A short walk to the southwest mountainside is the rugged and steep mountain road leading to the milk fruit.
But now the road here is more difficult.
The weeds and vines were tangled and intertwined, almost covering the previous path and making it impossible to distinguish it.
Fortunately, a group of hunters just passed by yesterday, and there were traces of trampling and cleaning with spears and sticks along the way.
The three of them followed this trail, holding on to the dense vines hanging down from the cliff. After half an hour, the three of them finally reached the steep slope covered with milk fruits.
On the steep hillside of nearly 70 degrees, there is only one kind of plant here.
The large leaves of the cattail leaf 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 found it on this hillside, and it exists on a large scale.
Milk fruit is a kind of thorny plant, which is very similar to sage, but the plant is much larger. Its dense roots cling to the bare rocks, and it grows very steadily. Under the wide leaves, there are crisscrossed branches as thick as an arm.
of vines.
This piece of milk fruit covers a large area of steep hillside, which is no larger than a football field. Moreover, the ripening time and flowering period are not fixed. At the moment, the fruits are blooming and ripening at the same time. Therefore, it not only attracts a large number of small animals that eat nuts.
Animals also attract a large number of bees and butterflies.
The rich fragrance of flowers permeates the entire hillside, and when the mountain wind blows, the leaves and flowers undulate like a brilliant cloud of red and green.
Even now, when summer and autumn are changing, there is still a beautiful scenery with a tropical atmosphere.
Below the cliff is the Wild Wolf Valley. Standing on the edge of 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. Based on the milk fruits and the poisonous big-leaf plants in the canyon, Xu Chen always had an illusion that this place should be somewhere in the tropics.
But reality told him that there are indeed four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter here.
Perhaps a long time ago, this was a large tropical rain forest.
It's just that as the climate gradually cools down, some traces of tropical plants can still be seen in these special places, but they are very few.
If this is the case, as time continues to pass and the overall climate temperature further decreases, these tropical plants will slowly die and eventually become extinct.
If this were the earth, and if history continued to evolve according to the existing time and space, it would have entered an ice age after experiencing a global catastrophic flood, and nearly 80% of the animals and plants would have become extinct, including most of the human race.
But is he still on earth right now?
Xu Chen was still full of doubts.
He is now like a frog sitting in a well watching the sky, leading the Ba people to fight for the development of production and improve their lives, and is determined to unify the human race and establish a country as king.
But in fact, all he knew was the situation within a hundred miles radius.
Maybe, this is like an uncivilized island tribe in Africa and the Pacific, and there is already a technologically advanced society outside.
For example, the prehistoric civilization Atlantis was extinct in the great flood.
It is said that Atlantis are alien colonists from the constellation Orion. They have the ability to control light and can release fire rain.
Although geological survey has little to do with archeology, in fact, geological survey is archeology for the earth, using ores and rock faults to infer what major events have occurred in the history of the earth, what major climate changes have occurred, etc.
Of course, earth archaeologists have never found evidence of the existence of Atlantis.
However, the earth has existed for billions of years, and human civilization has only been a million years old starting from Homo sapiens. The earth has experienced more than ten large-scale biological extinctions. These drastic climate changes are caused by powerful external forces.
Horrible disaster.
An asteroid impact would be enough to destroy the entire Earth's biosphere.
Human beings have only played an insignificant moment in the history of the evolution of the earth.
The five thousand years that Chinese civilization is so proud of are just a blink of an eye in the millions of years of human evolution.
Xu Chen sat boredly in a slightly spacious place on the edge of the cliff, looking at the lush mountains and forests and canyons in front of him, his thoughts in a trance.
Gu and Ju had already climbed up the steep cliff nimbly with their backpacks on their backs and started picking milk fruits on it.
Xu Chen generally would not take the initiative to do such dangerous and hard work.
As soon as Gu Heju left home, his mother and a group of women told him to take good care of Xu Chen. Therefore, they would naturally rush to do this kind of heavy, tiring and dangerous work.
After all, I was praised by Xu Chen just last night, and I am full of energy today.
Time flies, and almost half an hour has passed. The two of them have picked a lot on the hillside, and the baskets on their backs are almost full.
"It is said that Atlantis became extinct about ten thousand years ago. If aliens really appeared suddenly in a spaceship... holy shit, it's such a big bird..."
Xu Chen was still thinking about the legend of Atlantis in his mind. While muttering in his mouth, he looked up at the sky inexplicably, and saw a colorful long-tailed bird spreading its wings and gliding over the head, disappearing into the sky.
Among the huge crooked-necked trees above our heads.
"What beautiful bird feathers..."
Xu Chen smacked his lips with some regret, suddenly his face trembled and Gulu got up and shouted at Gu Heju on the hillside: "Big Bird has gone to the cave, come down quickly!"
"Wow!"
Gu Heju was surprised and happy when he heard this, and hurriedly came down the hillside. Xu Chen was afraid that the two of them would slip and fall off the cliff, so he hurriedly kept reminding him to slow down.
Although bird feathers are beautiful, life is more important. It would not be a surprise if one of them fell off.
"Slow, wait for us!"
Despite Xu Chen's reminder, Gu Heju's movements were a little chaotic in excitement, but in the end he still came down without any danger, and then he hurriedly followed with two large baskets of milk and fruit on his back.
After bypassing the rugged and steep cliff, the two of them left their backpacks on the path down the mountain, found their bows and arrows, and then headed straight for the cave.
The three of them were in a hurry. The mountain road was difficult to navigate. Half an hour had passed since they had been climbing and walking back and forth. They didn't know whether the bird had gone to the cave or whether it was still there.
"Shh, slow down!"
The three of them hurriedly hurried and took more than ten minutes to reach the small woods in front of the cave out of breath. Then they slowed down and tiptoed to a position where they could see the bird net.
There was no sign of the bird near the bird net.
The three of them were a little discouraged after observing for a few minutes.
Could it be that this bird was just passing through?
Or maybe he found the bird net and flew away?
Just when Gu couldn't help but prepare to go out and take a look, Xu Chen suddenly grabbed him and pointed to the location of the well.
Sure enough, I saw a red bird's head peeking out from among the thick weeds and thorns, seeming to be observing the surrounding environment.
The three of them suppressed the surprise in their hearts and hurriedly knelt down again. Xu Chen excitedly grabbed the trap rope of the bird net in his hands.
After waiting for another seven or eight minutes, the bird seemed to finally relax its vigilance and fly to the edge of the well platform. Now the three of them could see the whole scene clearly.
And Xu Chen could tell instantly that this should be a wild bird similar to the Golden Pheasant, with a red head and blue belly, a yellow beak and yellow claws, and very long tail feathers. The whole body is colorful and extremely colorful, but it seems to be much larger than the Golden Pheasant.
, there is a cluster of golden feathers on the top of the head, which looks somewhat similar to the legendary phoenix.
Although he had never seen this beautiful bird, he was roughly sure it was a male.
Because birds are similar to many animals, males are more beautiful.
Of course, it is not ruled out that this is a female bird and there is an even more beautiful male bird.
It's just that he couldn't imagine what a more beautiful male bird would look like and have a color that would make people and gods angry.
The wild bird stood around the abandoned well platform and observed for a long time. Then it made a cooing sound and spread its wings and flew to the stone wall at the entrance of the cave.
This time the three of them could see it more clearly.
Gu and Ju were so excited that they started to fidget, and even prepared to draw their bows and arrows, but Ma Shan was held down again by Xu Chen.
The distance from the grove to the stone wall is about fifteen meters.
It's not that far, but judging from the archery skills of the three of them, they definitely won't be able to hit it.
Feng and a group of other hunters have failed twice in using bows and arrows all year round, and now their chances are slimmer.
It is indeed a good bird. How does it taste?
When Xu Chen looked at this colorful wild phoenix, his first reaction was not that the feathers looked good, but whether it tasted good or not.
Only when the saliva came out did he realize that the target of his attention seemed to be in the wrong direction.
The three of them kept hiding. Although the wild bird was very vigilant after being frightened twice yesterday, it relaxed its vigilance after slowly observing it. It spread its wings and flew to a small tree above the entrance of the cave, cooing.
Gu made another cry, and spread its huge wings to flap the branches.
"Gu~gu~~"
Just when Xu Chen thought that the bird was suffering from hysteria, he heard the calls of different birds from the top of the cave. Soon, a slightly smaller wild bird with gray-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 came to the cave one after another to court a mate.
Two wild birds were circling and flying above the cave, cooing and going back and forth like they were dancing. After a few times, the two birds landed on the wall in front of the cave entrance and started pecking each other's feathers, looking like they were in love with each other.
A loving look.
The three of them still didn't move, but they kept grinning and scratching secretly on their bodies.
There were too many mosquitoes, and in just a moment, I had countless big bites on my body.
But if we can catch these two wild birds today, it will be worth all the damage.
The elegant and gorgeous feathers of the male bird are enough to make up for all the losses.
When the time comes, the man will pluck his hair, and the woman's hair will be plucked, and a pot of couple soup will be stewed, with some original wild mushrooms added, it will definitely be delicious.