Daomu Biji

Among the moss is a stone statue of a god with a human face and a bird's body. It is in the same style as the carvings on the pottery pots we found in the ancient shipwreck. It is a real carving from the Mother Kingdom of the West. After thousands of years of corrosion, the surface of the stone carvings is covered with dendrobium, making it appear blurry.

After I removed all the dendrobium on top, the overall sculpture emerged. It was a standing statue, baked directly on the cliff. The head of the bird was a strange female face that looked more human than human, with two pairs of eyes, expressionless and unusually cold. There are five skulls carved under the two feet, and the bird stands on two of them. It seems that these skulls are the leftover bones of the bird.

The fat man looked down and exclaimed: "Oh my God, Xiao Wu, isn't this..."

After I jumped down and saw the stone sculpture as a whole, I also took a breath of air.

It turns out that the stone statue with a human face and a bird's body in this cliff grotto is almost exactly the same as the strange bird seen in the underground fissures of Changbai Mountain.

The carvings are extremely vivid. Looking at the surface of the rock, it should have been coated with paint during the repair. If it were not covered with moss, if you saw it in this dark jungle, you would have thought that the strange bird had flown here from Changbai Mountain. First issue

Everyone looked surprised, even Menyou Ping looked surprised. Everyone here has been to Changbai Mountain, and seeing these stone carvings will inevitably recall the terrible situation at that time.

The fat man and I started to scrape away the carvings of several other grottoes one by one, and found that they were all the same stone carvings of human-faced birds, some were large, some were small, and the shapes were different.

Aning took a breath and said: "It seems that our previous inference was correct. The human-faced raptor in Changbai Mountain is the totem of the Queen Mother of the West - the prototype of the Three Blue Birds. The Queen Mother of the West may have some ancient technologies that we don't understand. , this weird bird of prey can be tamed. The underground tombs in Changbai Mountain should be related to the disappearance of the Western Queen’s Motherland and the mysterious eastward migration of the survivors. Those strange birds may have originally inhabited this piece of Yuzhou, and were later given to those who split off The remnants were brought to the east and served as guardians of the tomb.”

I said: "Yes, I have always felt that the terrain here is so similar to the terrain of the imperial tombs underground in Changbai Mountain. They are both in a huge crater-shaped basin. It seems that there may be a replica of the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West. We are here The experience in Changbai Mountain can only be regarded as an exercise, this is my real hometown."

After hearing this, the fat man wiped his sweat and said, "It's his grandma's. According to what you said, this is the hometown of those ghost birds? Then aren't we going to die if we go in like this?"

It's really hard to say. I turned around and smiled bitterly, and Aning said: "That's not the case. After so many years, the climate here has changed drastically. The vast grasslands have condensed into this continent. There is too little food. This The breeding birds may have become extinct here, and those seen in Changbai Mountain may be the only ones left. However, no matter what, the West Queen Mother Kingdom has the blue bird as its patron saint. There is such a totem here, indicating that we have entered the realm of the West Queen Mother Palace. Inside. This kind of grotto totem is carved here, which is not only a sign to outsiders, but also a warning. We have to be more cautious later.

We all nodded, and the fat man said: "Damn it, to honor your words, it would be best if these ghost birds are really extinct. Otherwise, I will be implicated and Captain Touch Jin will be extinct."

The fat man's worries are also our worries. We looked at each other, but we had nothing to say and looked very complicated.

After another delay, Aning took photos of these stone statues and looked around, but found nothing but stones. Just let us go.

We took one last look at the grottoes, cheered up, left the cliff, and continued walking deeper into the canyon. Probably because of the influence of those grotto statues, at that moment, I felt an uneasiness beginning to envelope the jungle. It seemed that we were entering a strange world that no one understood.