Chapter 10 Chapter 10: Shenlong Reappears in Longze Valley

Although the words of this young man named Qin Bu were quite difficult, but Di Menghun had worked a lot on ancient Chinese and knew that the tribe these people belonged to was called "Dragon Clan". But there are some problems with this assumption, because Di Menghun suddenly remembered that the Yin-Shang language family more than 3,000 years ago must have been very different from the language family in the 24th century. The Chinese language, although Chimbu's words are a bit difficult and strange, is completely understandable. How can the ancient Chinese of the 20th century be intelligible with the Yin Shang language of more than 3,000 years ago?

Di Menghun wanted to ask something more.But I found that the surrounding landscape had changed drastically. The dragons had already arrived at a land of green hills, the loess gradually disappeared, and plants and grass began to appear on the side of the road. . Passing through a dense jungle, the footprints of the parasaurus sauropods made a crackling sound on the branches and leaves all over the ground. The forest path is not wide, and the marching ranks can only be lined up. At the end of the path is A ray of white light entered into the light, and the scene in front of him suddenly became clear.

It was a deep and wide valley, and the surrounding mountains were surrounded by misty mist, and many areas on the ground were covered by misty clouds. A group of people rode the parasaurus Saulosaurus down the mountain path, and at a turning point on the mountain path, they were blocked by a huge beast on the path. It was a dark gray long snake-like giant dragon, at least twenty meters long, with a row of ferocious pointed dorsal fins on its back, beating small wings, less than one meter above the ground, floating In mid-air, he was leisurely eating the fruit on the tree. Di Menghun remembered seeing this flying beast the day before. The enemy army had several ferocious Junggar pterosaurs, and when they saw this flying beast in front of them, they ran away in shock.

Sitting behind Di Menghun, Qinbu let out a low whistle.The flying beast turned its head. It also had a fierce and majestic appearance, with a bristly mane on its face, but its eyes were black and lively, as if it was quite spiritual. "Go!" Qinbu reprimanded in a low voice: "Yinglong, go!" The flying beast named "Yinglong" by Qinbu seemed to understand human language, flapped its wings, and sank into the forest with its long tail. Di Menghun turned around to say something, but saw that Yao Sheng had woken up, staring blankly at the direction where Ying Long was leaving.

"Hello!" Di Menghun smiled and said, "Are you awake?" I saw Yao Sheng was at a loss. "It's a dream, isn't it?" She smiled mischievously, "What a weird dream." Di Menghun laughed out loud, with a playful heart, and clamped his legs to the neck of Parasaurus Saulosaurus, and Qin Bu screamed in shock, following the frightened Parasaurus Saurosaurus rushing through the team, he went straight to run forward. When I went down the valley, I saw a vast plain, and several Mamenchisaurus, which were even bigger than what I saw yesterday, walked leisurely. In the wilderness farther away, a small group of ornithosaurs ran happily there.

This valley is like a treasure trove of living dinosaurs. Di Menghun looked around and saw several groups of ankylosaur dinosaurs called "Minmi" dragons by paleontologists walking slowly on the ground, their backs were covered with strangely shaped spikes like heavy armored vehicles, Minmi The tail of the dragon has a very peculiar hammer-shaped bone plate, accompanied by the powerful muscles of the tail, it is a terrifying weapon that can tear apart the tendons and bones of large carnivorous dinosaurs. Ankylosaurus Minmisaurus. Triceratops. Shandong Hadrosaur. The fierce and vicious carnivorous Yongchuan dragon.

Mamenchisaurus, a brontosaurus. Junggar Pterodactyl. Taibai Huayanglong with upright giant armor on its back. A short, destructive protoankylosaurus. A parasaurolophus that can make a long flute sound. Also, the majestic and mysterious flying dragon "Yinglong". Just now the young man Chimbu also claimed to be a "Dragon Clan". It seems that many interesting answers can be found in this mysterious dinosaur tribe. The water curtain of Yangfeng passed over Di Menghun's head with a "shua" sound. Yao Sheng sat on the back of the paralong Salong, but he didn't have Di Menghun's curious expression on his face. Shocked, unable to speak for a long time.

There is a clear river in the middle of the valley, and by the river, a group of beautiful and bright Triceratops dinosaurs with head shields like blooming flowers are drinking water there.Seeing the group of paralongs and saurosaurus that Di Menghun and his party were riding on, a young triceratops looked up curiously, then buried its head in the water again, causing a series of sparkling water splashes. After crossing the river, there are several buildings made of mixed earth, stone and wood. Half of the buildings go deep into the ground. This is consistent with the semi-cave dwelling method recorded in ancient books. In the ancient Chinese era 3,000 years ago, human beings There is no habit of building a whole building, and the way of living is semi-cave dwelling.

Among these half-cave and half-building houses, one has the largest area. There are two carved stone pillars in front of the cave. One of the knights walked into the building, and after a while, several people came out in a hurry. Seeing Di Menghun and Yang Feng, who had transformed back into a human form, they quickly knelt down and worshiped them. Among them, there was one with big eyes The young girl burst into a smile, and although she knelt down with everyone, she had a mischievous look on her face. The leader was a gray-haired old man, who spoke the same language as Qinbu, who was not difficult to understand. He led a group of people to kowtow to Di Menghun, Yao Sheng and Yangfeng several times before standing up respectfully.

The old man's name is Kaxingbu, and he is the patriarch of the "Dragon Clan" of this tribe. In the eloquent narration of the knights, the old man knows that Di Menghun and his party are the companions of the "Water God", so he respects them. Di Menghun had a conversation with the old man, and found that their vocabulary is quite simple, and the words and nouns used are much simpler than the Chinese of later generations. However, there is absolutely no problem in communicating with them.Similarly, this is a very intriguing phenomenon. Language families separated by more than 3,000 years can communicate with each other. If Di Menghun, a linguistics professor in the university days, knows, he will be surprised from ear to ear, right?

Because he was recognized as a companion of the "Water God", Ka Xingbu knew everything about Di Menghun's problems, and Di Menghun was also curious about everything about this tribe and asked a lot of questions. Between asking questions, the girl hiding behind blinked her bright eyes and listened to their conversation. The old man also occasionally introduced in the conversation that the girl's name was Yan'er, the youngest daughter of Kaxingbu . In Kaxingbu's answer, Di Menghun, Yao Sheng and Yangfeng gradually understood the general background of this dinosaur tribe, and they were almost certain that they had indeed traveled through time and returned to ancient China in the Yin and Shang era. According to the old man, this dinosaur tribe is a race left by the gods in ancient times, and they have been raising such giant dragons for generations, but why did they appear on the Huanghuai Plain in ancient China 65 million years after the extinction of dinosaurs on the earth? It is not known that there were so many dinosaurs. Di Menghun tried to learn the whole story from the mouth of the old man, but perhaps because of limited vocabulary, Kaxingbu could not tell the true origin of the dragon race. He only repeated that all dragon races were created by the gods and passed down from generation to generation. So far, the dragon clan that Kaxingbu belongs to is not the only tribe that has dinosaurs in the world. The fierce battle in the plain that Di Menghun and others saw the day before was a scene of fighting another dragon clan. There is no substantive enmity, and the real battle is with other tribes. Because the soldiers are not strong enough, they come to the Dragon Clan to borrow giant dragons to fight. In fact, Di Menghun guessed that this is also the main way for the Dragon Clan to make a living, because he paid attention to it for a while on the way here, but he didn't see any traces of farming in the Dragon Clan's valley.Like the fierce battle on the plain the day before, it was a battlefield between the Jiuhou tribe and another unknown tribe, and the giant dragon who died in the battle did not actually have any direct enmity, it was a mercenary-like war. Originally, Di Menghun was interested in asking further questions, but seeing that Yao Sheng was quite exhausted, he asked Kaxingbu to prepare a place for them to rest. By the time Dekaxingbu arranged the location, it was already near noon, and the sun was quite blazing. As soon as Yao Sheng entered the residence, there was no sound, and he presumably fell into a deep sleep. The damage Yang Feng suffered when he traveled through time and space has not improved. After tossing for a long time, he also wants to take a good rest. When Di Menghun came out of Yangfeng's residence, he suddenly saw the dazzling sunlight. Thinking of the many encounters he had encountered this day, he was a little dazed for a while, feeling as if he was in a dream. He strolled towards the valley, and the dragon clansmen he met along the way thought he was a god and dared not approach him, but only showed awe from a distance. Walking on the road in the valley for a while, far away by the river, the girl Yan'er who had just hid behind Kaxingbu took a protoceratops, picked up a ladle of water, and was carefully washing the head of the protoceratops. There was a large laceration on his head, and he didn't know whether it was the scar from the previous day's battle or the trace left by the same kind of battle. The girl Yan'er picked up another ladle of water and poured it on the head of the Protoceratops. The bright water splashes reflected the noon sun, shining beautiful and colorful iridescence.She has a fair complexion and wears a nearly black leather robe. Standing beside the pale green Protoceratops, she is quite a pleasant sight. Di Menghun stood on the other side of her, looking at her quietly with soft eyes. "The City of Fallen Flowers...the Mountain of Changyang...the Beloved Lover...the life and death will never be forgotten..." Yan'er washed the wounded Protoceratops alone, humming an unknown song, and after a while, she saw Di Menghun staring at her from the side. All of a sudden, there was a long metallic sound from a distance, like a bell but not a bell, like a chime but not a chime. He turned his head and smiled mischievously, motioning for Di Menghun to follow her too. Walking along the river bank, it didn't take long to come to a strange place, which was a huge hay field. Looking carefully, the hay had been carefully arranged and woven into haystacks one by one, which looked like A huge nest. With a low cry, Yan'er repelled the Yuanjiaolong in his hand, came over and took Di Menghun's hand, and walked to the center of the lawn. Di Menghun looked at the center of the lawn for a while, and couldn't help opening his mouth, speechless. There, a middle-aged woman looked intently at several pits in the dry lawn. In each of the pits lay a Protoceratops quietly. Light green is noticeably different.Their lying postures are also quite strange, with their heads lowered and their tails raised high. Then, from the abdomen of one of the Protoceratops, a crystal egg with dark green markings slipped out quietly! This large pasture is actually the place where dragon dinosaurs laid eggs! Di Menghun looked at the protoceratops egg with crystal mucus in it with eyes that were close to religious worship. The protoceratops that laid the egg was about three meters long, and the egg that was born was about two feet apart. grip size. Once again, Di Menghun felt like a dream, because he realized that maybe he was the first lucky person in the history of paleontology to witness the laying of dinosaur eggs with his own eyes! The middle-aged woman patted the Protoceratops lightly with an instrument that looked like a feather stick. When she saw Di Menghun and Yan'er approaching, she just smiled at them and put all her energy on it. On a Protoceratops during spawning. "This... is this the place where they lay eggs?" Di Menghun asked a little absent-mindedly. Yan'er might not be used to Di Menghun's grammar, so he turned his head and thought about what he said before nodding with a smile. "Some..." she replied with somewhat awkward grammar: "Some don't lay eggs." Di Menghun looked at her in surprise. Yan'er smiled sweetly, took Di Menghun's hand again, and walked across the grassland to another larger open space. The clearing was surrounded by dense forests, and even though it was noon, there was a shady atmosphere. Yan'er led Di Menghun to the woods, signaled him with a "hush" to keep quiet, listened for a while, and mysteriously led Di Menghun into the woods. Going around in the woods, Yan'er took him to a small hill, and the two of them lay down on the hill, peeking down into the depths of the woods. There is a gray hill in the depths of the woods. Di Menghun looked at it for a while and found that the hill was moving slowly. After a closer look, he found that it was a huge brontosaurus Mamenchisaurus lying down in the woods deep. I saw the Mamenchisaurus moving its long neck slowly, tapping the tree trunk occasionally. After a while, a crack in its abdomen slowly opened, and a transparent viscous liquid flowed out from the crack, accompanied by mucus, from the horse. A small head protruded from the cloaca of Menchisaurus first, and finally, the whole body. The gigantic Mamenchisaurus was not oviparous. Although Di Menghun couldn't be sure whether it was a real viviparous, or laying eggs on the oviparous hatching in its abdomen, he knew that a puzzle in paleontology had already been witnessed by his own eyes. Get the answer below. The Brontosaurus dinosaur with a length of more than 25 meters and a height of several floors has never had any egg fossils unearthed. According to such body proportions, if there is a so-called Brontosaurus egg, it will be as big as a car. Such giant eggs can only be seen in the ancient fantasy novel "The Adventures of Sinbad", and have never appeared in kind. However, now Di Menghun saw the pony Mamenxilong born from the mother's womb with his own eyes! "Dragon," Yan'er whispered, "Dragon doesn't lay eggs, they do." At this time, the newly born Mamenxisaurus cub had completely separated from its mother. Its neck was not long, and it could stand upright when it was born. Although it was a newborn cub, it was already taller than a human. The newly-delivered mare Menxisaurus drooped its long neck, as if it had finished the hardest work, and let out a long cry, followed by a long cry in the distance. "Their friends," Yan'er whispered again, "I already know." social behavior. For some reason, these four words suddenly appeared in Di Menghun's mind. At the same time, he also hoped that Professor Ni Shuitian, who was in college, could see this scene with his own eyes. The inference is that ancient creatures such as dinosaurs may also have social behavior. For the first time, Di Menghun developed an incomparable intimacy with this ancient world of time and space. The girl Yan'er showed Di Menghun the reproductive sites of several different dinosaurs. Some dinosaurs were egg-laying, while others were born directly like Mamenchisaurus.While observing these dinosaurs, Di Menghun also had a lot of conversations with Yan'er. He found that the girl was very intelligent, and he got used to Di Menghun's 24th-century grammar in a short time, and the conversation was relatively fluent up. Looking at the dinosaurs all afternoon, Di Menghun found that most of the dinosaurs in the dragon clan were gentle herbivorous dinosaurs. Although I saw a knight riding a carnivorous Yongchuan dragon on the battlefield the day before, there were no carnivorous dinosaurs here. sex dinosaur. Di Menghun remembered that when he first met Yao Sheng, Yao Sheng said that her favorite dinosaur was the most ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex in animal history. "You guys," Di Menghun asked Yan'er gesticulating, "Do you have a Tyrannosaurus Rex?" "Ba... Wanglong?" Yan'er repeated hesitantly, thought for a while, smiled apologetically and shook her head. "No, still don't understand?" Di Menghun asked without relaxing. "don't know." Di Menghun thought for a while, and sketched a tyrannosaurus rex head on the ground, a big square head and sharp teeth. Although the drawing is not very vivid, it should not be difficult to see. Sure enough, Yan'er showed a frightened expression, and then drew a pair of small forelimbs under the head of Tyrannosaurus rex drawn by Di Menghun. That is one of the most famous characteristics of Tyrannosaurus rex. Teeth and agile hind legs, but disproportionately small forelimbs. "Is there?" Di Menghun asked with great interest. "Here, no," Yan'er's expression of fear never faded: "Longze, yes." "Longze? What's that place?" Di Menghun's eyes widened, as if a child saw his favorite toy. Yan'er didn't respond, and after a long time, he pointed to the east.Only then did Di Menghun notice that there was a small gap in the mountains to the east, and the mountains were surrounded by strangely shaped clouds. "Where is Longze?" Di Menghun asked. Yan'er nodded. At this time, there was a distant sound of metal knocking in the distance. It seems that this is a way for the dragons to communicate in the valley.Yan'er listened for a while, cheered, and blushed again, as if thinking about something.She took Di Menghun's hand out of the woods where Mamenxilong gave birth, walked around the mountain wall, put her fingers in her mouth, and made a clear whistle. After a while, two dinosaurs the size of horses turned out from the mountain path, walking upright on their hind legs. Their heads looked funny and round and protruded, like kappa in ancient Japanese legends, and a bit like ancient European dinosaurs. Medieval monks. When Di Menghun took a look, he knew that these two dinosaurs were the pachycephalosaurs that paleontologists dreamed of. In the history of paleontological research, pachycephalosaurus fossils are very rare, and the most complete ones are only a few head fossils with a skull diameter of 25 centimeters. Generally speaking, paleontologists speculate that pachycephalosaurus is a species of antelope-like social behavior Strange dinosaurs with ridiculously thick skulls were weapons derived from bumping into each other during mating to compete for mates. Yan'er ran to the side of the two pachycephalic dragons, jumped on the dragon's back, and signaled Di Menghun to do the same. Sure enough, riding a pachycephalosaurus in a dense forest is a very good choice, because its skull is extremely destructive, and when it encounters trees blocking the way, it will be destroyed by collision. After leaving the mountain trail, the two headed towards the dragon tribe.