Chapter 15 Ovaries

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Several of us descended the tomb along the rope at one time. If there is still moonlight to illuminate us when we are outside, but in this dark and gloomy tomb, there is not the slightest light around, and we have to take out our own flashlights to illuminate it.

I believe that no one who has ever been to the unknown world of darkness will understand my fear of electronic light. Although flashlights have a lot of convenience compared to torches, the light emitted by electronic beams is often cohesive, and the cold light has certain limitations when it penetrates the darkness, and it is not as comfortable as the warm light of torches.

After entering the tomb, everyone did not rush to the depths of the tomb, but patiently and carefully checked whether there were any unknown dangers around us.

Ten pillars of white flashlight in the darkness seemed to be like ten sticks swaying in the air, and we saw that this was a very ordinary stone room, there was no coffin or anything like that, to be precise, it felt a little empty. This is in stark contrast to the mermaids who have just poured out of the tomb like a tidal wave.

"Here...... Looks like nothing! Bao Ye's voice became unusually hollow and unnatural in the stone room, and the echo was like a silk gently brushing our skin, making people shudder.

Brother Liao walked to the wall of the stone room, touched it with his palm, and said, "The wall is wet. ”

The driver of the car said: "By the way, Binzi, didn't you just say that there is water here, although the air here is very humid, but it is not a village with water." ”

Binzi continued to shoot around with his flashlight, "I can't feel wrong, at that time, I did feel a cold liquid spraying on my hand. ”

"Cold liquid?" The fat old python said: "Then have you ever thought that it may not be water at all?" ”

Bin Zi raised an eyebrow and asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

The old python trembled and shone a flashlight on the ground in front of him, beckoned Bin Zi to come over, and said, "You come here to have a look, and you will understand." ”

Binzi stepped forward, and I, driven by a strong curiosity, followed suit. When I looked down, I found that there was indeed a pool of translucent liquid at the foot of the old python, and there was some white substance like catkins mixed in the liquid.

Bin Zi didn't feel dirty, he squatted down, tapped the liquid on the ground with the tip of his index finger, then rubbed between his fingers for a while, leaned in front of his nose and sniffed, and said, "It tastes a little fishy, it shouldn't be water." ”

The old python was thick and fine, and he didn't seem to let Binzi come over just to let him see the liquid on the ground, but said: "It doesn't matter if it's water or not, I just want to know what white things are and where they come from." ”

As soon as he heard the old python speak like this, Bin Zi suddenly became humble and said, "Old python, I am slow to react, have you noticed something." ”

I don't know why, the current old python has begun to speak seriously, and he no longer has the way he was cowering before. I think that none of the people Zhang Hefang brought this time are straw bales, although Lao Fat is fat and obscene, but it makes sense that he can be selected by Zhang Hefang.

The python continued: "I have never liked jokes, and I can tell you that these white things are fragments of merman eggs, and I don't believe you can look at the top of your heads. ”

The rest of us all took their flashlights and shone them at the top of the stone chamber, and in this light, we found two strange places, the first of which was that in the corner of the top of the stone chamber, there was a lot of sticky things hanging upside down like white cotton filaments. And the second point is that we are surprised to find that the walls of the tomb above our heads have a tendency to slope down gently, that is, the more we follow the corridor to the deeper of the tomb, the closer the roof will be to our heads.

"What's going on?" I wondered.

The old python rubbed his nose, and then said: "I don't know what to do, we dug the tomb, disturbed the rest of these young mermaids, and made them break their eggs early, so Bin Zi said before that he suddenly felt water." ”

While we looked at the terrifying countless shark eggs on the top of our heads, so dense that we couldn't tell the number at all, and then thought about the sharks who were on the ground just now, and we had a little scalp tingling.

"Well, I can't think of it." Bao Ye suddenly said to me in my ear.

I was stunned for a moment and asked, "What can't you think of?" ”

Bao Ye said: "What else can there be? It's that dead fat man. Don't treat him as a role like a rice bucket, I can tell you, his knowledge is great, in the entire Nanwu Group, that fat man is also a figure with a head and a face, and he is a little lustful, but he has no ability to say. ”

"You've said so much, so what the hell is he doing?" I asked.

Bao Ye explained: "He is in the Southern Witch Group, and he is responsible for studying some bizarre and strange creatures, which is his specialty. ”

After a few of us listened to the old python's explanation, Brother Liao, who was still very firm at the beginning, was a little shaken at this time, and said: "In that case, this is indeed not a tomb, and there is no such structure in the tomb. ”

Binzi also nodded, expressing his approval of Brother Liao, so he said, "But, if this is not a tomb, what is it?" The age of these bluestone bricks is not close, in the pre-Qin era, who would be idle to build underground fortifications here in order to raise these sharks? ”

"If that's what you say, it's not true." Professor Li Zhongkai, who had not spoken for a long time, finally said: "Why do you say that this underground fortification was built by man? Have you forgotten what I told you about the legend of the ancient Shu kingdom of Yuyu? ”

Bin Zi looked at Li Zhongkai and said, "But that's just a legend." ”

When Professor Li Zhongkai heard this, he was a little unhappy, so he said: "What are you talking about, don't forget, the old man's cave is just a myth, let me say another disrespectful word, about the resurrection of the Wu Sect, it is actually a legend, then you don't believe it?" ”

Zhang Hefang, as the leader of the team at this time, naturally stepped forward to relieve the siege, and said: "Don't quarrel, let's discuss here who organized the construction of this underground fortification, it is completely useless, I want to know what this underground stone chamber is used for." ”

After speaking, Zhang Hefang turned his head in the direction of the old python, as if he hoped to get a reliable and satisfactory answer from him.

The old python usually doesn't steal the show, but this time, when he saw that Zhang Hefang had appointed him, and it was also an opportunity for his own performance, he naturally wouldn't back down, so he said: "Okay, then I'll talk about my speculation." Based on the dampness of the stone slabs around this stone chamber and the moss, as well as the eggs of the mermen, I suspect that this is the spawning ground of the mermen, or it can be said that it is an ovarie. ”

I said, "That's not right, I saw the mermaids just now, they should be underwater creatures, how can they lay eggs in the impermeable stone chamber tomb, how can they get in?" Don't dig a hole like we do. ”

The old python nodded at me and said, "You are right, and I have come to a conclusion based on the structure of the wall in the upper part of this stone chamber, and although it is a bit bold, I think it is the only guess that can be explained." ”

Everyone urged the old python to continue to speak.

The old python said: "My guess is that there must be a water source connected to the depths of the stone chamber here, and this water source is the one that helped the shark people come here. Sharks live in groundwater all year round and are very afraid of light, and due to evolutionary reasons, juvenile mermaids can breathe with both their gills and lungs, while adult mermaids can only breathe with their gills. Moreover, all sharks have a characteristic, that is, they will return to the place where they were born to lay their offspring, and the eggs of the mermaids must be kept in a dry area. ”

Bao Ye interrupted: "This is not right, if the merman came here to lay eggs, because he was afraid that the eggs would be soaked in water and lay on the roof of the shed, but the problem is that the roof of the shed here is a maximum distance of four or five meters from the ground, and the merman has no legs, how can he get there?" ”

The old python didn't seem to care at all about Bao Ye's question, or rather, such a question had long been expected by him, and he said: "It's very simple, the change in the water level. If my guess is true, it means that the road here is connected to the water source outside, and according to the direction of the road, it must be connected to a lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in the alpine region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, when summer comes, there will be a large piece of ice and snow melted into the lake, and at that time, the water level of the lake will definitely rise, and at this time, the stone chamber here will be filled with water from outside. It's early spring, and it's not really summer yet, so there's no water yet, and when it's filled, the newborn mermaids follow the flow back to the outside water source, and the old mermaids come back here to lay eggs and breed offspring, so it all makes sense. ”

All of us were dumbfounded, and we had to admire the reasoning and analytical ability of this fat old python, some of the things he said were indeed a little suspenseful, but when you think about it, it is completely reasonable, but in our opinion, it is only a theoretical feasibility, and for the ancients, they put this possibility into practice.

Among several people, only Zhang Hefang showed a confident expression after listening to what the old python said. I saw him frown, as if thinking about something, and then said, "The water connected to the outside - in that case, Kurosawa?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and said in unison: "If this leads to Heize, then it means that we can also reach the altar of the ancient Shu Kingdom from here." ”

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