This time, the scales of fate are finally tilting in our favor.

Although they were nominally following me, Raymond and his party, who had actually been drawn a long distance, finally galloped along a path that was now open. Raymond, the leader, shook my hand excitedly, and several others who followed him applauded happily. They were all ecstatic at this hard-won victory, but I had no joy in it. Because I'm so tired, physically and mentally exhausted!

I was supposed to be the proudest and most excited to finally defeat the enemy in this arduous battle of Go, but I didn't have the slightest joy after success, but I was like a deflated ball, and I had no strength at all. I sat down on a small chess piece next to me and took a big breath. I knew my situation, I was too attentive and too depressed in the fight just now, and the process of fighting wits and courage against the vacuum-based enemy was so thrilling that I couldn't get out of it for a while, and this silent battle had emptied everything in my head.

But Raymond can't wait to explore this "treasure" that has just been mined.

"You go first, and I'll come later." I said weakly.

"Okay. You have a good rest first! After Raymond finished speaking, he led the group along the deep road.

I only rested for a short moment, and then I followed with a heavy pace. It's too early to rest completely, because there are still so many temptations in this hall that are too much to resist.

As I went, I noticed that the flames released from the grooves on both sides of the passage were getting taller and brighter, and there were sometimes blue-purple halos in the bright red colors, which was very mysterious and charming. It was only when I got close to the hinterland that I really saw the excitement of the layout. It used to be a dense collection of Go pieces on the periphery of the hinterland, but now that a passage has been vacated, the chess pieces on both sides of the passage are cumbersomely piled up, and in the central area of the hinterland, there is no shadow of even a normal-sized chess piece. It seems that this vast and ghostly chess game is an extremely ingenious defensive system.

In the center of the hinterland lies a large golden lotus throne, estimated to be more than one meter high longitudinally and more than six meters wide in diameter. I am so familiar with this lotus throne that most of the Buddha statues and Bodhisattvas are sitting in lotus flowers when I go to temples all over China. In China, the meaning of the lotus flower is out of the mud and not stained, it is a representative of holiness, and the realm of the lotus flower is unparalleled, so the seats where the Buddhas sit are designed as lotus platforms. And as far as the current huge lotus platform is concerned, it is not as dirty and dirty as imagined, but still glows with a golden aura, which is really incredible! And I'm sure this throne is not a gilded thing, but 100 percent pure gold.

I took two more steps closer, looked up, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a pair of large black eyes staring at me, and I was so frightened that my legs immediately went limp. What is it?! When I looked closely, there was no shadow of the Buddha on the lotus platform, but a guy with a human body and a beastly face was sitting majestically in the center of the lotus platform. He was so alive that he appeared in front of me as if he were a real person, but in the place where his head should have been there was a majestic lion head with eight faces. It's amazing!

In my memory, there is only the memory of the world-famous Sphinx next to the pyramids of Egypt, and I am afraid that no one knows about this. Built 4,500 years ago, the Sphinx is one of the oldest ancient stone statues in the world, and the Sphinx was often seen in Greek mythology in ancient times. Similar carvings can still be seen on ancient buildings, tombstones, and shields in Greece. It is said to have been used to suppress evil spirits. In the vast territory of China, Xi'an cultural relics and archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty in the Weiqu area of Chang'an District, and found a still brightly painted human-faced beast tomb at the entrance of the tomb, which can be described as a "sphinx". This tomb beast is only 20 centimeters tall and 10 centimeters wide, but its head and face are like the faces of ordinary people in ancient times, and its face is kind and gentle. It has a certain similarity with the pyramid of the "Sphinx" in ancient Egypt. But no matter how much I think about it, these ancient ruins tend to be traces of human faces and animal bodies, and only some children can find the cute shape of human and animal heads.

I glanced at the first few people who arrived here, they didn't say a word, they were still looking at the big lotus platform, and I could see that their faces were not very good-looking, and they all had a very solemn expression.

I leaned closer to Raymond and whispered, "This is a monster with a human body and a beast face...... Monster?! ”

"Hey! Yes, I've heard about this species, but I didn't expect to see it today. If I guessed correctly, this is a new species, but it is not excluded that the torso of a deceased person is artificially attached to the head of an animal. Of course, this requires further investigation and research. Raymond grimaced, and he continued.

In fact, hundreds or even a thousand years ago, this kind of rumor was rampant. At that time, the British media revealed an eye-catching news: for the past three years, Britain has been "secretly" conducting experiments on hybrid embryos between humans and animals, and has produced 155 "human-animal" embryos.

The British government was the first to ban mixed human and animal embryos. But in ...... In 2008, after public hearings, the United Kingdom enacted the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act, which liberalized research in this area to a certain extent.

In this regulation, three methods of human-animal hybridization are included. The first, called hybridization, requires fertilizing an egg from another animal with the sperm of one animal, and the genes of both organisms are almost half each. However, this method has the highest degree of hybridization and is the most difficult to control in terms of technical operation.

The second, called "chimera", or "chimera". The Chimera is a mythical beast with a lion's head, a sheep's body and a snake's tail in Greek mythology, and scientists call the animal that carries the tissues of two species "Chimera", which is to mix the embryonic cells of one animal with the embryonic cells of another animal to form a complete embryo. In this method, the DNA of humans and animals is not mixed, and it is theoretically possible to generate monsters with beastly faces and human bodies.

The third definition is called "cytoplasmic hybridization" by scientists. The nucleus is removed from the egg cell of the animal, and then the nucleus of the human cell is transplanted into it to replace the original nucleus. Because most of the genetic material is hidden in the nucleus, 99.9% of the genetic code of the embryo generated by "cytoplasmic hybridization" comes from humans.

The Human Fertilization and Embryology Act stipulates that such mixed embryos must be destroyed after two weeks of survival, and that they can only be tested on cows and rabbits, and that systematic research must be carried out by laboratories licensed for medical research and development. At that time, only three well-known medical research and development institutions, Imperial College London, Newcastle University and Walwick University Laboratories, were licensed to conduct research and development in this area.

Later, I also heard that someone invested in a movie "Human-Animal Hybrid", which tells the story of the development and growth of human-animal embryos obtained by illegal secret scientific research and hybridization, and its content is very thought-provoking.

At the time, scientists said the ultimate goal of the experiments was to find a cure for a range of human diseases, but opponents argued that it was something that would bring Britain to shame. Some opponents point out that the 155 secretly created "hybrid" embryos, all of which contain genetic information about humans and animals, seriously hampers scientific ethics.

But for now, the existence of this scientific ethics is already stretched, and as far as I know, after another bloody war three hundred years ago, people no longer have the heart or strength to do any more unusual research and development in the field of human embryology, but now in this ancient region deep underground, it is really unbelievable to witness this monster that looks like a man and a beast again! ”

Raymond took off his glasses and wiped them, this was the first time I noticed him wearing glasses, it seemed that he was already presbyopia.

He put on his glasses and said, "This guy with the beast face doesn't look like he's been dead for hundreds of years, it's just too lifelike. The lion's head was majestic, his facial features were clear, and his body was so gorgeous* and well-dressed, a kind of imperial eminence. And how is this embalmed? The only way I know is to dehydrate and embalm dead people and keep them mummified, and I have never heard of or seen such a dead person sitting on a chair as if he were a living person. Superb anti-corrosion technology! ……”

"It's definitely fake." William Hughes, the captain of the guard group standing next to him, said, "How can this be true!" It must be a dummy, with a hunted and embalmed lion's head attached to the body of the dummy, and very cleverly tied together, which I feel is either for demagogy or a practical embodiment of the doctrine of animal worship! ”

"I hope it's as you say." Raymond pronounced through his nose, hinting at his disdain. "But ......"