Chapter 1331 The direction of the bones
"There are a total of 347 skeleton fossils of different sizes and shapes here.
"There are no visible passages between the fossils, nor can we see any order or distribution pattern. They are neither based on the size and completeness of the bones, nor on the type and age of the totem beasts, nor even on facing in the same direction.
Or the same circle center.
“There are a lot of scratch marks on the ground that look like the claw marks of vicious beasts.
“But these traces are also criss-crossed, messy, and of different shades, and no effective information can be extracted.
“Could it be something like ‘Morse Code’ that extracts a series of numbers based on the number of bones or the depth of scratch marks, and then uses a special algorithm to translate these numbers into text?
"No, no, no, don't make the answer too complicated.
"You must know that this 'puzzle' is reserved for the Tulan orcs with well-developed limbs and simple minds.
“When the ancient Turan people built this ‘fossil museum’, they probably did not have high expectations for the IQ of their descendants.
"So, the answer must be very simple, and the clue must be very intuitive, so intuitive that you can see it at a glance without having to master the four arithmetic operations and the multiplication table!"
Meng Chao calmed down again, carefully recalling the postures of each skeleton and fossils in his mind, and the commonalities between them, trying to find the information that he had ignored.
Soon, he discovered something very strange.
Judging from the spatial model he constructed in his mind, almost no two adjacent fossil skeletons were placed facing each other.
There are also almost no two adjacent skeleton fossils facing the same direction.
If we take the "Triangle of Death" as the starting point, imagine that a beam of shining sight blooms out of its dark eye sockets, turning into a blazing arrow.
So, this arrow happened to be inserted into the body of the "Abyss Demonic Insect".
Then walk forward along the backbone of the Abyss Demonic Insect, and imagine that its head is still growing at the front of the backbone.
Then, the sight of the Abyss Demonic Insect should be exactly staring at the third skeleton fossil.
The third fossilized skeleton was staring at the fourth fossilized skeleton.
By analogy, the fifth, sixth, seventh...all the skeletons and fossils are almost connected together by their non-existent sight lines.
"Is that so?
"The line of sight of the fossilized bones is the direction pointed by the ancient Turan people!"
Meng Chao told the Wolf King this guess.
The Wolf King also felt that this was indeed the style of the ancestral spirits.
The two immediately set out from the Triangle of Death, passed by the Abyss Demonic Insect, and found the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh... ninety-ninth skeleton fossil.
The two of them vaguely felt that they had embarked on the right path.
Because whether they were expanding the exploration area in circles, moving straight in one direction, or floating in mid-air, they would always return to the starting point before taking a few hundred steps.
But this time they have already taken thousands of steps.
"It seems that we are going to succeed!"
Meng Chao and Wolf King breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
However, after crossing the 100th skeleton fossil, they once again saw the looming outline of the Triangle of Death in the rolling black fog ahead.
"..."
Meng Chao was speechless.
"No reason!"
He was puzzled, "With all my wisdom, I cannot see through the mystery of this space maze!
"How could those Turan orcs who came here in the past not even know how to write their names find the right path among these chaotic and irregular skeletons and fossils?"
This unintentional remark made the Wolf King think deeply.
After a moment, the Wolf King's eyes shone, and he suddenly realized.
"I understand, Reaper, your idea is generally correct, but you have overlooked some details."
The Wolf King said excitedly, "It's not the head!"
"Not the head?"
Meng Chao was surprised, "What do you mean?"
"These fossilized bones are indeed the guideposts left by the ancient Turan people to the later generations, but we should not follow the direction pointed by their heads."
The Wolf King pointed at the spine of the Abyss Demonic Insect and said with great certainty, "Look, when we first stepped into this jungle of bones, what we saw were the Triangle of Death and the fossils of the Abyssal Demonic Insect.
"Of these two fossils, one has only a huge head, while the other has only vertebrae and no head.
"This is a very obvious hint. The ancient Turan people told us that the clues they left have nothing to do with whether the beast has a head. Gu
"Just now we passed hundreds of skeleton fossils along the way, and at least seven of them had skulls missing, or facial bones were fragmented, and the damage was very serious.
"We can't tell the direction of its sight at all, so we can only make random guesses and hit it by mistake.
"How is it possible to find the right path?"
Meng Chao was slightly startled.
I have to admit that the Wolf King's observation skills are sharper than his own.
Just now, he also discovered several fossilized bones with broken or partially missing heads.
I thought it was because the ancient Turan people were careless and careless, or that as the long years passed, many skeletons and fossils were eroded by time.
Thinking about it carefully, I am indeed too impatient and self-righteous.
"If it's not the direction corresponding to the head or line of sight, then where exactly are these skeletons and fossils leading us?"
Meng Chao humbly asked the Wolf King for advice.
Canus, the "jackal" in his previous life, should have solved this riddle.
"Go in the direction directed by its most powerful weapon!"
The Wolf King's eyes were firm and he was sure of victory, "During the exploration just now, I discovered a very interesting thing. Many of the fossilized bones displayed here have skulls that are fragmented or even missing entirely.
"But almost all the skeletons and fossils, as well as the hardest, sharpest, most brutal and gruesome weapons, are all intact.
"If you think about it carefully, this is normal.
"When ancient warriors fought fiercely with ferocious beasts, they would often target the beast's head and use all their strength to exert the most brutal force.
"As long as the head of the ferocious beast is blasted into a puddle of mud, the ferocious beast will naturally die.
"However, the most deadly weapon on a ferocious beast is its life essence. It has strength comparable to that of a totem armor and is by no means so easy to damage.
"If I were an ancient Turanite and wanted to leave some 'marks', I would choose a deadly weapon instead of a simple head.
"Look, the most deadly weapons on the Triangle of Death are the three horns on its forehead that can tear apart space.
"The direction in which its deadly weapon and its eye sockets are gazing are consistent, which caused our misjudgment just now.
"But the most deadly weapon on the Abyss Demonic Insect, whose three large horns are facing it, is not the bloody mouth in front of the spine, but the huge bone tumor at the end of the spine, located in the tail.
"It is said that when the Abyss Demonic Insect was still alive, its tail was not only as hard as iron like a meteor hammer magnified a hundred times, but also had a thunderous momentum when it was swung. It could also use ultra-high frequency vibrations to crush everything it wanted to swallow.
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"This tail is mainly used to crush mountain rocks, helping the abyss demonic insects to slowly swallow an entire mountain, and absorb the high-energy nutrients contained in the rocks and soil.
"But when it met the Turan warriors wearing helmets and armors, this beast didn't mind at all. It used the violent twitching of its muscles to sweep its high-frequency oscillating tail like a violent hurricane, sweeping away the entire body.
An entire army was swept into its bloody maw.
"It was precisely because King No-Stomach didn't want to collide head-on with the monster tail of the Abyss Demonic Insect that he jumped into its mouth the moment the battle started!
"If this is the correct way of thinking, then we just took the wrong path. We should not go up along the backbone of the abyss demonic insect, but should go down to find its deformed and swollen tail vertebrae!"
The two regrouped and set out again.
Follow the backbone of the abyss demonic insect, all the way to its tail.
Soon, it was discovered that its tail, covered with bony tumors and bone spurs like a meteor hammer, pointed unbiasedly at the fossilized skeleton of another ferocious beast that looked like a circling python.
If they followed Meng Chao's theory just now, they should explore towards the right front corresponding to the python's skull.
But the Wolf King stopped him with bright eyes.
"This is not a python!"
"Jackal" said Canus decisively.
Although the "brain fluke" has a skeleton that is very similar to that of a giant python, when it was still alive, it was covered in hideous flesh and carapace. It looked like a giant centipede magnified hundreds of times. It is a combination of reptiles and arthropods.
body.
And the thing that looks like a skull growing at the front of the spine is not a real head, but a bait that it deliberately reveals.
If someone or other totem beasts mistake the brain fluke for a giant python, they try to bite off its head or bite seven inches of it.
Its deadly weapon, located roughly between the ninth and tenth vertebrae, can launch the most ferocious attacks on prey within easy reach.
The brain fluke's deadly weapon is a string of interlocking hollow cartilages with an exquisite structure.
Normally, these hollow cartilages are folded and compressed in what appears to be a "seven-inch" area.
Once another totem beast opens its bloody mouth, bite its "seven inches".
The hollow cartilage located between the "seven-inch" folds can shoot out like a spring compressed to the extreme, forming a rod that is several meters or even tens of meters long. The front end is extremely sharp, and the surrounding is covered with thorns, but
The "straw" that can rotate flexibly is like an anteater's tongue.
The anteater's tongue can penetrate into intricate ant nests and lick all the ants cleanly.
Chapter completed!