Chapter 449: The Divine Bird in the Pyramid
When we heard that this bird was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, we were all shocked, including Old Man Ouyang. How can a bird be worth that much money?
Mr. Chen continued: "Although I don't sell 'Monkey Head Bird', I was still shocked to hear that it was worth so much money, but if you think about it carefully, its commercial value is indeed extremely huge - because its saliva can promote the growth of heart muscle cells, so that heart disease can be easily cured, and there is no need for surgery or any pain. How many people die of heart disease every year?
But what I'm most concerned about is where this bird comes from, and what kind of bird is it? Why is it so intelligent and so peculiar? And, why does its saliva have such a wonderful function?
And all these questions can only be answered by my classmate, and when he finished talking about the ins and outs of this bird, I felt even more that this bird is wonderful.
According to my classmate, the record of this bird first appeared in the pyramids of Egypt, and left a clear portrait, which my classmate had also seen, and basically matched the image of the 'monkey-headed bird' - the body of the monkey-headed bird, not only the portrait of this bird, but also a large number of words on the inner wall of the pyramid, describing how magical and intelligent this bird is.
The content of the record is probably to say that a pharaoh in ancient Egypt lived for nearly 200 years, and he had the secret skill of breeding this kind of 'monkey-headed bird', it is said that except for him, no one knows where this bird came from and how to breed it, etc., this pharaoh has raised dozens of 'monkey-headed birds' before and after nearly a hundred years, but the strange thing is that there have never been two 'monkey-headed birds' that have coexisted around him at the same time, and they are all after one old and died, and the other one appeared.
This is the longest-living pharaoh in ancient Egyptian history, and it was believed that the strange bird was the patron saint of the pharaoh and another sojourn of the pharaoh's soul.
Although this pharaoh lived a long life, during his reign, he was very unpeaceful, especially in the early days of his reign, when his brothers wanted to subvert him, and there were strong enemies attacking him, and even he was captured by the enemy, but he escaped with the help of the 'monkey-headed bird'. Moreover, under the protection of the 'monkey-headed bird', those who tried to kill the pharaoh could not succeed - whether they were hiding a sharp blade or poisoning their diet, they would be detected by the 'monkey-headed bird' in advance, and some people tried to kill the 'monkey-headed bird' directly, but were pecked blind by the monkey-headed bird.
Gradually, all the people felt that the pharaoh was invincible because of the protection of this sacred bird, and in the later period, no one dared to oppose him, and even many foreign tribes submitted one after another. And the kind of divine bird with the 'monkey head and bird body' is inseparable from the pharaoh, and the pharaoh believes that all his achievements are given to him by that kind of divine bird.
At first, many archaeologists believed that this so-called mythical bird was just a legend, but it did not exist in reality, but was just a fictional image, just like the Sphinx.
But in the nineteenth century, the discovery of an ornithologist changed this view.
And this ornithologist, a Frenchman, once went to the African continent to investigate, specifically to investigate a giant eagle, which is said to be the largest eagle in the world, and incredibly, this giant eagle specializes in hunting leopards, lions and other beasts, and even eats tigers.
It is generally believed that leopards, lions, and tigers are the most attacking beasts, and there are almost no natural enemies in nature, but it is hard to imagine that there is a bird of prey, which feeds exclusively on these beasts, and it is conceivable how strong the attack ability of this giant eagle is, but the number of such giant eagles is very scarce, only in a small part of Africa.
The French ornithologist, who is best at studying all kinds of eagles, decided to go to Africa to observe these giant eagles up close, despite the great danger.
After a lot of hard work, he finally found the area where this giant eagle haunts, and after more than a month of observation, he found that this giant eagle does eat those fierce beasts, and those fierce beasts, when they see this giant eagle, will become like frightened sheep, and run away frantically.
At that time, the French ornithologist recorded with great emotion: Who would have thought that the most ferocious animal in the world is not a lion, a leopard, or a tiger, but a kind of bird. I'm sure that there will never be any animal in nature that can hunt such a ferocious eagle with such a ferocious attack ability - except for the man with the gun.
But in the following observations, the ornithologist soon discovered that he was wrong in this conclusion, that this giant eagle also has natural predators in nature, and this natural predator is probably also a bird.
Because the ornithologist was extremely shocked to find that the two giant eagles were attacked and killed one after another, their feathers were almost stripped off, their bodies were scarred, and their internal organs were almost hollowed out, and observing these scars on the giant eagles, the ornithologist judged based on his rich experience that this was definitely not caused by cannibalism, because these fatal wounds could not have been left by the giant eagle at all, but by a relatively small bird.
For a giant eagle with such a large size and such a powerful attack, it is incredible that there is a small bird that can defeat it!
A few days later, another giant eagle died.
With a great curiosity, the ornithologist, after months of painstaking follow-up observation, finally discovered the secret on a moonlit night.
Ornithologists know that the weakest attack power of this giant eagle is at night. Because this giant eagle belongs to the daytime active eagle, at night, this eagle's vision becomes extremely weak, and if it can't see clearly, its attack ability will of course be greatly affected.
These giant eagles generally use the natural caves high in the rock walls as their nests. As the moonlight slowly rose, the ornithologist, who was waiting near the eagle's cave, suddenly heard a strange sound, which was very similar to a human voice, and came from the mouth of the eagle's nest.
He was taken aback, and hurriedly looked at the mouth of the giant eagle cave by the moonlight, and he was surprised to find that two birds were calling at the mouth of the giant eagle cave, and that strange call was made by those two birds.
From a distance, zoologists thought that the two birds were very similar in size to ordinary eagles, but the shape of the head was a little strange - it seemed to have a large head.
Ornithologists are not surprised by birds that can emit human-like vocals, because there are many kinds of birds in nature that can do it. But the shape of this bird's head makes the ornithologist feel very unusual, but it is too far away for him to see it very clearly.
The two birds were at the mouth of the eagle's burrow, and after a few calls, they suddenly made a few 'poof' sounds, as if they were farting, and then the ornithologists smelled a foul fishy smell - it was indeed the two birds farting.
Then something strange happened - the giant eagle flew out violently as if it had been smoked by that kind of fart, but at the moment when it flew out, it seemed to be entangled in something, and its wings could not be spread at all, and soon it stumbled and fell off, just a few meters away from the ornithologist, and the ornithologist was in the grass, his heart was beating wildly, and it was the first time he was so close to this giant eagle, although he was specially smeared with a "deodorant" drug - this drug can eliminate the smell emitted by the human body, So as not to be smelled by the beasts - but he was still extremely nervous, afraid that the giant eagle would find him, because the attack power of this giant eagle is really amazing, and once attacked, it is also extremely ferocious.
But the ornithologist's curiosity and professionalism overcame his fears, and instead of running away, he lay there quietly, observing the falling eagle by the bright moonlight.
And when he saw what the giant eagle was wrapped around it, the ornithologist was shocked - he found that the giant eagle was actually wrapped in a net, no wonder the giant eagle could not fly!
Then, something even more shocking happened.
Originally, the two birds at the entrance of the cave also flew down at this time, and instantly landed near the head of the giant eagle, pecking out the two eyeballs of the giant eagle, the giant eagle seemed to be in great pain, it screamed violently, struggling, but the net seemed to be extremely strong, even if the giant eagle was extremely powerful, but it could not break free, and the feathers on the giant eagle's body, due to the violent struggle, fell off a lot, the two birds, but just stood calmly next to it, watching the giant eagle struggle in vain.
After a long time, the giant eagle seemed to be exhausted, and the struggle became weaker and weaker, and then the two birds flew to the giant eagle again, and pecked at the giant eagle's neck a few times, and the ornithologist knew that this was to peck the giant eagle's neck.
He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, because as an ornithologist, he knew a lot about the intelligence of birds.
He knew better than anyone that birds had low intelligence and only hunted for food by instinct. And the process of the two birds in front of them capturing the giant eagle is an extremely complex and ingenious intellectual process, let alone two birds, even people, may not be able to come up with such a clever method.
And when the zoologist saw the appearance of the two birds in the moonlight, he almost screamed - even though he was a first-class bird expert, he had never seen or even heard of such birds, only to see that the heads and features of the two birds resembled monkeys, even slightly larger than the monkey's head, but only the beak, but the sharp eagle's beak.
Next, I saw these two birds, pecking open the belly of the giant eagle, and then after eating a certain organ in the stomach, they no longer ate other parts, and more than a dozen owls that smelled the smell also flew over and began to peck at the giant eagle.
Suddenly, the two birds made human-like voices, as if they were saying something, and the voices were very similar to human voices, except for the stiffness of their voices and intonation, as if they were two people talking.
After saying a few words, the two birds began to untie the net on the giant eagle with their beaks, and it turned out that they were going to take the net with them! At this moment, one of the birds suddenly stopped, as if sensing that something was wrong, and after looking around, he actually looked into the grass where the ornithologist was hiding, as if he had found someone hiding there, and the ornithologist's heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he quietly pulled out his revolver, and at this time, the other bird also looked over.
Under the gaze of this strange gaze, the ornithologist could not stand it anymore, and he immediately raised his revolver and fired several shots at the two birds, so that the two strange birds flew away.
The ornithologist came out of the grass and examined the net carefully, and he was surprised to find that the net was made of a kind of vine, which was only the thickness of a finger, but extremely tough, and the local natives often used this vine to climb rocks, but no one had ever used this kind of vine to weave a net, could it be that this kind of net was also made by those two birds?
The French ornithologist, after returning home, wrote about this experience and published it in a Parisian newspaper, where he also drew the two birds and published them together.
But many people don't believe in this experience of ornithologists at all, especially some of their peers, who ridicule him and say that he shouldn't be an ornithologist at all, but should write novels.
Unexpectedly, it was an archaeologist who came to him with a newspaper and asked him very seriously about the strange bird. ”
Mr. Chen said this, for us is both fresh and legendary, although we have been with the "monkey eagle" day and night for so long, but such a deep understanding of the origin and history of this bird, it is the first time, not only us, even the old man Ouyang also listened, because for these, he has never heard of before.
But what we didn't expect was that what Mr. Chen said next actually made us make unexpected discoveries.