"Society xìng snake group." For a moment, this sentence flashed through my mind, and at the same time, I remembered what the fat man said casually yesterday, saying that these snakes behaved a lot like ants, and that there might be a snake queen here.

At the time, I thought that this was impossible, and that these cooperative actions of these snakes were at most just a manifestation of the group instinct like vultures competing for food, but I didn't expect to see such a relief here, which is simply a model of animal social habits.

These small red cockscomb snakes are the horns of the sappers in the social xìng insects, and there are many of them, and those brocade pythons, which are male snakes, are large in size and small in number, and this huge dragon-like snake is the "snake queen" that the fat man said, the only snake mother here. Judging from this relief, the mother snake is so huge that the male snake cannot mate with it smoothly, and needs so many cockscomb snakes to assist. And according to the laws of nature, such a huge snake mother may not be able to move, and does need the assistance of others to mate, just like some giant sows that are raised.

Could it be that there really is such a huge snake in the depths of this sea of trees?

I know a lot about the history of snakes, in my mind's memory, the legend about the giant snake, the biggest is in the rainforest of Brazil, some people claim to have seen a 50-meter-long giant forest snake, the snake is different from humans, it has no fixed limit lifespan, the average snake will die naturally when it is too big to hunt for food, but in some cases of sufficient food, the snake can continue to grow, those giant snakes are simply the gods of the rainforest. However, even so, the age of those snakes when they died was only about 00 years, how long has this relief been here, let alone three or four thousand years, if this snake mother really existed here, it should also die.

And such a huge body, if it ever existed, must have lived in water, and the swamp here obviously did not have such great buoyancy.

If we had seen these reliefs in a museum, we might have thought they were exaggerated or mythical, but we had encountered these poisonous snakes here and seen their strange behavior, so it is very likely that this relief depicts a real scene. That could be a huge discovery in biology, history, archaeology, and even sociology.

Looking at it, the situation of this relief really makes us unable to let go, how did this strange behavior of snakes evolve? Why is it so different from other snakes? I have a sense that there must be a deeper reason for this. These reasons must be related to the history of the Western Mother Kingdom.

The subsequent relief, is a series of worship scenes, in a temple, many people bow down to a poisonous snake, look at the outline of this temple, obviously is where we are, count down, before the swamp did not flood this place, this temple has five floors so many, now the silt has buried all three floors below. On the altar of the temple, the snake stood upright in front of everyone, this should also be one of the scenes of the sacrifice, except for the strange movement of the snake, there is nothing strange about it, the altar is in front of the main entrance of the temple, when we came there were only rocks, apparently completely collapsed.

If we look at the whole thing, we can see that the representation of the megalith is centered on the reproductive scene of the snake, surrounded by the sacrifice of the snake, the feeding of the snake, the war between the snake and the man, and many other scenes about the snake, as the stuffy oil bottle says, this is a stone wall that records the information of the snake.

I wanted to get some more information from it, but after reading it a few times, I found that there were very few parts that could be carefully discerned, and I didn't get anything out of it. There are no reliefs on the stone walls on the side.

Our minds were retracted, and only then did we hear the fat man's voice coming from a distance, scolding: "What are you two doing with me? It's over, Lao Tzu has called a few times, do you want to eat?

We were still unsatisfied, but when we saw that there was no clue for the time being, our stomachs also barked, and we had to pause when we overcame our curiosity.

I helped him and climbed down to the stove, where I had already stabilized the smell of meat that I had not seen for a long time. The fat man used a basin as a pot and hung it on the bonfire to grill,

The fat man asked us what we were doing there, and we really thought of him as a cook, and I didn't come to help.

When I told him what we had just discovered, he was also quite surprised, but he was also very proud, and said, "Great minds always make the right decisions, and you must learn from my teachings in the future, so that you will not realize later...... But if the mother snake is really dead, why are the snakes still collecting the corpses, and what are they collecting the corpses for to eat? ”

"Maybe I'm feeding those male snakes like brocade pythons, do you remember, we found A-Ning's body last night, there were a large number of pheasant necks around the brocade python, obviously protecting this brocade python, this kind of male snake is also an aristocratic class, it will be fed by the snakes, the size of these snakes can continue to survive, but the snake mother is absolutely impossible to survive, there is too little food here, there is really such a big snake in modern times, we should also see some traces, so I see that this giant snake has died thousands of years ago." I said.

The fat man nodded before saying this, and I said to him Now I can imagine that these snakes are not ill-intentioned snake charms, and their behavior is also acting according to instinct, so they can be somewhat relieved.

He sighed and said, "I can only be a little relieved, there are still many doubts about this matter, and I don't know how to spend tonight, eat quickly, eat enough to fight." ”

I was so hungry that I didn't want to talk about it anymore, so I asked him what he had cooked.

"I boiled all the canned food, and only a little bit was left, a hodgepodge of luncheon meat stewed steamed buns with sardines, but the taste was not said." The fat man said: "Yes, don't talk about these snakes, listen to the appetite, come and taste the fat master's craft, the mouth doesn't need money, the second bite starts, one bite at a time." ”

"What kind of craftsmanship does it take to cook this thing, isn't it just boiling in water?" I said.

"Tsk, so you are much lower grade than your third master, and you can only be a hawker for the rest of your life." The fat man didn't think so, my hungry stomach screamed, and immediately scooped a bowl with an empty can, and ate a big bite, which made me cry, but it was really delicious, it tasted a bit like rice cakes, at least like a meal.

As soon as I stirred the fragrance out, the fat man couldn't put it up, so he didn't talk nonsense with us, and the three of them drank the soup clean.

After eating, I was sweating all over, and my body suddenly had strength, and my knees were no longer sore.

"How about it, yes, you learn a little, people live for seventy years, eating, drinking, piáo gambling, only eating is a person's lifelong enjoyment, your fat master and I have a knife on the edge, we are people like us, we have to enjoy it when we can enjoy it, maybe this is our last meal."

"Whew!" I was furious: "What kind of eating, drinking, piáo betting, you're only the last meal, don't drag us in." ”

It would be unlucky to say this at this time, because it is indeed possible that this will be the last meal.

"You see, you see, this is the feudal poison of the feudal class." The fat man made a very sloppy expression. But then he said: "These things have strength, yesterday our eyes were confused by the fog, eat some to make up, otherwise it is easy to fall into the root of the disease." ”

I remembered the fog last night, and I wondered, "By the way, why are we all fine in the woods and blind here?" ”

The fat man said: "I think it may be a problem with the water here, the fog is all water vapor condensation, and the water in the forest is all living water, but the water below here may be dead, and we don't know the specific situation." ”

I nodded, and remembered the shadow I saw when I regained my sight, so I asked them if they also had this phenomenon, and as soon as I said the fat man, he shook his head: "The situation we have experienced is much more complicated than yours, how can we pay attention to this, who do you listen to?" ”

"It's been talked about in the TV series."

"You believe it." He shook his head, and suddenly he saw the stuffy oil bottle raise his head, frown, and look at me.

I thought he was still thinking about the relief, and said to him: "Don't think about it, the soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, wait a minute, let's take a closer look at the relief, look for other clues, and now you can rest in peace." ”

Before I could finish my sentence, he suddenly said, "You saw a dark shadow rummaging through the backpack?" ”

I startled him and nodded, "It's very blurry, I didn't see it clearly, and I don't know if it's an illusion, but it's definitely not the two of you." ”

The stuffy oil bottle suddenly stood up and said to me, "That's Wen Jin." ”