Chapter 702: From the Ancients
As soon as they saw that the flame horn also began to fish, the people on the side of the Longboat tribe moved faster.
When the people of the Taihe tribe heard the movement, they didn't care about their nervous state, they came out to watch the excitement, and after watching it for a while, they even came out to help.
There are many boats of the Longboat tribe, but the people of the Tai River must be helping Yanjiao, as soon as I saw so many Tai people began to help Yanjiao, the wood felling that gas, the Tai people were able to cross the sea, all because of the boats of the Longboat tribe!
Ungrateful!
No matter how unhappy Mu Fell's heart was, but the fact was that all the people of the Tai River were towards Yanjiao.
Pieces of ice frozen by unknown objects were fished up, some of them were only a small one, some of them seemed to have several insects frozen inside, and there were also small animals and things that resembled fish.
"What the hell is freezing here?" said Dolkan in surprise. Through the ice cubes, he can take a general look at the frozen things inside, but he can be regarded as having lived in the mountains and forests for a long time and has a wide range of knowledge, but he doesn't know any of the things in these ice cubes, and he has never seen them, at least until now, he has never seen these things in the mountains and forests.
"I haven't seen it either. Although Guangyi is face blind, he still has an impression of animals, but he does not remember that he has ever seen these insects and beasts.
Yu You, the leader of the Tai River, also shook his head, they had never seen this before.
"Hey, from the Longboat, have you seen it?" said Dokang, looking at a member of the Longboat tribe.
"No, I haven't seen it. It must be in the sea!" The warrior of the Longboat tribe had a happy look on his face, and felt that it must be in the sea as his leader said, otherwise who would be idle and have nothing to do to freeze insects and these palm-sized small beasts?
For the people of the Longboat tribe, everything in the sea is new and strange, and they need to explore. These are treasures!
"How can this be in the sea? It seems that it should live in the grass or in the woods. Dolcan looked at the ice cubes and disagreed. Some of them were uncertain, but some of them looked at their appearance, and he could deduce from what they saw and heard in the mountains and forests while hunting that the unknown creatures should live. What it looks like is related to the living environment, and it is impossible to fly in the sky like a stone insect.
"Just. Where did these come from? Where were they originally born?" Yu You was also puzzled.
If it was just one kind, it would be fine, but none of the people of the three tribes of these frozen insects, beasts, Tai River, Yanjiao and Longboat have ever seen it, and no one knows it!
Shao Xuan looked in the direction where the ice was drifting, it was the wind that pushed the ice to this side, and the time they came out, the wind on the sea was different from now. Even though there are frequent changes, the wind is still in a dominant direction, and now it is probably because the winter is moving away that the ice floes are pushed this way.
In the direction where the ice floes are coming, farther away, there may be more of these ice floes. But now is not the time to go there looking for ice floe, their main thing is to get back safely.
The flotilla did not change direction, but only slowed down temporarily. Scoop up the frozen ice floes.
Some of the ice floe melted, and some of the insects and beasts inside were exposed. It has been gnawed by fish in the sea, mutilated and badly rotted, while those frozen in ice are still close to intact, two extremes. The exposed ones will rot and be eaten, and the frozen ones will continue to remain in their original form.
They fished it up. Most of them were ice cubes that completely froze the contents, half-rotted and gnawing marks, and even if they were fished up, they were only curiously glanced at and then thrown back into the sea.
"Rumors. That direction is the land of extreme cold. Yu You said suddenly.
"Extremely cold place?" Shao Xuan asked.
"That's also from the handwriting left by our ancestors of the Tai River, I didn't think about it before, just now I saw that you have been looking in that direction, and then I suddenly remembered that there seems to be such a thing. Yu You said, "We haven't been there, and we don't know, and the ancestors have only heard about it, and there are few records." I think that since it is an extremely cold place, it must be sparsely populated, so few people mention it. ”
The weather is bad, the climate is not suitable for survival, there are fewer people, and everyone is reluctant to go there, and the things about that side will naturally gradually disappear and no longer be mentioned by people.
Yu You still found it inadvertently because he was waiting for the reply to the letter to sort out the ancestors' notes, and he didn't care at the time, the world is so big, they can't go to every place, so they just pay attention to things related to themselves and the tribe, but they didn't expect to encounter this.
As soon as he heard Yu You talk about the "extremely cold land", Shao Xuan had a guess in his heart.
Regardless of whether there is a polar region or not, if what Yu You said is true, and the rumors heard by the ancestors of the Tai River are also true, then there must be icebergs in that place, and these small fragments may have split from the icebergs.
However, Shao Xuan guessed that the most likely thing was the catastrophe of heaven and earth, which caused the iceberg to break away from the main body and float on the sea, if the temperature is low and the iceberg is large, it can exist for a long time.
These fragments may have been on one of the icebergs, and they had no way of knowing how the iceberg split into so many small pieces.
"Seiichi, have you ever swam in the sea and seen any of these? These must be living in the water. Dokang said, pointing to two of the finned creatures.
"I haven't seen it, and I haven't seen it in the river. Kiyoichi squatted beside him and looked curiously at those strange-looking insects and beasts.
Seeing that Shao Xuan seemed thoughtful, Duo Kang asked, "Shao Xuan, what are your guesses?"
Qingyi, Guangyi, and Yu You also looked at Shao Xuan, waiting for Shao Xuan's answer.
"These ......," Shao Xuan said, pointing to a few ice cubes that could see most of the insect and beast forms inside, "These may not be things that live now. ”
"What do you mean?"
"They existed a long, long time ago. Shao Xuan said.
"Once upon a time?" How long is 'long'?" asked Timber.
"It could be tens of thousands of years, it could be hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of years, or even longer. ”
Shao Xuan's words made Mu Fa and Duo Kang and the others take a deep breath in unison. No matter how much they think about it, they don't think about it.
10,000 years is enough for them, and even many tribes, some of whom have left their handwritings, have only started at that time, but "hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even longer"?
If it was someone else who said this, Mu Fa and Duokang would definitely think that this person was, but it was Shao Xuan who said this!
On many speculations, did Shao Xuan say that he missed?
"And how long did it take?" said Docom, his voice trembling at the end.
Did these things outlast their ancestors?
"These ...... They're all dead, aren't they?" said Mu Fell, pointing to the various beasts on the ground that had been frozen in ice.
"Isn't this nonsense? Can you survive after being frozen for so long?" Dokang swept his eyes and turned over a block of ice that had melted to the point of revealing animal hair, and had a torch lit to speed up the melting of the ice.
As the ice melted, the strange creature with hair, which was not much bigger than an adult warrior's palm, appeared completely in front of everyone, and they could see this strange creature more clearly without the interference of ice.
"Have these really been around for a long time? Dokang sighed.
"Dead. Broadly affirmed.
"There was an injury, and it was directly pierced by a sharp weapon. Dolcan looked at the strange creature and said.
They also took the insects and beasts that had been bitten by the fish in the sea and only half of them were left, and after burning the remaining ice with fire, they found that several of them had similar wounds on their bodies. The insect with a dorsal beetle pierces directly through the neck, similar to that of fish and shrimp, and is also directly pierced, with similar wounds.
Duo Kang dissected the small beast that had melted at first, and found that it still had some undigested food in its stomach, which Yu You said should be some kind of grass.
"What the hell killed them?" asked Docom.
"Who knows, they must have been killed by the beasts that ate them anyway. But now is not the time to think about that. Wood felling said, and asked the people of the Longboat tribe to put the ice blocks together and fish up some ice floes that didn't freeze anything else, and keep it cold.
The meat is kept in cold caves for much longer, and these unknown insects, possibly from ancient times, need to be in ice to keep going on like this, just as they have been frozen in ice until now.
Duo Kang did the same, he also wanted to take some back as a souvenir, so he commanded the people to continue fishing.
Shao Xuan looked at the Yanjiao and the ice blocks of the Longboat tribe, and then looked into the sea.
There was also a lot of ice, some of which were sealed, some of which were not, and some of which were similar to those they had fished.
Looking at those ice floes, Shao Xuan suddenly pointed to one of them, and said to the person who was fishing for ice next to him, "Fish that one up." ”
"Great Elder, which piece are you talking about?" The person who fished the ice didn't know which one Shao Xuan was talking about.
"I'll do it. Shao Xuan came directly by himself, took the net, and fished the piece of ice he liked onto the boat.
"What is this?" asked Dokang, looking at the vague mass of slag in the ice.
They scoop up the ice, because the weight that the boat can carry is limited, and it is impossible to fish up all the ice, so they can only fish a little selectively.
Scoop up the ice cubes that can roughly see what they are, don't take them back to melt after all the hard work, and then find that it is a lump of soil, then you can't row it. So the piece of ice that Shao Xuan was referring to has been ignored. I don't catch duplicate types, I have one, so why do I need so much? Anyway, it's just a whim, I'm more curious, and I'll take it back as a souvenir.
"I don't know what it is. Shao Xuan looked at the ice cube in front of him, and after looking at it a few more times, he handed it to the person in charge of storing it, "Put it with the ice and take it back." ”
Since it was something that Shao Xuan had scooped up, the people who stored it did not dare to be careless, even if it was really a lump of soil, they would treat it seriously and cautiously. (To be continued.) )