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According to the coordinates provided by the scientific research team, Professor Qin led the team towards the mountains.

It is worth mentioning that as soon as they set off the next day, they discovered an incredible scene not far ahead.

The snow covering hundreds of kilometers has become so hard that even the huskies' carefully maintained paws cannot make any marks on it. The surrounding temperature has also been affected by it, dropping by about five or six degrees.

"This place just experienced an ice storm not long ago."

Professor Qin, who has studied the Wuji Icefield in advance, explained.

Xia Ren took out his ice ax and knocked on the snow. The result was a "bang bang" sound, which made his hand hurt.

"The power of the ice crystal storm is so powerful..."

The power of this natural disaster once again refreshed his understanding.

Fortunately, their team was lucky. If they met on the road, they would probably be dead.

It is estimated that the communication base station of the scientific research team was destroyed by this kind of storm.

Now the team is facing a problem. The snow here has become like a slippery ice surface, and the huskies cannot pull the sled on it. In desperation, Professor Qin had to take a detour. As a result, it was originally scheduled to take two days. The trip that could be reached had to be extended by another two days.

Four days later, they crossed the last slope and finally saw the base stationed at the foot of the mountain.

After one month and five days, the 13-person rescue team finally joined the 28-person scientific research team!

The task of negotiation was handed over to Professor Qin. For more than a month, Xia Ren and the others had lived in tents. Although they could withstand the cold wind at night, they were sleeping in the snow after all. After seeing the room made of special materials, Both eyes were shining.

There is a bed inside!

The scientific research team had a very good impression of their rescue team. They immediately prepared rich food for him and boiled hot water for them to take a bath.

This time, they had barbecue!

The scientific research team carried enough food for twenty-eight people for a year. Their original mission was just to take the lead, explore the situation inside the Wuji Icefield to a certain extent, and prepare for the subsequent teams.

Since the communication base station was destroyed and they had obtained enough fossil specimens for research in the past few days, the scientific research team originally planned to wait until the official rescue team arrived and then go back by themselves. After all, they represent the best of human science. Top power, if any accident occurs to any personnel, it will be a huge irreparable loss to the entire human scientific community.

Before the meat was roasted, more than a dozen people were drooling all over the floor.

They have been eating canned and dehydrated vegetables for more than a month. Although they can change the taste, canned food cannot be compared with barbecue!

The hot oil dripped down and splashed with sparks. Everyone gathered around to warm themselves up and wait. Xia Ren looked outside the room. Professor Qin and an assistant in the base were talking, and he didn't know what they were talking about. Content, in short, Professor Qin’s face was not very good.

Xia Ren then noticed that as the current base camp of the scientific research team, there were too few active personnel in this base. Apart from the assistants who provided them with food and hot water, he only saw less than four people active.

Keeping this matter in mind, Xia Ren planned to find an opportunity to ask later. After a while, the meat was roasted, and Professor Qian also came to eat with him. However, compared to the time when he first entered the base, his interest was obviously It dropped a lot, and Xia Ren realized that his wife, the biologist Qu Langzhi, had never appeared.

"Is everyone else in the base resting?"

Xia Ren asked.

Professor Qin swallowed the meat in his mouth, wiped his lips, and told everyone what the assistant outside just said:

"Just two days ago, after Professors Forde and Kleinman returned from their third flight exploration, they proposed to establish a new base in that hilly area for observation. They seemed to have discovered a completely new type of fossil there. , if you want to analyze it, the workload is huge, and the fuel consumption of the plane back and forth is a terrifying number. All the professors agreed to his proposal and set off on a sled with equipment and construction materials at noon the day before yesterday. Now this base There are only five assistants left."

Ford is a paleontologist and the person who has been responsible for sending text messages to Professor Qin.

"What exactly did they discover? How could all the professors put down their work in progress and go together?" Wen Yan asked.

Professor Qin pondered for a moment and said with a hint of uncertainty: "It seems to be a fossil tomb."

"Fossil Tomb?"

"You actually discovered this?"

Everyone looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

"What is a fossil mound?"

The only ones present who didn’t understand what was going on were Xia Ren and Ranaya.

Facing Xia Ren's question, Wen Yan explained: "Most creatures in this world have their own graves, just like people have mass graves and elephants have their own graves. So far, experts have excavated many Every time a fossil mound is discovered, it can fill in many blank periods in history. The presence of a mound means that the fossils of at least a certain kind of creature appear in one place on a large scale and concentratedly. Through in-depth research, it may be possible to Find out the cause of a certain mass extinction in history!”

From this point of view, it does require a lot of work, and people who study science are usually paranoid and will never let go of such a good opportunity.

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…

The real situation is far more complicated than Xia Ren and the others know.

One hundred and fifty kilometers away from them, in front of a cave in a hilly area, a total of eight tents, large and small, had been set up. Some of the dome tents had been reinforced with hard ice. The people who built them planned to Not a short time to use.

Now there is no one in these tents except fossils and instruments. Everyone is standing outside the fossil cave, waiting for something.

"Is it set up?"

Professor Ford asked.

One of the assistants replied: "Okay, the amount of explosives and the location of the burial have been accurately calculated, and several simulations have been conducted. This blast will only cause a slight vibration to the cave, although it will destroy some fossil specimens. But just being able to see what’s behind it makes it all worth it.”

Several professors nodded, and the assistant squatted on the ground and pressed the detonator.

With a muffled sound, the ground shook slightly.

A group of people walked into the cave and breathed a sigh of relief when they looked at the broken stone walls inside and the dark scene behind the stone walls.

The blast was a success.

"Turn on the flashlight and watch your steps. This time, a few people will go in first, while the others will wait outside for help."

Before Professor Ford finished speaking, the skinny Kleinman had already walked in first.

Qu Lanzhi smiled, and so did everyone else. They were obviously not surprised by this little old man's behavior.

Without any unnecessary nonsense, after discussing the candidates, the three professors and two assistants walked into the cave.

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