XXIV. Lava tunnels
The cause of bleaching is basically the inability to produce or very little melanin due to the lack of genes, but whether this is directly related to atavism has always been the main topic of discussion, and some people have mentioned that there are many atavistic phenomena, or genetic mutations, or mutations affected by the environment, and I see that some organisms here have basically determined the environmental factors.
But at the same time, some people refute the atavistic theory, saying that the albino animal is actually just an ancient creature. The "Five Emperors Benji" recorded in the "Five Emperors" has helped Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor to make great military exploits is the white bear, and the white lady in the "Legend of the White Snake" is the white snake who cultivates sincerity and benevolence.
But these were their speculations, and when I saw the baby in front of me, I made up my mind.
This child has a baby's face, the size of the face and facial features can not be proportional to the body at all, the length of the body is already the size of a 7 or 8-year-old child, and what is even more bizarre is that its whole body is covered with black hair, although it is not much, but the layers of my scalp are numb.
"This is a wild man?" I asked myself, the white golden monkeys not far away were still playing with him, but the child couldn't crawl, and needed many monkeys to surround him, but to my surprise I saw that the child also had a circle of fabric around his body, like a blanket, how could this not be a wild man? I thought to myself as I looked at the otherworldly hair.
In order to verify it, I swallowed my saliva and suddenly shone the flashlight, and at that moment, almost all the monkeys looked at me with their teeth bared, but I saw that it was really a blanket. So this is a human child? But why is it like this? I thought as I ran in the direction of the sun.
If you don't die, you won't die! I can only think of this sentence to describe me at this time, and the girl was completely left behind by me, because I had a noun "hairy child" in my head, could it be that this child is just an abandoned baby? When the hairy boy Yu Zhenhuan was born, the people in his village also advised his parents to throw away the child, but his parents did not dislike the "little hairy child" for his strange appearance. So what if you change places? Could it be that this child was picked up by the monkeys for the same reason that his parents threw him away?
In the final analysis, this kind of "hairy child" is also a kind of atavistic phenomenon of human beings, but the proportion of occurrence is very small, if it is really an abandoned baby growing up in the mountains, then the so-called wild man may really be human beings. At the same time, it can also explain the problem of the number of wild people, and if it is really a race, then why it does not reproduce in large numbers? If that's the case, savages are all over the world, right?
It's human! My whole body was already convulsing, those so-called wild people were actually just atavistic humans, they were abandoned by their families when they were infants, and a few of them were rescued and raised by wild animals, so they became like that.
Is this the truth? I looked at the golden monkeys behind me, I don't know why they became very crazy and desperately chased after me, but fortunately, I had run to the top of a cave by this time, and the wind in the darkness of the cave drove the flow of cold air to blow towards me, "Is this the wind outside?" Without thinking much about it, I immediately ran in, and the stones and stalactites inside were in a variety of shapes under the illumination of the flashlight, as if they were ingenious.
"Oh my God! This is a lava tunnel. "It is supposed to be an underground lava cave that erupted in ancient times, spilling magma down the trough, cooling and solidifying its outer layer into a crust, while the inner heat continued to underflow, and the magma flowed out, eventually forming an underground lava cave.
At the beginning, I kept running forward, the tunnel inside is very small, due to the lava geology, and the formation of a variety of fantasy shapes, the cave twists and turns are deep, no way I can only think about the direction of the wind blowing and keep running, this is a hollowed-out mountain, because of the magma torrent, so the overall look is much smaller than the space above, after all, the higher the lot, the more magma flow above the sky, so the greater the space washed out, but now I haven't walked to the top, I don't know how big the place is.
After running for a while, I stopped, this place was very cold, the bottom of the cave was flat like water waves, and there was a turntable at the turn, and I was in it, as if I was in an ice cave.
"It's a labyrinth." I rubbed my palms together and said to myself, "It's too cold here to stay for long." "When I looked around here, I realized that because of the magma, the place inside was washed out in addition to several sections, and there were also many song entrances and fault layers.
"How are you going to go now?" I had reached a certain height, and there were many hollows, large and small, and I looked down and saw that the forest was already under my feet, but it was at this time that I realized that the wind was pouring in from this hollow. And the real source of these winds is still the crack above me, and in addition to the sun, there is also a large amount of wind coming in, and they blow here, naturally driving the cold air out of the hole.
Did I judge wrong? How so? If that's the case, then this labyrinthine lava tunnel is probably a dead end, and at this time my emotions suddenly became agitated, and it was also at this time that I realized that I had missed someone, that innocent and obscene woman. I froze, I sat on the ground with my head blank, I was so self-conscious, I didn't think about the people around me at all, and I just walked over.
"No, I'm going back." I gritted my teeth but I found that my legs couldn't move, not frozen but I couldn't convince myself to go back, the lava tunnel was washed out of the magma, if the wind direction was not right, it was not enough to show anything, there must still be a way out, there was still a chance of escape, I touched my stomach, looked at my empty hands, and a voice in my heart told myself "You can't go back, you can't go back." ”
"But it's a girl!" Maybe she's still innocently eating what was given to her over the fire, maybe she's finished eating and even stealing food from my backpack. She can laugh, she will cry, she will be moved by me, she can scold me, she can beat me, she can tell me Chengren jokes that ordinary girls can't say, she always dangles her hair and dangles with you, and talks to you about some nonsensical topics, which can always make you speechless and helpless, but he is a person who has lived in my vitality.
I cried unconsciously, beating my legs hard, I had no idea at this time, I wanted my legs to move, but I also wanted him not to move, so my strength was greater, I wanted an excuse, an excuse to convince myself, but in this case my excuse could also become my fatal point.
In the end, I could only hold my knees and cry bitterly, many memories poured into my head, this year or so, the more people I came into contact with, the more I felt my weakness, what kind of person am I? I staggered to my feet. Looking up, there is a huge rock wall on the side of the cave I am in. There is an empty shell on the top of the rock wall, there is also a crack, but that place has become a cave of its own, and there is a continuous flow of water in the cave, and the cave naturally forms dense stalactites, their lines are rich and smooth, and there is a majestic and vast tendency.
"It looks like I'm going that way, I tasted a little bit of water below, the water temperature is not very cold, and there is no astringency like a mountain spring, it must also flow from outside." After climbing over a few stone layers, I saw the cave, and I walked in to see the dense stone pillars, stalagmites, stalactites, stone flags, and stone curtains arranged on it like ornaments, and at the same time, a wrist-thick extension from mid-air and tightly tied to a towering stone.
I walked in a few steps, measured the size of the hole, it was endless black, like thick ink, it was extremely unnatural to splash on the paper, the most afraid of the dark was loneliness, I said to myself, thinking about the previous things but only a brain of tiredness is not tired but as if tired of the whole world, this hypocritical world, I am making excuses for myself, while walking forward, I am a hypocritical person! Maybe after many years, she will be a pile of bones, but I still find an excuse for myself that it will not become a heart disease.
"I actually just went up to find someone to come back to her, and the contents of both backpacks were enough for her to walk where we came, enough for her."
Suddenly, I smelled a strong smell that interrupted my thoughts and slowly wrapped around me.
I looked at the lights on the walls on both sides, and suddenly seemed to flash something, and slowly stopped and fell back, and in the transparent wall was a human face imprinted in it, He Yi raised the flashlight and slowly shone towards that place, it was a corpse nailed to the wall, the facial features and limbs have shrunk severely, the inside of the eye sockets is sunken, you can see the bright red flesh inside, the lips are all peeled off, you can see the white teeth, the teeth are a little strange, The middle front teeth are very long, even reaching the lower jaw. But the only thing that was very different from the human was that the hands and feet of the corpses were very short and curled up, which made it even more peculiar to look at. There are places where the bones are not shy to be revealed, and there are places where the whole of the upper limb can be seen to be less than the length of our small wrist, and it looks like a dwarf. (To be continued.) )