Chapter 154 Wild Phoenix
Not far to the southwest mountainside, there is a rugged and steep mountain road leading to the milk fruit.
But the road here is even harder to walk now.
The wild grass and vines are entangled and intertwined, almost completely unable to distinguish the previous paths.
Fortunately, a group of hunters had just walked by yesterday, and there were signs of trampling and spears and wooden sticks cleaning along the way.
The three of them followed this trace and grabbed the vines that were densely hung from the cliff along the way. After half an hour, the three of them finally walked to a steep slope full of milk fruits.
On a steep hillside of nearly seventy degrees, there is only one kind of plant here.
The leaves of the palm-leaf fan are densely packed, and there are many teacup-sized flowers blooming in the middle.
Milk fruit is also a magical plant that surprised Xu Chen very much.
Because he has only discovered it on this hillside, and it exists on a large scale.
Milk fruit is a thorny plant, which is very similar to lycota, but the plant size is much larger. The dense roots are clinging to the bare rocks. They actually grow very steadily. Under the wide leaves are vines with crisscrossing their arms.
The area of this milk fruit covers this large steep hillside, which is not as large as a football field, and the ripening time and flowering period are not fixed. At present, the fruit is ripe while blooming, so it not only attracts a large number of small animals that feed on nuts, but also attracts a large number of bees and butterflies.
The rich fragrance of flowers fills the entire hillside. Under the mountain wind, the leaves and flowers rise and fall, like a brilliant cloud of red and green intertwined.
Even in the current season of summer and autumn, there is still a beautiful scenery that only has a tropical atmosphere.
Below the cliff is the Wild Wolf Valley. Standing by the cliff, you can only see various plants growing on the cliff. Through the gaps, you can occasionally see the narrow valley bottom.
This is a magical era. According to milk fruit and the poisonous large-leaf plant in the canyon, Xu Chen always had an illusion that this place should be somewhere in the tropical area.
But reality tells him that there are indeed spring, summer, autumn and winter here.
Perhaps a long time ago, this place was a large tropical rainforest.
However, as the climate gradually cools, you can still see traces of tropical plants in these special places, but there are fewer ones.
If this is true, as time continues to progress, the overall climate temperature will drop further, and these tropical plants will slowly die until they eventually become extinct.
If this is the earth, if history continues to evolve according to existing time and space, then it enters the ice age after a global catastrophic flood, and nearly 80% of animals and plants will become extinct, including most humans.
But are you on Earth now?
Xu Chen was still full of doubts.
He is now like a frog looking at the sky in a well, leading the Ba people to develop production and improve their lives by fighting against the earth, and is determined to unify the human race and establish a country as king.
But in fact, all he knows is a situation of a hundred miles in a radius.
Maybe this is an uncivilized island tribe like Africa and the Pacific. It is already a society with advanced technology outside.
For example, Atlantis, a prehistoric civilization that once became extinct in the flood.
It is said that Atlantis is an alien colonist from Orion. They have the ability to control light and can release rain of fire.
Although geological surveys are not closely related to archaeology, geological surveys are actually about inferring the major events and major climate changes in the earth's history through ore and rock faults.
Of course, earth archaeologists have never verified the existence of Atlantis.
However, the existence of the earth for billions of years, and human civilization has only been a million years since Homo sapiens began. The earth has experienced more than a dozen large-scale biological extinctions, and these violent climate changes are all terrifying disasters brought about by powerful external forces.
An asteroid impact is enough to destroy the entire earth's biosphere.
In the history of the evolution of human beings on the earth, it was just a trivial moment.
The five thousand years that Chinese civilization is proud of, and is just a blink of an eye in the million-year history of human evolution.
Xu Chen sat bored in a slightly spacious position on the edge of the cliff, looking at the lush forests and canyon in front of him, and his thoughts were dazed.
Gu Heju and his two had already flexibly climbed up the steep cliff with their backpacks and began to pick milk fruits on it.
Xu Chen usually doesn't take the initiative to do this dangerous and hard work.
When Gu He went out, he received advice from his mother and a group of women that he must take good care of Xu Chen, so they will naturally rush to do such heavy, tiring and dangerous tasks.
After all, I was praised by Xu Chen last night and I am full of energy today.
Time flies, and about half an hour has passed. The two of them have already picked a lot on the hillside, and the baskets on their backs are almost full.
"Legendary Atlantis was extinct about ten thousand years before history. If an alien really appeared in a spacecraft... Damn, what a big bird..."
Xu Chen was still thinking about the legend of Atlantis in his mind. While muttering, he looked up at the sky for no reason and saw a colorful long-tailed bird spreading its wings and gliding past his head, hiding into the huge crooked tree above his head.
"What a beautiful bird's feather..."
Xu Chen smacked his lips with a little regret, and suddenly his face shook and he rumbling, he got up and shouted at Gu Heju on the hillside: "The big bird has gone to the cave, come down quickly!"
“Wow,!”
Gu Heju was surprised and happy when he heard this, so he quickly came down from the hillside. Xu Chen was afraid that the two of them would fall off the cliff and quickly reminded him to slow down.
Bird feathers are good-looking, but life is even more important. If one of them falls, it will not be a surprise immediately.
"Slowly, wait for us!"
Gu Heju was still excited and moved a little chaotic at Xu Chen's reminder, but in the end he was still in a panic. Then he followed up with two large baskets of milk fruits on his back.
After walking around the rugged and steep cliff, the two of them threw their backs next to the path down the mountain and found their own bows and arrows. Then the three of them headed straight for the cave.
All three of them were in a hurry, and the mountain road was difficult to walk. Half an hour had passed since the hiking and walking. I don’t know if the bird had gone to the cave or whether it was still there.
"Shhh, slow down!"
The three of them rushed to the woods in front of the cave and took more than ten minutes to panting and rushed to the small woods in front of the cave. Then they slowed down and walked slowly to the position where they could see the bird net.
There was no bird near the bird net.
The three of them were a little depressed after observing for several minutes.
Could it be that this bird is just passing by?
Or maybe it flew away after discovering the bird net?
Just when Gu couldn't help but go out to take a look, Xu Chen suddenly grabbed him and pointed at the location of the well.
In the thick wild grass and thorns, I saw a red bird head sneaking out, as if I were observing the surrounding environment.
The three of them suppressed the surprise in their hearts and hurriedly fell back. Xu Chen was still excited to grab the trap rope of the bird net in his hand.
After waiting for another seven or eight minutes, the bird seemed to finally relax its vigilance and flew to the edge of the well platform. The three of them instantly saw the whole picture clearly.
And Xu Chen could instantly judge that this should be a wild bird similar to the Golden Phoenix, with red head, blue belly, yellow beard, yellow claws, and long tail feathers. The whole body is colorful and colorful, but the body seems to be much larger than the Golden Phoenix. There is also a bunch of golden feather crowns on the top of the head, which looks a bit similar to the legendary phoenix.
Although he had never seen such a beautiful bird, he was roughly sure that it was a male bird.
Because birds are similar to many animals, they are all males who are more beautiful.
Of course, it is not ruled out that this is a female bird and a more beautiful male bird.
But he couldn't imagine what the more beautiful male bird would look and color that would be indignant with both humans and gods.
The wild bird stood on the abandoned well platform and observed for a long time, then made a cooing sound, spreading its wings and flew to the stone wall at the entrance of the cave.
This time the three of them saw it more clearly.
Gu Heju and the others were so excited that they began to sway, and even prepared to pull the arrow, but Ma Shan was held down by Xu Chen again.
The distance from the woods to the stone wall is about fifteen meters.
It's not far away, but according to the three-person archery technique, it's definitely not a hit.
Feng and other groups of hunters failed twice using bows and arrows all year round, and they now have even less chances.
It's indeed a good bird, I don't know how it tastes?
When Xu Chen looked at this colorful wild phoenix, his first reaction was not that the feathers looked good, but whether they were delicious.
He woke up only after saliva came out, and the target he was paying attention to had a directional error.
The three of them kept hiding. Although the wild bird was very vigilant after being scared twice yesterday, after slowly observing, it relaxed its vigilance and spread its wings and flew to a small tree above the entrance of the cave. It cried again, and spread its huge wings and kept flapping the branches.
"Gu~Gu~~"
Just when Xu Chen thought the bird was hysterical, he heard different bird calls coming from the top of the cave. Soon, a slightly smaller wild bird with gray and blue markings also flew out.
That's right!
Xu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
This beautiful one is a male bird, and the one that appears behind is a female bird. It comes to courtship near the cave one after another.
Two wild birds were hovering and flying above the cave, cooing and going back and forth like dancing. After a few times, the two birds landed on the wall in front of the cave entrance and began to peck at each other's feathers, looking like a loving look.
The three of them still did not move, but kept grinning and secretly scratching their bodies.
There were too many mosquitoes, and in just a moment, countless large bags were bitten on their bodies.
However, if you can catch both wild birds today, no matter how much damage you will be worth it.
The elegant and gorgeous feathers of the male bird are enough to make up for all losses.
At that time, men pluck hair, women pluck hair, stew a pot of couple soup, and add some primitive wild mushrooms, which will definitely be delicious.
"Spang..."
Chapter completed!