Moss. It is a stone carved statue of a god with a human face and a bird's body. The same style of carving on the clay pots we found in ancient shipwrecks. It is a carving of the real Queen Mother of the West. After millennia of corrosion. The surface of the stone carving is covered with dendrobium. It's blurry.

After I removed all the dendrobium on it. The whole of the carving emerges. It was a standing statue. It was carved directly out of the cliff. The head of the bird is a strange face of a female xìng who resembles a human being. It has two pairs of eyes. The face is expressionless. Cold, anomalous. There are five skulls carved under their feet. The bird stands on the lid of two of the celestial spirits. It seems that these skeletons are the leftover bones of its eating.

The fat man watched from below. He exclaimed, "Oh my God." Xiao Wu. Isn't this a fucking ......?"

I jumped down and saw the whole stone sculpture after that. I gasped too.

It turns out that the stone statue of a human-faced bird in this cliff grotto. It turned out to be almost exactly the same as the strange bird seen in the lower crack of Changbai Mountain.

The carved forms are extremely vivid. Look at the surface of the rocks. The chisel should also be painted with paint. If not moss-covered. See in this dark jungle. You will think that the strange bird has flown here from Changbai Mountain.

Everyone looked surprised. Even the stuffy oil bottle was very surprised. All the people here have been to Changbai Mountain. See these stone carvings. It is inevitable to recall the terrible situation at that time.

The fat man and I were busy again. The carvings of several other grottoes were also scraped open. It was found that the inside was all the same stone carvings of human-faced birds. There are big and small. The shape is varied.

A-Ning took a breath and said, "It seems that our previous inference was correct. The human-faced birds of prey in Changbai Mountain are the totems of the Queen Mother of the West - the prototype of the three blue birds. The Queen Mother of the West may have some ancient technology in her hands that we don't know about. This spooky bird of prey can be domesticated. The lower mausoleum in Changbai Mountain should be related to the disappearance of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom and the mysterious eastward migration of the remnants. Those strange birds may have inhabited this oasis in the first place. Later, it was brought to the East for the remnants of the split. Acted as the guardian of the mausoleum. ”

I said, "That's good." I've always felt. The shape here is so similar to that of the Lower Emperor's Mausoleum in Changbai Mountain. It's all in a huge crater-like basin. It seems that it may be a replica of the West Queen Mother Palace. Our experience in Changbai Mountain can only be regarded as a drill. This is a real nest. ”

When the fat man heard this, he wiped his sweat and said, "He nǎinǎi." As you say. Is this the home of those ghost birds? Aren't we going to die if we go in like this? ”

It's really hard to say. I looked back and smiled wryly. A-Ning said: "That's not it. It's been so many years. The climate here changes dramatically. Large grasslands have been condensed into this oasis. Too little food. This bird may be extinct here. Those seen in Changbai Mountain may be the only ones that remain. But. No matter what. The Mother Kingdom of the Western King has a blue bird as its patron saint. There are such totems here. It means that we have entered the boundaries of the West Queen Mother's Palace. This grotto totem is engraved here. It is a sign of outsiders. It is also a kind of jǐng notice. This is behind us doubling smaller

We all nodded. The fat man said, "Damn." Accept your words. It's good that these ghost birds are really extinct. Otherwise, it will affect me. Captain Touching Gold is about to become extinct. ”

The fat man's concern is also our concern. Let's take a look at each other. There are no words to say. The expressions are complicated.

There was another moment's delay. Anin took pictures of the statues. Take a look around. Nothing has been found except for stones. The stuffy oil bottle will let us go.

We took one last look at the grottoes. Shake up the god of jīng. Leave this cliff. Continue your journey into the depths of the canyon. Probably because of the influence of those cave statues. That moment. I felt an uneasiness begin to creep over the jungle. We seem to be walking into a strange world that no one understands.