Chapter 464: Strange Pangolin

And the most incredible thing is that the egg - the egg is actually wrapped in a stone! The eggs of any animal cannot be in a stone, there is only one possibility of such an egg - it should be a fossil or something.

But when we looked closely, we found that it didn't look like a stone at all, but more like an egg, I just wanted to reach out and touch it, but was stopped by Xiao Lei.

Hongmei also reminded her that before you figure out what this is, don't touch it with your hands, in case there are germs on it.

Xiao Lei found a branch from above, and then used the small branch to tentatively touch the egg, from the feeling of touching the branch, we were surprised to find that the egg was indeed not a stone, but a real egg.

"Shall we crack this egg open and see what's inside?" Xiao Lei turned around and asked his cousin and Crazy Six, neither of them spoke, but were thinking nervously.

Obviously, after breaking this mysterious egg, what will happen, none of us know, including my cousin and the madman six, at this time, Xiao Lei picked up a stone from it, it seems that he is going to smash the egg open, before smashing it open, he looked at his cousin and the madman six with an inquiring eye, and saw that the two of them did not stop it, so he lifted the stone and smashed it on the egg.

I only heard a snap, the eggshell was smashed, and the white and yellow liquid flowed all over the ground, it should be the egg yolk and egg white, and between the egg yolk and egg white, there was an embryo!

The embryo was the size of a palm, and the appearance was already very clear, at first glance, it looked very much like a monkey, because the shape of the head and facial features, like a monkey's head, I was most afraid of looking at all kinds of embryos, I thought it was terrible, it was creepy, so after a little look at it, I didn't dare to look at it carefully.

Could that be a monkey's embryo? But how can a monkey have eggs?

"Could this be a 'monkey eagle' egg?" Xiao Lei's speculation resonated with all of us, yes, this should be a "monkey eagle" egg.

"You see, although this embryo does not have feathers yet, part of the structure of its body is very much like the prototype of a wing," Xiao Lei continued.

Cousin, Crazy Six, Xiao Lei and Hongmei squatted there, observing carefully, while the other few of us didn't have the courage to dare to get so close.

What puzzles us is why this egg, which is suspected to be a "monkey eagle", is wrapped in a stone? It's one of the weirdest things we've ever encountered.

We looked at Madman Six, because he knew this kind of stone best, but Madman Six shook his head in surprise and said, "Although I know a little about this kind of stone-like crystal, I have never heard of how there are eggs in it." ”

In addition, Old Man Ouyang and Mr. Chen, although they have both raised "Monkey Eagle", they have one thing in common, they both started to raise "Monkey Eagle" after it grew into a young bird, and the complete gestation process of "Monkey Eagle" has not been experienced by either of them.

At this moment, the female translator, who was standing on the outermost, suddenly shouted: "Look, red pangolin."

Everyone quickly turned their heads to look, and seven or eight meters away, sure enough, a pangolin appeared, but this pangolin is very different from the ordinary one, it is all red all over its body, and in addition, its snout is significantly shorter than that of ordinary pangolins.

Red pangolins? We've never seen each other, and we're all standing there stunned and watching.

However, we have seen too many monsters in this mountain, this red pangolin, although a little surprised at first sight, but also did not feel particularly strange - the kind of amphibious man, half sheep and half beast monster, red fox, and even the "monkey eagle", look much stranger than this red pangolin, after seeing so many monsters, and then see this red pangolin, we are a little strange.

But what happened next shocked us.

Generally speaking, the vast majority of animals are scared when they see people, especially when they see so many of us. But the pangolin was so strange that it crawled towards us without the slightest fear, which was counterintuitive, and we stood there and didn't know what to do for a while.

It wasn't until the red pangolin quickly climbed to our feet that we quickly dodged away, but the pangolin didn't pay any attention to us, but crawled straight to the beaten egg, stretched out its long tongue, and began to lick and eat the egg whites and yolks on the ground.

In this way, in just a few minutes, the ground was eaten by the pangolin cleanly, no trace was left, after eating these, the pangolin was still not in a hurry, and crawled in the original direction, everyone also hurriedly followed, only to find that under a stone, there was a small gap, just enough to allow the pangolin to climb in, under the gaze of several of us, the pangolin slowly drilled into the hole, for it, we people seem to have no zĂ i.

"Is this red pangolin specifically designed to eat animal carcasses in the pit? In addition to its unique air currents, the cleanliness of this crater is also due to the cleaning of this pangolin. ”

After listening to Hongmei's speculation, my cousin nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, the reason why this crater does not have any animal or insect corpses may be because of this pangolin, and our previous conclusion - because the ground shaking here is very special, so no animals died here - is probably incorrect." ”

When we were talking at the entrance of the cave where the drill beetle disappeared, Xiao Lei quickly returned to the same place, as if he was carefully observing something on the ground.

"Oops, it's so weird, it's too scary", Xiao Lei looked at the ground, and couldn't help but say loudly, these inexplicable words made everyone's already frightened feelings, and suddenly became nervous - what happened? A few of us hurriedly returned to the same place.

Xiao Lei pointed to the ground and said: "Look at the traces on the stones, this trace is licked by the pangolin." This sentence shocked us, because the red stone here is harder than steel, Xiao Lei once knocked it with a sapper shovel, and the stone emitted a metallic sound, that kind of pangolin can lick with its tongue? How is this possible?

But when we looked closely, we found that the tongue marks were obvious, and before the pangolins came, there were absolutely no such marks.

"Although this is incredible, it is not completely unexplainable, it must be in the saliva of the pangolin, there is a substance that can dissolve this red stone, so this situation occurs, the hardness and softness of the object should be converted into each other, such as frozen thick ice, if it is hard to smash, it will feel very hard, but if it encounters hot water, it will melt quickly", I don't know if Xiao Lei's explanation is right, anyway, I think it is likely to be the case.

The cousin also agreed with Xiao Lei's inference, but he looked deeper: "What Xiao Lei said makes sense, in fact, similar beasts have been recorded in the county annals, the saliva of that beast can dissolve stones, and the name is also a bit similar to the pangolin, called 'Drill Mountain Beast', no matter how hard the stone is, once you encounter the saliva of this 'Drill Mountain Beast', it will dissolve."

I don't know if you remember the kind of prehistoric humans I am talking about, the kind of prehistoric humans who were very good at building caves, and they didn't have explosives, and if they were hard chiseled, it would be almost impossible to build such a large-scale cave, and even if they used the ancient kind of 'cold excitation' -- that is, they burned the stones with fire and then with cold water -- the efficiency was very low.

What did prehistoric humans rely on to build caves? It is said that it is with the help of the 'Driller' that they can breed thousands of Drillers on a large scale, and have a special method to collect the saliva and urine of the Driller, because the saliva and urine of the Driller Beast contain substances that dissolve stones.

When digging caves, they poured the urine and saliva of the collected 'drills' on the stones, and the stones melted away, like ice encountering hot water, which was extremely efficient, and this urine and saliva were extremely permeable to the stones.

The red 'pangolin' just now may have evolved from the prehistoric 'drill beast'. ”

I can't imagine that there are such wonderful animals in nature, whose saliva and urine can decompose stones. We can explain many things, but we can't explain this kind of "egg in a stone" at all.

The strange stone was cracked from above, and the one that could show the words happened to be the one that fell to the ground, although we still couldn't figure out the reason for the eggs in the stone, but the words appeared on the stone, we could test it.

The stripped stone is not big, that is, seventy or eighty pounds, Xiao Lei took out of the crater alone, we want to get the stone outside the crater, and then pour it on the stone and ignite it to see if there is really that kind of font.

In order to ensure safety, just in case, we specially moved the stone to a far away place in the force crater.

Before pouring alcohol on it, we also deliberately identified the shape of the stone, found the part where the word was displayed, and poured the alcohol on it.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense again, and for some reason, a fear suddenly rose in my heart - I was really afraid that if the alcohol was poured on it, what if the stone exploded after it was ignited, and wouldn't a few of us be blown up?

Because this stone is so weird, just based on the hearsay of Crazy Man Six, we took the liberty of lighting a fire to try, which was a bit risky, in fact, not only I had this kind of worry, Xiao Lei, my cousin, and even Madman Six, also hesitated and did not dare to ignite the fire.

"Xiao Lei, you are a professional soldier, and you are also an expert in special operations, you should check carefully, this stone is not explosive, if it is explosive, we are equivalent to igniting a bomb, then we are looking for our own death."

Xiao Lei nodded, he took out a Swiss Army knife from his pocket, and then used the small file in it to rub off some powder from the stone file, and wrapped it in two packs of paper, why did he do this, I really don't understand.

Xiao Lei wrapped the two packets of powder, then stood up and walked into the distance, we didn't know what he was going to do, and we all followed.

About twenty or thirty meters away from the stone, he stopped, and then opened the two bags of stone powder and put them on the ground, and then lit a train and threw it on one of the bags of stones, and the bag of stones had no reaction.

But what is the other bag of stone dust for?

At this time, I saw Xiao Lei first pour alcohol on another bag of stone powder, and then, as just now, draw a match and throw it on it, something unexpected happened, only to see that suddenly, a flame and smoke suddenly rose, as if it was not the stone powder that was ignited, but gunpowder.