Chapter 15 Snake Mother
"Social snake group." In an instant, this sentence flashed through my mind, and at the same time I remembered what the fat man said casually yesterday. He said that these snakes acted very much like ants, and there might be a snake queen here.
I thought this was impossible at the time, thinking that the collaborative actions of snakes were at most just a manifestation of group instinct like vultures fighting for food. Unexpectedly, I saw such relief here, which was simply a model of the social habits of this snake.
These small red cocks-combed snakes are the roles of engineers in social insects, with a large number, while those double-scaled giant pythons are male snakes, with large sizes and small numbers. This huge snake, like a dragon, is the "Snake Queen" mentioned by the fat man, 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 needs so many cocks-combed snakes to assist. Moreover, according to natural laws, such a huge snake mother may not be able to move, and it does require others to assist in mating, just like a giant sow raised.
Could it be that there are really such a huge snake in the depths of this sea of trees?
I know a lot about the history of snakes. In my memory, the biggest legend about giant snakes is that in the rainforest in Brazil, some people claim to have seen a giant 50-meter-long anaconda. A snake is different from humans. It has no fixed lifespan. Generally, snakes will die naturally when they are too big to hunt food. However, in some cases of sufficient food, snakes can continue to grow, and those giant snakes are simply the gods of the rainforest. However, even so, the age of those snakes was only about a hundred years when they died. How long has this relief been here? At least three or four thousand years. If this snake mother really existed here, she should have died.
And if such a huge body had existed, it must have lived in the water, and the swamp here obviously did not have such great buoyancy.
I was a little stunned when I saw these reliefs in a museum, then we might think that this was an exaggeration or myth of the ancients. However, we have encountered these poisonous snakes here and saw their strange actions with our own eyes. Then, the relief is very likely to depict a real scene. This may be a huge discovery in biology, history, archaeology, and even sociology.
Looking at the relief situation really makes us unable to let go. How did this strange behavior of snakes evolve? Why is it completely different from other snakes? I feel that there must be a deeper reason.
The relief afterwards is a series of worship scenes, showing many people kneeling toward a poisonous snake. The snake stood upright in front of everyone, which should be one of the scenes of sacrifice. Apart from the strange movements of the snake, there is nothing else strange.
From the overall perspective, we found that the expression method of the huge rock is the center of the snake's reproduction scene, surrounded by sacrifices to snakes, feeding the snake, war between snakes and people, and many other scenes about snakes. As Mon Oil Bottle said, this is a stone wall that records the information of the snake. I also wanted to get some information from it, but after reading it a few times, I found that there were very few parts that could carefully identify the details, and there was no harvest. The stone wall on the edge had no relief.
We retracted our minds, and then we heard the fat man's voice coming from afar, cursing: "What are you two doing? I've finished it? I've called you several times. Do you want to have a meal?"
We were still not satisfied, but when we saw no trace, our stomachs started to scream. Our appetite defeated our desire for knowledge and had to pause.
I held him, climbed down to the stove, and smelled a long-lost scent of meat. The fat man used a washbasin as a pot and hung it on the bonfire to barbecue.
The fat man asked us what we were doing there, and we really treated him as a cook and didn't come to help.
When I told him what we had just discovered, he was quite surprised, but he was very proud and said, "Great minds can always make correct decisions. You must learn from your lessons and follow my teachings in the future so that you will not realize it later... But if the snake mother is really dead, why are the snakes still collecting corpses, and what are they giving to eat?"
"Maybe it was feeding those giant python-like male snakes. Do you still remember that when we found Aning's corpse last night, the double-scale giant python had a large number of pheasant necks around it, obviously protecting it. This male snake is also a noble class and will be supported by snake groups. The size of these snakes can continue to survive, but the snake mother is absolutely impossible to survive. There are too few foods here. If such a big snake is active in modern times, we should also see some traces, so I think this giant snake was dead a thousand years ago." I said.
The fat man nodded after saying this, and I said to him: "Now you can imagine that these snakes are not ulterior motives. Their behavior is also instinctive, so you can feel more at ease."
He sighed and said, "I can only feel a little more at ease. There are still many doubts about this matter. I don't know how to spend it tonight. Eat quickly. If you have enough, you can fight."
I was so hungry that I didn't want to discuss this anymore, so I asked him what he had cooked.
"I cooked all the cans, only a little left, stewed with steamed buns and sardines for lunch, but the taste is unspeakable." Fatty man said, "Okay, let alone these snakes. I was disgusted with the appetite, come and taste my skills. The first bite is not worth the money, and the second bite starts with a clear tool."
"What kind of craftsmanship is needed to cook this thing? Isn't it just boiling it with water?" I said.
"Tsk tsk, so you are much lower than your third master, so you can only be a vendor for the rest of your life." The fat man disagreed. I was so hungry that I screamed. I immediately scooped a bowl of empty cans and took a big bite. It burned me so hard that I burst into tears, but it was indeed delicious. It tasted a bit like rice cake, at least like a meal.
As soon as I stirred it, the fat man couldn't make a fuss. He didn't talk nonsense to us. The three of them ventilated and swept the clouds and drank the bottom soup clean.
After eating, my whole body was sweating, and my body suddenly became strong and my knees were no longer sore.
"How is it, it's good. You learn a little. People live a life of seventy years old. Eating, drinking, gamble and eating, and eating is something that people can enjoy for the rest of their lives. You, Fatty, I live a life at the edge of the knife. People like us, when they can enjoy it, they have to enjoy it. Maybe this is our last meal."
"Bah!" I was angry, "What are you eating, drinking, gamble, you have the last meal, don't pull us in."
It is too unlucky to say this at this time because it may be the last meal.
"Look, this is the legacy of feudal thought." The fat man made a very flat expression. But then he said, "These things are powerful. Yesterday our eyes were confused by the fog. Take some to replenish them, otherwise it will be easy to leave a disease."
I remembered the fog last night and said strangely: "By the way, why are we blind here if we are fine in the woods?"
The fat man said: "I think it may be a problem with the water here. The fog is condensed by water vapor, and the water in the forest is all living water, but the accumulated water here may be dead. We don't know the specific situation."
I nodded, remembered the shadows I saw during the reign of Ming Dynasty, and asked them if this phenomenon was also true. As soon as I said that, the fat man shook his head: "The situation we have experienced is much more complicated than you, so how can I pay attention to these things? Who did you hear?"
“It’s been told in the TV series.”
"You believe that thing." He shook his head, and suddenly saw the penguin raise his head, frown, and look at me.
The oil bottle has not listened to us since the beginning. I thought he was still thinking about the relief, so I said to him: "Don't think about it, soldiers come to block the generals, and water comes to cover the soil. Let's take a closer look at the relief and look for other clues. Now you can rest with peace of mind."
Before I finished speaking, he suddenly said, "Did you see a black shadow flipping over your backpack?"
I was startled by him and nodded, "It's very vague, I didn't see clearly, and I don't know if it's an illusion, but it's definitely not you two."
Mon Oil Bottle suddenly stood up and said to me, "That's Wen Jin."
"Ah? Why?" I couldn't react.
He didn't answer me, thought for a while, and suddenly said to me, "Come with me!" and immediately ran out.
I looked at the sun and went down a little more, thinking that I was going to kill him, so I followed him immediately. He ran to the place where he set up a tent, found a waterproof bag from one of the tents, ran over, took a few toothbrush cups placed on the stone, picked up a mine lamp, and ran to the forest.
I stumbled and followed behind. He ran to the swamp at the junction with the jungle a few times, jumped down immediately, used the cup to dig the mud under the swamp, poured it into a waterproof bag, and then applied it to myself. I was stunned. He waved to me, and I nodded and jumped down immediately. Before I could stand firm, a cup of mud was slapped on my face. A few seconds later, the two of them smeared in the mud to be exactly the same as Wen Jin I saw at that time.
I thought of applying it again when the fog was coming, but it felt uncomfortable because it was wrapped in the mud. I felt unhappy. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, "Catch Wenjin."
"Catch Wenjin?"
"She is looking for food, and her food is exhausted, so she will definitely come again tonight. We want to set up an ambush."
"Amnesting at night?" I shook my head immediately, "I don't want to do it, and I will never stand up if I lie down."
Mon Oil Bottle looked at me and suddenly said, "Why are you here?"
I was stunned for a moment, he glanced at me coldly, climbed into the pool, and left without looking back.
I was stunned in the pool, feeling extremely uncomfortable, and said to myself: Why are you glaring at me? I'm not here because you hide everything from me. Why am I here? My goddamn-
I figured it out as I thought about it. I knew what he meant. It was too late to be afraid of death! I cursed and got up.
When he went back to talk to Fatty, the Fatty was a little hesitant. Yesterday's situation was too horrible. He thought it would be a bit risky, but after he said it carefully, the Fatty agreed.
The nature of this matter changed. We suddenly went from trying to survive at night to trying to die at night. But the fat man said no, and Wen Jin was not stupid either. She should have appeared when the fog was gone, or when we just got up, or even when we were not near the camp, she should have come as soon as it was dark. If Brother Zhenru speculated that she was looking for food, then she might have been hungry.
The oil bottle asked the fat man to cook half a pot of soup, making it look like the soup base that had not been finished. The fat man immediately started to make the stove burn more vigorously. Soon, another pot of chowder hot pot was cooked, and the aroma was filled with fragrance. The oil bottle carried the mud and smeared on Panzi, applied the mud to him, and covered him with mud. Then the fat man.
After all, the mud oil bottle lifted the pot and asked the two of us to follow. I asked, "What should Pan Zi do?" He said, "We will come back before the fog is gone. The three of us will go, and the probability of catching it is higher."
The three of them walked all the way to the original tent, and the muddy pot put the pot of chowder at our bonfire yesterday.
It was still early at this time, and the three of us found a hidden place to squat down. I just felt like we were going to laugh. This matter was a bit nonsense. We seduced Wen Jin with a pot of soup. Wen Jin was not a cat.
We squatted there, watching the sun go down the tree line. The darkness around us gathered like ghosts, and we didn't wait for anything, and even the soup was cold. The fat man couldn't help but want to ask him, but he waved his hand to stop him, and then pointed to his ears to let us pay attention to the sound.
We calmed down and listened to the movements around us. The mud was smelly and sticky, which made me feel very uncomfortable. Especially the part on my face and waist, because it was easy to dry, the skin in these areas was pulled up, which was so itchy, but I couldn't scratch it. It was even more itchy and dried faster.
I gritted my teeth and waited until the sky was dark and there was only a little light left. I had already entered a trance state. Suddenly, the people around me moved. I immediately woke up, tightened my body, shook my head, and followed them secretly poked their heads from behind the stone. In the very dim light, I saw a man covered in mud walking out of the forest carefully. Judging from his figure, he was a woman.
"It's really Wen Jin!" I tightened my throat and thought it was really effective. Before I could think about the whole story, the Duoyou Bottle's hand was already pushing on my shoulder and pulled me back.
I looked at him and he made a gesture to me and the fat man, meaning that as long as he moved, we two immediately crossed the two sides of the camp and must block her.
At this time, I didn't know what the hell was doing. We nodded and waited patiently. The feeling of ambush was quite exciting. My heart was beating wildly until we heard the movement of the soup bucket.
The fat man wanted to go out, but the oil bottle did not move. We didn't move even if he didn't move. After waiting for about ten minutes, the oil bottle closed his eyes and suddenly turned over and jumped out from behind the stone. Almost at the same time, we heard a scream of surprise, followed by the sound of turning around and running wildly.
The fat man and I immediately spread our legs, rushed out from both sides, then surrounded the camp, rushed through the middle of several tents, and the three of us arrived at the same time, and surrounded her in an instant.
Wen Jin was obviously panicked and circled around the three of us at a loss, his face full of horror.
With the fire, I could clearly see Wen Jin's face. I couldn't see the real situation in the mud. But I was sure that she was extremely young, just like a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old. Even in this case, I could still know that this woman was extremely beautiful, far more than that photo.
Chapter completed!