Chapter 23 Human Headed Creatures and Ancient Mosasaurs
Just as we were preparing to enter the cave, a sudden howling sound of unknown animals came from inside, which startled everyone. Suddenly, the atmosphere seemed to become tense. Pang Xiaotai asked Jiao Yiming in a low voice: "The so-called possibility you mentioned
Something terrible happened. Does it mean this thing that is screaming?" Jiao Yiming looked solemn and said to everyone: "General living sacrifice rituals must be to solve some kind of problem, or to use living sacrifices for feeding.
Something, now it seems that the ritual of living sacrifice may be prepared for this howling thing. I remember my adoptive father once told me a story, that is, when he and his uncle were young, they once entered a place to save people.
The underground palace of the ancient tomb. It is said that this ancient tomb is like a maze, with passages connecting passages. Finally, the core of the underground palace is a door. In front of the door is an altar, which is also used for living sacrifices. When they entered, they discovered the purpose of the living sacrifices.
Just to feed a strange snake that is more than ten meters long and has a diameter thicker than a bucket. It is not a python, but a snake. The largest snake found in the world is not that big, except for the python. According to my adoptive father, that snake is very long.
It looks like a dragon. It should be an ancient creature called "Wind Dragon". At that time, my adoptive father and my uncle fought with it like crazy. Later, because the snake's vertebrae were locked by a thousand-year dark iron chain, it was gone.
He swam around so flexibly, but was eventually defeated and killed by my adoptive father and uncle."
At this point, he paused and then continued: "I don't know what is in this cave. However, I heard from my adoptive father that most ancient races will have their own tribe's treasure caves or secret tomb caves, temples
In the most mysterious and secret places of the tribe, usually in these places, the tribesmen would catch some of the rarest and most ferocious animals of that era to guard, then starve them for many days, and then feed them with live sacrifices.
If it is slow, it will become more docile to the people of its own tribe. When you want to enter these secret places, you must hold a living sacrifice ceremony to make it full. Then when they enter, the thing will not
Launch an attack. However, in order to avoid accidents, extraordinary methods will be used to lock or imprison its range of action, and there are special routes to cross its attack range. Now, I think we should encounter the same situation.
As long as we find the secret route, I believe we will pass safely. However, I am afraid that if we cannot find it, we will have to fight the animal."
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard these ancient anecdotes. Pang Xiaotai admired Jiao Yiming even more. He asked Jiao Yiming to tell him an old legend for ten and a half months when he went out. Everyone heard that as long as he could
Finding a secret route can avoid dangerous ancient creatures. Although I still feel a little scared, I finally have some hope, so I happily teased Pang Xiaotai a few words.
But we still have to face what we have to face. We said a few words and slowly and cautiously entered the cave. The cave extends downwards at an angle. It is very humid inside. The top and walls drip from time to time.
The water was dripping, and there was a lot of water on the ground, about two or three centimeters. Because we didn't know where the ancient creature was, everyone moved very slowly.
This cave is in the shape of a trumpet. It is very narrow when you enter, and gradually becomes more spacious as you go down. When we walked about one thousand meters, a huge underground cave appeared in front of us. This is a typical karst underground cave.
The landforms, various ravines, stone buds, stalactites, stalagmites, all kinds of strange things! And there is a stone forest behind a large puddle directly in front of us. This is definitely a very, very perfect underground cave! Everyone can see it.
We were so amazed that we completely forgot that there were dangerous creatures waiting for us ahead. Just as we were admiring the rare beauty in the world, a roar came over again, reverberating in the huge cave, making people feel
There was a thrilling feeling of heart palpitations. The roar suddenly brought us back to the fear of reality.
The cry came from directly in front of us, from the stone forest in front of us or from behind the stone forest.
Everyone looked at each other, and then turned all their attention to Jiao Yiming. On the road ahead, Jiao Yiming's Taoism, mind, and common sense have helped us overcome many difficulties. Now we all only need to feel the difficulties.
, dangerous matters will inevitably let him make the decision.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Jiao Yiming couldn't help but smile bitterly. Then he spread his hands and said, "Don't look at me, everyone. I said, we have to find a route around that ancient creature, otherwise we can only fight with it.
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Instructor Shui, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "We are a team. We cannot always rely on the strength of one person. We can become comrades and come here together. Everyone has his or her own abilities. Let's find a way together. Don't
I always rely on Jiao Yiming." After saying that, he turned around and walked to the large puddle, squatted down, and observed the terrain. Everyone also looked at each other, looking for any holes or roads that could bypass the water.
We and Stone Forest walked through the area controlled by ancient creatures. After about a few minutes, everyone got together again. Everyone was a little frustrated. It seemed that although the cave was huge, there were no forks or forks. We discussed it.
, finally decided to go to this puddle first, and after entering the stone forest, we would think of a way out if we encountered that ancient beast.
Everyone began to observe this large puddle. The little clerk picked up a stone from the ground and threw it in from a distance. It sank with a bang. The sound was dull, and it seemed that the middle part of the puddle was still very deep.
We thought it was a puddle at first, but we were wrong. We all couldn't help but hesitate. The water was rather turbid, and we didn't know how deep it was or what was in it.
While everyone was hesitating, a strange, low sound, like a hard object being scratched on the glass, suddenly came to our ears. The loud sound made people feel very uncomfortable. The little clerk suddenly
He said: "Look, everyone, what is that!" We looked in the direction of his finger, and on a stone beside the puddle on our left, there was a black thing lying on it, round, and it looked like...
.It felt like a human head was squirming towards us. There seemed to be a lot of hair on the body. A very strange aura suddenly filled the huge underground cave. At this time, we heard puddles.
It made a gurgling sound. When everyone hurriedly looked, they were all shocked. They saw countless black filaments like women's long hair emerging from the puddles, and then they all quickly floated towards our shore. When
Before we could recover, many human-headed things like the ones we saw just now emerged from the water and squirmed toward us along the shore.
Everyone couldn't help but panic, what is this? It's so weird and scary! Everyone hurried back, I couldn't help but sweat like rain, facing these strange things that kept popping up in the puddles, we all felt helpless.
Pang Xiaotai asked instructor Shui in a panic: "Let's shoot! Kill these ghosts!" Instructor Shui thought for a while and said: "No! We don't have many bullets! We haven't met the zombie wolves yet, so we can't take it easy.
It consumes bullets." Then he shouted: "I feel that these animals are not very aggressive. Everyone has small foldable military shovels in their backpacks. Please take them out and open them. Use this to deal with these things first!" Everyone said.
Listen, I hurriedly opened my backpack and looked for a military shovel. At this time, these strange human-headed things had surrounded us. The nearest one was only about two meters away from us, and was slowly crawling towards us.
Everyone took out their military shovels, weapons in hand, and couldn't help but feel a lot more courageous. Then they heard Meng Xingliang roar, strode forward, and hit something hard with the shovel, with a snap,
The thing was flattened and then became motionless. Everyone saw black mucus slowly flowing out of its body, and a very unpleasant odor got into our noses. The rest of us
At first glance, it turned out that it was so easy to eliminate such a ghost thing. Suddenly I felt excited, and they slapped forward hard, flattening many of these things, but an unpleasant stench suddenly filled the cave.
It spreads and makes people sick.
The other human-headed things seemed to sense that we people were difficult to deal with, so they stopped squirming and lay down on the spot without squirming, but they had no intention of retreating. "What should we do?" Meng Xingliang turned around and asked instructor Shui.
The instructor looked at the black mass of such things and did not answer him. Instead, he lowered his head and thought. At this time, I thought to myself: These things are enough to give us a headache. If we can get over the puddle smoothly later, we will face that puddle.
The roaring ancient beasts don't even know how to deal with them.
For a moment, everyone had no countermeasures and stood on the same spot confronting those things. Suddenly, the puddle began to gurgling again, and it seemed that the water surface was churning violently. We looked at this scene in panic and were at a loss.
.And those head-like things also began to panic, spinning around in circles and squirming randomly, as if they were also panicking about the situation in the water. After about ten seconds, a "bang" was heard.
, a huge thing emerged from the water, roaring up to the sky! This thing looks very much like the big lizard we saw on TV. Its long body is about seven or eight meters, and its diameter is about one meter thick. It is covered in red.
It has scales, a thick and powerful tail, and yellow horns on its head, which are distributed in the shape of branches. Its two eyes are as big as a lantern and bulge out abruptly. The limbs are flat and the webbed feet are very wide, seeming a bit like fish fins.
We all stared at this behemoth in stunned silence, and even forgot whether we should turn around and run away. At this moment, we saw it suddenly opened its big mouth, revealing its strong jaws and sharp teeth, and swallowed up those around it.
There was something like a human head, and all the human-headed things were flying around in panic. But the thing didn't chase after it, it was just in the center of the puddle, clinging to the surface of the water, breathing in with its big mouth open.
, and then suddenly spit out a big blood-red tongue to suck up those human-headed creatures. Those things were sucked involuntarily and fell into the mouth of the "ancient big lizard". What is this big guy? So powerful! Gradually
Yes, there were no more human-headed creatures around him. It roared to the sky again, opened its mouth wide, and extended its tongue further. The escaping human-headed creatures continued to fall into his tongue, and were rolled into his mouth and swallowed.
We all couldn't help but break out in cold sweat. Its tongue stretched out further and further, and gradually it was able to reach the shore of the puddle. And those human-headed creatures were constantly being devoured by him. After about ten minutes, it stopped itself
After eating, he turned his head to us, looked at us with two huge eyes, then roared, shook his head and tail, as if he was going to rush towards us. We couldn't help being frightened, and hurriedly backed away. We retreated about dozens of meters, which was strange.
What was surprising was that we found that it was just swinging its body in place and roaring, but it had no intention of chasing it.
Everyone stopped and looked at it, which seemed to be roaring anxiously, but it would not leave the center of the puddle. I thought to myself, is this guy an aquatic animal that dare not leave the water?
At this time, Jiao Yiming spoke, with a mixture of excitement and panic: "I understand! This guy is the ancient monster guarding this place. Judging from his appearance, he should be an animal mentioned in the ancient book of his adoptive father.
"Mosasaurus", legend has it that this ancient large lizard lived before the Great Flood and was the ancestor of the lizards. Mosasaurus is the first named genus in the family Mosasaurus. The first animal that can be classified as Mosasaurus
The fossil, a broken skull (see Figure 1 at the end of this chapter), was discovered in a limestone mine in Maastricht in the southern tip of the Netherlands in 1766, when buildings in the city were built using limestone from the quarries.
In 1770, a local Dutch army surgeon, C.L. Hoffmann, had a keen interest in the strange bones on the limestone and began to pay to collect these fossils. In 1774, a skull in good condition was discovered, which aroused public interest in these bones.
, controversial, thinking that they were animals before the Flood. A few years later, the French army occupied the Netherlands, and the fossils were sent to France. French scientist Georges Cuvier (Escuvier) initially thought these fossils were crocodiles, and later thought they were crocodiles.
A species of giant lizard. In 1822, William Daniel Cornibil (ybeare) named the fossil mosasaurus, named after the Meuse River that flows through Maastricht. In 1829, Geely
Dean Mantel (named by Dr. An.) The type specimen of mosasaur is currently in the Museum of Natural History in Paris (icu (see illustration 2 at the end of this chapter)). It is 3 to 3.5 meters long and may have lived in shallow seas on the coast.
Its bulbous teeth capture molluscs and sea urchins for food. The larger mosasaurs are similar to giant creatures such as Trinotosaurus or Hainosaurus. The length of mosasaurs can reach 15 meters. Mosasaurs are larger than the subfamily Trinotosaurus.
The stout, 10-meter-long Mosasaurus weighs as much as a 15-meter-long Neptunus. Compared with other mosasaurs, the head of the Mosasaurus is stronger. Due to the tight joints between the lower jaw bones, the Mosasaurus cannot be as strong as the early Mosasaurus.
Like dragons (such as Tylosaurus), it swallowed its prey whole. Mosasaurus's teeth were curved, sharp, and cone-shaped. Mosasaurus should tear the prey apart before swallowing it. Mosasaurus also had the elasticity of a lizard.
The tongue can be extended quickly to catch prey from a long distance, put it into the mouth and then crush it with teeth. The mosasaur has big eyes, but its vision and sense of smell are not sensitive. The body of the mosasaurus is long barrel-shaped, with a strong tail.
The appearance of the mosasaur was similar to that of a snake, with a high degree of hydrodynamics. The mosasaur's forelimbs had five toes and its hind limbs had four toes. The limbs had evolved into flippers, and the forelimbs were larger than the hind limbs. The mosasaurus may have moved forward in the water by swinging its body, just like modern
Sea Serpent. Paleontologists believe that mosasaurs lived on the surface of the ocean, preying on fish, various ammonites, turtles, and possibly other small mosasaurs."
Speaking of this, Jiao Yiming also said worriedly: "This thing is very ferocious. I think it has not chased it now. There must be something imprisoning it. Now I can already guess that it is in this puddle that looks like a puddle."
There must be a pond in the stone forest behind the pond, and the two must be connected. The mosasaurus can sneak back and forth through the underground passages. And it must have lived for millions of years with this kind of human head.
The creatures are food. It seems that it is not easy for us to cross this pond. Although the human-headed creatures don't seem to have much attack power on land, they don't know how to attack them in the water, not to mention that there are mosasaurs watching eagerly.
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While he was talking, I saw that the mosasaurus no longer paid attention to us. It might have been full while eating those human-headed creatures. Then it swung its tail in the water for a while and then roared a few times.
, sank to the bottom of the water. Then I saw that a few minutes after the mosasaur sank to the bottom of the water, those human-headed creatures were also covered in hair like human hair and slowly