This story sounds very mysterious, but Plato has repeatedly stressed that it is a historical phase, and he did not invent it himself to prove the truth of this statement. It is said that Plato personally went to Egypt to consult a famous monk.
There is also a saying that the creation of Atlantis was Poseidon, the sea god.
Poseidon married a girl whose parents died and gave birth to five pairs of twins. Later, Poseidon divided the whole island into ten regions and let him rule with ten children respectively. The supreme ruler of his eldest son named Atlantis as the kingdom of Atlantis.
In order to thank his father Poseidon for his gift, a temple dedicated to Poseidon and their mother was built in the central acropolis of the ten kings’ mainland. This temple is very magnificent, and the decorative materials are all precious gold, silver, brass and ivory.
They have also built shipyards and many warships along the coast of Atlantis, and their docks are also very lively. Every day, there are merchant ships and businessmen from all over the world.
Atlantis island is particularly rich in natural resources, and Egypt, Syria and other Mediterranean countries have a steady stream of tributes. Their country is very rich and powerful, and ten kings have absolute power in their own territory. They manage the country by themselves and keep in touch with each other. Every five to six years, they will have a party in Poseidon Temple to discuss the dominance of each other and everyone. When the agreement is established, they will cut off the throat and blood of the bulls in Poseidon Temple, and write resolutions on the pillars of Poseidon Temple to increase the sanctity and inviolability of the resolutions.
Unfortunately, these countries soon corrupted the gods, Zeus punished people for their depravity, causing earthquakes and floods, and the kingdom of Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea day and night. "
"Oh, that’s the way it is. I remember seeing a movie in which a super-large ship was fighting the flood. Is this the story?"
"What super ship? You said Noah’s Ark."
"I think so. I forgot whether it was junior high school or high school. I can’t remember it clearly."
Lin Xianer said, "Because of these remarks, many archaeologists in the west have spent their whole lives researching whether Atlanta is true. Up to now, most archaeologists tend to be located in the eastern Mediterranean waters, and Crete is closer to the historical and geographical conditions of Daxie.
They are based on the fact that German archaeologist Sheriman excavated Mycenae site in the northeast of Peloponnesus in Greece in 17 years, and British archaeologist Evans excavated Minosven site in Crete 35 years later.
These two great archaeological achievements have caused a sensation in the world, and people associate them with the sunken continent.
Many scholars believe that Crete is a remnant of the island country of Daxie, because Crete was once the birthplace of ancient European literature.
More than 45 years before the 2nd century AD, the 15th century was the golden age of Minovian, and their social economy and foreign trade were very developed. However, after four or five hundred years of prosperity, they suffered the same fate as Oceania.’ A sudden eruption of volcano, earthquake and tsunami swallowed up everything on the island’. The development of modern volcanology has confirmed that the natural force that caused this catastrophe came from Santorin Island (about 113 kilometers north of Crete Island). A violent volcanic eruption followed by a tsunami only required Santorin and Crete to draw an equal sign.
Therefore, whether history has passed Atlantis has always been a mystery. I didn’t expect that we were so lucky to step on this mysterious continent in this underground river. "
Lin Xianer told me that although I had a general understanding of Atlantis, my mind was a little confused. Where did this come from? I didn’t learn well in the field, and I knew that the Atlantic Ocean and China were separated by more than 100 thousand miles. How could it appear underground in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?
At this time, Lu Keqin ran over and hung my arm, and his face was red with excitement. "It’s Atlantis. I saw the temple of Poseidon in Clayto. Haha …"
"I’ll go and see" Lin Xianer ran to Liu Dachuan with great joy.
It was found that landing on the mainland meant that after the sinking of Atlantis, Lu Dachuan was not calm. They had to go to find out what happened. Although the hillside on this side of Linpingyuan was not covered with towering trees and mixed with dense bushes like the other side, it was as steep as a knife and axe, so it was much more labor-saving for us to return to the mountain by the original road. Soon, we followed the golden steps covered with fallen leaves and returned to the edge of the forest behind our landing beach along the roots.
I looked at the beach by the river with a lingering fear, and the calm had already been restored. If I hadn’t seen the wreckage of our boat and the two circular craters blown out by the bomb, it seemed that the killing had never happened. Looking further away, we came downstream. At the end of the dark river, there was a vast expanse of darkness, and the top of the tall river was emitting red lava, as if a giant was coming from the darkness with a red lantern.
After sighing, I feel that there is something missing from the river. When I think about it carefully, the cold sweat on our forehead on the huge ship suddenly comes out and shouts, "It’s over. Let’s go."
Chapter 10 King of Forest Poisoning
Lu Dachuan, Lu Keqin, Lin Xianer and Liu Changzu have been completely attracted since they learned that this land we set foot on is a continent. Except for our own safety, the Ministry of Affairs has not been at ease. Since the back of the mountain, their eyes have never left the jungle. What tree was found in Lu Dachuan’s forest? Several of them were absorbed in studying what it was, and I shouted and all of them were startled.
"What’s the situation?" Liu Dachuan ran to me in two steps and looked warily at the river.
I pointed to the fact that the original ship broke down and now it is swinging on the river. "The ship is gone."
"It’s no surprise to leave." Liu Dachuan wiped his face with sweat. "I was scared out in a cold sweat when the crocodile found me again."
Go away, go away. Is this human talk? My heart suddenly became angry. "It’s easy for you to say that losing the ship means losing the retreat. Without the retreat, we will be trapped on a dead island …"
"Don’t say that if you don’t look at the crocodile and cancer in the river, you will stay quietly."
Liu Dachuan ran back to the tree and cooed with Liu Changzu, and he didn’t know what to say. Lu Keqin and Lin Xianer listened attentively.
How can a tree make a few people so confused?
I looked curiously at them and saw that the tree around them was straight and the trunk was not 25 meters high. The two of them folded and the tree was thick and gray, and there were many foam-like protrusions mixed with other trees. The canopy was huge and the leaves were lush and green, and there were many small red fruits hanging on the oval green leaves.
It’s not that they want to eat fruit trees but can’t climb them, is it? I thought to myself, "Do you want to eat fruit trees? I’ve been climbing trees since I was a child and I’ll pick them for you."
When I spoke, their faces changed. For two or three seconds, they laughed in a strange way. The laughter made my heart tremble. "What’s wrong? Are you laughing like this?"
Liu Keqin stopped laughing and said sullenly to Liu Dachuan and Lin Xianer, "Don’t laugh. People don’t know what this tree is. What’s so funny?" Then he took me to the side and took a few steps and scolded me, "I’m a little fool. Ask if you don’t know something before you talk."
"What did I say wrong?" I was even more puzzled.
Lu Keqin looked back at them seriously and said, "This kind of tree is called Jatropha curcas or Jatropha curcas, and it is also called’ blood sealing throat’, which is the most toxic mulberry tree in nature."
Fuck, I gasped in my heart. If I meet this tree alone and want to eat noodles, wouldn’t it be over?
Lu Keqin went on to say, "There is a kind of white milk in the bark, branches and leaves of Jatropha curcas, which is very toxic, and’ Jatropha curcas’ means that this branch can be used as a poison arrow to shoot wild animals. If you accidentally get the poison into your eyes, your eyes will lose it, and the smoke emitted by the branches when they burn will also cause loss."
"So much" I was taken aback again.
"How else to call it’ blood-sealing throat’? This branch is made into a poisonous arrow and hits the beast for three seconds. The blood of the beast will quickly solidify and the heart will stop beating and die. If people accidentally let the poisonous juice touch the skin with wounds, people and beasts will also die. If they eat it by mistake, they will also cause heart paralysis and stop beating or suffocate."
"What are you still doing around it?"
"Take poison!"
Lu Keqin pointed it out to me, and I saw a long mouth on their tree. A branch drained the bark and white milk into a cup. "They took poison and made poison arrows."
"Well, my brother said that although we didn’t find any wild animals in the forest now, it doesn’t mean that there are no wild animals in the forest. Since we met them, we will be prepared by the way, and we will be in a hurry and have no choice."
"It is also necessary to be prepared."
The white milk from the trunk dripped into the tree cup along the drainage branches, like the droplets were particularly slow during infusion. Seeing that it would not be full for a while, Lu Keqin and I sat facing the beach, and Lu Keqin told me many short stories about poison arrow wood.
It is said that when the ancient American Indians met the enemy’s invasion, the women and children smeared arrows of the poison arrow in the rear and transported them to the front men’s battlefield to kill the enemy. Therefore, the Indians repeatedly defeated and killed the enemy’s corpses everywhere, and they stubbornly clung to their homes for generations.
It is indeed recorded in historical data that in 159, when the indigenous peoples of east indies fought with the British army, they shot an arrow with poison wood juice at the attacker. At first, the British soldiers didn’t know that the arrow was powerful, but they still went forward bravely, but soon fell to the ground and died. The lethality of this poison arrow shocked the British army.
It is said that it was a Dai hunter who first discovered that the poison of poison dart wood juice was poisonous in Xishuangna, Yunnan Province. One day, the hunter was forced to climb a big tree by a big bear while hunting, but the bear didn’t let him go after him. The hunter was in a hurry and broke a branch and stabbed the bear who was climbing the tree. As a result, a miracle suddenly happened. The bear immediately fell to the ground and died. Since then, the hunter in Xishuangna has learned to apply poison dart wood juice to the arrow to hunt.
There is also an interesting Dai people in Xishuangna, where the poison dart wood comes from. They say that poison dart wood is so poisonous because it is nourished by human blood and grows into the juice of the tree.