Pollution throughout the territory

In addition to Kleinman, the three professors who entered the cave later were paleontologist Ford, Qu Langzhi who specialized in botany (biology can be subdivided into many categories, botany is one of them), and geology. Home Beach.

This is a low limestone cave. After initial excavation, it has expanded to about four meters wide and three meters high. About 50 million years ago, groundwater from the tropical world flowed through here, eroding into today's channels.

Two days ago, they found a huge pile of fossilized shells and bones here, probably more species than their entire team could count or classify in a year, all kinds of large, small, and known species. There are countless fossils of unknown and unknown species, such as molluscs, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and even birds and early mammals. They still remember that two days ago, they saw such a pile of fossils. What a shocked expression he had when he was in front of him.

Generally speaking, each type of fossil mound is distributed in different locations or rock formations, and there is little overlap. But not only do they overlap here, but so many types of creatures overlap together. It is simply unbelievable. It is difficult to imagine that in ancient times, What changes happened in time to bring these fossils from different ages together.

These fossils blocked the entire cave, and they would have almost missed it if the detector had not discovered that there was a wider space behind the fossils.

Stepping into the blasted cave, they walked forward with flashlights in hand.

As expected, the space inside is wider, like an empty hall, and the light of the flashlight cannot illuminate all the darkness. Although it is only five or six meters high, it extends to all directions. The slightly flowing fresh air shows that this cave is Should be part of a larger underground passage system. There are many stalactites growing on the top and floor of the cave, and some are even connected up and down to form stone pillars.

Professor Beach carefully observed the surface of the stalactite with a flashlight and said: "It takes at least hundreds of thousands of years to form a stalactite. From the preliminary analysis of the appearance, these stalactites have existed at least in the Cretaceous."

Their feet stepped on the rugged ground, making constant crunching sounds. Ford shined the flashlight downwards and discovered that what they stepped on were all exposed bone fossils.

"Come and take a look!"

Ford squatted on the ground and called his companions.

After some inspection, they identified that these fossil remains included early shellfish such as nautilus, as well as the bones of hard-scaled fish and placoderm fish...all the way to the vertebrae and bone plates of dinosaurs, saber-toothed beasts, and pterodactyls. , and even Paleogene fossils such as Brontosaurus.

There was a gap of more than 400 million years from the Ordovician to the Paleogene. Why were these bones piled up in this cave?

If the initial discovery made them cheer, then this discovery made their hair stand on end.

This simply overturned their previous scientific understanding!

The empty cave has remained in its current dry, dead, and uncontacted state for at least 30 to 40 million years. Their arrival is like unraveling the mystery of that crazy history.

Based on the current situation, they inevitably surmised an absurd idea in their minds. During the period from 30 million to at least 500 million years ago where this cave was located, the reproduction and prosperity of living things had reached an astonishing level. Until one day 30 million years ago, the terrible ice and snow weather destroyed all primitive life in the Wuji Icefield. Without this accident, these creatures should have lived longer.

Before they could begin to discuss this, the cave stretched out and a human scream suddenly came out.

"It's Clayman's voice!"

The screams pulled everyone back from their chaotic thoughts, and they went to the front to find out.

Looking for the sound, the five of them saw Clayman in a corner of the cave. Ford asked loudly: "What did you find?" while speeding up and running towards that direction.

As soon as they bypassed a few stalactites, the five of them froze in place as if they had been struck by lightning.

"This, this is..."

Ford looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned.

"Prehistoric intelligent creatures, prehistoric intelligent creatures really exist! Hahaha!"

Here are all strange barrel-shaped fossils, about two meters high, of completely unknown species. From the middle of the barrel, tentacles full of weird wrinkles extend horizontally, with thin wing membranes. They look like a pair of wings, but they don't have the ability to fly. From the top of the barrel, five strips extend out The raised tumor-like object has five round, wrinkled limbs growing out from the nodes, spreading out in all directions. It bears a striking resemblance to a starfish.

Several such fossils are surrounded by empty caves, and their incomprehensible shapes can easily remind people of the evil gods that humans once worshiped when they were still ignorant.

Clayman was stroking a barrel-shaped fossil with his hands. Ford wanted to step forward, but he tripped over something. When he lowered his head, he saw that there were long tentacles spread on the ground. , the tentacles are derived from those barrel-shaped fossils!

"Is this a plant or an animal?"

Qu Langzhi couldn't help but stand on a barrel-shaped fossil and touched it with her hand.

Incredibly, despite tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, the surface of these fossils still retains amazing elasticity. The surface feels like hard leather, and the surface is full of traces of weathering.

But from the appearance, she couldn't determine whether these fossils originated from plants or animals.

Geologist Professor Beech also started stroking one of the fossils as if he was in a daze. At this time, no one cared about Kleiman's crazy behavior, because everyone was the same.

The only one who still maintains rationality is Professor Ford.

He woke up an assistant who also wanted to come forward and get in touch with the fossils, and ordered: "Ask people from outside to come in and transport these fossils out first. I always feel that this cave is a bit weird."

Seeing the assistant reluctantly walking out of the cave, Ford took a deep breath. Ever since he entered this mountain range, he was in his forties and full of enthusiasm for science. He had never felt cold. However, the scene in front of him of everyone holding a fossil and observing it gave him an inexplicable shiver down his spine.

Soon a large group of assistants arrived and began to move the fourteen large fossil samples to the base outside the cave.

What no one expected was that as soon as they came out of the cave, the originally docile huskies in the base suddenly turned violent, gnashing their teeth and barking, while running towards the specimen. Since it was during the rest period, the assistant did not After tying the husky, dozens of dogs surrounded the entrance of the cave, barking and making aggressive gestures, trying to attack the fossils. The scene was chaotic.

No one understood why the well-trained huskies went crazy at this time, but fortunately they would not attack the personnel in the base. The assistants drove the dogs far away without much effort and tied them up with ropes. , otherwise, they are likely to tear into pieces the fossils that everyone has finally discovered.

Kleiman couldn't wait to dissect a fossil. This was also the idea of ​​all the scientific researchers present. They used the gasoline stove in the base to heat one of the fossils. However, the surface of these fossils looked rough, and it was difficult to wait until they actually started to use scalpels to dissect it. When digging, they found that the surface of the fossil seemed to secrete some kind of oil, which was both tough and extremely smooth, making it difficult for them to start. Although there were other ways to dissect, if the cutting method was too violent, it might disrupt the internal structure of the fossil. Structure, this is what they don't want to see.

So the assistant could only continue to place the specimen next to the gasoline stove for heating, and then turned to study other fossil samples.

Only Kleiman remained in front of the gasoline stove, staring closely at the specimen.

No one noticed that some strange purple lines had begun to appear under his eyes, but because the color was relatively light, they were covered up by the dark circles caused by staying up late and could not be seen at all. I am afraid that he himself would not be able to notice the lines on his body. Variety.

Somewhat suddenly, Kleinman seemed to see the tentacles on the fossil twitch.

Looking around, he did not tell anyone about this phenomenon, but continued to look back at the fossils.

"...The Ancient One...our city...will...finally...resurrect..."

he muttered.

There was madness in his eyes.

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…

"Can't wait any longer."

Just after taking a hot bath, Lanaya's face was rosy. She and Xia Ren were sitting by the door of the base, looking at the towering snow-capped mountains above their heads and the huge rotating vortex. Before she said a few words, Heard Professor Qin’s announcement.

"The scientific research team's new base has been set up and new research progress has been made. I want to go and see it. Which of you will come with me?"

Professor Qin said, passing the text message he had just received and printed out to everyone for circulation.

"Let's go along!"

Wen Yan took the lead and said.

"I am coming too."

"This is a rare opportunity."

"It's hard to come here, of course I have to learn something."

Everyone agreed, and then unconsciously turned their attention to Xia Ren and his wife.

"You two shouldn't go. You've been tired from traveling around for a month. Take a good rest at the base." Professor Qin said in a tone that left no room for doubt.

Xia Ren kept looking at the text message in his hand. After hearing this, he raised his head and said, "I want to go with you."

His brows were furrowed.

Others may not know it, but Xia Ren has been exposed to pollution, and those strange fossil samples are definitely not that simple. They may be the old rulers mentioned by the system.

"Then I'll go too!"

Lanaya did not hesitate and directly chose to follow Xia Ren.

"You're a woman, why are you joining in the fun? Besides, you've been feeling uncomfortable these past two days. Just wait for me at the base. Don't worry, I'm just going to take a look. Nothing will happen."

He comforted her for a few words and finally persuaded Ranaya.

"Then it's agreed, you must come back."

Lanaya held Xia Ren's hand, her face slightly worried.

"Will do."

"Call my name, or my wife."

Lanaya bit her lip. She noticed that in the past month, Lin Xiao always used "you" when communicating with her.

She didn't know if her husband was still worried about the divorce, so she could only bury it in her heart and not take the initiative to mention it. But she didn't know what happened today. She just couldn't control her mouth and wanted to speak out. Had a lot to talk to him.

Looking at her anxious and hopeful eyes, Xia Ren hesitated for a moment and showed a smile:

"Yes, Ranaya."

This is the only chapter today, sorry.