Chapter 26 Chapter 26 The Third Night: Deja vu

"Huh?" I froze for a moment.Xin said that you know him, he is your second uncle? Poker-Face said something afterwards, and I immediately realized that I had misunderstood, he said: "These eight horses, this person is King Mu of Zhou." "King Mu of Zhou? The one who wrote "The Biography of Emperor Mu"?" I am also very familiar with the legend of Emperor Mu. Before coming here, the group of people often mentioned that the legend of Emperor Mu mainly records that King Mu of Zhou led seven elites to drive Chiji, Roboli, Baiyi, Yulun, Shanzi, and Quhuang. , Hualiu, Luer and other horses, driven by Zaofu and guided by Bo Yao, set out from Zongzhou, crossed the Zhangshui River, passed through Hezong, Yangyu Mountain, Qunyu Mountain and other places, west to the State of the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West The matter of feasting and entertainment.

That is to say, he traveled to Xiwangmu Palace on eight steeds, and was warmly received by Xiwangmu at that time. However, judging from the reliefs, it seems that Emperor Mu is here to travel. Could it be that the legend is wrong, King Mu of Zhou did come to the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West back then, but to fight? I immediately continued to look at the reliefs, and the next painting took my breath away. I saw King Zhou Mu's army entering a palace, and there were many women with snake heads on the screen. After entering the hole of the tower, countless cockscomb snakes crawled out of the tower, biting with King Zhou Mu's army.

Seeing this, I immediately understood the meaning of these stone towers in the rainforest: "It seems that King Mu of Zhou did attack here back then, but was defeated by the poisonous snakes here. Maybe in order to cover up his failure, he made up that story. These poisonous snakes To protect the West Queen Mother country, no wonder they raise this snake as a god. It’s like the Manchus don’t kill crows.” After thinking about it, I think it’s more than that. The bottom of these stone towers must be connected. Snakes live in the passages below the city, and they are fed with human heads. When they encounter danger, they use something to lure the snake out to meet the enemy. , This is a well-designed defense method. This kind of snake is so poisonous and fast, no one can stop it.

That is to say, people live in the city, and snakes live under the city. Now that the people are all dead, the snake will come to the ground.The civilization of the Queen Mother of the West is more similar to that of the Amazons. Over there, piranhas are used to defend against enemies and beasts. They also sacrifice piranhas, using living people and animals, and here they use human heads. Looking back, the more we look, the more in line with our inference.The concept here is gradually becoming clearer in my mind. In the midst of darkness, Pokerfing's sight stopped, and he saw the most central part of the rock wall. There is a huge prototype pattern carved in relief here, which is obviously the central part of the composition of the entire rock carving.It is engraved with a huge snake surrounded by many small cockscomb snakes, fighting each other.One of the huge snakes was wrapped around a huge tree, and the cockscomb snake was wrapped around it like a decorative pattern.

"This is a fight between the two-scaled boa constrictor and the cockscombed snake here. It seems that there were already two kinds of snakes here during the time of Queen Mother Xi. This kind of two-scaled boa constrictor may be the natural enemy of this cockscombed snake." I said. Poker-Face touched the stone carving, then shook his head: "No, this is mating." "Mating?" I was stunned for a moment, unable to understand. After thinking about it, I realized what he meant: "You mean, the cockscomb snake and this two-scale python are interbreeding? But, these are two completely different things." Snakes, and with such a big difference in size, how can they mate."

"Do you know what a bustard is?" Poker-Face asked me suddenly. "Buddhist?" I was baffled, wondering why he suddenly asked this: "The old bustler runs a brothel." "That's a joke. The bustard is actually a kind of bird. In ancient times, someone discovered that the bustard has only females and no males. They want to reproduce and can mate with any other species of birds. Wife, so people use this to refer to prostitutes who are capable of husbands." Poker Ping said lightly. "However, in fact, what the ancients said about the bustard is completely wrong. The bustard actually has a male bird. However, the difference between the male and female of this bird is too large. The male bird is several times larger than the female bird, so were mistaken for two different birds."

I understood what he said, and immediately understood what he meant, "So, you think these two kinds of snakes are actually one kind of snake, but the two sexes have two sizes, so which one do you say is the male snake? Which one is a female snake?" "According to the quantitative analysis, the smaller snake should be a male snake, and the larger snake should be a female snake. However, it may be the other way around." He touched the surface of the rock, and suddenly stretched out his unusually long fingers to touch the snake wrapped around the snake with two scales. Moment giant tree pattern. "strangeness."

"What's wrong?" I also went to touch it, but I couldn't figure it out.Just looking at him, he frowned, stepped back suddenly, picked up the carbon and painted the unpainted parts above and below the relief. Soon the reliefs on the entire stone wall appeared as a whole, and I took a step back to look at it. The moment I saw the panoramic view, I opened my mouth wide and froze. On the relief, the giant tree surrounded by a giant snake with two scales, from a distance, is not a tree at all, but an even bigger snake coiled into a circle. Because this snake is too big, Compared with him, the giant snake with two scales was like chopsticks and a rolling pin, and those cockscomb snakes were like toothpicks, so when you looked at the parts, you couldn't tell it was a snake at all.

"This... what is this? A dragon?" I said in shock.The giant snake with two scales is already huge, and this snake is so much bigger than it. Isn't that the same diameter as the Jiefang truck? Can this kind of thing be considered a snake? Poker bottle stared blankly, did not speak, while touching the patterns of the cockscomb snake one by one with his hands, after touching for a long time, he said: "Look, these little snakes are not coiled around this brocade python, they are They just huddled around the golden python to help it not slide down, the ones who are really mating are this golden python and this giant snake..."

I went to see him immediately, and saw him touch the coiled lines of those little snakes, and sure enough, I found that the little snakes were only coiled around each other, not coiled around the golden python, but the golden python was tightly coiled around the giant snake, I was surprised , suddenly realized something, took a breath and said: "My God, the fat man is right!"