Yue Guanchao observed the giant corpse in front of him. He just stared at the crowd but hesitated to attack, probably because he could only move in the pond. He made up his mind and said to Ghost Fang Zong: "We can try, didn't we get gunpowder? , throw it over and see if this thing’s head can withstand explosion.”
Gui Fangzong understands that since they have provoked this entity, not solving it will always be a future trouble. Even if Yue Guanchao's method is risky, it is still a strategy.
He thought clearly about the risks they faced, and each hid in the forest beside the pond. After that, Guifangzong began to ask the craftsmen to prepare gunpowder in bamboo tubes.
Following his order, the bamboo tube was thrown into the giant's body while still blazing with fire!
These home-made gunpowders are not as powerful as Western ones. They can usually be used to blast mountains and open roads. Several violent explosions rang in my ears.
The huge head made an extremely sticky crackling sound and became silent again.
Yue Guanchao and the others observed for a moment and determined that the corpse's head in the pond had been blown to pieces, and then they walked out from behind the huge ancient tree.
At this moment, everyone looked at the edge of the pond. As the gunpowder exploded the pond into waves several meters high, it seemed that there was a flood on the shore, and a lot of the land was washed away. It was like skin wounds on the ground everywhere, revealing gray. Black soil, these turfs have all been washed into ponds and are floating on the water.
At the same time, there were more corpses, minced meat, and broken bones on the shore. Judging from the remaining fragments, these were mostly the corpse's nose, ears, and face. Probably, the huge corpse head had been blown to pieces.
These scattered fleshy skins had been dead for who knows how long. There was a smell of dead rats mixed with rotten meat, which made people keep retreating.
He picked up the dead wood he picked up in the forest, examined the pieces of flesh and corpses, roughly pieced together the broken skulls, and soon discovered something fishy.
His eyes lit up and he said: "There seems to be no brain in these skulls, and there is a layer of mucus inside the skulls. This shows that there is indeed something in the skulls. The key is where did this thing go? Didn't it blow up the main body?"
While everyone was talking, they kept looking around. Xu Xiake pointed to the edge of the pond and said, "It seems to have sunk into the pond. There are still traces of crawling here. It probably flowed down from here."
Afterwards, everyone picked up the rope and began to search for traces of the body by the pond. They found this dying thing on a beach near a tree hole.
Several people used their hands and feet to pull this thing in front of Yue Guanchao, and everyone was able to see clearly what it was.
What they saw in front of them, the shell spiraled like a pointed cone, and rotating patterns could be seen covering the shell. The widest opening had a tight seam with a back plate buckle, and blisters appeared with the breath. If it had to look like something, it would probably It is the snail that is common in paddy fields.
However, this snail is obviously tens of millions of times larger than ordinary snails. It looks like a huge water tank. The outer shell is almost translucent. From the inside, you can see the rotating snails constantly moving, with a lot of light colors. The texture covers the shell, and near the lid, you can see the accumulated tentacles, which have been completely sucked into the shell, and are like insects and snakes constantly shuttling inside.
Yue Guanchao picked up the wooden stick and poked the shell. The touch was close to the white film in the egg shell. It was very elastic and tough, not easy to break and also very soft.
"What the hell is this thing?"
This time, everyone was curious, at least it wasn't exactly the snail.
"I guess it was originally a snail in the paddy field. After being alienated by the Shennongjia environment, it became what it is now. Snails are snails in the water. They live on the tidal flats near the water and survive by preying on mayflies and insect eggs in the water. Like this The giant snail cannot survive by eating mayflies and insect eggs, so it can only capture larger prey. In addition, it has mutated tentacles to capture animals and use them as hunting organs, so it is completely acceptable."
"As for this giant corpse head."
Song Siyuan changed the subject: "It should have been in this pond, but it was used as a nest by the snail. The giant's brain was probably consumed by the snail. While the snail regarded the huge head as its nest, it also regarded the huge head as its nest. The head parasitizes as a hunting organ, which leads to the strange situation we see."
Yue Guanchao nodded: "This is probably your situation, but where did this giant come from? Doesn't the giant in Shennongjia still exist now?"
At this point in his words, everyone no longer knows how to describe this feeling!
With such a big head, if coupled with the body, it would be at least forty or fifty meters tall. If such a giant still existed in Shennongjia, it would be a bit too scary. The even scarier situation is that they have not encountered any giants so far. .
If you think about it deeper, either all the giants have disappeared, or maybe they haven't reached the place where the giants hang out yet.
That is to say, if you go deeper, you will encounter these giants sooner or later. If a group of people who are no bigger than their ankles meet prehistoric giants, what are their chances of winning? The worst thing is that they will give these giants extra food.
Song Siyuan stared at the pieced giant skull and carefully observed the cross-sections of the broken bones. After the cross-sections of these broken bones were exposed, many of them were completely calcified, and even turned into loose porous bone fragments. They were either calcified or petrified. .
Seeing this clearly, she explained: "These heads can only show that prehistoric giants once existed in Shennongjia, but they are probably unlikely to exist now."
"What's going on? Are you sure?" Xu Xiake asked. Since Song Qianjin had a guarantee, she had to come up with a reason to convince everyone. Otherwise, she would inevitably stop trying to comfort them.
Song Siyuan turned her attention to the skull: "I just took a look and found that the cross-sections of these skulls have many fine pores. This bone feature is completely pathological. It is probably due to some osteoporosis, making the bones more and more brittle. This represents the giant If you get osteoporosis while you are still alive, the disease is mostly caused by reduced physical activity, less time in the sun, and a lack of calcium in your diet.”
Everyone was confused about this result. Xu Xiake was puzzled and said: "Song Qianjin, what does this giant's osteoporosis have to do with us? What we are discussing now is whether giants still exist in Shennongjia."
Song Siyuan nodded towards him: "Of course it does matter. Let me ask you, is a giant forty or fifty meters tall, invincible in Shennongjia?"
"Of course."
Xu Xiake still understood this. The huge size also destined the giant to be invincible and have opponents in the mountains and forests.
Song Siyuan continued: "If such a person hunts, even tigers, wolves and lions will not be its opponent. Under such circumstances, it will definitely not be short of prey, let alone starve due to lack of food and drink. Then, I think Ask the priest, what does it mean if a giant develops osteoporosis?"
These words were like a wake-up call, causing Xu Xiake to slap his head suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said: "This Ming giant has not been able to catch enough prey. If it is only for a short period of time, it is estimated that it will not develop bone lesions. It is probably a long-term capture." The lack of prey, lack of food and drink, lack of light, and lack of exercise allowed the giant to develop to the point of weakness, causing the disease to penetrate deep into the bones and form osteoporosis."
Song Siyuan nodded and looked at Xu Xiake: "Brother Xu is right. The bigger a giant is, the more energy it needs..."
To put it bluntly, they have to eat a lot of food to maintain their metabolism. At the same time, due to the limitations of their huge body size, they have to overcome greater force inertia if they want to control their bodies. Even to maintain the oxygen needed by their bodies, There are more than ordinary animals.
They have learned so much that they can basically confirm that this is an ancient giant that moves slowly, eats a lot, and consumes a lot of oxygen. Such biological habits are destined to consume more resources.
From ancient times to the present, the oxygen content has been declining, species are becoming extinct, and even the daylight hours are shortening.
These changes in the ecological environment have a profound impact on animals and plants: the shortening of daylight hours will weaken the photosynthesis of plants, the vegetation is destined to degrade, and the oxygen will be reduced. It will also make it difficult for large animals to breathe and become weaker and weaker. The extinction of animals and plants has caused the continuous reduction of animals and plants, which has also aggravated the scarcity of prey.
These various factors are superimposed on each other, and it is no wonder that the giants will disappear!
Speaking of this, Song Siyuan sighed: "The chain reaction caused by the superposition of multiple factors is the reduction of species, the degradation of forests, and the thinning of oxygen. Eventually, it reaches the point where the giants cannot hunt and survive. When all the giants in the group are unable to catch prey, By then, it would have sounded the death knell for ethnic extinction.”
"After that, hunters will continue to die, eventually leading to the extinction of the giant race."
At this point, the truth about the extinction of the giants has become clear. Yue Guanchao asked: "I bet these giants starved to death."
This vulgar man's words were rough and unreasonable. Song Siyuan nodded and said: "That's true. If you look at it professionally, it's because ecological changes have caused drastic changes in the environment. Giants were unable to adapt to the environment and became extinct thousands of years ago. Probably, in the time of Dayu The giant country that emerged was already the last group of giants in the tribe. Then, with another change in the environment, the giant tribe disappeared from history."
She paused and looked very regretful: "Not just giants, many large animals in nature became extinct in this way."
"In the past, mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, giant cats, giant rats, and giant crocodiles were all large animals that became extinct because they were unable to absorb oxygen because of the thin air. If they wanted to survive, they had to adapt to environmental changes and evolve to a larger size. , to take in less oxygen and slow down your own metabolism.”
Xu Xiake continued to ask: "If the giant race has long been extinct, then why does the head we see today still exist? It looks like it has just died."
