wild star

Chapter 28 The Door God in the Tree

In Zhao Yanling's view, the sun god flower is an extremely vicious parasitic plant.

Because it lives by parasitism, it will choose the tree with the most vigorous vitality.It has no roots, and the ducts are directly inserted into the host to absorb water and inorganic salts, which will help the host expand the roots and strengthen the host's ability to absorb nutrients, so that no plants around the host can survive.

This banyan tree looks like an old man who has been eroded by the wind, with a strong exterior and a trunk, with a decaying atmosphere in the branches and leaves.

In ancient times, the high-ranking people in South America did not understand biology. They felt that this kind of flower lived in seclusion like a god, and the Xiaoxiao next to it would not dare to approach it, so they called it the sun god flower, which has a high status.

In 1945, archaeologist Chesh went deep into the Amazon rainforest and found the Heliotrope once, and there is no record after that.The way of heaven damages more than makes up for what is not enough, and the sun god flower is too domineering, so the number is very small, and the breeding conditions are very harsh.If Zhao Yanling hadn't done enough homework, she wouldn't have recognized her even if she saw her.

What interests him is that it is said that the sun god flower is generally entrenched at the entrance of the sacrificial temple. Could it be that the altar that Chu Tong and the others are looking for is here?
Looking at it while thinking, there is a bath in the front, and there is no grass in the back and within 20 meters to the left and right, so it is clear at a glance.

Chocolate is very active. It is a great pleasure to pick here and touch there with the little claws.At this time it was lying on a branch to compete, when it squeaked suddenly, Zhao Yanling noticed that the emerald green branch moved.He leaned over to observe carefully, and it turned out to be a stick insect with its own emerald green protective color, the camouflage was exactly the same as the branch, and it was difficult for human eyes to detect.Chocolate pointed at the stick insect and turned back to shout at Zhao Yanling, as if accusing the stick insect of crimes.

He suddenly remembered that this stick insect can release a pungent smell to drive away its natural enemies.Local residents crushed stick insects and smeared them on their bodies to repel mosquitoes. The chocolate was just smoked by it.

I took out the plastic bag and put it on my hand, and caught all the nearby stick insects in it.The insect repellent water he carried on his body may not be as effective as this "biological medicine".The foot that stepped on the branch suddenly sank, and the whole person fell down with a "click".Chocolat cried anxiously, hesitated for a moment and then jumped off.

Zhao Yanling caught the chocolate and lowered the flashlight beam by two gears.The banyan tree was so big that it was hollowed out by the sun god flower long ago, and the branches had only a thin layer, which couldn't bear its weight.

There is heaven and earth in the big banyan tree, and under the light of the flashlight, the brick-red statues of strange shapes stand coldly.The statue is 1.8 meters high, with wings on its back, a bug-like head, mouthparts and compound eyes.The human body, with knotted muscles, bared teeth and claws, looks extremely ferocious.In front of the statue, there is a rope that has not completely rotted, with various strange buckles.

This kind of buckle is now called Kipu. It is said that the Incas first used it for calculation, and later developed into a binary code-like function, which is much more advanced than Huaguo's knotting and keeping track of events.To say that the ancient Inca civilization has a long history, even surpassing Huaguo. At its peak, the ruling area exceeded one million and the population exceeded ten million.It is not as famous as Huaguo, because the Inca civilization is the only civilization without written records, so many archaeologists spend their lives studying that period of history and still get little.

The lifelike sculpture did not scare Zhao Yanling, but it shocked the audience in the live broadcast room.

"Seeing such a stone statue at night can be frightened to death!"

"Almost had a heart attack."

"It's weird to hide the stone statue in the tree."

Picking up a piece of dead bark and poking the statue, Zhao Yanling said: "It is carved out of red sandstone. A similar statue was dug out under the ruins of Tiwanaku City. Guarding the gate is the same as our door god, so don’t make a fuss. If you fight against our Tang Dynasty fierce generals Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong, don’t look at him with wings, maybe he can cut his brains and fart! But these knots are very strange. It seems to remind those who come after me something, but unfortunately I can’t understand it.”

He took a picture of the statue with his mobile phone, and took a close-up of those rope buckles, and suddenly he froze.Since the door god is here, there should be a door.He was excited, this is definitely a revolutionary breakthrough since entering the jungle and the rescue operation began.

"Everyone help me to pay attention. There are sun god flowers symbolizing gods outside, and there are door gods guarding the tree. I think the secret door of the altar is here. The ancient Inca Empire was a slave feudal country, and what they did was nothing like Qin Shihuang's. No matter how mysterious it is, as modern people, we will not be as big as them in our brains, right?"

He first looked for clues from the skin of the tree, and searched around. Except for the dead wood, the rest was brown lichen.Some water friends asked him to try to move the door god, maybe the statue is the mechanism.With all the energy of feeding, the stone statue didn't move at all.Ordinarily, the stone is only this big, and the density of red sandstone is average, so he can move it a little no matter how weak he is.

Thinking of the stone statues on Easter Island standing on the island, there is actually a stone foundation buried in the soil to fix it.He talked about this conjecture for a while, and the strange and multi-directional brains of the water friends really gave him a lot of inspiration.

"It's better to smash the stone statue, maybe there is a treasure map inside."

"Whether there is a stone foundation or not, you will know when you dig out the stone statue completely."

"Maybe the original stone statue is a mechanism, but it is so old that the cableway of the mechanism is buried in the mud. Let's clean it up first."

"Look at the door god's hand. Old Zhao, do you think the door god is holding a weapon? The door god's weapon must be the key to open the secret door."

The weapon talk is completely nonsense, they are just putting on unique and scary looks.But he adopted the advice of digging, and said he would do it.This time I didn’t bring an engineer shovel with me when I went into the jungle, but there was a large thick-backed survival knife pinned in the back compartment of the backpack, which could be used just by hand.

Chocolat squatted obediently by the side, holding the fruit and gnawing vigorously, his big eyes rolling around.

The excavated soil was scattered around the stone statue, and the wet soil piled up higher and higher. Zhao Yanling's face was sweating, and he wiped it with his sleeve from time to time.

The stone statue really had a base, and gradually revealed straight lines.Seeing this, Old Zhao's body was shocked, and he worked hard to clean the other side.Suddenly, a fat, white and 15 cm long worm was turned out. The chocolate next to it threw the fruit core from its claws, and immediately grabbed the worm and ate it with gusto.

Old Zhao saw that his throat was dry, and he wanted to stop it, thinking that worms were the snacks of woolly monkeys, so he gave up.Moreover, when Mr. Pei was trying to survive, these creatures whose appearance did not conform to the human aesthetics of food were eaten crunchy and tasted like chicken...

Some water friends in the live broadcast room exclaimed: "This is a proper Hercules worm, stop the chocolate!"

"It may also be a mammoth bag."

"The mammoth is in Central and South America, don't care what it is, stop the chocolate quickly, don't let it eat it, spoil the baby!"

Seeing their eager discussion, Zhao Yanling realized that this kind of disgusting bug could grow into a mighty beetle, and it was expensive as a pet.

The most indispensable thing in South America is the insects at the bottom of the biological chain. He waved his hand: "Don't worry, I will continue to dig, dig it out, put it in a bag, and take it back to draw a lottery. Anyone who is interested can participate."

Immediately, a water friend said: "Don't, I'll buy a pair for [-] yuan, and I don't know who will go to the lottery."

The beetles lay a large number of eggs, and they were stopped by water friends after more than a dozen were dug out. The larvae need a lot of soil space to survive, and if they are taken away, they will not survive.

After putting the soil in the bag, Zhao Yanling was very happy. It was hard to come here. If I didn't bring some souvenirs for the audience, I would always feel sorry for them.

Wiping the white paste from the corner of his mouth with the chocolate, Zhao Yanling caught a glimpse of the stone statue slowly tilting from the corner of his eyes, and couldn't help but be surprised.

After the foundation was unearthed, the door god who had been guarding it for thousands of years finally fell to the ground, smashing down the tree roots covered with a layer of lichen, revealing the stone gate behind!

(End of this chapter)