Chapter 9: The Bones Are Exposed
In the second half of the night, the pigs and beasts were growling in their stomachs, and who told it to eat indiscriminately, everywhere, and all kinds of tubers, good and bad, were swallowed in their stomachs.
It gets up and next to it, and it understands that it can't stink everyone.
Its is a real straight line, it is not broken, it is all the way to the end, fortunately it is downwind, if it is upwind, I want to eat it tomorrow.
They will say: We have thought so for a long time!
It's like eating a whistling dog.
Pig Pig Beast woke Xia Fan up. Xia Fan only felt very annoyed, and Da Sima was very annoying.
The stream was murmuring, the fire had not been completely extinguished, and the black charcoal was bright and dark.
Under the moonlight, Xia Fan looked at everyone, the wolf should be on guard at a high place, and everyone else was asleep.
Xiaoyu sleeps with her head buried, her whole body is covered by a beast blanket, and the elk just surrounds her, she should be very warm, and she sleeps so cutely.
The snoring of the pig and the leopard is like thunder, one high and one low, up and down, very rhythmic, and they want to laugh people to death.
But the cyclops was gone, and the hammer that had stuck in the ground was gone. I couldn't find it everywhere.
Xia Fan sat up vigilantly and looked around.
The pig beast turned around, hummed and chirped a few times, staggered and fell down, and continued to sleep, almost crushing Xia Fan.
Xia Fan took the staff and walked around for a while, but there was no trace of the one-eyed dragon, and he was also captured?
Xia Fan lifted his feet lightly, stepped on the grassy slope, stuck his staff in the soil, and looked around. Is the wolf over there, prostrate and asleep?
The grassland under the moonlight, the view is actually quite good, and you can see far away. Coming to this world, Xia Fan's eyesight is also good, although it is not like the ears, the ears are open.
Something seemed to come from the grass in the distance, and Xi Xi Suo asked for a while.
Xia Fan hurriedly gathered under a bush, his eyes still looking in the direction where the voice came from.
Isn't that a one-eyed dragon? He and the two savages walked lightly to a grass platform, took out a piece of animal skin, and pointed to the animal skin and the sky by the moonlight, and then they were gesturing and talking about something.
"Isn't it just a few of us who have gone to find out the truth of the dragon, why are there people behind it, and Jill is not at ease with me?" Or something else,. Xia Fan suddenly seemed to remember something, and wanted to hear what they had to say.
Xia Fan leaned forward and opened his ears with his hands, but he still couldn't hear clearly, only moved forward a little further, and still couldn't hear clearly.
Xia Fan was afraid of making a sound, so he slowly approached the one-eyed dragon and their grass platform in the place where the long grass was flooded.
The wind blew through the grassland, and the grassland sounded rhythmically for a while, and Xia Fan followed this rhythm to approach them and not expose himself.
In normal times, Xia Fan might not be able to hear what others are saying clearly, but now that he is a hundred meters away from the one-eyed dragon, Xia Fan can already hear their voices, not only can he hear, but he can also hear what they are saying.
Maybe Xia Fan is downwind, or maybe Xia Fan's ears are really getting better and better, and he can hear them clearly.
Of course, it's one thing to be able to hear, it's one thing to be able to hear clearly, and it's another thing to be able to understand what they're talking about.
It was obvious that although Xia Fan could hear what they were saying, they were communicating in a language that Xia Fan did not know the meaning.
It happened that the one-eyed dragon was talking: "Arsenal, I can't put it up again, a bag of rice must be resisted, a bag of rice must be resisted by several floors, a bag of rice must be resisted by the second floor, if a bag of rice is given too much, a bag of rice will be washed by me, a bag of rice I have washed, so many times, wash it with that pile, and the tile will be wow!" There is mud, you know wow, who gave you a bag of rice, I gave you a bag of Milo, the star falls on the snake". Does the one-eyed dragon speak two Chinese? The ancient people were gifted with language.
Xia Fan was surprised!
Every word, Xia Fan can hear clearly, but he doesn't know the meaning.
The moonlight slanted down from the crack in the clouds and shone on the grass platform where they were sitting, and Xia Fan could see the appearance of the other two people clearly.
It seems that Ben Boer and Ba Bo Ben, these two people are not tall and very obscene.
Oh my God, these two men were dressed like the wild men who went to ambush that day, and their weapons were also harpoons, which were just stuck on the sides, which was too obvious.
Xia Fan's head was buzzing, and his heart was shocked. Spies, doubles, intrigue, reversal, blue waves, nine heads, all kinds of mess are pouring into my heart. Xia Fan thought that life in the ancient savage world was very simple, but now he realized that every era is not easy, and every era has its own difficulties and dangers: 'I must become the protagonist of this era, otherwise I won't be able to live for a few episodes.' ’
Thinking of the smiling rivers and lakes, Ling Hu Chong said: I want to quit the rivers and lakes, and I will not ask about the rivers and lakes from now on. Let me do it: In this world, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, how can you retreat. That's true!
Thousands of thoughts flashed through him, and it would not delay Xia Fan to eavesdrop.
In the gap in the deep grass, Xia Fan saw them talking for a while to a piece of animal skin in front of them. This hide should be a map or something. Because they were pointing there, sometimes pointing to the map, then pointing to the direction of the tribe, then pointing to the map, and then pointing to the mountains. Running around with all kinds of gestures, Ba Boer ran for a while to stand up, and then squatted, looking very anxious.
Their speech is not fast, but they move a lot of their upper limbs.
The long exchange of words was over, and they probably finished talking.
Xia Fan hurriedly got up and prepared to go back to the river, stepped on a small animal, it was in pain and jumped out, the three people on the opposite side looked at Xia Fan, Xia Fan immediately bowed his head and shrank in the grass. I don't know if they found out. At this time, the wolves in the distance howled a few times, and instead of the happy wolf, they rushed towards the distance. It should have gone far, Xia Fan immediately got up and walked short to the water's edge: "It's okay, it's okay." ’
On the grassy slope, the wolf of joy is still asleep, sleeping very deeply, shouldn't he be on guard.
Xia Fan couldn't think about it so much, so he withdrew the staff in the soil and hurried back to the camping place. Everyone was still asleep, the pigs turned over, and the rhythm of both pigs was well mastered.
Xiong, with his eyes open, he stared at Xia Fan, which frightened Xia Fan, but he didn't move, and after a while, Xia Fan realized that he was asleep, and he slept with his eyes open: 'I'm scared to death.' ’
Xia Fan hurriedly returned to the pig beast and lay down lightly. Everything around was as usual, the stream was murmuring, the mosquitoes were squeaking, and Xia Fan couldn't sleep. A quick flashback in my mind and a lot of thoughts. Groggy and about to fall asleep, there was a sound on the slope, thinking that the one-eyed dragon had returned. Xia Fan didn't look up, knowing where he was last night, it was that place, and he also came back lightly, lying down silently, for fear of alarming everyone. For that matter, nothing else. The snoring of the Haw Par brothers has not changed. Later, Xia Fan learned that there was actually another person who knew that the one-eyed dragon was not there that night.
On the grassland, it dawned very early, the fire had no seedlings, the charcoal was shining, and the black smoke was scattered. The white fog in the four fields is thicker at the water's edge. The one-eyed dragon also got up, and disappeared. Xin got up the earliest, already cooking soup. The bear, tiger, leopard and pig took the grass and thrust it in the river, and when it hit a fish, it was thrown to the shore, and the light rain caught it, and he was quite happy. From time to time, everyone eats early, the one-eyed dragon appears, the breakfast is quite rich, grilled fish, fish soup, berries, soil cakes, cakes Xia Fan didn't eat at all, this soil cake is really made of soil and berries.
After breakfast, cross the creek and continue on your way. Xia Fan worked hard to organize his thoughts and restrain his emotions. Don't make the cyclops feel strange. But looking at the one-eyed dragon's double-headed hammer again, Xia Fan felt that he saw endless danger from the deep eye hole of his double-headed hammer, and his heart was cold, and his body trembled. The one-eyed dragon also came up and put on a beast skin for Xia Fan.
Xia Fan has to really think about the danger of this trip at this moment: "I used to think that it was just an ancient trip, but then I found that it was not okay to lie flat, I used to think that it was okay to work hard to integrate, but then I found that if I didn't think deeply, I might be hanging here even with advanced knowledge, I used to think that there were only external dangers, but now I know that there are also internal team dangers and many unknown dangers." That's a hassle. Who the hell is a one-eyed dragon? Spy, undercover, two or five boys, dare not think. The child who was taken away from afar has been alive for so long, what is the meaning of our trip, and what are the difficulties and dangers we have to face? I shuddered. ’
Along the way, many never-before-seen animals walked with Xia Fan and them. An animal like a cow is not a cow, like a deer is not a deer, hit Xia Fan, it walked faster than a pig and a pig, pulling while eating, it stinks, and it is sad to walk behind it.
If you're in a bad mood, sing a song, so that you can still face this hardship and the unknown head-on:
"The sky is like a round cover, the land is like a chess game, the world is black and white, fighting for honor and disgrace, the glory is at peace, and the humiliation is fixed."
Slowly, they were no longer amazed by Xia Fan's various poems and songs, Xia Fan was their prophet, their prophet who fell from the sky. In fact, the song is also appropriate, Xin and Dan like Xia Fan to sing and chant poems very much.
Xiaoyu turned her head from time to time and smiled at Xia Fan with her mouth pursed, this smile can be said to be one of the few motivations in Xia Fan's heart.
Xiaoyu's smile is Xia Fan's pistachio.
The group passed through a section of stone forest, and there was an obvious karst cave on the shallow slope, which turned out to be a karst landform.
Maybe he didn't sleep well last night, Xia Fan tilted his head and fell asleep on the pig beast.
When I woke up again, I was woken up by them, the wolf was going crazy, the pig was roaring, and Xiaoyu was crying.
"Look, Prophet." Xia Fan raised his head slightly, followed the leopard's gesture and looked into the valley not far away, and then froze.
This scene is even more suffocating than the white bones of the antelope on the slopes of the vast Gobi in the middle of Hoh Xili, which are full of white bones and remnants of flesh and blood, which are obviously left by animals that have died recently. All kinds of animals pillow each other, piled up like a mountain. It's horrible. Xiaoyu sat on the giant deer, covering her face and not daring to look at it.
Poachers in Hoh Xil act like ghosts before the patrol team, leaving behind hundreds of stripped bones of Tibetan antelopes. It was an animal, and it felt like a graveyard for animals, and its appearance was terrifying, even if the afternoon light was bright, it still did not hide the eerie feeling.
Xia Fan opened his mouth wide like them, unable to believe his eyes. Pigs, pigs, and elk were completely afraid to enter the valley and swirl on the grassy slopes. The wolf seemed to be crazy, and Dan took out an herb from his bosom and let the wolf sniff it for a while before slowly regaining his composure.
Xia Fan jumped off the pig beast and went to the front to check. It's very strange that these animals are very horrible when they die, and the horror on their faces makes people shudder, although these animals basically keep their whole corpses, but not only the flesh and blood are gone, but the brains are also gone, what kind of animal did it in ancient times, or what tribe did it, it's too cruel. Need so much flesh and blood?
A thought appeared in Xia Fan's mind, it was eaten by the evil dragon. This dragon is not ordinary, it is not only an evil dragon, but also a hungry dragon, so many animals, big and small, too many. If the flesh and blood here are all there, it will really pile up. 'Skeletons are like mountains, bones are like forests. Human hair is felt, and human flesh is rotten into mud. The description of Lion Camel Ridge in Journey to the West is nothing more than that.
Xia Fan took a look at the surrounding environment, this place was lower than the surrounding area, and some places were already swamps, sparse shrubs and withered yellow grass, not only did he not find any living animals, but he didn't even have a single animal footprint. There are a lot of bugs, the smell is not too strong, but it is still bloody. There are a lot of vulture-like birds flying in the sky, but they just don't land. Do they also feel the ominousness of the valley bottom? There was a small puddle of water in front of him, and there was a black beast lying there, not small, everyone hurried there, it turned out to be the corpse of an unknown animal, which was the only animal found in this area with skin and flesh.
From the morphological point of view, this animal is very similar to a hippopotamus, and it has just died, but the internal organs have disappeared, the bones and flesh are blurred, the one-eyed dragon and the tiger and leopard brothers took a lot of effort to turn it over, it should be a male, and it should have lived for many years, it is not a young beast, it may have exceeded two tons in its lifetime, and now it has shrunk greatly, such a huge animal should have no natural enemies, right, how did it die here? Xin struck the animal in the stomach with a wooden scoop, and a puddle of black blood was left behind, and it spread over the worms on the dead grass, and the worms died instantly.
Further ahead, there was already a swamp ahead, but it was as strange as if this hippopotamus was the dividing point, and there were no dead animals and bones past it.
The wind in this valley was obviously stronger than above, and that day Xia Fan found that after crossing the small river where he had camped, the grasslands on the north bank were even more withered and yellow, and here it was really withered. It's literally off-limits to life. When I looked closer to a tusky bone, I saw many ant-like insects cutting and carrying the remaining flesh and skin. Over time, the bones will be very clean, just like the medical bones produced in India, like a soaking in a potion.
Dan leaned close to a white bone and sniffed it: "They died strangely, not poisoned." ”
"What animal can deboned better than me?" Xin said as he picked up a small animal skeleton: "It's cleaner than a razor to remove meat." ”
Black picked up a section of bone and used an obsidian knife to remove a piece, the section was strange, honeycomb-shaped, there was no bone marrow, and it was sucked dry.
Xia Fan remembered that the shopkeeper in the New Dragon Gate Inn was not encountered, and he rolled around on the ground, and shaved the foot of the eunuch leader Cao Shaoqin, who was still wearing leather boots, into white bones.
Xin was right, the white bones here were like razor-shaved and then soaked in potions, too clean, too clean to be logical. This era does not have as many machines and technologies as modern society, there are not so deep bad guys, Texas, Silence, Rainy Night, Eight Immortals, Tuen Mun, Chainsaw.
Shouldn't the evil dragon only spit fire, and eat meat and swallow it in one bite, the Triassic canine-jawed beast? Jurassic Tyrannosaurus Rex? The saber-toothed tiger of the Miocene? The crocodile of the modern Nile? None of these animals have appeared in the course of evolution. And the animals here miraculously did it.
Pigs, pigs, beasts, and elk were reluctant to come in, and the place was already swampy, so everyone had to go around the valley and continue on their way.
Everyone's mood also fell to the bottom as they passed through this valley of bones.