According to the book, the Cretaceous era was the period when the largest dinosaurs appeared, and it was also a period when species were particularly rich. For example, the earliest pythons, moths, and bees also appeared in this era.
But there are also many people questioning whether the largest species in the Cretaceous era were really dinosaurs
Zhuang Yu has always scoffed at these doubts. As a lover of lost ancient civilizations and the youngest Ph.D. in the Department of Archeology, Zhuang Yu has always taken the attitude of laughing at such nonsense.
But now, he showed a puzzled expression to a photo on his phone.
In the photo, it should be a mountain peak, but the mountain peak has a fault for some unknown reason, exposing the rock layer inside.
The rock layers are clearly identifiable, and the entire mountain is a living fossil with a huge skeleton, far exceeding the largest known dinosaur, and its shape is not the shape of a known dinosaur.
"Dayu, have you seen it? This is definitely the greatest discovery in the archaeological world so far. It will overturn the cognition of the whole world, and archaeology will enter a new era." There are constant messages on the phone, even through the screen, Zhuang Yu could feel the other party's excitement.
It was his classmate and partner Zhao Lei who sent him the message. For the rigorous subject of archaeology, this partner would never joke.
Zhuang Yu is also a little excited. If this discovery is true, the whole world may have to start researching the origin of life again.
Zhuang Yu quickly replied with his mobile phone, "Where is the location?"
"Thirty kilometers away from the China-Myanmar border, in the undeveloped mountains."
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A few days later, Zhuang Yu finally stood in front of the mountain peak in the photo. Due to the inconvenient transportation, he walked in with a suitcase on foot during the last 30 kilometers. personnel, this is not an easy task.
The mountain peak at this time is somewhat different from the one in the photo. A lot of shelves were built against the mountain peak, and professionals removed the excess stones on it, revealing the true face of this huge living fossil.
"Da Yu, how do you feel? Do you feel the shock of being in close contact with ancient giant beasts? We will be witnesses of the most ancient times." Zhao Lei said excitedly.
But Zhuang Yu didn't answer, but was full of shock and doubts, because on the back of this giant fossil, there were some traces of simple and backward living buildings, but how could this be possible? What intelligent creature can live on the back of a giant beast and build simple buildings
Zhao Lei also showed a puzzled expression on his face, "Perhaps after this giant beast turned into a mountain, ancient humans regarded it as a real mountain and lived on it. We sent the stone here to be tested, and it is definitely chalk. fossils from the Epoch era, when humans did not even exist.”
Only in this way can it be explained why there are traces of intelligent creatures living on the back of a giant beast.
But Zhuang Yu frowned, "Leizi, I don't know why, I seem to have a sense of familiarity with these."
Zhao Lei was taken aback, "Da Yu, are you too tired from the journey and have hallucinations?"
Zhuang Yu also shook his head amusedly, and didn't say anything more, but his heart was really weird, why did the picture in front of him feel like he had seen it before
Maybe he was really tired from the journey, Zhuang Yu rubbed his tired body, then found a tent to rest, and when he woke up, it was already night.
Zhuang Yu was awakened, and he finally knew why he had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Excited, he couldn't wait to open his suitcase, searched for a while, and finally found a yellowed thread-bound ancient book at the bottom of the suitcase.
This is a "Tao Cang", but it is different from the "Tao Cang" that is popular now. It is very old. This book was given to him by the old master of a Taoist temple in the mountains when he was living in his hometown in the country when he was a child. .
The reason why it is different from the current "Tao Cang" is because there are many illustrations on it, maybe it just happens to be called "Tao Cang", two completely different books, these illustrations are the most imaginative memories of Zhuang Yu when he was a child.
After I grew up, I realized how unrealistic these pictures are, so I put the book at the bottom of the suitcase a little funny, which can be regarded as a kind of nostalgia for the old temple master.
But at this time, Zhuang Yu took the book and ran out of the tent.
The moonlight is very bright tonight, because the night is deep, there is silence, and everyone in the camp is fast asleep.
Zhuang Yu looked at the giant beast fossil in front of him, and at the traces of ancient living buildings on the giant beast fossil's back, and turned a page of the ancient book with trembling hands.
In the illustration on the page, it is a giant beast with a human group living on its back. No matter how you look at it, the skeleton of this giant beast is exactly the same as the fossil of the giant beast in front of you.
No wonder Zhuang Yu felt a sense of familiarity when he saw this giant beast fossil. He had read it countless times in books when he was a child.
Zhuang Yu's mood couldn't get any better, and now he really wanted to find someone to share his excitement at this time, but it was late at night and it was not easy to disturb others.
After a while, after trying to calm down, my doubts became more and more. If this painting is real, does it mean that someone knew it and recorded it in the form of painting a long time ago, in the distant Cretaceous Period? There were giant beasts bigger than dinosaurs in the era, and human beings already existed at that time, living on the backs of giant beasts.
Also, if this painting is real, what about the other illustrations for this book
Zhuang Yu turned to the next page. It was an old man riding a green bull. The old man was very small, but the green bull he was sitting on was huge.
If it was before, he would feel that the proportions of this illustration are too unrealistic, but if the green bull itself is this big...
Turning to the next page, there is a huge sea turtle with a woman holding colorful stones, facing the sky...
The more Zhuang Yu looked at it, the more excited he became. Everything is so mysterious. This is definitely a lost ancient civilization.
In the dead of night, everything was silent, only Zhuang Yu's mood was agitated like the most turbulent sea waves, and his hands unconsciously touched the stone wall of the mountain in front of him.
It's just that when he touched it, the yellowed ancient book in his hand suddenly emitted a faint light.
Zhuang Yu was stunned, because a huge beast's roar suddenly came from the mountain in front of him, full of ferocity, vastness, and invincibility, and the roar resounded through the world.
Before Zhuang Yu knew what was going on, he heard an urgent cry, it was Leizi's voice, "Da Yu, be careful."
What
Zhuang Yu was taken aback, and looked up, the whole mountain roaring like a beast seemed to be looking down at him, but it was just a living fossil, and as a result of this bowing, the whole mountain began to collapse.
Zhuang Yu's heart skipped a beat. It's over. It's not that he lamented that his life was about to end, but... such an important discovery was ruined like this. What evidence did Leizi and the others use to prove that this century when humans lived on the backs of giant beasts? Without the existence of the beast, this roar might be mistaken for a hum like an earthquake.
This was Zhuang Yu's last thought, and then he fell into endless darkness.
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Darkness, I don't know how long it lasted.
When Zhuang Yu opened his eyes again, he was awakened by the light coming in from outside.
Zhuang Yu turned over and got up, he couldn't help feeling a little dazed, wasn't he crushed under the collapsed mountain? Judging from the situation at that time, the chance of survival was zero.
With the sunlight that came in, Zhuang Yu discovered something strange again. This place seemed to be a cave, and the walls were covered with traces of man-made gouging.
There are still a lot of things piled up in the cave, including some sundries, worn animal skins, water containers made of half shells, bone knives made of unknown bones, and some dry wood.
Everything shows that there are traces of people living here, but what kind of people would live in such a simple and primitive cave, and why would they appear here
With doubts, Zhuang Yu stood up and walked towards the light outside the cave.
Perhaps because he stayed in the dark place for too long, Zhuang Yu half-closed his eyes unconsciously when he came into contact with the sunlight.
Even so, his pupils shrank in horror.
Know what he saw
An extremely huge python, with its huge head raised, is blocking the entrance of the cave, spitting out scarlet letters, its erect eyes are full of bloodthirsty coldness, Zhuang Yu can smell the stench exhaled from the mouth of the giant python, isn't that right? The most surprising thing is that on the flat head of the giant python, there is a rough man holding a stone gun.
Shocked, unbelievable occupied Zhuang Yu's whole mind, it was like a scene in a myth, how could it be possible
But if you look closely, there is still a big difference from the mythology. This big man is barefoot and has an animal skin around his waist. No matter how he looks at it, he looks like a backward and primitive barbarian.
The big man looked ferocious, and his tone of voice was also very fierce, "Why didn't you go to collect today's berries, even if you were going to starve to death, you would die in your original tribe, so don't cause us any trouble."
The words spoken by the big man are very short and powerful, very strange, but the strange thing is that Zhuang Yu actually... understood.
The big man was a little impatient, "It's a waste that doesn't even have a giant beast, and it looks ugly, and you want to rely on our young patriarch. It's also because our Golden Centipede Department has good relations with your Mizusawa Department. If other tribes, you would have been so weak The troubled guy broke his leg and threw it out."
No Behemoth? Ugly
Zhuang Yu didn't understand at all, but some strange memories emerged in his mind.
The giant beast is the giant python at the feet of the big man in front of him. Having his own giant beast is a symbol of strength. Zhuang Yu doesn't have one, so the big man said he is a waste.
As for being ugly, the face of a little milk dog appeared in Zhuang Yu's mind.
It's not ugly, is it
But immediately the memory in my mind refuted it. This look is indeed ugly, because it should be very rough to look good. It would be more perfect if there were a few scars on the face. Here, the face of the little milk dog is Not popular, even the weakest women are looked down upon, very peculiar aesthetics.
No wonder the big man said that he is so ugly and still pesters their young patriarch, there are many things.
Zhuang Yu shuddered. With the aesthetics in his memory, how many scars did the face of the young patriarch he kept pestering in the mouth of the big man
The big man also said that he was from the Mizusawa Department, which they had a good relationship with, and where is the Mizusawa Department
My head is full of doubts, who is he now
What he can be sure of is that the place he is in must not be his original world. In his original world, no one can stand on such a huge python's head.
Zhuang Yu's current situation is very strange. Once others say something, some memories will passively emerge in his mind.
In other words, if no one mentions it, he can't think of other things no matter how much he thinks about it.
Seeing that Zhuang Yu was stupefied by his giant beast, the big man said in his heart, he is really worthless, he is also the son of the head of the Shuizawa clan, if he is the head of the young clan, he would look down on such a person, the key is not self-conscious. You know, stay with them shamelessly, the big man cursed, "Remember to get the berries, don't starve to death with us."
Then the giant python turned around and swam far away.
Only then did Zhuang Yu come to his senses, that is to say, this is not his original tribe, so that’s fine, at least no one can see anything unusual about him, so he has to stay here for the time being until he understands the situation clearly. It's just that the Golden Centipede Clan seems to hate him very much, and if he persists like this, he will definitely be misunderstood as a shameless pestering of their young patriarch.
This is also something that can’t be helped, Zhuang Yu smiled wryly in his heart, maybe as long as he doesn’t pester the young patriarch who may have scars all over his face, and keeps a low profile, judging from the current situation, he can still stay here safely.
Zhuang Yu thought so, the outside of the cave was well lit, and when he looked down, he was barefoot, with an old animal skin around his waist, just like a primitive man, in fact, in the eyes of others, his very thin body was In the original world, Zhuang Yu could be regarded as a sports student with a good figure.
"Cuckoo." At this moment, Zhuang Yu's stomach made a cuckoo sound.
Zhuang Yu rubbed his belly. He woke up from the cave just now, probably from starvation.
The big man said, if there are any berries to get, he should fill his stomach first, and then try to understand the current situation.
It's just that when Zhuang Yu raised his head, he was stunned again. Just now, the giant python blocked the entrance of the cave, preventing him from seeing the outside environment at all.
Was that giant python just now big? Big, but compared to the scene in front of me, it was nothing.
In front of my eyes, the sky and the earth are vast, endless mountains are connected together, winding and undulating, a majestic and magnificent atmosphere rushes towards my face, between the mountains, a huge golden centipede is entrenched, like a big and long The train, the train exudes a metallic luster in the sun, and the figure on its back is burning, and there is an entire human race living on it.
If you look at it from the sky, it looks like a ribbon of golden light dotted among the wild and desolate mountains.
At this time, the huge golden centipede was leisurely nibbling on the ore on a mountain peak, and the sound of crackling could be heard from a long distance away.
Zhuang Yu looked at this "train" with hundreds of carriages, and finally knew why this place was called the Golden Centipede Tribe in the mouth of the big man. This is a tribe that lives on the back of a huge centipede.