Chapter 957: The Curse of Genes

There are all kinds of things, and the Ghost Fang Sect told everyone about the remaining four strange phenomena of the midsummer cave glaciation, the arrow bamboo building an ownerless nest, the cold and warm cave Jing Weiming, and the stone house raising a god-headed chicken.

When it came to the tense place, Yue Guanchao and the others, although they were not there, were still shocked.

As soon as the words fell, the Ghost Fang Sect added fire to the furnace: "I have either seen or failed to see these things, there are always old people who talk about the ancients like this, and I will take the opportunity to tell you about it, as for the real situation, unless you are there, you will never know." ”

At this point, Yue Guanchao and they had already eaten enough, and a craftsman hurriedly ran over in the distance: "Clan Elder, it's not early, there is already movement under Shennong Peak." ”

Ghost Fang Sect looked at everyone: "Everyone, Shennong Peak is not peaceful at night, it is better for us to return to the temple as soon as possible." ”

Hinting at this, they extinguished the fire and entered the temple, and after counting everyone, the Ghost Fang Sect asked the craftsman to immediately close the door of the temple, and at the same time sealed it with a long nail with a wooden plank, leaving only half an inch outside for the second nail.

These operations are very cautious, it seems that the things outside Shennong Peak are indeed terrifying, and they have reached the point where they want the Ghost Fang Sect to seal the doors and windows, which means that the things that come later are not something that can be solved by a large number of people or advanced weapons, and it is likely to have the kung fu of breaking doors and windows.

Thinking about this, Yue Guanchao became curious, and asked Xiang Ghost Fangzong mysteriously: "The things outside, do you have the kung fu to break doors and windows?" ”

At this moment, the dusk torch danced the flames, the light and shadow were like tongues, constantly licking his left face, under the yin and yang face, it can be seen that the ghost old man shook his head: "It's not the things outside, but your own people." ”

"Your own people?" Yue Guanchao became curious.

Ghost Fang Zong's face became serious: "Yes, after nightfall, there will be Yin soldiers singing outside, if people hear some sounds, they will involuntarily open the door to find that sound, and then they will never come back, in the past half a year, many craftsmen have disappeared like this, and we have temporarily sealed the doors and windows, which is also a solution." ”

"Can't you use the Meditation Pill or the Evil Pill to ward off evil spirits?"

Yue Guanchao had also encountered such a situation in the Ancestral Vein Soul Palace, even if those apes were terrifying, they still had a way to deal with them.

"You'll see it with your own eyes in a moment."

Ghost Fang Sect did not refute, and went up to the attic by himself.

When Yue Guanchao and the others returned to the attic, the craftsmen were already busy, and all the doors and windows facing the courtyard had been nailed, leaving only one window unclosed for checking the situation.

This agricultural shrine is a three-story drop platform, and their location is the attic of the temple, standing here with a completely wide field of vision, and you can directly see the situation in front of Shennong Peak.

At this moment, in order not to attract attention, everyone had extinguished all the torches, and the moonlight shone into the ground through the open window, floating a layer of silvery frost.

Yue Guanchao looked up at the top of his head, there were very few clouds above Shennong Peak, even the moon ring was larger than usual, and the huge disc was suspended in the air, faintly outlining the outline of thousands of peaks.

In this chaotic gray and black, it can be seen that the roar of wild beasts sounded on the surrounding mountains, and the roars of tigers, wolves and beasts gradually approached Shennong Peak with the sound of rustling, and it seemed that they were coming to the top of the mountain.

There was a bang, the surrounding trees fluttered, and the birds in the forest fluttered, chirping in the moonlight.

In the silence, the green gauze tent in the forest sounded the roar of the deer, as if it was torn apart by something, and the fireflies in the bushes were frightened, and they flew out of the bushes to wander in the forest, and began to appear bright and chaotic fires, like ghost fires tumbling up and down.

This movement eventually caused a chain reaction, causing the forest in front of the Shennong Sheji Temple to begin to fly with light, like a sea of streamers fluctuating.

In the midst of the churning, a tiger as big as a ploughing ox peeled off the bushes from the bushes and walked out slowly, with a fluttering wild deer in its mouth.

The wild deer was probably bitten by the tiger just now, constantly flapping its hooves to escape, and was bitten by the tiger and twisted its neck alive in the trachea, and immediately stopped moving.

After a few moments, the tiger began to half-crouch on the ground and tore at the belly of the deer, which was quickly torn open, and then the belly flowed to the ground.

After the tiger roared, there was another rattle in the woods, and several more tigers appeared around the deer, burrowed their heads into the deer's torn belly, and whimpered and ate.

"Over the mountain?"

Tan Yanqiu looked at the tiger nearby, his eyes glaring.

"Dare to love, this is the yellow of the mountain."

Yue Guanchao heard that Tan Yanqiu was yellow, his eyes began to look at the tiger, under the moonlight, although he couldn't see the color of the fur clearly, he could also see from the shadows that there were no stripes on the body, the hair on the belly was lighter in color, and the tusks on the lips were similar to ivory, curved forward, sharp and sharp.

Such a tiger is indeed similar to what Tan Yanqiu described, but this unusual appearance also made everyone wonder in their hearts.

Yue Guanchao scratched his brain and teased: "There really is this kind of tiger with fangs on both sides underneath, it can't be matched with a female wild boar." ”

"Probably not, look at the wild deer, there's obviously something wrong with its horns."

Song Siyuan motioned to Yue Guanchao to look at the antlers, this wild deer is probably a sika deer, covered with brown and black short hair, with light-colored markings covering the body hair, but, it should be a dragon's antlers, but at this moment, it is like a tree branch, full of all kinds of flowers, just like a sika deer with flower branches on its head, which is extremely strange.

Seeing this situation, a trace of strange emotions spread in everyone's hearts!

Yue Qingshan looked at the tiger in the wild, his face was uncertain: "The tiger here is completely different from ordinary tigers, even the wild deer look very weird, if the tiger has been matched with a wild boar to grow fangs, then what has the sika deer been matched with?" These flowers and branches grow on the top of the head. This sika deer is a beast, how can it grow with grass and trees, these beasts are definitely not what we think. ”

Song Siyuan pondered the current situation and explained: "I think of a kind of tiger, it does have fangs, about twenty or thirty million years ago, there was a kind of saber-toothed tiger living in the Americas, they are not tigers in the strict sense, but they are very similar to the things in front of them, except for the appearance of the tiger, there are two more fangs on the side of the mouth protruding from the lips. ”

"The function of these two fangs is to help them hunt large animals, like mammoths, bison, wild deer or something, as long as it is a giant prey, you can use the front two fangs to tear open the skin, in the fight, the fangs are also sharp weapons, the virus on it enters the prey after biting, which will quickly make the prey lose its mobility."

"It's just that the patterns on those saber-toothed tigers are very close to ordinary tigers, and they are still different from the yellow mountain with brown and yellow hair in front of them, and I can only tell you that the two look very similar."

Yue Guanchao listened to Song Siyuan's meaning and asked, "Then, do these saber-toothed tigers still exist now?" ”

She sighed and shook her head: "They lived 10,000 years ago, and now they have long been extinct, and only some fossils are left in South America. ”

Yue Qingshan said: "Then Song girl, what do you mean is that the Shanhuang we see in front of us is actually a saber-toothed tiger that has disappeared for 10,000 years?" ”

Song Siyuan acquiesced to the crowd: "Indeed, even if this Guoshanhuang is not a real saber-toothed tiger, there must be a saber-toothed tiger's genes in his body." ”

At this point, her face became serious: "The extinction of the saber-toothed tiger is related to the climate and the loss of food, about 10,000 years ago, the climate changed drastically, from the warm period to the severe ice age, most of the vegetation in the north has begun to retreat and decrease. ”

"The reduction in vegetation has led to a sharp decline in the number of large herbivores, which feed on large animals, and the reduction in prey is passed on to the saber-toothed tigers, so that the survival rate of the cubs is minimized, and the saber-toothed tigers are not adapted to the climate, which eventually leads to their complete extinction."

"Equally, the extinction of the saber-toothed tiger is entirely due to the decrease in prey, their teeth cannot flexibly capture prey, and the population disappears, leaving only the tiger with more teeth and mouth, and continues to survive in this world, which is equivalent to the huge tusks of the saber-toothed tiger, which is actually a gene that has been eliminated by nature, and no matter how the tiger evolves in the future, it will not evolve into a huge tusk."

Speaking of this, she paused: "Since the yellow in front of me retains its huge fangs, I think that their bodies are probably the descendants of the saber-toothed tiger, and at the same time, their bodies have also undergone some changes in order to adapt to the modern climate."

"If my guess is correct, 10,000 years ago, there must have been a saber-toothed tiger in Shennongjia, and then the saber-toothed tiger crossed with other tigers to form a new mutant gene, and the way they grew up is the burnt yellow mountain yellow we see."

"What about the wild deer?"

Xu Xiake narrowed his eyes: "Guoshan Huang is a species of the ancient saber-toothed tiger, and the wild deer can't be crossed with flowers and plants, right?" ”

Although the words of the Taoist priest are rough, the truth is very real, the mountain is still a beast, and the sika deer already has the characteristics of plants and trees, if this is the gene of an ancient animal, it is a little too far-fetched.

Song Siyuan was also confused, shook his head and sighed: "I am indeed puzzled about this, although we have also seen this kind of plant that can prey on living things, but it can only be the evolution of ancient plants in order to survive, and there is no situation of sika deer and plants fusing in nature." ”

"However, we can make an analogy, since Ah Xi, as a human being, can grow in symbiosis with plants, does that mean that all animals in Shennongjia may have symbiosis with plants?"

At the mention of this, all Rao's pupils were shocked, and Song Siyuan continued: "If it is my possibility, then the animals and plants in Shennongjia are probably fused with genes by something, so that the characteristics of plants all appear in these animals, then, correspondingly, the characteristics of animals are likely to also appear in plants." ”