Zhang Qiling suddenly asked Wu Xiandao. "Do you know what a madam is?"
The fat man asked with a puzzled look on his face: "The madam who opened a brothel in ancient times?"
"That's actually a joke. The bustard is a kind of bird. In the past, people found that this kind of bird only has female birds and no male birds. They want to reproduce and can mate with any other species of birds. They are called ten thousand birds. The wife of a woman. So people at that time used the name of this bird to describe prostitutes who were available for their husbands."
"Actually, this statement is wrong. The bustard actually has a male bird. However, the male and female individuals of this bird are too different. The male bird is several times larger than the female bird, so it is considered to be two different species. birds."
Wu Xie understood what the younger brother said and immediately asked.
"You mean, in fact, the double-scaled python and the pheasant neck are the same kind of snake, but they are different in size due to different genders. But if you put it this way, which one is the male snake? Which one is the male snake? Female snake?”
"I don't think something is right." Lu Yao said, pointing to the pheasant neck surrounding the double-scaled python on the screen. "Since it's mating, why aren't the pheasant's neck and the double-scaled python entangled together?"
Wuxie took a few steps back, looked away, and looked carefully at the reliefs on the entire stone wall.
He opened his mouth wide and said in shock: "No, it's not the double-scaled python and the pheasant neck that are mating at all."
The tree entwined by the double-scaled python on this relief is not a tree at all, but an even bigger snake coiled into a circle.
The contrast between this snake and the double-scaled python is like the contrast between chopsticks and a rolling pin.
That's why when you look at a part of it, you subconsciously think it's a tree, but you can't tell it's a snake at all.
Only when you open your eyes and see the panoramic view can you clearly see that it is a snake.
Wuxie stammered: "This... what is this? Is this a dragon?"
Zhang Qiling didn't say anything, but just touched the reliefs on the pheasant necks one by one with his hands. After touching them for a long time, he said: "Indeed, these pheasant necks, they are just crowding around the double-scaled python to prevent it from sliding down. "
Wu Xie took a breath of air, "So what is really mating is this double-scaled python and this giant snake as thick as a tree?"
"Oh my God, Fatty, you're right."
What Wuxie said was what Fatty said casually last night. He said that these snakes behaved like ants. There may be a snake queen here.
At that time, several people sneered and laughed at the fat man.
Everyone thought this was impossible. The cooperative behavior of these snakes is at most like vultures competing for food, which is a manifestation of group instinct.
Now looking at the relief here, it is simply a model of animal social habits.
It seems that these pheasant necks play the role of engineers among social insects, and those two-scaled pythons are male snakes, large in size and small in number.
Judging from the relief, this female snake is so huge that the male snake cannot mate with her smoothly and requires so many pheasant necks to assist.
Several people looked at the relief in bewilderment. After a while, the fat man spoke first.
"At least three to four thousand years have passed since this relief was created. This mother snake should no longer exist, right? Has it become a fossil?"
The innocent voice was a little erratic, "Snakes must live in water. The swamp here shouldn't have such great buoyancy."
Think about it, the living habits of snakes are also displayed there. Therefore, this big snake should no longer exist, and the heart is put back in the stomach.
If there really was such a big snake in front of them, they would definitely go back home without carrying anything forward.
Only Wu Xie was left wandering around the relief, trying to find some information from the relief that they had ignored.
However, he looked at it several times and found that the parts that could be clearly identified were indeed gone, and most of the walls had collapsed or been buried in mud.
The fat man had already set up a stove nearby and stewed some broth.
The fat man belatedly asked, "Do you think that if the mother snake dies, will another one evolve later, or will the snakes just change their habits?"
Lu Yao took a sip of the broth in his hand and said, "The snake mother is not dead yet? Why are you raising this hypothesis?"
Wuxie looked at Lu Yao in surprise, "The snake mother is not dead? This relief is thousands of years old, how can it be possible that it is not dead?"
"He's not dead. If I remember correctly, he's in the West Queen Mother's Palace. If we keep walking, we should be able to meet him."
Seeing Wu Xie's surprise, Lu Yao was a little surprised.
"Snakes have a very long lifespan. The reason why most snakes die is that they cannot catch food after they grow in size. As a result, they starve to death. But you think there are so many pheasant necks in this jungle, it will starve. ?"
"No, if this snake mother really exists, first of all, the food here is simply not enough for her to survive. If such a big snake is active nearby, there will definitely be traces. We have not found any traces now."
"You don't think that from thousands of years ago to now, we are the only ones who have come in, do you?" Lu Yao glanced at Wuxie speechlessly, "And it's the dry season, and there is a lack of water all around. The animals They will definitely find those coming from here, so aren’t they just prey for the pheasant’s neck?”
"The most important thing is, is it possible that someone is feeding this snake?"
The fat man hugged his arms with a horrified look on his face, "I mean, Xiaoluzi, don't be alarmist or scare people here." He said this, but the fat man's voice was obviously trembling.
"It's just Lu Yao, don't scare people here."
Lu Yao looked at Wu Xie innocently, "Did I scare people? Did everything I told you happen? Will Aning be attacked by the water? Snakes can talk. Didn't you hear Pheasant Neck calling you Mistress? ?”
"Speaking of which, luckily you were wearing gas masks last night. You might have lost your sight last night."
Wuxie looked at Lu Yao strangely, "Why are you blind?"
"I don't know either. Maybe the fog in the swamp is poisonous?"
Speaking of which, they seemed to be in Wu Sanxing's camp when they were blinded by the fog. Brother and Wuxie seemed to be trapped in the tent for the night, which was a sweet spot for CP fans back then.
Speaking of this, Wuxie suddenly remembered last night, "It seemed like something had gotten into my tent last night, and I smelled an earthy smell."
"Did Chen Wenjin follow you here?"
Lu Yao suddenly saw a man covered in mud standing under a tree behind the fat man. Although he was far away, he could still feel the man's vicious eyes on him. .
Pan Zi suddenly pointed behind Lu Yao with excitement and shouted, "Where is the clay figurine!"
"There is one over there, who can we catch?"
It turned out that there was a clay figure behind a few people, but his position was quite tricky, and Lu Yao could only see him from a position just right.
The clay figurine behind Lu Yao should be Chen Wenjin. She may not have thought that there is another clay figurine in this rain forest, and she is looking at the other clay figurine in shock.
Wuxie asked Lu Yao quietly, "Is that Chen Wenjin behind?"
Lu Yao nodded and pointed behind the fat man,
"This is the third clay figure."
