Chapter 273: Snake Ghost Town · Third Night: Snake Mother

"Social snakes."
In a moment, such a word flashed in my mind, and I remembered the fat man casually said a word yesterday. He said that these snakes behaved like ants, saying there might be a snake here.
I thought it was impossible at the time. These snakes' cooperative actions were at most a reflection of the group instinct like a vulture. I didn't expect to see such a relief here. This is simply a model of animal social habits. .
These small red crested snakes are the role of engineers in social insects, and there are a large number of them, and those pythons are male snakes, which are large in size and few in number, and this huge dragon-like snake is what the fat man said. "After the snake", the only snake mother here. Judging from this relief, this snake mother is so huge that the male snake cannot mate with it smoothly, and so many cockscomb snakes are needed to assist. Moreover, according to the laws of nature, such a huge snake mother may not be able to move, and it does require other people to assist in mating, just like some giant sows who are raised.
Could it be that there is such a huge snake deep in the sea of ​​trees?
I know quite a lot about the history of snakes. In my mind, the biggest legend about giant snakes is in the rainforest in Brazil. Some people claimed to have seen a 50-meter-long giant anaconda. Humans are different. It has no fixed lifespan. Normal snakes will die naturally when they are too big to hunt for food. However, under certain food conditions, snakes can continue to grow. Those giant snakes are simply rainforests. God. However, even so, the snakes were only about one hundred years old when they died. How long has the relief been here, let alone three or four thousand years, if this snake mother really existed here, it should have died. .
And such a huge body, if it ever existed, it must also live in water, the swamp here obviously does not have such a large buoyancy.
I looked a little dazed, if we saw these reliefs in the museum, then we might think that this is an exaggeration or myth of the ancients, but we have encountered these poisonous snakes here, and saw their strange behavior, Well, this relief is very likely to depict a real scene. That may be a huge discovery in biology, history, archaeology and even sociology.
Looking at the situation of this relief really makes us unable to release our minds. How did this strange behavior of the snake evolve? Why is it completely different from other snakes? I feel there must be a deeper reason. These reasons must be related to the history of the Western Queen Motherland.
The reliefs that followed were a series of scenes of worship. In a temple, many people bowed to a poisonous snake. Looking at the outline of the temple, it was clearly where we were. Counting down, the swamp did n’t drown it. Previously, there were so many layers in this temple, and now the mud has buried all three layers below. On the sacred platform of the temple, the snake stood before the crowd. This should also be one of the scenes of sacrifice. Except for the strange movement of the snake, there is no other strange place. The sacred platform is in front of the main entrance of the temple. At that time there was only chaotic rocks, which obviously collapsed completely.
From a holistic perspective, we find that the performance of the boulder is centered on the reproduction scene of the snake, surrounded by the sacrifice of the snake, the feeding of the snake, the war between snakes and humans, and many other scenes about snakes, just like the oil bottle Said, this is a stone wall describing the snake's message.
I also want to get some information from it, but after reading it several times, I find that there are very few parts that can be carefully identified in more detail, and there is no gain anymore. There was no relief on the stone wall beside it.
Our mind was taken back. Only then did we hear the fat man's voice coming from a distance, scolding: "What are you two Qingqing and I doing? There are endless times, I said a few times, do you want to eat?"
We still haven't reached our expectations, but when we saw it, there was no clue for a while, and our stomach cried out, and our appetite beat the curiosity, so we had to pause.
I supported him, crawled down to the stove, and had smelled a long-lost smell of meat. The fat man uses a washbasin as a pot and hangs on the campfire to grill.
The fat man asked us what we were doing there. I really thought of him as a cook and wouldn't come to help.
When I told him what we just discovered, he was also quite surprised, but he was also very smug, saying: "Great minds can always make the right decisions. You have to learn your lesson and you must listen to me in the future. So that they wo n’t be aware of it afterwards-but if the snake mother is really dead, why are those snakes still collecting corpses, what do they collect for eating? "
"It may be feeding the male snakes like brocade pythons. Do you remember? When we found Aning ’s body last night, there were a lot of pheasant necks around the brocade python, which was obviously protecting the brocade snake. This male snake is also a noble class and will be supported by snakes. These snakes can continue to survive, but the snake mother is absolutely impossible to survive. There is too little food here. There are really such large snakes in modern times. We should also There will be some traces, so I see that this giant snake was dead thousands of years ago. "I said.
Said that the fat man nodded. I can now imagine him, these snakes are not deliberate snake charms, their behavior is also in accordance with instincts, can be more assured.
He sighed and said, "It can only be a little more assured. There are still many doubts about this matter. I don't know how to live this evening. Eat quickly and eat enough to fight."
I'm hungry and I don't want to discuss this anymore, so I asked him what he cooked?
"I cooked all the cans, only a little left. The luncheon meat stewed buns with sardines, a hodgepodge, but the taste did not say." The fat man said: "Come on, don't talk about these snakes, listen to your appetite, come and try Fatty, my craft, do n’t need money in the first bite, and start with the second bite, one bite per piece.

"What skill do you need to cook this thing, isn't it just boiling water?" I said.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you are much lower than your third grandfather, you can only be a hawker all your life." The fat man didn't take it for granted. My hungry stomach cried and immediately scooped up a bowl with an empty can and ate a big bite and burnt I am in tears, but it is really delicious. It tastes a bit like rice cake, at least it looks like a meal.
As soon as I stirred the fragrance out, the fat man couldn't make up his mind anymore. Without talking to us nonsense, the three men ventilated the residual cloud and drank the soup cleanly.
After eating, he was sweating, and he suddenly had strength, and his knees were not sore.
"How is it, not bad, you learn a little bit, people live in the seventies, they are rare in the past, eating and drinking and betting, only eating is the enjoyment of a person's life. Your fat man and I live the days on the edge of the knife. We like people can enjoy You have to enjoy when you are, maybe this is our last meal. "
"My pooh!" I was angry: "What to eat, drink and bet, you and your mother are the last one, don't drag us in."
Said that this was too unlucky at this time, because this may indeed be the last meal.
"Look, look, this is the feudal legacy of the feudal class." The fat man made a very slack expression. But then he said: "These things are strong. Yesterday, our eyes were fascinated by the mist. Take some supplements, otherwise it will easily fall into the root of the disease."
I remembered the mist of last night, and wondered: "Oh, why are we all okay in the forest and blind here?"
The fat man said: "I think it may be the problem of the water here. The mist is condensed by water vapor. The water in the forest is all living water, but the water below here may be dead. We don't know the specific situation."
I nodded, and remembered the shadow I saw when I regained sight, and asked if they had this phenomenon. When I talked about fat people, I shook my head: "The situation we experienced is much more complicated than you. How can you pay attention to it, who would you say? of?"
"I have talked about it in TV dramas."
"You believe that stuff." He shook his head, and suddenly he saw that the dull oil bottle raised his head, frowned, and looked at me.
The dull oil bottle has not been listening to us since just now. I thought he was still thinking about relief. He said to him: "Don't think about it, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it. Let's take a closer look at the relief. Find other clues, now you can rest in peace. "
Before I finished, he suddenly said, "You saw a black figure looking through the backpack?"
I was shocked and nodded. "It's very vague. I didn't see clearly. I don't know if it's an illusion, but it's definitely not the two of you."
Suddenly the oil bottle stood up and said to me: "That's Wen Jin."