From a biological point of view, the bright colors of poisons are generally a threat and warning to the enemy-you can tell others in an intuitive way from your own bright colors-I am not easy to mess with, you'd better stay away from me-this It is also a threat to many creatures.
When some creatures encounter danger, their bodies will suddenly turn into the brightest color to scare the enemy. This is a defense method, which is very common in the animal kingdom.
Some non-venomous animals also use this method to confuse the public - to evoke fears deep in the memory of other creatures, so as to achieve the purpose of self-defense.
But in any case, a bright body is generally a symbol of high toxicity. Liu Chang looked into the pothole, his eyes were full of bright colors—the colors were so bright that he seemed to have returned to his kindergarten days—the era of thirteen-color crayons.
In that era, many children could not draw, but they bought the most colorful and complete crayons, and then grabbed seven or eight of them, and randomly smeared them on the white drawing paper, making it colorful.
How similar the situation is.
It's just that the white drawing paper turned into an endless ice surface, and the colorful colors turned into a pit of fish.
"Do you dare to jump in?" Liu Chang pointed to the colorful objects in the hole and asked Tai Xie'er.
"Don't dare." Tai Xieer looked at the thing in the hole, and took a step back, "If you want to jump, you jump."
"Didn't you grow up in Australia? Why are you so afraid of these poisons?" Liu Chang continued to ask.
"It's because I was born here and grew up here that I'm so afraid of these colorful things. Besides, although I have a strong body resistance to poison, I'm still far behind you?" Tai Xieer stood Beside the pothole, he pointed to a poison with white rings all over his body and said: "Teach you to recognize what is the most poisonous thing in here! Have you seen this kind of long ring? Generally speaking, there is a rule in Australia. That is, the brighter the body, the more poisonous it is, and the one with long rings is the poison of poison!"
"What about the white ghost in Zhonghai?" Speaking of poison, Liu Chang suddenly remembered the situation when he and Tai Xie'er went down to Zhonghai for the first time and almost died. The same thing, that thing is extremely poisonous, but its body is not bright, and there are no patterns: "That thing doesn't seem to meet the characteristics of poison here."
"No, I haven't finished talking yet." Tai Xieer continued to complete what he hadn't said just now while talking: "The full text is that the brighter the color, the more poisonous it is, and the ring-shaped poison is poisonous. Killing is like the wind, just look at those monochrome things!"
The last sentence Tai Xieer spoke was like a ballad, especially when it was sung in the language of the underwater people. The scale was very compact, and it felt like a human nursery rhyme.
"This is a ballad that our children must memorize from birth, so that they will have a deep understanding of poisons from an early age, so that they will not die halfway." Tai Xieer said: "The meaning of this ballad is very clear. The brighter the more poisonous, the more poisonous the ones with rings are. Those animals with pure bodies without a trace of variegation will die when they touch them. The Australian Twelve Poisons (in reality, there are Australian Twelve Poisons, it seems that it is also called the Australian Twelve King Kong) ranking The front is almost entirely solid color."
"This land is not easy to mess with!" Hearing what Tai Xieer said, Liu Chang suddenly thought of the scene of the Australians in the early end of the world—maybe they are different from the Chinese, what they have to face is more colorful things, go out to eat If you eat food, you will die inexplicably, if you walk, you will die inexplicably, even if you take a breath of air, you may die inexplicably.
"Sad Australians." Thinking of this strange scene, Liu Chang took a deep breath, and then stepped on his "chariot" again, "Let's go, how far is Darwin Port?"
"It's almost here." Seeing Liu Chang get into the car, Tai Xieer also left the pothole and led the way ahead, "There are still more than a hundred kilometers left, I seem to already smell the smell of home."
Leaving the pothole, the two continued on the road. The distance of 100 kilometers was more than an hour for the two of them. Therefore, after fighting for thousands of kilometers, they saw the huge seaport in northern Australia - Darwin port.
"Damn, we're home!" Tai Xie'er had learned some of Liu Chang's catchphrases a long time ago after spending more than ten days together, smelling the smell of soil on land from a distance, Tai Xie'er walked like flying.
And Liu Chang also hurriedly increased the accelerator of the aircraft to the maximum, and chased after him roaring all the way.
Darwin is a big port - the Guts are a big people.
When he came to Darwin Port, Liu Chang obviously saw something different from Bolong's place here - that is, big and many - the nature is still the size of the house, and the number of houses is the number of houses.
Unlike the sparsely scattered houses in Bolong, the mountains and sea rocks here are neatly arranged in rows, with scale, quantity, and shape—and the number of Xilong people is also very large. Before reaching the beach, Liu Chang saw no less than 50 Xilong digging pits in groups and preparing to hunt—and when passing by the hunting team, one Xilong recognized Tai Xieer.
"Hey, it's Mr. Tai Xieer back?" A Xilong holding a huge harpoon heard the roaring running sound from a distance, and was wrinkling his scaly forehead to see who was so ignorant to dig up the fish that had just been dug up. When the fish gathered in the pit were all running away in a fright, they saw Tai Xieer running wildly all the way, and then his forehead immediately stretched.
"Tai Xieer... son?" Liu Chang almost didn't laugh when he heard the fishing captain's words from a distance—he always felt that the Xilong tribe was a bold and unrestrained race, and he had never heard of using honorifics to anyone. When he met Tai Xieer for the first time, Liu Chang guessed from the conversation between him and Guan Xi, the man from the bottom of the sea, that this person must have a high status, but at this moment, he still felt a bit embarrassed when he heard the honorifics from the mouth of one of the roughest races. funny.
"Don't laugh, young master is our honorific name." Tai Xieer heard Liu Chang laughing at him, and bowed his head while running.
Then the two came to the fishing team one after the other.
First Tai Xieer, then Liu Chang.
Therefore, the expressions of these Xilong people who were fishing changed twice when they saw the two people arriving at the front and back. Because of the lessons learned from the past two times, before coming this time, Liu Chang replaced his skin with scales in advance, and then turned it into Xilong's favorite bright red.
"What kind of species is this? It looks so cute." An obviously female Xilong, seeing Liu Chang couldn't hide the love in his eyes, stretched out his hand and wanted to pinch it.
"Human, mutated human, my friend." Stopping the reckless behavior of the tribe, Tai Xieer introduced: "This is my friend, my best friend, who saved my life."
"Ah?" Hearing Tai Xie'er's words, the female Xilong who stretched out her hand to pinch Liu Chang stopped her claws, and returned to the original place angrily, asking: "I actually saved the life of the young master, I can't think of this cute little thing!" , No, no, this human is quite powerful!"
"I'll tell you about him later, are my parents still in the clan?" Tai Xieer asked.
"Well, the two adults are still in the clan, they both thought that the son is dead, and the two are planning to have another child..."
"Pfft!" Hearing this, Liu Chang, who had endured for a long time, couldn't help but burst out laughing—usually for humans, the death of a child is a very sad thing—but Xilong, a happy race, is very happy. Obviously, they don't know what sadness is. As Tai Xieer said, after death, they become a piece of flesh like a relative, and they don't place any thoughts on the dead at all.
So, instead of grieving Tai Xie'er's death, his parents were planning to fill their void with another person.
This is not what makes Liu Chang feel the most ridiculous. The most ridiculous thing is that an outsider is notifying Tai Xieer of this matter with a solemn expression, and Tai Xieer himself is still listening with gusto.
"What? They're going to have a baby!" Tai Xieer was shocked when he heard the news, ignored Liu Chang who was laughing, and said goodbye to everyone and ran to the port again, "We can't let them regenerate. Having more children will consume a lot of vitality. I will leave first, and I will inform them that I am back, so you can continue to work on your work!"
Tai Xieer waved his paws while running, striding away from the sea ice, and Liu Chang naturally followed.
Pushing the throttle to the maximum all the way, Liu Chang stopped the aircraft towards the shore when he came to the beach, and then ran quickly to catch up with the pace of Tai Xieer who was running at full speed in front, shuttling between huge stone houses. After a while, we came to the artificial hillside of the largest port.
"Your house is really big." The hillside of the port is man-made, and it is a hill that looks more than 100 meters high.
It smells like a rock in the sea, very hard, it was lifted to the shore and placed on the most obvious and highest place on the shore—much larger than ordinary houses.
The whole mountain was hollowed out and turned into a hollow shape, and there were two Xilong guards at the door.
The two guards saw Tai Xie'er and Liu Chang running over from a distance, and then showed the same expressions as those of the fishing couple: "Master, you..."
"Go ahead, we'll talk later!" Tai Xieer rushed all the way into the house before he could finish listening to the two guards, and Liu Chang followed closely behind and entered the real home of this buddy.
There is no grandeur as imagined, and there are no dazzling decorations inside the huge mountain, only some simple and simple tables and chairs—and after entering it, Liu Chang did not find any more Xilong people—the same as the ancient big family he imagined. The situation in which maids and servants are everywhere in the family is a bit different—it seems that although the Xilong clan has formed a social class, due to time and personality reasons, there is no obvious privileged class here.