Left eye.

The god Odin only has his left eye.

Qin Beiyang did not panic or flee, but lay on the ice coffin in a daze, looking at Odin's left eye......

The three eyes met, Odin opened his mouth again, and spat out a series of strange words, Qin Beiyang had never heard this kind of sound, as if it was not something that humans could make.

But he understood.

Or rather, it is Odin's thoughts that this voice transmits: "Keep walking." ”

Facing Odin's left eye, Qin Beiyang closed his eyes and echoed this sentence in his mind repeatedly. Suddenly, a ray of light shot from the roof of the tomb, splitting Qin Beiyang's brain.

He climbed down from the top of Odin's coffin, kowtowed to this ancient hero according to the habit of the Chinese, and said loudly: "The emperor and queen earth are above, Odin senior is above, please accept the junior Qin Beiyang!" Remember the teachings until death! ”

Relying on the glass fireballs spit out by Nine Colors, he discovered that Odin's tomb was far larger than he could have imagined. This is the underworld, and the hellish guard dog Garm, who was killed by Nine Colors, is either an imposter or has misseen the gate.

He saw the funerary goods......

Not gold, not pearls, not bronzes, not terracotta figurines, but bones.

Qin Beiyang struggled to raise his neck and saw a huge skeleton like a Manhattan skyscraper, and the toe bones alone were taller than his entire person. I can't describe the appearance of this skeleton, but I remember that when I was a child, I saw paleontological fossils in copper engravings in the German school in Tianjin, which seemed to be called ...... Dinosaurier, a German word meaning extinct ancient reptile that was both docile herbivores and ferocious predators, flew in the sky and swam in the sea, once informing the whole earth during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

This made him almost fall to his knees, and then there were hundreds of such skeletons, like a huge military array, lined up in two towering columns, guarding the ice coffin of the tomb owner.

Just like two elementary school students who broke into the Natural History Museum, Qin Beiyang walked tremblingly with the nine colors, looking at the giant beasts tens of thousands or even millions of years ago all the way, with infinite awe.

Some of the skeletons are the size of tigers, some have huge tusks, and some have towering necks, and even long dragon bones entrenched on the ground, and some even have wings, this is the dragon in the Western world? Dragon。

Qin Beiyang walked to the sore legs and stomach, until the skeleton of the last giant beast, on the same vertebrae, there were seven cervical vertebrae, seven skulls, a total of ten horns.

Isn't this ten corners and seven heads?

It turns out that the monsters in "Apocalypse" really exist, and the tomb beast of An Lushan is not out of nowhere, but is made according to the real prototype of the divine beast. From the point of view of natural science, they are extinct "prehistoric behemoths"; But from the perspective of human civilization, they are "ancient beasts".

Standing in the depths of the "Divine Beast Museum", Qin Beiyang closed his eyes, and sketched countless lines out of thin air in his mind as he did when he was a child, this time it was no longer a mechanical drawing, but a picture scroll from thousands to tens of thousands of years ago-

In the era of human ignorance, myths have just sprouted, and humans and myths coexist in a world where myths and beasts coexist. But humans (strictly Homo sapiens) are just a handful of animals that walk upright on two legs, without fangs and teeth, and without a large body. In the face of disease, wild beasts, hunger, and calamity, humanity is a precarious weakling, ready to become extinct at any time, just like countless primates of the same kind who have become extinct.

In those days, the real rulers of the earth were divine beasts. They have all kinds of powerful powers, galloping across the grasslands, deserts, and seas, and flying over the mountains and mountains. The mythical beast lives with the sky and the spring with the earth, and reproduces according to the survival laws of nature. Human beings are as small as insects in front of the mythical beasts, and can only bow down and worship them, and imagine them as the oldest "gods" of human civilization.

Divine beasts are "gods" and vice versa.

First mythology, then religion, then literature and art, little by little human beings discovered "God" and little by little forgot "God".

Thousands of years later, when humans ruled the world, the mythical beasts became extinct on the ground, becoming bones in the mire, fossils in museums, and heroes in children's mythological books.

The survivors of the mythical beasts have been hiding deep underground for thousands of years, such as Garm, the Cerberus of the Viking Valhalla, and Fenrir the giant wolf......

Also, the town's tomb beast is nine-colored.

The common characteristics of mythical beasts are that they have special intelligence that modern animals do not have, their lifespans are extremely long, their metabolism is slow, and they can even go without eating or drinking for thousands of years. They can also coexist with extremely dangerous substances, such as spirit stones with radioactive hazards, heavy metals, highly toxic chemicals, and so on.

Qin Beiyang squatted down and stroked the antlers of the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast, imagining that the young animal hidden in its body had lived for at least 1,200 years, and he didn't know what kind of image and size it would look like when it grew up and matured. Is it as amazing as the bones in this "Museum of Mythical Beasts"?

The picture in my mind became clearer and clearer—from ignorant antiquity to the early stage of civilization, to the banks of the Nile, to the Digris and Euphrates, to the Minoan labyrinth in Crete, to the bronze palaces of the Yellow River Valley, and finally the mythical beasts still living in the world of oracle bones......

That was the place of origin of the Qin Clan's Tombsmith Clan, and it was also the place of origin of the Tomb Beast.

The secret of the Divine Beast is the secret of the Tomb Beast.

Qin Beiyang hugged Jiuse, his heart suddenly brightened, a dead knot that turned thousands of times, from Bailuyuan to Mount Damo, from Yoshino Tomb to Paris, and finally slashed it with a sword in the Arctic tomb.

But to really open these secrets, you have to go back to China, to Bailuyuan, to the Qianling Tomb of Empress Wu Zetian......

Keep walking—the care of God Odin in the ice coffin rings in your ears.

"Nine colors, can you tell me how I can escape?"

Qin Beiyang looked at its glass-colored eyes, but he couldn't get any answer.

Suddenly, at the end of Odin's tomb, the boundary of the "Museum of Divine Beasts", a faint light lit up.

He found a narrow stone door, and the closer he got to it, the more dazzling the light became, and he couldn't help but obscure his eyes—he didn't want to be a one-eyed dragon like Odin.

Walking through this door is like walking through a light.

Qin Beiyang saw a tree.

He was convinced that it was a tree, not a mausoleum, even though the trunk was so thick that the diameter was like a Tang Dynasty tomb in Bailuyuan. He led the nine colors for an unknown amount of time, and he walked around the trunk of the tree. Everywhere there are intertwined roots, perhaps extending for tens of kilometers in radius, even under the tomb of Odin. Branches spread slowly hundreds of meters overhead. The bottommost branches are as thick as houses, growing naturally upwards and covering almost several kilometers. There are countless leaves, colorful colors, the most emerald green, but also the red of maple leaves, the golden yellow of ginkgo, the withered yellow of winter, and even coffee, deep purple and sky blue, like Van Gogh's paintings in dreams or mental hospitals.

As for the treetops? The top of this big tree? Qin Beiyang couldn't see it at all, it was too high, as high as the Tower of Babylon, and then a chaotic void world.

The canopy completely covers the sky.

The light, falling through the cracks in the dense canopy, is as dazzling as the starlight of the Arctic night.

Once again, he wondered if he was dreaming? Has it reached the real underworld? or no longer on Earth.

"If the tree is like this, how can a person be worthy?" "People Huan Wen is lamenting the passage of time and getting old, and Qin Beiyang is lamenting that compared to this big tree, human beings are transient and insignificant.

There was a sound from the back of the trunk, like a jagged bite. Qin Beiyang drove the nine colors around, lying behind a series of roots, and found that under the dotted beams, there was a black dragon hidden.

Qin Beiyang couldn't help but cry out, it was this huge black dragon that came out of nowhere to save him and the nine-colored ......

The black dragon was entrenched in the ground, and its scales emitted a poisonous stench—but it made Nine-Color's eyes glow, as if he had seen a huge plate of delicacies. Ever since he came back to life in the poison forest of Paris, this small town grave beast has just been able to do this.

It is gnawing at a tree root, like a dragon vein in feng shui, trying to bite through the root of a behemoth, just like Wu Gang who cut down a laurel tree in the Moon Palace, and every time the axe goes down, the root will heal automatically...... There are always similar myths in the East and the West, and no matter how sharp the black dragon's teeth are, they can't shake this root. Because the roots of the tree grow forever, the damage caused by gnawing cannot keep up with the speed of healing. This is an immortal tree.

Nied Hogg.

Qin Beiyang remembered a name, and Li Longsheng said that the black dragon in Norse mythology, full of venom, was entrenched in the roots of the World Tree, and he was bent on bringing it down. Just like the skeletons in the "Divine Beast Museum" where Odin was buried, this black dragon is an ancient mythical beast that has secretly survived to this day.

The town's tomb beasts are nine colors, and the black dragon Nidhogg, they are all living divine beasts.

As for this big tree, it sprouts from the "past", flourishes in the "present", and spreads to the infinite "future". Its leaves are evergreen all year round, and its branches support the entire universe.

World Tree.