Mountains and seas can be flat

Fang Zheng walked around the stone tablet. Its front is a relief, and the back is some charcoal images and patterns.

The pattern on the upper part shows two snakes intertwined like smoke. In fact, the painting is very rough, but it gives people an inexplicable sense of ceremony.

The pattern on the lower part is a group of villains, who hold two snakes in their hands, wear two snakes on their ears, and step on two snakes under their feet.

The charcoal image in the middle is a narrative function. A group of villains in the painting prostrate themselves on the ground, surrounding a huge snake. There is a man standing on top of the snake's head. The man has a chain in his hand, which is tied to the snake's neck. Neck position.

But that snake is really too big, its body extends to the edge of the painting, it probably won't fit in the picture, if the proportions on the picture are not exaggerated, the top of its head is enough to build a basketball court, the snake head is smaller than the snake in the picture body width.The drawing is quite realistic, because the head of most snakes is smaller than the thickness of the body.

These patterns and images reminded Fang Zheng of the numerous records of snakes in the "Shan Hai Jing" and his father's views on it.

"In ancient times, the ancestors mainly worshiped and deified animals. The superiors in the clan often gained power and status by means of communication or defeating animals."

The "person" standing on top of the big snake's head made Fang Zheng understand this sentence deeply. Let alone a person, it is a dog or a fly. The chain is estimated to be regarded as a god.This extreme size snake is the ultimate symbol of the mysterious power of nature, and if anyone can tame it, he will of course gain a symbolic status above all things in nature.

Fang Zheng thought that the boa constrictor he crushed to death just now was already huge, but compared with the painting, it was like the comparison between a Tibetan mastiff and a toy dog.It must be the ancestor of the snake. It has been a long time since I saw this charcoal painting. I hope that the old man has passed away...

Fang Zheng recalled that the number of snakes in "Shan Hai Jing" was incredible, and his father once commented on this:

"The most recorded animal in the "Shan Hai Jing" is the snake. This refers to the snake in a broad sense, including the dragon that has been deified from a snake. The snakes that are only animals include pitworms, big snakes, water snakes, wood snakes, There are more than dozens of species of snakes and so on; derived from snakes are Yinglong, Yulong, Qinworm, Guilong, etc.; and there are many gods with human face snake body and human face dragon body. Many famous The gods with the surname are all in the form of snakes. Gods and monsters such as Zhuyin, Xiangliu, Erwang, and Yanwei are all based on the "snake" factor, and they also have human image characteristics. They wear snakes on their ears (Er snake), Play with snakes (fuck snakes), step on snakes (trample snakes)..."

Just like the patterns on the bottom of the stele.

Fang Zheng's thoughts were uncontrollable, and he thought of many insights derived from his father. At that time, he was still young and didn't understand, but he remembered it.

"The divinity of 'snake' in the eyes of the ancient ancestors is not only unique to the Chinese nation, but also traces of snake worship are found in many foreign primitive civilizations: Egyptian civilization, Sumerian civilization, Mayan civilization, the Bible The giant snake, the Nordic mythology... The creature snake is deeply imprinted in the civilization of primitive human beings."

"Why is 'snake' worshiped by so many ancient civilizations? I personally agree with this view: the snake is a creature that is born of water and land, has no legs but can move quickly, fierce and powerful aggressiveness, and the rebirth of shedding skin makes it unique. Mystery has thus won the favor of the ancestors. During the years of confrontation between humans and snakes, the worship of animals has gradually changed to heroes defeating animals, and snakes have also gradually moved away from people's lives during the evolution, turning into dragons. "

Looking back, Fang Zheng finally understood what his father meant at that time—the images of the gods related to "snakes" were created, expressing the ambivalence of the ancestors who were afraid of snakes and wanted to be snakes at the same time.

And the tribe that raises snakes here, Fang Zheng thought, is really amazing.Being able to keep so many snakes means that the habits of these snakes have been mastered, and then they were raised and became partners or tools, and entered people's lives.

This is what Tengmao and Jiliu's "sovereign country" Badian did.Fang Zheng remembered that on the way, Teng Mao would sprinkle realgar powder to avoid snakes, saying that the suzerain country was not allowed to take other roads, and that there were guards in the forbidden forest in the west.

After working for a long time, it must be the large-scale snake breeding base in Badian Kingdom.They breed the snakes deep in the forest around the productive tribes as a deterrent to them.If they are disobedient, let the snakes bite people.Ji Liu and the others were so frightened that they didn't even have the slightest thought of resistance.

Fang Zheng suddenly became more curious about the comatose Elder Xuansi. Why did that mysterious old thing "have a way to fight against the suzerain?" Snakes are at the end of the food chain, and they are still the same in modern times. The Amazon anaconda is the most terrifying ultimate predator in the primeval forest, and no animal can match it.

Fang Zheng was surrounded by snake corpses all over the ground, and he suddenly came to his senses, with a sense of respect and coolness that he had never had before——

Only people can.

The evidence everywhere, whether it is raising snakes or killing snakes, represents human wisdom and technology.

Fang Zheng has changed his view. The countries that exist in this world are by no means primitive tribes with backward productivity.

However, Fang Zheng hadn't thought about it further, and suddenly felt a cool breeze in the back of his head.Fang Zheng had eaten Tai Sui meat just now, and his senses became very sharp. Even the attack of a big python felt "slow". At the same time as the cool wind came from the back of his head, he suddenly felt a little pain spreading from the back of his head.

Fang Zheng threw himself forward at the critical moment, and the pain brought by the cool wind behind his head did not intensify. Fortunately, he moved much faster and avoided the first blow of the ultimate move.

But at the same time that Fang Zheng fell forward, he was also attacked by another force behind him, which was firmly on the back of his spine.If Fang Zheng's pounce was slow for a moment, his spine would probably be shattered immediately, and he would be paralyzed even if he was not dead.

Everything happened only in the blink of an eye, Fang Zheng didn't even see the face of the enemy behind him, and the action of throwing himself down to avoid danger had already avoided two waves of fatal moves by a hair.First hit him on the back of the head, but was dodged, and then hit his spine, but was also dodged.

Fang Zheng threw himself down and thought that the god of death was coming, because the enemy behind him almost simultaneously covered him, pressing on Fang Zheng tightly, with one hand stuck on the back of his neck, and the opponent's knee crushed his calf in an instant.The upper and lower roads are blocked.This is a movement that was completed at the same time in an instant after the first two moves failed.

This is not death, but a posture of capture.Obviously, Fang Zheng escaped the first two blows, allowing the enemy behind him to change his strategy—or he clearly had enough energy to use the ultimate move for the third time, and even the opponent only needed to strangle Fang Zheng by strangling the back of his neck.But the other party changed his mind in an instant and decided to capture him alive.

Logically speaking, although Fang Zheng's injury has not fully recovered, he ate Tai Sui meat, and the gain brought by that thing was already considerable when he crushed the python to death with his bare hands.His five senses are quite sensitive, but just now not only did he not hear the enemy who was close at hand, he didn't feel any smell, sound, abnormal noise, or breathing, and he was knocked down before he could fight back. I can't move up and down.

The god of death that Fang Zheng expected did not come, he just wanted to turn his head, but the hand holding the back of his neck turned back hard,

The opponent's hand was astonishingly hot, and the heat from his breath penetrated into the back of his neck, like a furnace.

Fang Zheng also heard hoarse and heavy breathing at the same time, like a wild beast.

The hand holding the back of Fang Zheng's neck tightened suddenly, and Fang Zheng let out a pained cry, but it seemed to irritate the person behind him, he only felt a pain in the cervical spine, and the person's hand squeezed even tighter.

Fang Zheng was completely irritated, but he couldn't turn his head at all. The strength of that man was comparable to that of Tarzan, and Fang Zheng was almost bored in the soil.

The hand grabbed his neck and pushed him deeper into the soil.

Fang Zheng was going crazy. When he fell down just now, he guessed it in an instant-of course, the snake corpses all over the ground were killed by people. This person obviously represented a force that was incompatible with Badian.Maybe it was sent by the super-large republic in the east.And he was wearing the sackcloth sewn by the production tribe. The style was decided by Badian, so he must be regarded as a hostile force.

"I'm not Badian...cough cough..." Fang Zheng said with difficulty, he was about to be pinched out of breath, and he didn't know if the other party could hear him or understand him rationally.

The other party seems to be crazy, or is there no human reason in the first place?There was a "Zla" sound from behind, and as a large piece of skin touched the coolness of the cold air, Fang Zheng's back was exposed with many scars.

If you go crazy, you go crazy, what are you doing ruining my clothes? ? ?

Almost half of his head was pressed into the soil, and he couldn't even open his mouth, and he couldn't even curse.

Fang Zheng is not an ignorant little boy, he scolded this lunatic in his heart who hadn't seen his face, when and where did he get sick?Was it poisoned by snake venom or other poisons that made him go crazy on the ground of bloody snake corpses that had been massacred, couldn't help but dig a hole in the dirt! ?

However, he couldn't swear, and his mouth and nose had to be slit to barely breathe.The man squeezed his neck tightly from behind with one hand, and pressed Fang Zheng's temple with the other hand, and then pressed down along the acupoints of the spine.

Fang Zheng was greatly shocked. This was the same as when Elder Xuansi used needles to prick his temples to force a confession. Elder Xuansi wanted to numb his mind and make him tell the truth, while this lunatic pressed his spine to paralyze his whole body.

hateful!Fang Zheng cursed in his heart: he did not forget the technique of "torture" when he was insane. No matter how people in this era acquired this knowledge, the appearance of being familiar with the road is not uncommon, and even dementia can be done in one go.This guy is a war machine, right?

When a piece of warm skin was attached to the back, the surrounding air was almost steamed, that hand grabbed Fang Zheng's shoulder forcefully, and the sound of breathing behind him became rapid, rough and cruel.

Fang Zheng didn't care about the possibility of being strangled to death, and subconsciously struggled violently, but the feeling of numbness in his back gradually spread to his brain, his limbs became weaker and weaker, and he finally lost consciousness.

Before fainting, Fang Zheng thought, is this his retribution?His hands dug deep into the soil, but he saw the weapon next to him in the light of the water.

Huge, bright gold, with a broad, half-moon blade.Like an oversized axe, the blade points upwards.He seemed to have seen this kind of weapon somewhere.But I can't call out the name

"...woman." A pair of hands groped down his scarred back, the obvious rough and thick calluses in his hands made his skin feel pain, and he trembled.

Fang Zheng wanted to roar, but his consciousness was very drowsy, as if he was trying to shout from a nightmare, anxious about everything that happened in front of him but unable to move.His voice was blocked in his throat.

Woman you are tall.Are you blind?Can't see without eyes! ?you have it!I have it too!