Chapter 88 Distinguishing Incense (2)
Hua Yan looked at me and said with a smile: "Wait, I will close my eyes and rest for a while, and I will have to capture the appearance of this smell."
"Okay - does the smell look like it?"
"Of course, it will appear in different images. For example, your scent is a strange animal."
"animal?"
"Yes, it's the animal on earth."
"What animal would I be?"
"Hogas, have you heard of it?"
"Ah, I'm the kind of animal that doesn't look like a four-dimensional person?"
"Yes, how could I know that it is difficult for me to correspond to the name in your language - Shang Weimin just now, his image is-" Hua Yan closed her eyes again, and I frowned as she looked at her brows, "A head of a witch."
"What? Why are you thinking of this kind of remote animal?"
"I'm a newcomer, but I don't know what kind of animals are remote and what kind of animals are not remote!"
"If you tell a hundred people about these two animals, you probably don't know about them."
"Isn't there anyone else who knows it?"
"The person I know is me..."
"Haha," Hua Yan smiled, "so, I'm really lucky. I didn't expect that the first person I met in the world was you, and you know whatever you said."
The names of Hogas and Xijiu look strange, but they are not strange beasts in "Shan Hai Jing", but real animals living on the earth.
Hogas is an animal that lives in the Congo rainforest. Its figure and fur look like a trumpet giraffe, but its body has zebra stripes. This animal was found in the murals of ancient Egypt, and the residents of the primitive tribes knew its existence. But it was not until 1909 that hunters from Europe captured the first Hogas.
Legend has it that this animal is very vigilant and only sleeps for about five minutes a day.
Hualan said I was like Hoga, but I didn't want to sleep only five minutes a day.
However, recently, she and Shen Yu exchanged back and forth, always "changing shifts" at midnight. Everyone wakes up and makes a fuss. I haven't slept for a long time. Thinking about this, I'm almost like Huo Jiasheng.
As for the Western Paradise, it is a wild boar-like animal on the Latin American grassland. It has fangs and secretes odor glands. It really matches Shang Weimin's image.
I picked up the hair and swayed at her, "Does this hair smell like? What kind of animal does that smell look like?"
Hua Yan sniffed hard, shook her head unhappily and said, "The smell is too small and too mild to distinguish so carefully. What I have to say seems to be a Devon."
"This kind of bird is more common," I said with a smile.
"This hair must be that woman's!"
"Why?"
"Because you also have the same faint smell!"
"Stop making trouble, Shen Yu's image will definitely not be the stinky Duosheng." The Duosheng bird is a bird for Buddhas and monks. It has a crown and is very beautiful, but its tail gland secretes a sticky and oily liquid, which smells very strange.
"Then do you have anything to do with the fancy Hogarban?" Hua Yan raised her head and asked me with a smile.
I was speechless for a moment.
Although Hua Yan said "distinguishing fragrance" mysteriously, it is not particularly strange to think about it carefully.
Smell is more abstract to describe, and there are not many words to describe smell.
For example, the adjective "scent" is very general - the fragrance of flowers is fragrance, and the fragrance of meat is fragrance.
Therefore, when we describe a scent, we also like to use the method of simulating the difference.
Chanel V is a classic perfume, but how can you describe the smell of this perfume to customers who are not exposed to physical objects?
Manufacturers can only list some scents of plants and other plants to stimulate customers' imagination - the first note is aldehyde, wet grass and jasmine, the middle note is a mixed aroma of rose, ylang-yracen and iris, while the base note is mixed with the aroma of Indian mint.
Even if the customer does not know some plants, he can still imagine it by writing this way.
For people, we often use the method of scenting to describe odor. For example, when we usually talk about "body odor", we actually associate a certain odor that is too strongly secreted by sweat glands with foxes.
In this way, it is not surprising that Hualang compares everyone's scent to animals. It's just that the animals she listed are more specific and more rare.
But this reminded me of one thing.
Hua Yan once said that her understanding of human vocabulary comes from Chen Yu's own knowledge structure. In this way, Chen Yu actually studied a lot of strange animals. Was she looking for real animals similar to the "Gu Shi" who blocked the black ship?
Fortunately, a "bang bang" knock on the door suddenly sounded outside.
"Sorry, Teacher Shen, Teacher Yan, have you two finished the investigation? The young man still has to wait to go back and talk to Captain Lin!" Xiao Yu probably couldn't help it and complained outside.
"The survey will be completed soon!" I shouted outside, and then asked Hua Yan quickly, "Do you have any eyebrows?"
"It was originally there, but when you always chat with me, I can't help but chat with you again..."
"Okay, I won't chat anymore. I'll help you look at the door. Think about it yourself!"
After I finished speaking, I quickly walked towards the door and suddenly opened the door. Sure enough, Yu Yiqing was looking inside at Maoyan. I suddenly opened the door and caught her off guard. She had to continue squinting one eye and pretending to rub her face to chat with me.
"Oh, I've been standing for too long, my face is sore..."
"Did you stand in a dog-chewing posture?"
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Xiao Yu knew that he was in a disadvantage, so he stood aside in shame. I handed her the hair, and she quickly put it in the evidence bag.
I kept staring at her with condemnation to prevent her from starting to speak or knocking on the door to disturb Hua Yan. After about ten minutes, the door creaked, and Hua Yan also rubbed her eyes and walked out, as if she was about to wake up.
"Teacher Shen, are you feeling uncomfortable? Why does it seem like you just had a sleep..." Xiao Yu asked quickly.
"It's very tiring to check the location when smelling the smell." Hua Yan said to her angrily.
"What's the meaning?"
"She means that it's very tiring to find clues of crime to smell the bad guys."
"Oh. Teacher Shen has started to use metaphorical sentences when speaking."
I reached out and tried to pull Hualian over and told her not to reveal too much, but before I could stop her, she spoke again.
"I found Shang Weimin's place, he was in the belly of a man."
"Ah?!" Xiao Yu and I shouted out almost in unison.
"He has been divided into pieces and then swallowed into a person's stomach."
Hua Yan looked at me, with a serious face and said in a calm but horrifying tone.
Chapter completed!