Between mountains and seas

Chapter 115 4 poles

This huge black column does have a base, which is thicker than the column body, and it is also irregular. From a distance, it may be regarded as a few large stones that were randomly moved. The pillars are joined together.

If you put it that way, it really looks a bit like a foot—of course, it's not a human foot, but some animal's foot.

"For example—an elephant?" Shao Jingxing looked at the pillar for a long time and scratched his head, "The elephant's skin is so wrinkled, and the front of the feet—look at these pieces, do they look like nails or something? "

The base is as tall as a person, and the surface is weathered and dusty, dusty.But after Shao Jingxing wiped off the dust, it can be seen that there are indeed a few places on the base that are obviously different in texture from other places, not only harder and smoother, but also a little transparent, indeed - like horny.

Huo Qing took a few steps back and looked up at the pillar: "Elephant?" But in the world of mountains and seas, there seems to be no record of mutants.

Huo Qing felt that such a huge pillar must have been recorded in the materials, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't think of it.

"Then, maybe it's not an elephant?" Shao Jingxing also thought about it for a long time, but also didn't think of any records about the mutant phenomenon, so he went around the pillar again, and suddenly made a new discovery, "No, this is not a toe, it seems It's a claw!"

Toes and claws, one blunt and one pointed, would have been easy to spot.But when it grows to a certain extent, even the claws become less sharp.What's more, this pillar has been standing for an unknown number of years, and the claw tip is weathered a little bit, and the characteristics will become even less obvious.

"If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have noticed it." Shao Jingxing finally found a relatively well-preserved paw, "Look here it's sharp! This is not an elephant, elephants are not like this."

"Then what is this?" Huo Qing searched his wild animal knowledge, "Rhino, hippopotamus?"

Before Shao Jingxing could speak, he overturned it himself: "That's not right." Of course rhinos and hippos also have toes, not claws.But looking at this skin, it is definitely not a tiger or a lion, but a reptile?

"The skin is a bit similar, but whether it's a crocodile or a monitor lizard, the claws are longer than this. This claw is too short, obviously not for catching prey..." Shao Jingxing muttered, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, "Turtle !"

"Turtle?" Huo Qing had also seen a turtle before, "Isn't it like this?"

"But land tortoises may be like this." Shao Jingxing said affirmatively, "Although the forelimbs of many tortoises still have the shape of fins, they are thick and blunt, and the hind legs are like elephant feet. Their claws are basically the same. It changes into something similar to short toes, the claws are not obvious, and there is no web between the toes, which is completely different from aquatic turtles."

Shao Jingxing spoke vigorously, and drew a lot of references: "Especially the elephant tortoise, whose feet are more like an elephant, so it is called an elephant tortoise. For example, Asian elephants have five toes on their front feet and four toes on their back feet; The Pagos giant tortoise is like this, with five toes on the front and four toes on the back, which can be said to be very similar."

After Huo Qing quietly listened to his popularization of "basic knowledge of turtle feet", he said, "But are there tortoises in China?" It must be admitted that he is far inferior to Shao Jingxing in terms of knowledge of wild animals, at least he I really don't know how many kinds of tortoise's feet there are...

However, in his memory, aquatic tortoises are common in China, and there seems to be no tortoises, right?

"Yes!" Shao Jingxing replied without hesitation, "There is a kind of four-clawed tortoise in Xinjiang, with four claws on the front and rear feet. In addition, there are also tortoises in Asia. It is said that in some parts of Southeast Asia, tortoises were used as animal power in ancient times. Woolen cloth."

"But—" After talking about turtle science, Shao Jingxing scratched his head, "Could it be that this is really a turtle's foot?" It sounds a little funny to use a turtle's foot as a pillar...

"Maybe it is." Huo Qing nodded, "Nuwa'refines five-color stones to mend the sky, cuts off a turtle enough to stand in four directions, kills black dragons to help Jizhou, and accumulates reed ashes to stop sexual misconduct'."

Shao Jingxing was taken aback, and slapped his thigh suddenly: "That's right! How could I have forgotten this!"

According to the legend, there are two main achievements of Nuwa: first, creating human beings; second, controlling water.

Of course, Ji Xiaojiu had already told Shao Jingxing about the creation of humans.It is impossible to create human beings. Nuwa is a human being, so can't she create herself?The so-called kneading loess to make a man is just the same thing as turning beans into soldiers and paper-cutting into horses, that is, being able to drive clay puppets.

This point proves from another aspect that Nu Wa should have a wood-type ability, not a special space-type ability.After all, this kind of ability to give vitality to dead objects belongs to the wood system. In detail, the abilities of Japanese onmyoji who serve shikigami should also belong to this system.

It's just that Nuwa's ability is stronger, and she can make hundreds of dolls casually, which is a bit amazing in her manipulation power.And because she is used to making dolls out of loess, after all, soil is an inert mineral, which is different from plant-based soybeans or paper made from plants, so some people suspect that she has a rare dual-system ability of civil engineering .

In addition, Nuwa's puppets can be called "creating human beings", there must be something special about them. Ji Xiaojiu even suspects that some of the puppets used by Nuwa may really have life, or— With a certain degree of autonomy, it is like the artificial intelligence of a computer.

But this is just a guess. After all, after Nuwa left, no one has seen the clay puppets she made.

Shao Jingxing quickly went through Ji Xiaojiu's lecture in his mind, and the disrespectful word "civilian double dog" popped up inappropriately, and quickly erased it, bringing his thinking back to the right path: " That, isn’t the turtle a kind of tortoise?”

Although Ao refers to a big tortoise or a big turtle in the sea, who knows if Nuwa beheaded a tortoise at that time, but the masses didn't know it, they only knew that there were Ao in the sea, so they just yelled randomly.

In short, water or land is not a problem. The problem is that if this pillar is one of the "four poles" erected by Nuwa at that time, then the oracle bone inscriptions on this pillar must be of great significance!Huo Qing is really wise. Just now he said that he would record it, so he is really good at predicting things!

Huo Qing didn't know Shao Jingxing's crappy brain flattery at all, otherwise he would definitely say that the word "foreseeing things like a god" is just a random idiom used here.However, he still felt that Shao Jingxing's expression was not quite right, so he quickly interrupted his brain activities: "I have written down the words on this pillar, let's find other pillars."

"Other pillars?" Shao Jingxing immediately forgot what he wanted to say just now, "Where can I find them?" After all, according to what was said at the time, Nuwa erected these four pillars to support the sky, so they stood on the ground. The four directions of east, west, north and south.Although it seems that supporting the sky is fake now, the four pillars must be in four different places, and they may be very far away. How do they find them?

Huo Qing pondered: "I think these four pillars may be four small formation eyes, and each pillar controls a part of the talisman formation. If so, their orientations are basically symmetrical. Where is the pillar-"

Before he finished speaking, Shao Jingxing grabbed the corner of his clothes: "Wait, didn't the ground shake again?" Oh my god, is there another crack about to open?Could it be that this mountain and sea world has become a sieve, can you fall into the pit wherever you go?

Huo Qing also felt the ground shaking slightly under his feet at this moment, but when he looked around, no matter whether it was the desert or the stone pillar in front of him, there was no double image: "It doesn't look like..."

"Hey, look there!" Shao Jingxing pointed to the ground in the distance, where the grayish-yellow soil was rising, as if something was about to come out from below.

Huo Qing pulled Shao Jingxing behind him, but before he could say anything, he felt a slight vibration behind him.The two quickly turned their heads, and saw that there was also a bump in the direction behind them.

"There are also on the left and right sides..." Shao Jingxing noticed two more places where the ground began to squirm, "Oh my god, we are surrounded!"

Indeed, with the stone pillar as the center, there are soil bulges in all four directions, and——like the raised soil piles are exactly the same?

"This seems to be—" Shao Jingxing stared dumbfounded at the ground closest to them, where the soil was the first to rise, and now he could already see some shape, "It seems to be a face!"

"Clay puppet!" Huo Qing suddenly understood, "This place should be left by Nuwa, the clay puppet protecting Ao Zhu!"

"Well, then they shouldn't attack us, right?" Shao Jingxing guessed without confidence, "We are not bad people!"

Huo Qing pulled him to look around, trying to find a way out: "I'm afraid these puppets can't tell the difference." Good guys and bad guys don't have QR codes on their foreheads, so you can tell them apart with a scan, "This way !"

Of course he chose the direction in which the ground moved last.But the reason why the soil at that place moved last was precisely because it was the farthest away from them, so when they rushed over, a face lying on its back had already formed on the ground, and the eyelids of the soil piled trembled, unexpectedly Open it!

When Shao Jingxing caught a glimpse, his scalp immediately exploded.Of course, the clay puppet's eyeballs are also made of clay, and it is said that they should not move like stone statues, but after the clay puppet opened its eyelids, the clay eyes turned and looked at them!

No matter how detailed it is, the eyeballs made of mud can't distinguish the iris from the pupil, so it looks like a grayish-yellow mud ball rolling in the eye socket.But it was precisely because the eyeballs were so fake that Shao Jingxing felt even more creepy, because the moment the eyeballs rolled, he actually had a feeling of "being watched"!

"Be careful!" A sense of crisis exploded in Shao Jingxing's mind like lightning, he stopped abruptly, and gave Huo Qing a strong hand.

Just as he was yelling, Huo Qing also suddenly pulled out his knife, and saw a muddy arm stretched out from the ground in front of him, sweeping towards them, with a click, this arm was cut into two by Huo Qing, But the two of them were also shocked by the force and took a few steps back.

The arm was cut off, and the clay puppet whose body was half above the ground froze for a moment, but then, the half-severed arm that flew out seemed to be alive, and it crawled towards the broken arm with five fingers on the ground.The incision cut by the knife was very smooth, and when the two pieces came together, Shao Jingxing saw the cut mark disappear, and his arm was connected again!

This clay puppet is twice the size of a normal human being, and it floats up from the ground in a lying posture with its arms and legs outstretched.It paused for a moment just now, but now that the arm was connected, the emergence continued, and now it has completely floated out of the ground, and then - sat up.

"Mom, oh my god..." Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded. Is this an ancient version of a robot?

"It's nothing to be surprised about." Huo Qing said calmly, protecting him behind him, "Chinese figurines and Western golems are all the same thing."

Shao Jingxing swallowed: "I, I'm not surprised..." Is he afraid?This thing looks very powerful, but when you think about it, it is very likely that Nuwa made it, it is even more powerful.In particular, this thing is made of earth. Neither his fire element nor Huo Qing's gold element seem to be able to deal with it very well!

At this time, the other three clay puppets also floated out of the ground and sat up one after another. The eight pupilless eyes were all fixed on Huo Qing and Shao Jingxing.

When Huo Qing and Shao Jingxing were surrounded, Qi Tongmin was at the airport, together with Xie Fei, sending Lu Qiqi to the plane.

Xie Fei's eyes were red, but Lu Qiqi happily hugged her: "Mom, don't worry, didn't Uncle Qi find me a good place to live? It must be fine."

"You..." Xie Fei's words came to her lips, and seeing her daughter's smile, she swallowed back, "If you feel uncomfortable—" At this point, she couldn't continue.

Originally, she wanted to say that she would come back if she felt uncomfortable—after all, although her daughter yearned to go abroad, Xie Fei knew very well that she was not prepared enough for a completely unfamiliar life.Don't look at what steak and foie gras baked snails she likes to eat, it's just because she doesn't have the chance to eat it so she thinks it's so delicious. It really makes her eat this every day, and she won't be able to bear it in a few days.

However, going abroad is not going to a neighboring city, saying that you can come back immediately if you are not used to it.Xie Fei also knew in her heart that for Lu Qiqi's going abroad, Qi Tongmin spent a lot of money, not to mention, and entrusted someone else, if Lu Qiqi wanted to give up at that time, let alone Qi Tongmin would not allow it, even she would not be able to say it—that way The time, energy, money and favors that Qi Tongmin spent were all wasted.

From the point of view of going abroad, Qi Tongmin is really impeccable, even his biological father is nothing more than that.So even though Xie Fei knew that he had other intentions in sending Lu Qiqi abroad, it was true to satisfy Lu Qiqi's wish.

It's just that Lu Qiqi wanted to go abroad, mostly out of comparison and vanity, and she didn't have the perseverance to study at all... Xie Fei looked at her daughter's happy face, and said a few words to Qi Tongmin, "Take care of your body" rarely. I can sigh secretly - in the final analysis, after all, she doted on her daughter too much after the divorce and failed to educate the child well.Now that she chooses to go abroad by herself, even if she complains, she must persist to the end, otherwise, if she runs back halfway, Qi Tongmin probably won't care about her anymore.

Lu Qiqi didn't know what her mother was worried about. Seeing that it was almost time, she couldn't wait to drag her suitcase into the security check.Xie Fei watched her disappear without hesitation, feeling sore in her heart, and lowered her head sadly.

"Go home." Qi Tongmin gently supported Xie Fei's shoulders, "Don't worry, the people I entrust over there are very good at educating children and will urge Qiqi to study."

It was very easy for him to finally send Lu Qiqi away.Of course, he also knew that Lu Qiqi might feel uncomfortable soon after passing, but it was easy to go out and difficult to come back, since he was going to study abroad, he had to finish his studies!

"Tongmin——" Xie Fei concealed the sadness in her heart, and said softly, "I have some news to tell you—I seem to be pregnant." She tested it with a test strip at home the day before yesterday, and there were two red lines.

"What?" Qi Tongmin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly pleasantly surprised, "Yes, is it true?"

Xie Fei pursed her lips and smiled: "I used a test strip to test that I was pregnant, I think—"

"Go to the hospital!" Qi Tongmin immediately decided, "Go to the hospital now! Hey, why don't you say that you are still busy packing things at home these days, will you be tired!"

"Pack up some clothes, how can you be tired." Xie Fei took his hand, seeing his ecstatic appearance, and felt very happy in her heart, "I'm afraid it's not—I, I really want to give you a baby ..." Fate separated them, but brought them together again. Xie Fei only hated meeting too late. Her body was a bit exhausted in the past few years. She was afraid that she would not be able to conceive again, and would not be able to have a baby with her. Qi Tongmin's child...

But now it's better, she knows that although Qi Tongmin doesn't say anything, he actually hopes to have a child with her, and now, both of their wishes have come true.In this way, even if Lu Qiqi did something wrong, for the sake of this child, Qi Tongmin will be more tolerant...

"Let's go, let's go to the hospital." Qi Tongmin was indeed very happy, so happy that he was incoherent, "What do you want to eat? Do you feel uncomfortable?"

Xie Fei let him support her, as if she would fall if the wind blows: "Well, aren't you busy these days? Actually, I'm fine now. If I go to the hospital, I can do it alone."

"It's nothing." Qi Tongmin made a decision after a little thought, "It's not a matter of urgency. It won't take long to go to the hospital, and this time can't solve it."

There is indeed something going on in the special affairs department these days——Huo Qing and Shao Jingxing have been missing for a week. Gu Sheng and Yang Shuming had a quarrel, and asked to use a final pen to find the two of them, but Yang Shuming had no precedent. Refusing because of the reason, the two were at a stalemate. It seemed that as long as one sentence was wrong, they might fight immediately.