When Professor Shan said this, we were all a little surprised, except for Crazy Six and his cousin, almost none of us could do pioneering thinking, but I didn't expect that in the face of a problem that neither Cousin and Crazy Six could think of, Professor Shan could come up with it, which was really unexpected, and even Crazy Six and his cousin were taken aback and set their eyes on Professor Shan.

Professor Shan paused slightly, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and then looked at the giant rat in the cage, and then said slowly: "Decades ago, when I was a doctoral student, I once followed several teachers from the Institute of Archaeology to excavate an ancient tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period, and in the process of excavating the ancient tomb, I encountered a strange thing, and that strange thing is a bit similar to what we are encountering now. ”

We all know that Professor Shan is a student of art history, and he has studied ancient buildings and artifacts even more thoroughly than my cousin.

It was that we found a few strange creatures in the burial goods, and the ordinary burial goods were just humans and animals, but the skeleton of the creature in the burial pit was something we had never seen before.

One of the skeletons, at first glance, looks like a human, but its head looks like a sheep's head, and we hardly believe our eyes at the time, because similar monsters with human and animal heads have only appeared in mythological stories before, but how can there be in reality?

So, we sent the skeleton to the Institute of Paleontology for identification, but after the identification of senior biologists, it was determined that the strange skeleton was not assembled, and it was known that this strange creature really existed, which shocked several biologists, because from a biological point of view, there has never been such a species, so one of the paleontologists guessed that this monster was actually just a deformed person.

That is, the person is deformed, and his body is the same as that of a normal person, but his head is indeed similar to the shape of a sheep.

But in addition to this 'sheep-headed human' monster, there is also a 'dog-bodied-monkey', and in addition, there is a 'bird-bodied monkey', which seems unreasonable if it is only explained by developmental malformations, but other than that, these biologists can't find a more reasonable explanation.

Since so many strange burial animals were found in a tomb, even those archaeologists who have been engaged in a lifetime have never encountered this situation, and later, according to the text on the stone tablet inside, archaeologists preliminarily determined that the tomb belonged to a great general in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the kingdom served by the great general was only a hundred miles away in our area, but it was the small vassal state that had survived in this area for the longest time, why did it stay for so long?

It is because of this general, this general is said to be proficient in witchcraft, and he has many strange monsters under his command, some of them are beast-headed, and some are beast-headed and human, these strange things, some can spit out extremely poisonous juice, and as long as this venom is stained, it will kill people instantly; And some monsters can emit a stench, and this stink also has a very strong lethality, so, with this small country with few soldiers and generals, the country is also very poor, but the surrounding vassal states have not been able to swallow it, and every war, the surrounding powers will suffer heavy losses under the attack of these monsters.

Therefore, under the protection of this great general, this small vassal state can stand among the surrounding powers for more than 50 years.

After learning this information, we all realized that those monsters were definitely not deformed, but some unique species, but for some reason, these strange species did not survive, and no one knew what these species were, where they came from, and how they became extinct, because there is no record in history.

It was a difficult time, we only had a camera, and it was broken, so I had to sketch these monsters and take them back to study.

When I was an undergraduate, I studied oil painting, so I had a deep foundation in realism, and I studied the anatomy of various animals, and you all know that if you want to learn Western oil painting well, you must have a deep realistic foundation, especially the anatomy of animals, and you must have an accurate grasp of it, so that the painting can be lifelike, so I not only drew those weird skeletons, but also restored those animals according to the skeletons.

I remember being shocked when I drew the reconstructions of those animals because they looked so shocking.

Thinking about these strange creatures, which have really existed in the world, I feel extremely shocked.

I was fortunate to draw those strange bones, because the bones we gave to paleontologists were quickly shattered for some reason, and at that time, the Cultural Revolution had just ended, and the structures were not functioning properly, so the paleontologists did not have time to take pictures of these bones, and the bones I drew were the only evidence left.

Since those paleontologists don't know what those strange animals are about, and those archaeologists can't solve this mystery. I also looked up a lot of information later, but in the end I still didn't figure out what was going on, but I didn't expect that more than ten years later, by chance, I had a deep understanding of those bones, although in the end I still didn't figure out what was going on.

At that time, I needed to move in order to allocate a new house in our yard, and at that time, there was no professional moving company now, so I was looking for relatives and friends to move by myself, so I asked a few students to help me move.

When I was moving, one of my students suddenly found my sketches - the weird, the bones of the martyrs, and the reconstructions, and several of my students were a little surprised to see it, they said that they didn't expect to draw science fiction pictures, and that their imagination was so rich.

Before I could explain, another student came over to take a look out of curiosity when he was busy, and when he saw this, he exclaimed in surprise: 'Oh, Professor Shan, we also have this painting in our house, it belongs to my grandfather, why do you have it here?' I was taken aback when he said this, but at the same time I was excited—that if someone had such a picture, it means that someone might know what these monsters were.

So, I asked the student about it to get a rough idea of what was going on.

It turned out that his grandfather had a book, and there were similar paintings in that book, and his grandfather usually regarded it as a treasure, and rarely took it out, only occasionally when the weather was fine, and my student, in this case, looked through the book, which was all in traditional Chinese characters, and it was vertical, and it looked like an ancient book, so he didn't understand the content of the book, but the paintings in the book were very weird because of the animals depicted, so my student was deeply impressed.

When my student finished, I was ecstatic, and during the summer vacation, I followed the student back to his hometown to visit his grandfather.

Their home is also in this big mountain, according to the geographical location, due north of here, about three or four hundred miles away from here, their village is not big, and my student is the only local student who was admitted to the university, and I went home with him as a professor, so their whole village was shaken, and many villagers came to see me, because among these simple villagers, they have never met a university professor, and in their minds, the professor is a very remarkable person.

My student's family treated me like a guest, bringing me the best meals, and in the evening I had a drink with my classmate's grandfather, and I chatted with the old man as I wondered how to ask what was going on with those strange animals.

In fact, when I arrived at my student's house, I learned that my student's parents died when he was a child, and it was his grandfather who brought him up with hard work and supported him to go to college, and his grandfather and grandson depended on each other. The old man was almost eighty years old, but his body looked very good, his voice was like a bell, and his mind was clear.

We chatted very speculatively, so chatting, I learned that this old man is very knowledgeable, knowledgeable, by no means an ordinary village old man, later, after a careful chat, I know, sure enough, this old man went to private school, and when he was young, he went south and north.

As we talked about the strange bones, I told me how I saw them in the grave, and I showed him the pictures I had drawn, and the old man took my words, put on his reading glasses, and looked at them carefully.

He looked at it for a long time, without saying a word, his expression was extremely strict, and his brows were tightly locked, and his face was strict, as if he was trying to think about something, and as if he was remembering something.

And so, after a full five minutes, he breathed a sigh of relief, handed me the paintings, and said, 'I advise you not to get to the bottom of this matter, for it will not do you any good if it goes on like this.' When I saw the old man's reaction, I was even more curious, so I said to him firmly: 'Thank you for your kindness, I will never give up, even if it costs me my life, I must find out what is going on.' I came to you on a long journey to find out what was going on. Seeing that I was so resolute, the old man let out a long sigh, shook his head and said helplessly, 'Well, since that's the case, then I'll sue you.' With that, he got up, went into the back room, and when he came out, he carried a small box in his arms, and then carefully placed it in front of me. By that time, my friend had gone back to sleep, and it was just me and the old man.

The old man carefully took out a small golden key, opened the lock on the box, then peeled off the layers of wrapped oiled paper, silk and so on, and finally took out a book. The old man took out the book, looked at me solemnly, and said, 'The answer you need to know is in this book.' ’”