I couldn't help but asked in confusion: "Why is there such a strange smell?"
Wen Qingshan raised his nose and smelled it, then turned to me and asked: "Shi Yu, have you ever heard of Long Dan Xiang?"
I immediately nodded and replied: "Dragon's incense, sandalwood, agarwood, and musk are among the four famous incense. Of course I have heard of it! But why did you suddenly ask this? Could it be that this strange smell is dragon's incense?"
"Although I have heard of Dragon's Birthday Incense, I have never smelled it, so I don't know what it smells like.
Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "This smell is not the fragrance of dragon's birth, but I think it may be similar to the fragrance of dragon's birth."
"How do you say this?"
"Do you know how Longdanxiang is produced?" Wen Qingshan asked me.
I shook my head: "I don't know, but I heard that there is a dragon's birth tree. Is it related to the dragon's birth incense?" As soon as I finished speaking, Long Yi beside me smiled and said: "Haha, brother Shi Yu, don't just rely on it.
The name suggests there is some connection between the two, but they are completely two different things! This dragon's scent is the secretion of sperm whales!"
"What!? Secretion? Could it be the feces of a sperm whale?" I was a little surprised. This was the first time I heard that the feces of an animal actually smelled good.
Long Yi said: "Strictly speaking, it is not sperm whale feces, but the secretions produced when sperm whales have intestinal obstruction. The basic food of sperm whales is finfish. During the digestion process, the tips of finfish
Talking
Prick their intestines, and the ambergris substance secreted in the intestines of sperm whales is a good medicine to heal their intestinal wounds. Eventually, the sperm whales will expel the condensed ambergris through vomiting or excretion.
in vitro."
Wen Qingshan nodded and continued following Long Yi's words: "The Long Danxiang that is excreted from the body through excretion smells very strange because it is mixed with feces. There is a faint smell in the stench. Only when you wait
After a few years, when the fishy smell of feces gradually fades away, the fragrance of dragon's incense can be fully released."
"Listening to what you two said, the smell we smell now seems to be somewhat similar to dragon's incense! Could there be a sperm whale in this lake?"
Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "Haha, that's not the case. This fragrance is different from the dragon's fragrance. It may be secreted by some other animal. Of course, it is also possible that the fragrance comes from other substances."
As we were talking, Chen Biao, who was in charge of the alert, spotted something about four or five meters away from us. He shouted to us: "Come here and take a look at this!"
Everyone hurried over and looked at the ground. They were all shocked. They saw a huge footprint printed on a piece of soft soil!
The footprint is a foot and a half long and nearly a foot wide. It has five fingers. Judging from the footprint, the front part of each finger is very sharp, presumably because of the long nails.
"Holy crap! What kind of animal's footprints are these?" I said in surprise.
Everyone squatted down around the footprints and examined them carefully for a while. Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "This footprint looks a bit like it comes from a reptile."
"Reptile? What do you mean, Mr. Wen?" Ouyang Yi asked.
Wen Qingshan replied: "Like a crocodile!"
"Crocodile!?" Long Yi immediately waved his hand and said: "This is absolutely impossible! If such a big footprint comes from a crocodile, then how big must this crocodile be! And crocodiles are cold-blooded animals that generally grow in the tropics
Or in the subtropics, if you are in such an environment, you may not be able to survive at all."
What he said is not unreasonable. Crocodiles have very high requirements for temperature. It is said that as long as the temperature is lower than 20 degrees, the crocodile will gradually enter a state of hibernation, and the temperature down here is probably around zero degrees, not to mention that it will continue to hibernate from time to time.
There was a cold wind blowing, let alone the crocodile, even I felt that the cold was unbearable.
However, Wen Qingshan had a different opinion. He said: "If it is an ordinary crocodile, it is indeed impossible to survive in this environment, but the ecosystem of this ghost place is completely different from the outside world, so we cannot think with conventional thinking. For example, under natural conditions
Next, pythons are tropical creatures and generally do not appear in places that are too cold. However, black water snakes can not only adapt to very cold environments, but are also much larger than pythons. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that they are a kind of crocodile.
New species with close relatives."
Wen Qingshan and Long Yi got into an argument. At this moment, Wei Zi seemed to have discovered something again. He suddenly said "Hey". Chen Biao immediately turned around and asked: "Wei Zi, what's going on?"
Weizi pointed his hand towards the center of the lake and said in a daze: "When I first came in, I saw there seemed to be a small island there. Why is it gone now? Did I see it wrong just now?"
After hearing what he said, I quickly took a look at the lake. Sure enough, the circular platform that I saw before, protruding from the lake like a pot lid, was gone.
I couldn't help being shocked, and everyone else was also shocked.
"What's going on?"
Long Yi analyzed: "The platform is very flat and looks like it was built artificially. In my opinion, it must be a movable mechanism."
"You mean, what mechanism did we accidentally touch?" I turned around and looked at it. The uneven ground was completely natural, with no trace of artificiality. I really couldn't figure out where we had touched the mechanism.
.
Long Yi saw the doubts in my mind and explained: "To trigger the mechanism does not necessarily require contact. Sound, light and even changes in the aura may be factors that trigger the mechanism."
"But if it was a mechanism, why didn't it make any sound and just sank silently?" I asked puzzledly.
"After all, there is a distance. Maybe there was a sound, but we didn't listen." Long Yi said.
"Then what is the use of this mechanism?" I continued to ask.
Long Yi shook his head: "I don't know this yet."
Ouyang Yi stared at the lake where the platform was originally located and pondered for a while, then turned to Wen Qingshan and asked: "Mr. Wen, what do you think?"
Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "Brother Long's analysis is quite reasonable. It's better for everyone to be careful." After he finished speaking, another deafening roar suddenly came from above our heads.
Everyone hurriedly looked up and were surprised to see many burly mandrills emerging from the entrances of the caves on the top of the cave. The mandrills made howling sounds and clung to the stalagmites on the top of the cave as if they were walking on flat ground.
The group of mandrills descended to the ground along the cave wall and rushed towards us quickly.
Ouyang Yi hurriedly shouted: "Get out of here quickly!"
Everyone didn't care so much and turned around and walked towards the corridor where we came in. But before we could reach the entrance of the corridor, several mandrills jumped down from the stone wall and blocked the entrance of the corridor.
The rest of the mandrills also rushed forward quickly, and in the blink of an eye, we were surrounded. However, I don’t know if it was because they were afraid of the bright light emitted by our helmets, but the group of mandrills did not immediately pounce on us.
They basically kept a distance of about four or five meters from us.
A large group of ferocious-looking mandrills bared their teeth and roared at us. They seemed very angry. Maybe these mandrills regarded this place as their territory, and we were intruders.
They also killed their companions, so they were naturally extremely angry.
Looking at the hundreds of ferocious mandrills in front of me, I almost despaired. I have already seen the power of mandrills. Not only are they extremely explosive, they are also incredibly powerful. If so many mandrills pounced on me at the same time, I might not be able to use them.
In just a moment, we can be torn into pieces.
Everyone else looked very nervous, except Weizi. When we were fighting the mandrill, he was possessed by a ghost, so he didn’t know how powerful the mandrill was. He raised his gun and tried to shoot. Fortunately, Chen Biao had quick eyes and quick hands.
, raised the muzzle of his gun.
Chen Biao said in a low voice: "As soon as your gun fires, these guys will immediately rush over and eat us alive. We have no way to deal with them."
Weizi was a little puzzled: "Aren't these just a group of monkeys? Didn't they all scare away when the gunfire sounded?"
Chen Biao said coldly: "Monkey? This monkey is comparable to King Kong! And they are not afraid of the sound of gunfire at all. The sound of gunfire will not scare them away, but will anger them. The barrel of my gun was damaged by this thing."
It’s broken!”
"Then how should we deal with them? How about blowing them up with grenades!" Weizi said, immediately taking off a grenade from his body and holding it in his hand. Ouyang Yi saw this and hurriedly stopped him: "Brother Weizi, please don't act rashly!"
As soon as Ouyang Yi finished speaking, there was suddenly another deafening roar coming from the top of the cave. Upon hearing this roar, the group of mandrills that were screaming "ouch" immediately became quiet and took a few steps back.
.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a little surprised. I raised my head and took a look at the top of the cave. Who knew it would be better not to look? At this sight, I was so shocked that I almost screamed. I saw a huge black shadow, right in front of me.
Come out of the largest cave at the top of the cave.
The black shadow moved very fast, sliding down quickly along a stalagmite that was about four to five meters in diameter and almost ten meters long, with the tip almost hanging to the ground. When it landed and stood firm, we could see clearly that this was actually
It’s an extremely huge mandrill!
This mandrill is on all fours. Even so, its body is three to four meters tall. If it stood on its legs, it would probably be five or six meters tall! Such a huge body is probably comparable to the largest landmass in the world today.
Creature - African elephant!
Everyone was shocked by this giant beast, all eyes looked at it, and they were so shocked that they couldn't say a word for a long time.