At this time, the sky was already getting brighter. Song Siyuan looked at her pocket watch. She was sleepy in the middle of the night. After finishing the monkey group, it was already four or five o'clock in the morning. After the moonlight was extinguished, the sky turned blue and red clouds were about to emerge!
Although the monkey group was solved this time, it only eliminated the immediate difficulty. As for the Soul Palace, it was still unclear. After the monkey group was burned, Yue Guanchao looked at the corpses on the ground and patted the weed dirt on his body. While he was cleaning up his body, Song Siyuan used a flashlight to carefully observe the burned monkeys: "Are these monkeys really just monkeys? They can use tools, and they seem to have their own language!"
"No matter what it is, they want our lives. In order to survive, we can only kill these monkeys first."
As Song Siyuan spoke, she picked up the dagger, intending to scratch the faces of the monkeys. When the dagger came close to the face and pried it up, she saw that the burnt face had been torn open. It was obviously a human face inside, but it looked like a monkey along the edge. With a layer of velvety hair on his cheeks, he is obviously half human and half monkey.
"Could it be that those we burned to death were all alive?"
Song Siyuan noticed this and felt a little ashamed. Her words shocked everyone and gathered around. Xu Xiake and the others also followed the same example and uncovered the burnt skin. The tail behind him and the monkey hair on his body were all there, but they were covered by the mask. The face is a person’s facial features!
"No way, are these monkeys pretending to be humans?"
Song Siyuan thought of the old monkey's strange behavior and carefully inspected the old monkey's burnt body. The strange thing was that the old monkey was a genuine water monkey.
"This is strange. Only the old monkey is genuine, and the rest of the water monkeys are wrong. Why are these people pretending to be water monkeys? What do they want to do?"
Before Xu Xiake finished speaking, Yue Guanchao thought of the legend of Yue Qingshan and guessed to everyone: "The story told by the second uncle cannot be true. Maybe there is really a monkey hybrid?"
He remembered that the human-faced monkey mentioned by Yue Qingshan was similar to the dead monkey they had seen, and even said that it was describing this kind of thing.
Song Siyuan shook her head in denial at everyone, obviously disagreeing with Yue Guanchao's words: "It is simply impossible for humans and monkeys to have reproductive isolation. However, the situation mentioned by Uncle Yue does exist, but it is not a human-monkey hybrid, it is just an atavism."
"Atavism?"
"right!"
Song Siyuan thought it was necessary to explain clearly so that everyone could feel at ease.
Biologically speaking, although apes are close relatives of humans, it was millions of years ago when human ancestors evolved separately from the ancestors of apes after they came down from the trees. What's wrong with a monkey, it's impossible to give birth to offspring.
However, no scientific theory can be 100% accurate, and there may be exceptions. Since human ancestors evolved from apes, the inheritance in the body is likely to carry fragments of ape body hair. Over hundreds of years of evolution, this part of the inheritance The information is hidden, and only under certain conditions can recessive inheritance become dominant inheritance.
Once a person has a genetic mutation in the mother's body, it may trigger atavistic inheritance. For example, these children are born with multiple tails, some are covered with hair, and some are covered with black spots. These are all atavistic. Appear.
These human-monkeys are likely to be atavistic. They are covered with hair, but their faces and bodies maintain the shape of humans. As for the human-monkey hybrid mentioned by Yue Qingshan, it is possible that folk tales are added to the story, and they do not know that humans are atavistic. Phenomenon, they thought it was the child of a village woman and an ape, and then it was rumored several times, and it became the story they heard!
In fact, it is very likely that for some reason, many children have experienced atavism. Folks believe that fetal malformations are actually warnings from God. It is easy to interpret these babies as ominous omens. When faced with ominous omens, they either Either cut the weeds and eradicate them directly, or throw them into the wilds and let them fend for themselves.
The people in the small town threw away all their hairy children because they were afraid of being punished by God.
"Then what does this old monkey say?"
Xu Xiake looked at the old monkey. This thing was a genuine old female monkey.
"This is very similar to what Uncle Yue described. There are many monkeys in the forests of Shudi Mountain. When they see long-haired children, they feed them as monkeys as soon as possible. This can be traced in animal behavior."
After speaking, she looked at everyone and her tone became mysterious and said: "In the fifteenth century, a hunter captured an orc and gave it to King Henry II of France. The orc looked like a ten-year-old boy, and his whole body was covered except for his mouth. He had thick golden hair and looked like a monkey. In the 19th century, there was a juggler in Italy who was a furry child. His whole body was covered with a layer of fine hair. Later he married someone and their children were also covered in fine hair. .”
"It can be seen that although this kind of atavism is rare, it is not extinct. The maternal nature of monkeys is relatively close to that of human beings, and they love their babies extremely. In the face of these furry children, it is not easy to rescue them. That makes sense.”
