The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 95: Reading Dreams

When Li Cu walked over and Black Glasses smiled at him, Li Cu gave him a hard push.

Black Glasses was very stable, however, and Li Cu was the one who stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Why didn't you save us?" Li Cu asked from the ground, "You just sat there, knowing that we were in the sand. Why didn't you save us?"

Black Glasses pushed his glasses up. "Why should I save you?"

Li Cu looked at him and felt he was being unreasonable: "Are you human? Shouldn't people save each other? What the hell is going on with you guys? What are we? What do you think we are? Worms to feed chickens? Were you fucking watching us in the sand, just waiting for us to die?"

Black Glasses smiled and handed over a cigarette: "Isn't it normal for no one to save you in this world?"

For the first time, Li Cu felt like crying. He stood up and kicked sand at Black Glasses, who simply wiped it off and sighed: "I'm sitting here now, which is already giving you a lot of face. Man, under the circumstances, the so-called 'human' you just spoke of would have run away by now, and you wouldn't have even seen their shadow."

Li Cu took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and went over to take a cigarette. After a few puffs, he realized that what Black Glasses had said was reasonable.

"Pheromones." Su Wan said at this time: "You were wrong just now. The word should be pheromone. It would be weird if people could react to snake hormones."

Black Glasses scratched his head and said, "Are they two different things?"

"Pheromones are used by insects and some mammals to transmit information among the same species. They can spread from sweat glands and skin surface cells and directly affect the subconscious layer of the brain that's responsible for emotions. But do reptiles have pheromones?" Su Wan touched his chin: "I knew I should've paid more attention when I was reading those popular science books."

Black Glasses paused, as if he couldn't remember it himself, and said, "Forget it, you know what it is anyways." He looked at the white snake in the distance that had burned to ashes in the corner of the room: "The young snake that was usually used to transmit information was a subspecies of this snake, and had a chicken crest on its head. But if you look closely, you'll find that these two kinds of snakes are very similar. We call this 'isolated island species', and they generally exist in some ancient tombs as burial property. It's become extinct out in nature because the air structure has changed a lot."

Li Cu wasn't at all interested, and continued smoking by himself, but Su Wan was very eager to learn: "What's an isolated island species?"

"It's a species that has survived in a closed environment, and has evolved independently. For example, if XX built a tomb a hundred and fifty million years ago and buried two hundred dinosaurs that had long life spans, then they would only evolve in the closed tomb. They weren't involved in any environmental changes in the outside world, so when you open the tomb, you'll see a species that you think couldn't exist on this earth." Black Glasses said these words in one breath, giving off the feeling that he was reciting it. After he said that, he thought it over again and sighed, "I'm not well-educated. It's fine as long as you understand."

Su Wan thought for a moment: "You said that we were in a daze just now because of this snake pheromone? Does that mean we can read this snake's pheromone?"

Black Glasses glanced at Li Cu: "Do you have any information in your head?"

Su Wan shook his head: "I'm just dizzy."

Black Glasses said: "You're dizzy because you were holding your breath." He looked at Li Cu: "What about you, Comrade Pear?"

"It's chaotic." Li Cu said: "There are countless details: a cave, gold, a man or woman dressed in white, a bronze turntable... I can't remember clearly."

"Oh, that's because the pheromone information overlaps a lot. People and snakes aren't the same species after all, which makes it difficult to sift through the layers." Black Glasses said. "You're the second person I've met who can read snake pheromones. There's only three that I know of."

"Really?"

"I have a friend who, whenever he meets a snake, will start to have all kinds of strange dreams that seem very real, but they're actually just dreams. He's not as good as you, though. He can't understand the information," Black Glasses said.

"I don't understand it either. I see all kinds of fragments and details, but without a logical order, I can't make sense of it." Li Cu said, looking up at Black Glasses. "The way I see it, I think you already knew I could read snake pheromones. How did you know?"

"Someone smelled it." Black Glasses said: "When a person's nose is badly damaged, in order to compensate for the loss of smell, the pheromone organs in the nasal cavity start to develop more. My senior was the first to realize this problem after his nose was destroyed. Of course, there's also a very important premise. They all came in contact with the same highly toxic substance, but none of them died. The exact mechanism isn't clear, but pheromones are a relatively reasonable explanation."

When Li Cu shook his head and said that he didn't understand, Black Glasses said, "Hey, I'm talking about Boss Wu. He can smell that the both of you are similar."

"In his dreams." Li Cu said, "I've never had any trouble with my nose, or been poisoned."

"Something must have happened." Black Glasses lit a cigarette for himself and took out a pen from his breast pocket, and a notepad from under his ass. "Come on, draw the cave's appearance and the surrounding environment for me."

"Where are Yang Hao and Liang Wan?" Li Cu looked at Black Glasses. "I need to know if they're safe; otherwise I won't do anything."

Black Glasses shook his head: "I can't take care of so many people by myself."

"I can take care of them." Li Cu returned the notepad to him. He already fully understood what Wu Xie and Black Glasses wanted to do.

Su Wan agreed, "Yes, we can't lose one of them."

Li Cu punched Su Wan in the face and knocked him to the ground. "Stop pretending! Fucking cured of snake venom so soon, who gave you the serum?"

Su Wan gave an "ah" and tried to get up, but Li Cu punched him two more times: "Say it! You knew there were a lot of snakes here, right? How much serum did you bring? You knew they would bring us to this room, and that they wanted me to read the snake's pheromone. I've long felt that something's fucking off with you!"

Su Wan kicked Li Cu away with his foot, stood up, and then spit out a mouthful of blood before punching Li Cu twice: "You think I want this? Who dragged me into this shit? I'm trying to save you!"

The two men slammed into each other, pulled each other's ears, and shoved their fingers into each other's mouths. They became so entwined that they couldn't even move.

"Pah!" Su Wan spit on Li Cu, who immediately spit back.

Black Glasses looked at them in bewilderment, turned around a few times, and then muttered to himself, "I said I couldn't control these kids." He went up to them, lifted his foot, and kicked them over.