiles, and she is regarded as the ancestor of human beings. ”
Ye Liang finished speaking in one breath and looked at the three people next to him with a smile.
All three frowned, lost in thought.
Yes, everything in the world has the opportunity to become human, so why only believe that apes can evolve into humans?
If reptiles did turn into humans in ancient times, then the worship of dragons by the descendants of apes, the fear of snakes, alligators, and even lizards (cockscomb snakes) can be explained.
Naturally, it is because for a long time, the lizardmen ruled the world, and the ancient humans evolved by apes and apes were just slaves or prey of the lizardmen, driven and tortured by the lizardmen at will, so in the memory of apes and their descendants, dragons are extremely powerful divine beasts, and snakes are also extremely insidious and terrifying creatures. Even in the religions of the Western world, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit under the persuasion of snakes, and reptiles have always been a terrible and cold existence in human historical memory.
"Cold-blooded animals are not always better than warm-blooded, after how many years, the descendants of apes and lizards fight each other, their final struggle may be the flood that has appeared all over the world, the flood is recorded that it is the dragon to make trouble, and finally the dragon was locked up by Dayu, the human beings of the descendants of apes finally defeated the reptilian people, since then, the lizard people or snake people, dragon people, these reptile evolution people have gradually disappeared, there are few records of them in ancient books."
"It turns out that Mr. Shi is a descendant of the lizardmen!"
Zhao Nan shouted, "But what happened to those lizards? There were so many lizards pouring out of Miss Zhang's body, and she didn't evolve into a human at all. ”
"The lizardman said that he was human, and those little lizards were just lizards, I think the lizardman should be the highest level of reptiles, and later reptiles never had a chance to evolve into humans, because lizardmen were transformed by their gods, not all reptiles have been modified. But because of the same ancestry, the lizardman who has been lurking in the world for thousands or even tens of thousands of years can always find his same ancestry and use the power of the lizards to do something. Mr. Nashi wanted to use Miss Zhang's body, but later found out that he could not reproduce with ordinary humans. ”
Hearing this, Yuan Shou thought of the reason for Ye Quan's poisoning, and his face was grim: "So he chose you?" Planning to use you and him to create more lizardmen? ”
"I can't help it, I didn't expect myself to be so attractive, even the lizardmen are fascinated by me, what can I do? Is...... It's annoying. ”
Ye Liang smiled, his eyes were easily rippling, Xiao Wu lowered his head, thinking to himself that it was really a ...... Goblin.