Volume 8 Chapter 26 Deja vu

”Ah?” I was stunned for a moment. I thought to myself, you know him, is he your second uncle?

Muyoubing then said something, and I immediately realized that I had misunderstood. He said, “These eight horses, this person is King Mu of Zhou.”

“King Mu of Zhou? Isn’t that the one who wrote ‘The Legend of King Mu’?

I am also very familiar with the legend of Mu Tianzi. Before I came, the group of people often mentioned it. The legend of Mu Tianzi mainly records that King Mu of Zhou led seven talented people, riding on the horses Red Steed, Thief Black, White Righteousness, Over-the-Wheel, Mountain Son, Qu Huang, Hu Luo, Green Ears and other horses, driven by Zao Fu and guided by Bo Yao, set out from the Zhou Dynasty, crossed the Zhang River, passed through the Hezong, Yangyu Mountain, Qunyu Mountain and other places, and went west to the land of the Queen Mother of the West, where he had a banquet with her.

In other words, he traveled to the palace of the Queen Mother of the West on the back of the eight horses, and was treated to a feast by the Queen Mother of the West.

However, from the relief, it seems that this Mu Tianzi was not here on a tour. Could it be that the legend is wrong, and that King Mu of Zhou did come to the country of the Queen Mother of the West, but only to wage war?

I immediately continued to look at the reliefs, and the next picture made me gasp. I saw King Mu of Zhou’s army charging into a palace, and there were many snake-headed women on the screen. They poured something into the holes of the tower, and then countless crested snakes climbed out of the tower and fought with King Mu of Zhou’s army.

Seeing this, I immediately understood the significance of these stone towers in the rainforest: “It seems that King Mu of Zhou did attack here, but was defeated by the poisonous snakes here. Perhaps in order to cover up his defeat, he made up that story. These poisonous snakes protected the country of Queen Mother of the West, so it is no wonder that they would raise these snakes as if they were gods. This is like the Manchus not killing crows.”

I thought about it some more and realized that it was more than that. The stone towers were definitely connected, and the snakes lived in the tunnels under the city, fed by human heads. When in danger, they would use something to lure the snakes out to fight. This was a well-designed defense method. These snakes were so poisonous and fast that no one could stop them.

In other words, people lived in the city, and the snakes lived under the city. Now that everyone is dead, the snakes have come to the surface. This Xiwangmu civilization is more like the Amazon people. They used piranhas to defend against enemies and wild animals, and they also sacrificed piranhas, using live people and animals.

Looking further back, the more I looked, the more it matched our theory. My mind gradually became clearer about the concept here.

Just as I was enjoying the view, Mung Yubing stopped and saw the center of the stone wall. There was a huge relief pattern on the center of the whole rock carving, which was obviously the center of the whole rock carving. It was a scene of a huge snake surrounded by many small crested snakes fighting with each other. The huge snake was wrapped around a huge tree, and the crested snakes were wrapped around it like decorative patterns.

“This is a fight between a two-scaled python and a crested snake. It seems that there were already two types of snakes here during the time of the Queen Mother of the West. This two-scaled python may be the natural enemy of this crested snake.“ I said.

Muyoubing touched the stone carving and shook his head: ‘No, this is mating.’

”Mating?” I was stunned for a moment, a little unable to understand, and then I thought about it and understood what he meant: “You mean that the crested snake and this two-scaled python are mating? But these are two completely different snakes, and they are so different in size, how can they mate?”

“Do you know what a madam is?” Mian Youping suddenly asked me.

“Madam?” I was puzzled, wondering why he suddenly asked this: “A madam is a brothel keeper.”

“That’s a play on words. A brood hen is actually a bird. In ancient times, it was discovered that brood hens are only female birds, not male birds. They can mate with any other species of birds to reproduce offspring, and are the wives of all birds, so people use this to refer to prostitutes who are available to everyone. “Muyoubing said indifferently. “However, in fact, the ancient people’s description of the old bird is completely wrong. The old bird actually has a male bird, but the differences between the male and female individuals of this bird are too great. The male bird is several times larger than the female bird, so it is mistakenly thought to be two different birds.”

I understood what he meant immediately. ”So you think these two snakes are actually one snake, just two sexes with two sizes. Which one do you think is the male snake and which one is the female snake?”

“According to the number of snakes, the smaller one should be the male and the larger one the female, but it could also be the other way around.“ He touched the surface of the rock and suddenly extended his long fingers to touch the pattern of the giant tree that the two-scaled giant python was winding around. ‘Strange.’

”What’s wrong?” I also touched it, but I couldn’t figure it out. I looked at him, and he frowned, then took a few steps back and picked up the charcoal to paint the unpainted parts above and below the relief.

Soon the entire relief on the stone wall was revealed. I also stepped back to take a look. The moment I saw the panorama, I opened my mouth wide and was stunned.

I saw that the giant tree wrapped around by the two-scaled giant snake on the relief was actually not a tree at all when I looked at it from a distance. It was a much larger snake coiled into a circle. This snake was so big that the two-scaled giant snake was like chopsticks and a rolling pin compared to it, and the chicken-crowned snakes were like toothpicks. So when I looked at the local area, I couldn’t see that it was a snake at all.

“This… what is this? A dragon?” I said in amazement. The giant two-scaled snake was already huge, and this snake was even bigger than that, so big that it was almost the same diameter as a liberation truck. Could this thing still be considered a snake?

Muyoubing looked at it in a daze, not saying a word, and used his hand to feel the patterns of the crested snakes one by one. After feeling it for a while, he said, “You see, these little snakes are not coiled around this python. They are just clustered around the python to help it not slip down. The ones that are really mating are this python and this giant snake…”

I immediately went to see him follow the lines of the snakes to find that the snakes were indeed intertwined with each other, not coiled around the python, while the python was tightly coiled around the giant snake. I was surprised and suddenly realized something. I gasped and said, ”My God, the fat guy was right!”