The further you go outside, the lower the water level becomes.

When the two of us dragged our legs full of mud out of the water and showed our shoes, the tidal flat that the weirdo said arrived.

This is a large area of ​​moist land, surrounded by a layer of shallow water on all sides. There are many small round air holes on the ground, and occasionally a small bubble pops out. I know there must be little crabs living there.

!

The weirdo put down our luggage and the poor little crocodile, and touched his belly in his signature way, signaling that it was time to eat again.

He quickly climbed to a cedar tree not far away and began to collect some branches and leaves below. I was bored and poked a small air hole in the ground with my fingers.

Sure enough, a particularly exquisite and cute little thing crawled out. I had to lie down on the ground to see its appearance clearly: it is better to say it is an insect than a crab. Although it is only the size of a thumb, it is almost

legs

The proportion is longer than that of a crab, and it does not move sideways but moves straight forward in a very funny way. It holds its two front chelae together, kowtows step by step, sways and is polite, just like an ancient man saluting me.

Like a bow!

I let it laugh out loud and remembered the name of this little crab: Li Yun.

Liyun is actually the elegant name of a small crab like a cricket, because its two claws resemble an ancient man bowing, so someone cleverly copied a passage from the "Four Books" that was popular at the time: "Liyun Liyun, jade and silk clouds are so good

", gave the little crab this elegant name.

Xiao Liyun must be very conflicted. He was obviously raising his pincers in protest, but it made me laugh!

But thinking about it, I suddenly felt excited. Even this little crab has records in ancient books. So do all the animals and plants on Penglai Island belong to the category of ancient creatures?

I sat up and looked around: small crabs existed in the world at least before the "Four Books" was written; crocodiles are living fossils, needless to say, they are of the same era as dinosaurs; and the history of cedar trees seems not much later than that of ginkgo.

A hundred years!

If you look at it this way, everything here is an antique! The flowers, plants, trees, birds and animals are all species from thousands of years ago!

Even I can roughly recognize the creatures here. Compared with the species in the world, the difference is not particularly big. For example, the leaves of the yew trees in the world do not reflect the sapphire blue light, but they are really the same as here. But

This should be a normal phenomenon. Ancient creatures like crocodiles have looked like this since the age of dinosaurs. They have been reproducing from generation to generation and have not changed much in the 21st century.

Maybe Darwin's theory of evolution can only cover some of the living things!

But when did this place break away from the modern world? Think about the ancient books that record Penglai Island: "Records of Ten Continents" is from the Han Dynasty, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is earlier than the pre-Qin Dynasty, and "Lieh Zi" was written in the Warring States Period. So in those periods?

, the landform here has already taken shape.

The map of this place on the Jiuzhou tripod was pushed forward to the Xia Dynasty, when people could still travel here. By the end of the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu's place had become a fairyland that no one could enter. But in modern times, people

Only through desperate attempts such as shipwrecks or sharks can we reach the place with a narrow escape.

In other words, between more than 4,000 years ago and more than 2,000 years ago, Penglai Island became more and more mysterious from a mountain in the sea on the Chinese land. From more than 2,000 years ago to modern times, the route here has changed.

Known!

If another two thousand years pass outside, in 4008, will anyone still be able to find this place?

There was a wound in my mind that was torn apart. As time went by, this wound that was as deep as the flesh and bone gradually healed, scabbed, and became smaller and smaller. After a while, there was only a scar left.

, when the scar fades, others can only know that such a wound existed in the medical record, but they can no longer find the location.

This idea is quite strange. Is this a wound in time and space? I can't help but tremble a little.

The weirdo collected the branches, lit a fire with a long silver magnesium rod, and lit a dazzling bonfire. He unscrewed the sports water bottle, picked up the crocodile body, pulled out the dagger and let the blood splash for a while, and then

The remaining crocodile blood filled a large kettle.

Then, he began to violently dismember the small crocodile into small pieces of meat, then wrapped them in crocodile skin and threw them directly into the fire for roasting.

I think this is the most natural and primitive way of eating. You can survive with fire and meat. If you throw yourself here, I will definitely not survive, but an unevolved ape can.

If there really is an ancient person living here, then no matter whether there is an industrial revolution or a robot war outside, even if the world is destroyed, he can still survive in the primitive environment of Penglai.

No matter how the outside world changes, an independent time system is followed here.

The smell of meat mixed with the aroma of fruit penetrated my nostrils. The weirdo took out two packs of burnt black crocodile skins, and while blowing air from the burnt skin, he cut one of the packs into small cubes that were easy to eat with his eyes gleaming.

He pushed the cut package in front of me, then directly held up a whole piece of crocodile meat from the other package and started gobbling it up.

I pinched a piece and threw it into my mouth. My mood was really complicated. I thought I was going to be eaten by it, but it turned out that they didn’t mess with me, but I was eaten!

Crocodile meat is indeed much rougher than pork, chicken, etc., but the meaty aroma is unmatched by ordinary meat.

"Are you quite naive? You used to go to the wild often?" I asked the weirdo curiously.

"What do you mean often? I grew up in the wild since I was a child!"

"Where? The African savannah? Or the Amazon jungle?"

"Shit, how can I go abroad? I grew up in the mountains and forests of Hunan."

When I heard this, I became even more interested: "How did you grow up? Your family are all hunters?"

"No, no, no, I live in the woods. My master often comes to see me or takes me out!"

I thought to myself that Chao Wendao should not be called a weirdo, but a savage!

"Then why did you run out of the woods?"

"Grow up!"

"Haha..." I couldn't help laughing, "Aren't you willing to live the life of Tarzan?"

He didn't answer, but looked behind me with wide eyes.

"What's wrong?" I was about to turn around, but I felt a warm breath coming from my hair.

"Don't move yet..." He swallowed and stared intently.

My ears were wet from the breath, and I felt some furry itching on my neck!

A big animal whose whole thing couldn't be seen stretched its head over my shoulder, opened its mouth and bit into the remaining pieces of crocodile meat in my hand!

Its rough tongue made my palms feel hot and itchy, and it ate up all the meat residue in just a few mouthfuls!

The weirdo stretched out his remaining half piece of meat to lure him, and the predator walked over leisurely and leaned in front of him.

Only then was I able to see its appearance clearly, and it turned out to be the white "unicorn" that escaped before!

It does have a long ivory-like horn erected in the middle of its head, but its appearance is still very different from the unicorn I imagined:

The unicorn often appears in Western myths and legends. Its image should be a white horse with one horn and angel-like white wings.

Although the animal in front of me is completely white and has the same mane as a white horse on its neck, its body is too shiny. This is not the luster that ordinary skin can radiate, but a layer of fine scales!

Its face is also very strange. It has a long mouth and two slender whiskers on its nostrils!

Overall, this is clearly a unicorn!

I stared at this legendary beast in stunned silence, constantly reminding myself that this was not a dream.

It turns out that Kirin is an animal that loves to eat barbecue, and it’s not something people made up out of thin air!

"You, if you want to eat meat, tell me earlier. I'll arrest you for a long time!"

The weirdo finally fulfilled his wish to "touch it" and took out another pack of crocodile meat from the fire. One bite and one bite were sticky together.

Since the unicorn eats crocodile meat, no wonder the little crocodile didn't attack me at that time. It turned out that it heard the unicorn's movements and quickly let me go and ran away!

This can be regarded as my savior. I couldn't help but move over and stroke its beautiful body with trembling fingers.

There is a difference between the scales of unicorn and fish scales. They are not pieces of carapace, but a layer of short and hard bristles that grow densely. The dense bristles are distributed in a scale shape, which is not only smooth and translucent, but also does not stick to water droplets.

.It came out of the water forest, but it was not wet at all!

"Little dwarf, you can scratch him. This is the best way to get close to animals." After feeding the crocodile meat, the weirdo began to teach me the skills of getting along with nature. "Animals' limbs are not flexible, and many places are inflexible."

It has never been scratched, so if you help it feel comfortable like this for a while, it will fall in love with you!"

He put his hands behind Qilin's deer ears and rubbed them gently. Qilin soon got into the mood and closed his eyes.

I followed suit and scratched its lower abdomen a few times. Unexpectedly, it turned over and rested on the monster's lap with its hooves in the air!

Apart from its appearance, this mythical beast is no different from ordinary animals!

I opened my hands and stroked Kirin's snow-white belly over and over again. I felt very useful scratching this beautiful creature.

But on both sides of its ribs, I felt a pair of symmetrical small rings!

These two things were at most the size of earrings, sticking tightly to the scales and growing abruptly. I fumbled around carefully and found that the things were actually made of metal!

In other words, this must be a small object that was forged by humans and placed on Qilin's body!
Chapter completed!